Skills/Basic

Constitution

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Fitness		3	+1 Hit; this allows you to take a further mutation
Hardiness		3	+1 Hit (total +2); this allows you to take a further mutation
Toughness		4	+1 Hit (total +3); this allows you to take a further mutation

Organic

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Medicine		1	Spend 60s appropriate roleplaying to call CURE ALL on any Character; or 10s if you expend a Reagent. During this time, their Bleed Count is paused. May examine Wound Cards.
Surgery	Medicine	3	May Spend 60s appropriate roleplaying to call RESTORE on a character; or 10s if you expend a Reagent. May also heal Wounds
Animal Dissection		2	Can sometimes scavenge resources (Food/Reagents, rare stuff) off a fallen animal; over the course of a Linear, there should be about 5 opportunities to gain resources with this skill; other corpses will be too “ruined”. 3/Day, can ask a question about a examined corpse, including a human corpse, (max 1/corpse) i.e. “What is this capable of?” “What killed this?” “How tough was this?”
Poisoner	Animal Dissection	3	Can use Food to apply poisons to your own weapons.

Technology

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Disassembler		2	Can scavenge resources off fallen machines (AI might be Holograms, but you can scavenge their black-box source if you find it) 3/Day, can ask a question about a scavenged (mechanical) corpse Ie “What is this capable of?” “What killed this?” “How tough was this?. If disassembling an AI, you can ask the AI a question instead (it will answer honestly, but it’s dead after this)
Jury-rigger	Disassembler	3	You may use Scrap to fix broken things. These will mostly be machines.
Reading		4	You can read Citadel Script. See Literacy for more information.
Writing	Reading	2	You may write Citadel Script.

Income and Downtime

Skill Name	Prerequisite	XP Cost	Effect
Connections		1	You may spread an extra Rumour each DT, and will learn one extra rumour.
Control Income		1	You may pick your weekly income
Improved Income	Control Income	2	You receive a second, randomised, Basic income.
Advanced Income	Improved Income	4	You receive an advanced income every week.
Followers		3	Followers may assist with your DT action, or perform a second Basic action. They require the consumption of a Food resource to do so reliably, otherwise they must spend their own DT fending for themselves.