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		3	You will learn of an extra rumour every week. Your downtime actions are more potent (invited factions are more favourable, raids are more deadly, advanced downtime actions are more likely to succeed)
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.