Skills

If you're looking for the basic rules you should start with the Quickstart Rules.

Skills are a major way in which you customise your character, deciding what special skills they have that set them apart from others.

Skills are divided into Combat and Profession skills. They are further divided into General skills and skills belonging to the four Discplines.

Combat skills are directly usable in combat or for survival. Profession skills are rarely useful in combat and are used in investigation, problem solving or social interactions.

You can take usually skills for any Discipline that you've unlocked, but some skills you can only choose if that Discipline is your starting discipline.

Free Skills

Every Player Character starts with these.

One-Handed Proficiency	You can use one melee weapon of 8”-42”.
First Aid	With 30 seconds of stationary touch range appropriate roleplay with both hands you can HEAL another character. With 5 seconds of touch range appropriate roleplay inspecting a character you can ask "OC are you incapacitated, terminal or dead?".

Combat Skills

General

Skill	Description
Tough	One extra hit point.
Second Combat Discipline	Unlock a second Discipline for combat skills.
Third Combat Discipline	Unlock a third Discipline for combat skills.

Tesla

Most combat Tesla technology has a 5 second charge time, during which the user must manipulate a technological item with an otherwise empty hand, and can move and parry but can’t attack or use other skills. Your ability cooldown starts when you successfully get off a power, and you can only start charging if your cooldown is up.

Skill	Prerequisite	Description
Power Field	Tesla Starting Discipline	Two extra hit points, one melee RESIST, +5 seconds ⚡ Ability Cooldown
Advanced Power Field	Power Field	Two extra hit points, one melee RESIST, +5 seconds ⚡ Ability Cooldown
Tesla Stun		⚡Charged MASS TECH STUN
Tesla Repel		⚡Charged MASS TECH REPEL
Tesla Strike		⚡Charged MASS TECH BASH ⚡Melee TECH BASH

Analytical

Skill	Prerequisite	Description
Tech Shield	Analytical Starting Discipline	Two TECH RESISTs
Quick Mind	Analytical Starting Discipline	Once per encounter you can use an Analytical ⚡ability off cooldown.
Heal		⚡HEAL other at touch range. ⚡Charged HEAL self.
Analytical Strike		⚡TECH BASH
Analytical Suppression		⚡TECH SUPPRESS

Intuition

Skill	Prerequisite	Description
Danger Sense	Intuition Starting Discipline	Two ranged RESISTs (except Would You Kindly or EFFECT)
Danger Awareness	Danger Sense	One extra hit point ⚡Regain a ranged RESIST.
Finesse Weapon Proficiency		You can use a melee weapon of 8"-42" in your off-hand. You can use thrown weapons. You can use a Buckler.
Finesse Stun		⚡BACKSTAB STUN ⚡STUN with a thrown weapon or melee weapon under 24".
Finesse Suppression		⚡BACKSTAB SUPPRESS ⚡SUPPRESS with a thrown weapon or a melee weapon under 24"

Survival

Skill	Prerequisite	Description
Armour	Survival Starting Discipline	One extra hit point, one non-TECH RESIST
Advanced Armour	Armour	One extra hit point, one non-TECH RESIST.
Grit Weapon Proficiency		You can use melee weapons of 42"-60". You can use a Buckler.
Polearm Proficiency	Grit Weapon Proficiency	You can use a weapon 60”-84” with both hands. These can be stab safe and if so can be used for thrusting. You can use a stab-safe spear 60”-84” in one hand to thrust only. You must pass an out of character safety check to use a polearm for thrusting.
Weapon Prowess		⚡Two melee BASHes. ⚡"Would You Kindly attack me instead"
Grit Weapon Expertise		⚡STUN with a melee weapon 42"-60". ⚡REPEL with a melee weapon 8"-42". ⚡REPEL with a sshield block. ⚡"Would You Kindly attack me instead"

Profession Skills

Skill	Prerequisite	Description
Income		Gain an extra income each interactive.
Second Profession Discipline		Unlock a second profession discipline.
Third Profession Discipline		Unlock a third profession discpline.
Create Device	Tesla Starting Discipline	Create devices for yourself or the party.
Destruction	Tesla Discipline	Destroy resilient objects.
Scramble Effect	Tesla Discipline	Destroy lesser EFFECTs or break down big EFFECTs into smaller ones.
Protective Field	Tesla Discipline	Create an EFFECT on an area to contain or keep out dangers.
Empower	Tesla Discipline	Empower skills to be an order of magnitude wider or longer lasting.
Summon and Link AI	Analytical Starting Discipline	Summon Analytical Intelligences and link them to characters.
Technical Analysis	Analytical Discipline	Analyse technological items.
Isolate	Analytical Discipline	Isolate a character or item to cut it off from technological communication.
Cryptographer	Analytical Discipline	Send secure and anonymous messages.
Automaton Engineer	Analytical Discipline	Alleviate wounds and tinker with automata.
Instil Mantra	Intuition Starting Discpline	Instil mantras into other characters.
Investigate	Intuition Discpline	Analyse a location or problem to get clues about it.
Smooth Talker	Intuition Discpline	Defuse fights and discern truth.
Hearts and Minds	Intuition Discpline	Cause emotions by talking to people.
Iron Will	Intuition Discpline	Resist emotion and mind control effects.
Pharmacy	Survival Starting Discpline	Create pharmaceuticals
Scout	Survival Discpline	Analyse mundane items and get clues about what lies ahead.
Scavenge	Survival Discpline	Dismantle items and dead creatures for resources
Smuggler	Survival Discpline	You can conceal items on your person.
Medicine	Survival Discpline	Alleviate and treat wounds. Analyse corpses.

Group Skills

Many Profession skills are performed as Group Skills. A group skill is led by a character with the skill, but other characters can assist them. Group skills take at least one minute to perform.

Skill Rules

• Each skill can only be taken once.
• Per-encounter skills refresh after 5 minutes. On a linear also after a clear encounter change (changing location is a sure sign, if in doubt ask a ref).
• An Unresisting target is one who cannot or chooses not to make any attempt to resist a roleplayed action made against them. Incapacitated, Terminal and dead characters are always unresisting. Any level of resistance is enough to disrupt a skill that requires an unresisting target; you should assume a target is resisting if able, unless they are roleplaying acceptance or playing possum.
• Any skill that requires touch range appropriate roleplay requires an unresisting target unless otherwise specified.
• When performing any roleplay that requires an unresisting target, it should be clear to close observers, and especially the target, that you’re performing a skill on them.
• Another character can resist for an unwilling target; placing their hands in the way is sufficient, as is hitting them with a harmful call. You cannot resist for a willing target.
• Touch range skills can be used on yourself unless otherwise specified.
• If you are leading a skill and stop roleplaying the skill is cancelled with no consumption of resources.
• If participating in but not leading a skill and you stop roleplaying your contribution is lost from the result and you cannot rejoin.
• You automatically stop performing a skill if incapacitated.
• When performing a skill you cannot use another active skill (with a small number of exceptions specified in the skill description) or attack. You can block or parry as long as you otherwise continue your roleplay.
• You cannot combine the effects of skills that grant calls. For example you can't use a weapon skill and a weapon oil in the same strike.
• You can only non-consensually take items from another character using the Search skill. You can however demand a character give you something, and threaten them if they don't.
• When participating in a group skill led by another character (such as an Investigation or a ritual), you are aware of which skill they are using.
• Skills can be learned freely between events. You can also learn them in uptime from a character who knows it with at least 5 minutes of teaching roleplay.