>>5619833The <span class="mu-i">Whispermarkets</span> absorbs the shipping papers, and things begin to click into motion. Grain cartels shift their transports, volatility insurance rates of forward-future grains tumble, demand adjustments, freight-by-weight ratios... Ah, the wonders of all the tiny little gears click into motion. Someone, somewhere, is alltogether quite pleased and others, somewhere else, are driven to ruination.
The company gets +2 [Whisper Favours], which rather will come in handy for the coming operation.
Ink, meanwhile, copies relevant parts of the papers and ships them by courier to a courier to a friend of a friend of a guy of a contact. It's a circuitous route. The response, when it comes, will likely be in Bits and Barter.
>>5620666The miners - it appears - are disorganised enough on their own. A few barbrawls, a few throw-downs and some eager gambling later and Fulton has walked away with new bruises and new curse words.
>+3 Hits>>5621437You think real - true - long - and oh so hard on how to improvise, how to adapt, how to be flexible. Then you realise that the innate ability to adopt and adapt to situations is the powerful purview of student-squires, the domain of the dabblers such as yourself, and that trying to be rigid about improvising is a hard kind of paradox. A cunning student rolls to Improvise
You roll cunning to temporarily try to learn a rank or a perk.
You're a Student of some capacity, and so at any time you can improvise up to your {Student Ranks} of improvised other knowledge. It's far, far easier to ask a few questions of allies and friends and dabble in their skills, but mimicry and observation also allows the use of skills from people who don't want to share their secrets with you. Depending on well you roll, you also learn Perks associated with skills. Typically, you get skill-hits first and then perks afterwards if you have excess hits.
Your hits are treated as temporary bits, so improvising a rank 3 skill requires 6 hits in total. Now, usefully, this doesn't have to happen all at once. Once you have a skill you can try to kludge something better together. And it's quite useful with a Steady action.
You cannot increase the amount of skills or perks you can learn beyond your student ranks without some truly horrendous animancy or dire curses. That... <span class="mu-i">is the point of student ranks</span>.
>>5621505To be quite clear: you are <span class="mu-s">never</span>, <span class="mu-i">ever</span> learning cram session without also having ranks in the role that that perk is associated with. No student role ranks? No student role perks.
>>5623257Toby - you move like havoc on the high seas, all focus and glory and momentum. But you've gotta work on your turn speed. Here, let me dig you out of the wall and it'll be... fine. Almost had me!
That's a lie, you weren't even close. But you were pretty cute colliding with a wall at ballista-bolt speeds.
+Brawn Perk:
{Wrecking Ball} 1Sta: Throw yourself forward using Brawn, as a tackle.
