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Direction Sense
Rank: "E" (5 TP at all times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: There are people who always seem to know where they're going as if they had an inner compass.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: There are people who always seem to know where they're going as if they had an inner compass. The character with this skill is just such a person. They have an innate sense about which direction is north, south, east, west, etc. They need no compass. They also can read the stats and use them to navigate by, although they know nothing about navigating on the seas. They can read signs as well, using such information as the direction a river flows or which side a tree moss is growing on, in order to get a sense of where they are. Look in Task Skills thread found in the Skills and Traits Index for more information. Each time learned user gets 2 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: ---

[KoKoKo]

Plus 4

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Ditto

[~Emi~]

+1

5/5

You increased your Direction sense from 0/125 SP to 20/125 SP with this time learned.

Here's the rolls

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Cartography (Specify Type)
Rank: "E" (10 TP at all times)
Skill: Skill
Effect: If a character has parchment, quills and ink, this skill allows them to create relatively accurate maps.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: If the character fails to purchase these items, they cannot map the area. (Remember that parchment is flammable and a Character could easily lose their map in a Fireball, so take precautions.) Characters unskilled or with Novice mastery of Cartography may not use graph paper when mapping dungeons. If a character cannot see they cannot map. There are 3 types of Cartography. Dungeon, Overland, and Nautical.
Unskilled Draw a simple map of interconnected lines ("turned left here, went down a corridor for awhile, room here")
Novice Draw a rough, simple map
Average Draw a fairly accurate map. Can create Poor Quality Charts.
Advanced Draw a very accurate map. Can create Average Quality Charts.
Expert Create a topographical map while airborne. Can create Good Quality Charts.
Master Figure longitude, map continent-sized mass. Can create Amazing Quality Charts.

Each time learned user gets 5 die roll to increase the skill.
Limit: Must know Direction Sense.
7 dice.
0|10tp 0|125 SP

[/i] An arm and a leg just to get around. Then again, its a great deal for whatever lame-ass cartographer gets to make himself a fortune on his doodles. Like seriously. These guys draw sea-monsters when they can't think of anything interesting to actually explain. If I were a cartographer, I would do way better than that. The real skill is approximating a place just by looking at it. And with help from my new-found astrological navigation tactics, I could easily figure where I am and draw a map going to it.

Hmm. I guess I better start simply. Since I'm not going to blow some sum of money on mapping equipment just to waste it on training, I'm going to have to rely upon my flawless memory for the mental generation of maps. So I walked from the tavern I had been in, and started heading towards the center of town. In my head I formulate a set of directions, and imagined what they would look like on a very simple map. They would be a series of lines with bends in them. And really, thats a pretty shitty map, but we all have to start somewhere.

So, I walked out of the tavern and immediately turned left. All right. Thats a note on my map. The line immediately made a turn to the left on my map, and was on my way to cartography. The fact that the left was immediately was denoted by the line leading to it being exceedingly short. I made my way, walking past multiple alleys, and arrived at the place where I would make a right turn. This of course, was relatively simple. I just put a right turn on my map. That would denote to whoever was traveling along my route that...

Oh, thats right. They might get confused and go down one of the alleys. Maybe that means I have to do something else. Something that will help them know if they are making the right turn. Something like putting landmarks on my map. Some simple landmarks would do. So I denoted the fact that I was turning at the entrance to "Mike's Pub." That would make it clear to people that read my hypothetical map that their turn was not yet happening. That the alleys were not in fact the right place to turn. It also could help people check if they got off course, so they could reestablish their direction if they screwed up. Boy am I a good cartographer. This map is fool-proof so far.

Then it hit me once more. Mapping cannot simply be a set of landmarks. Landmarks are great, but things like pubs change. Maybe Mike will get shanked next week. Maybe people will be too sad to keep calling it "Mike's Pub." Maybe my map will be useless within the next fifteen minutes. That would suck. Of course, things like distances and compass bearings would help to immortalize my map. Then, people can operate them regardless of the ever-changing nature of this world we live in.
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[KoKoKo]

+10 tp

+30 sp - total - 30/125 sp