Abilities
There are some abilities that all dolls, after their rebirth into the material
life, are taught.
Brewing/ Cooking
Brewing: You are skilled in the manufacture of alcohol and alcoholic beverages.
You are familiar with the equipment used in brewing and distilling and can
maintain, operate and repair such equipment.
Cooking: You know how to prepare a variety of meals and present them in
an appealing manner.
0 Novice: Brew-kit user; the beer foams, and wine doesn’t
turn to vinegar. / You don’t burn the cookies.
0 0 Practiced: Home-wine maker; the partygoers will dink
it. / You have a number of specialties.
0 0 0 Competent: Moonshiner; your friends appreciate your
gifts. / You could be a professional chef.
0 0 0 0 Expert: Commercial wine maker; you could sell
your skill for a lot of money. / You could publish a cookbook.
0 0 0 0 0 Master: Chateau of repute; your spirits are
so good Mother serves them only on special occasions. / You could have your
own TV show, or become a chef in the finest restaurants.
Scrounge
This talent allows you to procure repair material through wits, connections
and a little ingenuity. Some times the things you find aren’t brand new
or exactly right, and they may take time to acquire.
0 Novice: you know where the dump is and how to find
the occasional garage sale.
0 0 Practiced:
you can find a thrift store that’s open late.
0 0 0 Competent: you
know where the all night second hand stores are.
0 0 0 0 Expert: in a pinch you could find what you need in
most dumpsters or alleys.
0 0 0 0 0 Master: you could find gold ingots or a spool
of silken cloth in the dumpster behind the local O’ Tooley’s.
Sewing/ Tanning
This skill allows you the use of needle and thread. This is also the skill
that is used to create works in cloth, make new dolls and to heal damage
inflicted on most dolls. / you are able to produce serviceable items of leather,
either for sale or for your own use.
0 Novice: you can fix seams and sew patches. /
you work from craft kits.
0 0 Practiced: you can mend minor tears with little difficulty
and mend cloths. / you make gifts for friends.
0 0 0 Competent: you can reattach limbs and repair moderate
amounts of damage as well as make nice cloths. / you sell your wares at
local stores.
0 0 0 0 Expert: you can repair major damage that has
been inflicted and make fancy cloths, and create small dolls. / people ask
for your work by name.
0 0 0 0 0 Master: Given time you could create an exact
copy of your body or make a new doll. / your picture appears in magazine
ads.
Taxidermy
You can take an animal apart and preserve all the bits
and pieces, not just the skin and heads. Your deerskins won’t rot, and raven
claws won’t smell funny. Moreover you can make sure newts’ eyes will stay
fresh for years.
0 Novice: the newts
should freeze well.
0 0 Practiced: nobody will buy from you, but you should be
able to cure a pelt or properly preserve a snake in formaldehyde.
0 0 0 Competent: Friends who like animal heads nailed to their
walls appreciate your presents. Others find your hobby distasteful because
the animals don’t look dead any more. Of course, they don’t look alive either.
0 0 0 0 Expert: you could get a job at the natural history
museum. Old ladies who want their Chihuahuas stuffed comes to you, and your
frog toes are fresh as the day you got them.
0 0 0 0 0 Master: you probably embalmed the pharaohs in a
past life. Your work looks like it’s going to get up and run off at
any moment.