Skills

Read ledgers, follow money, and identify suspicious financial records.

Base: 5%

Recognize cultures, customs, and patterns of human behavior.

Base: 1%

Estimate the age, origin, and value of an object.

Base: 5%

Date and interpret material remains from past cultures.

Base: 1%

Create, perform, or evaluate work in a chosen artistic or practical craft.

Base: 5%

Take, develop, and analyze photographs.

Base: 5%

Win cooperation through warmth, attraction, or friendly conversation.

Base: 15%

Scale walls, ropes, cliffs, and other difficult surfaces.

Base: 20%

Represents wealth, social standing, and access to financial resources.

Base: 0%

Forbidden knowledge of entities and truths outside ordinary reality.

Base: 0%

Alter appearance, manner, and voice to avoid recognition.

Base: 5%

Evade an attack or leap away from immediate danger.

Base: 20%

Operate and control a car under ordinary or dangerous conditions.

Base: 20%

Repair or improvise electrical devices and wiring.

Base: 10%

Secure brief cooperation with a rapid, distracting argument.

Base: 5%

Fight unarmed or with simple close-combat weapons.

Base: 25%

Fight with knives, daggers, and similar short blades.

Base: 25%

Fight with swords and similar long-bladed weapons.

Base: 20%

Use pistols and revolvers effectively.

Base: 20%

Use rifles and other shoulder-fired long guns.

Base: 25%

Use single, double, and pump-action shotguns.

Base: 25%

Stabilize injuries and provide immediate emergency care.

Base: 30%

Recall historical events, people, places, and trends.

Base: 5%

Gain compliance through threats, force, or an imposing manner.

Base: 15%

Cross gaps or overcome obstacles with a controlled leap.

Base: 20%

Communicate in a Chinese language chosen for the investigator.

Base: 1%

Read, write, and speak English.

Base: 1%

Read, write, and speak Italian.

Base: 1%

Read, write, and speak Japanese.

Base: 1%

Read, write, and translate Latin.

Base: 1%

Communicate in a learned language chosen for the investigator.

Base: 1%

Communicate fluently in the investigator’s native language.

Base: 50%

Read, write, and speak Spanish.

Base: 1%

Understand legal procedure, precedent, and law-enforcement authority.

Base: 5%

Locate useful information in libraries, archives, and record collections.

Base: 20%

Notice and interpret faint or obscured sounds.

Base: 20%

Open, repair, or construct locks and related mechanisms.

Base: 1%

Repair engines, machines, and mechanical devices.

Base: 10%

Diagnose and treat disease, poisoning, and serious injury.

Base: 1%

Identify ordinary plants, animals, weather, and natural phenomena.

Base: 10%

Find a route using maps, landmarks, stars, or instruments.

Base: 10%

Recognize folklore, ritual traditions, and conventional occult beliefs.

Base: 5%

Control industrial, agricultural, or construction machinery.

Base: 1%

Convince someone through a sustained and reasoned argument.

Base: 10%

Operate fixed-wing aircraft in normal and hazardous conditions.

Base: 1%

Provide extended care for psychological trauma and disorders.

Base: 1%

Assess motives, emotional state, and possible deception.

Base: 10%

Control a trained riding animal, usually a horse.

Base: 5%

Apply training in a scientific discipline chosen for the investigator.

Base: 1%

Apply scientific knowledge of living organisms.

Base: 1%

Analyze substances and understand chemical reactions.

Base: 1%

Apply scientific knowledge of matter, energy, motion, and forces.

Base: 1%

Conceal, palm, or subtly manipulate small objects.

Base: 10%

Notice concealed objects, subtle clues, and hidden people.

Base: 25%

Move or act without attracting attention.

Base: 20%

Find shelter, water, food, and safe routes in a chosen environment.

Base: 10%

Stay afloat and move safely through water.

Base: 20%

Accurately throw an object or improvised weapon.

Base: 20%

Follow physical traces left by people, animals, or vehicles.

Base: 10%