The Muck-Raker
Laborer / Prospector
"There's wealth in the ground, if you're willing to bleed for it."
- Type
- Mundane
- Prime
- IRON / GRIT
- Starting Erosion
- 0
You work with your hands — mining ghost-rock, building rail, digging graves. The Consortium sees you as disposable. You’ve learned to find value where others see only dirt.
Starting Choices
- Prime Attribute: Choose +1 IRON or +1 GRIT.
- Skill Allocation: Distribute 6 Skill Points among Career Skills (maximum starting Rank 2).
- Starting Weapon: Choose Sledgehammer (WR 4, Tempo 6, Breaker) or Pickaxe (WR 3, Tempo 5). Both are listed in starting_gear for reference; you take only one.
- Starting Talents: Choose one Muck-Raker Talent from the Calling-specific list above, plus one general Mundane Talent (Combat or Non-Combat list — player’s choice).
Starting Loadout
Career Skills
Starting Gear
Starting Talents
Choose One
Pick one of the following at character creation. See Starting Choices above for the full rule.
Unbreakable
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- —
"They've tried to grind you down. They failed."
Prospector's Luck
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- —
"You have a nose for value."
Saboteur
- Cost
- 1 Mettle
- Tempo
- —
"What's built can be unbuilt."
Breaker's Swing
- Cost
- 1 Mettle
- Tempo
- —
"You've been swinging a hammer since before you could read. The hammer remembers, even when you don't."
Mule's Back
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- —
"You carry what would break other men."
Dig In
- Cost
- 1 Mettle
- Tempo
- 6 (10 minutes out of combat)
"You've spent your life behind a wall of dirt. Might as well fight from behind one."
Rock Sense
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- —
"You feel the mountain's mood in your boots."
Workhorse
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- —
"You've been beaten down, starved, frozen, and burned. You just keep swinging."
Dynamite Arm
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- —
"You've been throwing sticks since the mines. The range isn't the hard part — it's the timing."
Iron Constitution
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- —
"Poison? I drink worse than that every morning."
Improvised Weaponry
- Cost
- Passive
- Tempo
- —
"Everything's a weapon if you're angry enough."
Union Man
- Cost
- 1 Mettle · 1/scene
- Tempo
- —
"You've worked alongside others your whole life. You know how to pull together when it counts."
Drive Examples
- The shape my hands took after twelve hours in the seam.
- The first time the company foreman called us 'replaceable' to my face.
- Pulling my partner from the collapse, the year I learned the company doesn't dig you out.