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.