August finished reading the skill description and then moved on to the next listed job.
Builders construct buildings, projects and structures.
Increased Lifting Strength – 10%
Increased Tool Durability – 10%
Increased Experience Gain for associated skills – 50%
Decreased Mana Cost for associated skills – 50%
It was already clear to him that each of the jobs was going to be fairly self-explanatory by the nature of their names and that each would probably have some amount of overlap. As far as he was aware, he didn’t have any associated skills for the Builder job, but almost everything they’d been making lately would have benefitted from the increased experience gain.
The bonuses each had listed were related to the actual tasks he would have assumed the job to handle as well. Lifting Strength would be useful for people carrying around logs, trees and other large objects—less so for the Voithos, but even they would have an upper limit that this would allow them to surpass.
Tool Durability, on the other hand, was exactly the kind of unexplained weirdness he’d spent years trying to ignore inside of every video game he’d ever played. Were the tools magically becoming more durable? Were the wielder’s actions being influenced to utilize the tools in a way that made them take less damage with each use? Lifting Strength at least could be put down to the internal mana pool doing something to enhance them, but his shitty [Wooden Shovel] didn’t have a mana system of its own.
“Whatever,” August muttered. “Next one.”
Tailors craft clothing, bags, and other objects.
Increased Hand-Eye Coordination – 10%
Increased Fine Motor Control – 10%
Increased Experience Gain for associated skills – 50%
Decreased Mana Cost for associated skills – 50%
August eyed the bonuses for a moment, trying to figure out what the difference between the two actually was. Hand-eye coordination was a form of fine motor control, wasn’t it? Maybe fine motor control hit on everything involved, while hand-eye coordination only boosted that specific facet? Either way, the bonuses were something that would be useful for just about every task he’d been doing so far. It was also another job with no real associated skills, but making more of the leafy clothing would net more experience, at least.
Cooks butcher, clean, prepare and cook food.
Increased Sense of Smell – 10%
Increased Knife Handling – 10%
Increased Experience Gain for associated skills – 50%
Decreased Mana Cost for associated skills – 50%
Knife Handling sounded useful, but it was also another skill with an abstract implementation—maybe it would dump experience into his head in the same way blueprints had, or maybe it would simply increase his fine motor skills, but only with knives. The sense of smell increase was interesting, but August was more than wary of sudden sensory changes now that he’d permanently altered himself with [Predator].
Courtesans provide companionship, entertainment and services.
Increased Attractiveness – 10%
Increased Insight – 10%
Increased Experience Gain for associated skills – 50%
Decreased Mana Cost for associated skills – 50%
August tilted his head at the description and then outright sighed at the bonuses. How did the attractiveness bonus even work? Was it warping the perception of other people to view them as more attractive? Or was it using the internal mana pool to somehow make the user more attractive in some way that the system had decided was ‘objectively more attractive.’
Insight, likewise, was just as vague. Was it an active system that alerted the user to things they might have otherwise missed? Or was it some unconscious increase to the pattern-recognition software embedded in all of their brains that was used to decode expressions and understand others?
Guards protect specific people or the settlement at large from internal and external threats.
Increased Striking Strength – 10%
Increased Poise – 10%
Increased Experience Gain for associated skills – 50%
Decreased Mana Cost for associated skills – 50%
At least these bonuses were physically related ones—although how it was sectioning out purely Striking Strength from every other type of Strength was interesting. Was it targeting specific muscle groups for enhancement? Poise was some mixture of stability and balance in the face of force, at least he thought so. That probably required muscles in the legs, back and shoulders to undergo some kind of upgrade.
Once he’d read through all of the listed jobs, he once again found himself with no real idea of how he was supposed to engage with the system. It took him flipping back through his listed skills until he located [Delegate] again, and then it clicked.
Select Target
Select Task
Select Return
For [Target], he selected himself. About halfway down the drop-down box of tasks, he found an option called [Job]. He selected it, and then it kicked him back out to the first menu.
August Marlow
Job
Select Job
August clicked on the new option, and it opened up the list of jobs he’d just gone through. He spent a moment trying to remember each of the bonuses and figuring out which one would be the most useful. They were going to be doing a lot of gathering today, but he probably wasn’t going to be doing too much lifting considering all the other more capable people present. There were also blueprints to consider, and the ones that might be the most useful would probably be within the Builder Job. He was tempted to try Courtesan just to see what the effect of ‘Attractiveness’ was, but vanity wasn’t going to keep him alive on Devil’s Nest.
August Marlow
Job
Builder
He accepted the prompt and then watched as the menu vanished.
August Marlow is now a Builder.
Basic Workbench Blueprint Unlocked
Draft Furnace Blueprint Unlocked
Storage Chest Blueprint Unlocked
Bed Frame Blueprint Unlocked
Lean-to Blueprint Unlocked
“Absolutely scammed,” August said, voice dry. “I already knew that one.”
Acting on the opportunity available to him, he tried to switch jobs to gain access to the rest of the blueprints—and was immediately hit with a message telling him that wasn’t going to be possible for a while.
Job change available in 7 days.
Rittan would be able to unlock five of the blueprints from another job, although, without access to [It’s like this], he wouldn’t be able to share whatever he learned. If he really needed to figure it out, he could just get Rittan to teach him how to make whatever it was to unlock it for himself, so it wasn’t too much of a loss in the end. Still, he was incredibly curious about what the other Jobs had as their starter blueprints.
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August finished reading the skill description and then moved on to the next listed job.
Builders construct buildings, projects and structures.
Increased Lifting Strength – 10%
Increased Tool Durability – 10%
Increased Experience Gain for associated skills – 50%
Decreased Mana Cost for associated skills – 50%
It was already clear to him that each of the jobs was going to be fairly self-explanatory by the nature of their names and that each would probably have some amount of overlap. As far as he was aware, he didn’t have any associated skills for the Builder job, but almost everything they’d been making lately would have benefitted from the increased experience gain.
The bonuses each had listed were related to the actual tasks he would have assumed the job to handle as well. Lifting Strength would be useful for people carrying around logs, trees and other large objects—less so for the Voithos, but even they would have an upper limit that this would allow them to surpass.
Tool Durability, on the other hand, was exactly the kind of unexplained weirdness he’d spent years trying to ignore inside of every video game he’d ever played. Were the tools magically becoming more durable? Were the wielder’s actions being influenced to utilize the tools in a way that made them take less damage with each use? Lifting Strength at least could be put down to the internal mana pool doing something to enhance them, but his shitty [Wooden Shovel] didn’t have a mana system of its own.
“Whatever,” August muttered. “Next one.”
Tailors craft clothing, bags, and other objects.
Increased Hand-Eye Coordination – 10%
Increased Fine Motor Control – 10%
Increased Experience Gain for associated skills – 50%
Decreased Mana Cost for associated skills – 50%
August eyed the bonuses for a moment, trying to figure out what the difference between the two actually was. Hand-eye coordination was a form of fine motor control, wasn’t it? Maybe fine motor control hit on everything involved, while hand-eye coordination only boosted that specific facet? Either way, the bonuses were something that would be useful for just about every task he’d been doing so far. It was also another job with no real associated skills, but making more of the leafy clothing would net more experience, at least.
Cooks butcher, clean, prepare and cook food.
Increased Sense of Smell – 10%
Increased Knife Handling – 10%
Increased Experience Gain for associated skills – 50%
Decreased Mana Cost for associated skills – 50%
Knife Handling sounded useful, but it was also another skill with an abstract implementation—maybe it would dump experience into his head in the same way blueprints had, or maybe it would simply increase his fine motor skills, but only with knives. The sense of smell increase was interesting, but August was more than wary of sudden sensory changes now that he’d permanently altered himself with [Predator].
Courtesans provide companionship, entertainment and services.
Increased Attractiveness – 10%
Increased Insight – 10%
Increased Experience Gain for associated skills – 50%
Decreased Mana Cost for associated skills – 50%
August tilted his head at the description and then outright sighed at the bonuses. How did the attractiveness bonus even work? Was it warping the perception of other people to view them as more attractive? Or was it using the internal mana pool to somehow make the user more attractive in some way that the system had decided was ‘objectively more attractive.’
Insight, likewise, was just as vague. Was it an active system that alerted the user to things they might have otherwise missed? Or was it some unconscious increase to the pattern-recognition software embedded in all of their brains that was used to decode expressions and understand others?
Guards protect specific people or the settlement at large from internal and external threats.
Increased Striking Strength – 10%
Increased Poise – 10%
Increased Experience Gain for associated skills – 50%
Decreased Mana Cost for associated skills – 50%
At least these bonuses were physically related ones—although how it was sectioning out purely Striking Strength from every other type of Strength was interesting. Was it targeting specific muscle groups for enhancement? Poise was some mixture of stability and balance in the face of force, at least he thought so. That probably required muscles in the legs, back and shoulders to undergo some kind of upgrade.
Once he’d read through all of the listed jobs, he once again found himself with no real idea of how he was supposed to engage with the system. It took him flipping back through his listed skills until he located [Delegate] again, and then it clicked.
Select Target
Select Task
Select Return
For [Target], he selected himself. About halfway down the drop-down box of tasks, he found an option called [Job]. He selected it, and then it kicked him back out to the first menu.
August Marlow
Job
Select Job
August clicked on the new option, and it opened up the list of jobs he’d just gone through. He spent a moment trying to remember each of the bonuses and figuring out which one would be the most useful. They were going to be doing a lot of gathering today, but he probably wasn’t going to be doing too much lifting considering all the other more capable people present. There were also blueprints to consider, and the ones that might be the most useful would probably be within the Builder Job. He was tempted to try Courtesan just to see what the effect of ‘Attractiveness’ was, but vanity wasn’t going to keep him alive on Devil’s Nest.
August Marlow
Job
Builder
He accepted the prompt and then watched as the menu vanished.
August Marlow is now a Builder.
Basic Workbench Blueprint Unlocked
Draft Furnace Blueprint Unlocked
Storage Chest Blueprint Unlocked
Bed Frame Blueprint Unlocked
Lean-to Blueprint Unlocked
“Absolutely scammed,” August said, voice dry. “I already knew that one.”
Acting on the opportunity available to him, he tried to switch jobs to gain access to the rest of the blueprints—and was immediately hit with a message telling him that wasn’t going to be possible for a while.
Job change available in 7 days.
Rittan would be able to unlock five of the blueprints from another job, although, without access to [It’s like this], he wouldn’t be able to share whatever he learned. If he really needed to figure it out, he could just get Rittan to teach him how to make whatever it was to unlock it for himself, so it wasn’t too much of a loss in the end. Still, he was incredibly curious about what the other Jobs had as their starter blueprints.
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Reroll: Shatter is now live!
If you like my work and want to see more of it, you can find links to all of my books on my website:
Elbowsnapper
If you want to show some support, go check out my Patreon:
Elbowsnapper is creating Original Fiction, NSFW Fiction, Web Serials. | Patreon
Love you guys, keep on keeping on!
Patreon Early Access:
Contention - Mondays & Fridays.
Systematic Soul Sorting - Book 2 - Mondays and Fridays.
Recent Releases:
Ameliorate: Intersect
Reroll: Falling & Shatter
Systematic Soul Sorting - Book 1, Audiobook.
