Botanist
“They know what grows in the wilds, in the urban streets through the cracks in the pavement. They care for the botanical gardens spread throughout Vaia. The rooftop greenhouses. Most interesting may be how they work with pharmacist and genetic engineers to make designer drugs and designer foods.”
Crafting Effect Tree: Specialized Training 10 xps.
Skills Unlocked: Advanced Foraging • Flora Cultivation • Botanical Alchemy • Identify: Flora
Vial: Fruitling to Chewling
Chewlings are carnivorous vines that grow around their victims. Their leaves grow serrated and fold into the flesh causing serious damage. Chewlings are also mildly toxic.
Crafting:
It takes fifteen minutes to convert a Vial: Fruitling into a Vial: Chewling. After an hour, or four conversions, each additional conversion causes 1 Mental Stress.
Requirements: A small variety (3) of leafy cuts that have Tetramines present and at least a basic Botany kit.
Chewling
Thrown: Up to 10m, 30ft.
Effects: AoE - Sticky, Constriction. 1 Square. Lasts 3 Upkeeps
Damage: (3v:6 Initial), (1v:6 Upkeep) (Exterminator’s Poison)
Square is filled with the murderous Chewling vine. Any Victim inside the square is Constricted, losing 4 Reserved Slots immediately, or 2 Action Slots at the beginning of their Active Phase.
Exterminator’s Poison: This poison kills small creatures in less than a minute after consumption. Mid sized creatures instead take 5 damage at upkeep until they receive an appropriate remedy.
Carnivorous
Kiki spends her life in the greenhouses strewn across Vaia. As a botanist of the Nutricia Conglomerate, she is tasked with the culturing of designer edibles, otherworldly natural scents, and even guardian carnivorous flora.
What Kiki is famous for is vial seedlings, that when exposed to air and water grow into monstrous flesh eating flora and also seedless short lived fruit bearing vines in seconds that became a boon in military supply lines with inexpensive and mass producible food.
Her Dissolving Vial Seed Pods are available at nearly all twelve to twelves, offering fresh fruit and withering vines to anyone who breaks a vial. A botanist of any skill may alter these base Vials.
Mastery: Botanist [i] 0-3 Mastery
At 1 Mastery, -
At 2 Mastery, -
At 3 Mastery, -
Mastery: Botanist [i] 4-5 Mastery
At 4 Mastery, Fruitling to Chewling craft time reduced to 10 minutes, allowing crafting one additional Chewling per hour.
At 5 Mastery, Botany [ii] becomes unlocked.
Mastery Requisite: Botanist [i] with 5 Mastery unlocks Botanist [ii]
