Scavenger

EXPLORERS, MINERS AND TREASURE HUNTERS, RETRIEVERS OF ANCIENT TECHNOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS.

In the Afterfall, the cities of old are nothing but piles of rubble and rust.
Time, humidity, natural disasters and doomsday warfare have done a splendind job.
Nonetheless, if you look hard enough, if you dig deep enough, if you squeeze through the crevices among the debris, you might reach an untouched vault, full of relics of the old world. Scavengers are experts at doing just that, they roam the wastelands, avoiding and confronting great dangers in search for the rubble and rust that signifies hope, waiting for their great strike of luck.
The tales and legends transmitted from generation to generation speak of unbelievable technology that made the ancients nearly godlike. The hardware, however, is not all there is to be found. Some scavengers have recovered old books, that have greatly contributed to get people out of the mud.
Scavengers are also adept at finding metal deposits in the ground: natural ore or ancient junkyards, and they know how to extract it. Scavengers are the nearest to an archaeologist or a miner the Afterfall has to offer, although they usually look like a dusty bum with a wagon full of junk.
Scavengers are usually found working in close connection with Tinkers.
Special Skill: Mining.

Setups:

• Tomb Raider: You are in for the money.
• Miner: .
• Explorer: .
• Propose your own: .

Looks:

• Clothes: Dusty, mudstained, rags, tattered.
• Face: Hardened, tanned, smiling, scarred, wrinkled.
• Eyes: Piercing, restless, dreaming, ambitious, happy, ironic.
• Body: Wiry, huge, tough, strong, haggard.

Drives:
What drives your character forwards. Choose one primary and one secondary drive.

• Quest for the truth
• Consumed by Vengeance
• Self-Reliance

Edges:
On character creation, choose two:

Prospector - Finding ruins or metal deposits in the wilderness.

Treasure Hunter - bonus when spotting stuff inside a ruin.

Sixth Sense - you can sense trouble coming at you.

Nothing can stop me - You move easily through difficult terrain and obstacles.

Tough as Nails - Bonus to resist/recover from Shaken, Bleeding out, and Incapacitated.

Miner's Bad Temper - Bonus to damage with mining gear, and one devastating attack once per day.

Dirty Joke - You have an immature yet effective sense of humor.

Relationships:

You must state relationships with other characters.

• You convinced one of them to follow you in a tough and fruitless expedition.
• One of them financed an unlucky expedition of yours, and lost money.
• You found one of them desperate and lost in the wildlands, and you helped him get to a town.
• One of them told you rumors about a huge and unexplored ruin complex.
• If you have Sixth Sense, one of them was saved thanks to one of your hunches.
• If there are any Tinkers or Healers, they are loyal clients or business partners of yours.

Starting Gear:

• 143 Barter.
• 1 pickaxe.
• 1 shovel.
• 1 axe.
• 1 crowbar.
• 1 set of screwdrivers.
• 1 metal saw.
• 1 dagger.
• 1 rope.
• 1 compass.
• 1 week worth of dry rations.
• 1 waterskin or canteen.
• 1 backpack.
• 1 tent.
• 1 sleeping bag.
• 1 oil lantern.
• 1 oil bottle.
• 1 stubborn mule.
• 1 small wagon with useful junk.