Alchemy skills

The following few skills are needed to properly use certain alchemy equipment.

=Skill	Plant anatomy
=Points	4
=Unique Rule	You need a Plant knife set for this skill to work.
=Unique Rule	You can change a plant ingredient into a roots, stem and flower ingredient.
=Unique Rule	You can change a stem ingredient into a leaves and internodes ingredient.
=Unique Rule	You can change a flower ingredient into a petals, ovary and stamen ingredient.
=Shared Rule	Note the new ingredients in your stock booklet.
=Shared Rule	Each change takes 1 minute.
=Details	You know what parts of the plant are what.

=Skill	Alchemic cooking
=Points	4
=Unique Rule	You need a cauldron for this skill to work.
=Unique Rule	With a cauldron you can change some ingredients into cooked versions.
=Shared Rule	Note a "cooked" version of the old ingredient into your stock booklet.
=Shared Rule	Each change takes 5 minutes.
=Details	You know how to keep temperate even and how to boil gasses away from certain ingredient.

=Skill	Distilling
=Requires	Alchemic cooking skill.
=Points	4
=Unique Rule	You need a distillery for this skill to work.
=Unique Rule	With a distillery you can change some ingredients into two different ingredients.
=Shared Rule	Note both a "still residue" and a "distilled" version of the old ingredient into your stock booklet.
=Shared Rule	Each change takes 5 minutes.
=Details	When you boil gasses away from certain ingredient you know how to catch them and turn them back into fluids by cooling.

The following skills are knowledge skills that will help you determine what certain ingredients are good for.

=Skill	Herbology
=Requires	Plant anatomy
=Points	4
=Unique Rule	If you study a plant for 10 minutes you can say what family it is.
=Unique Rule	You start the event with some random knowledge about plants that could(!) be in this area.
=Downtime Rule	You can spend ℜ in downtime to research the plants in an area from books. Each ℜ gives you a chance to learn some random fact about a plant from that area.
=Details	You know a lot about different plants or you have access to places where you can find out things about plants.

=Skill	Bushcraft
=Points	2
=Unique Rule	You can ingest a plant part in small portions in a relative safe way, after half an hour contact a GM and tell them what plant part you ingested with this skill.
=Unique Rule	You can wear 4 plant parts on various parts on your skin in a relative safe way, after half an hour contact a GM and tell them what plant part you are wearing.
=Details	You know how to carefully dose the ingestion to try and gets hints of the possible effects the plant part might have on you.

Improvised alchemy is a skill with which you can spend WP to adjust an ingredient to your liking.

=Skill	Improvised alchemy
=Points	4
=WP	1
=Unique Rule	During any alchemic change you can spend 1 WP. If you do this, you can choose to remove 1 effect from the resulting ingredient.
=Shared Rule	If you do this note the resulting ingredient in your stock booklet separately and also note which effect is missing.
=Details	You use some rare undocumented ingredients or hard to reproduce methods during the alchemic techniques. With enough concentration, it seems to work.

Systematic testing heightens the amount of testing substances that you can use at one time.

=Skill	Systematic testing 1
=Points	3
=Unique Rule	You can use up to 15 testing substances parallel, but it will take 15 minutes instead of 10.
=Details	You probably have been travelling and testing the local plants for some time. You have devices a system of fluid efficiency.
=Level	Upgrade to Level 2 by training 3 points

=Skill	Systematic testing 2
=Points	6
=Unique Rule	You can use up to 15 testing substances parallel, but it will take 15 minutes instead of 10.
=Unique Rule	You can use up to 40 testing substances parallel, but it will take 20 minutes instead of 10.
=Details	Your skill in testing substances in highly professional. You probably tested substances for a living at an alchemy lab at some point in your live.

The Toxin-resistance condition can be taken during character creation or trained later in life. They denote a high resistance against toxic effects which gives you the ability to drink more potions without averse effects.

=Condition	Toxin-resistance
=Points	3
=Unique Rule	Your toxin levels are allowed to be 1 higher before you have to contact a GM.
=Unique Rule	At first light of each day you lose one additional random toxin level.
=Unique Rule	You have a 10% chance of surviving consuming otherwise deadly substances.
=Downtime Rule	This condition can be trained as if it was a skill.
=Downtime Rule	You can have this condition more than once.
=Details	Either you are born with a natural resistance against toxic substances or you have build up an immunity over the years.

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