Quartermaster: Advanced Class

Description

The first use of the term Quartermaster was a court official charged with selecting, procuring, and maintaining furnishings and decorations for a monarch’s personal quarters. The term was picked up by military organizations to refer to an officer tasked with supplying the unit, ship, or other group with clothing and supplies. In a large, well-oiled military or corporation with continent-spanning supply-lines, the job of the quartermaster is largely one of keeping track of stores, projecting future needs, placing the appropriate orders, and maintaining the equipment they do have. For expeditionary companies in frontier lands or units operating in hostile territory, the quartermaster and their subordinates must employ more creative means of procuring and supplying their groups.

In Tempest, Quartermasters take on the role of one of these creative forces who obtain the resources and equipment their groups need to excel. This class is primarily focused on crafting and gathering, and is a natural extension of the Crafter specialization of the Artisan Base Class.

Specializations

Many Quartermaster powers are tagged [Crafter], [Artificer], or [Mystic]. Powers with these tags interact with certain aspects of the Artisan class, but have no specific meaning unless otherwise specified.

Requirements

• At least Character Level 10
• One of:

• Greater Alchemy
• Greater Tinkering
• Greater Enchanting
• At least one Advanced Artisan power

• Forage III, Prospect III, or Scavenge III

Class Progression Table

Quartermaster Innate Powers

Comprehensive Maintenance [Innate]

Requirement: Quartermaster Level 1

Keeping equipment in good shape is an important part of any Quartermaster’s duties, even if they aren’t able to create that equipment to begin with. Whether they have the necessary craft skill or not, a Quartermaster may spend 4 Hourglass Turns (which might be modified by other powers) performing maintenance roleplay on an object, person, or place created or modified with any Crafting skill, so long as the original recipe, plan, formula, or ritual is available to work with, and the craft in question has not yet expired.

If a crafting workstation is required to create the craft, the Quartermaster must be at an appropriate location. By expending all of the materials and other sacrifices normally required to create the craft, you may reset the craft’s Expiration date as though it had been newly crafted by you. This does not count as an act of creation in and of itself, so no new Dark Territory draws are required.

Extra Living Iron [Innate]

Requirement: Quartermaster Level 1, Living Iron

For the purposes of the Artisan Archetype power Living Iron only, add your Quartermaster level to your Artisan class-levels.  At level 5 Quartermaster, the Quartermaster adds their Quartermaster levels twice to Artisan class-levels instead of once.

For Example: A character who is a 10th level Crafter Artisan and 3th level Quartermaster would have a base Living Iron pool of 3 x 13 = 39 points, and could Mend a maximum of 13 points in a single use. Once the character reaches 5th level Quartermaster, their pool grows to 3 x 20 = 60 points, and can use up to 20 points in a single use.

Expanded Support [Innate]

Requirement: Quartermaster Level 2

The Quartermaster continues to learn new and better means of supporting their company, and some may choose to branch out into avenues of support they had not previously anticipated. The Quartermaster gains one of the following options that they already meet the requirements for:

• Bespoke Equipment: Gain your choice of Greater Alchemy or Greater Enchanting or Greater Tinkering
• Master of Ceremonies: Gain your choice of Greater Arcane Ritual Magic or Greater Divine Ritual Magic
• Field Engineer: Gain your choice of Basic Locks or Basic Traps
• Combat Support: Gain your choice of Mystic Smith or Great Weapons or Shield Expertise
• Medical Support: Gain Basic Medicine and Advanced Medicine
• Supply Chain Management: Gain Manse and Income

Nose for Opportunity [Innate]

Requirement: Quartermaster Level 2

Incantation: None

Call: “Discern [to Marshal Spirit]: [Question]”

Target: Marshal Spirit                        Duration: Immediate

Delivery: None                                Refresh: Short Rest

Accent: None                                Effect: Discern

Quartermasters are always on the lookout for convenient opportunities to obtain additional resources (or, at least, delegate such duties). When speaking with an NPC that is proposing an expedition, adventure, or other outing, you may call to them: “Discern: Is this adventure likely to contain harvestable resources or hidden treasure?” This use does not expend this power, though you may only ask about any particular adventure once.

Should you personally attend an adventure (whether or not you asked the above question), once per Short Rest you may approach a marshal and call: “Discern to Marshal Spirit: Where in the vicinity might I find harvestable resources or hidden treasure?”

Shelf Stability [Innate]

Requirement: Quartermaster Level 2

Single-use items you craft that are listed as having Standard expiration are instead Double Standard. This includes items such as potions, poisons, patch kits, and scrolls. This only functions with crafting that produces a new item — crafts that modify an existing object, creature, or place (such as most Enchantments and Rituals) do not qualify, even if they are consumed after a single use.

Resourceful [Innate]

Requirement: Quartermaster Level 3

Once per Short Rest, you may use one of the following benefits:

• When you draw from a Prospecting, Scavenging, Hazard, or other gathering-related deck, you may draw twice and take whichever result you prefer. You may decide to use this after you have drawn.
• For a single draw from the Planar Weir, you may draw a second resource, and may keep either result and put the other back as though it had not been drawn.
• When you follow any crafting plan that creates a Resource, you may chant “Pause Process” to safely interrupt a part of the process that would normally cause the process to fail if paused or interrupted. This chant must continue regularly and without interruption, when the chant ends the process resumes immediately, potentially causing failure if the criteria for continuation are not met.

Unending Stability [Innate]

Requirement: Quartermaster Level 4

A single category of single-use items you craft that are listed as having Standard expiration instead have a Permanent duration. The Quartermaster must choose from a list of options:

Alchemy with an Application of Quaff

Alchemy with an Application of Topical

Scrolls

Repair Kits and Sharpening Stones (Including Enchanted Repair Kits or Sharpening Stones)

This only functions with crafting that produces a new item — crafts that modify an existing object, creature, or place (such as most Enchantments and Rituals) do not qualify, even if they are consumed after a single use.

Masterpiece [Innate]

Requirement: Quartermaster Level 5

The Quartermaster gains their choice of Master Alchemy, Master Enchanting, Master Tinkering, Master Arcane Ritual Magic, or Master Divine Ritual Magic. They must have the corresponding Greater craft skill, but do not need to have met the level requirement.

Additionally, the Quartermaster’s mastery of maintenance procedures reaches obsessive levels when it comes to their own equipment. The Quartermaster’s own Signature Item never expires. This applies to the base Tinkering item and any Tinkering modifications or Enchantments made to it that would normally have Standard expiration. Should the Quartermaster ever lose attunement to the item and fail to re-attain it for their next Short Rest, it expires if its original expiration date has passed. If the Quartermaster is able to attune more than one Signature Item, this benefit applies to all of them.

Quartermaster Class Skills

Enchant Token - 2 CP  [Class]

Requirement: Quartermaster Level 2, Greater Enchanting

This process was developed after studying enchantment tokens found in various ancient ruins. Whenever you follow a formula that would produce an enchantment, you may pause the enchantment process at the last moment instead of imbuing it in the item, person, or place otherwise intended. Using a Foundation Resource Infusion that has not been filled with a foundation resource, you instead fill it with the essence of the enchantment, congealing it into a solid token. Call “Enchant Token” when you do so and record the parameters of the enchantment (the name, the foundation resource effect, etc) as well as the duration on an item card. You must still perform Dark Territory draws if appropriate.

Tokens found in ancient ruins tend to be very old and in poor shape. After disturbing them, they tend to leak power (and their duration) like sieves. However, freshly produced tokens will not lose power under normal circumstances. The duration of the enchantment does not begin until it is applied. Any enchanter can complete the enchantment process, pressing the energies into the item to be enchanted.

Quartermasters who perform enchantments like to keep a few extra Foundation Resource Infusions on hand even if they are not intentionally making tokens. Dark Territory can sometimes come with unexpected boons such as additional enchantment charges that might otherwise be lost if a valid target is not present, and these can be captured as tokens.

This only affects formulae that produce enchantments. Other formulae, such as those that produce spell scrolls, extract resource essences, repair summoned armor, or similar tasks can’t be captured by this process.

Mass Production - 3 CP [Class]

Requirement: Quartermaster Level 2

Incantation: “Mass Production”

Call: None

Target: None                                Duration: Passive

Delivery: None                                Refresh: None

Accent: None                                Effect: Special

When outfitting an entire operation, it is sometimes useful to cut a few corners when the resulting drop in quality will not impact useability. The Quartermaster may call “Mass Production” at the beginning of any crafting attempt to double the number of outputs from the crafting plan. This requires that the Quartermaster expend double the appropriate resources for the plan they are crafting. If the Quartermaster has the correct Batch Process skill from the Artisan class, it can be used in conjunction with this process to produce quadrupled results at quadruple cost.

There is a price to be paid for this level of output. Any item with an expiration created by this process will have its expiration duration halved. If the Quartermaster is an Artisan with the Durable Creation archetype power, this penalty and that benefit cancel out. Items that do not have an expiration such as processed resources are much more amenable to mass production, and suffer no ill consequences when produced this way.

Note: Crafting processes requiring a Dark Territory card pull must be pulled twice (or four times, when also using Batch Process) from the same hand. Resolve each card before the next is pulled.

Private Industry - 3 CP  [Class]

Requirement: Quartermaster Level 5, Manse

While not as productive as a full-scale operation, your Manse can produce limited amounts of a chosen construction resource if properly managed. Select Lumber, Ore, or Stone when you take this skill. You receive one unit of this resource at the start of each event, but only when attending events in the chapter where your Manse exists.

Quartermaster Utility Powers

Alternative Applications [Utility] [Crafter]

Requirement: Living Iron (Artisan Archetype power)

Incantation: “By the power of my craft, I work with efficiency”

Call: None

Target: Self                                Duration: Instantaneous

Delivery: None                                Refresh: Immediate

Accent: None                                Effect: Refresh

While mending armor is a worthwhile use of Living Iron, not all Artisans see enough combat to fully utilize it. A good Quartermaster knows how to repurpose what is underutilized. You gain the following additional uses of Living Iron that can be utilized during crafting and gathering tasks. The incantation need only be said the first time you spend points in a particular crafting or gathering session. Points spent from your Living Iron pool in this way in any single expenditure must fall under the maximum amount of armor points you could normally mend using a single use of Living Iron - for example, you cannot instantly Prospect until your effective Artisan class-level is at least 15.

• While following an alchemical recipe or tinkering schematic, you can use your Living Iron to better regulate chemical reactions and heat transfer. Any time one of these crafts requires waiting for hourglass turns, you may spend 1 point of Living Iron pool per turn required to reduce that wait by half of that, to a minimum of 1 turn.
• When following Enchanting formulae that allow you to scribe scrolls or copy documents, you may stretch the effectiveness of inks by imbuing your Living Iron with the ambient energies of the Planar Weir and mixing it with the ink. You may get two uses out of a single dose of Simple Ink by spending 5 points from your Living Iron Pool. You may do the same for Arcane Ink for 10 points and Eternal Ink for 15 points. A particular dose of crafted ink may not be further stretched, and the stretched ink must be used before you leave the Planar Weir or it expires immediately.
• When you prospect, you may use your Living Iron to more efficiently extract minerals from mines and springs. By spending 5 points of your Living Iron pool, you may reduce the time needed for prospecting to Focus Slow 90. If instead you spend 15 points, you may instead prospect with no count required.

Best Timing [Utility] [Crafter]

Requirement: Prospect III

The best prospectors work smarter, not harder. Whenever you gather from a prospecting site, if you did not gather at that site during the previous logistics period, you may make that attempt now. In effect, a Quartermaster with Best Timing only needs to gather during the day or night, not both. This does not stack with the Artisan utility Good Timing. During the first logistics period of the event, you can’t harvest for the “previous” period, even if you missed the last logistics period from the previous event.

Master of the Quarters [Utility] [Crafter] [Mystic]

The first Quartermasters managed the quarters of royalty. While few match that description now, many are still responsible for maintaining a company’s living area, and have the skills to show for it. You gain Hearth for free, plus five CP worth of Hearth perks of your choice. Additionally, you may perform the Haven ritual even if you do not have the Apprentice Divine Ritual Magic skill, and if you are the Primary Ritualist, may spend half the Rare Minerals for the same effect.

Mining Foreman [Utility] [Crafter]

Requirement: Prospect I

Organized groups of prospectors often elect a leader who keeps track of the count and handles draws from the mining decks. When you are this person, you may perform any of the following actions:

• Any time you draw from the yield deck or hazard deck on behalf of someone else, you may opt to use a power that would otherwise manipulate your own draw on their behalf.
• You may opt to sacrifice your own yield result. If you do so, you must still draw a hazard, but may call “By My Voice Grant X Barrier”, where X is equal to 2x your Prospecting tier (up to 6).
• While drawing results, once per prospecting session per Quartermaster class-level, you may call “[Name or Description]: Grant Protect vs. This Hazard” after reading any hazard result and confirming that the card will not be replaced or negated. Note that a character may not receive multiple simultaneous copies of the same Protect, so these Protects must go to other members of your group.
• You may choose to rush the expedition, reducing the count to Focus Slow 90 by calling “Rush Expedition”. If you do this, you lose all of the other options granted by this power for the rest of the prospecting session, sacrificing safety for speed.

When prospecting as a group in this way, hazard effects pulled by the leader take effect simultaneously after all results have been pulled, not when the individual results are announced.

Use Every Part [Utility] [Crafter]

Requirements: Scavenge III

A true scavenger respects their kills and leaves as little behind as possible. Whenever you turn in scavenging tokens, you receive one extra basic resource per token and one uncommon resource per two tokens turned in. The type of resource received depends on the type of creature you scavenged.

Additionally, even the most dangerous internal organs have their uses. Once per Long Rest when a creature you scavenge calls an effect against you, you may call “Counter, Use Every Part”. You may, at some point before your next Short Rest, prepare a Spell Ball with this organ over a Focus Quick 30. This spell-ball will deliver the same Effect or Damage and Accent that you would have taken. (Note: Instructions are not Effects and can’t be preserved in this way).   Due to degradation of the organ, if the effect is one that has a duration and the original duration was Long or Event (uncalled), it must be thrown as Short instead.

Vermiculture [Utility] [Crafter]

Requirements: Forage III

Composting a mixture of unwanted organic matter tends to attract creatures of the night. Each day of the event other than the last, you may turn in a mixed quantity of Bloom, Hide, or Harvest to plot. For every three Bloom/Hide or one Harvest turned in you may attract one Night Prize to be collected the next day, up to five. If you turn in more material than this, you may attract additional Night Prize at plot discretion. However, large piles of rotting matter and the valuable critters that congregate there may attract the attention of wildlife, opportunistic foragers, or other problems that could reduce your yield.

If a Greenhouse is available, composting at the building will protect your yield, but large amounts of compost may attract wildlife into town.

Quartermaster Basic Powers

Contract Labor [Basic] [Crafter]

Incantation: None

Call: None

Target: Self                                Duration: Instantaneous

Delivery: None                                Refresh: Immediate

Accent: None                                Effect: None

Not all quartermasters can personally fulfill all orders, and even if they can, a guildhouse or tavern full of adventurers is not always a conducive environment for mass crafting. Buildings such as an Ironworks, Witch’s Hut, or Arcane Tower tend to have crafting facilities and personnel for specific crafts (Tinkering, Alchemy, and Enchanting), and if you’re willing to spend some time earning your keep for the management, arrangements can be made.

While you perform a 4-hour NPC shift, NPC laborers will craft for you at-cost, assuming the necessary facilities exist at your location. You must bring the necessary resources with you. Your shift grants you a labor budget of 20 Apprentice crafting processes. You may trade 2 of those up for a Journeyman process or 5 for a Greater process. Master-level workers are not available for use with this ability by default, but if they become available, a single Master-level recipe takes your entire labor budget. Contract Labor can’t be used to create Signature Items, and the laborers will refuse to perform crafting that involve Dark Territory draws.

First Aid Specialization [Basic] [Mystic]

Incantation: "By the power of my craft, I aid the wounded"

Call: As per First Aid Kit

Target: None                                Duration: Passive

Delivery: None                                Refresh: None; Short Rest

Accent: None                                Effect: Special

Your attuned First Aid Kit or similar medical kit’s capacity is 15 more than its base value; a normal kit’s base value is 5, so this would allow the kit’s Advanced effect to be used four times before refilling. Additionally, instead of performing a Focus count, you may instead incant "By the power of my craft, I aid the wounded" before making any of the kit’s associated calls. Finally, if you have a Mending or Healing pool power such as Living Iron or Healing Touch, once per Short Rest you may spend up to your kit’s capacity from those pools to directly refill the kit. To do this, perform that power’s normal incantation and touch the kit, then call “Replenish Kit”.

Protective Gear [Basic] [Crafter] [Artificer]

Incantation: None

Call: “Counter, Protective Gear”

Target: Self                                Duration: Instantaneous

Delivery: None                                Refresh: Short Rest

Accent: None                                Effect: Counter

Whether you’re a prospector yourself or simply accompany them, you’ve learned the risks involved and ways to protect yourself from random hazards. Once per Short Rest, you may call “Counter, Protective Gear” when you would take a mining hazard, an effect with the Environment modifier, or an effect from a Tinkering, Alchemy, or Enchanting craft you are involved in.

Salvage Substance [Basic] [Crafter] [Artificer]

Incantation: Focus Quick 100

Call: “Salvage Substance”, Explanation

Target: Weapon or Materia                Duration: Instantaneous

Delivery: Touch                                Refresh: Immediate

Accent: None                                Effect: Special

Waste not, want not. Many adventurers hesitate to apply valuable poisons or other coatings (items whose recipes say “Application: Topical”) to their weapons or materia, thanks to a fear that it will ultimately go unused. The Quartermaster can personally scrape substances from a weapon or squeeze them out of charged materia back into containers so long as their effects have gone unused and the item in question has not been dispelled or shattered. This takes a Focus Quick 100 to perform. This can’t be used to recover a substance that produces a Counter, Protect, Resistance, Obfuscate, or Immunity call or condition.

Touching materia charged by another character is generally dangerous. If recovering a substance from a charged materia held by another character, at the start of the process tell them “Explanation: While I am focusing, this materia will not activate unless you let go of it or my focus is broken”.

If the item belongs to someone else, the Quartermaster should explain what has occurred, and the substance’s item card should be updated to note that a use has been restored. If the substance’s original container has been discarded (that is, its item card has already been discarded or destroyed), a new one can be created, but the item expires at the end of the event instead of its original expiration date.

Quartermaster Advanced Powers

Advanced Kick [Advanced] [Crafter]

Incantation: None

Call: None

Target: Alchemy Craft                                Duration: Permanent

Delivery: Touch                                        Refresh: Short Rest

Accent: None                                        Effect: Imbue

An Artisan can take up to 3 identical doses of an existing alchemical item (either Quaffed or Topical) and add an effect to them. After spending a minute or so adding to, mixing, and enhancing the items, they may choose one of the following benefits that will take place when the items are used. The available benefits depend on whether the items are Quaffed or Topical.

Topical items may be kicked with the following effects:

• Add the Final modifier to the Ingested effect of a Topical item.
• Increase the amount of damage that the item deals by 1.
• Change from Poison accent to Disease.
• Change from Flame accent to Acid.
• Halve application time (Quick 30 → Quick 15)

Quaffed items may be kicked with these effects, which are the same as the Artisan power Kick:

• Heal 1 Life Point
• Grant 1 Point of Barrier
• Cure Poison
• Cause the Intoxicate Effect

No alchemical item can be Kicked more than once. The Kick effect should be added to the information card for the item if it has one. If there is no information card, either one must be made, or only the Artisan can get the Kick effects.

Cauldron Brew [Advanced] [Crafter] [Mystic]

Requirement: Greater Alchemy

Incantation: Crafting Procedure

Call: “Cauldron Brew”

Target: Crafting Process                        Duration: Instantaneous

Delivery: None                                Refresh: Long Rest

Accent: None                                Effect: Special

Witches, line cooks, and quartermasters all agree: if you need to produce a lot of something, a cauldron is the way to go. This process involves a cauldron prop, three brewers and produces at least 10, but up to 20 times the amount of a normal batch of a standard alchemical recipe. If the recipe normally produces a Pollution Call, it should be made at the indicated point in the below procedure. If the recipe involves Dark Territory or Blood Magic, inform a Ritual Marshal before you begin; modifying such a recipe in this way is dangerous, and nothing is known of the consequences. The modified procedure is:

This process involves two brewers in addition to yourself, spread among three roles: one who stirs, one who maintains the fire, and one who monitors the brew’s flavor and consistency and adds herbs or solutions to adjust. You may trade roles at any time during the process, and this is particularly recommended to give the stirrer a break. Only one participant needs to know the Cauldron Brew power, but all must be at least Apprentice Alchemists. Due to the use of a large cauldron, this procedure need not be performed at an Alchemical Lab. Some special locations may grant benefits to brewing with a cauldron, but the procedure can be done anywhere a fire can be safely built, including indoors if the floor is appropriately protected. Expended resources should be placed in a temporary Ash Bin and turned in directly to plot after you are done brewing.

Gather 10 or 20 times the normal ingredients for a particular recipe batch. Any of the brewers may use Batch Process [Alchemy] and/or Mass Production or other powers that normally double a recipe’s yield, but the benefit is replaced with increasing the brew’s batch limit by 10, and no power with the same call may be used more than once with a particular brew. The expiration reduction from Mass Production applies as usual.

1. One brewer should start a fire, then occasionally blow on it, add more fuel, stir the fire, and so on.
2. One brewer should fill the cauldron with water, place it over the flame if not there already, then begin stirring.
3. One brewer should roughly chop, crush, or otherwise break down ingredients a handful at a time, adding them once per hourglass turn until all ingredients are added. After the normal ingredients are expended, occasionally taste the brew and add salts, herbs, random leaves, or whatever else seems appropriate to enhance the flavor, potency, and consistency of the brew.
4. Over the course of 20 hourglass turns, stir the cauldron slowly clockwise. If you are using an Enhanced Cookpot as your cauldron, reduce this to 16 turns. As this is a crafting process, other abilities that reduce the number of hourglass turns may be applied, though only one instance of any particular power may be used (that is, if two brewers have Studied Process, it only works once).
5. If the normal recipe involves a Pollution Call, say it loudly at this point.
6. Optional: If you have the Kick power from the Artisan class, Advanced Kick, or some other power that applies a kick modification to an alchemical item, you may expend it to kick the entire batch at once. Instead of the normal activation time, add an additional 10 hourglass turns of stirring counter-clockwise.
7. Take the cauldron off the heat. Over the next two hourglass turns, cool the brew and parcel it out into flasks or whatever container is most appropriate. You may then write item cards for the doses.

Those who Cauldron Brew frequently should be aware that this activity resembles ritual magic enough that spirits are sometimes drawn to it. While you should not normally need to involve a Ritual Marshal in this process, particular conditions may cause it to be required at plot discretion, and wandering spirits may latch on to a brew in progress. Some prefer to Cauldron Brew in private, warded places so that spirits are less likely to notice, while some use special chants to attract, repel, or otherwise influence wandering spirits. Whether these practices work is up for debate.

Line Cook [Advanced] [Crafter] [Mystic]

Incantation: None

Call: None

Target: Special                                Duration: Instantaneous

Delivery: Ingested                        Refresh: Long Rest

Accent: None                                Effect: Special

Quartermasters are often responsible for ensuring that their groups stay well fed. While any good Quartermaster can serve functional food, some develop a talent for meals that inspire. If you serve a meal that you prepared, you may choose one of the following benefits to grant to up to 10 people who consume it. If you cooked the meal using an Enhanced Cookpot, you instead grant both.

• Long Grant +1 Maximum Spikes
• Long Grant +1 Maximum Life Points

If the food is served as refreshments at a party thrown by someone using the Socialite Party Planner power, you may additionally tell the planner: “Explanation: You may use all single-use Party Planner abilities twice at this party.”

Patch Up [Advanced] [Crafter]

Incantation: Focus Quick 100

Call: “Rebuild [Item]”, “Mend to Full”

Target: Shattered Item                        Duration: Permanent

Delivery: Touch                                Refresh: Long Rest

Accent: None                                Effect: Rebuild, Mend

The Quartermaster can perform feats of repair beyond what normal folk could hope to achieve… for a few minutes anyway. The quartermaster sets to work doing whatever repairs can be attempted to a piece of personal equipment, door, or other object smaller than a door. After a Focus Quick 100, call “Rebuild [Item]”. If the repaired item is a Shield, Armor, Door, or other object that can be mended, then call “Mend to Full” on it. The Quartermaster may Rebuild and Mend a number of items equal to their Quartermaster class-level per Long Rest.

Scrapper [Advanced] [Crafter]

Incantation: None

Call: None

Target: Resources                Duration: Instantaneous

Delivery: None                        Refresh: Long Rest

Accent: None                        Effect: Special

You know the trick of combining small, loose materials into sturdy construction resources. Once per Long Rest, you may convert Ingots, Bloom, or Rare Minerals into Ore, Lumber, or Stone, respectively. The amounts needed are, at base:

• 50 Ingot for 1 Ore
• 50 Bloom for 1 Lumber
• 25 Rare Minerals for 1 Stone

Turn your materials in to Staff directly to perform this process. Depending on plot conditions and constructed facilities, you may be able to get a better rate using compressed resource cards, use this power more often by taking an NPC shift, or perform other exchanges not described here.

Quartermaster Veteran Powers

Contain Disaster [Veteran] [Artificer]

Incantation: None

Call: “Contain Disaster”

Target: Special                                Duration: Until Used

Delivery: Special                            Refresh: Special, Short Rest

Accent:        Special                                Effect: Special

A Forgesource contains the power of creation, and with a little knowhow, it can contain other things. Once per Short Rest, when you would trigger a Hazard while prospecting or a Pollution Call while crafting, you may sacrifice a Forgesource to call “Contain Disaster.” This prevents the hazard from triggering, protecting those around you.

At some point before the end of the event, you may unleash that disaster. Using either a Spell Ball or a thrown weapon representation of a Forgesource, you may throw the effect that would have been triggered. If the contained hazard originally used Voice delivery, (for example, “By My Voice Piercing 5 by Poison”), you may alternatively trigger that effect, but you take the effect yourself as Final.

Expedite Procurement [Veteran] [Crafter]

Incantation: “Expedite Procurement”

Call: None

Target: Self                                Duration: Instantaneous

Delivery: None                                Refresh: Immediate

Accent: None                                Effect: Special

Time is valuable, and you don’t always have a lot. You know how to cut the red tape.

• When you Prospect, Forage, Scavenge, or Loot, you may call “Expedite Procurement” and skip the count. If you trigger a hazard or the creature being scavenged and/or looted produces a Verbal-delivered attack, you may counter it with “Counter, I don’t have time for this.”
• When you would draw a Foundation Resource from the Planar Weir during a Tap Primordial Rift formula or other means of accessing the Weir, you may instead call “Expedite Procurement, Draw X”, where X is a Foundation Resource of your choice. You are treated as having drawn that resource normally. If some reason exists that a particular resource is not available at the Weir, you may not draw it this way.

Gadgeteering [Veteran] [Crafter] [Artificer]

Requires: Greater Tinkering

Incantation: None

Call: None

Target: Equipment                        Duration: Event

Delivery: Touch                                Refresh: Short Rest

Accent:        None                                Effect: Special

While maintaining and in some cases constructing weapons is generally within a Quartermaster’s purview, some take things further with experimental modifications. By spending 2 Hourglass turns modifying a piece of manufactured equipment at a Tinker’s Forge, you can add certain benefits that the recipient can use. These benefits last until the end of the event unless otherwise specified. A single piece of equipment may not have multiple modifications.

• Blast Shield (X Forgesources): Sacrifice a number of Forgesources, up to the maximum Shield Points of a particular shield to install explosive defenses. You may call “Counter, Blast Shield” in response to any damaging attack that strikes the shield, but the shield takes 1 Shield-Breaking in the process. The shield has a number of uses of this ability equal to the number of Forgesources installed, but can’t be used in this way while Shattered. You may perform this modification again later to replenish spent charges, but the total number of charges can’t exceed the shield’s maximum Shield Points.
• Long Mender (1 Forgesource, 2 Rare Mineral): You carve a series of channels into a staff or polearm and install a Forgesource to manage the flow of liquids or certain energies through them. The wielder may deliver the effects of an artisan’s Living Iron power as well as potions or spells that deliver Heal or Cure calls by touching the target with the weapon (a true swing is not necessary). More complex potions, poisons, and spells are too viscous to flow through this device.
• Rescue Hook (1 Forgesource, 3 Ingot): This contraption may be installed on any Great Weapon, or on a one-handed weapon that has a head (axes, hammers, and the like, but not basic straight weapons). This weapon may be used to pull a character who might not otherwise be conveniently reachable, and without needing to drop one’s weapon. To use it, touch a helpless or willing character with the head of your weapon, then call: “[Name or description]: Carrying you with my weapon”. You must use the weapon in two hands unless you could normally carry a creature with only one hand.
• Poison Caches (1-3 Harvest): You may add 1-3 breakable containers (one per Harvest expended) to a weapon which a Poisoner or Alchemist can fill with a topical substance over the usual Quick 30. The wielder of the weapon may call one of the stored alchemical effects on any swing, consuming the substance and the container, which can’t be refilled. The weapon may additionally have a substance applied to its surface in the normal way; if one of the containers is activated before the applied substance is used, the applied substance is lost. Replacement Poison Caches may be created later, but a single weapon may have no more than three.
• Bolas (3 Ingot): You modify a thrown weapon to include a wire and counterweight. When the user throws it, they may call either “Quick Bind by Force” or “Quick Root by Force” on hit. Once the effect is called, this modification is expended. You may make up to 4 Bolas in a single use of this power, but each costs 3 Ingots.
• Special Ammo (Foundation Resource: Energy): You modify a bow, crossbow, or other projectile weapon such that ammunition fired from it may be elementally charged. Select Acid, Lightning, Ice, or Flame. The wielder may change the accent of any damaging attack launched from this weapon to the chosen accent up to 10 times.
• Vibration Blade (Foundation Resource [Ruin or Power]): You give a bladed Hand weapon such as a dagger the capacity to destroy a suit of armor, once. The user must strike the target’s torso (not their limbs, weapons, or shield), so an attack from behind is ideal, though not required. If the torso is successfully struck, the attacker may call “Shatter Armor by Force”. Only a single use of this ability may be placed in a weapon.
• Trap Improvement (Forgesource, optional Foundation Resource [Energy and/or Power]): You improve the efficiency of a trap. If the trap deals damage, its damage number increases by +3. If you use a Power foundation resource in this modification, the damage becomes Piercing. If you use an Energy foundation resource, the trap’s Accent changes to your choice of Acid, Lightning, Ice, or Flame, even if it was an Alchemical Trap loaded with a poison effect. A trap modified in this manner keeps its modification until triggered or until the trap expires.

Vault [Veteran] [Crafter] [Mystic]

Incantation: Focus Quick 100, “By the power of my craft, I protect what is precious”

Call: None

Target: Container                        Duration: Event

Delivery: Touch                                Refresh: Immediate

Accent: None                                Effect: Special

You intertwine a container’s protection with a Haven ritual or Ward spell. The container must be hard-walled (a box, not a bag) and must clearly open and close, but can otherwise be of any size that will fit into the haven. Closets are valid Vaults, but not rooms; if it is unclear if a space is a closet or a room, a closet has only one door and no windows. The vault may additionally be locked, trapped, glyphed, or otherwise protected.

To make the vault, you must be inside of a Haven or Ward. Spend a Focus Quick 100 drawing invisible circuits on the faces of the intended container using a Forgesource, then sacrifice the Forgesource and say “By the power of my craft, I protect what is precious.” Attach a card with a Black Key to the container’s lid or door. On it, write: “Can only be moved, opened, or modified by those connected to this Haven/Ward as long as it has charges. Can not be Shattered or removed from this Haven/Ward as long as it has charges. Created by: [your name]. Note that you do not have to be connected to the Haven or Ward in question so long as you are inside of it.

You may create as many Vaults connected to a particular Haven or Ward per event as you wish, but you can only  create a vault to which you are entitled to open (such as being able to enter a Haven/Ward). Each additional Vault in a particular Haven beyond the first reduces the maximum amount of “stones” the Haven can hold by five.

Quartermaster’s Bag [Veteran] [Crafter] [Artificer]

Incantation: None

Call: “Resist”, “Counter, Quartermaster’s Bag”

Target: Bag                                Duration: Long Rest

Delivery: Touch                                Refresh: Long Rest, Short Rest

Accent: None                                Effect: Special

Whether you’re a Drimmen Vahg or simply have to carry a lot of stuff, you understand the value of investing in a good bag. You may designate a bag of any size (that you own and can carry) as your Quartermaster’s Bag, and you may change that designation once per Long Rest. The bag gains the following properties:

• You are always treated as Obfuscated with respect to Discern or Expose calls related to items in your bag.
• You may Resist any Obey command that would cause you to either divulge the contents of or produce items from your bag, or to give up the bag itself.
• You may Resist any attack or environmental effect that would cause the bag or any of its contents to be Shattered or otherwise damaged as long as it is in your possession. You may not wield a shield, weapon, source, armor, or other game item while it is inside your bag as a way to protect it from harm.
• Once per Short Rest, when a weapon or packet attack strikes your bag while you are carrying it, you may call “Counter, Quartermaster’s Bag.”
• If a Marshal Spirit informs you that carrying a particular item will cause you to be Slowed, and you can fit the item into your bag, you may call “Counter, Quartermaster’s Bag” and ignore the Slow as long as it is in the bag. This will not help other people trying to carry either you or your bag, nor will it help you carry other characters unless you can demonstrate that they fit in your bag. This may help somehow with physical challenges that involve moving heavy objects at the discretion of the Marshal Spirit. In any event, this will never help you carry more than a single object that would cause you to be Slowed at once - carrying a second object will cause you to be Slowed as usual.