If you’re researching the mysterious fireballs that are periodically spotted around Tallman Plateau, or the history of medicinal cannibalism, or the literary antecedents of Dirk Allen and his influence on Boston’s millenial “Cryptodecadent” authors, you’re going to need an academic. Not just some autodidact with decent Google skills but no grasp on critical thought, but the real ivory tower deal — someone whose sources have to be solid, someone whose job depends on not having a sneering colleague from the Philosophy department casually eviscerate the logic of their argument, someone who actually has skin in the game and could get passed over for tenure if she’s insufficiently thorough.
After getting tenure, of course, she could be far more open to “excluded voices” and “outsider perspectives” and “nontraditional beliefs.” But whatever pre-Internet thing you’re chasing after, you want this bright, curious skeptic in your corner, polishing her eyeglasses on the corner of her cardigan sweater.
HELPLESSNESS 3 Hard
ISOLATION 3 Hard
SELF 2 Hard
UNNATURAL 4 Hard
VIOLENCE 2 Hard
Wound Threshold: 50
I’m an Academic, of course I can access obscure libraries and archives that you never knew existed, get an interview with a reclusive expert, recognize specious bullshit research.
Substitutes for: Knowledge.
Feature: Substitutes for Status.
Feature: Protects Unnatural.