SURVIAL ETHOS SYSTEM Buy List

Every month a character is registered with the Survival Ethos System they earn one Mark (SES Currency) at the end of the event. This currency will be noted on their primary character notes section and may be used with specific buy lists associated with the Survival Ethos System. There may be other opportunities to use and earn these currencies in-character as well, at local chapter discretion.

Items on this list can be purchased with “SES Marks”, noted on your character sheet. A character may make no more than one item from each “Level” of this list per event. To purchase an item, the character must have earned the correct level of <Society Membership> in one of the San Saba Factions.

Level 1 Items (universal)

No Society Membership Required

  • “Toughen Up” [Service] - COST: 1 MARK - You may immediately learn a Combat skill as if you had been instructed by a teacher with the MASTER EDUCATION skill. You must meet all prerequisites for the taught skill and expend the appropriate amount of build to purchase it. 

  • “Get Some Gear” [Service] - COST: 1 MARK  - Get a [WEAPON] or [ARMOR] blueprint of your choice.

  • “Burn Twice As Bright” [Service] COST: 1 MARK - You may attach two different augment items to a single weapon. The weapon and all augments attached to it are destroyed at the end of the event.

  • “Go Get In A Fight” [Service] - COST: 1 MARK  - Immediately gain [UPSURGE: 20 ARMOR]

Level 2 Items (Basic)

Basic Society Membership Required

  • “Try Not To Die” [Service] - COST: 1 MARK - You may immediately learn a Wasteland skill as if you had been instructed by a teacher with the MASTER EDUCATION skill. You must meet all prerequisites for the taught skill and expend the appropriate amount of build to purchase it. 

  • “Accessorize” [Service] - COST: 1 MARK  - Get a single [Augment] or [Gizmo] blueprint of your choice. 

  • “Take Them With You” [LPC - 3 Month Expiration] COST: 3 MARKS - If you are carrying this item upon your death, declare “AREA EFFECT - ‎ X‎  Body Damage” where X is your maximum body amount. Requires Basic Society Membership in a San Saba Faction.

  • “Hold Nothing Back” [LPC - 3 Month Expiration] - COST: 5 MARKS  You may spend 1 Mind to declare Overpower on a melee strike you are making with a melee weapon. If the overpowered strike is successful, the weapon that delivered it breaks and one of your arms becomes mangled. 

  • “Let’s Go Deeper” [LPC - 3 Month Expiration] COST: 5 MARKS - This item can be given to the Post Office as proof commitment to the cause and serves as a prerequisite to earn <Proficient Society Membership> in a San Saba faction of your choice. This normally costs 100 Brass to achieve.

Level 3 Items (Proficient)

Proficient Society Membership Required

  • “Get Outside Help” [Service] - COST: 1 MARK - You may immediately learn a Civilized or Anomaly skill as if you had been instructed by a teacher with the MASTER EDUCATION skill. You must meet all prerequisites for the taught skill and expend the appropriate amount of build to purchase it. 

  • “Cheeseburger & A Six Pack” [Service] - COST: 1 MARK  - Get a  [Culinary] blueprint of your choice.

  • “Combat Refund” - [LPC - 3 Month Expiration] - COST: 3 MARKS - When you Interfere an amount of damage from a single strike, you may spend 5 Mind Points to declare that much damage on your next melee attack.

  • “Wreck Their Stuff” - [LPC - 3 Month Expiration] - COST: 3 MARKS When you successfully use the Break skill against an item, you may expend 5 additional mind to declare “No Repair - One Hour”

  • “Don’t Be Picky” - [LPC - 3 Month Expiration] - COST: 5 MARKS - You may consume meals and brews that are no-more than 3 months expired and still gain their effects. Upon consuming any expired items, become incapacitated for 2 minutes as you experience uncontrollable nausea trying to keep it down.

  • “Tough As Diamonds” - [LPC - 3 Month Expiration] - COST: 5 MARKS - When a melee attacker successfully lands three or more blows against you in a single flurry, you may expend 10 Mind Points to declare “Tough As Diamonds - Break Weapon - No Defend” against them. 

  • “Chaos is a Ladder” [LPC - 3 Month Expiration] COST: 10 MARKS - This item can be given to the Post Office as proof commitment to the cause and serves as a prerequisite to earn <Master Society Membership> in a San Saba faction of your choice.

Level 4 Items (MASTER)

Master Society Membership Required

  • “Blue Blood” [Service] - COST: 1 MARK  - Get any single blueprint of your choice.

  • “Twist The Knife” - [LPC - 3 Month Expiration] - COST: 3 MARKS - Augment. You may spend a Resolve to reduce the Mind Point cost of Piercing Strike to 0 for 30 Seconds.

  • Keep Them Off Your Back [LPC - 3 Month Expiration]  COST: 3 MARKS - At the end of any STUN, AGONY, or BLINDING effect’s duration on you, you may expend 10 mind to declare “AREA EFFECT KNOCKBACK 10”. 

  • “Let’s Take This Outside” [Z.O.M. San Saba Social - 3 Hour Expiration] - COST: 3 MARKS  - Zone of Mechanics

    • [SAN SABA SOCIAL] Only one Zone Of Mechanics with this keyword may be posted at a time. Any other San Saba Social purchased will replace this one. Overwriting an existing [San Saba Social] is a CVC action.

    • Those Vados are at it again… did things suddenly become more violent around here?

    • In the area around the General Store, any two characters may agree to the terms of a consensual duel. Once the terms of the duel are met and a winner is declared, both participants immediately gain [UPSURGE 20 ARMOR].

    • <BADASS> or <MERCENARY> characters may instead gain [UPSURGE 20 MIND], these mind points may only be spent on Combat skills and their related items.

    • Characters may not benefit from “Let’s Take This Outside” more than once per hour. 

  • “Don’t Stop Moving” [LPC - 3 Month Expiration] - COST: 5 MARKS - Expend a Resolve to gain the ability to move at a walking pace and use Weapon Skills for 30 minutes even with mangled limbs.   

  • “Frighten With Force” [LPC - 3 Month Expiration] - COST: 5 MARKS - Whenever you successfully deliver strike with the Proficient or Master ability of a melee weapon, you may expend 1 mind to declare “Fear - 2 Minutes” at the target you struck.

  • “Flush Them Out of Hiding” [Service] - COST: 10 MARKS  - This service allows you to put in a PLOT REQUEST for a future DYSTOPIA RISING TEXAS event to bring a target CASTED CHARACTER of your choosing into play. At the beginning of that event, your character will receive a dossier on your target including where and when they will be in play, and what their weaknesses might be. Use of this service is subject to Storyteller approval. In the event your target is unavailable, spent marks will be refunded. 

  • “Betrayal from Inside” [Service] COST: 10 MARKS - You may spend experience points to purchase any amount of additional Infection for your LC. Upon purchasing this service, immediately lose all levels of your highest San Saba Society Membership. You may never again join that faction.