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Spending Experience
To progress your character in power, you must spend Experience Points, more commonly known as Exp. Exp is gained as you play Meat Space in various ways.
You may Spend any Exp you have during the end of any Scene, although each player has a responsibility to do so in a timely and hopefully diegetic manner.
The Costs for each form of progression are listed in the table below
| Type | Cost |
|---|---|
| Skill | Costs 1 Exp per Rank you wish to obtain. E.g. if you wish to gain the 4th Rank of Tech, it would cost 4 Exp. |
| Ability | Costs 2 Exp per Rank of Ability you wish to obtain. In addition, you must have the corresponding Ranks in the relevant Mastery. E.g. If you wish to gain the Meat Ability, Bull Rush which is Rank 2, it would cost 4 Exp and you would need at least 2 Ranks in the Meat Mastery |
| New Mastery | Costs X+1 Exp, where X equals the number of unique Masteries with at least 1 rank. When a new Mastery Rank is gained, you may also gain a corresponding Ability of equal Rank. E.g. If you obtained the first Rank in the Cultivation Mastery, while having at least 1 Rank in Bones, Animism, Industrial and Stealth, then it would cost 5 Exp, since X would be equal to 4. |
| Existing Mastery | Costs 3 Exp per Rank you wish to obtain. When a new Mastery Rank is gained, you also gain an Ability of equal or lower Rank. E.g. if you wish to gain the 5th Rank of Arcana, it would cost 15 Exp and you would gain an Arcana Action or Trait of 5th Rank or lower. |
| Mundane Stat | Costs 4 Exp per Rank in excess of your Starter Ranks. E.g. If a Human with a starting Brawn of 7 wished to gain the 8th Rank of Brawn, it would cost 4 Exp, since their Starter Brawn was 7, and thus the excess is only 1. |
| Mystical Stat | Costs 5 Exp per Rank in excess of your Starter Ranks. \\ E.g. If a human with 6 starting Grit wished to gain the 7th Rank ofGrit, it would cost 5 Exp, since their StarterGrit was 6, and thus the excess is only 1. |
| Job Rank | Costs 5 Exp per Rank you wish to obtain. E.g. if you wish to gain the 2nd Rank of Merc, it would cost 10 Exp. Please note; All Characters start with 1 Rank in their Starting Job. Therefore obtaining what some people may view as their “first” rank in their Job would actually be their second and therefore Cost 10 Exp. |
| Re-Training an Ability | Calculate the cost of the Ability you wish to unlearn and the cost of the Ability that you wish to replace it with. The cost of the new Ability is equal to the new cost, minus the old cost, plus 1 Exp (to a minimum of 1 Exp). E.g. If your Character had already obtained the Level 2 Pistol Whip Action from the Light Arms Mastery, worth 4 Exp, and you wished to replace it with the Level 3 Ambush Action, also from Light Arms, worth 6 Exp. The cost of retraining would be 6 Exp, minus 4 Exp, plus 1 Exp for a total of 3 Exp. |