Skill Cards

Running, climbing, jumping, swimming, forcing movement, breaking through physical obstacles, and other direct physical exertion.

Resisting poison, pain, exhaustion, exposure, disease, physical shock, deprivation, and bodily collapse.

Fighting with handheld weapons such as knives, clubs, axes, blades, improvised weapons, batons, and blessed arms.

Grappling, striking, restraining, shoving, choking, wrestling, and fighting without weapons.

Firearms, bows, thrown weapons, crossbows, and other direct ranged attacks.

Dodging, reacting quickly, avoiding traps, diving for cover, and acting under sudden danger.

Hiding, moving quietly, shadowing a target, avoiding notice, and remaining unseen or unheard.

Lockpicking, sleight of hand, palming objects, bypassing mundane security, planting evidence, escaping restraints, and defeating mechanical intrusion barriers.

Driving, piloting, sailing, steering, and otherwise controlling ground vehicles, aircraft, watercraft, mounts, and other controlled systems under normal or dangerous conditions. Use Operate whenever a vehicle or vessel is being pushed past ordinary travel.

Noticing immediate sensory details, ambushes, physical tells, hidden objects, environmental danger, and visible contradictions.

Internal resistance: fear, panic, despair, intimidation, temptation, spiritual pressure, oppressive dread, and the first pressure of demonic influence against oneself. Composure replaces the core Readiness skill in The Hollow. All Initiative formulas, talent references, and cross-references to Readiness use Composure instead.

Shelter, water, food, navigation, wilderness travel, exposure, weather, scavenging, and staying alive in hostile environments.

Criminal networks, rumors, black-market mundane access, local pressure, who controls a neighborhood, and who knows things off the record.

Rapport, warmth, reassurance, likability, gentle persuasion, pastoral comfort, and getting someone to open up willingly.

Lies, false identities, misdirection, cover stories, false emotions, and concealing intent.

Bargaining, terms, concessions, leverage, compromise, deals, and practical settlement between opposed interests.

Coercion, threats, command presence, hard pressure, interrogation by fear, and making someone believe refusal has consequences.

Command, coordination, crisis direction, rallying allies, issuing orders, keeping a team moving, and assuming responsibility under pressure.

First aid, trauma care, illness, medical stabilization, pharmaceuticals, emergency treatment, and practical medical knowledge.

Computers, phones, cameras, surveillance devices, drones, networks, electronic locks, encrypted files, digital recovery, sensors, and practical hacking.

Christian doctrine, scripture, Church history, saints, sacramental tradition, Protestant and Catholic religious knowledge, and theological interpretation.

Reading spiritual truth behind appearances: possession signs, false miracles, profanation, demonic deception, spiritual pressure, inverted holiness, and whether something is spiritually wrong rather than merely strange.

External spiritual aid that helps another person resist demonic influence, oppression, temptation, or early-stage intrusion before established possession takes hold. Restricted Discipline Skill.

Crime scene analysis, physical evidence, cause of death, trace evidence, lab reports, forensic contradictions, staged scenes, and the physical truth of a violent event.

Witness interviews, canvassing, statement comparison, timeline reconstruction, missing-person work, reading reports, and finding the human path through an incident.

Archives, databases, old newspapers, case files, libraries, parish records, public records, academic sources, cross-referencing, and finding the document no one else checked. Research tells you how to look. Access skills tell you what you are allowed to find.

Surveillance, countersurveillance, cover maintenance, asset handling, signal reading, dead drops, infiltration habits, and intelligence-field procedure.

Demons, devils, ghosts, spirits, forbidden texts, ritual theory, infernal law, supernatural taxonomy, cult practice, and hidden-world patterns.

Creature types, habits, weaknesses, lairs, feeding patterns, kill methods, folklore that works, and what legends were invented to get hunters killed.

Following physical and supernatural trails, reading sign, spoor, movement, broken terrain, lairs, escape routes, and where something has been.

Practical hidden-world preparation: salting a door, marking shells, choosing safe motel rooms, finding warding materials, setting traps, maintaining caches, using hunter signs, and sleeping with three exits.

Relic identification, cursed-object histories, provenance, classification, prior incidents, Church relic records, and why an object matters.

Safe handling, quarantine, field neutralization, transport, storage, temporary sealing, and breach response for active, unstable, or dangerous relics, objects, sites, and supernatural hazards. Restricted Discipline Skill.

Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, Enochian-style occult scripts, coded ecclesial records, ritual fragments, and other dead or hidden languages relevant to supernatural texts and rites.

Unsanctioned occult procedures, curse work, infernal bargaining forms, coercive ritual methods, black rites, and other practices forbidden because they are spiritually dangerous. Restricted Discipline Skill.

Performing valid Catholic sacraments: Mass, confession, anointing, last rites, formal blessings, and sacramental acts. Requires ordination. Theology can explain these rites; Sacraments permits them. See Ordination note below.

Accessing, navigating, and interpreting Order case files, possession records, miracle investigations, relic notes, sealed parish reports, and internal supernatural archives.

Exerting Church authority through bishops, cardinals, diocesan offices, religious orders, parishes, holy sites, sealed rooms, clerical cooperation, and emergency ecclesial channels.

Finding and calling on Protestant deliverance workers, pastors, prayer groups, sympathetic congregations, safe homes, local ministries, and believers across regions who know enough to help, the dispersed, loosely organized web of people who do this work alone and recognize each other on sight.

Earning the specific cooperation of a local church community, a particular pastor, a particular congregation, a particular building. Moving through established local church networks, keeping civilians calm, and creating the conditions for a community to protect its own. This is personal, face-to-face trust built over time or demonstrated in the moment.

Accessing off-book cash, safehouses, cutouts, forged documents, unofficial transport, hidden equipment, and people who will not appear in a report.

Pulling restricted communications, intercepted signals, surveillance feeds, digital traces, metadata, and intelligence databases through channels that officially do not exist.

Operating outside normal legal channels, suppressing records, seizing assets quietly, overriding civilian processes, and invoking deniable authority.

Warrants, subpoenas, crime-scene control, federal access, interagency cooperation, and the ability to make local officials treat the case as official.

Labs, evidence lockup, official records, protected files, chain of custody, forensic reporting, and making impossible evidence survive paperwork.

Getting police, coroners, hospitals, emergency services, local agencies, and municipal officials to cooperate without knowing the full truth.

Accessing restricted vaults, object records, sealed storage, item histories, containment lockers, and requisition channels.

Invoking official containment protocols, quarantining locations, sealing objects, ordering evacuations, transporting hazards, and classifying sites or artifacts.

Reading restricted breach reports, failed containment records, dangerous object files, redacted provenance, and prior handler notes.

Reading and using hunter signs, road codes, warning marks, cache symbols, safe-route indicators, and old field shorthand that is not written anywhere civilians would find it.

Calling in favors, shelter, weapons, transport, local hunter aid, emergency extraction, and grudging help from people who do not trust institutions and may not trust the character either.

Accessing accumulated monster-kill records, weakness notes, family journals, field reports, and the ugly lore hunters leave behind for the people who come after them.

Accessing private databases, restricted catalogs, hidden scholarly exchanges, rare case abstracts, and controlled research networks unavailable through normal academic or public channels.

Locating, borrowing, copying, translating, or authenticating forbidden, hidden, suppressed, or nearly lost manuscripts.

Getting experts, translators, historians, theologians, archivists, or specialists to validate claims quickly and discreetly when the clock is running.

Finding illegal relics, forged papers, unsanctioned ritual supplies, occult contraband, curse-work materials, and sellers who should not be trusted but are the only ones who have what is needed.

Reaching brokers, intermediaries, cursed informants, devil-touched negotiators, and dangerous figures who know the rules of filthy doors. This grants access, not safety. Entities and people reached through Infernal Contacts have their own agendas.

Finding hidden chapels, cursed rooms, occult safehouses, profaned shelters, and places respectable factions refuse to enter but that may be exactly where the problem is being run from.