Trash Divining

Trash Divining

	Customs and Folklore
	150 sp
	21 Intelligence
	Customs_TrashDivining

Whenever you rifle through trash, there's a 5% chance you piece together clues and learn a random secret.

Trash Divining grants the Rifle through Trash ability and provides a small chance that the player character discovers a random secret when they rifle through trash. This stacks with the Scavenger skill in that both can activate during the same rifling attempt.

Advantages and disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Normally the player must spend reputation, cook with expensive and rare psychal gland paste, or just get lucky to find secrets. Trash Divining significantly increases the player's opportunities to find secrets with minimal effort.
• Trash Divining can find high-value secrets like historic sites(favilink error!), Stopsvalinn, or the location of The Ruin of House Isner(favilink error!).
• Rifling in bulk offsets the low percentage chance. Discover a lot of secrets (and scrap) at places with a lot of trash, like a rusty biome(favilink error!) or Golgotha.

Disadvantages

• Trash Divining is an expensive skill. To use Trash Divining, the player character must first have Tinkering, Scavenger, and Customs and Folklore. Assuming that the player character has none of these skills to start, the total skill point cost for Trash Divining is 500 skill points: 100 for Tinkering, 100 for Scavenger, 150 for Customs and Folklore, and 150 for Trash Divining.
• The Intelligence requirement (21) is relatively high, so only some builds will have access to it in the early to midgame.
• The majority of secrets in the game are of dubious use to the player. Trash Divining is just as likely to reveal the location of a Historic Site as it is to reveal random gossip.

Factions that can teach Trash Divining

• pariahs