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| desc=Whenever you rifle through trash, there's a 5% chance you piece together clues and learn a random [[secret]]. | | desc=Whenever you rifle through trash, there's a 5% chance you piece together clues and learn a random [[secret]]. | ||
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Trash Divining | Trash Divining grants the Rifle through Trash ability, which provides a small chance that the player character discovers a random [[secret]] when they rifle through {{favilink|trash}}. | ||
Trash Divining and [[Scavenger]] stack. Both can activate during the same rifling attempt. | |||
== Advantages and disadvantages == | == Advantages and disadvantages == | ||
{{Opinion}} | {{Opinion}} | ||
=== Advantages === | === Advantages === | ||
* Normally the player must spend [[reputation]], cook with expensive and rare {{favilink|psychal gland paste}}, or just get lucky to find secrets. Trash Divining significantly increases the player's opportunities to find secrets with minimal effort. | * Normally the player must spend [[reputation]], cook with expensive and rare {{favilink|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 | * Trash Divining can find [[Secret#Valuable Secrets|high-value secrets]] that are difficult to find otherwise. | ||
* Rifling in bulk offsets the low percentage chance. Discover a lot of secrets (and scrap) at places with a lot of trash, like a | * Rifling in bulk offsets the low percentage chance. Discover a lot of secrets (and, with Scavenger, scrap) at places with a lot of trash, like a [[rusty biome]] or {{favilink|Golgotha}}. | ||
=== Disadvantages === | === Disadvantages === | ||
* The Intelligence requirement (21) is relatively high, so only some builds will have access to it in the early to midgame. | * 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. | * 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 teach the skill}} | |||
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{{Skills and Powers Navbox}} | {{Skills and Powers Navbox}} | ||