Turtle Tamer Skills

Patience of the Tortoise
	Type: Noncombat
	MP Cost: 1
	By reflecting on the nature of the Tortoise, you can gain temporary enlightenment.  Your Strengthliness and maximum HP will increase for a period of time.
	Gives Effect:
	Patience of the Tortoise
	(5 Adventures)
		You feel strong and silent, like a tortoise.
		Maximum HP +3
		Muscle +1

Headbutt
	Type: Combat
	MP Cost: 3
	This skill allows you to follow up a successful attack with a vicious headbutt to your opponent.  The damage done by the headbutt is increased if you're wearing any kind of turtle as a helmet.
	Hit an opponent with your head

Skin of the Leatherback
	Type: Passive
	MP Cost: N/A
	This skill makes it so your back is thick, like leather.  Like a leather back.  Like a leatherback.  You'll take less damage from enemy attacks.
	Damage Reduction: 8

Shieldbutt
	Type: Combat
	MP Cost: 10
	We all know that a shield is primarily used to, y'know, shield one from damage. With this skill, though, your shield becomes a powerful weapon as well. Your attacks will do extra damage based on your shield strength. Just try and resist the urge to change into a blue leotard with little wings on the cowl.
	Hit an opponent with your shield

Armorcraftiness
	Type: Passive
	MP Cost: N/A
	This skill allows you to make advanced helmets and pants.  Advanced pants.
	Allows the crafting of advanced armor

Ghostly Shell
	Type: Buff
	MP Cost: 6
	This skill conjures the shell of a ghostly tortoise, which envelops you (or another player) in a protective shield, greatly reducing damage taken in combat.
	Gives Effect:
	Ghostly Shell
		A ghostly turtle shell surrounds you, protecting you from damage taken in combat.
		Damage Absorption +80

Reptilian Fortitude
	Type: Buff
	MP Cost: 10
	By imbuing you with the physical strength of 1000 snakes and lizards, this skill temporarily boosts your maximum HP.
	Gives Effect:
	Reptilian Fortitude
		You are imbued with the strength of 1000 snakes and lizards.  Your maximum HP is higher than normal.
		Maximum HP +30

Empathy of the Newt
	Type: Buff
	MP Cost: 15
	This skill makes you (or another person) temporarily gain an uncanny empathy towards your (or their) familiar.
	Gives Effect:
	Empathy
		You are attuned to the physical and emotional state of your familiar.  There are many familiars like it, but this one is yours, and you're acutely aware of that fact.  It's tougher than it would otherwise be.
		+5 to Familiar Weight

Tenacity of the Snapper
	Type: Buff
	MP Cost: 8
	This skill makes you (or another player) relentless in combat, like the fierce Snapping Turtles of the Days of Old.  It will increase the damage done by each strike.
	Gives Effect:
	Tenacity of the Snapper
		You're as tenacious as a Snapping Turtle from the Days of Old.  You latch onto your enemy and don't let go until you hear thunder.  Or whatever.  You do more damage in combat.
		Weapon Damage +8

Wisdom of the Elder Tortoises
	Type: Passive
	MP Cost: N/A
	You have achieved a level of awareness that almost matches that of the Elder Tortoises in the Days of Old.  Your maximum MP is dramatically increased.
	Maximum MP +50%

Astral Shell
	Type: Buff
	MP Cost: 10
	This is a vastly improved version of the Ghostly Shell skill.  It increases the amount of damage absorbed by your (or another player's) hat and pants in combat. Additionally, it will protect you (to a limited degree) from the elements of heat, cold, stench, spookiness, and sleaziness.
	Gives Effect:
	Astral Shell
		An astral turtle shell surrounds you, greatly protecting you from damage taken in combat.
		Damage Absorption +80
		Slight Resistance to All Elements (+1)

Amphibian Sympathy
	Type: Passive
	MP Cost: N/A
	Being sympathetic to the ins and outs of the amphibian lifestyle makes you more sympathetic to the lifestyles of all creatures.  Your familiars will be more sympathetic and more powerful as a result of your powerful sympathy.
	+5 to Familiar Weight

Kneebutt
	Type: Combat
	MP Cost: 4
	If you can almost hear your opponent thinking "I need you to knee me," this is the perfect skill for you. Nothing takes an opponent down a notch (MAB!) more than a well-placed knee to the naughty bits.
	Hit an opponent with your knee

Cold-Blooded Fearlessness
	Type: Passive
	MP Cost: N/A
	Ever wonder why turtles never run?  It's because they're not afraid of anything, man.  This skill will make you more like them -- spooky stuff won't spook you as much.
	So-So Spooky Resistance (+2)

Hero of the Half-Shell
	Type: Passive
	MP Cost: N/A
	Your mastery of shields has elevated you to hero-like status amongst your tortoise brethren. Your skills have the beauty and balance of a Renaissance painting. As such, whenever you take damage in combat, your Muscle will be used to reduce the damage you take instead of Moxie, whenever you are wielding a shield.
	NOTE: This will only take effect if your Muscle is higher than your Moxie.
	More Muscle = less damage

Tao of the Terrapin
	Type: Passive
	MP Cost: N/A
	Like hippies, turtles live in their clothes. Unlike hippies, turtles' clothes provide a hard protective shell for their sensitive innards. Well, unlike hippies who are only on day fifteen of a new outfit. You have sufficiently pondered the mystery of the turtle, whose clothes are both home and protection, to understand how to imbue your clothing with the same properties. As such, any hat or pants you equip will be doubled in power. Now go take a shower, hippy.
	Doubles Hat/Pants power

Toss
	Type: Combat
	MP Cost: 1
	This skill allows you to toss your familiar, if you have one, or something else, if you don't.  Just make sure that something else isn't a dwarf -- nobody does that, y'know?

Spirit Vacation
	Type: Noncombat
	Cost:  1 Adventure
	You sometimes like to spend an Adventure going on vacation in the Spirit World, which fully heals you and also recharges your mental batteries, on account of all the holiday ghoooooooooooooooooooosts.  Holiday ghoooooooooooooosts.

Shell Up
	Type: Combat
	MP Cost: 6
	usable once per fight
	Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor, and this skill allows you to embrace that fact, tame your inner turtle, crouch down, and allow your shell to protect you from your opponent's next attack.
	Prevents an opponent's next attack from dealing damage

Stiff Upper Lip
	Type: Noncombat
	MP Cost: 10
	If you can't have a hard, protective surface on your back, you can have the next best thing -- a hard, protective surface where a moustache would be if you had a moustache.
	Gives Effect:
	Stiff Upper Lip
	(10 Adventures)
		Your upper lip has been stiffened to superhuman rigidity.  While you can't do that trick Superman does where he catches a bullet in his teeth, you can accomplish basically the same thing by ducking about half an inch.
		Damage Reduction: 10

Blessing of the War Snapper
	Type: Noncombat
	MP Cost: 15
	You have learned to commune with the War Snapper, the fiercest and most violent of the Great Turtle Spirits.  His guidance will increase your martial prowess and make you slightly less comfortable at parties.
	Gives Effect:
	Disdain of the War Snapper
	(10 Adventures)
		The War Snapper has granted you some of his power, a lot of good it'll do you.  Weakling.
		Muscle +5
		Weapon Damage +5

Spiky Shell
	Type: Buff
	MP Cost: 8
	You can conjure up a spiky turtle shell of psychic energy to surround you (or another player) and deal damage to enemies as they attack you (or another player (the same one I mentioned before, not just any other player.))
	Gives Effect:
	Spiky Shell
		You are surrounded by a spiky turtle shell made of condensed psychic energy.
		Damages attacking opponents

Spirit Snap
	Type: Combat
	MP Cost: 10
	usable once per fight
	This skill allows you to unleash the voyeuristic corporeal fury of whichever Turtle Spirits happen to be watching you at the time.
	Does various things depending on your relationship to the Great Turtle Spirits

Blessing of She-Who-Was
	Type: Noncombat
	MP Cost: 30
	You have learned to commune with She-Who-Was, the Great Turtle Spirit who lived, loved and died long before the Spirit World even flared into existence.  She will soothe and comfort you like only the ghost of ghost can.
	Gives Effect:
	Disdain of She-Who-Was
	(10 Adventures)
		She-Who-Was has granted you some favor, but you get the sense that her heart isn't really in it.
		Mysticality +5
		+5 Spooky Damage

Butts of Steel
	Type: Passive
	MP Cost: N/A
	You like powerful butts, and you cannot lie.
	Improves the accuracy and damage of your Butt skills

Testudinal Teachings
	Type: Passive
	MP Cost: N/A
	Years of working with turtles has made you more patient with all manner of creatures, and better at teaching them stuff.
	Your familiars gain weight faster

Pizza Lover
	Type: Passive
	MP Cost: N/A
	Gimme pizza.  Is what you say, because you like pizza a lot.
	You really, really like pizza

Blessing of the Storm Tortoise
	Type: Noncombat
	MP Cost: 50
	You have learned to commune with the Storm Tortoise, the bringer of the thunder until which no snapper will release its jaws.  He will electrify you.
	Gives Effect:
	Disdain of the Storm Tortoise
	(10 Adventures)
		The Storm Tortoise is aware of you, but he doesn't really like you all that much.
		+5% Combat Initiative
		Maximum MP +10

The Long View
	Type: Passive
	MP Cost: N/A
	Your perception of time has been expanded in both directions by your communion with the Great Turtle Spirits.  To you, a calendar is like a flipbook, and also an hour is like maybe an hour and ten minutes or so.
	+3 Adventure(s) per day

Spirit Boon
	Type: Noncombat
	MP Cost: 30
	When the Great Turtle Spirits are in a good mood, they can be called upon to imbue you with a taste of their power.  The trick is waiting until they're in a really good mood.
	Receive a boon from a Great Turtle Spirit

Patient Smile
	Type: Noncombat
	MP Cost: 10
	While everybody else freaks out all the time, rushing around from appointment to appointment like rats in an appointment maze, you've learned to relax, be patient, and let good things come to you.
	Gives Effect:
	Patient Smile
	(10 Adventures)
		You know that good things come to those who wait, and that knowledge makes you happy.
		+1 Muscle Stats Per Fight

Turtle Power
	Type: Noncombat
	MP Cost: 100
	usable once per day
	You have become so attuned to the Great Turtle Spirits that when the time is right, you are capable of taking on the form of their earthly incarnation.  But be careful -- with great turtle power comes great turtle responsibility.
	Become a Turtle Spirit Incarnate
	(Requires a Glorious Blessing)

Non-guild skills:
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Spectral Snapper
	Type: Combat
	MP Cost: 20
	This skill allows you to summon the spirit of a deceased snapping turtle

Summon Leviatuga
	Type: Combat
	MP Cost: 40
	You've learned to call upon Leviatuga, the Great Turtle of the Deep.  He'll heed your call, and bite your enemies with his ancient, powerful jaws.

Jingle Bells
	Type: Buff
	MP Cost: 5
	This skill allows you to conjure up some festive holiday bells to hang around your familiar's neck.  Or around something else, if your familiar is something that doesn't have a neck.
	Gives Effect:
	Jingle Jangle Jingle
		Your familiar's neck is decked (like the halls) with a festive set of jingling bells.  It's beginning to sound a lot like Crimbo!
		Familiar will act more often in combat

Curiosity of Br'er Tarrypin
	Type: Buff
	MP Cost: 10
	This skill allows you to bestow upon yourself (or another player) the homespun wisdom and innate curiosity of an anthropomorphic turtle in a folk tale.
	Gives Effect:
	Curiosity of Br'er Tarrypin
		You and your familiar share a bond of mutual curiosity.  Be careful not to make the mistake I made, though, and refer to yourself as bi-curious with your familiar.  That doesn't mean the same thing at all.
		+1 Familiar Experience Per Combat