Skills By Availability

Your choices matter in Metroplexity. Very often getting one reward from a quest closes off others. When those rewards are skills, this means that certain skills will be mutually exclusive with others for a given incarnation of a character.

Common Skills

The following skills are available to anybody who qualifies for them:

• Arsonist Training^*
• Chef
• Chess
• Efficient Hacking
• Experienced Observer
• Experimental Chemistry
• Expert Salvager
• Fishing
• Handscripting
• Lotus Map
• Manual Control
• On the Prowl
• Programmed Terror
• Quantum Mechanics
• Simple Coding
• Sushi Chef
• Trauma Tech
• Unwavering Attention^*

^* According to Podcast 53, one of these skills is mutually exclusive with an unfound skill.

Donation-only Skills

Permanent:

• Common Dreams
• Emerald Meditation
• Eye For Bugs
• Harvest Dreams
• Long Lost Nostalgia
• Patchwork Dreams
• Urban Lore

Must be learned each run:

• Secrets of the Cube
• Shard of Language
• Unlocked Chain
• Only one orbital watch skill can be known at a time:
  • Time of Collapse
  • Time of Peace
  • Time of War

Mutually Exclusive Skill Groups

You may only have one out of each group of the following skills:

Southside Park Quest

• Gunslinger
• Pugilism

Whispers in the Park Quest

• Bloody Solution
• Boundless Patience
• Focused Mind
• Gaze Beyond
• Protective Faith
• Shadowy Presence

Dock Song Quest

• Fae Eyes
• Ocean Eyes

Problems on the Docks Quest

• Born of Sorrow
• Demon Slayer OR unlock Vassal of the Seas (see below)
• Firetamer (conjectured)
• Ghoultouched OR unlock Vassal of the Seas (see below)
• Kingly Favor
• Pyro (also available in The Missing Artist quest)

Punk Uprising Quest

• Engineer Explosives
• Legion's Eyes
• Sniper

Ship of the Damned Quest

• Dreamslayer
• Forked Path
• Mercy Killer
• Mirror Gazing
• Monarch's Call OR unlock Vassal of the Seas (see below)
• Path of Peace
• Path of War
• Ruthlessness
• Servant of the Mask
• Undead Scourge

The Lost Son Quest

• Eclipse Conduit
• Fae Step (only if you have Fae Eyes)
• Haunting Cries
• Healing Factor
• Ingrained Reflexes
• Ocean's Touch (only if you have Ocean Eyes)
• Poltergeist Spark
• Slags Eater
• Third Eye Technique
• Web Control
• Whispers from the Stars

The Missing Artist Quest

• Body and Spirit
• Driven Healer
• Pyro
• Twisting Chains
• Or, unlock the The Black Sketchbook Quest:
  • Etheric Seed
  • Fire Dancer
  • Stolen Artistry
  • Undying Heart

Nightmares-in-a-jar

• Lord of Nightmares
• Slave to Nightmares

Burning Ectoplasm

• Fire Trained (Cannot have Pyro or Driven Healer)
• Leaping Flame (Must have Pyro or Driven Healer)

David's Exploration Quest

• Blessed of the Seas
• Vassal of the Seas (only if you have a sea lord's crown and have not used it to get Monarch's Call, or the bone scepter and have not used it to get Ghoultouched / Demon Slayer)
• Subterranean Rhythm

• Warrior of the Seas (compatible with Blessed of the Seas or Vassal of the Seas but not Subterranean Rhythm)

Art Museum

Note that Art Appreciation is both prerequisite to and mutually exclusive with Stellar Appreciation.

• Art Appreciation
• Stellar Appreciation

Drone Schematics

• Drone Anatomy
• Drone Electronics

Oldtown Challenge/Oldtown Installation

• Family Weaponry
• Third Eye Inward

Help from the Family

• Chains Of Regret
• False Forgiveness
• Run from Regret
• Spark Of Forgiveness

Cellular Questions

• Appearance is Everything
• Monstrous Form
• Undying Will

The White Worm

• Rapid Molting
• Swordbreaker