Editing Unwritten: System Reference Document/Skills (section)

==Survival==

The survival skill is about making it in the wilderness. You use it to live off the land, to weather the elements and stay safe in the face of Mother Nature (whether it’s your Mother Nature or not). Dealing with animals falls under survival, well as hunting, riding and tracking.

'''Potential Uses:''' scavenging for food, hunting, fishing, building makeshift shelters, tracking a person through the wilderness, dealing with animals (tame and wild), avoiding natural hazards

===Actions===
* '''Overcome:'''Following someone (or something) can be done with Survival, as well as overcoming elements of the environment. You use it to make it through a blizzard or find food in the desert.
* '''Advantage:'''Survival can be used to discover details about the local environment or about various animals. You can use it to place traps or create aspects to make a camp safer. When dealing with animals, you can use Survival instead of Empathy, Rapport, Provoke, or even Medicine.
* '''Discover:'''The role of Survival in investigation will be in teasing out information from the wilderness. Clues that indicate the activity of animals or weather could be revealed using Survival, as well as leading clues which tell you which direction someone has run off.
* '''Sample Questions:'''
** What weather/features can I expect from this environment?
** What animals have been through here recently?
** Is this plant poisonous? 

===Example stunts===

'''Blend into the Scenery.''' Once per scene, you can vanish by ducking into the wilderness by spending a fate point. This places the Vanished boost on you. While you’re vanished, no one can target you in an action until after they’ve succeeded at an overcome roll with Notice or Survival to suss out where you went (basically meaning they have to give up an exchange to try). This boost goes away as soon as you invoke it, or someone makes that overcome roll.

'''Hard to Shake.''' +2 to Survival whenever you’re tracking someone through the wilderness.

'''Native Child.''' Choose a type of environment when gaining this stunt (jungle, desert, tundra, etc.). Any Survival overcome actions involving resisting the elements or finding food are automatic successes when you are just taking care of yourself. Spend a fate point to apply it to yourself and one companion for a scene.