Healer

In the Afterfall, life is fleeting and fragile. A little dispute and you can end up with a mouthful of blood and your guts in the mud. The climate is harsh and extreme, the nature is outright deadly, the wastelands are full of hazards, and plague and disease decimate towns once and again.
Healers are the doctors of the Afterfall, and they are in great demand.
They have managed to preserve fragments of the knowledge of the ancients. For example, they broadly know what's the purpose of each organ and they vaguely know how they work, they know that many diseases are caused by micros, that living beings have genes that are passed on and make them be like they are, and stuff like that.
Healers try to fill their many knowledge gaps by dissecting animals, human corpses, experimenting on the hopeless, and with a shameful amount of wild guessing.
If you call for a Healer, you know that if you die, your corpse may end as her freakshow toy. All the knowledge they have inherited and re-discovered is usually hindered by the lack of proper hardware and medicine.
Hence, they usually cultivate relationships with Scavengers, Tinkers and especially Naturemasters.
Many Healers are genuinely concerned for the well-being of their patients and hold human life in the highest value, however, there are many others that do it only amass wealth and power, while others have grown jaded and unfeeling, after seeing so many people die in the most horrible ways. The latter tend to either take life and death with a morbid sense of humor, or develop a demeanor as cold as the Grim Reaper's.


Special Skill: None

Setups:

• Disease Expert
• Surgeon
• Researcher

Looks:

• Clothes: Bloodstained, Rather Clean, Once white.
• Face: Gentle, Bald, Smiling, Hardened, Wrinkled, Reddish.
• Eyes: Keen, Intelligent, Warm, Dead, Insensitive, Tired.
• Body: Average, Slim, Bulky, Fat.

Drives:

• The Quest for Truth.
• The Martyr.
• The Smart-Ass.
• The Deviant.
• Family first.
• Herd Behavior .
• Choose your own.

Edges:
On character creation, choose two:

• Surgeon - Bonus when performing surgery.
• Disease Expert - Bonus when combatting diseases.
• Pharmacist - You can use the Naturemaster skill Brewery.
• Field Medic - A mantle of luck falls upon you when you are healing in the battleground.
• Vital Strike - You know where to stick a scalpel for maximum damage, bleeding or pain.
• Learning by dissecting - Bonus in surgical precedures after you had the chance to dissect a body.
• Don't waste the Healer - Enemies will always pardon your life for servitude
• Forensics Expert - You are the Afterfall's fucking CSI

Relationships:
You must state relationships with other characters.

• One of them is a childhood friend, although life made you take different paths.
• One of them saved you from a tribe of cannibals.
• You miraculosly saved one of them from a deadly wound.
• One of them keeps an awful secret of yours... What is it about? Why does he keep the secret?
• One of them helped you save someone dear to you.
• One of them sells you supplies.
• One of them reassured you in a dark moment of deep despair. What

Starting Gear:

• 248 Barter.
• 1 dagger.
• 1 hand crossbow.
• 1 rope.
• 2 days worth of dry rations.
• 1 waterskin.
• 1 Surgeon's Kit (bandages, needle, thread, scalpel, forceps, saw (everything boiled), alcohol, etc.)
• 2 doses of anti-micro potions.
• 2 doses of wound healing potions.
• 2 doses of strong pain-killer.
• 1 oil lamp.
• 2 candles.
• 1 oil vial.
• 1 Flint and tinder.
• 1 mule and a cart as ambulance.
• 1 small house inside the settlement's defenses, and a small infirmary next to it.

Weakness:
You are probably not very good with people, or not very good at fighting.