Lorekeeper

Description

Lorekeeper was a profession that focused on building a network of contacts whom you could ask for information and favors.

Putting more character build into Lorekeeper let you establish contacts higher up the ranks of their given faction.

Delving into any given subject took time, you had to start casting a wide net for leads and then narrow it down to discover worthwile data that could lead to a meaningful soft BGA option.

Programmer

The high tech version of lorekeeper was "programming". This let you do interesting things with computers, especially VR simulations and AI.

Inventions

Since Lorekeeper itself WAS basically a soft BGA, there weren't really inventions. But you could use Lorekeeper to research a certain type of technology, which was often invention-like.

Programming was more rife with opportunities for invention, typically through using VR to create training simulators or AI to preserve someone's personality as an AI.

History

Your mileage with Lorekeeper varied depending strongly on the staffer writing your responses. This made it tricky to use, but also powerful if you figured out how to get the responses you wanted out of a given staffer.

Over the course of the game, several factions became extinct. When a faction became extinct, you lost all your contacts in that faction. If you'd only just picked up those contacts, sometimes you got a refund because yikes that sucks.

Player Lorekeepers

NPC Lorekeepers