journal hunter -- hunter codex (physical notebook) Hunter and Slayer Backgrounds only. Carry a hunter field journal in inventory to log monster Origin/Path kits -- tells, weaknesses, kill counts, and the margin notes hunters before you scrawled in the same Winchester hand. Men of Letters keep a different book (help files). Everyone else learns recognition from teach (help teach) or their Origin sense. Private RP notes stay on journal write (help journal). Echo diary is journal echo (help echo-journal). How you play 1. Get the book (Family Business kit step, bunker stacks, or Ash Garage). 2. research <topic> at a library (research constructed, vampire, demon, leviathan, wendigo, ghoul, shapeshifter, skinwalker, prophet, angel, mutant, cosmic, elemental, …; godhunt / pagangods for Realm God Kind theory -- help godhunt). 3. journal hunter list logged types + kill counts 4. journal hunter read <topic> full page (tells / weaknesses / notes) 5. journal hunter study <name> investigation roll on prey in the room (also confirms a Kinded God's Kind) 6. journal hunter topics index of library topics that stamp pages 7. journal hunter dossier <name> hunter-network file (never NCIC / rapsheet) 8. After a page is logged, room verbs accept the kit token -- kill arachne, stake vampire (help attack). Ammo and guns Hunters use the same reload loop as everyone else (help reload). Stash folklore loads in your gear bag, wield the gun, then reload or reload <type> when you carry more than one caliber or load. Salt, silver, iron, incendiary fire, DMB, and devil's-trap sigil rounds each answer different prey -- see help hunter for the quick chart and help reload more for combat math. How you play 1. Read help journal hunter for the verb card 2. This page is extra detail for that loop Recognition Logged types add [JOURNAL] look lines on evil Origin prowlers and other supernatural prey -- e.g. Constructed frames that wear a human face. Unlogged evil prowlers still get a soft gut-feel line when you carry the book. Security tape and still photos can show hunter tells too (retinal flare on CCTV, celestial unease in a still) -- intel for this book, not masquerade heat by itself. A kill against an unlogged type auto-stamps a page; a hard look via journal hunter study can identify prey before you ever swing. Combat hook Each logged kill vs a type adds a small outgoing damage bonus vs that kit (caps at +15%), with milestone notes at 3 / 10 / 25 confirmed takedowns. Future content can lean on the same kill counter. Target by kit Once a page is logged (or prey is obvious dungeon/nest trash / true form), room verbs accept the kit token -- kill arachne, stake vampire, cast hex demon -- same names as research topics. See help attack. See also: help files