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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4780875" data-attributes="member: 54707">The Sharpers, also known as The CryptoiThe Sharpers are not to be confused with the Amaconoi (the Polyprofessional or the Multiclassed) as they are a different type of individual altogether.The Sharper is not an individual who chooses two professions to pursue simultaneously, nor is he an Acer who chooses to pursue many different skills and capabilities from a wide range of occupations but concentrating upon none. Rather he is an individual who chooses to pursue a single occupation or profession but also has an interest (or interests) in other subjects of personal concern which he then seeks to add to his overall repertoire of skills and capabilities.In this sense then the Sharper is like a normal adventuring professional who also chooses to pursue some skills and capabilities of other professions in basically the same way as does the Acer. The Sharper however, unlike the Acer, does choose a single profession upon which to concentrate and never changes his profession, nor does he seek to pursue any other profession to the same degree of intensity as he does his given profession, but he rather seeks to enhance his own professional capacities with skills and capabilities from other classes. Generally speaking the sharper usually limits his cross-classed repertoire to those skills normally associated with the “professional adventuring classes” because of the time and expense involved in becoming trained in these “outside capabilities.” It is, however, not unheard of to discover a Sharper who knows how to dye silk or how to farm or how to make candles or whittle a flute from a Fir branch.Sharpers may come from or originate from any class or profession, and then learn certain skills and capabilities from any other class or profession, though usually in the same basic way as does the Acer, including the time and expense devoted to the acquisition of whatever they desire. As is the case with the Acer many other professions are sometimes leery and suspicious of the Soldier who wants to learn how to pick a lock or the Agent who desires to know how to mix chemicals together to create a toxic cloud of chlorine. Indeed sometimes the expense and training requirements for Sharpers are even more exorbitant than that of the Acer due to this lack of trust on the part of distrustful trainers. And sometimes the suspicion is even justified. For this reason many Sharpers often seek training in disguise, or under a false or assumed name and occupation.<img src="http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Museum/4782/TwoMenContemplatingtheMoon1819.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Sharpers often spend less time directly “in the field” than many other adventuring professionals due to the time they spend training in “unusual” capabilities. Sharpers after all must spend time “sharpening” themselves. However, when Sharpers do take to the field to go adventuring they are called Sharpers for a very good reason. They are often at a very real and practical advantage in comparison to their non-Sharping associates. Sharpers are often the very most capable professionals in any team of adventurers, as well as often being the most versatile and adaptable in any given situation. Sharpers wear their un-official title as a badge of honor and many others respect their remarkable array of practical capabilities. When a Sharper also becomes a Vadder he or she usually develops over time a “clientele” of powerful and wealthy individuals or organizations who tend to employ the Sharper for secret or clandestine missions.Oddly enough because of their tendency towards secretiveness and to spending time away from their adventuring group pursuing their individual training interests many Sharpers are also looked upon as being loners, outcasts, anti-social, eccentric, or are even viewed with mild suspicion by their own comrades. Sharpers rarely discuss with anyone what skills or capabilities they are trained in (this is often a requirement imposed upon them by their trainers) until such time as their skills and training are needed. Therefore, to many of their friends, associates, and companions they are simply “away again pursuing their own private interests.”<img src="http://th09.deviantart.com/fs11/300W/i/2006/248/a/6/Cryptic_Art_by_parallel_pam.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />Because of this tendency to engage in enigmatic and unexplained behavior, and because Sharpers sometimes disappear without warning for large periods of time to pursue secret training, they are occasionally referred to by their underground name, the Cryptoi.Next, the Amaconoi</blockquote>

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