Editing Genius The Transgression/Chapter Two: Character Creation (section)

===Step Three: Skills===
Next Kirsten needs to prioritize Skills, much as she prioritized Sanjula's Attributes. Kirsten is getting a better feel for her character: she's imagining a mix of computer science and dimensional study, with a bit of good-old fashioned exploration and investigation thrown in so her character is useful outside the lab.

Getting a bit experimental, Kirsten decides that Sanjula will focus on Physical Skills, giving her eleven dots to spread around there. (The other characters, Kirsten decides, are a bit wimpy, even the knight―he has four dots in Academics and a Heraldry specialization, for Riemann's sake!) Sanjula will need a lot of Mental Skills for building wonders, so that gets secondary priority (seven dots), and Social Skills bring up the rear―four dots there.

Kirsten reasons as follows: Athletics is good for spelunking and getting away from monsters (two dots) and Sanjula has spent her time in her new home fiddling with locked doors: hence Larceny (three dots). She imagines Sanjula as a bit of a fighter with just enough actual training to back it up (two dots in Brawl), and Sanjula has been practicing with the bows and crossbows located at the old archery range inside the hedge maze (two dots in Firearms). One dot each in Drive and Stealth imply that Sanjula is a "natural" for most Physical Skills: were she not so devoted to mad science, she could become a gifted athlete, dancer, or martial artist, but her frail health keeps her from excelling in any one field.

Next, Mental Skills. Kirsten flips ahead and considers what Axioms Sanjula would want. She takes one dot in Academics, one in Computer, one in Crafts, one in Occult, and two in Science, implying a general and unfocused technical education―Sanjula is smart, but she's a dreadfully lazy student. A dot in Investigation explains the young genius' natural curiosity.

Finally, Sanjula gets four dots in Social Skills. Kirsten drops two of them into Subterfuge: Sanjula lies like a rug. The other two go into Expression: Sanjula has an artistic streak.