Each Teen can be said to have their own set of skills. Well, in the Teenagers on Hol setting those can be broken down into three categories.

Knacks - Specific to the character such as "karate-chop action" or "Wear something Just Like That, only in a size 1" or "Zap Noises on Command"

Skills - General to anyone who can learn them, "Knows Karate", "Looks Good In Leather" or "Make Clever Sounds"

Clusters - Overall abilities which include many skills or specific knacks within their range, and can be added to by other skills or knacks for a pretty devistating level, "Martial Artist Extraordinaire", "Wears Anything And Makes It Look Perfect", "Immitate All Sounds"

But how do you buy them? Well! Imagine looking back at your Teen's character sheet and seeing that little mark by "KnacKudos". Then look at how your Totem might have changed them. Those are your skill points.

This is how to use them:
Knacks cost only 1 knackudo each level to buy. They're so specific and only your teen can use them (they cannot teach Knacks to anyone else, even though some Teens might have similar ones, they're unique to everyone).

Skills cost 2 k'kudos to buy per level. They can be learned by most people, but usually you'll want to exploit your Stats and place skills which use the best of the Stats!

Clusters cost 3 k'kudos to buy per level, and as I said above they're able to be "accented" by skills or knacks which also apply. So, if you've got a "Fire Any Weapon" Cluster, you can also have the skill of "Artillery Range Practice" and even the knack of "shoot my trusty Betsy" all added together. It just makes it easier to actually get the job done - but it's still never a guarantee that your character WILL hit anything...

Lists of Knacks, Skills and what might be Clusters! This of course is not a "complete" list. Anything your squirmy little brain comes up with is fine, but just make sure they follow the general rules about what is a Knack, Skill and Cluster, and play fair.

Smarts/Greymatta Skills — These will be mostly things that go on in your head, sometimes overlapping into physical skills (you can know how to fix a howitzer, but can you actually get your fingers to do it?). Sciences, Math, knowledge and learned skills at Carramba High are usually here.

Poetry and Classics

Repair Toasters and Stuff

Science and Everything Else You Failed in High School

Turn Radios into Howitzers

Alalyze/Operate (object/condition)

Computer/Machine Programming

Sudden Philosophical Tangent

Languages and Mumbled Slang

Seek the Innocent/Guilty

Investigative Reporting

Plan Sneaky Tricks

Organize Fundraiser

RulMastery

Magic Use (spells)

Teaching

Healing Things/Medical Knowledge

Weird Science

Start Fires

Spot/Notice (fill in the blank)

Bod/Feets Skills — Physical skills, things involving dexterity and agility.

Shootin Kinda (fill in the size) Guns

Remain Perfectly Clean at All Times

Dance (choose)

Balloon Animal Construction

Cheerlead

Ground/Aerial Acrobatics

Play Ball Games (foot, base, etc)

That Psycho Bruce Lee Shit

Sneak

Juggling Anything Smaller than a Bull Elephant

Knife Show

Climbing Up or Down Stuff

Cook

Throw (insert object)

Tie Knots

Wicked Quickdraw

RWP Skills — True, there aren’t many skills which go with this one. If you find any more feel free to tell us!

Get Daddy/Mumsy to Buy You Anything

Evade Parent’s Questioning

Wheedle

Pit Parents Against Each Other *requires a broken home or divorced parents, and is a nasty wrong thing to do.

Luck/Nuts Skills — Anything you’d do if it seems like a crazy thing. Things that don’t belong in any other category.

Eat Anything

Get a Mob Scene Going

Withstand/Enjoy Hellish Agony

Withstand Bagpipes

Light Farts

Critter Training

Pounding Cuervo

Running Blindly Into Eternal Damnation (cuz you think you can win)

Tolerate Hideous Amounts of Bloody Mutilation and Still Eat Fast Food

Run With Scissors

Martyr Fetish/Hero Complex

Dramatic Entry

Intimidating Stare

Driving Skills — you drive. You use these skills.

Pilot Starship/Drive Car And Chew Gum At The Same Time

Operate Vehicle

Hotwire Vehicle

Repair Your Car/Ship (only)

Ride Things Meant To Be Ridden (horses, camels, dragons)

Ride Things Not Meant To Be Ridden (your teacher, hedgehogs, gelatinous goo)

Looks Skills — If it’s about how you look, it goes here.

Formal Dress

Wear Anything and Still Look Yummy

Attract Members of Whatever Sex You Want

Grooming (personal)

Charming Smile

Use Eyebrow to Convey Deep Inner Meaning

Cool/Mouth Skills — You open your big mouth, you pose a bit, here is where the skill is. Sometimes crosses with another kind (usually Smarts/Bod)

Trivia (choose what kind)

Scathing Sarcasm

Gossip

Making Friends and Influencing People

Act/Recite

Whining Until You Get What You Want

Inspire Religious Terror

Handle Any Situation

Ponderous Rhetoric

Make People Do Your Bidding by Screaming Unintelligbly

Flattery AKA Political Negotiation

Make Anything You Say Sound More Important Than The Voice Of God

Ace Any Test — ONCE

Ettiquette

Make A Funny

The Dozens

Explain Anything

Barbaric Yawp!/ Scrambling Yawp!

Surrender and Still Look Like a Man

Third Person Narration

Bonk/Meat Skills — Anything dealing with your physical Strength or Endurance

Make Someone/thing Stop Living/Stop Computing With Your Fist

Ultra Huck

Flex Dramatically/Pose

Pummeling With the Assistance of a Large Object

Run Real Fast

Run Real Far

Structural Damage

Making Sharp Things Go Through Soft Things That Scream and Bleed

Lift Improbably Heavy Objects

Arm, Thumb, Tongue or Pelvis Wrestling

Cause Hellish Agony