Skill Rank and Class Point Rules

Skill Rank and Class Point Rules form the progression framework through which the protagonist’s actions become skills, ranks, levels, and spendable resources. The system does more than measure strength: it recognizes behavior that accords with the Cinnamon Bun class, rewards repetition and exceptional challenges, and turns the protagonist’s limited Class Points into decisions about what kind of adventurer to become.

Skill Recognition Through Action

The rules first appear as a direct conversion of conduct into capability. After performing a Special Action aligned with the protagonist’s class, the system announces that the skill Cleaning has been unlocked. Cleaning begins at Rank F with 100 percent progress and is defined as the ability to clean, with effectiveness improving as the skill rises. The reward transforms an apparently mundane task into a legitimate path of development: clearing leaves, wiping mould from walls, sweeping floors, sorting broken furniture, and arranging a usable table and chair are not merely preparation for survival but recognized advancement.

The same principle extends beyond domestic work. Jumping is recorded as a Rank F skill at 00 percent after the protagonist reaffirms a preference for friendship over immediately raising a fist against unknown inhabitants. The system therefore presents progression as broader than combat training. Physical movement, cleaning, and repeated social behavior can all become quantifiable competencies, although the evidence distinguishes between skills unlocked by a single class-aligned action and those that require sustained repetition.

Ranks, Progress, and Repetition

Skill ranks advance through accumulated use rather than a single abstract declaration of talent. Cleaning is initially displayed at Rank F, and later repeated actions make Gardening eligible for a rank increase. The system explicitly identifies Rank D as a free rank, removing a point cost from that particular advancement. This establishes a hierarchy in which some thresholds can be crossed through performance alone, while other improvements require the expenditure of a separate resource.

The rule also treats repetition as meaningful in its own right. After the protagonist repeatedly performs a sufficient number of Special Actions connected with social connection, the general skill Friendmaking is unlocked. This differs from the class-specific Cleaning skill: the reward is classified as a general skill, and its trigger is not one decisive encounter but a pattern of behavior. The system thus records persistence as evidence of ability, turning an ethical and interpersonal preference into a formal mechanical result.

Class Levels and Class Points

Class advancement operates alongside skill ranks. The protagonist’s first class is Cinnamon Bun, beginning at Level 0. After three Sentinel Ghosts of Threewells by Darkwood, each level 1, give up the ghost, the system grants bonus experience for defeating three monsters above the protagonist’s level and raises the Cinnamon Bun class to level 1, adding five Stamina. Later, the class reaches level 4, granting Health +5 and Resilience +5, and then reaches level 6 with another five Health, five Resilience, one Class Point, and one unlocked Class Skill Slot.

Class Points are explicitly reserved for improving class skills. After the first major increase in class level, the system displays one Class Point and explains that Class Points are used to upgrade a Class Skill. The protagonist considers spending the point on Cleaning but decides not to waste it yet, revealing that advancement is also a resource-allocation problem. Class levels provide growth and may generate new points or slots, but the player must decide when a desired improvement justifies the cost.

The Cleaning Upgrade

The clearest demonstration of the rule’s higher ranks occurs when a marsh slime seizes the protagonist with a limb around the waist. At that moment, Mister Menu displays Cleaning at Rank C with 100 percent progress and announces eligibility for a rank up. Rank B costs two Class Points, and the protagonist spends them, describing the upgrade as long overdue even though there had previously been no reason to use the stored points.

The Rank B version changes the practical scope of the skill. At Rank C, Cleaning makes the protagonist exceptionally good at tidying and washing off, marginally increases effectiveness, and permits mana to clean things the protagonist touches. At Rank B, effectiveness is again marginally increased, but the ability now works on things the protagonist can see. The progression therefore expands both efficiency and range: the power moves from ordinary cleaning, to contact-based magical cleaning, and finally to sight-directed use. The protagonist immediately aims at the slime and experiments with the command “Clean!”, turning an emergency into the first visible application of the upgraded rule.

Systemic Meaning and Consequences

These rules create a game-like feedback loop in which actions are simultaneously choices, evidence of identity, and investments in future capability. The Cinnamon Bun class is introduced as a pure support-and-friendship role, and the system repeatedly rewards conduct consistent with that description: cleaning unlocks Cleaning, a commitment to jumping produces Jumping, repeated social openness produces Friendmaking, and class experience produces endurance and resilience. Advancement consequently validates a particular mode of participation in the world rather than rewarding only conventional violence.

At the same time, the system does not make growth consequence-free. The quest interface can announce that a great evil has rooted itself in the world and ask whether the protagonist accepts the quest; it can report the discovery of the Evil Root while warning that the protagonist is too weak to destroy it; and it can declare the quest complete with the message that the world thanks the protagonist for the sacrifice. Combat can produce bonus experience, but the rules place that gain beside danger, exhaustion, and irreversible stakes. Skill Rank and Class Point Rules therefore bind numerical progression to risk and judgment: the protagonist grows by acting, but must still decide which actions to repeat, which abilities to improve, and how much the system’s rewards should influence future conduct.