No problem raising Cartography, she could have worked on it on the way here, but Brawling is a new skill.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote from: Talislanta Player's Guide 5th edition p.47</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Additional Skills can be acquired at a cost of one XP per each week of time required to learn the new talent, for those skills on the character’s preferred list, and at a cost of two XP per week of time required to learn the new skill for all those skills not on the character’s Preferred list.</blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I'm thinking of slashing the cost for new skills in half, or maybe just for characters that use this skill extensively, but haven't decided on such changes yet ;). Either way you don't have the points right now, with the Training time for Brawling being 10 weeks.