Jakes

The Jakes are a loose organization of merchants, smugglers, and free-agents living across Havaria. The Jakes mainly focus on maintaining open trade routes and running businesses with the Admiralty and Spark Barons throughout the region, though their dealings with corrupt officials and debt-brokers often leave them in severe debt instead.

Titles
There are three classes of Jakes, each with their own Boon, Bane and loot on death.

- Jake Smugglers: Jake Smugglers carry a pistol and are recognizable by their outfit with yellow suspenders. They are usually seen guarding certain locations like Fssh's bar, or the Docks. Combat-wise, they have a one-time move, "Triage", that heals themselves or another party member for 9HP, and they can also defend and shoot in barrages of three moderate damage shots. They are not too much of a threat on their own, but combined with Jake Dockhands and their wounding ability, they can pack a punch.

When you kill a Jake Smuggler, you obtain the battle card Triage.

Their social Boon, First Aid, grants you with the ability to negate a random debuff every time you or a party member is healed, by yourself or your teammates. This can be lifesaving against enemies with wounding attacks, like Feral Autodogs. It is especially powerful with Sal combined with Grafts or cards that give you temporary power, since you can use an item or an upgraded Feint card to remove the debuff that subtracts the temporary power, making it permanent for the duration of the battle.

Their Bane on the other hand is Fragile Health, which makes you take 2 damage when you receive a debuff.

- Jake Dockhands: Jake Dockhands can be distinguished by their yellow vest made out of patches of material. In combat, they have a class ability which is to apply wound on every unmitigated attack, which can make them deadly if you do not have proper defense. They have an attack set of three moves. Kneecap is a strong debuff attack that inflicts the x status effect, which divides the shielding that the victim gets by half for the duration of it. Fade away applies 7 defense to them, and they also have a low damage double attack.

When you kill a Jake Dockhand, you obtain the battle card Gaff.

Their social boon is Barganing, which gives you a 20 shill discount in all shops and almost all events in which you can buy items. If stacked, this can be very powerful since you can potentially get food and drinks for 1 shill, which is the cap for item prices, along with other cheap items.Their bane is paper skin, which makes it so that the first attack you receive in every battle inflicts you with two wound.