so I converted a little bit:

You are about to convert 100 of your 457 ranks of Mech Lore into your Engineering skill, leaving you with 201 ranks in Engineering and 357 ranks of Mech Lore.

afterward it ate all the remainder of my mech too. leaving me with 201 engin, 0 mech, 0 everything...

anywho... I figured I'll give it a shot, and noticed I could app careful everything, but analyze seemed to be off.

I figured it made sense I could analyze stone carved stuff, and couldn't analyze a shield or weapons, but I was able to analyze tools too.
I figured I'd have to have forging to see like my other stuff.
I checked to see if it was my engineering tools, but everything I had I as able to analyze. Steel or otherwise.

Not sure if that was something buggy, or necessary so people know the tool quality.
It just seemed I was at least getting a lot more info than I should've with less skill.
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