The Field Guide

How the game works

Brautis a career discovery platform with a game woven through it. Two minutes here and you'll know exactly how everything fits together.

⚡ The short version

Explore careers → earn Clara → collect companions. Everything you do to figure out your future — challenges, research weeks, uploading credentials — pays you in Clara (our currency) and introduces you to companions (our collectibles). Spend Clara in the marketplace, trade companions with other members, and fill your Codex.

✨ Clara — the currency

Clara is earned by participating — and that's the only way to get it. You can never buy Clara with real money, and we will never sell it. Every member starts with a signup gift (the first 500 members get a founder's 10,000; everyone after gets 5,000).

🎯

Answer a weekly challenge

3 new challenges every Monday

30 Clara
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Try a skill practice challenge

Up to 3 a day

10 Clara
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Flip the Daily Discovery card

Some days there's a pouch behind it

0–75 Clara
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Complete an exploration path week

150 bonus for finishing all 4 weeks

60 Clara
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Upload a certificate or diploma

Your real-world wins count here

50 Clara
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Keep your trail going

Day 3 and day 7 milestones

20–75 Clara
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Sell a companion to Saffron

When her caravan is in town

1.5× floor

🐣 Companions — the collectibles

Companions (officially: Waymarks) are characters you meet by doing real things. Each one is an individual — when you trade one away, it carries its full ownership history with it. There are 21 to meet, in four tiers:

CommonEveryone's first companions — earned through first steps.
🐣 Pip🐦 Wren🦊 Ember🐢 Moss
UncommonFor showing up and digging deeper — two are caravan exclusives.
🦡 Bramble🦝 Nib🦌 Fern🦇 Echo🦎 Mirage🦋 Ember-Moth
RareEarned the hard way — long paths, whole fields, real commitment.
🦦 Sable🦔 Quill🐺 Lumen🦉 Knot🦅 Atlas🐝 Relay🦭 Stamp🤖 Circuit🩺 Pulse🔧 Forge🎭 Muse📊 Ledger🌱 Terra🏫 Beacon🗃️ Archive🐦‍⬛ Chorus
LegendaryLimited forever. Some will simply run out.
🦁 Aurum🐋 Polaris🐙 Meridian🐘 Vault🐉 Origin🦄 Comet🦚 The Collector

See them all — including the ones you haven't met — in your Companion Codex.

⚒️ The Forge

Got spare Commons? In the Codex, you can melt down any 3 Common companions and choose which Uncommon emerges. Forged companions are gone for good — choose carefully. (Saffron offers a cheaper gamble: same 3 Commons, but she picks what comes out.)

🏪 The marketplace

List companions for sale, buy from other members, and meet the two shopkeepers — both clearly labeled, never pretending to be real members:

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The Outfitter

Always open. Stocks Commons and rotating Uncommons at slightly above floor price — member listings can always undercut the shop.

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Saffron, the Wandering Trader

Only in town some weeks. Buys one companion per member per visit at a generous price, and runs the mystery trade. Worth checking for.

👣 The Trail

Days in a row with real activity build your trail, and milestones pay out: Clara at days 3 and 7, then the rarest companions at 7, 14, 21, and 28 days. A broken trail loses you nothing— everything you earned stays yours forever; the trail just starts fresh. No guilt, ever. That's a promise.

🤝 Our promises

  • No purchases in the game. Clara and companions can only be earned, never bought.
  • No fake players. The two shopkeepers are openly fictional and labeled.
  • No guilt mechanics. Nothing you earn is ever taken away.
  • The game serves the mission. Every reward comes from genuinely exploring your future.