Vaquero Boots
Used boots, repurposed from labor to nightlife. ☉ 31 from Carmuna. Records +1. They've seen things.
Stats
| Slot | Shoes |
| Price | ☉ 31 |
| Vendor | Carmuna Pessoa |
| Records | +1 |
Strengths
- +Clean Records +1, no penalty
- +Removes the Loafers' Coordination -1 if you swap
Costs
- −More expensive per +1 than Malen's options
- −Trade-off: you give up Cold Read +1 vs the starter Loafers
Description
Game flavor: "Once used for hard labour, these boots found new life strutting, starring in many 'Sorry-About-Last-Night' nights. They've been through a lot. Remember some of it."
☉ 31 from Carmuna gets you [Records](/wiki/skills/records) +1. Records is the Intellect-cluster skill for institutional and historical knowledge — geopolitics, lineages, the dossier-thinking layer.
The mid-priced shoes slot. They sit between the free starter [White-Of-The-Eye Loafers](/wiki/items/white-of-the-eye-loafers) (Cold Read +1 / Coordination -1) and whatever endgame shoes the wiki fills in later.
For pure stat-economy, this is a worse value than the [Mister Artista Hair Set](/wiki/items/mister-artista-hair-set) (Nerve +1 for ☉ 5). But the shoes slot may be one Hershel can't easily leave blank, and the starter Loafers carry a Coordination penalty. Trading the Loafers for Vaqueros swaps Cold Read +1 / Coordination -1 for a clean Records +1 — that's a real upgrade if Coordination is a priority and Cold Read isn't.
The "remember some of it" flavor pairs with the Records bonus. Boots that remember their own history pass Records checks.
Acquisition
Buy from [Carmuna Pessoa](/wiki/characters/carmuna-pessoa) at the Bootleg Bazaar in [Quisach](/wiki/locations/quisach). ☉ 31.
Builds & playstyles
Records-focused Intellect builds
Coordination-conscious players who want to drop the Loafers' penalty