alchemy spoiler link, please clickIf your skill from Annabelle doesn't show up - which version are you playing, please? In some former versions, BF skills did indeed not show up after you bought them - version 1.45 is fine in this case.
You do not need to have a certain lvl in order to use a skill/spell. You need the skill (books or traders to open the path) and skill points you get by leveling up to activate them.
About the imp (Tax?) who sells survivor skills => if you go into your skill table - you don't see the path you paid for and activated, so you can start to use it by putting skill pts into it?
Charms => the x-ed slots are ok. You need no additional skill, simply drag&drop a charm into an x-ed slot. Just pay heed to have the small charm pane of your item and the large inventory pane next to one another for the drag&drop procedure. If you don#t the small pane vanishes behind the large one.
