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Writhing Smoke is a [[focus]] [[mutations|mutation]] often taken for focus grinding due to the low stress cost and short recharge time between uses. | Writhing Smoke is a [[focus]] [[mutations|mutation]] often taken for focus grinding due to the low stress cost and short recharge time between uses. It also works an an effective "panic button" for high-focus users. | ||
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Revision as of 06:48, 2 October 2009
Writhing Smoke is a focus mutation often taken for focus grinding due to the low stress cost and short recharge time between uses. It also works an an effective "panic button" for high-focus users.
Location
Writhing Smoke is located in the Gas Station on the Abandoned Highway. It is relatively easy to get, as the only hostile creatures in the area are low-level rabid dogs.
Advantages
This mutation grants:
+2 to focus The command Spew Smoke
Disadvantages
None, unless you have really crappy endurance and senses or simply choose to never use the granted ability. Then it's just a waste of a mutation slot.
Spew Smoke
note: Spew and Exhale are valid synonyms
When used, the user gains 20~30 stress and makes a focus roll. If successful, the user exhales a cloud of smoke into the room and may briefly stun others in the room (duration of the stun depending on the focus roll). While this cloud is in the room (duration depending on the user's focus roll), one can leave the room without broadcasting a message saying when they exited and in which direction. Note that the presence of smoke clouds in the room make it harder to create another smoke cloud successfully, and gas masks may be used to resist the effects of this ability at lower levels of focus.
Appearance
When you mutate you will be told the following line:
Messages broadcasted upon use of Spew Smoke: (initate)<Name> inhales sharply as his/her eyes roll back into his head. (successful) Tendrils of thick black fog erupt from <name>'s mouth like ghostly tentacles, swirling as they fill the room with darkness. (failure) <Name> coughs out a thin cloud of greenish vapor. Hm.