Writhing Smoke

Writhing Smoke is a focus mutation often taken for focus grinding due to the low stress cost and short recharge time between uses.

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.