Chiller

Your entire body is chilled to the core. You can freeze things into solid blocks of ice, and make other people feel very cold as well. Also, for some reason, your stomach acid is mostly antifreeze. Your permanent chill will leave you feeling colder than most people. Also, your new disposition towards cold temperatures makes you feel stressed in the heat. Having yeti fur will make it even easier to chill other people.

Chiller is a focus mutation that's mutually exclusive with Carrie and Solar Sponge. Players with Chiller can freeze items in their inventory (or others') to preserve them until the ice melts. They can also freeze enemies in combat, which damages and debuffs them based on their cold soaks (yeti fur boosts this effect). Players with chiller are passively colder, but gain stress when hot.

Location

Outside of the entrance to Fort Griam, north of Weezer Dam, in the deep woods area.

Message upon receiving

[ You've just received some new commands. ]
[ freeze <any> : Freeze an item into an ice block, or put a bitch on ice. ]
[ You've developed the 'chiller' mutation! ]

Effects

This mutation grants:

    Ability to Freeze Things.

Advantages

The freeze attack can become quite a powerful ability at higher levels of focus, especially given how rare cold soak is. Being passively colder makes it a bit easier to handle hot areas, but only if you opt out of the Yeti soak mutations. If you do get Yeti Skin/Fur, you negate the passive cold, if that's something that would become a problem. The antifreeze vomit for preserving inventory items is somewhat useful-- at least you'll never need to carry around a kidney cooler.

Disadvantages

Being colder all the time might become a problem, especially since freezing to death outside of the Weezer area becomes is quite likely. Yeti Fur cancels out such a problem, but then you've got the issue of not being able to go into hot areas at all, which may be worse. Not being able to get Carrie or Solar Sponge can be a serious problem for some, and taking up a mutation slot makes this a poor choice for an early mutation. You'll also take stress when hot, you can counter this with a hostile environment suit, or any other thing that would keep you cool.

Appearance

His/Her/Its breath condensates in the air.