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You gain the ability to freely communicate with plants. Too bad plants are jerks.
Plant Whisperer is a mutation which trades niche downsides and the opportunity cost of a mutation slot for an equally niche, but rather significant, QoL improvement for crafters.


Your unique cellular structure makes you more sensitive to weather. A clear sky in the daytime can cure you of revival sickness and relieve stress, but harsher weathers can cause you to contract plant-specific diseases.
== Location ==


You also become infertile.
Plant whisperer is located next to the Heart of the Forest in [[Crater Forest]].


Skill Modifiers:
== Effects ==


<nowiki>*</nowiki> persuade: +1
This mutation grants:
    Passive: +1 to [[Persuade]]
    Passive: 100% Pregnancy Resistance
    {{cmd|fertilize}} command: Tell a plant a pickup line, and make it yield fruit.


Resists:
== Advantages ==


<nowiki>*</nowiki> pregnancy: 100%
* '''Plantwhispery.''' Whispering a plant is a persuasive check which is rather trivial as long as one is sufficiently blinged up. Thus, at worst, Plant Whisperer doubles the efficiency of gathering plants: you pick all of the fruit that's grown normally, and then whisper for a second batch. Where the command really shines, though, is that it works even when the plant is out-of-season: Plant Whisperers can ignore the almanac and get tomatoes whenever the Samsara they damn want.
* '''Stupid plisper tricks.''' Bug egg nests count as plants, for the implacable plasteel enthusiasts with carry-weight to spare.
* '''THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN TH''' Plant Whisperers get their revival sickness healed when in sunlight. Notable edge case: If one has flight, "above the clouds when the sun is up" counts as sunlight. (Solar Sponge Plisperers also get minor hunger restoration, but this is more of a flavor thing.)
* '''Sap Cum.''' Sap stains give +climb to the stained individual. If one has a penis, one suddenly becomes the easiest source of sap with which to leverage this feature.
* '''Plant friendship?''' Supposedly, being a Plant Whisperer means some plant enemies are less likely to grapple or call for help when attacked. Allegedly.


=== Other effects ===
== Disadvantages ==
Certain entities will stop attacking you, and others will no longer even grab you or call for help when attacked!


Attacking a certain boss or being in the area when the boss is being attacked will cause immense stress however...
* '''Minor weather-sicknesses, ostensibly.''' These have been very severely downtuned in Samsara, to the point where I haven't personally ever seen one actually happen. But inclement weather is allegedly supposed to afflict a plant whisperer with symptoms syndrome.
* '''Opportunity cost.''' For many people, this mutation effectively doesn't ''do'' anything. All of its upsides are niche enough that they might never come up.
* '''One with the Heart of the Forest.''' The Heart screams when fought. This is incredibly stressful for a plant whisperer.


=== Weather Passives ===
== Appearance ==
Plant whisperer's are affected, and often afflicted, by weather. Some of the effects are diseases; all diseases can be transmitted between plant whisperers, and all can be cured with a fungilex hypo. Current weather can be ascertained by '''look'''ing at the sky, and will also usually show on a tile's description if '''@prefs showdesc''' is set to 1. Weather can only affect a plant whisperer on outdoors tiles; indoors tiles will never carry effects. All effects have a chance of being applied every heartbeat that the plant whisperer is inside the weather.
This mutation adds the following line to a character's description:


What follows is a list of the weathers and their effects:
    %N's skin has a light-green hue.


* '''Sunlight, Clear, Windy (during the day):''' Can recover from revival sickness (this is largely obviated by Iron Liver). If the mutant has Solar Sponge, they will grow less hungry over time.
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* '''Rain, Drizzle, Thunderstorm:''' If mutants have solar sponge, they will grow less thirsty.
* '''Overcast, Foggy:''' No effects.
* '''Radstorms, Heavy Radstorms''' (often encountered in the Necropolis): If mutants do not have Silicone Skin, they can be afflicted by radioactive fungus pods, which increase rates of hunger and thirst.
* '''Ashstorms''' (encountered in the Screaming Chasm): The mutant has a chance of developing cancer.
* '''Rotwind and Sandstorms''' (encountered in the Necropolis' Heart and desert zones respectively): If mutants do not have lithodermis, they can develop fungal blight, which inflicts progressively worsening debuffs.
* '''Acid Fog''' (very common in the Necropolis): Can inflict fear on plant whisperers.
* '''Snow, Blizzards''' (very common in Weezer Dam and Weezer Village): If mutants do not have yeti fur, they can develop snow mold, which if left untreated can cause brain damage or mental illness. *These are all not confirmed and have been made less severe on Samsara


=== Location ===
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Located up the climbs and inside the tree of [[Crater Forest]].
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Latest revision as of 09:04, 25 June 2024

Plant Whisperer is a mutation which trades niche downsides and the opportunity cost of a mutation slot for an equally niche, but rather significant, QoL improvement for crafters.

Location

Plant whisperer is located next to the Heart of the Forest in Crater Forest.

Effects

This mutation grants: 

    Passive: +1 to Persuade
    Passive: 100% Pregnancy Resistance
    fertilize command: Tell a plant a pickup line, and make it yield fruit.

Advantages

  • Plantwhispery. Whispering a plant is a persuasive check which is rather trivial as long as one is sufficiently blinged up. Thus, at worst, Plant Whisperer doubles the efficiency of gathering plants: you pick all of the fruit that's grown normally, and then whisper for a second batch. Where the command really shines, though, is that it works even when the plant is out-of-season: Plant Whisperers can ignore the almanac and get tomatoes whenever the Samsara they damn want.
  • Stupid plisper tricks. Bug egg nests count as plants, for the implacable plasteel enthusiasts with carry-weight to spare.
  • THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN TH Plant Whisperers get their revival sickness healed when in sunlight. Notable edge case: If one has flight, "above the clouds when the sun is up" counts as sunlight. (Solar Sponge Plisperers also get minor hunger restoration, but this is more of a flavor thing.)
  • Sap Cum. Sap stains give +climb to the stained individual. If one has a penis, one suddenly becomes the easiest source of sap with which to leverage this feature.
  • Plant friendship? Supposedly, being a Plant Whisperer means some plant enemies are less likely to grapple or call for help when attacked. Allegedly.

Disadvantages

  • Minor weather-sicknesses, ostensibly. These have been very severely downtuned in Samsara, to the point where I haven't personally ever seen one actually happen. But inclement weather is allegedly supposed to afflict a plant whisperer with symptoms syndrome.
  • Opportunity cost. For many people, this mutation effectively doesn't do anything. All of its upsides are niche enough that they might never come up.
  • One with the Heart of the Forest. The Heart screams when fought. This is incredibly stressful for a plant whisperer.

Appearance

This mutation adds the following line to a character's description: 

   %N's skin has a light-green hue.


Mutations
Racial Mutations Abomination • Chud • Hideous Freak • Vampire • Zombie
Focus Mutations Carrie • Chiller • Fuck Machine • Salamander • Screech • Writhing Smoke • Empath
Movement Mutations Leapfrog • Phaser • Clairvoyance
Flight • Blink • Medium
Soak Mutations High Density • Firewalker • Rubberskin • Snakeskin • Yeti Skin
Lithodermis • Solar Sponge • Silicone Skin • Eelskin • Yeti Fur
Miscellaneous Mutations Billygoat • Bleeder • Bloodhound • Brainslug • Brute Strength • Camelfat • Enigma • Fibrocartilage • Hooligan • Hyperimmune • Iron Liver • Junkrat • Mule • Nimble Fingers • Plant Whisperer • Stench • Twitchy Nerves • Superclot • Xray Vision • Cat Ears
Ripperlikes Carcinocudgel • Horrorspike • Ripper • Tendrils
Joke Mutations Third Nipple
Defunct Mutations Jammer
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