Medium

Hide and seek is it? Or should we play search and destroy?

Medium allows players to determine the location of other players from afar.

Medium is a movement mutation. It is upgrade of Clairvoyance, which is incompatible with Flight and Blink and their associated prerequisites. Contrary to popular belief, Medium is not the sole travel prerequisite for Empath (though Empath does give a bonus to Mediums); any second-tier movement mutation will satisfy Empath's requirements.

Location

Medium is located on Stormfront Island, to the far north of the zone. If a plane is used to reach the island, landing on the Stormfront Helipad tile and heading a short distance north is the fastest way to reach it.

Effects

   +1 focus
   The seek ability, which uses focus to ascertain a player or mob's location.
   The passive ability to see auras of other players.

Advantages

• +1 focus. A small but solid contribution to any focus build.
• Unmatched PvP utility. (If you're into that) The only thing that comes close to a seeker is Johnny Fiveaces, and he's slow, expensive, and only found in one location. Seekers can seek as much as they like at little cost, which is excellent for hounding one particular target at a time.
• Helps with wandering NPCs. This mostly refers to raider bosses, who otherwise must be seeked out with Fiveaces.

Disadvantages

• Useless without high focus. All seek rolls are focus vs. focus, so if your focus is only mediocre, you'll be locked out of successfully seeking targets with higher focus.
• Soft-countered by tinfoil. Anyone in a room with tinfoil installed will be a harder target to seek.

Seek

Medium only has one ability: seek. Using seek name will attempt to seek whatever name is used. This is a focus vs. focus roll (the seeker's against the target's). If the seeker succeeds, they will gain information, ranging from the general zone of the target, to the zone, name, and registration of any vehicles that the target is in.

Seeking targets resist this with their focus. Depending on how well their focus roll goes, they can resist giving any information at all, give the seeker brain damage, or even reverse-seek them, getting information about the seeker's location for free! This is almost never useful because people usually seek from the safety of their homes, but it is quite funny. Seeking targets also make a very easy focus roll to be informed that they are being seeked; if the target succeeds, they will get a message about the back of their neck prickling, and someone looking for them. Most aware players will immediately take precautions or evade the area on receiving this message. Tinfoil hats provide a minor bonus to this roll. Only seekers with truly excellent focus can outmatch people sufficiently to stop them from seeing any notice.

Auras

An interesting mystery surrounding Mediums are auras, which Mediums can see on any player that they look at. According to Dia, every player is assigned a random 'good color' and 'bad color', and the color of their aura is picked between these two based on their karma.

Supposedly, also, grey or indistinct auras mean the player hasn't done enough of anything to deserve their own aura. Players with Enigma will never have any aura at all.

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