Salamander
Salamander is a focus mutation often chosen by players for its great upgrade to mobility for a relatively low cost.
Location
Salamander is located in the Toxic Cave on the Shoreline. Due to its close proximity to Freedom City, the entrance is guarded by Gator Boy, an alligator-skinned boy slightly stronger than the average crackhead found in the crack mansion.
Effects
This mutation grants:
+4 to Swim +4 to Climb +1 to Focus -1 to Craft The mend ability
Advantages
Salamander is easy to reach and grants high bonuses to both climb and swim. It also grants the ability to mend, which is useful for quick healing and fixing broken bones (for players with broken legs and/or a low medical skill).
Disadvantages
Taking Salamander results in a -1 to Craft; however, as a loss of a point in craft isn't very damaging to most players due to their reliance on others to do the job (usually in exchange for cash), this is considered a negligible disadvantage at best.
Mend
When used, the user gains a large amount of stress and makes a focus roll. If successful, any broken limbs the user has will be mended, along with the possibility of being healing up to six health based on how high their focus stat is. You will fail if you have max health and no broken bones to mend, resulting in a lot of stress. Mend is incredibly useful for Hideous Freak and Abomination mutants due to the reversal of stress, and may be used as a bursty heal and stress dump every few seconds.
Message Upon Use:
You empty your mind, letting your focus flow into your limbs...
<Name> bows his/her/its head and breathes deeply, extending his/her/its limbs.
Message Upon Success:
You feel your wounds pulling together. Kinda itches.
Message Upon Failure:
You couldn't focus due to stress
Message if uninjured (note: you still gain stress):
There's nothing wrong with you that your mending powers could heal.
Appearance
After mutation you will be given an additional line to your description:
He/She/It has webbed fingers.