Plant Whisperer (Mutation)

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. Fucking a plant is a persuasive check; on success, the plant spawns a fresh set of fruit (with quantity dependent on how well one did at the check) and then enters an approximately-one-IRL-hour-long refractory period. Succeeding on the check is usually trivial given sufficient bling, but more persuasive does generally improve the yield. The ability to fertilize plants usually doubles the efficiency of gathering their fruits, as you can pick the normally-grown ones and then get a second batch for free. Additionally fertilize also yields fruit when the plant is out-of-season and would otherwise be empty; in this case, it is an infinity% efficiency improvement and means that plant whisperers can ignore the almanac and get a steady stream of 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