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Traits

Deft DEFT Possible Starting Trait BIRD BEAST RAPTOR MOUSE
Point cost: 1
"While you're not any better at melee combat, you are better at recovering from a miss, and will be able to attempt another strike faster."
Animal Empathy ANIMALEMPATH Possible Starting Trait BEAST ELF-A
Cancels: Animal Discord
Changes to: Animal Kinship
Point cost: 1
"Peaceful animals will not run away from you, and even aggressive animals are less likely to attack. This only applies to natural animals such as woodland creatures."
Terrifying TERRIFYING Possible Starting Trait BEAST INSECT CHIMERA
Point cost: 1
"There's something about you that creatures find frightening, and they are more likely to try to flee."
High Adrenaline ADRENALINE Possible Starting Trait BEAST CHIMERA
Point cost: 1
"If you are in a very dangerous situation, you may experience a temporary rush which increases your speed and strength significantly."
Near-Sighted MYOPIC Possible Starting Trait BEAST TROGLOBITE
Cancels: Ursine Vision, Scout
Point cost: -2
"Without glasses, your seeing radius is severely reduced! However, you are guaranteed to start with a pair of glasses."
Sleepy SLEEPY Possible Starting Trait BEAST CHIMERA MOUSE
Cancels: Less Sleep, Very Little Sleep, Tireless, Very Sleepy
Changes to: Very Sleepy, Rapid Metabolism
Point cost: -1
"You need sleep more often, but still spend most of your time awake."
Junkfood Intolerance ANTIJUNK Possible Starting Trait BEAST ALPHA ELF-A RAPTOR
Cancels: Sweet Tooth
Point cost: -1
"Something in those heavily processed foods doesn't agree with you. It's possible for you to eat them, but you will suffer morale penalties and obtain less nutrition from them."
Forgetful FORGETFUL Possible Starting Trait BEAST INSECT MEDICAL CHIMERA MOUSE
Cancels: Good Memory
Point cost: -3
"You have a hard time remembering things. Your skills will erode slightly faster than usual, and you can remember less terrain."
Animal Discord ANIMALDISCORD Possible Starting Trait BEAST LUPINE INSECT RAPTOR
Cancels: Animal Empathy
Changes to: Prey Animal
Point cost: -1
"Most animals don't like you, and aggressive animals are more likely to attack you. This only applies to natural animals such as woodland creatures."

Normal Mutations

High Night Vision NIGHTVISION2 FISH BEAST LUPINE INSECT CHIMERA RAT MOUSE
Requires: Night Vision
Cancels: Fey Vision, Fey Nightsight, Feline Vision, Ursine Vision
Changes to: Full Night Vision
Point cost: 4
"You can see incredibly well in the dark! Activate to toggle NV-visible areas on or off."
Feline Eyes FEL_EYE BEAST FELINE
Cancels: Fey Eyes, Reptilian Eyes, Avian Eyes, Ursine Vision, Compound Eyes
Leads to: Feline Vision
Point cost: 0 / Visibility: 2 / Ugliness: 1
"Your eyes have mutated, now having a slitted pupil and glittering in light, much like those of cats. This is visually striking, but it isn't helping you see at night."
Furry FUR BEAST CATTLE RAT
Requires: Lightly Furred
Cancels: Rough Skin, Scales, Thick Scales, Sleek Scales, Feathers, Down, Lightly Furred, Shaggy Fur, Gray Fur, Sleek Fur, Lynx Fur, Chitinous Skin, Chitinous Armor, Chitinous Plate, Hairy Chitin, Furred Chitin, Furred Plate, Phelloderm, Bark
Changes to: Shaggy Fur
Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3
"Thick black fur has grown to cover your entire body, providing a marginal protection against attacks, and considerable protection from cold."
Sleek Fur FELINE_FUR BEAST FELINE MOUSE
Requires: Lightly Furred
Cancels: Rough Skin, Scales, Thick Scales, Sleek Scales, Feathers, Down, Lightly Furred, Furry, Shaggy Fur, Gray Fur, Lynx Fur, Chitinous Skin, Chitinous Armor, Chitinous Plate, Hairy Chitin, Furred Chitin, Furred Plate, Phelloderm, Bark
Leads to: Lynx Fur
Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 10 / Ugliness: 3
"You've grown sleek brown fur, providing some protection from cold."
Claws CLAWS BEAST URSINE RAT
Requires: Long Fingernails
Cancels: Tentacle Arms, 4 Tentacles, 8 Tentacles, Long Fingernails, Rat Claws, Stainless Claws, Retractable Claws, Large Talons
Changes to: Retractable Claws, Rat Claws
Point cost: 2 / Visibility: 3 / Ugliness: 2
"You have claws on the ends of your fingers. If you aren't wearing gloves, your unarmed attacks deal a minor amount of cutting damage."
Mammal Pheromones PHEROMONE_MAMMAL BEAST CATTLE
Requires: Smelly
Cancels: Weak Scent, Strong Scent, Insect Pheromones,
Point cost: 2
"Your body produces low-level pheromones which put mammals at ease. They will be less likely to attack or flee from you."
Padded Feet PADDED_FEET BEAST FELINE LUPINE URSINE
Cancels: Toe Talons, Hooves, Roots, Rooter, Chloromorphosis, Leg Tentacles
Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 1
"The bottoms of your feet are strongly padded. You receive no movement penalty for not wearing shoes, and even receive a 10% bonus when moving barefoot."
Fluffy Tail TAIL_FLUFFY BEAST LUPINE
Requires: Long Tail
Cancels: Stubby Tail, Tail Fin, Long Tail, Cattle Tail, Rodent Tail, Thick Tail, Raptor Tail, Spiked Tail, Club Tail
Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 7
"You have a long, fluffy-furred tail. It greatly improves your balance, making your ability to dodge much higher. Prevents wearing non-fabric pants."
Canine Ears CANINE_EARS BEAST CATTLE CHIMERA
Cancels: Lupine Ears, Feline Ears, Ursine Ears, Pointed Ears, Rodent Ears
Changes to: Lupine Ears
Point cost: 1 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 1
"Your ears have extended into long, pointed ones, like those of a canine. They enhance your hearing, allowing you to hear at greater distances."
Smelly SMELLY2 FISH BEAST URSINE SLIME CHIMERA
Requires: Strong Scent
Leads to: Insect Pheromones, Mammal Pheromones
Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 5
"You smell awful. Monsters that track scent will find you very easily, and humans will react poorly."
Badly Deformed DEFORMED2 BEAST URSINE PLANT
Requires: Deformed
Cancels: Pretty, Beautiful, Very Beautiful, Glorious
Changes to: Grotesque
Point cost: -3 / Visibility: 7 / Ugliness: 7
"You're hideously deformed. Some people will have a strong negative reaction to your appearance."
Lupine Muzzle MUZZLE BEAST LUPINE
Requires: Snout
Cancels: Mandibles, Folding Fangs, Bovine Snout, Ursine Muzzle, Rodent Muzzle, Reptilian Muzzle, Proboscis, Beak, Woodpecker Beak, Hummingbird Beak
Point cost: -2 / Visibility: 5 / Ugliness: 4
"Your jaw and nose have extended into a wolfish muzzle. It lends itself to biting in combat and looks impressive, but prevents wearing mouthgear."
Very Fast Metabolism HUNGER2 BEAST SLIME RAPTOR
Requires: Fast Metabolism
Cancels: Light Eater, Hyper-Metabolism, Fast Metabolism, Extreme Metabolism, Heat Dependent, Very Heat Dependent, Cold Blooded, Ectothermic
Changes to: Extreme Metabolism
Point cost: -2
"You need about twice as much food as the average human to maintain your expanded cardiovascular and respiratory systems. On a plus side, it doesn't take you much time to recover from any strenuous activity."
Very Heavy Sleeper HEAVYSLEEPER2 Targeted Mutation Only BEAST LUPINE
Requires: Heavy Sleeper
Point cost: -2
"You could probably sleep through a firefight."
Light Sensitive TROGLO LIZARD BEAST INSECT SLIME SPIDER
Cancels: Sunlight Dependent
Changes to: Very Light Sensitive
Point cost: -2
"Sunlight makes you uncomfortable. If you are outdoors and the weather is Sunny, you suffer -1 to all stats."
Broad Paws PAWS_LARGE BEAST URSINE
Requires: Paws
Cancels: Large Talons, Paws, Insect Limbs, Insect Arms, Arachnid Limbs, Arachnid Arms, Tentacle Arms, 4 Tentacles, 8 Tentacles
Point cost: -4 / Visibility: 4 / Ugliness: 3
"Your paws are much larger now. Manual dexterity is difficult: permanent hand encumbrance of 20, serious problems crafting, and no gloves. But you can swim more effectively."
Carnivore CARNIVORE LIZARD BEAST FELINE SPIDER CHIMERA RAPTOR
Cancels: Meat Intolerance, Herbivore, Ruminant, Grazer
Leads to: Saprovore
Point cost: -4
"Your body's ability to digest fruits, vegetables, grains and nuts is severely hampered. You cannot eat anything besides meat."
Snarling Voice SNARL BEAST FELINE LUPINE CHIMERA
Requires: Growling Voice
Point cost: -2
"You have a threatening snarl in your voice. Persuading NPCs will be near impossible, but threatening them will be much easier."
Screamer SHOUT2 BEAST
Requires: Shouter
Changes to: Howler
Point cost: -3
"You sometimes scream uncontrollably."

Post-threshold mutations

Resilient MUT_TOUGH Threshold Mutation LIZARD BEAST URSINE CATTLE MEDICAL CHIMERA
Requires: Large, Huge, Extremely Strong, Insanely Strong, Pain Junkie
Cancels: Flimsy, Frail, Fragile, Glass Jaw
Changes to: Solidly Built
Point cost: 2
"You can survive injuries that would incapacitate humans: you get a 20% bonus to all hit points. Stacks with Tough, etc."
Culler PRED1 Not purifiable Threshold Mutation LIZARD BEAST FELINE LUPINE URSINE SPIDER CHIMERA RAPTOR
Requires: Carnivore, Bear
Cancels: Pacifist
Changes to: Hunter
Point cost: 2
"You've had a revelation: by killing the weaker creatures, who would only die anyway, you preserve resources for those better able to survive. You are less bothered by the deaths of others: their own weakness invited these fates upon them."
Hunter PRED2 Not purifiable Threshold Mutation LIZARD BEAST FELINE LUPINE URSINE SPIDER CHIMERA RAPTOR
Requires: Carnivore, Bear
Additional requirement: Culler
Cancels: Pacifist
Changes to: Predator
Point cost: 3
"Your brain has a lot more in common with a predatory animal than a human, making it easier to control misplaced reactions to the death of your prey. Additionally, combat skills, which you use to hunt, are easier to learn and maintain."
Predator PRED3 Targeted Mutation Only Not purifiable Threshold Mutation LIZARD BEAST FELINE LUPINE URSINE SPIDER CHIMERA RAPTOR
Requires: Carnivore, Bear
Additional requirement: Hunter
Cancels: Pacifist
Changes to: Apex Predator
Leads to: Sapiovore
Point cost: 3
"You consider yourself something other than human and no longer empathize with them. Combat skills are easy to learn and maintain, but your critical thinking, so characteristic to these creatures, suffers."
Apex Predator PRED4 Targeted Mutation Only Not purifiable Threshold Mutation BEAST URSINE CHIMERA RAPTOR
Requires: Carnivore, Bear
Additional requirement: Predator
Cancels: Pacifist
Point cost: 2
"Your mind and brain have adapted to your new place in the world: as one on top of the food chain. You can effortlessly master and maintain combat skills, but your critical thinking has atrophied further."
Sapiovore SAPIOVORE Targeted Mutation Only Not purifiable Threshold Mutation LIZARD BEAST URSINE SPIDER CHIMERA RAPTOR
Requires: Carnivore
Additional requirement: Predator, Apex Predator
Point cost: 1
"The hairless apes make as good eating as any other meat."
Insanely Strong STR_UP_4 Threshold Mutation BEAST URSINE
Requires: Extremely Strong
Leads to: Resilient
Point cost: 7 / Visibility: 2 / Ugliness: 2
"Your muscles are noticeably bulging. Strength + 7"

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