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About Mutations
Mutations are inherent genetic modifications that affect your character's traits and skills. Unlike implants, mutations are not acquired through in-game procedures but are determined by your initial choice. Opting to be a mutant can provide unique challenges and opportunities, influencing interactions, storylines, and available content. However, this path may also introduce specific difficulties, such as societal prejudice or unique hazards.
Once you've made your choice regarding mutations, it cannot be changed later in the game. This decision impacts various aspects of gameplay, including access to certain events and the development of your character's abilities.
How to play as a mutant?
Early in the game, during the encounter at the Gates, you have the option to choose whether your character is a mutant.
Positive Mutations

Just a simple thing. You can pick things up that others wouldn’t, like a dog. What makes you really different is that you can switch it on and off at will. The stench of the slums would drive you nuts, otherwise.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

Some people eat other people because they want to. You do it because you have to. But it’s worth it. Oh, it’s worth it. This can be dangerous, and it’s also incompatible with being a vampire mutant.
- Trait Effect: Stamina + 1
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: Vampire

Something to do with your metabolism, or how your body stores energy. You really don’t have to eat all that often. You can go for longer with less.
- Trait Effect: Stamina +1
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 1
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

Something weird with your brain, anyway… you’re not exactly sure. But what you do know is that you only have to sleep with one half of your brain at once.
- Trait Effect: Charisma + 1
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: Animal chimerism

Not all over. Your hands, mostly. Where it’s most useful. You can give someone a nasty jolt, but never enough to be lethal.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

You’ve got detailed control over your own biology. Your own hormones. Your needs. How you react to drugs. The works.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

Extreme dexterity is what this gives you. No real downside to that, is there? Your fingers are longer than average too, but not so much so that they make you look like something from a horror movie. You won’t be able to get prosthetic arms fitted.
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: 1
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

You don’t just heal fast. You heal unnaturally fast. Serious wounds, gone in days instead of weeks.
- Trait Effect: Resilience + 1
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: ???

Let’s just be clear here: we’re talking big cats, not the domestic variety.
- Trait Effect: Reflexes + 1
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: Animal chimerism

Completely immune? That would be an exaggeration, but not a big one. You know what pain is. You can even hurt yourself, if you want. But it fades quickly.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 3
- Blocks/Blocked By: Pain Controller

Poisoning, disease: that kind of thing just doesn’t seem to affect you.
- Effect: Immune 3
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 1
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

Your recall isn’t just perfect; it’s intense. To the point, sometimes, when it feels more real than real.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 1
- Blocks/Blocked By: Hot Storage

You’re part wolf. You can feel the animal, deep inside. And not just any animal. You’re an alpha. Leader of the pack.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: Animal chimerism

Not something you can keep on display; not without getting shot on sight by Tower. But it’s useful to have around.
- Trait Effect: Reflexes + 1
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

A fancy way of saying that you’ve got some kind of biological chemical works buried in you. Well, all living things are already exactly that, you guess, but yours is just… better. Say goodbye to hangovers, comedowns and all that shit.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

Spells? Crosses? Witchcraft? Garlic? That’s all rubbish. But you know how you feel when you have a belly full of blood. It’s wired into you. A biological need. You’ll go through hell until you’re properly established. Multiple options follow from this, including some that require credits.
- Trait Effect: Strength + 1, Reflexes + 1
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: Cannibal

Like a bat, almost. You can turn it on and off at will. You wouldn’t be able to cope, otherwise.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 1
- Blocks/Blocked By: Pointed ears

You might look gendered on the surface, but you don’t have anything… down there. It’s just completely smooth. But that doesn’t mean you’re not sexual. There are other ways to give and receive.
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: Quirk/Mutation=Penis/Balls

Simian? All humans are simian. But there’s something else in you too. You’re stronger than you should be, amongst other things.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: Animal chimerism
Sub-Mutations:

Chimp
You're not just strong. You're light. Fast. And aggressive. You can feel that in you, more than almost anything. Having chimp DNA in your isn't just about denser muscle fibre. It's all through your being.

Gorilla
Bigger. Buffer. And a big bit less mean that your smaller cousin. [Drop your reflexes but get a bunch of other benefits.] [You credits purchased this in a previous life. If you die you'll keep this purchase for future lives.] Having gorilla DNA in you isn't just about being stronger and buffer. It permeates your whole being.

You’re no psychic. There’s nothing magical involved. Your unconscious mind is just unnaturally good at feeding you just the right information at just the right time.
- Trait Effect: Cunning + 1
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

You can bend like a reed in the wind. Your spine. Most of your joints… but your spine most of all.
- Trait Effect: Reflexes + 1
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: 0
- Blocks/Blocked By: Heavy spine

It's just perfect. Just like the other two.
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: ???
- Blocks/Blocked By: Breast Modification

More juice. More to pack in down there.
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: ???
- Blocks/Blocked By: Quirk/Mutation=Penis/Balls

A little bear in you... maybe more than a little. You walk heavy. You hit hard. You can be slow at times
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: ???
- Blocks/Blocked By: Animal chimerism

Being out here, amongst all the shit and trash, is second nature to you.
- Effect: Likes junk, lots of bonuses, but hates sunlight.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: ???
- Blocks/Blocked By: Animal chimerism

You're a snake. You're partly a snake. You're not cold blooded -- still a mammal really. But there's a lot of snake in you.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: ???
- Blocks/Blocked By: Animal chimerism, Heavy spine

There's nothing magic or psychic about this, but you're also not entirely sure how it works. It's a reflex. You can make people ignore your presence. Forget that you're there. A grey person, faded into the background.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: ???
- Blocks/Blocked By: None
Negative Mutations

You just can’t trust yourself. Itching all over or sweating slime, or some other horror. You never know when it’ll hit. Take a hit to your discipline, amongst other things.
- Physical Mutation: ???
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: ???

They’re not even close to normal. You hide them when you can. More like some kind of… animal. They get injured often, but they do have their advantages. Gain some stamina, but there’s a cost.
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: ???

Your flesh cuts and tears easily. You’re delicate. You need to look after yourself. Or have someone to look after you. Take a hit to your resilience, amongst other things.
- Trait Effect: ???
- Physical Mutation: ???
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: ???

You’re not stupid, or ignorant. Your attention span’s fine. But there’s just something up with your brain. You can’t focus on a single thing properly. It’s always shifting around, like a bar of soap in the bath. Take a hit to your cunning, amongst other things.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: Hot Storage

This is your name for what you’ve got going on. For yourself. It’s not the same as the standard medical condition though. That’s easily treatable these days, for a start. Take a hit to your reflexes, amongst other things. Really dangerous but serious advantages too. You won’t be able to get prosthetic arms fitted.
- Trait Effect: Reflexes - 1
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: ???

Having machines in you helps. But it’s not enough. You really just… need… to put metal… in you… most all the time.
- Trait Effect: EFEITO_AQUI
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

Dangerously low, some of the time. And it just doesn’t feel nice. Take a hit to your charisma, amongst other things.
- Trait Effect: Charisma - 1
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

Some men would think the bigger, the better. You’d have to disagree, especially when the member is literally a horse’s dick. Shape, size, colour, everything. Really not a good thing, although one or two potential partners will love it. In case you were planning something extra, if you want this, get it now. It won’t be available later.
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: Quirk/Mutation=Penis/Balls

Painful and generally unpleasant a lot of the time. Surely your designers can’t have intended this? At least you’ve got all your teeth and can generally speak okay.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: Split tongue

Always? Yeah, always. You just can’t seem to eat enough. It’s not a fast metabolism or a simple digestive problem. Maybe your other mutations are just eating up everything you put into yourself? Take a hit to your stamina, amongst other things.
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

Thick, and more than rope-like. Snake-like. Even more than the kind of veins that a heavy steroid user gets. Luckily they're not all over your body, but they're prominent where they are. [You'll be able to choose the location of the main patch.]
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

Sure, it makes you tougher, but it also makes you stiffer. Much stiffer. And that wouldn't be a problem, but it's so thick and heavy that it's easy to see, and obviously a mutation. [Take a big hit to your reflexes but gain on your resilience.]
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: Unnaturally Flexible, Serpentine chimerism

That's the only way you can describe yourself -- glowing, organic lines, just under your skin. Yellow and green, mostly, and mercifully not covering your hands and face. [This will prevent you from having tattoos, and you'll need to keep covered up almost entirely, but there are advantages.]
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: Internal Armour

When it comes, it's a flood. [This gets sexual.]
- Incomplete: In development
- Physical Mutation: No
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: None

A little edge in a fight? Sure, maybe they give you that. You wouldn't want to be the one punching one of these, or trying to grapple you around the chest? But otherwise? They're hard to hide and don't do you a lot more good.
- Incomplete: In development
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: Breast Modification

What your breasts make isn't normal, and it isn't nice. Most people wouldn't call it nice, anyway. But what's worse? You can't control when it'll come. [You'll be able to decide something about the nature of this stuff later.]
- Physical Mutation: Yes
- Mutations Required: 2
- Blocks/Blocked By: Breast Modification
Special/Secret Mutation

Growths, like miniature trees of coral, that hide inside your body, most of the time. Two of them, but you know a third is coming.
- Trait Effect: ???
- Physical Mutation: ???
- Mutations Required: ???
- Blocks/Blocked By: ???