Nocturnal apex

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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - nocturnal apex

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The metabolic rhythms of the Holy City's denizens are synchronized to their diurnal rituals: during the day, repose in prayer beneath the shade of a fluted ziggurat; during the night, prowl the toxic arboreta for sacrifices.

+10% to natural healing rate during the day.
Once per night, you can Prowl, gaining +6 agility and +10 movespeed for 100 rounds.

Target body parts: Head
License points: 2
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes
Compute power on the local lattice increases this item's effectiveness.

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Cybernetic Info

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nocturnal apex is a head-exclusive cybernetic which provides day/night cycle-based bonuses to the creature it is implanted in. The potency of these effects is increased by compute power.

The implant provides two individual benefits depending on the current stage of the day/night cycle, both bonuses are entirely cycle exclusive. The day benefit is active between Harvest dawn and towards the end of Jeweled dusk with the night benefit being available between the very end of Jeweled Dusk and the Shallows. This essentially means that during a standard 1200 turn day, the day-exclusive effect will be active for roughly 700 turns, with the night effect being usable during the remaining 500 turns.

The day-exclusive bonus grants a scaling 10% increase to the user's passive health regeneration rate, which, like other sources of increased health regeneration does not apply during combat without the Regenerationmutation It does however stack with other sources of health regeneration such as the bonus granted by the Meditate skill.

The night-exclusive benefit grants an active ability called "Prowl", upon activation "You start to prowl" will be printed into the message log and the user will gain the prowling status effect for the duration of the ability, prowling at baseline grants a 6 point boost to agility and a 10 point bonus to movement speed for 100 rounds. After the duration expires "Prowl" will become unusable in the ability tab until the next night, however due to it's the exceptionally long base cooldown of 1200 turns, "Prowl" will often still be unusable for at least a portion of the new night, especially if the user has low willpower or used it near the end the previous night.

It is available during character creation to True Kin from Ekuemekiyye (those of the Horticulturist, Priest of All Suns, Priest of All Moons, and Syzygyrior castes).

Ability cooldown table

Nocturnal apex's cooldown (CD) in rounds depends on the user's willpower (WI) attribute:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	1620	15	1260	21	900	27	540
10	1560	16	1200	22	840	28	480
11	1500	17	1140	23	780	29	420
12	1440	18	1080	24	720	30	360
13	1380	19	1020	25	660	31	300
14	1320	20	960	26	600	32	240

Target body parts: scales with compute power

Compute power table

Compute power	Agility bonus	Movement speed bonus	Duration
10	6	11	110 rounds
20	7	12	120 rounds
30	7	13	130 rounds
40	8	14	140 rounds
50	9	15	150 rounds
60	9	16	160 rounds
70	10	17	170 rounds
80	10	18	180 rounds
90	11	19	190 rounds
100	12	20	200 rounds

Compute Power	Agility bonus	Movement speed bonus	Duration
110	12	21	210 rounds
120	13	22	220 rounds
130	13	23	230 rounds
140	14	24	240 rounds
150	15	25	250 rounds
160	15	26	260 rounds
170	16	27	270 rounds
180	16	28	280 rounds
190	17	29	290 rounds
200	18	30	300 rounds

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Scales well with compute power.
• Can provide one of the largest possible bonuses to agility available, only being potentially matched by the comparatively short-lived boost granted by Ego Projection
• Prowl has an extremely long duration with higher compute power, potentially allowing for it to be used in multiple combat encounters.
• Additional passive health regeneration can have some utility, especially when the user has an installed biodynamic power plant, an equipped jacked force bracelet and the meditate skill.

Disadvantages

• The active ability being restricted to night often makes it extremely clunky to fully utilize.
• Difficult to obtain outside of character creation.
• Without high willpower, prowl will often still be on cooldown the following night.
• Most other head-exclusive cybernetics provide more consistently available abilities/utility.

Tips

• Can be used to great effect with the Hook and Drag skill. The agility bonus makes it more likely for the user to hit the ensnared creature while moving, the movement speed boost allows for additional attacks to be made and the extra DV from the agility decreases the likelihood of the hooked creature successfully retaliating whilst being dragged.
• Potentially enables accurate extremely long-range shots especially with higher compute power or when used along with stabilizer arm locks.
• Can be used with skulk injectors for an even larger bonus to agility and movement speed.