Custom visage

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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

[Implant] - custom visage

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Meticulously detailed modeling software and instructions for facial reformation allow the host to assume the visage of choice, forever obsoleting masks.

+300 reputation with a faction you choose at installation time

Destroyed when uninstalled.
Target body parts: Face
License points: 3
Only compatible with True Kin genotypes
+300 reputation with <chosen faction>

Perfect

Cybernetic Info

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custom visage is a moderate cost cybernetic implant which upon installation allows the user to select one faction of their choice to gain +300 reputation with.

The granted reputation is considered permanent and functions exactly like reputation obtained from other sources such as the water ritual. Meaning, that the additional reputation can be used during the water ritual to purchase skills or secrets, and also works for any other reputation checks, such as determining whether walking on fractus will damage the user.

However, due to the extra reputation being considered permanent, if the user were to use up the +300 reputation and then uninstall the implant, -300 reputation will still be deducted from their total, potentially turning the chosen faction permanently hostile.

Assuming baseline values, the extra reputation is enough to make the user neutral to essentially all factions, with the only exceptions being the Girsh, Oozes and Children of Mamon.

Advantages & Disadvantages

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

Advantages

• Makes most initially hostile factions neutral to the user.
• Can be used to make specific locations with guaranteed creatures safer, such as by selecting cragmensch in order to turn the many that spawn in Bethesda Susa non-hostile.
• Can allow the user much easier access to valuable skills and secrets from water-ritualing certain factions.

Disadvantages

• No direct utility in combat.
• Usually destroyed when uninstalled, limiting useability without careful planning.
• Can technically be mostly replaced with Schrodinger pages from the Annals of Qud.

Notable Reputation Targets

There are various factions where +300 reputation provides strong utility.

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

Faction	Offered Utility
Robots	Makes numerous exceptionally deadly creatures such as galgals and chrome pyramids non-hostile.
Mollusks	Renders Slog of the Cloaca non-hostile, lowering the danger of navigating Golgotha's cloaca.
Naphtaali tribe	Allows easier access to legendary unplanished godheds, which can then be water-ritualed for permanent robot reputation.
Consortium of Phyta	Potentially opens up an alternative way to complete the The Earl of Omonporch quest without convening the council, lowers prices of consortium merchants and allows the user to more easily learn Snake Oiler from the oddly-hued glowpad or Asphodel, Earl of Omonporch.
Putus Templar	Most legendary templar can be traded with during the water ritual for 1 cent credit wedges and/or the locations of Historical sites and ruins with becoming nooks.
Girsh	Can be used along with 3 equipped girshling fangs(3 face gear slots can be achieved by wearing one helmet modifed to be two-faced and magnetizing another) to make the Girsh Nephilim non-hostile, allowing the user to more easily pacify them.
Chavvah (faction)	Allows the user to learn the Tomorrowful skill from _ and still have enough reputation left over to trade secrets for the otherwise extremely difficult to find location of Girsh Qas and Girsh Qon.
Trolls	Makes Jotun, Who Parts Limbs, Fjorn-Kosef, Who Knits The Icy Lattice and Haggabah, Who Plies The Umbral Path non-hostile, giving the user much more reputation to trade in the water-ritual for the locations of various rare items. Such items include:Kindrish, Stopsvalinn, the Ruin of House Isner and the part of the Great Machine chosen during world generation.
Procedurally Generated Villages	Randomly generated villages can occasionally spawn with valuable learnable skills like En Garde! or Weapon Mastery which would otherwise cost too much reputation to be earned normally.

Tips

• While the implant is generally destroyed when uninstalled it can be preserved, this is most safety accomplished by using the Amputate Limb skill on the user's face while custom visage is installed, the severed face can then be butchered in order to reclaim the implant for further use.
• Despite not being enough initially, it is still possible to render both Oozes and the Children of mamon neutral provided custom visage is installed. This can be accomplished by recruiting k-Goninon and Mamon Souldrinker with either a love injector or the Proselytize skill and proceeding to water ritual them, the +100 reputation will then be enough to make either or both factions non-hostile.