Custom visage
custom visage
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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72
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Cybernetic Info
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Destroyed when removed
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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
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This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary. |
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.
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This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary. |
This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.
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| Robots | Makes numerous exceptionally deadly creatures such as  galgals and  chrome pyramids non-hostile.
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| Mollusks | Renders  Slog of the Cloaca non-hostile, lowering the danger of navigating  Golgotha's cloaca.
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| Naphtaali tribe | Allows easier access to legendary  unplanished godheds, which can then be water-ritualed for permanent robot reputation.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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Acquistion
By nature of being a cybernetic implant, it is not necessarily guaranteed to find custom visage in a given playthrough, especially when the relatively limited availability of cybernetics (compared to other items) is taken into consideration. However, despite this scarcity, there are specific places where the user can look in order to maximize their chances of a successful acquisition.
- Due to custom visage being considered a mid-tier implant, the following sources provide the greatest odds of finding a copy:
Ezra's tinkerer 
Yla Haj who offers a non-restocking selection of 6-8 cybernetics taken from the tier 5 cybernetics drop table.
village tinkers from villages which happen to spawn in mid-tier zones such as 
jungles, 
Rivers or 
banana groves can, upon restock, sometimes offer 2-4 implants taken from the zone's corresponding cybernetics table.- Historical sites which spawn in mid-tier zones like the
mountains or 
Rainbow Wood, have a chance of containing becoming nooks which each hold 1-2 zone-tier appropriate implants. The locations of such historical sites can be obtained with some reliability by water-ritualing legendary members of the Putus Templar and trading for secrets. - The cybernetics ward on strata 13 of Bethesda Susa contains 4 becoming nooks which together provide 4-8 implants taken from the tier 4 cybernetics drop table.
- Certain lower-ranking members of the Putus Templar such as
Knight Templars, 
Banner-Knight Templars and 
Gunner-Knight Templars have a 25% chance of spawning with the implanted prefix. Which, when killed and 
butchered drop cybernetics pulled from the cybernetics 4 table at 80% efficiency.
- Alternatively, if the user would rather guarantee eventual access to a copy of custom visage, they can take the following action:
- Under normal circumstances, the guaranteed
gutsmonger present at the 
Six Day Stilt only provides a restocking inventory of 6-8 implants taken from the cybernetics 1 drop table. However, gutsmongers, unlike most other merchants, adjust the tier of their wares to correspond with whatever zone they are currently standing within. This essentially means, that if the user were to make a gutsmonger a follower, such as by using the 
Proselytize skill or a 
love injector, the user could then transport said gutsmonger to a mid-tier location such as Ezra, in order to have access to a permanent and restocking source of mid-tier implants. - The newly transported gutsmonger can then be cloned with a rebuked
cloneling in order to massively increase the number of cybernetics available each restock. Allowing the user with enough dedicated farms to eventually obtain any implant of any tier.
- Under normal circumstances, the guaranteed
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.
