Beak

Beak

	Physical
	1
	Face
	Beak, Bill, Rostrum, Frill, Proboscis
	Beak
	no
Infobox data from game version 2.0.206.63

Beak

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Your face bears a sightly beak.

+1 Ego
You occasionally peck at your opponents.
+200 reputation with birds

Beak is a mutation that grants one of the following natural equipment variants on the character's face:

• beak
• bill
• rostrum
• frill
• proboscis

The natural body equipment will be seen if nothing is equipped in the Face body slot (similar to how an empty hand has a "fist"). This beak is weightless and provides no AV or DV. When the player selects the Beak mutation, they can also Customize it by pressing "C" during character creation to select the variant of beak they would like. The options are: Beak, Bill, Rostrum, Frill, or Proboscis. Mechanically, these variants are identical to each other, but they will alter the name of the natural body equipment in the face slot.

The beak functions as a →4 11 Short Blade natural weapon, but can only be used this way if the face with the beak is not occupied by equipment. Growing extra faces through mutations such as Two-headed or Chimera will not result in extra beaks.

Beak

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Some facial appendages are so sightly, scattering light like the prismatic loam or curving toward geometric bliss. But there are many others.

Perfect

Advantages & Disadvantages

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

Advantages

• Very low cost at character creation
• Grants 1 permanent point of Ego
• Chance to attack with your beak
• Grants 200 reputation with birds

Disadvantages

• Cannot be leveled up, as with all 1-cost mutations
• Beak can only attack if that face does not have something equipped to it

Creatures with Beak

• Gloaming(Level 0)
• glowcrow(Level 1)
• white esh(Level 1)
• dream wren(Level 1)
• bird cherub(Level 1)
• mechanical bird cherub(Level 1)

Trivia

This mutation used to be a -1 point physical defect that decreased ego by 1 and took up a face slot. The description was "Your face bears an unsightly beak." Once the mutation was reworked to be positive instead, the beak description was modified to be "sightly".

References

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.203.39.