Mumble mouth

mumble mouth

0 Armor Value 0 Dodge Value $ 0.00 Commerce Value 2 lbs. Weight
	fungi: 200 Consortium of Phyta: -200
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Infobox data from game version 2.0.207.72

mumble mouth

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Dozens of tiny mouths tessellate the infected skin, their moist lips pursing in asynchronicity and panting out prattle. Every so often, the cacophony harmonizes into sensible speech.

+200 reputation with fungi
-200 reputation with Consortium of Phyta

Perfect

Mumble mouth is a seemingly sentient fungal infection that can affect a variety of body parts. The infection takes up the infected body slot, preventing items from being equipped to that slot.

When the infected player enters a new zone, each mumble mouth infection checks individually whether it has visited the zone before. If a particular mumble mouth infection has not been in the zone before, there is a 5% chance that the infection mumbles forth a secret, revealing either an undiscovered location somewhere else in the world, or a piece of secret lore that the player has not yet learned. The revealed location or secret is added to the player's journal.

Each mumble mouth infection has the following effects on the player:

• 200 reputation with Fungi
• -200 reputation with the Consortium of Phyta

The infection has the following additional properties depending on which type of body part is infected:

Body Part Type	Effect
Hand	Acts as a 1d41-4 (Avg: 2.5) cudgel weapon with unlimited strength bonus (→4/9999)
Body	Provides 3 AV
(Other)	Provides 1 AV

Like other fungal infections, it can be cured by following the procedure in Corpus Choliys.

Tips

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

Mumble mouth in the early to mid game can provide a strong net benefit to the player, depending on the body part afflicted, because of the number of secrets it can reveal over time. For example AV 1 on the feet with no DV penalty is competitive with what the player is likely to find at that stage of the game anyway.