Stress

Cool people don't get stressed out, man.

Living in this post-apocalyptic future present is very stressful. Quite a number of things can stress a guy/girl/ambiguously-gendered-freak out. Getting a lot of stress is very bad, it makes you suck a whole lot more even at low amounts. If it gets too much for you, you might start hearing voices and shit. You might even try to off yourself or off some other punk who happened to be near you.

Thankfully, it's pretty easy to get rid of the stress. Just sit down, relax, maybe smoke some joints, maybe get some fine lady/man or your hand and you'll be golden. Relaxing in high chill areas ('app here' will tell you the chill level) makes you lose stress faster.

Causes of Stress

 * Having a lot of Implants (Too many causes stress on movement. High Cool combats this.)
 * Wearing broken Implants
 * Crafting Items
 * Attacking / Being Attacked
 * Grabbing folks
 * Lockpicking
 * Using Focus mutation skills

Notes on Mutations

 * Abomination: Since your mind is completely fucking warped from getting your DNA jumbled up like the Freedom City water infrastructure, most causes of stress and stress relievers are swapped.


 * Empath: Unless you can focus your mind to a good degree, the feeling of any living thing dying near you (and actually all over the world unless your Focus beats the RNG) causes you an insane amount of stress. And don't think you can kill things yourself anymore without going into shock. Robots, ghosts and zombies don't count. Also you soak up the stress from other stressed people in the room.


 * Abom-path: C'mon dude. They thought of that combo, you're not going to be able to skip mechanics that easily. Passive stress generation, stress from NOT being around stressed people, and macros to spam Focus skills is a reportable offense. I can't stop you, but we reserve the right to laugh at you if you complain.

Stress Relievers

 * Smoking Weed
 * Smoking Cigarettes
 * Rooms with a high amount of Chill
 * Masturbation/Sex

Symptoms of Stress

 * Hearing Voices
 * Suicide
 * Stat Debuffs
 * Aggro-ing people around you.