Editing Questions/Question 176

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    |AskedBy=yesdoubt
	|DateAsked=2025-10-07
	|QuestionText=I forgot to ask this earlier, but just to clarify how Stuff Works with the fungi infestation mind control shenanigans before it starts actively coming up in threads:<br><br>-What's the range on it once the fungi is established on the person? Same room, within line of sight, or does it go further?<br>-If the person isn't within eyeshot, is there any impression/ability to pick up on where they are/what they're doing or is it just Flying Blind at that point? For context, Momo will be trying to keep it very downlow and essentally letting people move off from him for a bit before acting up somewhere it doesn't appear to link back to him, if he can do that, since he's going for trying to turn Patho-Gen suspicious of/against their own people here and disrupting operations and trying to keep them from figuring out what's going on for as long as possible <strike>until he inevitably has a spore blowup whenever he has to watch someone be tortured, oops</strike>.<br>-Related to the above, is it possible to gain any information while controlling people? Even if it's tiny tidbits or facility layout hints or such like.
    |DateAnswered=2025-10-09
    |AnswerText=<ol><li>We're pretty loosey-goosey on the range of Fungi-type mind control if it doesn't have major impact on the game or fellow players. They certainly don't require line of sight, and they don't obey physical walls, but they operate within a reasonable radius of the Fugi-type. In fact, it might be appropriate to say that the more that the Fungi-type's environment is 'overtaken' by spores and their own mess, the larger their sphere of influence is. An untainted area may only grant 10-15ft of influence, while having a full 20ft covered by spores or growths might extend that range to 30ft or more.</li><br><li>Let's say Momo is trying to be discreet about his Fungi-type powers, and he En-Fungals a Patho-Gen scientist. His cell may not be turned into Fungi-type territory; thus, it may hamper Momo's ability to control the staff member once they move too far away. However, he would at least be able to get a rough <i>intuitive sense</i> for where that individual is, although it's nothing precise.</li><br><li>That is an excellent question... To get <i>information</i> out of a hostage as a Fungi-type would also require completely overtaking the host, so be prepared to kill a scientist if you go down that route. While higher thought won't be accessible to Momo, he will be able to get a very rudimentary feeling for the layout of the establishment—except this amount of information is quite vast, and it blurs together with <i>other</i> establishments the scientist is familiar with. Their apartment building, the gymnasium they went to as a child, the neighborhood they live in, the building they're currently in, Patho-Gen HQ... Oh! Well, Momo could figure out that one bit: <b>they're not in Patho-Gen HQ,</b> for certain. Matters that are more <i>muscle-memory</i> will be easiest for Momo to glean as a Fungi-type.</li></ol>
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