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Transfer
Description:	The Mush has passed to you one of the genotypes from our weapons of mass transmission. Help yourself! Single action: You can inhabit the body of another human. They must have been infected at least once. They will then find themselves in your body... and may warn your crewmates.
Learned by:	Mush 6	If Mush:	Only

Transfer is an extremely interesting and unique Mush skill which allows you to swap bodies with any character in your room who is infected by at least 1 Spore. It has several fun applications:

• Dropping your Walkie Talkie somewhere, going on a killing spree and then transferring into a hapless bystander so that you can watch them get murdered by the rest of the crew, or even help with it.
• Escaping a lynch mob by transferring into attackers or inactives (whose full / gauges you can put to good use). Defeating attackers by transferring into them mid-combat and slaying your old body is particularly easy, but be aware that they will display as dead humans, blowing your cover to an attentive/well-informed crew.
• As last resort, possessing a high-importance character (like the ship's only Shrink or Physicist) and therefore getting them killed, further dooming the human crew. Particularly effective if your old body is comparatively useless.
• If Mush Raluca, you could rush the PILGRED Reactor to completion with your co-mush, then transfer into the reigning Commander and travel to Sol immediately.

You can only transfer once per game. You and the victim are notified of the transfer via a large pop-up window.

It's advisable to burn all your and , remove all items and, particularly, drop or hide your communications items ( iTrakie etc) somewhere before doing the transfer, to leave the confused victim as little opportunity as possible to resist or alert the crew. (Keep in mind that, unless Mute from an Injury, they can still travel to the Bridge to communicate)

Keep in mind that, if performing a covert transfer operation, you should adapt to your victim's behavior. Try to mimic their writing style, capitalization, use of emoticons etc, and carefully read all their private channels so that you're aware of the same information as them. Post-transfer life requires even more dexterity and spying prowess than regular Mush existence.

Using Transfer will swap you and the target on the end-of-game scoreboard, meaning that 'likes' and previously gained may be confused between the two players. This may lead to your victim being commended for your Mush play, although you will only receive commendations on the new character.

General effects

Bug: The in-game tooltips claim that the Transpossession action is Covert and Aggressive; however, it is entirely free and Invisible to all.

• New action: Transpossession
  • Cost: 2
  • Privacy Level: Invisible
  • Requires: Target infected by at least 1 Spore
  • Target: Another character
  • Effect: Swaps bodies with the target.
    • Transfers with player: Mush status, game mode, character level, vanity effects
    • Stays with original character: Health points ( and ), /, Statuses (including illnesses), Titles, communication channels, Commander-assigned Missions, equipped vanity outfit
    • Resets both characters' skills; the Mush has to assign their new human skills in the 'genome' tab.
    • Both characters lose all Spores on them.
    • Single Action; can only be performed once per game.

Gallery

The notification pop-up that pops up for the player after a transfer.