Antique Perfume

Antique perfume is a skill which both reduces the cost of showers by 1 (Making showers effectively free while holding the ) and allows you to become immune to the Mush for two cycles.

Standard roster
Due to usually taking the main  role, she does not need to shower regularly. She often times will even given priority access to any that happens to be lying around on the bridge, removing most reasons to be running around to the dorms and back.

This skill does have some niche uses if Frieda decides to spend her energy doing work, as her lack of alternative  or  for that task incentivises her to eat a lot on her flights. It also offers some much-needed safety if she decides to become a project relayer with or an expeditionist with, as both the Nexus and the Icarus Bay are common infection hotspots.

This skill's real time to shine can be found in long-lasting ships when the gold project is completed. Using it indefinitely can give Frieda infinite and  if they shower while holding the.

Custom synergies
This skill sees the most utility when paired with skills giving reason to be often while around the dorms. This includes, but is not limited to:
 * Repairmen characters with or  as they will often times be dirty from fixing critical equipment.
 * Construction characters with or  since they tend to get dirty a lot while using the scraps around the ship.
 * and relayers, such as, , and aforementioned , as they may get dirty before the  are down or at a time where every  counts.
 * Characters expected to move around in storage rooms a lot such as those with, , or , since most dirty generalist work such as fuel loading,  pulling, and smithing activities take place in storage rooms.
 * Dismantlers, with and, which will spend a lot of  on attempts and may get dirty frequently if assisting the.
 * Any character with.

Antique perfume can also be used as a pro-active mush protection tool. Its holder, especially if paired with movement abilities such as, can run laps around the ship to thwart the plans of a sneaky or eat dubious food suspected to be contaminated with. It can also be used to try and catch mush red-handed by showering and waiting for unsuspecting to reveal themselves when they helplessly try to convert you, especially if you can obfuscate your showers.

This skill has a hidden synergy with and, as the reduction in accident chance allows you to gain  over time in addition to the  and  gained from a.

Mush strategies
As a, this skill may seem like it is extremely helpful, but poor use of it may simply attract suspicion. If you go through the effort of abandoning more useful skills in favor of this skill, you will be expected to have a good reason for it, whether with a good roleplay justification or by using it a lot. This might force you to learn to avoid taking too much damage from repeated use of the.

Antique Perfume's shower cost reduction is nice, but does not save enough for it to be worth picking solely because of this. Its main strength comes from the fact that this skill gives you a reason to use the shower repeatedly. This can prove especially useful when paired with to not only alleviate shower costs but also give you valid reasons to shower randomly when dealing with a  or.