Sooo, about the Tainted Rusher

[Nextgener]

While I do like the concept of adding a character who slowly mutates throughout your adventure as a parallel to some character's you've probably played or are playing as, I have to ask the obvious.

Why was there never an option added to help her?

I'm sure this was answered, and I can guess the answer was Creative Choice. But I enjoy playing different character's of varying personality's throughout diffrent save's. And while playing a character who's inherently Good, I'm a little lost on how I don't have the option to help someone when they clearly need it.

 

[Nyx_Arach]

I think it's more you can't help them.
They're Tainted - it's a beyond all hope affliction.


It's Taint that ultimately kills Vic, the only in game reason why Steele is able to heal from Taint - is because of the microsurgeons they get at the start of the game.

On anyone else, once Taint sets in; it's in. There's no healing from it.

The Treatment, Throbb, etc - these things have permanent effects on the body, and in most cases the mind - it alters who you are on a genetic level.


The most you could do, would be to take her to a hospital - where since she's a danger to herself and others - they would likely sedate her.

 

[Nextgener]

According to the in game Codex, "Low levels of genetic taint can be repaired via expensive DNA treatment.". So I think it's fair to say when you First encounter her, it's not out of the option. And we've Met Amber, who's also hyped upped on dubious gene mod's that Must have come with Taint as well. But we can help her out in the end.

And Vic was a special case with the Codex stating he "survived near record levels of taint", and that was in the early day's when the symptom's weren't well known.

So yeah, maybe you could say we'd have to spend Alot of Credit's to help, but I don't see it as out of the question.

 

[PanzerGuitar00]

According to the in game Codex, "Low levels of genetic taint can be repaired via expensive DNA treatment.". So I think it's fair to say when you First encounter her, it's not out of the option. And we've Met Amber, who's also hyped upped on dubious gene mod's that Must have come with Taint as well. But we can help her out in the end.

And Vic was a special case with the Codex stating he "survived near record levels of taint", and that was in the early day's when the symptom's weren't well known.

So yeah, maybe you could say we'd have to spend Alot of Credit's to help, but I don't see it as out of the question.

Treatment (not the cow kind) would probably be possible if you managed to get her when she was in stage 1, but anything after that and she's likely too far gone. Plus, it would be a long, arduous, and very expensive recovery, likely with lingering effects for the rest of her life even if successful.

 

[Nino]

The easy lazy answer is that they probably don't want your help (don't quote me, I haven't read their content beyond a surface level understanding

 

[Nonesuch]

While I do like the concept of adding a character who slowly mutates throughout your adventure as a parallel to some character's you've probably played or are playing as, I have to ask the obvious.

Why was there never an option added to help her?

There's a fairly simple principle involved here, which is this: will the content involved in helping her be arousing enough to write? If no, then it's probably not going to get written.

Something like the Tainted Rusher is a relatively big project for TiTS, being a combat encounter (hands down the most challenging thing to produce) that changes four times and a suite of sex scenes that have to account for that. As someone who's done something similar in the form of Jasvalla, by the time you're more than halfway done you will be heartily sick and tired of the whole thing and will be looking for any unnecessary content you can cut. I imagine allowing the PC to interact with her in a more productive way was probably on Frosty's mind when he sketched the encounter out, but he ditched that later in favor of actually getting her done this decade.

Does that mean a Detainting XPac couldn't be thrown together? No, of course not. There's no in-universe reason why she couldn't be helped in some way. But here swinges the central issue again, which I'm going to call the Mitzi Principle. Helping this woman out of her spiralling transformation and sex addiction problem probably isn't going to be that hot. You're asking for a) someone willing to write a not-hot thing and b) someone willing to pay for a not-hot thing. It's probably not going to happen. Sorry, whatever the fuck your name is.