Normality

This information is reliable as of patch 2.0.201.49.

Normality, also known as reality stabilization, suppresses effects and abilities that manipulate reality or spacetime. This includes forcefields, Teleportation, and various mental mutations.

Normality can be caused by either normality gas or a projected normality field, as well as by the ambient astral friction found in the higher floors of the Tomb of the Eaters.

While under the effects of normality, creatures have the astrally burdened effect if affected by a lower-strength gas or field, such as a lower density cloud of normality gas, or the astrally tethered effect if completely restricted. These effects show up when looking at oneself or other creatures.

Normality-inducing phenomena can be nullified by a nullray pistol. For example, the pistol destroys normality gas.

Sources of Normality Gas

• normality gas grenades
• normality gas pump
• normality gas turret
• anomaly fumigator
• plastronoid – Their death spawns normality gas.
• vents with hexagonal residue
• anomaly extinguisher – Both their attack (firing a normality gas pump) and death spawn normality gas.
• nullbeard – Breath attack
• elder nullbeard – Breath attack
• nullbeard gland – Eating one grants a single breath of gas.
• nullbeard gland paste – Cooking some grants gas breathing.
• elder nullbeard gland – Eating one grants a single breath of gas, more powerful compared to that from the (lesser) nullbeard gland.
• concentrated nullbeard gland paste – Cooking some grants gas breathing, more powerful compared to that from the (unconcentrated) nullbeard gland paste.
• chrome pyramid – Their death spawns normality gas.

Sources of Normality Fields

• ontological anchor
• The nulling item mod
• norm core mk I
• norm core mk II
• norm core mk III
• either/or

Phenomena affected

Phenomenon	Fashion affected
agolfly	Blocks projectiles; prevents ranged attack from replenishing
amaranthine prism	Dazes wearer
anti-gravity boots	Disables
blood-gradient hand vacuum	Blocks projectiles; prevents health transfer to wielder
ceremonial vibrokhopesh	Disables built-in power supply
Clairvoyance	Contests activation; prevents from seeing individual cells
Extradimensional items	Occasionally rusts
Fitted with suspensors	Disables
forcefields, force barriers, and stasis fields	Destroys; an electrical arc is released that can do 1d6 damage
gelatinous antiprism	Prevents cloning
gelatinous prism	Prevents cloning
hypertractor	Blocks tractor beam
Morphogenetic	Contests activation; prevents acting on particular targets
onboard recoiler	Contests programming and activation
phase cannon	Blocks projectiles
phase webs	Converts to normal webs
phase shift grenade mk I	Prevents activation; prevents affecting particular cells
Phased	Removes effect; if this results in the subject being in phase, they take 2d6 damage
Phasing	Contests activation
Precognition	Contests activation
programmable recoiler	Contests programming and activation
Psychometry	Contests use
quantum rippler	Causes to implode, generating a neutron explosion
reprogrammable recoiler	Contests programming and activation
Schrodinger page from the Annals of Qud	Prevents activation
small sphere of negative weight	Disables (changing weight from -10 to 10)
space-time vortex	Destroys
sphynx salt injector	Prevents use for precognition
Stopsvalinn	Disables
Syphon Vim	Contests activation; prevents ongoing effect
Teleportation of all kinds	Contests
Temporal Fugue	Contests activation; destroys clones
Time Dilation	Contests activation; removes effect
twinning lamprey	Contests twinning
timecube	Contests activation; removes effect

Contests

When normality contests a process, if that process is generated by a mutation or similar inherent power, the person acting may be given the option to try to push through the normality lattice, and will be given an estimate of how likely they are to succeed. If they try and fail, they will be dazed for 1d6 turns unless they make a difficulty 20 Willpower save. NPCs attempt to contest normality if two prospective rolls against their estimated chance of prevailing are successful.

If the process is generated by a device, contesting automatically takes place, and if it fails the device will emit a shower of sparks that does 1d6 electrical damage to its user and consumes 10d100 charge from the device.