Teleportation

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Teleportation

	Mental
	5
	Teleportation
	yes

Teleportation

You teleport to a nearby location.

Teleport to a random location within a designated area.
Uncertainty radius: (level based)
Cooldown: (level based) rounds

Teleportation is a mental mutation that allows the player to teleport instantaneously to a nearby location, with a certain margin of error.

Teleportation grants the "Teleport" ability, which when used, will prompt the player to pick a tile to use the ability on. The selected tile must be a visible or previously explored tile. Around the selected tile will be shown an area containing all of the possible tiles the player can be teleported to, the radius of which is determined by mutation level.

Confirming one's selection will cause the player to instantly teleport to a random tile within the area shown around the selected tile. If Teleport is successful, it will be placed on cooldown for a mutation level-based number of rounds. If the randomly chosen tile is occupied by a wall or other impassable obstacle, Teleport will print "You are shunted!" to the message log and will attempt to find an empty tile within 1 tile to place the player in instead; if such a tile cannot be found, Teleport will fail and it's cooldown will not be incurred.

Formulas

The following formulas are used to determine uncertainty radius and cooldown based on mutation level.

Uncertainty Radius	13 - Level
Cooldown	103 - 3 × Level

If the uncertainty radius becomes smaller than 2, it will be set to 2 instead. Additionally, if the cooldown becomes lower than 5, it will be set to 5 instead.

Advancement Table

Mutation Level	Uncertainty Radius	Cooldown
1	12 tiles	100 rounds
2	11 tiles	97 rounds
3	10 tiles	94 rounds
4	9 tiles	91 rounds
5	8 tiles	88 rounds
6	7 tiles	85 rounds
7	6 tiles	82 rounds
8	5 tiles	79 rounds
9	4 tiles	76 rounds
10	3 tiles	73 rounds

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Very effective way of removing oneself from danger
• Repeated use can make traveling through zones much quicker
• Great synergy with Clairvoyance, allowing one to teleport to areas they couldn't normally see

Disadvantages

• Unless you leave the map, enemy will have supernatural knowledge of where you ran off to and chase you down.
• Very high cost at character creation
• Cannot teleport to unexplored tiles
• Long cooldown
• Degree of uncertainty makes teleporting extremely inprecise, especially at low levels, and potentially dangerous if the player is teleported to an undesireable location