Teleportation

Teleportation

	Mental
	5
	Teleportation
	yes
Infobox data from game version 2.0.206.63

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 its 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

Mutation Level	Uncertainty Radius	Cooldown
11	2 tiles	70 rounds
12	2 tiles	67 rounds
13	2 tiles	64 rounds
14	2 tiles	61 rounds
15	2 tiles	58 rounds
16	2 tiles	55 rounds
17	2 tiles	52 rounds
18	2 tiles	49 rounds
19	2 tiles	46 rounds
20	2 tiles	43 rounds

Mutation Level	Uncertainty Radius	Cooldown
21	2 tiles	40 rounds
22	2 tiles	37 rounds
23	2 tiles	34 rounds
24	2 tiles	31 rounds
25	2 tiles	28 rounds
26	2 tiles	25 rounds
27	2 tiles	22 rounds
28	2 tiles	19 rounds
29	2 tiles	16 rounds
30	2 tiles	13 rounds

Ability Cooldown

The cooldown for Teleportation is influenced both by mutation level and by willpower (WI). The following tables indicate Teleportation's willpower-adjusted cooldown (CD) at mutation levels 1, 5, 10, and 20.

Level 1 willpower-adjusted cooldowns:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	135	15	105	21	75	27	45
10	130	16	100	22	70	28	40
11	125	17	95	23	65	29	35
12	120	18	90	24	60	30	30
13	115	19	85	25	55	31	25
14	110	20	80	26	50	32	20

Level 5 willpower-adjusted cooldowns:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	119	15	93	21	66	27	40
10	115	16	88	22	62	28	36
11	110	17	84	23	58	29	31
12	106	18	80	24	53	30	27
13	102	19	75	25	49	31	22
14	97	20	71	26	44	32	18

Level 10 willpower-adjusted cooldowns:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	99	15	77	21	55	27	33
10	95	16	73	22	52	28	30
11	92	17	70	23	48	29	26
12	88	18	66	24	44	30	22
13	84	19	62	25	41	31	19
14	81	20	59	26	37	32	15

Level 20 willpower-adjusted cooldowns:

WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD	WI	CD
9	58	15	46	21	33	27	20
10	56	16	43	22	31	28	18
11	54	17	41	23	28	29	15
12	52	18	39	24	26	30	13
13	50	19	37	25	24	31	11
14	48	20	35	26	22	32	9

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 imprecise, especially at low levels, and potentially dangerous if the player is teleported to an undesirable location

Creatures with Teleportation

• dervish of the Sightless Way(Level -2)
• Bon Te Bok(Level 1)
• chrome pyramid(Level 1)
• high dervish of the Sightless Way(Level 1)
• cyclopean gibbon(Level 1)
• Wardens Esther(Level 1)
• arch dervish of the Sightless Way(Level 4)
• E-Ros(Level 5)
• Wandering Tau(Level 8)
• asphodelyte(Level 10)