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[Jacob/Lee]

...There are NPCs that use teleporters?

[TheBronzePickle]

• Royal Jelly cures bad poisoning (e.g. from black widows)

There's some kind of good poisoning?

[Necro910]

• Royal Jelly cures bad poisoning (e.g. from black widows)

There's some kind of good poisoning?

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[Flying Dice]

• Royal Jelly cures bad poisoning (e.g. from black widows)

There's some kind of good poisoning?

PILLS HERE

GRABBIN' PILLS

[Whales]

Bad poisoning as opposed to normal poisoning

And yeah, again, NPCs aren't back in the game now but I'm doing intensive work on them, as they're my target for the next big update.  They use "escape items" if they're in trouble; among them is the teleporter.

[Mr.Person]

Although a teleporter gun sounds pretty fun now that you mention it.

[fred1248]

You just keep on trying till you run out of cake

[Blaze]

We already have a portal gun generator.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Which currently does nothing except make pretty lights.

[Jacob/Lee]

You just keep on trying till you run out of cake

And the science gets done and you make a neat gun

[beorn080]

Portal guns would make an EXCELLENT escape trick, assuming you can shoot past a zombie horde. Fire portal over em, fire down, fall through.

[Jacob/Lee]

YES! I finally got it to connect!

I dun goofed the very basic instructions, I generated the key instead of saving it somewhere.

[G-Flex]

You know what else is neat? Original ideas!


We already have teleporters and portal generators; it shouldn't be too hard to come up with something that allows some form of controlled teleportation/portals. A "portal gun" sounds a little too easy anyway, tactically speaking.

[Flying Dice]

You know what else is neat? Original ideas!


We already have teleporters and portal generators; it shouldn't be too hard to come up with something that allows some form of controlled teleportation/portals. A "portal gun" sounds a little too easy anyway, tactically speaking.

How about a Rift gun that has the same mechanics, but is powered by life force. The spatial distance between the two portals affects how much life force it sucks away from you. Arbitrary example: 10 tiles between the two = 20% hitpoint loss.


Alternatively, set it so that any generation of a pair of portals permanently removes 1 hp (2? 5?) from each part of your body, but the portals are permanent, unless you make another set. If you go for a certain period of time (arbitrary length: 1 week game time) without generating a new pair of portals, the ones you made collapse, and you regain that hp. This gives you a tool with multiple uses that has a good balance of risk/reward: abuse it and you'll have terribly low health forever, or use it sparingly in times of great need and you face few long term consequences.

[CT]

Nice suggestions, but I want NPC's to shoot, loot and burn first. Add them then talk about portals and cake.

[Whales]

Spoiler: It's hinted at in science lab journals... (click to show/hide)

...but the teleporter is basically a rapid portal spawner.  It "works" (this is my personal justification, and doesn't have any basis in the source) by opening a short-term portal to the sub-prime plane--where things like krecks and hunting horrors come from--and then immediately opening one back.  It "teleports" you by dint of the fact that the portals are imprecise and the exit location doesn't match the entrance location.  This mechanism is why using a teleporter infects you with "teleportitis," a temporary condition that can result in getting covered in ectoplasm, summoning monsters from the sub-prime plane, fungal infection, and various mental defects.
Using the portal generator is basically half of a teleporter; it'll take you one way, but not back again unless you use it another time.  Long-distance travel via portal generator is possible, but it'll have to be matched with travel in the sub-prime dimension, which will almost certainly be more dangerous.

This stuff is only planned at this point, of course.  It's something I hope to flesh out once the game is more complete, and is certainly less of a priority than getting things looking nice (and being interesting) here in this dimension.