[Xedra Evolved] Add time magic class / scenario

[b3brodie]

Summary

Mods "[Xedra Evolved] Add time magic class / scenario"

Purpose of change

Add a new time magic class and scenario that offers new types of abilities / gameplay and forces you to use those powers to survive the negative effects that the scenario will start you with

Describe the solution

Add a scenario that starts the character off further into the cataclysm with the new class with the potential for more power but starting off with some significant downsides.

Start off by designing powers since later additions will make it a little harder to test them

Additions:
Spells:

• Time Freeze: Freeze the target in time, making them invulnerable to damage and incapable of acting
• Unfreeze Time: Unfreeze any target from time and / or unfreeze any individual fields of frozen time
• Entropic Burst: Unfreeze any targets and fields of frozen time in an aoe and apply a dot to targets within
• Time Bubble: Freeze targets and the air itself in an aoe, generating a large field of normally impassable frozen time invulnerable to any attempts to change the contents.
• Revert Wound: Reverts the last wound you've taken, removing the damage, pain, and potential bleeding
• Time Loop: Continuously reset yourself to when you've casted the spell. Loop is broken by death.
• Revert Location: Translocate Ability + Translocator Construction
• Cement Time: Make a time effect permanent. (Frozen tile, frozen monster, etc).
• Stable Time Loop (T): Save your current character state to allow you to reset to it by casting the spell again. This is a toggled power that costs maximum mana.
• Chronal Acceleration (T): Improves character speed. This is a toggled power that costs maximum mana.
• Destabilizing Strikes (T): Makes melee attacks apply a dot. This is a toggled power that costs maximum mana.
• Stabilize Timeline (T): Makes the user immune to time freezes and allows traversal through frozen time fields. Does not allow modifying things within the time field. This is a toggled power that costs maximum mana.
• Time Stop: Stops time for everything other that the user for a certain amount of time
• Reverse Entropy (T): Slowly reverts equipment to peak shape, repairing damage and recharging energy. This is a toggled power that costs maximum mana.
• Rewrite Wound Causality (M): Meditate to spend mana to heal the character of their wounds
• Rewrite Equipment Causality (M): Meditate to spend mana to repair equipment of durability damage.

Starting Problem Traits:

• Time Looped Knife Wound: Every 24 hours, the character suffers a knife wound to their torso causing damage, pain, and bleeding.
• Slowed Timestream: Reduce speed by 10%
• Unstable Powers: When using toggled powers, every 30 minutes - 2 hours there is a chance they all fail, increased by the amount currently toggled.
• Not a trait, but the character starts during winter with higher evolved enemies and no winter clothes.

Spell Learning:

• Spell Learning menu similar to the Bombastic Perks menu. Spend earned insight to learn new powers.
• Also allows removing negative chronomancer traits by spending insight.
• Killing time related enemies gives chronomantic insight

Infrastructure:

• Adds CANNOT_GAIN_EFFECTS flag that makes things not able to gain effects.
• Allows checking and modifying item degradation with eocs
• Adds indestructible flag as an option for field_types. Prevents destroying fields by bashing, shooting into them, or reach attacking through them.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Testing

Created a character and checked that the starting modifiers occurred correctly
Used the insight tree to gain powers correctly
Killed enemies and gained insight correctly
A good amount of sanity checking with time loops to minimize buggy edge cases
Checked that the downside mutations functioned correctly

Additional context

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