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Telekinesis

This mod adds new, and edits existing mental mutations in the school of 'telekinesis'. That is stunning force, force bubble, and force wall.

Stunning Force:
damage increment changed to
1d3
1d3+1
2d3
2d3+1
etc.
Now always explodes centered on the caster.
Cooldown raised to 100 turns.
Gains +1 charge every 10 mutation levels.

Animate Weapon
Cost: 4
Range: N/A
Cooldown: N/A
Cast: Animate a weapon from your inventory into a permanent floating companion.

AV: 2 * Tier
DV: 2 * Tier
Resistances: 10 * Tier
Physical Attributes: Player Ego
Hitpoints: Function of weapon material and weapon toughness

Telekinesis-> Telekinetic Barrage
Cost: 2
Range: 3 + 1/3 Level
Charge Cooldown: 25 rounds
Gains +1 charge every 2 mutation levels.
Cast: Perform a melee attack on any target within range. Attack receives bonus penetration according to your ego bonus.

The animation for this one is really goofy and I can do nothing to stop it from happening, revel in the chaos. Attack can proc literally everything a normal attack can, go nuts.

Mutation name changes in preparation for new update and to expand compatibility with other mods and Sifrah

Force Punch
Cost: 3
Damage Increment:
1d2
1d2+1
2d2
2d2+1
etc.
Range: 3 + 1/3 Level
Stun Save Difficulty: 10 + mutation level
Charge Cooldown: 50 rounds
Gains +1 charge every 5 mutation levels.
Cast: Deal a moderate amount of irresistible force damage, and knock your target back with a chance of a stun. Target takes additional damage for slamming into walls.

A miniature, single-target, ally safe stunning force.

Force Armor
Cost: 2
AV Bonus: 1/3 of remaining charges
Gains +1 charge per mutation level
Charge Cooldown: 25 rounds
Barrier Strength: 1 + 1/5 mutation level

A physical version of mental mirror. It is hard to explain but very simple to use.

It works by reducing "penetrations" aka the amount of an attack's base damage each hit deals to you (thats the x2 or x3). It can reduce each hit up to its barrier strength, any hit over it will allow some damage through. It is most useful when supporting a heavily armored character.

The Problem
Playing as an esper in vanilla qud is very feast or famine. Most mental mutations are easily outclassed by flaming ray in both damage, cooldown, and utility. Unless you are ascending to a quasar mind and rolling over the entire game, most mental mutations have very long cooldowns for underwhelming effects.

My Solution
The charge. They serve as the 'magazine' for your mental gun. I decided on charges existing per-mutation rather than a shared pool for several reasons.
1. Mental mutations are different areas of your brain. This is why your arms don't become weak because you have walked many miles.
2. A central charge pool disincentivizes acquiring many different mental mutations.
3. It already exists in vanilla, this is how light manipulation works. It is the gold standard of what a mental mutation should be in performance, utility, and flavor.

This mod is my first attempt at creating a mutation that is entirely my own work. There were no vanilla systems to implement these mutations meaning I had to create the tools to create the mod in the first place. This means there is a high likelihood for errors or unintended interactions. I appreciate your grace while ironing these issues out and greatly appreciate detailed bug reports.

1. A significant balance patch with user feedback and my own perspective once I finish the telekinesis run.
2. Polish. Addition of ability and mutation sprites, and custom sound effects for abilities. (Note: if you are an amateur sound designer who wants to provide some "impact" sounds I will be eternally grateful)
3. (Post CoQ 1.0 release) an associated skill tree for telekinesis skills allowing for both the acquisition and upgrading of all skills in the school.

Illusion - Social Mutations: telepathy, ego projection, beguiling, domination, confusion, sunder mind
Divination - Informational Mutations: sense psychic, clairvoyance, psychometry, invisibility, light manipulation, precognition
Evocation - Elemental Mutations: kindle, pyrokinesis, cryokinesis
Vividuction - Life Manipulating Mutations: burgeoning, syphon vim
Munduscription - Space-Time Manipulating Mutations: teleport other, teleportation, disintegration, space-time vortex, temporal fugue, time dilation

Credits
Updated to 1.0 by Czyrek-Marc