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Prestige Skills: Metamorph

Adds a new skill tree themed around mutants and control over your character's physical form.

Rapid Metabolism
Cost: 200 learned automatically upon first learning the skill
Requirements: Must be a mutant
Effect:
25% chance to gain a mutation point upon slaying a legendary creature.
25% chance to gain an additional mutation point upon leveling up.
Gain a rapid advancement upon slaying extraordinary foes.

May only gain rapid advancement from each foe once, clones do not give rapid advancements or mutation points.
Uses pseudorandom RNG to improve consistency.

Extraordinary Foes:
Agolgot
Bethsaida
Rermadon
Qas & Qon only one advancement for both
Shugruith
0lam
Star Kraken
Salt Kraken
Oboroqoru
Saad Amus
Eschelstadt II

Multiattack
Cost: 150
Effect:
Your chance to attack with offhand natural weapons is doubled. Your physical mutation abilities have 25% reduced cooldowns.

Bonus applies to all natural weapons including fists. Remember vanilla horns and stinger are capable of attacking even when single weapon fighting!

Please report any natural weapons with less than expected chance to attack, most natural weapons with a fixed chance to attack alternate between a 20% and 15% chance to attack based on what accesses the weapon first so you may see some weapons with a 30% chance to attack instead of a 40% like you'd expect.

Survival Instincts
Cost: 200
Effect:
You gain a +1 to +5 bonus to DV and a +5 to +25 bonus to movement speed, increasing as you lose hitpoints.
Gain the maximum bonus under 20% of your maximum hitpoints.

Adaptation
Cost: 200
Effect:
You gain a +1 to +3 bonus to AV and a +5 to +25 bonus to elemental resistances, increasing each time you take damage from that particular element. Bonus fades each turn you do not take damage from the element.

Taking physical damage gives AV, taking cold damage gives cold resistance.

Apex
Cost: 250
Requirements: All metamorph skills
Effect:
You gain strength equal to half your highest mutation level.
You gain toughness equal to half your number of mutations
You gain agility equal to your additional limb count

Additional limb count means extra grey squares on your equipment screen. You begin with 14 'limbs'

Wild Growth NOTE: WIP, INACTIVE IN THE RELEASE VERSION
Cost: 100
Effect:
You fold yourself into a cocoon after learning this skill, falling asleep for 3 days. Choose any physical mutation you do not already have and acquire it. Skill can be learned multiple times.

I love mutants, and wanted to enable builds relying on horns/stinger/burrowing claws. The tree is a twist on self discipline, awakening the mentality of a beast. I also wanted to mess around with the new event priority system, which previously stalled the mod's development.

RNG in Vanilla Caves of Qud works like a dice roll. Each roll has no bearing on future rolls.
Pseudorandom RNG works like a bag of blue and red balls. Whenever you take a blue ball out of the bag, the chance to pull a red ball improves relative to its previous odds, and vice versa. This reduces likelihood of streaks of bad luck, and slightly reduces streaks of good luck.

Running 100,000 trials of 100 rolls each resulted in almost exactly 1/4 odds.

tl;dr randomness will feel a bit more fair.

Any original code or sprites in this mod may be used without credit or permission, so long as you are not charging money for it.