[v1.3.0+] Prodigious Progress

[Zizzo]

So I have a... question.
Do you have any idea why this add-on causes the Rod of Recall to drop when you kill yourself by time-skipping yourself as your own Projection while in a Temporal Reprieve, on AoA Exploration?

It does not occur on any other permadeath setting or campaign.

*blink* [sound F/X: source diving] I… have no idea. Can you describe how to reproduce the problem in dev mode?

[Erenion]

Step 1: Learn Time Skip, Temporal Reprieve and Projection.
Step 2: Activate Temporal Reprieve.
Step 3: While in the Reprieve, use Projection and then Time Skip your original body. The Time Skip needs to land and it needs to have a longer duration than the remaining Reprieve duration.
Step 4: Let the Reprieve run out. You'll be back on the normal map, but only as a Projection. When your timer runs out, you'll die.

If this is done in AoA, on Exploration, you'll have the Rod of Recall in your inventory when you respawn. This does not happen when this add-on is disabled.

[Zizzo]

Step 1: Learn Time Skip, Temporal Reprieve and Projection.
Step 2: Activate Temporal Reprieve.
Step 3: While in the Reprieve, use Projection and then Time Skip your original body. The Time Skip needs to land and it needs to have a longer duration than the remaining Reprieve duration.
Step 4: Let the Reprieve run out. You'll be back on the normal map, but only as a Projection. When your timer runs out, you'll die.

If this is done in AoA, on Exploration, you'll have the Rod of Recall in your inventory when you respawn. This does not happen when this add-on is disabled.

…? I'll investigate.

In the meantime, been fiddling around with Tradewind_Rider's Simple Man addon, whose LUA Man prodigy has a "do X amount of physical damage" requirement — which is exactly the sort of thing this addon is designed to improve, so its absence here was felt. Easy enough to add support:

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That's going out as v1e.

And while we're in the neighborhood, since I've set the precedent, I've added some developer documentation bundled in the addon .teaa, for any addon developers who might want to hook their prodigy into our functionality.

[Zizzo]

Step 1: Learn Time Skip, Temporal Reprieve and Projection.
Step 2: Activate Temporal Reprieve.
Step 3: While in the Reprieve, use Projection and then Time Skip your original body. The Time Skip needs to land and it needs to have a longer duration than the remaining Reprieve duration.
Step 4: Let the Reprieve run out. You'll be back on the normal map, but only as a Projection. When your timer runs out, you'll die.

If this is done in AoA, on Exploration, you'll have the Rod of Recall in your inventory when you respawn. This does not happen when this add-on is disabled.

[sound F/X: testing] …interesting. I can mostly reproduce the effect, but I don't think it has to do with this addon; the one time I was able to completely reproduce it was with this addon disabled.

What's happening AFAICT is that when the projection runs out, the player is brought back and re-added to the party, immediately dies and goes to the Eidolon plane, and then is immediately pulled back to the normal zone by the reprieve. In the process, the Eidolon dude dies, and if that's your first boss kill, it will drop the Rod of Recall as usual. Now, in most of my tests, the Rod was dropped on the "floor" of the Eidolon plane and left behind; in one test it put the Rod in the player's inventory (as it will do if it determines that the player can't move to the spot where the dead NPC was), but as I said, that was with this addon disabled, so it may just be random. It may also correlate with whether the anti-gravity zone effect and greyed-out shading from the Eidolon plane "sticks" through the reprieve.

[Zizzo]

Found a very small bug that can mess up our modified description for prodigies with multiple special requirements. It doesn't look like any of the in-game prodigies are affected (our special progress-showing description would have to be on the second or third requirement, which doesn't apply to any of the existing prodigies), but there's no point in leaving the bug just lying around, so we fix it in v1e.1, just pushed out. We Apologize for the Error.™

[Zizzo]

Well, this is embarrassing… Turns out that last update had some leftover debugging code left in it. I don't think the code can activate accidentally, but better safe than sorry (with apologies to Cornacs named Fred ). Fortunately the extra code didn't leak into ZOmnibus, so I only have to push out v1e.2 of this addon with the stray code removed. We Apologize for the Inconvenience.™