Blinking Tic

is a mental defect that causes the player to randomly teleport on occasion while in combat.

If a player with Blinking Tic is close to a hostile creature, there is a 0.1% chance each round for them to teleport to a random tile in the current zone. Unlike normal Teleportation, this can be to an unexplored tile.

Players with Blinking Tic will not be able to teleport if they are affected by normality, such as when they are wearing an.

When Blinking Tic triggers, the message log returns the following:

Advantages

 * Grants 3 extra points to spend during character creation
 * Can be negated by wearing an ontological anchor or an item with the nulling modification
 * Low rate of occurrence

Disadvantage

 * Can teleport the player into a dangerous situation
 * The player must constantly be astrally tethered to counteract it's effects
 * Sources of constant normality fields can be difficult to locate