Burgeoning

Burgeoning

	Mental
	3
	Burgeoning
	no
Infobox data from game version 2.0.206.63

Burgeoning

You cause plants to spontaneously grow in a nearby area, hindering your enemies.

Range: 8
Area: 3x3 + growth into adjacent tiles
Cooldown: (level based) rounds
+200 reputation with the Consortium of Phyta

Burgeoning is a mental mutation that allows the player to summon allied plants to fight for them.

Using Burgeoning on a non-occluding tile within 8 tiles will spawn plants in a 3x3 radius centered on the chosen tile, with a 20% chance for additional plants to grow in the surrounding tiles. These plants will be allied to the creature who summoned them, and thus hostile to anything that is hostile towards said creature. The plants summoned by Burgeoning can be attacked by the creature who summoned them without fear of retaliation, but will grant no XP when defeated.

What plants are summoned specifically when Burgeoning is used is determined by mutation level. This in turn determines the user's "plant summoning level" from which burgeoned plants can be chosen from.

Summoning Tier

Each plant that can be summoned when Burgeoning is used falls into one or more "tiers". What tier of plants the user's Burgeoning will draw from is determined by mutation level. The formula is:

${\bigg \lceil }{\frac {\text{Mutation Level}}{2}}{\bigg \rceil }+{\text{Range}}(-1,2)$

0 is the lowest possible tier, whereas 9 is the highest possible tier. Each time Burgeoning is used, one plant from the corresponding tier is selected as the "main" plant; 50% of the plants summoned will be the main plant, while the other 50% will be other random plants from the same tier. Mechanimist choralers have a special version of Burgeoning that only summons qudzu regardless of mutation level.

To see a list of all possible plants and their weights, see Data:PlantSummoning.

Formulas

The following formulas are used to determine cooldown and plant summoning tier (rounded up) based on mutation level.

Cooldown	115 - 10 × Level
Plant Summoning Tier	(Level/2) + Random(-1, 2)

Note in this case that "Random" designates that a random number between those provided will be factored into the formula. Additionally, if the cooldown formula returns a number less than 5, the cooldown will be set to 5 rounds instead.

Advancement Table

Mutation Level	Cooldown	Plant Tier
1	105 rounds	0-3
2	95 rounds	0-3
3	85 rounds	1-4
4	75 rounds	1-4
5	65 rounds	2-5
6	55 rounds	2-5
7	45 rounds	3-6
8	35 rounds	3-6
9	25 rounds	4-7
10	15 rounds	4-7

Mutation Level	Cooldown	Plant Tier
11	5 rounds	5-8
12	5 rounds	5-8
13	5 rounds	6-9
14	5 rounds	6-9
15	5 rounds	7-9
16	5 rounds	7-9
17	5 rounds	8-9
18	5 rounds	8-9
19	5 rounds	9
20	5 rounds	9

Mutation Level	Cooldown	Plant Tier
21	5 rounds	9
22	5 rounds	9
23	5 rounds	9
24	5 rounds	9
25	5 rounds	9
26	5 rounds	9
27	5 rounds	9
28	5 rounds	9
29	5 rounds	9
30	5 rounds	9

Advantages & Disadvantages

This section is opinion-based. Your mileage may vary.

Advantages

• Allows you to summon allies at a distance to fight for you, letting you avoid direct conflict if needed
  • Allows you to prepare for combat against neutral targets by filling a zone with friendly plants
• Cooldown rapidly decreases with mutation levels and is decreased further by Willpower
• Low cost at character generation for a damage dealing mental mutation
• livid creepers will follow the user between floors as permanent followers
• With Harvestry, becomes an excellent source of ingredients for Cooking or simply selling for water

Disadvantages

• Relatively short range that cannot be increased
• Many summoned plants are extremely dangerous to user
  • feral lah, aloe volta, and aloe pyra are particularly likely to misfire

Creatures with Burgeoning

• Mechanimist choraler(Level 1)
• Yurl(Level 3)
• Sixshrew(Level 3)
• Tau-No-Longer(Level 8)
• Wandering Tau(Level 8)