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Permamark species?
Permamark status
Regen 1
Can semi-controlled blink through (a)bility menu with exhaustion timer or hp cost or both
All aptitudes including HP/MP/experience +1.
Beyond that, any other species traits would depend on flavor:
* Wretched: This species is cursed. Reading ?remove curse disables the Mark status for a few hundred turns.
* Boastful: this species is absurdly confident and wants everything to come after them. Shout 1 intrensic, perhaps intrinsic reflection.
* Former holy: this species consists of holies that have somehow offended the gods in general, and those gods are spurring everything to hunt them down. rN+++, can still worship, but with half piety gain and altered flavor messages. Gods are once bitten, twice shy.
* Delicious: the species emits a delicious smell, but they have somehow survived the ravenous hordes til now. Might get some other scent/pheromone/inhalant-based powers that escape me just now.
So, what do you think: is this something that could grow into a species you might be excited to play, or is this being marked just too problematic, either because it's too crippling or because it warps crawl gameplay too much?