[MOM] Add Mental Engineering Telepath 'Ritual' recipe

[b3brodie]

Summary

Mods "[MOM] Add Mental Engineering Telepath 'Ritual' recipe"

Purpose of change

Add ways for telepaths to permanently modify their own minds. Done under the guise of adding / removing mutations that are mind based such as being a Cannibal. Lets the telepath add both purely positive, purely negative, and neutral traits alongside a good chance of screwing up and adding something random. Adds some fringe horror of a telepath accidently / intentionally turning themselves into a psychopath, or many other things.

Describe the solution

Several thousand lines of EOC
Originally based it off of the gateway power, but I decided that I don't like queuing EOCs so I made the process activity based instead.
EOC Structure:
Question EOC: runs a eoc_run_selector that picks from a sub-eoc for each mutation which determines if the telepath can gain / lose the trait
Sub-EOC: two per trait. Conditioned off of typical trait requirements (ie cannot be both slow reader and fast reader), general telepath strength (better traits typically require a stronger telepath), and sometimes other specific requirements (such as needing water to cure hatred of water). Also, fixing an issue / improving oneself is always harder than causing an issue / removing an improvement.
Variable: Int variable used to remember which sub-eoc was picked
Activity: All Sub-EOCs call the same activity that at its end calls the EOC that alters the users traits.
Result-EOC: Reads the variable with a switch statement and then gives / removes whatever trait was chosen. Also calls the consequences EOC
Consequences-EOC: Rolls a % chance that the user gains another random trait. Starts at 50% and grows lower the more powerful the telepath is. Randomly assigns the variable and uses another switch statement to choose the trait. Unlike specifically selecting traits to change this EOC has no dependence on telepath power or other specific requirements. Its very possible to gain a trait that one doesn't want and then be incapable of fixing it until the psion grows much stronger. Finally, it also calls itself so very unlucky people can get more than one unintended trait.

Also adds a tool used for crafting the recipe, a telepathic focusing tool, the recipe book to craft the tool and the recipe itself, and related infrastructure to obtain those items. The recipe is only craftable with at minimum 100 total levels of telepathy.

Finally, I also fixed the telepath passive trait since I noticed it was using the wrong class id when I copied it over for this.

Describe alternatives you've considered

When I initially thought of the power I thought there was only around 10-15 mental traits that would have to be considered. I walked through the whole mutation tree and discovered that was very wrong as I was writing this up.
Making it a power rather than recipe. Took a look at the power guide and saw that powers alone cannot permanently affect the psions mind like this.
NPC mental engineering. Would be much more EOC / description changes and probably even less likely in terms of telepathic power abilities.
Making the recipe cost telepathic dust as a consumed item.

Testing

Used recipe many times to gain all the traits, observe the consequences being given, etc.
Checked that the options are gated when they should be (no option to remove bad memory if the player doesn't have bad memory).
Checked that non-telepaths cannot use the recipe

Additional context

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[TheShadowFerret]

Reviewed through the first 2000 lines

[Standing-Storm]

Looking forward to writing some Project PHAVIAN research notes about project PATIENT MOSAIC (which didn't manage to have any success in altering others before the Cataclysm, so sad).

[GuardianDll]

ngl i didn't check really deep, but isn't there a way for this pr to, like, not be 5000 lines big? EOC_TELEPATHIC_MENTAL_ENGINEERING_SELECTOR can be simplified somewhat because run_eoc_selector allows to run a single EoC but with different variables (it can't, because each check require it's own condition that can't be stored in any way really), but maybe there is more? i can provide some code help, because i bet it would be suffer to maintain it

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