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'''Movement''' is the primary means of getting around the [[dungeon]]. Although you may [[Blink]], [[Teleport]], and even create a [[Passage of Golubria]], the majority of your movement will be directional movement between tiles or changing floors with [[stairs]] and [[escape hatch]]es. A character's movement speed determines your ability to escape from danger and the number of enemy actions that will occur while you move.

==Controls==
If you are playing a version with mouse compatibility, you can click on a tile to send your character there by the fastest means possible, avoiding areas marked for travel exclusion. Pressing '''[[o]]''' on your keyboard auto-explores the level, stopping when you find a monster, item, or dungeon feature of interest.

You can also move in all 8 directions with the number pad on your keyboard, or with h-j-k-l-b-n-y-u:

{{crawlquote|<tt>7 8 9 <--> y k u 
4 * 6 <--> h * l 
1 2 3 <--> b j n</tt>}}

You can also move up or down stairs or escape hatches by standing on them and pressing '''<''' (upstairs) or '''>''' (downstairs). To head up or down a floor by the fastest means possible, press '''[[G]]''' to bring up the autotravel menu, followed by '''<''' or '''>'''. You can also auto-travel this way to any [[branch]] or distant level of the dungeon you've already discovered.

==Speed==
The '''@''' command displays your character status.

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Description || Delay ([[aut]]) || Speed%
|-
| Very quick || 6 - 7 || 167% - 140%
|-
| Quick || 8 - 9 || 125% - 110%
|-
| Average || 10 || 100%
|-
| Slow || 11 - 12 || 90%
|-
| Very slow || 13 + || 80% -
|}
'''Notes on movement speed:'''
* Regardless of any modifiers, a player's movement delay can never be lower than 6 except while [[haste]]d.
* There is no cap for slowest speed (such a blasphemy might anger [[Cheibriados]]).
* [[Aut]] are not to be confused with [[decaAut]] (1 aut = 0.1 decaAut).

===Monster Speed===
The monster speed stat is different from delay: the higher the speed, the faster a monster moves and acts. A monster's move delay in aut, is equal to <code>100 / Speed</code>. Speed is equal to <code>100 / Delay</code>. For example, a "10 speed" monster takes 10 aut, or 1.0 decaAut, to move. '''Note that monster "speed" applies to ALL actions, not just movement, unless stated otherwise.'''

If a monster would have a delay equal to a non-integer aut value, it is rounded in a weighted manner. A delay of 6.4 aut has a 40% chance of being 7 aut and a 60% chance of being 6 aut.

Sometimes a monster will have a modifier in addition to their speed (e.g move: 60%). This is a multiplier to delay, so lower percents are faster. An [[ugly thing]] (speed 10, move: 90%) takes 0.9 decaAut to move. An [[ogre (monster)|ogre]] (speed 10, atk: 150%) takes 1.5 decaAut to attack. When examining a monster, the game will use similar descriptors as the above table, though ''the values are different''.

==Effect in Combat==
While every [[action]] you take counts as a single game turn, your action speed determines how many enemy actions take place (or how many fractions of an action they accumulate) during that turn. If your movement speed is slower than a dangerous enemy, such as a [[hydra]], you'll find that they'll catch up to you quickly.

E.g. if you take 1.2 decaAut to move, an [[orc]] will get 1 "free" action every 5 movements. This is deterministic unless moving away from an enemy, which causes [[random energy]] to apply.

===Attacks of Opportunity===
''Main article: [[Attack of opportunity]]''

[[Attacks of opportunity]] serve to punish movement from enemies. Adjacent, capable enemies have a 33% chance to get a free attack when you move.

==Calculating Speed==

All player [[species]] start with movement delay 10, with the following exceptions:

* [[Naga]]s start with Slow 2 (delay 14).
* [[Barachi]]m start with Slow 1 (delay 12).
* [[Spriggan]]s start with Fast 3 (delay 6).
* [[Bat Form]] has Fast 3 (delay 6) and [[Pig Form]] has Fast 2 (delay 7).

Naga and Barachim lose their Slow mutations if a form modifies their anatomy. Spriggans keep their Fast 3 mutation regardless of form, although they can be slowed by [[Statue Form]] and [[Fortress Crab Form]].

{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2"| Terrain
|-
| [[Shallow water|Swimming]] || + 6
|-
|-
! colspan="2"| Effects
|-
| [[Swiftness]] ||
*-25%/+33.3% (if mv. delay > 7) 
*-14.28%/+20% (if mv. delay = 7) 
*-0%/+0% (if mv. delay < 7)
|-
| [[Merfolk|Merfolk Fishtail in Water]] || = 6
|-
| [[Frozen]] || +50%
|-
! colspan="2" | Equipment
|-
| [[Lightning scales]] || - 10%
|-
| [[Ponderousness|Ponderousness ego]] || + 1
|-
! colspan="2"| Religion
|-
| [[Cheibriados]] || Variable with piety (between +2 and +10)
|-
! colspan="2"| Special
|-
| [[Haste]] || All actions are 50% faster
|-
| [[Slow]] [[Petrify]]ing [[Statue Form]] || All actions are 50% slower
|-
| [[Fortress Crab Form]] || Movement is 30% slower
|}

'''Notes on minimum delay and haste:'''
* Minimum delay is always 6, even after all the modifiers above have been calculated.
* However, [[Haste]]d characters have every action occur 50% faster, including movement. This can result in a hasted character with movement delay 6 behaving as if movement delay were 4, even though movement delay itself is technically unchanged.
'''Notes on swimming:'''
* The swimming penalty does not affect [[Merfolk]], [[Octopodes]], or [[Barachim]]. Instead, Merfolk grow a fishtail and swim faster while the other two retain their normal speed.
* [[Flying]] and [[Beogh|walking on water]] negates all effects of water.
'''Miscellaneous notes:'''
* Multiplicative effects are applied after adding all the additive effects.

==History==
*Prior to [[0.31]], [[energy randomisation]] was removed.
*Prior to [[0.29]], monsters' movements were affected by [[energy randomisation]].
*In [[0.15]], the [[encumbered]] and [[overloaded]] [[status effects]] (and item weight in general) were removed.
*Prior to [[0.14]], the [[Ponderousness|Ponderousness ego]] increased movement delay by 2 aut, and the Swiftness decreased it by 2 auts without any penalty afterwards.
*Prior to [[0.13]], the running ego reduced movement delay by two auts.

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