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Dancer Rules: Portal jumps without stasis

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Checking on the Coriolis Discord, I read that the publishers are OK with players recreating tables, figures and data from the RPG source material where the only purpose is the facilitation of playing their game and I hereby promise this is my only intent with this article. Here I've taken the Year Zero Engine to modify the Coriolis rules for my own games - Doctor Weather
RAW, when someone jumps without entering stasis there's a 66% chance they're be absolutely fine, which doesn't seem as bad as the descriptive text suggests. Sure, a third of all travellers being horribly affected would be enough to make stasis the norm but still I'd like it to be more threatening.   Roll against current HP and current MP
Anyone jumping whilst awake must roll on both their health stats at their current, not maximum, levels. If you critical both rolls you're completely fine...  

Health points roll

 
HP successesEffect
3No physical harm
2Broken and suffer 1 normal critical injury
Note that survival can be assumed through the use of the house critical injury adjustments - with medical treatment still, of course
1Broken and suffer 1 critical injury but the injury is caused by a permanent deformation of the body - the time to death is removed but the skill penalties are permanent unless they could be reversed through surgery
0Killed by body deformation
 

Mind points roll

 
MP successesTime dilationEffect
3Minimal: everything went a bit weird for a few moments but the trip seemed pretty instantaneousNo mental harm
2The jump seems to take hours to complete and you're left stumbling around your ship in the worse drug-induced trip you've ever experienced for the whole timeOn arrival: Broken and suffer 1 temporary meme for d6 days
1The jump seems to take days to complete and it feels like you're stuck in a crazy dreamworld for the time - it's still a bit druggy but you're more lucid than someone who rolled 2 successes, not that this is necessarily enviable given the weird nature of the universe inside this portal...On arrival: Broken and suffer 1 permanent meme
0Effectively infinite: welcome to your new mental home - your mind never leaves portal spaceYour body is alive but your mind is elsewhere
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