Waiting (no ontology)
From Mazeworld
Waiting in a room is one of the abilities of a contestant, which has the purpose of helping pass time faster.
This is an ability that can only be performed willingly and is completely optional. It also triggers no cooldown period and may be attempted as many times as a contestant wishes to. Caution: Waiting turns will impact on the contestant's statistics as usual.
Actions that take turns in combat, such as reloading, may also take time and thus, turns passing.
Waiting time is interrupted whenever a new encounter enters the room before the end of the turn counter (which could happen, for example, after calling for emergency services then waiting for them), at which point the Contestant is prompted on whether they wish to finish the waiting counter in full, or interrupt it to deal with the new enconter. Note that in certain cases, they may have no choice in the matter (if the interrupting encounter is hostile, for instance). Any effects (listed below) that are associated to a waiting period only occurs if it was done in full (i.e.: if it wasn't interrupted).
Effects
Waiting lasts for as many turns as the player chooses, the only effect it has is to pass time. It must be noted that waiting is not a form of resting; although waiting for short periods of time may be useful in certain situations for natural healing, the Contestant is not effectively resting; nutrition and hydration will still be depleted, and fatigue will still slowly increase.
Every turn spent waiting will advance the in-game clock by 6 minutes.
