Echo Requests (retired)

[theearth]

New Echo Request page here!

Please fill out this form when requesting an Echo, then post it to this entry. The request will be dealt with as soon as possible.

When requesting an Echo induced by a past-life parallel/recurrence, please demonstrate clearly the similarity between the events, as well as the relation between the events and what is returned.

As of September 2013, Tier 2 Echoes can be granted once a month per character. Take care to specify the limitations and/or level of detail to the Echo requested! If you are unsure, suggestions will be gladly offered.

Reason for Echo: What caused the Echo, whether it be by a plot-related trigger or a canon recurrence. For the latter, this must be unusual enough to have been the first time the character has encountered it within Locke City, and strongly resemble a specific event from canon. Picking up a jug of milk from the store will not cause an Echo if it isn't any different than the times the character has done it before.
Type and tier: Physical change, power/ability, mental/memory, or item/creature. Tier 1 are the regular Echoes, and are typically a single memory/ability/item/etc. Tier 2 are essentially two regular Echoes rolled into one, such as an item and a memory or ability associated with it, or two directly-related memories, or so on. Currently only one Tier 2 Echo is allowed per month, so please be sure to note them somehow on your info posts.
What is returned: In the case of canon recurrences, these must be directly related to what has caused the Echo. Stronger recurrences = stronger Echoes.

<b>Player:</b> <b>Character:</b> <b>Reason for Echo:</b> <b>Type and tier:</b> <b>What is returned:</b>

Comments

[reapsthewind]

Player: TealDeer
Character: Chris Starsky
Reason for Echo: Meeting the Sage
What is returned: The short version: Arbitrary 1980s Cartoon Style Inorganic Chemistry Skills

Long version: Starscream was a scientist before he was a warrior, and because G1 is an 80s cartoon that means he's a generic Omnidisciplinary Scientist with knowledge as the plot demands. EVEN SO, from what's in the show one can determine that MOST of what he knows is astronomy, physics, chemistry, and engineering.

As such, I'd like to ask that Chris get back his chemistry knowledge; this'd be about the equivalent of getting a PHD in chemical engineering (starscream is nine million years old, he had enough time to learn several disciplines)

This knowledge won't be like BAM CHEMISTRY; it'll be there but Chris will have no idea that she knows it unless she happens upon a problem that would require a chemist. In which case she'll go "... wait I know the solution here how weird."

[theearth]

We ask if you would find it adequate for Chris to regain Starscream's knowledge within disciplines in "stages"; as Chris has no formal chemistry background, may she start off with general good, solid knowledge with one Echo and regain the in-depth expertise with another later on?

[moarnomsplz]

Player: ellie
Character: Ax/Alex
Reason for Echo: going to see the Sage
What is returned: I'd like to give Alex a limited version of his morphing abilities back, but, of course, he won't know how to use them, because he won't remember any of his training. Acquiring new morphs, and any animals he canonically acquired, would be off-limits for now, and he'd have to figure out from scratch how to deliberately trigger the change. I was thinking he would basically spontaneously demorph to his Andalite body in reaction to a severe injury in the caves, thus healing himself.

There's a 2-hour time limit in canon, and if you stay in a morph for longer than that, you're stuck. His human body is technically a morph, but I'd like to flip it so that human is his default, since he won't have any idea this weirdo blue centaur thing is really him, and it would be kind of pointless to give the ability back only to have him lose it because he stays human too long.

[theearth]

Morphing from one species to another entirely is probably a little too much for one Echo at this particular point. Might I suggest having it restricted to just one limb at a time, or growing the eye stalks or tail or whatever at a time?

[hollowleg]

Player: Bat
Character: Shiro Nakamura
Reason for Echo: Sage encounter
What is returned: His true name; "Zangetsu". Thanks, recent canon!

AND a canon recurrence one.

Reason for Echo: A grievous injury is inflicted on him during the Sage trap. In the past, Hollow-dominated Ichigo has healed from horrible injuries like cut off arms and holes through the chest.
What is returned: High-speed Regeneration. Initial limitation on it is that it wears him out big time any time it activates in proportion to the severity of the injury. Except in the case of the initial activation cause I want him to get out of the cave alive before he passes out.

[theearth]

Both Echoes are approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

[odd_jobs]

Player: Nishi
Character: Kimishima/Tadashi
Reason for Echo: Kenji busting up his car
What is returned: A memory of taking stock of a damage post job to his ride and secondary, anecdotal information about the job itself (Half ranting to himself, half depressed whining). Mostly an offscreen scene, this would be a laundry list of parts and a vague plan on getting replacements and refitting.

This would give some really basic mechanical/spacial awareness and a sort of a spark for how things work. No real knowledge yet. Also an impending doom of KNOWING THIS IS GOING TO BE A PATTERN SOMEHOW.

[theearth]

A solid scenario and individually sensible pieces - but all together they may make a whole that is just a bit too complex for a single Echo. Would a combination of two of those three suggested pieces do (i.e., the memory and the interest in mechanics, the memory and the expectation, or the expectation and the interest in mechanics)?

[caosgo]

Player: Enzel
Character: Castiel (Emmanuel)
Reason for Echo: Seeing the Sage!
What is returned: His angel blade. Here's another image because the one on the wiki kinda sucks. It's about a foot and a half long and made from some kind of metal that looks like silver but is extremely difficult to damage in any way. However, other than that, it's just an ordinary knife for now. No special monster-killing powers, just a pointy metal stick.

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

[skickpowered]

Player: MC
Character: Al Amagi
Reason for Echo: We're going to see the Wizard of Oz Sage of Earth~
What is returned: His Gosei Blaster. One of the arsenal he has as a Gosei Angel/Goseiger. It's... kind of like a standard handgun, so it's not too big. And apart from that, there are only two things you should know about this thing: It shoots golden lasers, and it gets power ups using the Headders.

However, getting headders means getting his cards back. And the cards work only if he has his Gosei Power back. But since he's got neither of these yet, he's stuck with just shooting lasers. :|a

[theearth]

Before we make approval formal, may we ask for detail on the effects of the blaster (some suggestion of its power, the nature of the lasers, etc.)?

[depolarized]

Player: Myth
Character: Riku
Reason for Echo: Staying at the museum for over an hour and posting to the "Let's Negotiate" board (I posted to the event thread a while back, but please let me know if more needed!)
What is returned:

+1 High Jumps/Leg strength- Riku's not exactly sure what happened, but he's gradually been getting a lot more air than he'd previously even thought possible. He doesn't feel any different, but his leg/thigh muscles seem tighter/more developed than he remembers.

+1 Cure/Cura/Curaga - He's not aware of it/know how to use it, but over the course of a week, he's gotten back his ability to use Cure spells- with a limit of one to three shots (depending on the strength of the spell) before completely exhausting him, building up stamina with successive use or over time. Since there's usually no need for healing magic in daily life, it may only get pulled out once there is a need for it or when he comes into contact with someone who does.

Please let me know if adjustments necessary. c: I can... possibly use two echoes for heals or something if needed. @A@

[theearth]

I'm afraid we'd best only grant one Echo - while the stay at the museum before the placement of the Galah is viable, the forum would've ceased to provide Echoes shortly after the characters stopped receiving responses.

For the Echo, would you prefer the high jumps, or the healing spells? If the latter, would it be acceptable to grant it in stages (I would assume we'd have to start with simply Cure at this point, and grant Cura and Curaga with a later Echo), and what would the effects and limitations be like?

[professorwolf]

Player: Gail
Character: Randolph Lyall

Reason for Echo: Touching and smelling an "undead" for the first time in the thread with Anthony from Monday.
What is returned: The memory of what a vampire smells like, which is described in the book as "old, rotting meat".

And while I'm here...

Reason for Echo: Meeting the Sage
What is returned: Full moon shapeshifting. On the next full moon after the Sage event (Sunday, June 23) Lyall will shapeshift into full wolf form, along with the inherent blind, hunting rage that accompanies it. He will not have any of the speed and strength abilities to go with it, and since he only has the very basic of bone-healing ability, he won't be able to do much besides limp around the house until morning, at which point he will promptly change back. Due to that same very limited healing ability, he will also be out of commission for the entire next day while he heals again.

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add the relevant info to your Info Post.

[stealinghats]

Player: Lavvy
Character: Vaati/Victor
Reason for Echo: Seeing/hearing the Sage over the imminent livestream
What is returned: The knowledge that he used to be the apprentice to a sage, and loads and loads of mixed feelings about this new fact.

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

[formermagicalgirl]

Player: Nadia
Character: Takako/Fenrir
Reason for Echo: Meeting the sage
What is returned: The maid outfit she wore in her Mikage identity. Just because it's cute and she could use a random useless echo that she'll never live down.

Also had a question with my previous ones. Would it be all right for me to assume that with each of Fenrir's abilities she has gained, she becomes more dependent on feeding off the energy of living creatures? Doesn't really give her any outright advantages, it just is starting to shift her towards being whatever in the heck Fenrir actually is and start slowly giving her the drawbacks, the advantages will come with an echo, of course.

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Also, as that's a part of the nature of her abilities, to assume so I would call perfectly reasonable!

[elfstoned]

Player: Krystal
Character: Aragorn
Reason for Echo: Two: one for speaking with the Sage and one for being caught in the trap.
What is returned: The Sage meeting gives him the memory of his first time in Moria, from crossing the threshold to coming out the other side. The sprung trap gives him memories of the second time in Moria, from the opening of the gate to coming out into the open air. He has no context for either memory.

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

[icy_heavens]

Player: Misty
Character: Toushirou Hitsugaya
Reason for Echo: Meeting the Sage
What is returned: His captain's haori. Symbolically significant, but functionally useless.

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post, and take care not to trip on it on your way out of the mines.

[scramasax]

Player: Blue
Character: Anthony
Reason for Echo: Meeting the Sage
What is returned: Language knowledge - not Latin, in fact, but an old Franconian.

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add the relevant info to your Info Post.

[thepiisatruth]

Player: Blue
Character: Shawn Minamoto (Sho Minamimoto)
Reason for Echo: Meeting the Sage
What is returned: A megaphone, onto which are recorded the words "SINE!", "COSINE!", and "TANGENT!" in his own voice.

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add the relevant info to your Info Post.

[peacefulwinter]

Player: MaxSalsa
Character: Winter Adamas [Rikka Hishikawa]

Reason for Echo: In the library, Winter will be finding a book of the Hundred Poems, with each poem translated into English and then presented in romaji and as they appear on cards for karuta (a Japanese game where the first half of one of the Hundred will be randomly read, and the players race to grab a card from in front of them with the other half), and will find the poems interesting, and sit there reading them for a good long time. Rikka memorized most of the Hundred and played karuta at a decent level. (I haven't done this with her yet - I intend to make a post of her in the library once the Sage business is done with, I just wanna do this first.)

What is returned: [Mental] Winter will find, as the afternoon goes on, that she can finish the poems after she starts them - in Japanese, which she doesn't speak other than both halves of the Hundred. She'll also have a vague feeling that "she" - Rikka - was interested in the Hundred Poems because many of them were love poems.

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

[jests]

Player: laura
Character: loki laufeyson

Reason for Echo: meeting the sage
What is returned: his stupid helmet which will, at this point, serve no other purpose than that of awkward decoration. because it is really heavy and lbr, unwearable if you're labouring under the illusion that you're a god.

Reason for Echo: the skirmish/WHATEVER TERRIBLE THINGS ACTUALLY OCCUR after the sage meeting is revealed to be a trap + cr being injured (ie. haruka) → canon recurrence! it's similar to thor/loki/et al's trip to jötunheim being the result of orchestration and it all going (objectively) pretty terribly.
What is returned: the ability to cast momentary, entirely fleeting (and somewhat faded, as if the strength isn't there) illusions. he also won't have the slightest idea how and, for the moment, will only be triggered when he's feeling desperate/in danger.

[theearth]

The first Echo is approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

However, in regards to the second, while the cause is sound, may I ask if there is a specific connection between what would be regained and the event paralleled? For example, did Loki escape Jotunheim through notable use of illusionism?

[espigeonage]

Player: Joysweeper
Character: Julien/Yuuya
Reason for Echo: Sage
What is returned: Avian vocal apparatus.

Part of Julien's larynx will move down and become part of an avian syrinx in his chest, where the trachea branches. An avian syrinx is a double-barreled bony structure with extremely elastic membranes. Vibrations of the membranes are controlled with sub-millisecond precision and resonate through the rest of the body.

What does this mean? Julien's voice will change dramatically. It'll be possible to speak intelligibly and extraordinarily fast without use of lips or tongue, and to produce two similar tones of voice at once. He'll end up with a ridiculously wide vocal range spanning from above soprano to around bass, with great resonance and richness. Rapid, smooth trills, overtones, and pure tones are easily produced, it's possible to vocalize clearly on the inhale as well as the exhale, and he can be much louder if so inclined.

With practice he'll be able to mostly imitate human voices albeit with an odd quality to them, including his own old voice. Since uplifted pigeons have weird specialized syrinxes, Julien retains his size and a mostly-human bodyplan and can't inflate his throat, and he won't be imitating birds, he won't really sound like a given bird, but there will be some of that curious resonating quality you can hear most clearly in deeper birdcalls like mourning doves and ostriches.

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post, and how I'd love to hear Jules sing an elaborate aria.

[wannabered]

Player: Levon
Character: Thomas Akagi
Reason for Echo: Meeting the Sage
What is returned: A Mental Echo of his knowledge of his favorite anime, Nijiyome Academy Z-Cune Aoi and all things related to it. It's an odd magical girl series that he is obsessed over, but this knowledge also comes with it vague memories of his transformation device and the Itasha with a really gaudy Z-Cune Aoi inspired painted paint job that served as the Akibaranger's robot.

[theearth]

Before we formalize approval, may I ask how closely-connected his past self's memories of his transformation device would be intertwined with memories of the anime? Unless the connection would be quite deep, I'd like to ask if, for the time, the Echo could contain only the memory of Nijiyome Academy Z-Cune Aoi.

[earnedmystripes]

Player: Batty
Character: Kotetsu Kaburagi
Reason for Echo: Meeting the Sage
What is returned: Idk how to word this in a neat summary but basically enhanced reflexes/muscle tone? Essentially what would come of fighting high-profile crime (armed robberies, bombings, etc) near-constantly for over a decade as opposed to having been a regular cop for a similar amout of time (actually about 15-ish years vs. 11+ in this case), whose career is far less dangerous or televisable 90% of the time |Db

[theearth]

Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

[edhwierfan]

Player: Kamilah
Character: Aeron Penning / Arthur Pendragon

Reason for Echo: Interacting with a horse/pony as detailed in this plotting thread.
What is returned: Knowledge of how to properly groom a horse and put on the equipment.

Reason for Echo: Meeting the sage
What is returned: His sword, Excalibur, with none of the magical properties and still stuck inside the stone. (Thanks, Merlin).

[theearth]

Both Echoes approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

[odd_jobs]

Player: Nishi
Character: Tadashi/Kimishima
Reason for Echo: ITS A TRAP!/Sage meeting
What is returned: His guns (two), ammo limited to what's in the clip and no marksmanship skills yet :D

[odd_jobs]

Or no ammo. That would be hilarious too.

[professorwolf]

Player: Gail
Character: Arhu/Gomez (I'm too lazy to switch accounts)
Reason for Echo: Meeting the Sage
What is returned: The ability to "sidle": that is, to slip into a plane at a slight remove from the physical one, where he is invisible to normal sight and where he can see active power. (And have to avoid it, since that stuff hurts.)

Reason for Echo: Being attacked underground by the vermedi and the possessed bats.
What is returned: The memory of when he was first brought into the subway tunnels and swarmed by rats at the command of the Sixth Claw, a sentient tyrannosaur mage. It begins when the Gate opens and ends when Arhu passes out.

[theearth]

#1 - Could you define just what you mean by active power, please? Also, about how long would he be able to do this?

#2 - Approvalicioused.

[not_good_not_wicked]

Player: Eric
Character: Marisa
Reason for Echo: Hearing the Sage of Earth speak in person
What is returned: The memory of fighting Remilia Scarlet in a full on spell card duel. She now remembers very clearly using magic, and powerful magic at that.

Reason for Echo: Bat attack after the Earth Sage thing. Both these echoes are Remilia themed, as she was a vampire and could turn into a cloud of bats
What is returned: The insane dodging skills that any decent fighter from Gensokyo must have. She won't be AS good because she's used to doing it while flying, but when it comes to charting a safe course through a dense cloud of moving objects, she'll be good at it.

[theearth]

Both Echoes approved- please remember to update your info post!

[scramasax]

Player: Blue
Character: Anthony
Reason for Echo: Brush with the Vermedi and infected bats in the mines.
What is returned: A little-detailed brief memory of running a much less-sinister scroll - not depicted but rather definitely assumable in canon, and a hint for reassurance that the source of his visions isn't from a life more suspicious than a messenger's!

[theearth]

Approved. 8|b

[destinedforrock]

Player: Blue
Character: Cinderella (Rarity)
Reason for Echo: Watching the Sage speak via network.
What is returned: Rarity's glasses.

[theearth]

Also approved. 8|b