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

[theearth]

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

[theearth]

All Echoes approved! Please update your info accordingly. And Aria's ability to hear the dead may potentially be capable of more in future specified events!

[theearth]

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

[theearth]

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

[theearth]

Their synchronization is beautiful - but anyhoo Echo approved! Please add relevant data to your info post.

[timelymaid]

...that is super exciting information and I will always be up for hearing more whenever that happens. :D I just absolutely didn't want to specify it as more than that because, well, I never want to gamebreak. LOOKING FORWARD TO IT, ANYWAY.

[synonymouswithdookie]

EXCELLENT i wasn't sure THANKS

[dominateartimus]

Player: Joc
Character: Xander Jarle / Sandrath
Reason for Echo: Reading a post involving genetically modified people, which is a bit of a canon parallel
Type and tier: 1, memory
What is returned: That Sandrath has encountered a 'hybrid arch-angel' that has bones jutting out from his shoulder blades, as if someone was trying to make him grow wings. San knows for a fact that this isn't natural and someone or something tampered with the being.

Reason for Echo: Accidentally ingesting Nick's blood
Type and tier: 2, ability
What is returned: San's filtering phase which activates when ingesting foreign blood or combating a virus / disease. While he is in this phase, dark veins cover his body, his eyes switch to black, he looks sickly, his coordination is gone and is cut off from his abilities. (I was thinking of tacking on San's immunity to diseases with this, but I'm not too sure if including everything with the filter phase would count fully as a tier 2 echo or if I need to trim a few things out.)

Reason for Echo: Encountering a member of the Blood Keys with Ravindra.
Type and tier: 1, personality
What is returned: Sandrath's sadistic personality trait, which would make Xander a sadomasochist.

[skycutter]

Player: Trap
Character: Miles/Hope
Reason for Echo: Encountering one of the Blood Keys.
Type and tier: Tier 1, ability
What is returned: His Fire spell. Extra burnt Keys member y/n?

[sassymaru]

Player: Red
Character: Shadowmaru (Takenaka Yuji)
Reason for Echo: ALL THE TALK OF ALIENS and world domination. Nick's information on the police, Ray's echoing his being an alien... all of that.
Type and tier: Memory | Tier 1
What is returned:
He will remember the circumstances leading up to his death in full detail, minus the part where he was a giant robot. He'll know he was fighting an alien bent on world domination. That he was all alone, because everyone else was gone, that more aliens were coming... all that.

[healspec]

AND THEN I IMMEDIATELY DO ANOTHER 4-ECHO REQUEST, JESUS. They are all basically useless this time, at least.

Player: The Guindo
Character: Ravindra Savarna
Reason for Echo: A planned Blood Key encounter w/Xander
Type and tier: Item | Tier 1
What is returned: His preincarnation's basic knitting supplies.

He has never even held a pair of knitting needles before in his life.


Reason for Echo: And then I am piggybacking off that one. At an undecided date but definitely within the next couple weeks, Ravi will actually make an earnest attempt to use those knitting supplies.
Type and tier: Ability | Tier 1
What is returned: His preincarnation's knitting skills. He is pretty good at it! Not like superhumanly good but like 'your aunt who knits everyone presents for Christmas every year' good.


Reason for Echo: That key tattoo that the Blood Keys have on their breastbones seems pretty visually reminiscent of the black patch that Blighted have over their heart. Obviously he has seen plenty of tattoos in plenty of places over the course of his career, but it'd be the combination of where it is + seeing it more than once and recognizing it as a way they're marked for what they are.
Type and tier: Memory | Tier 1
What is returned: Just the term "Blighted", the bit about the black patch over their heart to mark them, and the idea that they are very dangerous and evil and generally not something you want to fuck with.

Reason for Echo: Seeing firsthand the superhuman speed/strength/durability of the Blood Keys in action.
Type and tier: Memory | Tier 1
What is returned: He will remember the Li Heng Te breaching the walls at the Battle of Arithea. They are also superhumanly enhanced (by magic instead of cyborg tech) and increased speed/strength/durability is basically their whole shtick. He won't remember what they're called, but he will remember that they are so dangerous it's basically suicide to take one alone.


I feel like I'm cheating to piggyback three canon parallels off a plot echo opportunity, I'm sorry!!

[theearth]

Both suggested parts for the second ought to pass for a Tier 2 - and with that, all three Echoes approved! Please update your info post accordingly!

[theearth]

So long as we are not down to our last Hope.

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

[theearth]

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

[theearth]

One of these Echoes is not like the others. =|a

That said, all four approved! Please update your info post accordingly!

[healspec]

Hey, it was about time he got a completely worthless plot echo!

thanks!

[songoftimeandtimeagain]

Player: Zack
Character: Luke
Reason for Echo: Blood Key encounter.
Type and tier: Item Tier 1
What is returned: The Ocarina of Time. The only song he knows currently is Zelda's Lullaby which won't do anything when played.

[theearth]

You fought well! You fought well.

Echo approved! Please update your info post accordingly!

[betroth]

Player: kou
Character: chloe weiss/christa renz
Reason for Echo: seeing bertl's titan healing powers!
Type and tier: memory, tier 1.
What is returned: the knowledge that ~steamy titan healing is indeed a thing that made them awfully hard to kill.

[espigeonage]

Player: Joysweeper
Character: Julien
Reason for Echo: Blood Keys encounter at the clinic
Type and tier: Transformative, Tier Two
What is returned: Avian skin and muscle tissue.

Bird skin is much thinner and softer, but it has a varnish-thin film called the sclerotic layer, which makes it tougher. When breached in a non-massive way the sclerotic layer tends to seal back up, restricting blood loss but also sealing in contaminants. It covers the surface of the eye and extends down through lungs and air sacs to bind bones, inside and out, making them resistant to fracture. Julien's skin at least retains his melanin and does not at a glance look that different.

Sweat glands cease production and are reabsorbed. Skin oil glands change over to producing bird oils, which are thicker, waxier, and antimicrobial. A noteworthy duct, the uroptygial gland, appears below the small of his back, only about as big as a large chickpea. Without feathers to coat it'll need a bit of gauze and a bandaid to keep from leaving spots in his clothes. When he's clean the oils smell pleasantly sweet and yeasty, if he doesn't wash for long enough they go rancid and musky. There's more oil in hot weather. The whorled fingerprint-y skin of hands and feet goes white and peels off and underlying skin has tiny polygonal scale-shapes, though not actual scales yet.

Bird muscle tissue in pigeons is nearly all "dark meat" suitable for high performance over a long period of time. Strength increases about fifteen percent, endurance gets the potential to increase above even human limits (humans are second only to birds in this regard), recovery time after exertion drops, it heals faster (Injuries take weeks, not months). It processes oxygen differently. If the changes stopped here, Julien would potentially live notably longer than a normal human.

It also burns energy faster, so there's a somewhat higher metabolism and a temperature increase of nearly ten degrees. ...so along with this there'd be whatever adaptation's needed to keep that from being treated as a permanent high fever.

Reason for Echo: Recurrence: being stabbed. Yuuya's a secret agent, entirely used to being shot at, and underreacts to injury enough so that I suspect that wasn't the first time.
Type and tier: Memory, Tier One
What is returned: This lengthy memory, First Mission. It's totally headcanon, but this is pretty similar to various things we've seen the Dove Party do and it fits well with Yuuya's talents. When he's older he's also well used to being injured and things going horribly wrong, too.

Reason for Echo: Recurrence: grasping a gun in a combat situation.
Type and tier: Mental or ability, Tier One
What is returned: Familiarity/comfort with using guns, awareness of recoil and how the bullet falls, that sort of thing. By necessity Yuuya doesn't hold a gun in the same way a human would and this isn't like the kinds he uses, so this only goes so far and doesn't grant much accuracy. It doesn't overcome Julien's normal reluctance to handle guns, but this is a special situation.

[theearth]

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

[amberhearted]

Player: Mini
Character: Alexander Varista
Reason for Echo: Purchasing a crucifix necklace and a rosary for the express purpose of using it against him (as a vampire).
Type and tier: Physical, tier 1.
What is returned: A weakness to crucifixes and rosaries.

[von_uberwolf]

Player: Eric
Character: Angela Roth
Reason for Echo: Encounter with Blood Keys
Type and tier: Tier 2 item/memory
What is returned: Her Ankh-Morpork City Watch badge (complete with collar) and the memory of taking the Ankh-Morkpork City Watch oath of service in Men at Arms:

"I, [recruit's name], do solemnly swear by [recruit's deity of choice] to uphold the Laws and Ordinances of the city of Ankh-Morpork, serve the public trust, and defend the subjects of His/Her [delete whichever is inappropriate] Majesty [name of reigning monarch] without fear, favor, or thought of personal safety; to pursue evil-doers and protect the innocent, laying down my life if necessary in the cause of said duty, so help me [aforesaid deity]. Gods Save the King/Queen [delete which is inappropriate]."

[youngestone]

Player: Fae
Character: Killian Ryan/Kili
Reason for Echo: Blood Keys
Type and tier: Tier two, item/mental
What is returned: His bow (no quiver) and the ability to shoot it.

Reason for Echo: Watching his mother die
Type and tier: Tier one, memory
What is returned: He remembers defending the dying Thorin with Fili at the Battle of the Five Armies.

[doomedtheworld]

Player: Nick
Character: Vanessa
Reason for Echo: The gang fight at the LSR Clinic.
Type and tier: Memory/Power - Tier 2.
What is returned: The carnage and violence of the fight will bring back memories of Vin witnessing death all her life. Mostly vague memories from her life as a skaa but a few that will stick out would be returning to Camon's crew's headquarters and finding everyone slaughtered, and the brutally casual murder of a young skaa child she witnessed while impersonating a noble. These memories will be accompanied by a boost to FULL POWER PEWTER.