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Echo Requests (retired)

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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.

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Player: Knight
Character: Shuji Kiyokumi / Eiji Hino
Reason for Echo: Hearing Eugene's story of the original OOO.
What is returned: The "seal" of the stone coffin aka the OOO driver with some details here. At the moment, Shuji only has two medals he can't control and one broken one, so he'll be unable to transform. However, he does have the memory of transforming from a previous Echo and knows how to use the belt, should he ever gain the medals to activate it. The belt doesn't even really look like a belt and won't react to him trying to use it (saving that for a future Echo), but he still knows what it does.

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

Player: Airdra
Character: Mort Yokugawa/Kiyoto Maki
Reason for Echo: Hearing Eugene's story of OOO, particularly the part concerning creation of the Greeed.
What is returned: Memory of seeing a complete purple set of Medals, then removing one from the set to create a new Greeed.

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

Player: Jisu
Character: Caren | Kari Acosta
Reason for Echo: Running into and exposing a magical girl mascot
What is returned: The memory (of the existence) of Hippo. Kari will just remember that there was a fat, stupid-looking talking blue penguin who sometimes seemed to forget that penguins shouldn't be able to talk and would strike up conversations with stunned civilians.

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

Player: Mawi
Character: Mezool
Reason for Echo: Same as the other OOO folks, Eugene's story about OOO.
What is returned: A memory of her own voice saying, "Gamel, help me! Take me away from here", with no visual or any other sense of memory attached. I can't remember the precise episode, but this is an event that does happen in canon.

Edited 2013-07-30 04:15 (UTC)

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

Player: Azi
Character: John Mitchell
Reason for Echo: Participation in this log, which happens to involve alien fungi and dogs and Vanessa! Said log is currently on-going.
What is returned: John will no longer be able to enter private residences uninvited. This isn't going to be something he notices immediately, but when he does run into a scenario that does call for him to go into a home, he instinctively gets the idea that he needs to get an invitation first. For the time being, if he does go against this feeling, John will remain very uncomfortable about being inside until he is granted permission to be there, but he won't be punished as his canon counterpart would just yet.

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

Player: Lampdevil
Character: Takayuki Izumi (Ankh)
Reason for Echo: Hearing Eugene's story of the original OOO and the Greeed (here)
What is returned: A memory of being betrayed by the king in the story, and having something torn from him painfully.

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

Player: Haley
Character: Sasame (Pretear)/Sam Iwata

Reason for Echo: Sam got himself injured in the mine attempting to protect Tamara when the mine collapsed, triggering a canon-reoccurance echo.
What is returned: A memory of Sasame throwing himself in front of an attack meant for Takako and living juuuust long enough to affirm his feelings for her before breathing his last. He also remembers bits and pieces of Himeno and Hayate's conversation, including that he'd apparently hurt someone named Mawata badly enough that he felt he'd deserved his death.

Reason for Echo: Hearing the Sage's words.
What is returned: Some of his super-hearing powers. He's now able to hear all the noise nearby him, up to about a city block away. HOWEVER...he currently has no ability to focus his hearing on any particular noise, or distinguish the sounds enough from one another to have a clear mental image of what the sounds actually mean. It's all just a bunch of noise all jumbled up together.

He's had some difficulties controlling it since he received the echo, although recently he's managed to figure out how to turn it "on" and "off"--but that's about all the control he has over it. He can't adjust the volume. It's just on or off.

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

I'll understand if it's a little too early to request this but it's been awhile since she remembered that first one so....

Player: Nick
Character: Vin/Vanessa
Reason for Echo: After recovering from being mauled by fungus dogs, Vanessa has a strange fevered dream of being terribly injured sometime and being given pewter to help her heal.
What is returned: Knowledge of pewter as an Allomantic metal and a vague idea that it aids in healing. The actual effect of burning it will be quite depowered, nothing even approaching superhuman abilities. Burning pewter for now will give her an energy boost and some extra vitality to do regular human stuff (until it runs out at which point she will crash hard). It will also help her recover from her injuries a little quicker and dull the pain from them, but she'll still be pretty much sidelined for at least a couple of weeks and won't be back to full health for a little while after that.

... I promise, the next few Echo requests will be silly memories and stuff. >_>

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

Player: Gail
Character: Lyall
Reason for Echo: The mystery plot slot where his house is attacked by a monsterfied fellow teacher :B
What is returned: Some more of his healing ability: his bones will now heal when broken within the span of two hours or so, instead of a day. Yay for a slightly more dangerous wolfie come full moon?

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

Player: Pen
Character: Candy Rodriguez
Reason for Echo: Drinking tainted tap water on August 2nd.
What is returned: Since the water itself causes uncontrollable laughter, this will give her her original Camille laugh back, which is a giggly "hu hu hu" sound. From then on Candy will laugh almost exclusively in this manner except when she actively tries not to.

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

Player: Airdra
Character: Hajime Aikawa
Reason for Echo: Encountering and trying to fight off Lyall's transformed coworker in a joint post that will be going up shortly.
What is returned: Memory of the first Battle Royale--though he won't know that's what it was called, or that it was the first one. All he'll remember is himself in his Joker form fighting with other monsters.

Reason for Echo: Drinking the tainted water
What is returned: His Category Two card, which will allow him to transform back into his human form. That's all it does at this point. His transformation back will be relatively stable, although he'll have trouble holding onto it when he's stressed. Touching the card will give him the instinct to run it through his belt buckle, although he won't know why until he actually tries it.

His next few are totally going to be entirely useless now that he's got human form back, I swear.

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

Player: Airdra
Character: Arthur Curry/Aquaman
Reason for Echo: Drinking tainted tap water
What is returned: The ability to breathe underwater. Freshwater, saltwater, doesn't matter. If it's water, he can breathe under it.

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

Player: Krystal
Character: Mamoru
Reason for Echo: A horrible supernatural monster that eats and eats and also controls other animals? SOUNDS LIKE A HOLLOW HE'S MET.
What is returned: The first form of Ichigo's zanpakuto: the monstrously oversized, enormous, kind of weak blade he got in chapter one.

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

Player: Enzel
Character: Emmanuel/Castiel
Reason for Echo: drinking the water!
What is returned: this memory (0:14-0:45) and, if possible, the fight immediately afterward resulting in him being wrenched out of his vessel and sent back to Heaven for, uh. "Re-education."

Echo approved - but only of memory of the contents of the first clip for now, if acceptable! Please add relevant data to your info post.

Player: Nadia
Character: Takako/Fenrir
Reason for Echo: drinking the water
What is returned: Limited ability to summon her demon familiars. Here is a video that shows what one looks like and how it attacks when threatened. Of all her creatures, they are the most subtle since they look like ordinary butterflies until threatened.

As far as other powers they have, they do act as conduits to a degree for Fenrir's other abilities. At this time, the only ability of hers that they'd have is her ability to drain energy to the same degree as she can and give it to her. They also allow for limited ability for her to spy. Since they are butterflies, that would be more limited to seeing, not so much hearing a conversation. Obviously if they would spy on any characters I'd seek permission first.

Since they can be pretty powerful, I'm cool with a limit of one being summoned at a time for now and that growing more over time via echoes or as she regains more overall power.

Just one at a time it is- Echo approved! Please remember to update your info post.

Player: Misty
Character: Toushirou Hitsugaya
Reason for Echo: Briefly sees the monster-fied lady at Lyall's house while she's still recognizable enough as a person with tentacles.
What is returned: Memory. A brief image of Luppi's released form from their battle.

Character: Toushirou Hitsugaya
Reason for Echo: Drinking the tainted water.
What is returned: The incantation for shakkahou. But not the actual capability to cast the spell. The incantation will also be in Japanese, which his reincarnation doesn't speak, so he won't even know what it means.

Echoes approved! Please remember to update your info post.

Player: The Guindo
Character: Ravindra Savarna
Reason for Echo: Drinking the tainted tap water
What is returned: His knife-throwing skills.

It was part of his childhood assassin training. He is very good at it. Not supernaturally good, but good enough to hit cockroaches in the dark from across the room. (Coincidentally did you know his little sister was afraid of cockroaches? There is a reason he is good at this.)

Comes with an instinct for what makes a good throwing knife and how to tell if they're properly balanced and etc. (Most standard knives are awful for throwing.)

If it's too much to have him regain his expert level of skill straight off, I can go with intermediate and save the expert for a later echo.

Echo approved! Please remember to update your info post.

Player: Blue
Character: Anthony
Reason for Echo: A dose of the tainted water.
What is returned: Another wave of the curse - leaving him 3/6 of the way to complete undead-ness in. The surface visible difference between this stage and the last isn't nearly as stark as between the last two - not much more than his skin getting another shade more necrotic. However his vitals are going to drop further and muscles start to deteriorate enough that it'll start to slow him down, his natural healing rate is going to take another hit and not do much to keep incompletely- or improperly-healed injuries from being irritated back open, and his light sensitivity is going to increase to the point that any amount of daylight is going to irritate his eyes.

Reason for Echo: Re-experiencing a memory Echo - involuntarily seeing a "vision" he knows he shouldn't be seeing as parallel to a status effect of sorts in his canon's gameplay; characters have a "sanity" gauge which lowers to represent the line between imagination and reality blurring as characters encounter monsters or other decidedly-not-natural sights. When the gauge is sufficiently depleted characters start hallucinating - and most of the time unless it's at rock-bottom they know or at least suspect that they're seeing/hearing things.
What is returned: Once the re-experience of the memory Echo is over he'll be caught in ambient sanity effects - blood oozing from the walls, the sound of clanging chimes, a room seeming to tilt or change size - for only around thirty seconds before he snaps out of it.

Echoes approved! Please remember to update your info post.

Player: Louise
Character: Vriska/Octavia
Reason for Echo: Tainted water on August 2nd
What is returned: Ideally, her powers of manipul8tion - mind control. WHICH SOUNDS SUPER OVERPOWERED BUT I AM HELLS OF READY TO NERF THIS SHIT LET'S GO

1) I'll put up a permissions post so people can state their own limits for how susceptible they want their characters to be. Anyone who doesn't respond to it will be assumed to be completely immune.
2) Even characters who volunteer to be susceptible won't be controlled without explicit prior consent.
3) Her powers won't work on robots or animals no matter what (I'm assuming this applies to vermini and vermedi, too?).
4) She'll be pretty useless at it until she gets more experience, anyway. No mass-controlling or forcing people to jump off cliffs. We're talking less "I will bend the world to my whims" and more "I'm going to make two boys kiss."

I hope that's okay! Though if you'd rather I choose something else at this point in the game, that's perfectly understandable 8|b

This will be fine so long as it's more of a super strong suggestion (which can be shaken off with considerable effort, especially if it's particularly against the character's personality or what-not), and can't be held in place longer than a few minutes. As you suspect, it will have no effect on Vermedi and any Vermini-controlled animals.

If that is alright, Echo approved! Please remember to update your info post.

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drama8om8 - 2013-08-01 13:33 (UTC) - Expand

Player: Lucy!
Character: Aria Megido!
Reason for Echo: Tainted water. She is not going to drink tap water for weeks after this. :|
What is returned: Hugging some dude and then exploding. As a robot.

She will have to eat her words about probably not being a robot. :T

Echo approved! Please remember to update your info post.

Player: Heather
Character: Derek Hale
Reason for Echo: Tainted water.
What is returned: Memory of the pool scene in 2x04. 33:38 - 34:26 This is pretty much the one clip that I can't find on it's own.

To sum it up, arguing about trust while paralysed in a pool of water and then subsequently dropped by the guy keeping him up.

Edited 2013-07-31 11:06 (UTC)

Well, that was... interesting.

Echo approved! Please remember to update your info post.

Player: Aave
Character: Alan Hunter
Reason for Echo: Tainted water
What is returned: Memory of rescuing Mikasa as a child by murdering two dudes.

Echo approved! Please remember to update your info post.

Player: Emi
Character: Fai D Flourite
Reason for Echo: Having his left eyelid kissed.
What is returned: The sudden recollection of having his eye torn out and eaten. His eye will remain, unharmed; he'll just remember that it happened and what it was like. That is to say, not pleasant.

This is pretty... contrasting in tone between the cause and what's received. Is there a reason why that might spark off something so seemingly traumatic other than just the eye being touched by a kiss?

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comparative_insanity - 2013-08-01 13:14 (UTC) - Expand

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theearth - 2013-08-01 21:45 (UTC) - Expand

Player: Jill
Character: Becky Samson
Reason for Echo: drinking the tainted water
What is returned: Her Tesla's charger!

Reason for Echo: Canon recurrence brought on by said water - there are Artifacts that do stuff like this, and it's the first time she's been whammied by anything remotely similar.
What is returned: The knowledge that there are things called Artifacts that do this kind of stuff.

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

Before we stamp approval on the second, however, what exactly do the Artifacts do, so that we can understand where the second Echo would be induced?

mun journal because lazy

minkhollow - 2013-08-03 19:52 (UTC) - Expand

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theearth - 2013-08-04 18:08 (UTC) - Expand

Player: TealDeer
Character: Christobel Starsky
Reason for Echo: Drinking dat tap water
What is returned: The flashback portion of this episode. That is to say, that Starscream and Skyfire, scientists with the Academy of Sciences on Cybertron, went off and investigated a distant planet. Starscream advised caution and said they should turn back, no matter how interesting the planet looked or what energy readings they found; Skyfire insisted. A storm separates them, and Starscream circles the globe, trying to find his friend, but fails.

Chris will not yet figure out that this planet was Earth. She will, however, understand that Skyfire was Starscream's only friend, and that losing him was kind of a big deal.

Echo approved! Please remember to update your info post.

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