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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: Fae
Character: Killian
Reason for Echo: This comment, where he's hit with the first time he's ever felt homesickness before.
Type and tier: Tier 1 mental
What is returned: The memory of the dwarves' song from after the party at Bilbo's. This song.

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

Player: Anduin
Character: Kallie / Lightning
Reason for Echo: Getting near the Tuning Tower.
Type and tier: Tier 1, item.
What is returned: A grav-con unit. In Lightning's world, this is an example of a manadrive device, technology that uses something called AMP (Antimatter Manipulation Principle) to simulate effects that would typically be "magic." A grav-con allows its user to defy gravity for short amounts of time - with a snap of the fingers, one is engulfed in a blue staticky field that creates complete weightlessness around their body. In the hands of someone who knows what they're doing, it can be pretty terrifying.

... Too bad Kallie won't know how to use it! The effect will only last about ten seconds anyway, and at this point will be weakened to simply providing some weightlessness / some protection from falls if it's activated in time.

Echo approved; let it be and let it be added!

Player: Joc
Character: Xander Jarle / Sandrath
Reason for Echo: Ravindra using his healing ability on Xander.
Type and tier: 1, ability
What is returned: Sandrath's healing ability, but it is only able to heal minor wounds.

Reason for Echo: Sam Middleton / Sadao Maou's post stating how he's evil / unholy.
Type and tier: 1, ability
What is returned: Sandrath's vulnerability to 'holy' / 'light', although unaware of it's presence.

Both Echoes approved - please update your info accordingly!

Player: Nadia
Character: Miles Edgeworth
Reason for Echo: This comment from Octavia, two of those nicknames happen to be nicknames he had in canon (but one he's already had an echo involving that person)
Type and tier: Memory, tier 1
What is returned: He'll remember his childhood friend, Larry Butz who was the one who called him Edgey all the time. Just a general idea of what he's like, the fact that he always causes trouble and the saying about him that "When something smells, it's usually the Butz."

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

Player: Dani
Character: Ahito // Akito Tanabe
Reason for Echo: Gun practice.
Type and tier: Tier one; Mental
What is returned: Basic marksmanship.

Reason for Echo: this conversation.
Type and tier: Tier one; Mental
What is returned: The memory of a monster he fought originally being a young girl.

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

Player: Louise
Character: Octavia
Reason for Echo: She's going to encounter a snake statue tomorrow!
Type and tier: Tier 1 ability
What is returned: She already has her fairy wings - I'd like her to be able to fly with them, please (she will leave a very visible trail of pixie dust behind her when she flies, so she still can't do it in public areas without risking getting caught. I'm also fine with nerfing it so she can only fly as far and as fast as she'd be able to sprint, if necessary).

Echo approved, and thus, you can fly, you can fly, you can flyyyyyyy; please add relevant data to your info post!

Player: Zae
Character: Walter Price
Reason for Echo: Encountering a snake statue tomorrow
Type and tier: Tier 2, memory/physical
What is returned: The memory of the fight with Dirge/the 10th colossus, AND a chunk of Dormin's essence. Basically this grants him a very very VERY slight stamina increase.

It begins.

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

Player: Bri
Character: Nick Burkhardt
Reason for Echo: Snake statue encounter!
Type and tier: Tier 2 | Item and associated ability
What is returned: His kanabo! And with it, his innate ability with weapons. When he has access to a weapon, even one he's never used before, he will find himself able to wield it skillfully. The return of the ability will be slow; it will start out only kicking in when he's actually trying to use a weapon in a life or death situation. Any attempts to use a weapon (aside from a gun, which he learned to use the old fashioned way) for practice or anything outside a life or death situation will prove unsuccessful, even if he has previously wielded it in battle.

(For example, he could use a sword to fight a monster and appear an expert at it, but if he later attempted to spar with the same sword, he would fail quite spectacularly. This will gradually change over time until his ability is fully returned.)

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

Player: Anduin
Character: Kallie / Lightning
Reason for Echo: She hits and stuns one of the Carneades-affected pigeons at LCU while on her motorcycle. 8| Feeling just bad enough to go back and check on it...
Type and tier: Mental, tier 1.
What is returned: ...she's struck with a powerful desire to help said birds, stemming from a continuing theme in canon- in the first game, the party is given a mission to drive away monsters threatening a group of wild chocobos, and in the upcoming third game, Lightning eventually rescues and then helps a particularly special white chocobo recover as well.

Another Kallie Echo approved for addition; proceed accordingly!

Player: Blue
Character: Anthony

Reason for Echo: The lad's getting out to happen on one of the snake statues if it kills 'im.
Type and tier: Physical - Tier 1.
What is returned: Another degree of zombification - bringing him one Echo-step away from physical death. Vital signs will drop to such a point that he really oughtn't be functioning as he will be under any other or at least natural circumstances, and muscle atrophy's going to leave him with a distinct limping zombie gait among other intuitive debilitations. The point to which it pushes apparent decomposition will be the most jarring effect - it's going to leave patches of his flesh very obviously eaten open, including on his face!

Reason for Echo: Actually laying eyes on the result of the effects of the above Echo if approved, via mirror on returning home. The stage he'll be put at technically entails nothing that the previous one didn't - but the visible extremity of it'll be such to rather efficiently up the factor of grotesqueness and fairness of calling him a zombie, which shall make Anthony the first most definitely essentially a classic zombie that Anthony himself will have ever locked eyes with.
Type and tier: Mental - Tier 1.
What is returned: His "Sanity Meter" proper - canon gives all playable characters a "sanity gauge" of sorts as a stat that drops on doing or experiencing anything deeply unnerving; realizing you've been seen by an enemy-raised zombie depletes some, watching a body-snatcher pop in a squishy haze out of a person's torso depletes a load, and so on. That it does drop as and with the effects it does are interpretable outside of a strictly-gameplay context as a side effect/aftereffect of having laid eyes upon horrors from beyond the veil/such plainly unnatural sights in the first place, differentiation between imagination and what's actually there thrown out of calibration under stress/panic.

Sanity can of course be restored, most effectively by magic (Anthony himself never gained the stat restoration spell) but also in smaller amounts by doing plain old things to relieve stress. Among the other protagonists for example Paul the priest can regain his by meditating and Edward's able to restore his with limited amounts of on-hand booze.

THESE ARE APPROVED AS WELL.

Player: kou
Character: chloe weiss | christa renz
Reason for Echo: this thread with brooke, discussing war and ranks.
Type and tier: tier 1, mental/memory.
What is returned: she will remember standing in the ranks of the 104th training squad, saluting.

May I ask, what about this is particularly reminiscent of her canon? I'm sure she's been in conversations about war and such before that could have triggered this before, right?

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Player: Void
Character: Ez
Reason for Echo: Conversation with Luci
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1
What is returned: The fact that Luci/Lux was nobility

Edited 2013-10-20 04:52 (UTC)

What about this conversation is unusual enough to have triggered such an Echo? Do these characters have a similar one in canon or anything like that?

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Player: Joysweeper
Character: Julien
Reason for Echo: Recurrence - staking out the new security around the Tuning Towers while trying not to be noticed or caught. Yuuya's done this kind of thing many times and is really, really good at it.
Type and tier: Ability. Tier One.
What is returned: Another element of Yuuya's stealth. Specifically Yuuya's ability to make himself very difficult to notice. I think it's supernatural. We only really get to see him on a stakeout once but he's implausibly good at it, and very able to stalk people.

It doesn't matter that he stands out a little, if he's quiet and unobtrusive he can just sort of... fade into the background, figuratively. He's still completely visible, no one would walk into him, but somehow he seems not worth paying attention to. It works best in a crowd and at some distance, worst - barely at all - if he's close and the only one present. If he speaks or does something conspicuous and someone sees or hears, they notice. If someone who knows him sees him in full view, they notice. He can't use it to escape being cornered or followed without escaping for at least a few minutes first, and it's not invisibility. His scent is not affected.

Edited 2013-10-20 05:27 (UTC)

Echo approved! Please remember to update your info post!

Player: Braysl
Character: Pia Markos-Yeboah
Reason for Echo: Drinking Brooke's blood/biting Brooke's neck in this thread (canon reoccurance)
Type and tier: power/ability Teir One
What is returned: Bloodlust (the compulsion to occasionally drink blood)

Echo approved! Please update your info post accordingly!

Player: Misty
Character: Toushirou Hitsugaya
Reason for Echo: Encountering one of the moving stone snakes.
Type and tier: Tier 1 - Power/Ability
What is returned: The voice of his zanpakutou.

Echo approved! Please remember to update your info post!

Player: nor
Character: Gavin Davis/Gale
Reason for Echo: Seeing Mort's monster and trying to help him stop it.
Type and tier: Physical, tier 1
What is returned: Gavin will start to feel weak, and sick, like he's under nourished. He's not exactly hungry for human flesh, but he's exhibiting symptoms of not devouring other Atma.

Player: nor
Character: Bertholdt Fubar
Reason for Echo: SEEING ALAN'S TITAN ARM WOW
Type and tier: Memory, tier 1
What is returned: The memory and feeling of becoming a Titan himself. He won't know how to shift into one, but he'll remember doing it.

The second Echo is approved! Please update your info post accordingly!

However, in regards to the second, might we ask clarification on the reason that the trigger would spark an Echo of the kind?

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Player: Aave
Character: Alan
Reason for Echo: Snake statue encounter
Type and tier: Memory, tier 1
What is returned: An important and serious mid-air discussion with the Special Forces Squad about how some of them pissed their pants on their first expedition.

Echo approved! Please remember to update your info post!

Player: Airdra
Character: Hajime Aikawa
Reason for Echo: He's going to be checking out the snakes and trying to punch one; I'm going to be posting the log in a bit.
Type and tier: Tier 1, Ability
What is returned: Undead healing ability. He'll heal faster than a human. It's nowhere near instantaneous, and it's not really well-defined in canon past the point that he'll get up and start walking around and fighting again hours after sustaining injuries that would incapacitate a human for a few days.

Echo approved! Please update your info post accordingly!

Player: Fran
Character: Bakura
Reason for Echo: People going docile and suggestable resulting in someone doing what Bakura told him to leading him to reflect that this is what it must be like mind controlling someone.
Type and tier: Memory/1
What is returned: The memory of the end of the duel between Yami Bakura and Yami Yuugi and Yami Bakura's disgust with Malik's underhanded methods [which involved the mind control of Bakura Ryou.]

Character: Bakura again!
Reason for Echo: Snake statue encounter!
Type and tier: Power/ability
What is returned: Diabound's ability to pull Bakura through stone/walls.

Edited 2013-10-22 01:48 (UTC)

The second Echo is approved! Do have responsible fun.

To clarify on the first, however, is the thought of mind controlling people sitting poorly with Bakura as he has the though?

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Player: Joc
Character: Xander Jarle / Sandrath
Reason for Echo: Being caught in a crowd of zoned out civilians, which causes him to chuckle.
Type and tier: 1, personality
What is returned: Sandrath's demented amusement, as if he knows something more than what is going on. Which forces Xander to not be in control of his laughter, but it will eventually sort itself out.

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

Player: Wingus
Character: Walter Westerfeld/Wally West
Reason for Echo: Reports of the Dead District bombings.
Type and tier: Power/ability & mental/memory, Tier 2.
What is returned: Memories of a city being attacked out of the blue, with the target being a questionable organization. As for powers, his super-speed - though I assume he'll only be able to get a fraction of it at first, but I'm unsure what would be a good limit for it.

We apologize profusely for the delay on this - however, how might something to the tune of twice his current top running speed with the same amount of energy expended sound as a starting point?

If aye or you'd like to adjust or suggest specification from there we shall finally have this stamped.

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Player: Levon
Character: Thomas Akagi
Reason for Echo: Nearly dying during an encounter with a stone snake during an exploration of the dead district with Hajime and Bakura.
Type and tier: tier 2: item & memory
What is returned: Memories of being flown into the sun and dying and the figurine used in his memorial.

That icon appears rather apropos for the viewing of such a memory.

...That said Echo approved - please update your info post accordingly!

Player: Prof
Character: Chris/Rintarou Okabe
Reason for Echo: Tinkering around with a busted microwave to try and get it working again.
Type and tier: Memory, Tier 1
What is returned: Building the Phonewave, and the fact that it would eventually become a time machine, but not the crucial missing steps necessary to turn it into a time machine.

For clarity: The Phonewave is a remote-controllable Microwave that can be turned on from a distance by calling a specific cellphone number.

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Player: Zackary
Character: Luke
Reason for Echo: A large fake spider dropping onto his head while shopping for Halloween decorations.
Type and tier: Memory Tier 1
What is returned: Vague memories of Kokiri Village, and more vivid ones of the Deku tree, mostly the fight with the ceiling dropping mega spider Gohma.

/SCRATCHING SOUNDS

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

Player: Joysweeper
Character: Nat/Tash
Reason for Echo: Recurrence, after this conversation with Toushiro. Tash experienced the Force as having a constant presence and, in moments of greatest despair, a voice.
Type and tier: Ability...? Tier 1.
What is returned: The vague sense of a constant, utterly inhuman presence, vast as the sky, impersonal. It links up to her existing weak Force abilities, so if she pays attention she will know that her hunches and so on come from it, but it doesn't seem to acknowledge most of what she says or does. If she ever gets into a particular state of despair she may perceive it as speaking to her, but this is things like "You're not alone, Tash. You're never alone."

So, so sorry to have kept you waiting on this; Echo approved - with the stipulation of clarification that it had best be assumed for now that while she will be able to "sense" the Force, she'll not be able to "tap into" it so to speak to any greater extent than she already can with it!

Sorry for any inconvenience and if this is unacceptable do let us know and we shall discuss or tweak as necessary - if not, you're clear to update your info post!

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