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Echo Requests (retired)
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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Over the next, say, two months the initial survivors will reach a plateau in their development. Smarter than before, but we're talking... mmm, maybe corvid level? Remembering faces, individuals, and schedules, holding funerals for their dead, having a theory of mind, cooperating to get food, attacking threats to individuals as a group, making and using simple tools, playing. Also much more curious, but it's animal-curious, like crows. Young ones are more strongly affected and grow a little larger than their parents, but their sizes are well within normal pigeon size ranges.
They might have names for individuals and apply pigeon vocalizations to mean other things - food, humans, dogs, hawks. There are a number of animals that do this, it's not quite seen as language. The younger ones might be able to start to mimic some sounds, but it's still cooing. Also if someone could talk to them they would be more willing to follow suggestions out of curiosity.
The second generation will be smarter and more mimic-y. Pigeons can breed at any time of the year, but only if the setting is right. Wild, in around this area, they breed in spring and summer, when there's more food and keeping warm is easy. So, next spring there might be birds capable of learning and using words and simple phrases in the correct context, but they won't be human level. Depending on circumstances they might become shy of showing this around most people too.
Domestic individuals that catch the disease somehow might breed in the winter. Hatchlings become flightworthy after about a month and reach breeding age themselves at around six months. So in theory Locke could have a few pigeons who can speak intelligently and grasp somewhat more complicated topics by April, though they're still not at human levels of thinking, but the vast majority would be at crow level at that time.
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Totally understood!
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