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Save the Earth Mods ([personal profile] theearth) wrote2014-02-12 06:40 pm

Echo Requests

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.

As of November 2014, Characters who have had their echoes for over a year can cause echoes in other people This is involuntary, cannot be controlled by either character and doesn't require a recurrence. The receiving character must have 15 echoes or less; they must be physically close to the other character; only tier 1 echoes can be caused that way; one cannot give themselves echoes. Both players must, of course, have consented to this oocly. A character can receive echoes through this mechanic no more than 10 times, and only up to 3 times from the same character. If requesting one of these echoes, please indicate the character from which the echo was received.

Reason for Echo: What caused the Echo, whether it be by a plot-related trigger, a person 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.

dead_black_eyes: "Secret Agent Man" (Don't be afraid you're already dead)

[personal profile] dead_black_eyes 2014-03-25 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Lexil
Character: Lazarus Lawliet
Reason for Echo: Lights over Vegas (via the news!)
Type and tier: Tier 2, memory/memory
What is returned: The name "Rue Ryuzaki," and the knowledge that he died soaking wet (though he won't remember the circumstances of his death, or the death itself.)
Edited 2014-03-25 03:50 (UTC)
dragon_blossom: (no you big meanie)

[personal profile] dragon_blossom 2014-03-25 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
...wait did I already get that? It's in my info post and I don't even remember putting in for it.

I'M SPECIAL GIVE ME A MINUTE

...I GOT THAT WITH HER SWORD IN A TIER 2 GIVE ME ANOTHER MINUTE
Edited 2014-03-25 03:50 (UTC)
dragon_blossom: (Hundred yard stare)

SORRY I'm pretty much the dumbest

[personal profile] dragon_blossom 2014-03-25 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Player: XC
Character: Marina Santana
Reason for Echo: VEGAS SHINIES?
Type and tier: Ability tier 1
What is returned: The ability to store her gear (of which she only has her sword) in her gem.
moreweaponsthanyou: (this is me)

[personal profile] moreweaponsthanyou 2014-03-25 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Player: sabriel
Character: Filbert Phineasson Darens | Fili
Reason for Echo: Las Vegas pink light
Type and tier: Mental, Tier 1
What is returned: The beginning of his personality change - a bit of wildness and the willingness to cause/indulge in mischief

[personal profile] scramasax 2014-03-25 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
Player: Blue
Character: Anthony Janvier (Anthony)
Reason for Echo: He'll be breaking a vase at some point during a blind swordsmanship practice session with Nick Burkhardt.
Type and tier: Tier 1 - Item
What is returned: The Ulyaoth rune - which his original found by accidentally dropping and smashing an urn. It'll be the same approximately-a-coin-size as the other runes he's found, and will come with absolutely no magical capability attached to it at the time - it's the symbol of and draws from the power of an elder god by the name of Ulyaoth, who's not here to draw from. This'll be remedied by...

Reason for Echo: A pest encounter after the 29th!
Type and tier: Tier 1 - Item
What is returned: Actual imbuement of the Ulyaoth rune with Ulyaoth-aligned magic, which, with the other two runes and the Circle of Power he's acquired, allow casting of the Three-Point Enchant Item spell, which mends breaks/fuses broken parts of items back into one piece and charges in-tact items with Ulyaoth-aligned magic.

In canon, spells and enchanted items with Ulyaoth-aligned charge both do extra damage to/are effective in dispelling anything with magic drawn from other elder god Chattur'gha (and are likewise subject to damage or dispelling by Xel'lotath- or Mantorok-aligned magic - but unless any of the Ancients or more Eternal Darkness characters appear in the game, it'll be more important to note that damage by Ulyaoth-aligned magic saps a character's magic meter in terms of gameplay - which'll manifest outside of it as weakly sapping a person or other entity's mental energy per hit.


Character: Cinderella (Rarity)
Reason for Echo: Viewing a video of the pink lights over Las Vegas.
Type and tier: Tier 1 - Mental
What is returned: Rarity's sense of aesthetics - she's fond o' pretty things and making a strong first impression as it is, but she's going to have a stronger concept of fashion and be a bit more open to laying on the glitz.


Character: William Black (Walter Beck)
Reason for Echo: The pink lights over Las Vegas on the news!
Type and tier: Tier 2 - Mental
What is returned: Knowledge of the names of a few of the countries in his original's world - indeed only a few, namely Albion, Aurora (appropriately enough), and Samarkand - and Walter's own Albion accent, which is to real-Earth ears an English accent; he'll be trying to keep it subtle at the most.
titansno: as an inferior form of entertainment (while looking down on cartoons)

[personal profile] titansno 2014-03-25 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Hmmm. Would it be possible for the realization of what she's dealing with to be the trigger for the canon recurrence? Since I imagine that's somewhat separate from the encounter itself.

If that doesn't work, I'd prefer to just shift the mirror+memory echo onto the plot trigger and forget about the eye color change for the time being.

[personal profile] ex_nearsighted397 2014-03-25 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
Different journal, don't mind the laziness.

And that's totally fine, I understand! For now I'd just like to go with the first one then, please! I'll see if I can figure out a way for him to get the second at a later date.
wonk: (Default)

[personal profile] wonk 2014-03-25 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
there isn't one. i thought tier 2 plot echoes didn't need to be related to each other?

if they don't, i'll leave it as a tier 1 for now.