Player: Joysweeper Character: Julien Looking ahead a little here, to Wise Snake. I am certain there will be more when we get there, these are just the two necessary for other plans.
Reason for Echo: Jumping/falling off a reasonably high building. :x It's recurrence - Julien's never fallen off anything more than like six feet up. He's been on motorcycles and is familiar with the sensation of speed and wind, but this is the closest he's ever come to Yuuya-style self-powered flight. Type and tier: Physical change (and mental ability?), Tier 2 What is returned: Some ability to fly, which comes with some changes - skin and tendons of arms alter, the tarsus becomes its own section of the leg allowing for leaping, the tail forms, neck lengthens by a vertebra or two, and flight feathers come in. He retains some independent fingers in scaly clawed form. Some of the elongated wing feathers are prehensile. These have their advantages and disadvantages over fingers, but they'll take quite some time to get used to.
Julien would be a weak flier like this, having an awkward leggy shape and lacking the kind of muscle to flap powerfully and at length, but he'd be able to glide well, skim along the ground, and accomplish wing-assisted incline running - running up something too steep to climb normally with the help of wings. He could manage to get a decent ways up a wall.
The mental component is just basically a crash course in Birdflight 101.
Reason for Echo: Wise Snake Type and tier: Item/ability, Tier 2 What is returned: A bit of mobile antitank artillery with no precise equivalent to modern human weaponry, but similar to a shoulder-fired recoilless rifle. The kind that blasts fire out the back. It's made for birds around three feet tall, so it's pretty lightweight and not that big, and a little on the fragile side. It launches elongated shells designed to pierce/punch through things on impact, then stick and burn, not explode. There's one shell preloaded and four others that can be loaded and fired. When they're spent it's pretty much just a fancy tube.
It comes with some idea of how to use the thing - it's made for prehensile feathers and bird feet, after all. He'll still need help reloading.
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Character: Julien
Looking ahead a little here, to Wise Snake. I am certain there will be more when we get there, these are just the two necessary for other plans.
Reason for Echo: Jumping/falling off a reasonably high building. :x It's recurrence - Julien's never fallen off anything more than like six feet up. He's been on motorcycles and is familiar with the sensation of speed and wind, but this is the closest he's ever come to Yuuya-style self-powered flight.
Type and tier: Physical change (and mental ability?), Tier 2
What is returned: Some ability to fly, which comes with some changes - skin and tendons of arms alter, the tarsus becomes its own section of the leg allowing for leaping, the tail forms, neck lengthens by a vertebra or two, and flight feathers come in. He retains some independent fingers in scaly clawed form. Some of the elongated wing feathers are prehensile. These have their advantages and disadvantages over fingers, but they'll take quite some time to get used to.
Julien would be a weak flier like this, having an awkward leggy shape and lacking the kind of muscle to flap powerfully and at length, but he'd be able to glide well, skim along the ground, and accomplish wing-assisted incline running - running up something too steep to climb normally with the help of wings. He could manage to get a decent ways up a wall.
The mental component is just basically a crash course in Birdflight 101.
Reason for Echo: Wise Snake
Type and tier: Item/ability, Tier 2
What is returned: A bit of mobile antitank artillery with no precise equivalent to modern human weaponry, but similar to a shoulder-fired recoilless rifle. The kind that blasts fire out the back. It's made for birds around three feet tall, so it's pretty lightweight and not that big, and a little on the fragile side. It launches elongated shells designed to pierce/punch through things on impact, then stick and burn, not explode. There's one shell preloaded and four others that can be loaded and fired. When they're spent it's pretty much just a fancy tube.
It comes with some idea of how to use the thing - it's made for prehensile feathers and bird feet, after all. He'll still need help reloading.