Pretend Skills You Wish You Had

Siam

I wish we had this skill because of the flavour. And because @Xynthin. @Xenthos.

For Shadowbeat:

Glory      Call upon the echoes of the Voice of Xynthin, Wyrden Glory to lay waste to all who defy the Wyrd.

Stanza: High(7-9)

Targetable: Yes

Power: 5 (Master Ravenwood)

Requires four of the following:

-ShadowLight

-VenomDrops

-DarkHeart

-WidowsMercy

-WyrdSong

Strains of the Voice of the Ascended God, Xynthin, the Wyrden Glory, resonate throughout the manifold timelines and realities. As Mother Night once brought Him to this reality from another, all for the glory of the Glomdoring, so too shall the Harbinger who calls on the Heart of Darkness, One across all divergent timelines, at great cost. Echoes of the Voice of Xynthin shall purge enemies of the Wyrd with infernal Shadow Fire, incinerating their very threads of existence from this reality. The weaker their minds are, the closer are they brought to non-existence. The strain upon the Harbinger who sings of the Wyrden Glory is so great that certain harmonies have to be present within their song before they can summon His Voice, after which their song will fade by three stanzas.

(Basically this deals damage to health based on how much mana is missing. 1:1 ratio. Damages personal enemies in the room with the same damage as that of one Shadowchord.)

Shaddus

If it damages personal enemies in the room, it shouldn't be targetable.

Siam

Shaddus said:

If it damages personal enemies in the room, it shouldn't be targetable.

I WANT OP, @Shaddus. (hrm, what about setting them on fire instead?)

Karlach

A power cost instagib for Pureblades based off the victim having head/chest/gut at heavy with one at critical, that results in the victim being cut in half from top to bottom.

Bit like this:

Siam

Like Execute only sideways!

Cyndarin

TOADSPLOSION- you snap your fingers and any toads within the area explode, also doing damage to enemies in the room.

Siam

What happened to Shazbat, Celina?

Ileein

An Aeonics skill that causes someone to repeat their last action for a few seconds, Groundhog Day-style. Resolved by concentration (or by kissing the girl).

Siam

Lemme think of AB files for these things. Thinking chair time!

Tarkenton

Toadkick: You kick a toad in the room at the targeted person, launching it at their face causing them to kiss it.  Has a chance of both the toad and the targeted person turning into/remaining toads, of the targeted person becoming a toad while the toad changes back into normal, or of just changing the toad back into normal.  Since it's an offensive action, I like to think 25/50/25 distribution of the above outcomes.

Edit: Absolutely not balanced, obviously.  But the call wasn't for balanced skills, just ones we'd like.  I'd totally grief with this in team fights via targeting lowbies, toading them, then kicking them at people like Sondayga.

Ciaran

I've always wanted to be able to cause incurable confusion/ectoplasm for 5s every 12s.

Edit: these can be op right?

Belibi

Celina said:

TOADSPLOSION- you snap your fingers and any toads within the area explode, also doing damage to enemies in the room.

Damage should be based on the toad's mana/health/ego. Suicidal team tactics brought to a whole new level!

Zouviqil

CAPTAIN BASIN: When a Geomancer, Pyromancer, Aeromancer, and Aquamancer use this skill in a room together with the corpse of Maeve, a giant aethership named Gaea descends upon the Prime Plane announcing that it is led by Captain Basin, which then can be shot down by other aetherships for huge amounts of aetherdust, experience, and power. So long as the aethership is present, it significantly drains every nexus.

... I have a deranged sense of humor.

Tacita

Healing...for bards.

Aerdiya

Tacita said:

Healing...for bards.

And for druids.

Kiradawea

Space cannons

Shaddus

The ability to mute a person and all their characters for a day.

Ushaara

AEONICS - FUTURETECH

Syntax: TIMECHANT FUTURETECH  
Power:  10 (Matrix) for armour and two-handed weapons
         5 (Matrix) for one-handed weapons
 
Throughout its history, Hallifax's technological research has benefited from the glimpses into the future provided by the Matrix Research Institute's aeonic studies, allowing the city to focus and develop technologies at an unparalleled pace. Further future glimpses have revealed timelines where this superior technological know-how has been militarized by the Sentinel Company of Temporal Anomalies to greatly enhance the weapons and armour of the city's martial forces.

By bathing your equipment in a stream of temporal energy, you may enhance your armour with one of the following future technologies. Sentinel Company members may also enhance their weapons for added benefit.

ARMOUR OPTIONS:
(For Institute): Resonance Shield OR Lucidian Wings
(For Sentinels): Adamantine Armour OR Temporal Peacekeeper

WEAPON OPTIONS:
(Sentinels Only): Thunderstruck OR Cryostrike

(The Civilization player in me makes me think this could fit as a neat Transcendent ability, especially since Paradox is very rarely used.)


INSTITUTE ARMOUR OPTIONS:
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RESONANCE SHIELD
In response to numerous skirmishes with Gaudiguch, the Laboratory of Metaplanar and Transdimensional Physics focused their research into the planar energies of the Fire and Vortex planes. With this knowledge, the Sentinel Company were able to create resonant energy shields tuned to absorb those specific energies, lessening the damage received.

Effect: +15 Fire and Psychic DMP. 

LUCIDIAN WINGS
The combination of focused biological and solar studies of lucidian cells, and anatomical studies of trill flight and aerodynamics in the Institute's Laboratory of the Natural Sciences and Higher Energies resulted in the creation of what became commonly known as 'lucidian wings,' a membrane mimicking both the distinctive regenerative abilities of lucidian skin, and the wings of a sky soaring trill.

Effect: Enables Flight and Level 1 health/mana regeneration, outdoor daytime only.
(Faster flight if can fly already?)


SENTINEL ARMOUR OPTIONS:
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ADAMANTINE ARMOUR 
The first enhanced armour to be developed by the Sentinel Company, the strong natural crystalline structure of charged diamonds when imbued in armour resulted in the formation of a crystal lattice as impenetrable as adamantine.

Effect: +10/10 cutting/blunt armour stats.

TEMPORAL PEACEKEEPER
Witnessing the Holy Celestine Empire's effective subjugation of Gaudiguch through the use of pacification cloudspouts during Operation Peacemaker, Hallifax's military scientists and aeromantic engineers were prompted to develop their own means of mass pacification. The resulting pacification clouds are highly pressurised and are released when struck, enveloping aggressors in a soothing cloud.

Effect: Those who harm you may find themselves pacified. 
(This should act like the Chuuti mantra for Harmony monks.)


WEAPON EFFECTS (Sentinels Only)
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CRYOSTATIC STRIKE
Since Hallifax's release from its temporal confinement and the subsequent hyperageing experienced by Chairman Cririk Adom, the city's leading researchers have studied the effects of cryostasis upon the body. By surrounding their weapons in a timewarped aeonic field, Sentinel Company military scientists were able to develop a means of striking their enemies with a lesser version of this degenerative effect.

Effect: 1/6th damage converted to cold, 15% chance of timewarp on hit.

THUNDERSTRUCK
The planar connection between the Matrix of Hallifax and the Elemental plane of Air has allowed the city's aeromantic engineers and military scientists to harness the power of the skies. By incorporating an electrical current within their weapons, Sentinel Company members could enhance their weapons with the storm and fury of a lightning strike.

Effect: 1/6th damage converted to electrical, 15% chance of epilepsy on hit.

Maligorn

^so. awesome.

Marcella

Witnessing the ur'Guard's effective subjugation of Gaudiguch* :P

Enyalida

I really want a bark-armor version of Maligorn's Armor ideas.

Siam

Enyalida said:

I really want a bark-armor version of Maligorn's Armor ideas.

Create ABs for them!

Enyalida

It's finally crunch time for changing guild advancement in the HS, too many things to wriiite.

Enyalida

Also, the ability for Wildewoods to brew ent-draughts in their trunk, and decant them into giant ent earthenware jugs would be sweet. The Wildewood uses special implements to gather water from Moon River or lake (instead of the entwash) and combine it in their trunk with the saps and resins of the magical flowers. After a few IG days (or after a IG month?), they can decant a few drinks into specially prepared jugs. Anyone can use them, but they do less for non-Wildewoods, and have a cooldown on their use.

Give two (or more, if it becomes a major mechanic, would be interesting) types: One cool and refreshing, that speeds actions for a short burst, slowing them down slightly for a time afterwards. The other would be earthy and hearty, giving a healing burst to the drinker.

Siam

That's not too bad to have methinks!

Belibi

Enyalida said:

Also, the ability for Wildewoods to brew ent-draughts in their trunk, and decant them into giant ent earthenware jugs would be sweet. The Wildewood uses special implements to gather water from Moon River or lake (instead of the entwash) and combine it in their trunk with the saps and resins of the magical flowers. After a few IG days (or after a IG month?), they can decant a few drinks into specially prepared jugs. Anyone can use them, but they do less for non-Wildewoods, and have a cooldown on their use.

Give two (or more, if it becomes a major mechanic, would be interesting) types: One cool and refreshing, that speeds actions for a short burst, slowing them down slightly for a time afterwards. The other would be earthy and hearty, giving a healing burst to the drinker.

Wyrdenwood equivalent would be salves of some kind I guess, since they have sap instead of whatever Wildewoods keep in their trunk?

Enyalida

Wildewoods use sap too! There by no means would need to be a Wyrdenwood equivalent though, more divergent skills would be better, as the -woods don't need to compete around a single shared mechanic (demesnes).

Neos

Enyalida said:

I really want a bark-armor version of MaligornUshaara's Armor ideas.

Enyalida

Oops, no idea why I attributed that to Maligorn

Rivius

I want an aura that had a chance to rebound damage or afflictions that people hit me with.

Moi

STARSONG CALL SUPERNAL <supernal>

Summons a supernal to your location! Attacks Celestia enemies. Can target Dumaliel!

E: Or how about a RedStarAnthem shared between Necroscream and Starhymn? One for Dumaliel, one for Grimbach. Swaps all your Divinus for Excorable and vis-versa. Forbidden Song Technique!