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[theearth]

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In the context of an upcoming plot event, there will be a wonderful, unique chance for wonderful, unique echoes! Echoes so wonderful and unique indeed that we can only have a small amount of them, which brings us to the following: Between today and the 31st (7:00pm GMT), you will be able to submit what you would like your character(s) to pulse back; and then until the 5th, everyone will get to vote on which four of those proposed pulses shall become reality. The mods will pick between one and four additional ones of those proposals to round the whole thing off a bit, and then they will take effect over the course of a few weeks.

Now what kind of echoes are we talking about?
- HUGE ONES. More specifically: Buildings, forests, (parts of) mountains, and whatever else is immobile and large. Rules about the size of echoes are obviously suspended in this case, but we'll reserve the option to downsize things in one way or the other to make them workable.
- The echoes in question should carry some significance for the character who echoes them, but in this instance the degree of importance to the character is irrelevant: Living near/in the place or it having a moderately important position in one's life is enough. For example: Any Attack on Titan character could echo Wall Sina, any The Hobbit dwarf could echo the Lonely Mountain, any Pokemon character could echo a Pokecenter and any student of Hogwarts could echo any part of the school grounds.
- The echoes will be plot echoes and thus won't need a trigger; they will be available to characters in both Vegas and Locke.
- Please keep it to a maximum of two echo suggestions per character. In the end, a maximum of one echo per player will be granted (in case more than one echo of a player end up in the top four, the highest ranking one will be implemented).

Please peruse the form below:
<b>Player:</b> Name <b>Character:</b> Name | Canon <b>Echo:</b> The name of what is being echoed and a description. This can also include a "what could be done with this and why would it be great and hilarious to have it" bit - make people want to vote for your echo!


Suggestions so far:
Batman: The Brave and the Bold | Hall of Justice
Bleach | Senkaimon
Danny Phantom | The Ghost Zone
Death Note | Wammy's House
Dokidoki Precure | Yotsuba Compound
Dragon Age | The Blooming Rose
Eternal Darkness | The Oublié Cathedral Old Tower & the catacombs
Generator Rex | Abysus
Golden Sun | Venus Lighthouse
Hatoful Boyfriend | St. Pigeonation's Academy
Heartcatch Precure | The Precure Palace
Hetalia | Suomenlinna
Kamen Rider W | The Narumi Detective agency slash billiard hall
Middle Earth | The Halls of the Woodland Realm
Middle Earth | Caras Galadhon, the Elven city in Lothlórien.
Middle Earth | The Lonely Mountain/Erebor
MS Gundam 00 | Orbital Elevator
Pandora Hearts | The Abyss
Tales of Symphonia | Torent Forest
Touhou Project | Scarlet Devil Mansion

Comments

Questions

[theearth]

[scramasax]

Would an Echoed location need to come with only land features/furniture/etc., or would an Echoed location come with, say, animals or other non-sentient/non-appable creatures or evidence thereof? For example, a video game character Echoing a dungeon with low-level monsters confined to it and/or the charred corpses of adventurers?

[theearth]

Everything that is not alive comes with the place; so the charred corpses would still be there.

Everything that is alive... will come with the place on a case-by-case basis. As a rule of the thumb, beings that have a low sentience and no reason to leave the place are fine, but if in doubt, check with us and we'll amend if needed. In your case, the monsters sound okay.

[scramasax]

Slightly-late fantastic~ Thank you very much!

[purestambition]

What are the upper limits we'd be looking at here? Structure sizes? What about things within any given building/castle/mountain/etc?

[theearth]

The upper limit depends on what you're looking at! In the case of an encircling wall, a forest or another structure that doesn't completely cover the area, it's the echo boundaries. In the case of say, a mountain, which could "grow" from under the houses of the cities the upper limit is also the echo boundaries. In the case of things that cover their area like for example Hogwarts, the upper limit is the free space that is available without (too many) houses being crushed for it. There are no limits to how high a structure can be.

Concerning things within other structures: As long as they are landmarks in themselves and can exist without the surrounding parts of the building/castle/mountain, they are also eligible for this! Say, if someone built a house inside a mountain, both the house by itself and the mountain including the house would be possible echoes in this specific instance.

Re: Questions

[thebalrogslayer]

What about characters that come from versions of the real world?

I'm thinking specifically of Nations here, but I'm sure it applies to other characters. Would Åsa be able to echo, as an example, something like Helsinki cathedral which already exists in the game world, although not in either city.

[theearth]

Yes, places that also exist in the real world are entirely possible, both from the past and from the present!

[vaimo]

Awesome, thank you!

Re: Questions

[youngestone]

Do we have to have a canon appearance for it? Like we don't know what Ered Luin looks like, but it's important to the Hobbit Dwarves, etc

[theearth]

Yes, sorry - only locations with a canon appearance are requestable!

Re: Questions

[seriallylucky]

I'm a little confused on how this works, which is possibly expected. In particular, what about recurrence Echoes?

Suppose I'm playing Harry Potter, and my suggestion of Gringott's Bank gets selected. When the bank shows up, would Harry be ineligible to get recurrence Echoes triggered solely by its presence? Alternately, should I indicate in my proposal what sort of Echoes I'd expect it to be likely to prompt in him?

[theearth]

It is possible to get recurrence echoes from pulsed back places, but only one per place. Since it would only be one, there is no need to tell us what that would be!

I hope that answers your question?

[seriallylucky]

Yup, that's fine! Although... only one per place? Even if a specific part of the place had particular significance to the character in canon, like the Potter and Lestrange vaults in the aforementioned Gringott's example?

[theearth]

Only one per place from the place itself, yes. But if they then interact the place, more might be possible - Neville would only get one echo from Hogwarts, but if he then tried to get into the Gryffindor rooms and couldn't get in because he doesn't know the password, and then fumbles and wrecks his brain for it, then he could get an echo about that.

[arrowpoint]

I'm confused about this part of the instructions:

"- Please keep it to a maximum of two echo suggestions per character. In the end, a maximum of one echo per player will be granted"

Does that mean for an example, can I put two options for Liam/Legolas here, such as Mirkwood AND Dale?

I only see people putting in one, so I want to make sure.

Question 2:

In addition; in the event that you have a castmate with shared places of importance, are you allowed to repeat the request or must you pick something different?

[theearth]

1. Yes! You could write up a suggestion for Mirkwood and one for Dale (and if you had more than one character you could also write up two for each additional character). All of them will be up for voting.
It's just that in an attempt to keep things fair between players, each player will only be granted one of those echoes, even if more than one receive large numbers of votes.
2. Please only suggest a place once and instead support the first suggestion when it comes to voting. We would like to avoid the votes for one place being divided between two suggestions. ICly, it won't make a difference which character received the echo in question.

[arrowpoint]

Ty! Good to know! ♥

Re: Questions

[icy_heavens]

So. I was thinking about suggesting a Senkaimon -- the means by which Bleach shinigami travel between their world and the world of the living. Now, obviously that wouldn't really be a thing here, so would it be possible to have that tweaked to where the "worlds" it could travel between were the Echo barriers? Or would that be changing it too much for it to be Echo-able?

Also, should that be workable, there are technically two "paths" through the Senkaimon. One takes people through a dangerous path called the Dangai (an intermediary pathway), and one that is quick and easy (basically just a room to pass through). The quick and easy way would necessitate a later Creature Echo on Toushirou's part before any character -- including himself -- could use it, but I suppose the question here is whether having both paths would be within the limits of the Echo, or whether they'd count as two separate places and therefore only one would be eligible.

[theearth]

Tweaking it that way would be absolutely possible and actually encouraged! And since both places are only accessible through a Senkaimon, the Dangai and the quick path would both come with this echo.

One question - does there have to be a Senkaimon on both ends of the path? Aka would the echo consist of multiple gates?

[icy_heavens]

Sweet.

The physical gate only has to exist on one side, so that's all that the request would entail; in canon, the pathway can open up anywhere in the world of the living, so for this, it'd work anywhere within the Echo barrier on the other side (or whatever limitations might be imposed there). Which means it could be used to get from Locke to another location, but not the other way around -- though there would be an ability Toushirou could Echo back eventually that would allow him to open a return path from anywhere. Still popping back out through the physical gate.

[theearth]

Could he open up permanent return paths, so others could use the gate as a two-way road as well? Or would they always be temporary in nature, so that the gate would be a one-way affair for everyone except for Toushirou?

And if that is so, would there be something that could be tweaked so it would turn into a two-way affair for everyone?

[icy_heavens]

Return paths aren't a permanent thing in canon (because there it would be a dimensional rift that . . . that isn't a healthy thing for the universe there) but since this wouldn't really be a dimensional rift in the same sense, I could see the idea that it could be a more stable thing. Like perhaps opening a way back once could create a physical gate in that location that everyone could still use.

[theearth]

All right. Then let's say that if Toushirou opened a return path in a place that has some gateway function (between two trees, under an actual door, in a window, etc) this place would then remain a gateway for everyone, unless Toushirou goes actively back and closes it. How he could do that would be up to you. (All of this of course in the case that your suggestion gets picked.)

[icy_heavens]

Sounds good to me. Just checking feasibility before officially suggesting it. :) /heads down to suggestion section