Official Move Approval III

[Athena Myaló]

Illusory Cacophony (Tier 1 Super Utility) - Athena takes several moments (5-10 seconds or so) to concentrate on the mind of the target. Once she has achieved focus (she cannot be actively doing anything else during this time, even semi-automatic functions such as walking), she essentially targets the sound receptors in the brain of the target, causing incredibly loud and discordant noise to explode in their mind. It sounds as if someone hit all the keys of a piano at once right next to each of the target's ears, but even louder, and it cannot be blocked out by covering their ears, since it originates inside their head. The sound starts out powerful enough to block all traces of organized thought. From there, it fades gradually, taking about 30 seconds to peter out completely. (For the first ten seconds at least, tasks such as aiming a weapon, hearing any other noises, or communicating are virtually impossible.) As soon as the sound first goes off, Athena can once again turn her attention to other matters. After the 30 seconds, there is no lasting damage to the target. (Side note: this usually even works on deaf targets: it just depends on whether the reason for their deafness is a problem with their ears, or the nerves that transmit auditory signals to their brain.)
(600 OM: Requires Ranged Attack Proficiency, Area Attack Proficiency, Debuff Proficiency, Homing Proficiency, and Telepathy)

Wait this is only used on secondaries? Why are you making it a super move? I mean you can easily make it offensive or utility if you needed. If you want something on secondaries it would just be a move.

i would try and make it less super specific and say instead like "At fist the pain is unbearable and the target loses hearing and motor functions for the next 30 seconds, however the effect slowly decays during this time." Just a suggestion.

You could also make this offensive and have it do actual damage if you wanted.

Well, it's not only for secondaries. That's the way I want to use it at first (during my next post, actually), which is why I'm buying the Area Attack Proficiency, but I'd like to be able to use it against other single PCs as well at later points (the description I wrote is when it's used on one fellow Prime, since that's how I'd use it in an official context - I imagine the effect will be much weaker on multiple targets... should I include that in the description?). Should I change it to a regular move, though? I hadn't thought of that... I'd just assumed that since it was pretty powerful and took a lot of energy, it had to be a Super Move. What do you think would be best, so I could use it both against a bunch of secondaries or a single Prime target depending on the situation? Actually, it would be nice to be able to use it on multiple Primes at once, too, come to think of it.

Okay, I made some edits to the move up there in the quote to simplify it. How's it look now? ||)

Ehhh, I have a couple reasons I'd rather keep it from actually doing damage. The way it is is fine.