Official Move Approval III

[Roger Smith]

Blast From the Past (requires Telepathy, requires Ranged Proficiency, requires Debuff Proficiency.) (600 OM)

Arguably one of Ballad's most powerful moves in his arsenal. During combat, Ballad will force himself to lower his defenses to a sizable degree, leaving him vulnerable to attack so he can concentrate. During this time, he is staring at his opponent, his eyes slowly turning white during the process. Eventually, after around seven seconds passed, he blinks, then proceeds to say something related to their past, catching the opponent off guard and allowing Ballad to counter attack.

The pros of the move is that, if successful, the move can cause the person it is used against to possibly feel shocked and uncertain, hurting their ability to fight significantly. It also applies a "image assault" ability, where any time Ballad ends up mentioning the memory in question, it flashes in the person's mind, which further distracts them and gives Ballad a bigger advantage. This, however, only lasts for around thirty seconds, and the effect stops working after those thirty seconds have passed.

The cons, however, severely outweigh the pros. For starters, he is heavily vulnerable during the seven second process, which can severely injure him if not used properly. Also, Primes with a TEC equal to his own can block it effectively with by concentrating, which can result in the move being a lot less effective than if their TEC was lower. Primes with a HIGHER TEC are completely immune to the move, and the effects of the above mentioned move are instead applied to him.

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Ballad
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Blast From the Past (requires Telepathy, requires Ranged Proficiency, requires Debuff Proficiency.) (600 OM)

Arguably one of Ballad's most powerful moves in his arsenal. During combat, Ballad will force himself to lower his defenses to a sizable degree, leaving him vulnerable to attack so he can concentrate. During this time, he is staring at his opponent, his eyes slowly turning white during the process. Eventually, after around seven seconds passed, he blinks, then proceeds to say something related to their past, catching the opponent off guard and allowing Ballad to counter attack.

The pros of the move is that, if successful, the move can cause the person it is used against to possibly feel shocked and uncertain, hurting their ability to fight significantly. It also applies a "image assault" ability, where any time Ballad ends up mentioning the memory in question, it flashes in the person's mind, which further distracts them and gives Ballad a bigger advantage. This, however, only lasts for around thirty seconds, and the effect stops working after those thirty seconds have passed.

The cons, however, severely outweigh the pros. For starters, he is heavily vulnerable during the seven second process, which can severely injure him if not used properly. Also, Primes with a TEC equal to his own can block it effectively with by concentrating, which can result in the move being a lot less effective than if their TEC was lower. Primes with a HIGHER TEC are completely immune to the move, and the effects of the above mentioned move are instead applied to him.

Blast From the Past — I'm confused about how this is applied....and kind of what it does. Ballad says "something related to the past", but....what does that even mean? Apologies if I'm just being slow and not catching something obvious here. Also, who is it marked as costing 600? The cons are also a bit awkwardly-worded. If the enemy's TEC is equal to or higher than his own they can block and lower its effectiveness, but if their TEC is higher...they're completely immune to it? Explain? :psy:

"Something related to the past" is more or less exactly what it says on the tin. He pulls up a memory of a past event of theirs and causes them to reexperience it.

I marked it as costing 600 due to it being a move that can deal debuffs overtime with the "image assault" part of it. This "image assault" is more or less tied to the reexperience thing, where if he says something, they'll reexperience the event so he could gain an advantage. That part of it in question only lasts thirty seconds, and any other mention of it afterwards won't do anything.

Looking at it, it probably doesn't cost 600, though I'll let you decide on that.

Last part was bad wording on my part.

With all that in mind, it all should be good. Approved at 300 OM.[/spoiler]

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