Post by Overlord Sothmir on Mar 30, 2007 0:59:34 GMT -5
This skill was made specially for Richmond, the depressed and cold-hearted Shadow. He is a monster, and thusly, is a monster skill, therefore costing me $2,500 hell.
Name of Skill: Lacrimosa
Who can use it: Shadows only, and even more specifically, only ice-alligned Shadows. Having a depressing or agonizing past is also required, as this move draws power from the pain within the heart of the user.
What it does: Richmond is always surrounded by an aura of frost and cold. Richmond empowers and draws this aura deep into himself, and imbues it with his inner dark power. Giant spires of ice errupt from the ground in a circle around him, pushing back or killing any nearby foes. The surviving foes are what get the nasty part of the attack, as he pulls out the energy obtained from his ice-cold heart in the form of a large, icy, dark-blue orb that crackles with black bolts of energy from his chest, and in the centre of said orb is what appears to be a black heart. As his grip tightens upon the heart, the orb of dangerous energy rapidly expands, destroying foes with star and ice elemental energy in a dome that reaches a great distance in all directions. Foes who still survive are encased in ice. To finish off these foes, he crushes the black heart in his hand, causing the ice to violently shatter, causing the surviving foes to be reduced to shards of ice. The area around Richmond after this attack will be covered with a sheet of thick, cold ice that will not melt naturally for several days.
Advantages-Very powerful, and very effective at getting rid of foes that like to surround their prey. Ice energy harms fire elementals sufficiently, and star damage will harm ice-resistant foes. Very hard to interrupt due to the ice spires pushing away any threats. Also has a very nice range for being a character-catalyst skill.
Weaknesses-Despite the star energy, even decently robust ice elementals can manage to survive this spell and be in fighting condition. Richmond is actually crushing his own, unliving heart, and takes damage upon doing this. And also has a very large downtime, as Richmond must regenerate his heart, and is in a very vunerable stasis (at least three non-consecutive posts from Richmond, or five other posts that include characters nearby to Richmond, in case he completely faints afterwards) to any who wish to counterattack afterwards. Also runs the very possible risk of destroying just as much soldiers on his side as it is on the enemy side. He also rarely ever uses this technique, and only considers it as a last resort.
-Overlord Sothmir
$5,000 hell/w permission, make sure to read the requirements.
Name of Skill: Lacrimosa
Who can use it: Shadows only, and even more specifically, only ice-alligned Shadows. Having a depressing or agonizing past is also required, as this move draws power from the pain within the heart of the user.
What it does: Richmond is always surrounded by an aura of frost and cold. Richmond empowers and draws this aura deep into himself, and imbues it with his inner dark power. Giant spires of ice errupt from the ground in a circle around him, pushing back or killing any nearby foes. The surviving foes are what get the nasty part of the attack, as he pulls out the energy obtained from his ice-cold heart in the form of a large, icy, dark-blue orb that crackles with black bolts of energy from his chest, and in the centre of said orb is what appears to be a black heart. As his grip tightens upon the heart, the orb of dangerous energy rapidly expands, destroying foes with star and ice elemental energy in a dome that reaches a great distance in all directions. Foes who still survive are encased in ice. To finish off these foes, he crushes the black heart in his hand, causing the ice to violently shatter, causing the surviving foes to be reduced to shards of ice. The area around Richmond after this attack will be covered with a sheet of thick, cold ice that will not melt naturally for several days.
Advantages-Very powerful, and very effective at getting rid of foes that like to surround their prey. Ice energy harms fire elementals sufficiently, and star damage will harm ice-resistant foes. Very hard to interrupt due to the ice spires pushing away any threats. Also has a very nice range for being a character-catalyst skill.
Weaknesses-Despite the star energy, even decently robust ice elementals can manage to survive this spell and be in fighting condition. Richmond is actually crushing his own, unliving heart, and takes damage upon doing this. And also has a very large downtime, as Richmond must regenerate his heart, and is in a very vunerable stasis (at least three non-consecutive posts from Richmond, or five other posts that include characters nearby to Richmond, in case he completely faints afterwards) to any who wish to counterattack afterwards. Also runs the very possible risk of destroying just as much soldiers on his side as it is on the enemy side. He also rarely ever uses this technique, and only considers it as a last resort.
-Overlord Sothmir
$5,000 hell/w permission, make sure to read the requirements.