Pretty skills

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Unknown2011-01-02 13:53:11
As I've mentioned countless times before, I really do love the Paradigmatics skill messages. I love how that they have a theme which ties them all together, and that they're really pretty. Especially the fact that my targets are usually the ones who get to see my sparkly pretty eyes. happy.gif

QUOTE
Enthrall
His eyes glowing a cobalt blue, Caerulo stands a bit straighter and looks decidedly more attractive than you realized.

Revelations
Eyes flashing with rainbow colours, Caerulo stares intently at you. Strange thoughts and perceptions challenge your grip on reality. When you finally pull yourself away from Caerulo's gaze, you find yourself twitching and drooling.

Flux
His eyes glowing a fearsome violet, Caerulo gazes fiercely around himself, causing the air to shimmer.

BadLuck
His eyes glowing a fearsome yellow, Caerulo stares at you with a burning gaze, and you cannot help but shudder at the intensity of the malice directed towards you.

Figment
Caerulo waves his hand before your eyes and smirks knowingly.

Chaotesign
His eyes glowing an emerald green, Caerulo presses his palms against his forehead. When he takes his hands away, the symbol of a nine pointed star glows upon his forehead.

GreyWhispers
His eyes glowing a fiery red, Caerulo looks at you, quickly looks away, then looks back at you with a malicious glint in his eye.

EyeSnare
His eyes glowing a lambent orange, Caerulo whispers to himself and gestures wildly. You think you hear the sound of soft scuffling from somewhere in the shadows.

GoodLuck
His eyes glowing a sparkling purple, Caerulo hugs himself and smiles inanely.

Reimagination
His eyes glowing a brilliant sapphire blue, Caerulo gazes at you and you feel something within you click and change.

Gnosis
Caerulo closes his eyes and breathes slowly before being suddenly surrounded by a bright rainbow aura.

Reality
Caerulo raises his arms as streams of colours leach out of the air around him, causing his body to shimmer and warp. With a sudden clap, the blurry ribbons of colour flash outwards, altering everything that they touch.

VisionFlux
Caerulo places his fingers on his temples and closes his eyes. When he opens his eyes, a wild golden light springs forth from his dilated pupils.

Truename
His eyes turning into starry orbs of pitch black, Caerulo gazes deep into your eyes. You feel his thoughts boring into your own, but you shake your head and cast him out.

Snafu
His eyes glowing a fearsome yellow, Caerulo stares about the location with an intense burning gaze, causing the colours in the room to bleed and shimmer.

Illumination
Muttering under his breath, Caerulo points at you, and a cold tremor courses through you. Your vision is filled with strange landscapes of impossible geometries and alien thoughts. Unable to withstand the mental and spiritual onslaught, you try to scream but your entire consciousness shatters as you helplessly watch your body break apart into a shower of wildly vibrating colours.

Butterfly
Caerulo cups his hands which glows with a golden light. He opens his hands and a butterfly with glittering multicolour wings flies into the air and circles around your head.

The only bit which I felt could be better are the Flux and BadLuck/Snafu lines. Both have 'His eyes glowing a fearsome ', which goes against how the other lines have a different adjective for the colour of our very pretty eyes.

My personal favourites are EyeSnare, GoodLuck, Truename and VisionFlux. wub.gif

So, anyone else have their favourite skill messages, either from the caster's point of view, from a third person view, or even from the receiving end of the skill?
Shiri2011-01-02 14:01:50
Moonburst was always pretty cool.
Druken2011-01-02 16:14:40
I love summoning the foxglove:

CODE
A tendril shoots up from the ground, leaves unfurling and a bud forming at the
end. It quickly blossoms and then forms into a shadowy foxglove fae.

And the dryad:

CODE
A dryad tree is dragged screaming out of the shadows, which bind around it. As
the shadows forcibly spin it around in a circle, its skin hardens into black
tree bark and its outstretched arms sprout diseased leaves.


And the night fae:

CODE
Shadows bleed up from the ground and form into a slaugh.


Bonds is cool, too:

CODE
Crying out to the Spirit of Night, you pull your hair and scream. Shadows cling
to your hair which begins to flail wildly around you, the black strands whipping
through the air.


And then meteor storm!
CODE
Gathering a handful of salt, you sprinkle it around the ground in a ritual
zodiac circle, being careful to clearly mark each of the planets and
constellations of the zodiac.

Standing in the centre of a ritual zodiac circle drawn in salt, you cast your
hands up towards the stars and beseech the celestial bodies for the gift of
absolute destruction, feeling their terrible power fill you. You bring your
hands crashing down and the spheres of the zodiac glow brightly as the stars
shimmer and begin to fall, an ominous shadow falling across the ground.

The skies shimmer beautifully as the stars grow brighter, streaking down towards
the earth.

The stars in the sky burst into pale flame as they descend through the
atmosphere, hurtling towards you in a beautiful and violent meteor storm. The
sky and earth are alight with coruscating white fire as the scintillating meteor
storm annihilates everything in its path with the unbridled power of celestial
bodies colliding.

The roaring inferno engulfs you as you fight to find a way out.
Siam2011-01-02 16:21:48
How could we forget the snowfaasia?!


Summoning new fae from aforementioned Snowflake:
QUOTE
A single, glistening snowflake drifts in on an ethereal breeze, spinning delicately in the air.
Several of the flake's branches begin to grow, expanding rapidly before melting, swirling and
freezing into the form of a wintry snoefaasia.

Furien2011-01-02 16:36:03
Meteor has been sexy incarnate.

QUOTE
With an elegant gesture, you command the winds to sweep away that which is
unwanted. A whirlwind swiftly rises up to do your bidding.


brb airbending

QUOTE
You release the grip on your staff, and it hovers in the air before you.
Unleashing all the powers in your demesne, clouds gather around a delicate
crystal staff, which lets loose forks of lightning.
From the four directions, winds blow in and gather, rotating slowly and
gathering more momentum. The clouds begin to twist as they follow in their wake.

Picking up speed, the relentlessly churning winds become more powerful, and
lightning begins to strike out from among the swirling clouds.

A towering cyclone forms, churning and twisting with the unrepentent force of
the elements, lightning running riot within its cavernous maw. Fortunately, you
are able to keep yourself safe from the murderous winds.


Too bad it'll rarely do decent damage. sad.gif

QUOTE
You shoot a single, deadly thought into the mind of Esano.
A vein on Esano's forehead begins to throb and blood pours down his nose. He
puts his hands to his head and screams just as his head explodes in a fountain
of gore.
You have slain Esano.
Unknown2011-01-02 16:45:51
This thread reminds me of something I've wanted for a while...a reference list of deathsight lines to the skill(s) that cause them. Some of those lines are really cool.
Jack2011-01-02 16:49:47
I always liked Nihilism/Necromancy for the effed up visceral flavour.

QUOTE (Wrack)
Sheathing yourself in the taint of Nil, you plunge your hand into the chest of Ashteru,
and rip out his soul. Shadowy snakes swarm from the darkness that surrounds you and burrow
into the soul of Ashteru, consuming his essence.
Ashteru's body falls lifelessly to the floor just as his soul disintegrates into the
seething mass of unholy darkness.
You have slain Ashteru.


QUOTE (Crucify)
You begin to chant the words of vile darkness, and an iron cross rises up from
the ground before Diamante. Vicious spikes slam into his flesh and nail him to
the cross. He screams in pain and agony as blood is splattered in all
directions.


QUOTE (Sacrifice)
You loom over the pitiful form of Diamante and plunge your hands into his
chest, ripping out his heart. You offer the bloody organ up to the Demon Lords
of Nil, and are rewarded with an ecstatic surge of power and might.
You have slain Diamante.
Kiradawea2011-01-02 17:01:54
Wrong thread.

Although I always found Starcall radiance very pretty.
Druken2011-01-02 17:07:46
QUOTE (Kiradawea @ Jan 2 2011, 12:01 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
On level 45. I ain't giving up before I get to level 60.

Is it odd that I remembered the answer to a muslim word faster than a christian word?



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Kiradawea2011-01-02 17:34:25
So THAT is where the post went.

I am really tired today.
Neos2011-01-02 18:56:59
I love the phantom sphere kill message from the victims point of view:
CODE
On command, the splinters of a phantom sphere fly into your head and you close
your eyes tight to ward off possible pain. "NO SUCH LUCK!" you hear Neos shout,
as you are drawn into a world where your fears manifest themselves in every
agonizing second. Your heart rate accelerates uncontrollably until you finally
feel it give way and all that's left is the peace of death.
You have been slain by Neos.

Really wish I could show it to others more often. sad.gif
And the mindburst message is pretty cool. The Hailstorm death message is cool too, though I need to find the log with it.
Unknown2011-01-03 06:27:01
Timequake:

QUOTE
Lawliet punches her fist in the air, and an explosion of light and sound
resounds around her. Holding streams of wavering bands of energy in her hand,
Lawliet whips them back and forth, sending shockwaves reverbating through the
air.
Reality wavers and bucks as the world around you stops and starts erratically.
You relive competing possible futures over and over, until you feel your very
being fragment and dissolve into screaming particles.
You have been slain by Lawliet.



Punching your fist through layers of temporal fabric, you
wrench the timelines of those around you and whip them back and forth. Time
begins to fragment and quake, sending shockwaves reverberating through the
air.
Synbios jerks violently back and forth, suddenly disappearing from existence
then reappearing in slightly different locations. Finally, he breaks apart and
fragments into small vibrating particles.
Unknown2011-01-03 09:43:01
QUOTE (Synbios @ Jan 3 2011, 01:27 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
whips them back and forth

God DAMN it I cannot see this phrase anymore without wanting to pour bleach in my ears. crying.gif
Casilu2011-01-03 09:45:53
Well, there is Phoebus and Sylandra and...

Oh pretty SKILLS, nevermind.
Unknown2011-01-03 09:48:19
Summoning the Aeromancer staff! My staff name is different, but the actual process is the same:

AEROCAST STAFF
QUOTE
You lift your hands over your head and dark clouds form above you. Thunder crashes and booms,
heralding forks of lightning that crack loudly and blast against the ground. You catch one
thunderbolt in your hands, the electricity thrumming between your fingers like slick ice. With a cry
of triumph, you wrest the lightning to the ground, where it quickly solidifies into a luminous staff
of static-wreathed crystal.
Unknown2011-01-03 11:48:33
QUOTE (Phoebus @ Jan 3 2011, 05:43 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
God DAMN it I cannot see this phrase anymore without wanting to pour bleach in my ears. crying.gif


Sometimes, a timestream is just a timestream, ja?

Now for some crystalweapon making, in true Institute fashion:

QUOTE
You fold the charged gemstones together, forming a glowing sphere of molten
that slowly turns above your . The crystal
conduits within the darken and emit a high pitched whine
while the warning symbols along the walls flash with . You slowly
pull the crystal into a , which glows with .
As the crystal cools, you it until it becomes an ,
which smokes with the of the .


Now, before you get any ideas... -eye Phoebus-, I've taken the liberty of declassifying it:

QUOTE
You fold the charged gemstones together, forming a glowing sphere of molten
crystal onyx that slowly turns above your outstretched hands. The crystal
conduits within the Laboratory of the Void darken and emit a high pitched whine
while the warning symbols along the walls flash with crimson light. You slowly
pull the crystal into a spinning rod, which glows with an incandescent white
light. As the crystal cools, you spin it until it becomes an onyx void blaster,
which smokes with the dark energies of the void.
Neos2011-01-04 04:05:29
QUOTE
You raise your hands and dark blue clouds form overhead. Lightning crackles above and the clouds release an onslaught of cold,
icy hail stones that are the size of your fist.
The icy pummelling of the hailstones is too much for Malarious to bear, and he dies in freezing misery.
You have slain Malarious.

Hailstorm kill message. I luff it.

Kill message from the killer for phantom spheres:
QUOTE
You command a phantom sphere to invade Ulen's mind. Powered with the assistance of three other phantom spheres, you exert utter control over Ulen and draw him into a world where his fears reign supreme. You feel your phantom spheres dissipate as his heart simply stops.
You have slain Ulen.
Unknown2011-01-16 07:41:50
Crystalspire:

QUOTE
You release the charged gemstones into the air, which spin about in a funnel of
multicoloured light. As the gems spin faster and faster, they become a blur of
twisting ribbons. You clap your hands, and the twisting gems freeze into a
column that spirals upwards in a scintillating spire of crystalline beauty.
Unknown2011-01-26 05:55:55
Not the skills themselves, but the learnings lines for Telepathy are quite pretty.
Unknown2011-01-26 06:07:10
QUOTE (Kayte @ Jan 26 2011, 01:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Not the skills themselves, but the learnings lines for Telepathy are quite pretty.

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