Author's Choice: The Returning Visitor's Abilities π (Part 2 of 3)
Added 2023-09-19 12:30:01 +0000 UTCAs always, these will be best experienced and understood by experiencing them in-game.
Retrocognition
"The ability to see or look into the past. It is usually illustrated by seeing glimpses of scenes or snatches of images that can then be used to inform actions/feelings." -TFS, Stats page explanation.
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Hi Jess! πΒ I double-checked the coding within the alpha to make sure that everything is lining up after reading your comment; it's all good. The abilities in TFS will come into better focus through use, which is something I'm eager for you to read. We have only just begun it with that instance outside of Turn the Page. :D There are three abilities: Retrocognition, Extrasensory Awareness, and Empathetic Impressions. So, the rocking chair moment in the grandfather's journal is Empathetic Impressions due to the emotional component of the MC sensing that their grandmother loved them/the family very deeply; her rocking chair left a 'signature' the MC was able to intuit. They weren't glimpsing into the past so much as /feeling/ an aftershock of a feeling. The need to close the curtains is Extrasensory Awareness because the MC has an instinctive inkling to act. It was if they had a sixth sense or just knew to do so. The other moment the grandfather mentions is the MC catching a glass before it's meant to fall off which is Retrocognition. I hope this helps, especially if you then explore the scenes with A to spot the differences between the three abilities. ππ It's encouraging to know that you're curious about the MC's abilities. It makes me more excited to write the ability scenes. It's my hope that the reader grows/learns alongside the MC. There's a lot to unpack. π₯°
Aelsa Trevelyan
2023-09-27 14:09:52 +0000 UTCAre the choices misaligned in the alpha or am I just understanding the abilities wrong. Iβd have expected the rocking chair/grandma ability to be retrocognition and the sensing the need to close the window to be empathetic, but itβs the other way around?
queenofgaylions
2023-09-20 20:52:32 +0000 UTCMy favorite ability! Chose this one for my first MC made in TFS and I'll def be sticking with it. It sounds like it'll be really fun to witness when it starts popping up more. Imma play mystical I Spy on the entire town.
Sadie
2023-09-19 17:05:40 +0000 UTCInteresting! I need to play with this choice more, I've never thrown the walkie talkie at the doppel before! Hee hee to the MC's own emotions coloring what they see. Isn't that true for everyone? (You like a person so you give them benefit of the doubt. You dislike a person, so they constantly do wrong in your eyes)
ckl
2023-09-19 16:38:39 +0000 UTC*such* an interesting ability! I'm actually a little surprised - I've never picked retrocognition for Phoebe, but from the way our Grandfather wrote about it, and the suggestion in the snippet you get for picking the abilities, I had assumed retrocognition was the ability to remember how current and future events happened in previous "cycles" (I have a whole theory about Fernweh existing in a time loop) and use that information to inform their current actions
Bumblebee
2023-09-19 15:19:45 +0000 UTC
