Tertiary Powers

Partway through the first trial and onward, some of the players starting discovering new powers... something the Legendaries hadn't even discovered before. These "tertiary powers" now make you even more powerful, but have limited uses.

tertiary power rules

You have a limited amount of use for this power. At the start of a Trial, you will have three uses.

You can get back one use after a short rest; such as a change in events within the Trial or an officially announced "short rest."

You will reset your uses entirely to three after a long rest. A long rest is considered the end of a Trial, or an officially announced "long rest".

If you are unsure if you are able to use your power in a situation, please don't be afraid to ask!
You may use this power during interims without mod supervision or approval, but if you need some sort of confirmation, please let one of us know and we will help you!

If you have any other questions about these powers, please reach out.

red souls: pyrofission

Ability to store and release energy in bursts.

The battle around you is pure chaos. Cats screeching, the sound ringing in your ears. Two cats clamber on your back, another coming from the front for your throat. Your paws frantically batter them away, but they overwhelm you, pushing you to the ground, battering your sides and your head and every part of your body pulsing with red hot pain. You want to make yourself small and invisible, and your whole body tenses up, blocking the worst of the hits from striking you in the face. The pain coils up inside you, in every muscle under your pelt. You aren't sure how much longer you can take it...and the moment the thought finishes, the pain releases in a snap, all of the energy exploding out in all directions around you, launching your attackers backwards. The pain that should be covering your body right now is barely more than a dull ache...the worst of it, you realize, had been released back outwards in a powerful blast.

The power of pyrofission gives your red soul the ability to store and release energy in powerful blasts.
The red soul must physically be collecting energy through contact with other cats or objects.
You can store energy from any action, but the power is much more useful when used during fights or physical challenges. Being hit with a bunch of punches or getting caught in a rockslide would have enough energy to allow your cat to release a large blast.
To use the power, your cat must take in energy without outputting much of it in a period of time. In your post, make it clear your cat wants to use their pyrofission ability, and a mod will respond accordingly.

Ability to sense the past.

You pause on your journey, curious. A small skeleton of a mouse lay before your paws, undisturbed by any forces around it. You lean down to see if you can tell how old it is...and suddenly you are overwhelmed by the action. Memories flood to you like waves, crashing and thundering through your mind. The brightest and most clear are of the skeleton itself, the most recent memory, the stillness and steady decay in the sunlight. You see the process of what it took to get there, insects and fungus growing over its fur. You see the mouse moments before its death, sick and shaking from some illness. You see the same mouse, younger, scurrying through the forest, eyes bright and alert. You see the first sight the mouse had seen in this world, felt the warm embrace of a mother long gone, the memory quiet and fuzzy like a long-forgotten dream. You blink, and it is over, but the skeleton still lays.

The power of perception gives your blue soul the ability to sense the history of any given object or living being.

These senses are extremely accurate, though the most recent history is much clearer and easier to understand.

History from long ago, for example the formation of a boulder, may come to your cat more in the form of a sense of understanding rather than visuals or scents or sounds.

Your cat maybe be able to see the recent past of an object, such as which cats have recently walked upon a path, or how a dead animal actually died.

To use the power, your cat must simply take in the scent of whatever they want to see. The mods will answer the power with a short description, outlining anything important, if there is anything.

You are allowed to fill in blanks that the mods may have left out for your own plot reasons as long as it does not interfere with the story.

BLUE souls: PERCEPTION

For example, if you are scenting a rock, the mods may tell you that a monster has recently stepped on the rock, or perhaps that the rock was used in a recent magical spell. If you would also like to add that the rock once had moss growing on it, that is fine, since it does not give your cat any sort of advantage or interfere with the plot.

purple souls: premonition

Ability to sense the near future.

You look around you, at your surroundings and the objects, and for a moment, you see something. It isn’t physical; it’s only for your own eyes. You see the importance of the things around you, and though you aren’t sure if it’s good or bad, you are drawn to certain places, certain objects. These things mean something, or they will, and you feel a sense of duty to figure out what that is.

The power of premonition gives your purple soul the ability to sense the near future, or possible near futures.

These senses are not specific or always entirely accurate; it depends on the actions taken.

These senses are also quite vague; your cat may not be able to decipher negative from positive.

For example, your cat might perceive their surroundings and be able to tell that a certain corner of a clearing will have some sort of importance soon. It might be that the corner is hiding an object the team needs to heal a teammate, or perhaps a switch that will release a ferocious beast. Your cat will struggle to recognize the difference, because premonition does not give them any.

Your cat may also ask a specific question, such as how will we escape this trap?

They might get a response such as, You feel drawn to a branch on the edge of the clearing, and something tells you to inspect the small, mouse-sized hole in the bottom corner of the back wall.

Answers may appear vague and non specfic, but it will be up to you to decipher them.

Ability to alter your voice and make others hear what you want.

Before you lays a sick, dying cat. You have done all you can to heal them; there is nothing left to do. You want to make this easier, you want to soothe their pain and terror. You lean down and whisper into their ear words of comfort, but it is not your voice. It is the voice of their loving mother, soft and familiar, and you can see the lines of worry press out of their face as they fade from this world. Another day, you stand before a crowd of cats, eagerly awaiting you to speak. You know this is important; you must make this count. When you open your jaws and say your first lines, the sound that floats across their ears is the sound of a bold and confident leader. The cats' eyes light up in triumph as you continue, using a voice that is not your own, rallying them to your cause.

The power of deception gives your green soul the ability to shift and change their voice in any way they see fit.

This can vary anywhere from simply making their voice louder, making it sound like another cat's, or making it sound like something else entirely (birdcalls, loud rustling, etc).

These specific sounds are limited to sounds that your cat has heard before; think of it more like mimicry. They cannot mimic the voice of a cat they have never met.

However, they might know what a confident and loud voice should sound like, so it is fair game if it is just altering their own voice.

To use the power, your cat must simply speak what they want, in the specified voice or sound they choose.

There is not an exact limit, but consider it like a balloon; the more the cat speaks in another voice, the more power runs out. After about five sentences or so, the power should be used up.

At any point when the cat switches back to their own voice, that use has ended.

green souls: deception

black souls: dissonation

Ability to listen through shadows.

Voices. There are voices around you, whispering. Voices of cats, voices of the trees, voices of the air. You can hear it all, but make sense of none. You instinctively reach for the shadows; they are a part of you now, after all. The shadows stretch, they take in the sounds, the voices, and they whisper them back to you. The secrets your teammates were sharing just earlier are no longer secrets; they said them to the shadows, so they now say them to you.

The power of dissonation gives your black soul the ability to listen through shadows.

The black soul must be concentrating intently on the shadows around them to listen, spy, or eavesdrop on cats around them. This power also can work while they are invisible.

For example, if a black soul is trying to figure out if there are any dangers up ahead, around a corner, they can reach out to the shadows resting there and listen for anything. This can be used to spy or sneak on other cats.

To use the power, your cat must stay very focused on their shadows, and make it clear in your post that they are using this power to get an accurate response from a mod.