Long Lost Nostalgia

Skill

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Description	You don't really remember having been a kid and growing up when they had good toys. Or really much of growing up at all. But your mind is still filled with dancing memories and dreams of the toys of old. If you could just pluck them out of your mind somehow, you'd be the perfect Santa Claus.
When Used	Something about better times tickles at the corner of your memory. It almost dares you to dwell on it, drowning yourself in memories of better times.

Sources

Using a nostalgic toy catalog

Uses

Consumes Eclipse in your system in exchange for summoning various items. The cost of summoning increases each time you use it in a day, but resets at rollover. Other Etheric-type effects that can be used to power etheric techniques can also be used (see etheric for details). This skill and other Summoning Skills share the same counter for summoning costs.

Summon	Cost	Total cost
1	1	1
2	2	3
3	4	7
4	8	15
5	16	31
6	32	63
7	64	127
n	2n–1	2n–1

If you focus once, with enough energy of Etheric:

You kick back and think about better times. They're times that never really happened, but that's the magic of nostalgia.

You found: (one of items below)

You found: toy bricks (50% of the time)

You've summoned <n> items today.

If you are not Etheric:

You're not really in the right state of mind for that right now.

If you do not have enough energy of Etheric to focus even once:

You don't feel up to doing that again right now.

Summary of items

All these items normally have an equal chance of dropping, except the drone. If you have defeated a Tin Soldier today, a Tin Drone is added to the possible drops.

Img	Item	Type	Effect	Use Effect (20 Energy)	Effects
	nostalgic jacks	Offhand	+4 Reflexes	Nostalgic Movements	+2 Power to Techniques Using Reflexes
	nostalgic teddy bear	Offhand	+4 Will	Nostalgic Comfort	+2 Power to Techniques Using Will
	nostalgic xylophone	Offhand	+4 Perception	Nostalgic Tones	+2 Power to Techniques Using Perception
	nostalgic OmniYo	Offhand	+4 Strength	Nostalgic Certainty	+2 Power to Techniques Using Strength
	tin soldier	Usable	Use to start a fight with a Tin Soldier (see below)
	tin drone	Usable	Use to start a fight with a Tin Armored Drone

Attempting to use a "nostalgic" toy while you have another "nostalgic" effect already active:

Old toys are awesome, but you already feel pretty nostalgic. You can save this for later.

Summary of Bricks

You can multi-use toy bricks to make a variety of items:

#	Img	Item	Type
2		brick apple	Food (2 Hunger)
5		brick knuckles	Weapon (+3 Melee Power, +3 more with Eclipse) Can give Brick Punch technique
10		brick house	Furniture (see below)
25		brick figure	Furniture (+1 Eclipse Duration)

Techniques

Fighting with brick knuckles equipped can give the Brick Punch technique. Using a tin soldier or tin drone while Etheric lets you fight an animated version of the item. If you beat it with one of the nostalgic toys equipped you learn a special technique. With a brick house installed you can learn Tin Shot from the soldier and Tin Artillery from the drone. Tin opponents block all attacks except those based on a stat getting a bonus from a "nostalgic" effect. Most of the techniques do extra damage with the appropriate nostalgic item equipped.

Chain	Technique	Type	Attribute	Base Dam/Def	Item	Special
	Brick Punch	Melee	Strength	4	brick knuckles	Leaves Jagged Wounds with the brick knuckles equipped
	Discordant Chimes	Etheric	Perception	8	nostalgic xylophone
	Scatter Jacks	Evade (M)	Reflexes	8	nostalgic jacks	ineffective vs. flying or swimming enemies
	Smother	None	Will	4	nostalgic teddy bear	ineffective vs. no organs, does direct damage and defends (M,E,S) with bear equipped
	Spinning Surprise	Stealth	Strength	3	nostalgic OmniYo	+4 as filler
	Tin Shot	Ranged	Perception	4	brick house	10 damage as closer
	Tin Artillery	Fire	Will	12	brick house	enhanced following a rocket technique