Spade's Funky Shizz

[Spade Aeries]

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CASE FILE: Transmutation Equipment

Spade Aeries
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NAME:
→ Clairvoyance
→ Memory breaking
→ Inception
→ Digging
→ Truth Serum

TYPE:
→ Alkahestry: Mental Stimulation
→ Alkahestry: Mental Stimulation
→ Alkahestry: Mental Stimulation
→ Alkahestry: Mental Stimulation
→ Alkahestry: Mental Stimulation

LEVEL:
→ Four

FORM:
→ It is a tattoo of the transmutation circle located around Spade's belly button. He also has two Xingese pentagrams tattooed to both his wrists in black. When Spade is within reach however, he is skilled in various forms of martial arts, and can kick your ass or use his steel wire to strangle you.
→ Same.
→ Same.
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→ Same.

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BRIEFING:
→ The transmutation circle is an array of broken circles, swirling about each other in hopes of becoming one. In the middle, is an oval in which a line attempts to break it in half and fails. Just like the tenacious human mind that cannot ever be completely broken. This circle works against all elements, and everything else; there is no weakness to an attack on the human mind. This is both defensive and offensive. Spade must know every detail of the brain and everything it is made up of. He must be able to discern certain chemicals and nerves from each other in order for his technique to work.
→ He needs to be able to tell hateful memories from cherished memories due to the reaction of chemicals on certain lobes. He must know where memories are kept and interpret the new from the old while also confirming feelings toward them.
→ Spade must be able to envision exactly what he wants to implant into the person's head in order for inception to work.
→ He has to hold the question in which he wants to obtain a memory-answer concerning in his mind before imposing it upon the person's mind.
→ Spade must be able to use alkahestry to isolate the nerves in the pons and medula oblongata to effect the GABAA receptors of the brain by touching the person at the base of the head over the the cervical spine.


PICTURE:
→ Brain circle (on his abdomen):

Spoiler:

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SPECIAL ABILITIES:
→ Clairvoyance (Alkahestry): The brain is made up of an array of chemicals that cannot be easily manipulated with alkahestry. Though no alchemist before has dared delve into this complex and dangerous world, Spade has apparently found a way. He spent approximately seventeen minutes conjuring the genius work of art that is his transmutation circle. The strange-looking drawing can hardly be called alchemy or alkahestry for that matter, but to the world’s surprise, it has proven to work. Spade focuses solely on the neocortex section of the brain that controls sensory perception, higher-order thinking, learning, and memory. Many alchemists and alkahestrists before have attempted to piece together the confusion of the human brain, but they have always failed. What Spade does is he taps into the chemical balance of a certain enemy’s mind and changes it. In order to do this, he must be within fifty feet of them and in deep concentration. But once he is, their perception is disrupted. Once light hits the retina, normally it takes one-tenth of a second for it to translate into an image, which then creates a neural delay to the brain. But it is said that the human visual system has evolved to compensate for those neural delays by generating images of what will occur one-tenth of a second into the future. This foresight enables humans to react normally to events happening in the present time, by typically seeing the future. Now, what Spade does is he rids the brain temporarily of this foresight. The result is that they would be thrown one-tenth of a second into the past, allowing Spade to dance at least one full circle around them before they register the fact that he is even moving. But now, Spade can tweak his alkahestry to the point where he has an entire seven minutes to do whatever he desires before their perception returns. To others, it appears as if Spade freezes time only for that person or people, thus, his title Clairvoyance: one who sees into the future--seven minutes ahead of the opponent. To the person under Spade's alkahestry, everything around them (including themselves) seems to move in slow motion except their thoughts.

→ Memory Breaking (Alkahestry): Memories themselves are impermanent essences recorded in the mind. Spade knows this fact extremely well due to the loss of his brother's memories. Through a thick cloud of depression, he began studying the workings of the mind. By memorizing each lobe and nerve swirling in complex webs within the skull, he began to slowly discover how specific memories--long-term and short-term--sink into the file cabinets of cells. Knowing how something becomes stained is also a way in which to begin finding a way to unstain it. Spade then dove into his family's alkahestric books that taught him secret Xingese methods of tapping into the Dragon's pulse and reading the Earth's chi. This was the key to the magic of the body. Spade's growing ability was not something that he could easily practice or test on anyone, and thus he opened a clinic in Central for the severely depressed. At first... no one came, but then slowly war veterans and the brokenhearted began to trickle in. He slowly began to learn which nerves in what areas of the brain contained the strongest, most important memories. And from there, he could depict what kind of emotion they embodied to that person. Spade then could choose to erase their most precious memories or their most hated memories. By doing this, he could either ruin someone's life or correct it. After perfecting his memory alkahestry, he could by just touching someone's head activate it at any time he desired using the power of his own mind. The range of this is up to half a mile. After more time using this ability, Spade slowly grew comfortable navigating other people's minds, thus being able to choose being negative and positive memories or all their memories in general. With this power at his disposal, he could erase all a person's memories, current memories, negative memories, or positive memories.

→ Inception (Alkahestry): After no practice, Spade soon gained the ability of implanting simple concepts into people's minds. He cannot change a way someone thinks and he cannot change their natural personality; the only thing he can do is implant a simple idea or memory and hope that they change in the way that he wishes. An example of this is that he could make someone believe that he is their brother by tweaking their memories slightly. What he couldn't do would be to make them believe that he is their sister. He cannot mess with common sense or the obvious or he risks getting found out. The unique factor in this ability is that Spade does not need to touch the person in order to corrupt their brain cells with his wishes; he merely needs to flick his lighter so that they hear. If they do not hear it, then it will not work. This sound that allows the right fluctuation of sound waves is the trigger to his Inception. And Spade will do everything he can in order for the sound of his lighter lighting to seep into the ears of his prey. He can only effect five people at a time.

→ Digging (Alkahestry): By being within a range of ten feet, Spade is capable of creating a form of inception that is not necessarily implanting, but withdrawing a proposed element of command. Meaning, that he must first hold a question strongly in his mind and then impose that on the mind of the person in question. Without their knowledge, the projected images will transfer into Spade's own mind upon that question being asked. For example, if he wants to know where a weapon is being hidden, images from that person's memory will fuzzily appear to Spade. During this time, he is blind-sighted and very susceptible to any physical attack. Another miscalculation can be the time of the memory. Memories can last up to ten minutes, effectively blinding his mind's eye and making it hard to concentrate on anything else. In short, it completely weakens his awareness of the world around him and outside his mind. From those memories, however, he can obtain valuable information by discerning where an item is or interpreting them to gain knowledge. It's like a human portable television!

He does not have to touch them or inform them in any way what he is doing. The other party will not feel any different nor have any recollection of that memory being accessed. Spade can then easily choose to remove that memory completely from them if it advantages him. Or he can leave it be where it remains as just a normal memory. Sometimes memories can be fragmented, coming to Spade in fragments of colors and clipped sounds. It can be very hard to get anything from some memories, ridding the ability void.

→ Truth Serum (Alkahestry): By touching a person at the base of their head right over the cervical spine, Spade has the ability to use alkahestry in order to isolate the nerves in the pons and medula oblongata and effect the GABAA receptors of the brain. By manipulating them in a manner similar to barbituate drugs, the effect here would result in something akin to using sodium pentathol, coercing the receiver to tell the truth. Thus, simply if withdrawing memories via a single question in not effective in some way, Spade can use this energy-sapping technique to force the other person to be completely truthful in verbally answering posed questions aloud. Memories of the encounter can then be completely wiped from the individual's mind or kept there for them to know just how screwed they are.

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[Dai]

A P P R O V E D

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[Guest]

HMM...

Considering all this mental alkahestry is really iffy in itself and dangerous territory, everything aside, I think you should add a few more limits and facts for the truth serum. Or, if not, then at least understand this stuff - you've specified that they have to answer the question truthfully, yes. But you haven't specified the extent of this truth to which they answer. For instance:

'Who killed the man on the street the other day?'
'Jeff Wallace'

and

'Who killed the man on the street the other day?'
'A person'

are both entirely valid answers, presuming that said Jeff Wallace is indeed a person. So you need to understand that there's a big hole in the fact that someone can dodge this entirely - though I'd say considering the nature of the alkahestry and the situations it'd be used in, only those with the ability to hold under vast amounts of pressure would be able to twist this. It's all a little shady.

As a summary: it's not the alkahestry itself I'm worried for, more its tactical application. So long as you understand that coercion has a limit and can be manipulated on both ends, then I'm perfectly willing to approve this.

[Reila Tsukino]

That hole was left on purpose so people can dodge it.

[Guest]

Alright. Just making sure.

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