What is a skill?
A good question indeed! In this Role Play there are skills, and skills in this RP are super special techniques that are extremely hard to learn and painstaking to master. You have to form this whole mindset in your head about how to do it and eventually you begin to see, feel, and sense the skill itself. This kind of sounds like the description of a crazy person, but fear not you aren't technically crazy.
Skills are barely known among anyone in this world, so you can't just be like. "I LEARNED THIS WHEN I WAS LITTLE!" And be an instant master. That's kind of like god-modding. It's okay if you actually did learn when you were little I guess, but I think it's more fair to force your character through pain and suffering so they earn these awesome skills. ~
Eventually though, skills will become quite common, people will figure it all out and realize that everyone can do them with a lot of patience and effort. But sometimes, a skill you can do won't be able to be done by someone else just because their mind works differently, or they are just weak.
Skills don't have to do with a certain element or gift or any crap like that. They are special crap that you wish you could do in real life. No that does not mean flying. We already have that.
But then you have to ask, if no one knows about it how do you learn it!?!
Shh, calm down. It's okay, there is always a way.
One way is to stumble upon a magical scroll and learn about it from there, wee. Another way is to accidentally learn it and not even know it's a skill until a long time later. Or you could say it's a family tradition, or that there's a rumor going around about a skill and you try to learn it. So many possibilities!
Skills are barely known among anyone in this world, so you can't just be like. "I LEARNED THIS WHEN I WAS LITTLE!" And be an instant master. That's kind of like god-modding. It's okay if you actually did learn when you were little I guess, but I think it's more fair to force your character through pain and suffering so they earn these awesome skills. ~
Eventually though, skills will become quite common, people will figure it all out and realize that everyone can do them with a lot of patience and effort. But sometimes, a skill you can do won't be able to be done by someone else just because their mind works differently, or they are just weak.
Skills don't have to do with a certain element or gift or any crap like that. They are special crap that you wish you could do in real life. No that does not mean flying. We already have that.
But then you have to ask, if no one knows about it how do you learn it!?!
Shh, calm down. It's okay, there is always a way.
One way is to stumble upon a magical scroll and learn about it from there, wee. Another way is to accidentally learn it and not even know it's a skill until a long time later. Or you could say it's a family tradition, or that there's a rumor going around about a skill and you try to learn it. So many possibilities!
○Alchemy needs equivalent exchange, you can't turn a leaf into a rock, but you can turn a leaf into some sort of paper, so it is like cooking, you need certain ingredients to make up another thing, with alchemy you can also shape objects into different things, like from a rock into a stone chair
•Friction- this skill allows you to take one step forward and end up sliding on forever, or walk up a wall, this can be done my increasing the amount of friction or decreasing it in yourself, others, or objects, it can be quite useful if you want to hold someone down, or if you're really cruel, send them flying off a cliff
•Gravity- this skill allows you to shift gravity in a certain area, the better you get at this skill the more the range of how far your gravity skill can work will increase, so basically you could walk underwater or float into the sky, it's also useful to make your enemies completely helpless as they squirm on the ground or gasp for breath as you send them too far into the sky where there is little oxygen
○You cannot fly with this unless you kick your legs around to move slowly, or you use your gift as a boost
•Mind Read- this is an obvious skill that let's you read other's minds, creepy for others to know you can do this but good for you in more ways than one, your ears will be able to hear everything they think
○This isn't full-proof, a strong will can resist this skill
•Time travel- this skill let's you freeze time for objects, you can send objects back in time and into the future but it would take a lot of practice to send them far into the future or past, it's almost impossible to send the whole area around you into a different time but it is possible to temporarily freeze it with a lot of mental concentration, it is also harder to do this with large objects so it take practice
○When I say send back and forward in time, I mean like this: there's a block of ice, you send it back it to the future, it melts, you send the water to the past, it turns back into ice
•Invisible- invisibility is quite a hard skill to master for you have to make your entire body completely disappear, can you even imagine walking around without seeing the end of your own snout?
•Camouflage- this skill gives you the ability to blend in with your surroundings completely like a chameleon, you can turn yourself into a swaying tree or a sitting rock by just changing your color, and with practice you can change your texture and with tons of practice you can slightly change your shape to make things more believable
•Shape shifting- everyone knows what shape shifting is, I shouldn't even have to explain, but in this world it takes much practice to shape shift and you can only shape shift for so long
•Illusion- this skill allows you to make copies of yourself and to create scary or wonderful illusions, the more you practice the more illusions you can make and the more believable they become
•Copycat- this skill allows you to temporarily copy others' gifts or skills, you can only copy one thing at a time and when you do copy it, the skill or gift is only of average power, after the effects of copycat wear off you have to copy something else or copy the same thing again
•Glutton- this skill allows you to eat or drink absolutely anything and still get nutrients from it, you'll never go hungry, eating metal takes a lot of work though
•Hard shell- this skill makes your hide as tough as nails, walking into a fire pit has no affect on you, this takes lot's of endurance and training, this skill is almost impossible to use in battle for long periods of time since you need mental focus and silence most of the time, being attacked breaks your concentration
•Sticky- this skill allows you to stick to anything like freaken Spiderman, you can also stick things together, this is an unusual skill and isn't hard to master
•Sharp eyes- this skill increases your sight and makes you able to see through walls with a lot of concentration, with lot's of practice you can also see tracks that are very feint and hard to see, your range of sight also increases
•Mimic- this skill basically allows you to copy the voices of others exactly, you can even copy the noise of something like glass breaking, you become a living recorder
•Elastic- for this skill, your limbs become stretchy, you could reach out with your foreleg all the way to the top of a tree or you could flatten out your body into a blanket, whatever the stretchy allows
•Sizer- this skill allows you to change your size from the size of an ant to the size of a skyscraper, of course it takes a lot of practice since you have to understand how to shrink every part of your body in unison
•Numb- you can train yourself to not feel pain, though you can still get injured just like any other person, this skill is a two-edged sword in that it let's you fight better but you could end up getting seriously injured without realizing it, this also needs a lot of energy to use, so it can't be used for long
•Friction- this skill allows you to take one step forward and end up sliding on forever, or walk up a wall, this can be done my increasing the amount of friction or decreasing it in yourself, others, or objects, it can be quite useful if you want to hold someone down, or if you're really cruel, send them flying off a cliff
•Gravity- this skill allows you to shift gravity in a certain area, the better you get at this skill the more the range of how far your gravity skill can work will increase, so basically you could walk underwater or float into the sky, it's also useful to make your enemies completely helpless as they squirm on the ground or gasp for breath as you send them too far into the sky where there is little oxygen
○You cannot fly with this unless you kick your legs around to move slowly, or you use your gift as a boost
•Mind Read- this is an obvious skill that let's you read other's minds, creepy for others to know you can do this but good for you in more ways than one, your ears will be able to hear everything they think
○This isn't full-proof, a strong will can resist this skill
•Time travel- this skill let's you freeze time for objects, you can send objects back in time and into the future but it would take a lot of practice to send them far into the future or past, it's almost impossible to send the whole area around you into a different time but it is possible to temporarily freeze it with a lot of mental concentration, it is also harder to do this with large objects so it take practice
○When I say send back and forward in time, I mean like this: there's a block of ice, you send it back it to the future, it melts, you send the water to the past, it turns back into ice
•Invisible- invisibility is quite a hard skill to master for you have to make your entire body completely disappear, can you even imagine walking around without seeing the end of your own snout?
•Camouflage- this skill gives you the ability to blend in with your surroundings completely like a chameleon, you can turn yourself into a swaying tree or a sitting rock by just changing your color, and with practice you can change your texture and with tons of practice you can slightly change your shape to make things more believable
•Shape shifting- everyone knows what shape shifting is, I shouldn't even have to explain, but in this world it takes much practice to shape shift and you can only shape shift for so long
•Illusion- this skill allows you to make copies of yourself and to create scary or wonderful illusions, the more you practice the more illusions you can make and the more believable they become
•Copycat- this skill allows you to temporarily copy others' gifts or skills, you can only copy one thing at a time and when you do copy it, the skill or gift is only of average power, after the effects of copycat wear off you have to copy something else or copy the same thing again
•Glutton- this skill allows you to eat or drink absolutely anything and still get nutrients from it, you'll never go hungry, eating metal takes a lot of work though
•Hard shell- this skill makes your hide as tough as nails, walking into a fire pit has no affect on you, this takes lot's of endurance and training, this skill is almost impossible to use in battle for long periods of time since you need mental focus and silence most of the time, being attacked breaks your concentration
•Sticky- this skill allows you to stick to anything like freaken Spiderman, you can also stick things together, this is an unusual skill and isn't hard to master
•Sharp eyes- this skill increases your sight and makes you able to see through walls with a lot of concentration, with lot's of practice you can also see tracks that are very feint and hard to see, your range of sight also increases
•Mimic- this skill basically allows you to copy the voices of others exactly, you can even copy the noise of something like glass breaking, you become a living recorder
•Elastic- for this skill, your limbs become stretchy, you could reach out with your foreleg all the way to the top of a tree or you could flatten out your body into a blanket, whatever the stretchy allows
•Sizer- this skill allows you to change your size from the size of an ant to the size of a skyscraper, of course it takes a lot of practice since you have to understand how to shrink every part of your body in unison
•Numb- you can train yourself to not feel pain, though you can still get injured just like any other person, this skill is a two-edged sword in that it let's you fight better but you could end up getting seriously injured without realizing it, this also needs a lot of energy to use, so it can't be used for long