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[DEFUNT] Regains v.3


Regains
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OLD PAGE. GO TO THE CURRENT REGAIN PAGE HERE

As a character spends time in Kaisou, they can gain (or regain) different perks. These come in many different forms, and can either be things that came from their original canons or new items altogether, depending on what you're interested in! Instead of requesting threads for regains, a set number of regains will be obtainable each month. Each character will get a total of 4 points each month to spend on regains. Any unused points will get rolled over each month, so players can save up and spend big.

If you want to see the old regain page, you can view them here: Year 1 (2022) | Year 2 (2023)

Memory Regains
Characters who are modern AU will occasionally get flashbacks to previous lives (aka their memories from their original canon). Memory regains are triggered organically through threads and interactions, usually through repeating actions that are similar to the original memory. At this time, no one is sure why these memories are surfacing. Perhaps it indicates you are a reincarnation, or it's simply an echo from another universe.

Memory regains do not require mod approval and there is no maximum number you can regain a month.

Item, Appearance, and Ability Regains
Characters can obtain items and abilities that came from their original canon world. It must be an item or ability that the character would've reasonably been able to have access to and/or owned in their canon (No Infinity Stones for Peter Parker, in other words). You can weaken abilities to regain them at a lesser cost, and then boost their power by future regain points.

AU characters can also regain features to their appearance that they had in their original canon (OU characters don't have to bother with that as they come looking like their canon selves).

Characters may also gain new abilities that are unique to Kaisou. For more information about Kaisou's power system and the potential abilities, you can read up about it here.

THE FOLLOWING LISTED ARE FOR CANON ABILITIES AND OTHER REGAINABLE ITEMS. IF YOU WANT NEW POWERS, PLEASE CONSULT THE ELEMENTAL POWER PAGE. That is also the page to select from when picking powers for Paranormal AU backgrounds!


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Refunding Gacha Goodwill purchases
If you've purchased some items from the Gacha Goodwill that you don't wish to keep, you can turn it to this post in exchange for gacha pulls. For every 2 items that you turn in, you will receive 1 gacha pull. This applies to goodwill and grab bag items. While there's no minimum timeframe you have to hold onto these items, we will not do refunds on days Goodwill is open.

If you wish to refund other items that WEREN'T purchased at the goodwill, you can do so over at the Gacha Goodwill when it's open.

If you wish to do so, please fill out this form:
Goodwill Refund Form


Re-Regains
Players who previously dropped a character and then re-apped has the option to pay half price (or rounded to the nearest whole number) for any regains they previously bought before. Re-Regains can apply to any abilities, items, and previously obtained gacha winnings.

Re-Regain Pricing & Form
Original PriceNew Price
1 point1 point
2 points1 point
3 points2 points
4 points2 points
8 points4 points


Re-Regain Form:


Regain Community Pool
Wish to obtain a regain but lack the points for it? Starting The mod team is offering a pool of points that anyone can use! These points are brought in by player donations and whatever points don't get used by gacha goodwill once someone drops.

When you wish to use these points, please specify so in your comment. Limits vary based on the type of regain.

If you're looking to purchase a world regain, each player is allowed to use 8 points per month from the pool. Please specify in your comment that you're using it from the community pool!

Meanwhile during November & December 2024, we are test-piloting using the community pool for personal regains! During this test period players can use up to 4 points towards personal regains that they cannot afford either fully or partially. Just please specify in your comment that you're planning to use community pool points.

Current Community Pool Total: 148 points


If you wish to donate points to the community pool, you can! For every 6 points that players donate to the pool, they will receive a special gift as a thank you.

Donation Gifts & Form
Players can choose one of the following for their thank you gift.
  • Genshin Impact Vision (Element is up to player, limit one per character)
  • Trails series ARCUS
  • Tokyo Xanadu Soul Device
  • A Persona (limit one per character unless they're the canon equivalent of a Persona wildcard)
  • FFX-2 Dressphere
  • Friendship Power Bracelet (see gacha goodwill)
  • Free Real Estate (see gacha goodwill)
  • Unlisted Monster type (meaning your character can become a monster that's not currently listed. However this monster type will need to be mod approved)
  • One Legendary Pokemon, depowered (not Arceus or Mewtwo)


If you wish to donate, please fill out this form here


Filling out Regain Descriptions
Unfortunately, the mod team does not have the time or resources to possibly become canon familiar with every single canon out there. Because of that, when you fill out your regain descriptions: please explain it in a manner that a canon blind person can reasonably understand. For instance we don't need you to explain what a sword is, but a basic explanation of a keyblade is would help. We don't need full essays, but please try to avoid any canon terminology when a common English word will do. If you HAVE to use canon-terminology, define in your comment what it means. You can link resources to help explain, but please try to use resources that are canon-blind friendly.

Here's a guideline of typical things the mods like to know:
  • What does the item do?
  • How powerful is it?
  • Does it have any abilities that are potentially gamebreaking?
  • What are the limitations on it?
  • How big is it?

Should a regain request come off as confusing to the regain mods, the regain mods will ask once for clarification regarding the parts that confuse them. If the player is unable to clarify what the mod was confused about in their following comment, the regain will be automatically-rejected and the player will need to wait 24 hours before they can submit the regain again.

This clarification rule ONLY applies to regains that have been submitted to this page. If you want to talk to a mod about questions you have with the regain before you submit, you're free to do so either on the FAQ page or in the Mod Questions channel in the discord.

When Should I Expect My Regains to Get Approved?
The regain mod team hold office hours from 2pm EST to 4pm EST on every day EXCEPT most Tuesdays & Thursdays (except the ones that fall during busy times in the month such as when AC is going on), and major holidays (aka Christmas, New Years, etc). Sometimes regains will get approved outside of office hours, but please don't count on it. If you have questions on what days the regain office will be open, you can check the game calendar.

Occasionally if a regain request is particularly complicated, it may be put on hold while a decision about it can be made. However, even in cases like that it should take no longer than one week, so if your regain hasn't be responded to in a week - feel free to contact us and let us know because that most likely means it got missed somehow!

That said, if you need need to contact us about your regains, we ask that you do not privately contact any regain mods about your regains. If you have any questions about your regains, please use the proper channels: the game discord, the FAQ page, or the mod contact page. Thank you!

FINAL IMPORTANT NOTE: While the Activity Check is underway (typically the 28th - 30/31st) we ask that you do not comment with a regain UNLESS you have completed your AC for the current month. Once you have cleared AC, you can go purchase as you like. Thank you!

Looking to regain something? Fill out this form!

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anyprice: (I wanna tear and fold)

[personal profile] anyprice 2024-04-01 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Prince
Character Name: Sampo Koski
Link to Activity Check-in: here!

Regain Type: General Power
Regain Details: Luck (constant) (+4)
Points: 4
hoshikiri: (cascade.)

[personal profile] hoshikiri 2024-04-01 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Bon
Character Name: Takame Kesi
Link to Activity Check-in: Here

Regain Type: Birthday Skeleton!!
Regain Details: Takame will not freak out this time and kindly ask for something his other sister-figure gave him to hold on to, her old Morin Khuur. He won't know how to play it but he just misses her terribly, okay?
Points: Free!
prunedworlds: (what's going on?)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2024-04-02 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Apologies for the belated reply (I blame being at a con all weekend) but question about the pokemon! Does it start out knowing any moves or would they all have to be purchased as regains per the prices on the regain page? And for regained moves, is anything potentially usable in the games legal, or would it be limited to, say, just moves learned by leveling up, moves from the current gen, etc?

Also, would a pokemon start out knowing one of its abilities (I assume hidden abilities are out, so it'd just be Leaf Guard in Leafeon's case) or is that something that would need to be regained? I could only find the info on the move regain prices so I wanted to double-check to make sure I'm not missing anything!
standless: (GASP...)

[personal profile] standless 2024-04-02 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Usagi
Character Name: Jonathan Joestar
Link to Activity Check-in: Here

Regain Type: Monster Change (Upgrade)
Regain Details: Going from Medium Shapeshifting to High Shapeshifting
Points: 1

Regain Type: Birthday Skeleton! (4/4! WHOO!)
Regain Details: Once JoJo gets over the shock (and politely thanks the Birthday Skeleton for what must be hard work indeed!) he will ask if it's possible to see his childhood dog again- and he'll get Danny, his former Great Dane!
Points: Free!
prunedworlds: (let's be friends)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2024-04-02 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the clarification! That's largely what I thought but I wanted to be sure.

Two quick followups though:

1. I assume pokemon need at least 1 move regained to battle, but do they need regains to level up grow in strength, or does that happen gradually over time?

2. In the pokemon games the term "ability" specifically means a passive trait all pokemon have that is separate from the 4 moves they can learn. So leafeon's normal ability Leaf Guard passively protects it from status effects when conditions are met (battling in harsh sunlight) while its hidden ability Chlorophyll acts similar but boosts its speed instead. Would these still count separately from the 4 moves a pokemon can learn like in the games (i.e. each pokemon can have up to 4 moves AND one of its abilities)? And what sort of pricing would they have?
illucesco: (the heart of a child is beating)

[personal profile] illucesco 2024-04-02 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
doing this again! sorry about the confusion, truly.

Player Name: Effy
Character Name: Noctis Lucis Caelum
Link to Activity Check-in: here!

Regain Type: Dangerous Personal Item - Ring of the Lucii
Regain Details: the family heirloom ring of the royal family of Lucis! greatly depowered and lacking its spells, but it has enough to act as a power conduit for pacts and will instantly kill anyone who is not of Noctis’s bloodline who puts it on. it still damages Noctis if he puts it on and uses it, and it still has the creepy whispering.
Points: 3 pts

Regain Type: Canon Ability - Pacts/Contracts/Links
Regain Details: Noctis, once he gets the Ring of the Lucii, has the ability to grant his friends access to some aspects of Lucian royal magic. he's not as powerful as his father, so the elemancy and healing potionfying remains his exclusive thing while his water/selkie abilities don't come into play at all, but here are the relevant things that can be granted:

  • WARPING: short-range teleportation with a focus object. throw a weapon or a small object and immediately teleport to it. I'd say this is 3 pts like the low-level teleportation.


  • ARMIGER ACCESS: access to Noctis's pocket dimension, and therefore his weapons, his medical kit, and his fishing rod. costs 1 pt adding extra slots for other people's inventory requires 1 pt or a korok hunt. Noctis will be VERY adamant that no one touches the Royal Arms on account of they're dangerous enough for him to use.

  • Points: 2 pts for 1 slot!
    actnormal: (Default)

    [personal profile] actnormal 2024-04-03 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
    Player Name: Fae
    Character Name: Caelus
    Link to Activity Check-in: Here

    Regain Type: Monster Change
    Regain Details: Puca - Speech Mimicry
    Points: Free!!

    Regain Type: Pact Powers - Noctis
    Regain Details: Warping. According to Effy, "short-range teleportation with a focus object. throw a weapon or a small object and immediately teleport to it. I'd say this is 3 pts like the low-level teleportation."
    Points: 3

    Regain Type: Pact Powers - Noctis
    Regain Details: Armiger access. This one's just access to whatever Noct shoves in there
    Points: 1

    Regain Type: Birthday Skeleton
    Regain Details: Pom-Pom plush
    Points: Free!
    crisantemo: (forget about the innocence)

    [personal profile] crisantemo 2024-04-03 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
    Player Name: Jay
    Character Name: Lapis De Fiore
    Link to Activity Check-in: Here!

    Regain Type: General Power
    Regain Details: Luck (Constant: +4)
    Points: 4
    whiteshroud: (jun38)

    [personal profile] whiteshroud 2024-04-03 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
    Player Name: Yuff
    Character Name: Jun Kohinata
    Link to Activity Check-in: Here

    Regain Type: Pokemon power up
    Regain Details: Jun's Fuecoco, Koukou, will regain the ability Ember. Basically it's a tiny flame breath.
    Points: 1 point since it's legit a level 1 spell.
    beyondtheend: (Default)

    [personal profile] beyondtheend 2024-04-07 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
    Player Name: Jade
    Character Name: Frieren
    Link to Activity Check-in: Here!

    Regain Type: Birthday Skeleton
    Regain Details: Frieren will ask for a statue of Himmel the Hero. She's only mildly freaked out, but mostly she's just intrigued. Don't mind any questions she asks the skeleton.
    Points: Free!
    lapislazily: (◆ a real man talks with his back)

    [personal profile] lapislazily 2024-04-07 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
    Player Name: Saffy
    Character Name: Zhongli
    Link to Activity Check-in: here

    Regain Type: Ability regain - Power Boost
    Regain Details: Building him back up to Archon level earth manipulation, so going from 8 pts to 12.
    Points: 4

    Regain Type: Ability regain - Dominus Lapidus (full)
    Regain Details: Dominus Lapidis was bought with 4 pts as a shield ability, but it also has a portion where he summons magical stone columns that resonate with other magical stone things and do pulsing earth damage to enemies caught within the area of effect. He can only have two at a time, and there is a 12 second cooldown before he can summon a second stone stele.
    Points: 4 (willing to pay more as needed!)
    jackdawvision: (i am gonna see you there; there)

    [personal profile] jackdawvision 2024-04-09 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
    Player Name: Effy
    Character Name: Edward Kenway
    Link to Activity Check-in: here!

    Regain Type: Elemental Regain - Elemental Forcefield (Master)
    Regain Details: free 4-point regain from gacha pulls!
    Points: free!

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