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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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poisontippedcure: (Default)

[personal profile] poisontippedcure 2024-08-03 05:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Jade
Character Name: Rose
Link to Activity Check-in: Here!

Regain Type: Soul Device Upgrade
Regain Details: Brave Soul
Points: 4

Regain Type: Soul Device Upgrade
Regain Details: Element Gem - Poison Sword
Points: 2

Regain Type: Soul Device Upgrade
Regain Details: Element Gem - Shield
Points: 2
whiteshroud: (jun15)

[personal profile] whiteshroud 2024-08-03 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Yuff
Character Name: Jun Kohinata
Link to Activity Check-in: Here

Regain Type: Soul Device Upgrade (or whatever his holy sword counts as)
Regain Details: Auto-Recover!
Points: 4

Regain Type: Soul Device Upgrade (or whatever his holy sword counts as)
Regain Details: Brave Soul
Points: 4
Edited 2024-08-03 18:02 (UTC)
conseqweinces: (26)

[personal profile] conseqweinces 2024-08-03 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Bon
Character Name: Wei Wuxian
Link to Activity Check-in: Here

Regain Type: Gacha Upgrade
Regain Details: Soul Device Upgrade - Brave Soul
Points: 4
prunedworlds: (don't let tomorrow stop you today)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2024-08-03 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: AC
Character Name: Ritsuka Fujimaru
Link to Activity Check-in: Here
Regain Type: Canon Item
Regain Details: Mage Association Uniform Mystic Code; here's the previous one for reference but since we have a more organized approach to things like bossfights I'm going to be applying that here! Basically as with the previous one, it has the spells listed as well as basic enchantments against environmental hazards like temperature extremes. For the spells, in-game they all have (fairly) lengthy cooldowns which I'd been informally treating as comment rounds anyway, so I'm going to say that 1 turn of cooldown is approximately 1 comment round in a bossfight. For the individual spells they are:

1. Heal All (cooldown: 10) - A basic party-wide heal. At its most powerful it's recovering about 25% of an average Servant's max HP in-game, so probably equivalent to a low to medium heal.
2. Spiritron Transfer (cooldown: 13) - In-game this charges a Servant's NP gauge but it's literally just a form of magical energy boost, so basically restoring some MP to an ally, sort of thing.
3. Command Shuffle (cooldown: 13) - So in FGO your attacks are represented by "card"; each character has 5 cards distributed between 3 types of attacks, and of the collective pool of fifteen from your three active party members 5 cards are drawn each term to use each turn; this spell reshuffles them and draws a new set of 5. For Kaisou this would translate to being an ability to grant a reroll to the party for one turn. However! This is NOT a reroll with advantage, just a straight reroll; if the original roll was a 9, it's entirely possible the new roll would be a 1 and that's it, that's the roll you're stuck with now, too bad! It's very much a gamble to use.

Edit: Also note that because this is a whole outfit Ritsuka can only use ONE of her mystic codes at a time, not both. Once she's worn one to a fight, that's the only one she'll have for the duration!

Points: 3 was what the last one cost/the estimate given for these in general but if it needs more Ritsuka has a few points to spare!
Edited 2024-08-03 19:51 (UTC)
crisantemo: (but i know i can't run)

[personal profile] crisantemo 2024-08-03 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Jay
Character Name: Lapis Agapov
Link to Activity Check-in: Here!

Regain Type: Dressphere (White Mage)
Regain Details: Esuna
Points: 3

Regain Type: Dressphere (White Mage)
Regain Details: Protect
Points: 2

Regain Type: Dressphere (White Mage)
Regain Details: Shell
Points: 2

Regain Type: Dressphere (White Mage)
Regain Details: Regen
Points: 4

Regain Type: Dressphere (White Mage)
Regain Details: Hastega
Points: 4
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[personal profile] faenthras 2024-08-03 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Kiku
Character Name: Vex'ahlia
Link to Activity Check-in: here!

Regain Type: Appearance
Regain Details: Non-Human Features - Elf Ears!
Points: 1

Regain Type: Appearance
Regain Details: Tattoo - The Slayer's Take tattoo on her shoulder.
Points: 1
mehjin: (03)

[personal profile] mehjin 2024-08-03 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Lapi
Character Name: Vyne
Link to Activity Check-in: Here

Regain Type: Canon ability
Regain Details: Bundle of super-level physical abilities (upgrade from enhanced physical abilities)
Points: 4

Regain Type: Canon ability
Regain Details: Solo teleportation
Points: 3
Edited 2024-08-03 23:35 (UTC)
dancedwithplenty: (Little children)

[personal profile] dancedwithplenty 2024-08-04 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Meowkitty
Character Name: Dance-For-Us
Link to Activity Check-in: Here

Regain Type: Canon Ability - Teleportation
Regain Details: Can teleport up to 4 people to a known space (herself plus 3 others). When players in game encounter a Voice, they can be instantly transported to a space place to talk.
Points: 4 points

Regain Type: Dressphere Upgrade - Songstress
Regain Details: Magical Masque
Points: 4 points

Regain Type: Soul Device Upgrade
Regain Details: Element Gem - Chaos Mirage
Points: 3 points
Edited 2024-08-04 18:25 (UTC)
prunedworlds: (what's going on?)

Re: Clarification

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2024-08-04 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Since I couldn't find anything on how that power would scale I was going by what I'd seen in actual recent boss fight threads. I was assuming it would be a lower level ability because Elliot used the Shining quartz (which was originally a 2 point regain) here to give several people in the thread rolls with advantage (roll twice and take HIGHER roll) and command shuffle is basically the same concept but minus advantage (if used, you just reroll and are stuck with the final result, for better OR worse) and for only a single turn duration, so I'd assumed it would be the same or lower cost, since the long CD means that it's highly unlikely it'd be available for use more than once per fight thread. Am I misunderstanding how that worked?
prunedworlds: (let's be friends)

[personal profile] prunedworlds 2024-08-04 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, the effects being different is why I got focused on explaining the canon mechanics and forgot to link it in the first place (which was my bad) but I was looking at the result being the same for the equivalent power level! I will note that it's absolutely not rewriting time, as that's completely, outright impossible for magecraft in Nasuverse, even FGO's pseudo-time travel nonsense can't do that. So the most likely in-universe explanation would a sort of very limited flash of insight via divination/fortune-telling that may or may not be helpful in the moment.

THAT SAID 2 points was around the range I'd been assuming so I'd be fine with that either way!
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[personal profile] pranas 2024-08-05 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Kiku
Character Name: Jing Yuan
Link to Activity Check-in: here

Regain Type: Ability Regain
Regain Details: Regeneration, High.
Points: 3

Regain Type: Elemental Ability Regain - Light.
Regain Details: Mirage Creation, Medium.
Points: 3

Regain Type: Birthday Skeleton.
Regain Details: A photo of the High Cloud Quintet.
Points: fwee
consonanter: (so much time)

[personal profile] consonanter 2024-08-06 12:24 am (UTC)(link)
Player Name: Kyah
Character Name: Sunday
Link to Activity Check-in: activity check, point transfer from Arno

Regain Type: Appearance
Regain Details: Headwings - like the tin says, he's getting the little wings that are attached to Sunday's head
Points: 1

Regain Type: Appearance
Regain Details: Silver hair
Points: 1

Regain Type: Appearance
Regain Details: Height change (from 5'4" to 5'10")
Points: Free

Regain Type: Monster - Dragon
Regain Details: Hover (Permanent)
Points: 2
mehjin: (14)

[personal profile] mehjin 2024-08-06 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, my apologies! The protagonists of the Xenoverse games can learn the moves of other characters through a variety of means, and Kai Kai is one such technique. In game it allows the user to teleport to the side of an ally or an enemy, but that's one of those gameplay things; canonically (both in the original series and the game itself) the user can teleport wherever they please with few, if any, apparent limitations.

So I figured, in line with the standard limits teleportation abilities tend to have here, she'd be able to either teleport to a place she knows and has been prior or, in conjunction with her previously-regained presence sensing ability, lock on to a presence she recognizes and warp to their side (see the related and much more iconic Instant Transmission ability, which she can also learn). I hope that's alright?

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