#custom ability

The Reflection Pokemon

“This Mon has no true will of its own. Every single aspect of an Algum’s personality is copied from its Trainer or surrounding environment. An isolated wild Algum merely sits motionless, its brain waiting for any form of stimulus to arrive.”

Type: Ghost/Normal

Ability: Power Devour*

Hidden Ability: None

Preferred Habitats: Deep Seafloor

Egg Group: Amorphous

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Padby - Rice Pokémon

Type - Grass

Ability - Early Bird / Harvest (Hidden)

Evolves into Grainee at level 15.

It’s completely defenseless against predators, but it doesn’t seem to care. Its parents wrap it in leaves to protect it from weather.

Grainee - Onigiri Pokémon

Type - Grass

Ability - Early Bird / Harvest (Hidden)

Evolves into Ricentinel with a Leaf Stone.

Having realized how weak its younger kin are, it takes it upon itself to defend them from bird Pokémon. It practices tossing stones to knock them out of the sky.

Ricentinel - Scarecrow Pokémon

Type - Grass / Fighting

Ability - Flight Shield / Harvest (Hidden)

Its very presence is enough to give bird Pokémon pause. Though it’s inclined to wander, sometimes it will select a particular farm and defend its crops with its life.

The Fruit Bat Pokemon

“When it’s born, this Mon finds a fragrant wine glass to squeeze into, then flies off with it. It is often considered a nuisance by the rich and affluent.”

Type: Poison/Flying

Ability: Truant/Fermented*

Hidden Ability: Weak Armor

Preferred Habitats: Wherever wine is found (Night)

Egg Group: Amorphous/Field

#0035-2: Vesperrel

The Juice Bat Pokemon

“It can no longer fly due to its weight, so it gets around quickly by rolling down hills. Its wings can create gusts that can knock a grown man off their feet, but it considers using them too much work.”

Type: Poison/Flying

Ability: Truant/Fermented*

Hidden Ability: Weak Armor

Preferred Habitats: Wherever wine is found (Night)

Egg Group: Amorphous/Field

#0035-2 Vesperrel (SHADOW)

The Juice Bat Pokemon

[Shadow Evolution]

“It sleeps soundly in its grail, unable to be awoken even by a large explosion. The grail is believed to be sentient and in control of Vesperrel’s actions, though some think its will is simply Vesperrel’s own repressed malice.”

Type: Poison/Dark

Ability: Supreme Overlord

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The Serving Pokemon

“Its tail is threaded with thin steel wires. It slams its tail through fruits and vegetables to cut them into smaller pieces, which it shares evenly among its pack.”

Type: Normal/Steel

Ability: Return Volley*

Hidden Ability: None

Preferred Habitats: Where fruits and vegetables grow

Egg Group: Field/Fairy

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[an optional rule]

In your first session, you may discover a slot where you can specify a custom ability. It'll be a very small ability based off your Classpect thematics, and you can name it whatever you want.

The problem is that you won't be able to change that name, or that ability, ever again. It'll retheme itself, as far as is plausible, to your current Classpect thematics. I've heard a few people that could even invoke it in presession. Just another effect of Sburb's bad data-storage habits: this is something that should be stored as part of game data, not as part of one's Shiny.

Mechanically, the Custom Ability is treated as an inherent, small 1/chapter miraculous ability or inherent level 0 Affliction. It can thus be opposed by any Bond, Affliction, Auctoritas, or any ability that costs MP. (Or you can just bid 1MP to stop it.)

However, you can't add MP to the Custom Ability for any reason (you cannot give it more Strike or use it more often than 1/chapter).

Here are some examples of Affliction-based Custom Abilities:

[WD-40] (Level 0 Affliction: a native Dust player is pretty much walking lubricant; mechanical things just don't get stuck around them.)

[Dapper Duelling] (Level 0 Affliction: a native Time player always appears relaxed and put-together. This ability is very much like, and can be superseded by, Creature of Fable's Iconic.)

[Pointed Questions] (Level 0 Affliction: a native Law player's knives and swords do not dull.)

[Eternal Blue Sky] (Level 0 Affliction: a native Stars player does not panic when faced with the possibility of their own death.)

[Pushing Envelope] (Level 0 Affliction: a native Fate player always knows where the Parcel Mistress is.)

[Artemis] (Level 0 Affliction: a native Thief can always reclaim the arrows they've already shot; the points don't break and the feathers stay on.)

[Vegetable Drawer] (Level 0 Affliction: a native Doom player will always know how close food is to spoilage.)

And here are some examples of 1/chapter abilities:

[Representation] (1/chapter: a native Sight player can manifest a flipchart/diagram of something they know and want to explain to other people out of... well, basically nowhere.)

[The Spinner] (1/chapter: a native Life player can repair and preserve clothes made of natural fibers with a touch.)

[Line Feed Carriage Return] (1/chapter: a native Heart player can decide that they want the conversation to start over again, and thus resets everyone's mental state to "how they were feeling before we started talking".)

[Windows to the Soul] (1/chapter: a native Seer can look into someone's eyes and know what their most recent emote was.)

[Spark] (1/chapter: a native Flow player can start a fire just by snapping their fingers and pointing.)