5 Unarmed Echokinetic Combat
Echo Palm
Description:
The monk delivers a palm strike infused with the echoes of future impacts. As the strike lands, it releases a burst of temporal energy that echoes forward in time, creating delayed shockwaves that hit the opponent multiple times after the initial strike.
Technique:
Execute a powerful palm strike aimed at the opponent’s torso. The strike releases temporal energy that causes shockwaves to resonate at intervals, hitting the opponent with delayed force several times over the next few seconds.
Application: Best used in combination with other attacks to create a sustained damage effect or to disrupt the opponent’s rhythm in combat
Echo Chain - Reverberating StrikesDescription: The monk unleashes a rapid series of chain punches, each infused with echo energy. The impact of each punch creates a residual echo that continues to damage the enemy.
Effects:
Initial Strike:
Rapid punches deal moderate physical and echo damage.
Echo Effect:
Each punch leaves an echo on the target, dealing additional echo damage over time.
Chain Reaction:
Successive strikes amplify the echo damage, culminating in a powerful final blow that releases all accumulated echoes at once.
Phasing Grip - Echoed Submission
Description:
The monk phases through the enemy’s defenses, locking them in an ethereal submission hold that drains their energy and weakens them over time.
Effects:
Phase Lock: Bypasses enemy defenses to apply a submission hold, dealing continuous echo and physical damage.
Echo Drain:
The hold drains the enemy’s energy, reducing their attack speed and damage output.
Final Release:
When the hold is released, an echo remains on the enemy, continuing to drain their energy for a short duration.
Echo Displacement Counter
Description: When attacked, the monk absorbs the impact and channels it through an echo-infused counterstrike. The echo of the initial attack is returned to the opponent with amplified force, displacing their temporal flow and throwing them off balance.
Effect:
Reflects a portion of the incoming damage back at the attacker, with added force that disrupts their equilibrium, leaving them vulnerable to follow-up attacks.
Echo Step Flurry
Description:
Using the echoes of their own movements, the monk blurs their form, creating afterimages that strike in succession. Each afterimage delivers a rapid series of strikes that echo in the opponent’s perception, making it difficult to anticipate or counter.
Effect:
A multi-hit combo that disorients the opponent by creating temporal illusions, overwhelming them with a barrage of attacks that seem to come from multiple directions.
Echo Phase Detonation**
- **Description:** The user dash to enemy and phases an echo of their spectral ghost hand into the enemy, causing an explosion that damages all nearby enemies while the user steps away.
- **Effect:**
- **Echo Phase:** The user dash to enemy and phases a spectral ghost hand into the target, embedding echo energy within them.
- **Explosive Detonation:** The embedded echo energy detonates, dealing significant damage to the primary target and all enemies in the vicinity.
- **Echo Step:** Simultaneously, the user performs an Echo Step to quickly reposition away from the blast area, avoiding damage and gaining a tactical advantage.
- **Visual:** The caster's hand glows with spectral energy as it phases into the enemy, who then starts to pulse with echoing light. The energy explodes outward in a burst of spectral echoes, damaging surrounding enemies, while the caster vanishes and reappears a short distance away.
### **Echo Clench**
**Description:** Echo Clench is a devastating Echomancy ability that allows the Echomancer to grip and crush the target using concentrated echo energy. This technique creates an echo of the target’s own physical form, which is then tightened and compressed, causing intense internal damage and disabling the target's capabilities.
**Unique Effects:**
1. **Echo Grip:**
- **Phantasmal Constriction:** The Echomancer manifests a spectral echo of the target’s body, which mirrors their physical form. This echo is then manipulated to clench and constrict, applying crushing force to the target’s real body. The more the target struggles, the tighter the grip becomes.
2. **Crushing Force:**
- **Internal Rupture:** The intense pressure generated by the echo grip causes internal damage, bypassing physical defenses. This force can rupture internal organs and bones, dealing significant true damage that scales with the target's maximum health.
3. **Paralytic Binding:**
- **Nerve Disruption:** The echo clench disrupts the target's nervous system, inducing paralysis. The target’s movement speed is reduced to zero, and their attack and casting speed are halved for the duration of the clench. If the target attempts to use abilities, they are interrupted, and the paralysis effect is extended.
4. **Echo Feedback:**
- **Reverberating Pain:** Each time the target attempts to resist or break free, the echo responds with a feedback pulse that sends waves of pain through their body, causing additional damage and disorienting them. This feedback also reduces the target's resistance to further echo-based attacks.
5. **Implosive Release:**
- **Final Collapse:** After a few seconds, the echo clench reaches its peak, and the echo collapses inward. This implosion deals a final burst of echo damage to the target, possibly leaving them stunned and disoriented for a few seconds if they survive the assault.
**Summary:**
Echo Clench is a powerful and brutal ability that allows the Echomancer to seize and crush their opponent using an echo of their own form. The ability inflicts severe internal damage, paralyzes the target, and punishes any attempts to resist. The final implosion delivers a crushing blow, making Echo Clench a highly effective tool for subduing and destroying enemies in combat.
