Pixel Power and Holograms

PIXEL POWER

Pixel Power is the magic system in this setting, called Pixel Space. It’s a soft magic system divided into three categories:

   Power Types and Specializations

Power Types are collections of specific abilities, called Pixel Skills or just Skills, that share a common property. Some Power Types are elemental, originally being Latent Skills of elementals before being adopted by certain characters as a part of their skillset for various reasons. Specializations are less defined and make up a particular ability that can be used for many different things. Any Pixel character can have Power Type or Specialization proficiency, or sometimes even both.

   Latent Skills

Latent Skills are, confusingly, just Pixel Skills that are specific to a character type, and all character types who have them are Proficient in their Latent Skills. No other character type can have a character type’s Latent Skills, but a character’s Latent proficiency will change if they change character types through transformation or Conversion.

Special Proficiencies and Unique Skills

Special Proficiencies are unique abilities similar to Specializations in that they do not fall under concrete Skills but are nonetheless unique to a specific character. If a character has one, it will be listed in the Summary as “Special” and explained below the Proficiency line if it can be explained in no more than two lines of text. Otherwise, it will note that it is explained in the Details. Regardless of whether it can be summarized, it will be explained in-depth in Details. Unique Skills are more like a personal Power Type in that they can be described by concrete Skills and said power is limited to those Skills. They will be explained in-depth below Details in the section entitled “Known Unique Skills:”.

HOLOGRAMS

All Pixel characters are able to use Unaligned Skills, even if they aren’t Proficient in it. This includes holograms that can be conjured anywhere and can be moved once they’re up. These function as touchscreens for use of many abilities, including:

   Call: Any character who knows of another, either through viewing their Digital Signature or their entry, can call them using this function. Video calls are the standard, though restricting it to audio is done sometimes and there has been one case where that was required of a particular character. Recently, this has been done with non-Pixel characters with Pixel Devices, so the requirement of viewing their Digital Signature may be lifted soon.

   Data Titles: Any character can record a small amount of time as a Data Title, which saves it to Data Titles and allows it to be viewed at any time. This viewing can either be through the screen itself or by an illusion. Using them through holograms is the only way that characters who cannot normally use illusions can use them.

   Digital Signature: Any character can view their own Digital Signature at any time, which displays to them as their full DS and to others as their public DS. Information is only hidden because said information, such as a 20-digit alphanumeric Pixel ID, can be used to compromise a character’s identity. To the character themselves and only to them, this string is displayed to them in the bottom left corner. A Digital Signature contains a character’s name, their picture, the information in Summary, and icons of effects they are under. The name and a short description of these effects can be viewed just as a public DS is accessed: by focusing on it.

   Voice Log: Any character can view a log of anything they said as well as anything they heard clearly. Character names that are intentionally referred to appear colored in their Spirit Color as well as with their icon to the left of their name. For this purpose, non-Pixel characters’ icons will appear as their origin’s icon or an item important to them along with their origin’s icon.