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The RPG Status Effect Meme
THE RPG STATUS EFFECT MEME
Or the “everyone in my party is a scarecrow except me” meme.
It doesn’t matter how it happened. It could have been a spell, cast by a saucy witch or a demon king! Maybe it was a misfire, or maybe you used the wrong item. Real life events can do it, too...has something shocking occurred recently? Whatever the case, you’ve got a STATUS EFFECT. Just how bad is it, and will you be able to get rid of it?
The Rules!
1. Post with your character! Include name and canon and preferences, whatever you want. Set up your scene, or leave a blank comment. It doesn’t matter. Smut is possible in this meme, so make sure to let people know if you want it or not!
2. When you tag someone else, use the Random Number Generator to pick a status effect! Or cheat and pick your own, it's all good.
2.5 You can both roll, too! Make it a train wreck.
3. ?????
4. Have fun! You should know how these meme works.
GENERIC RPG STATUS EFFECTS
1. Berserk: You’re just so mad! You’ll snap or attack the first person who comes you’re way. Truthfully, maybe they deserve it...or this is ALWAYS what happens when you’re in battle, you berserker, you.
2. Blind/Silence/Deafened: You’ve lost one of your senses. Oops. That seems to happen a lot. Is it permanent? Temporary? What are you going to do until it comes back? You might need some help getting used to it.
3. Charm: He or she is just so irresistible...funny, you didn’t think that a moment ago. But it seems like a good idea to flirt or go farther now, so why not? Or maybe you’re so in love that you’re going to attack your allies. Not cool.
4. Confused: You hurt yourself in confusion! Or you’re going to, at this rate. Someone needs to slap some sense into you and fast. As to why you’re confused, maybe it was a nasty spell...or maybe you’ve seen something you can never unseen. Just stop attacking your allies, still not cool.
5. Control: Normally, you get to use this one on the enemies...but for whatever reason, you’re now being controlled. Your attacks and abilities belong to a puppetmaster using you for their own gain. Naturally, you can attack your friends like this...or just gather intel. Either way, you’re not completely yourself. Or are you the controller?
6. Cursed: Someone cut their HP in half to do this to you, or you ran into a skull that was on fire, or you just have bad luck with ghosts. Curses can do a lot of things. They can hurt you, prevent you from doing something, make you weaker...quick! Find a priest!
7. Disabled: You’re hurt. For whatever reason, you’re so helpless that you can’t draw your weapon or go about doing what you do best. It could range from a strange spell to a significant physical injury, but the result is the same. You can’t do what you were supposed to do.
8. Doom/Gradual Petrification: You poor soul, you. You have the worst luck. Wherever you walk, you’re slowly being turned to stone...will you still be able to feel when you’re nothing more than a statue? Or maybe death is following you. Accidents and injuries happen more often, and it’s only a matter of time before you leave this world. But what’s better? Being stone, or being...gone?
9. Float: You’re as light as a bird! Heck, maybe you even have wings now. The only thing that matters is that you can fly! Flap those wings, or just zoom around like a super hero! Or maybe you just can’t touch the ground for whatever reason...at least you’re invulnerable to earth attacks?
10. Frog (Animal Transformation): It was a different type of curse. A strange spell. One moment, you’re human (or not), and the very next you’re an animal or something else. Are you a frog, waiting for that kiss? A pig, waiting to be served? Maybe you’re a mushroom...or, oops, have you been turned into a demonic midboss?
11. Invisible: No one can see you. Maybe you can’t see you. So take off those clothes and enjoy your new invisibility (or does it include your clothes and weapons?). What are you going to do, though? Finish someone off? Go for a joyride? Sneak where you’re not supposed to be?
12. Miniature: You’re small. There’s nothing more to it. You might be a foot tall, you might be four inches tall, but you’re still puny. Hopefully no one steps on you. Maybe this form has its advantages, though...?
13. Poison: This isn’t a fun one. It hurts, being poisoned. Your body is in constant pain, but you can still fight or live with this condition. Hopefully, someone will find an antidote before it’s too late (or when your HP gets to 1, maybe it will stop?).
14. Reverse: You’re sick, but taking medicine makes you sicker. Guess it’s a good time to smoke and drink, because it makes you feel a LOT better. Those medicines? They do nothing for you. A slap in the face feels great, though. What hurts, heals! What heals, hurts. Have fun with it!
15. Sleep: You’ve fallen into a deep sleep. Maybe you’ll wake up in a few turns, but falling asleep on a battlefield isn’t very much fun for anyone. What will the people around you do to bring you back? Hopefully, they don’t think you’re dead...
GAME SPECIFIC STATUS EFFECTS
16. Marked/Leech Seed (Dungeons and Dragons/Pokémon): You’ve drawn the attention of a nasty monster, and it’s left its scent on you. Run. Or try to fight it before it finishes you off. It could even be a person! Or a plant. Those vines certainly don’t look very happy with you, do they? Whatever it is, monster or sworn enemy or grass snake, it only has eyes for you.
17. Homesickness (Earthbound): You haven’t heard from home in a while. Maybe you don’t want to, or maybe it’s the only thing on your mind. It’s beginning to affect the way you think either way. Give them a call, or go back for a visit. Arrange something fun that reminds you of home. Mother knows best, after all!
18. Trouble (Final Fantasy IX): This one is tricky. So, your friend just got slapped. So why did you feel it, too? Whatever one person is feeling, their companion is going to feel as well. It could be painful, or it could lead to a closer understanding between you two. It could even feel good! But you’ll both feel it all.
19. Encumbered (Neverwinter Nights): You’ve been traveling for so long, and you’re exhausted. The only problem is you’re carrying so much stuff, that you don’t know what to do with it! Dropping that couch might be a good start...will someone help you with your load, or will you have to make it to the inn yourself? Or maybe you’ll sell some of it!
20: Huge (Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door): The opposite of tiny, you’re now too big to handle. This is good if you’ve got a bully or a squad of monsters to defeat. It’s not so good if you’re just trying to get around. What if you’re branded a giant, too? You could be mistaken for a threat! Or maybe people will like your new big self.
21. Fear (Persona series, others): You’re afraid of everything now. Your first instinct is to flee battle, not keep fighting. Man up a little! You’re going to be no use to your teammates if walking under a ladder is too terrifying for you.
22. Encore (Pokémon): You can’t stop doing what you’re doing. Through some supernatural means, you can’t stop attacking. Or that heal spell you cast, you can’t stop casting it even when you’re all at full HP. Or maybe you just can’t stop baking. You’ve got this strange compulsion that you just can’t stop.
23. Fatigue (Skies of Arcadia, others): You almost wish someone would cast a sleep spell on you. You’ve got insomnia, or you’ve just got so much work to do that you can’t focus. It’s even worse if it’s a spell, because you’re going to just be tired for so...long...hopefully, someone can help you out so you can feel better.
24. Balloon (Suikoden series): Holding one balloon is fine. But when you hold a second, you feel really light. One foot just comes off the ground. God forbid you grab a third, because as soon as you do? You’re going for a balloon ride through the city or the battlefield. Someone better get you down safely! Those things aren’t made for travel.
25. Lucky/Unlucky (Sonic Chronicles/Valkyria Chronicles): Everything is going your way. You found a lot of money just lying on the street. You’re hitting all the green lights. Every arrow you fire is hitting the bulls-eye, and don’t even get me started on those critical hits you’re getting! Or not getting, if you’re unlucky. You lost your wallet, and someone just hit your car and drove off. Ouch.
26. Shackled (Tactics Ogre): You can’t move. This spell has chains of energy keeping you from getting free, or someone has just tied you up and left you to rot in a dungeon. You might be able to stand up and run, but your arms won’t be free. There’s nothing you can do about this one, usually, without the help of someone else.
27. Spendthrift (Tactics Ogre): You can’t stop throwing money away! You have so much, that wherever you go, you just keep spending it. If you’re on a battlefield, you might be throwing it around or just dropping it, but the city? That’s definitely where it’s at. Hopefully, your friends will still like you when you’re broke.
28. Likes Men/Likes Women/Into Macho Men (Valkyria Chronicles): All of a sudden, you can’t stop thinking about men or women. It might have always been a part of your personality, but it’s even worse (or better?) now. People with this status will perform better when showing off, but they’ll be grumpier around the gender they don’t want to be with. Or maybe you’re not into men or women...but only the most feminine examples of beauty and the manliest of man? Don’t get too distracted!
29. Klutz/Bucket (Valkyria Chronicles/Suikoden Series): Your feet are just in your way today. You can’t stop tripping. Or maybe you’re spilling things. You turn around with a spear over your shoulder and accidentally smack someone in the face. If it gets too bad, you’ll end up with a bucket on your head from a zany mishap. Hopefully, someone can get it off!
30. Shut-In (Valkyria Chronicles): You don’t want to leave your house. Maybe you don’t even want to read your room. Sure, you go out and save the world sometimes, but you don’t want to socialize when you’re not working. You have no idea what’s going on outside your windows, and you want to keep it that way.
31: Choose your own! There are many more out there...some are worse, some are more fun. But which one will you be stuck with?
Meme written by and posted with permission fromjibunrestart
Or the “everyone in my party is a scarecrow except me” meme.
It doesn’t matter how it happened. It could have been a spell, cast by a saucy witch or a demon king! Maybe it was a misfire, or maybe you used the wrong item. Real life events can do it, too...has something shocking occurred recently? Whatever the case, you’ve got a STATUS EFFECT. Just how bad is it, and will you be able to get rid of it?
The Rules!
1. Post with your character! Include name and canon and preferences, whatever you want. Set up your scene, or leave a blank comment. It doesn’t matter. Smut is possible in this meme, so make sure to let people know if you want it or not!
2. When you tag someone else, use the Random Number Generator to pick a status effect! Or cheat and pick your own, it's all good.
2.5 You can both roll, too! Make it a train wreck.
3. ?????
4. Have fun! You should know how these meme works.
GENERIC RPG STATUS EFFECTS
1. Berserk: You’re just so mad! You’ll snap or attack the first person who comes you’re way. Truthfully, maybe they deserve it...or this is ALWAYS what happens when you’re in battle, you berserker, you.
2. Blind/Silence/Deafened: You’ve lost one of your senses. Oops. That seems to happen a lot. Is it permanent? Temporary? What are you going to do until it comes back? You might need some help getting used to it.
3. Charm: He or she is just so irresistible...funny, you didn’t think that a moment ago. But it seems like a good idea to flirt or go farther now, so why not? Or maybe you’re so in love that you’re going to attack your allies. Not cool.
4. Confused: You hurt yourself in confusion! Or you’re going to, at this rate. Someone needs to slap some sense into you and fast. As to why you’re confused, maybe it was a nasty spell...or maybe you’ve seen something you can never unseen. Just stop attacking your allies, still not cool.
5. Control: Normally, you get to use this one on the enemies...but for whatever reason, you’re now being controlled. Your attacks and abilities belong to a puppetmaster using you for their own gain. Naturally, you can attack your friends like this...or just gather intel. Either way, you’re not completely yourself. Or are you the controller?
6. Cursed: Someone cut their HP in half to do this to you, or you ran into a skull that was on fire, or you just have bad luck with ghosts. Curses can do a lot of things. They can hurt you, prevent you from doing something, make you weaker...quick! Find a priest!
7. Disabled: You’re hurt. For whatever reason, you’re so helpless that you can’t draw your weapon or go about doing what you do best. It could range from a strange spell to a significant physical injury, but the result is the same. You can’t do what you were supposed to do.
8. Doom/Gradual Petrification: You poor soul, you. You have the worst luck. Wherever you walk, you’re slowly being turned to stone...will you still be able to feel when you’re nothing more than a statue? Or maybe death is following you. Accidents and injuries happen more often, and it’s only a matter of time before you leave this world. But what’s better? Being stone, or being...gone?
9. Float: You’re as light as a bird! Heck, maybe you even have wings now. The only thing that matters is that you can fly! Flap those wings, or just zoom around like a super hero! Or maybe you just can’t touch the ground for whatever reason...at least you’re invulnerable to earth attacks?
10. Frog (Animal Transformation): It was a different type of curse. A strange spell. One moment, you’re human (or not), and the very next you’re an animal or something else. Are you a frog, waiting for that kiss? A pig, waiting to be served? Maybe you’re a mushroom...or, oops, have you been turned into a demonic midboss?
11. Invisible: No one can see you. Maybe you can’t see you. So take off those clothes and enjoy your new invisibility (or does it include your clothes and weapons?). What are you going to do, though? Finish someone off? Go for a joyride? Sneak where you’re not supposed to be?
12. Miniature: You’re small. There’s nothing more to it. You might be a foot tall, you might be four inches tall, but you’re still puny. Hopefully no one steps on you. Maybe this form has its advantages, though...?
13. Poison: This isn’t a fun one. It hurts, being poisoned. Your body is in constant pain, but you can still fight or live with this condition. Hopefully, someone will find an antidote before it’s too late (or when your HP gets to 1, maybe it will stop?).
14. Reverse: You’re sick, but taking medicine makes you sicker. Guess it’s a good time to smoke and drink, because it makes you feel a LOT better. Those medicines? They do nothing for you. A slap in the face feels great, though. What hurts, heals! What heals, hurts. Have fun with it!
15. Sleep: You’ve fallen into a deep sleep. Maybe you’ll wake up in a few turns, but falling asleep on a battlefield isn’t very much fun for anyone. What will the people around you do to bring you back? Hopefully, they don’t think you’re dead...
GAME SPECIFIC STATUS EFFECTS
16. Marked/Leech Seed (Dungeons and Dragons/Pokémon): You’ve drawn the attention of a nasty monster, and it’s left its scent on you. Run. Or try to fight it before it finishes you off. It could even be a person! Or a plant. Those vines certainly don’t look very happy with you, do they? Whatever it is, monster or sworn enemy or grass snake, it only has eyes for you.
17. Homesickness (Earthbound): You haven’t heard from home in a while. Maybe you don’t want to, or maybe it’s the only thing on your mind. It’s beginning to affect the way you think either way. Give them a call, or go back for a visit. Arrange something fun that reminds you of home. Mother knows best, after all!
18. Trouble (Final Fantasy IX): This one is tricky. So, your friend just got slapped. So why did you feel it, too? Whatever one person is feeling, their companion is going to feel as well. It could be painful, or it could lead to a closer understanding between you two. It could even feel good! But you’ll both feel it all.
19. Encumbered (Neverwinter Nights): You’ve been traveling for so long, and you’re exhausted. The only problem is you’re carrying so much stuff, that you don’t know what to do with it! Dropping that couch might be a good start...will someone help you with your load, or will you have to make it to the inn yourself? Or maybe you’ll sell some of it!
20: Huge (Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door): The opposite of tiny, you’re now too big to handle. This is good if you’ve got a bully or a squad of monsters to defeat. It’s not so good if you’re just trying to get around. What if you’re branded a giant, too? You could be mistaken for a threat! Or maybe people will like your new big self.
21. Fear (Persona series, others): You’re afraid of everything now. Your first instinct is to flee battle, not keep fighting. Man up a little! You’re going to be no use to your teammates if walking under a ladder is too terrifying for you.
22. Encore (Pokémon): You can’t stop doing what you’re doing. Through some supernatural means, you can’t stop attacking. Or that heal spell you cast, you can’t stop casting it even when you’re all at full HP. Or maybe you just can’t stop baking. You’ve got this strange compulsion that you just can’t stop.
23. Fatigue (Skies of Arcadia, others): You almost wish someone would cast a sleep spell on you. You’ve got insomnia, or you’ve just got so much work to do that you can’t focus. It’s even worse if it’s a spell, because you’re going to just be tired for so...long...hopefully, someone can help you out so you can feel better.
24. Balloon (Suikoden series): Holding one balloon is fine. But when you hold a second, you feel really light. One foot just comes off the ground. God forbid you grab a third, because as soon as you do? You’re going for a balloon ride through the city or the battlefield. Someone better get you down safely! Those things aren’t made for travel.
25. Lucky/Unlucky (Sonic Chronicles/Valkyria Chronicles): Everything is going your way. You found a lot of money just lying on the street. You’re hitting all the green lights. Every arrow you fire is hitting the bulls-eye, and don’t even get me started on those critical hits you’re getting! Or not getting, if you’re unlucky. You lost your wallet, and someone just hit your car and drove off. Ouch.
26. Shackled (Tactics Ogre): You can’t move. This spell has chains of energy keeping you from getting free, or someone has just tied you up and left you to rot in a dungeon. You might be able to stand up and run, but your arms won’t be free. There’s nothing you can do about this one, usually, without the help of someone else.
27. Spendthrift (Tactics Ogre): You can’t stop throwing money away! You have so much, that wherever you go, you just keep spending it. If you’re on a battlefield, you might be throwing it around or just dropping it, but the city? That’s definitely where it’s at. Hopefully, your friends will still like you when you’re broke.
28. Likes Men/Likes Women/Into Macho Men (Valkyria Chronicles): All of a sudden, you can’t stop thinking about men or women. It might have always been a part of your personality, but it’s even worse (or better?) now. People with this status will perform better when showing off, but they’ll be grumpier around the gender they don’t want to be with. Or maybe you’re not into men or women...but only the most feminine examples of beauty and the manliest of man? Don’t get too distracted!
29. Klutz/Bucket (Valkyria Chronicles/Suikoden Series): Your feet are just in your way today. You can’t stop tripping. Or maybe you’re spilling things. You turn around with a spear over your shoulder and accidentally smack someone in the face. If it gets too bad, you’ll end up with a bucket on your head from a zany mishap. Hopefully, someone can get it off!
30. Shut-In (Valkyria Chronicles): You don’t want to leave your house. Maybe you don’t even want to read your room. Sure, you go out and save the world sometimes, but you don’t want to socialize when you’re not working. You have no idea what’s going on outside your windows, and you want to keep it that way.
31: Choose your own! There are many more out there...some are worse, some are more fun. But which one will you be stuck with?
Meme written by and posted with permission from
jibunrestart
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But, again, that's the infinite future, and Cloud's pretty sure this whole dilemma will solve itself long before any real issues arise. Weird little side-stories like this always tend to wrap themselves up neatly enough, at any rate. ]
Up?
[ Getting the hang of this, all right. He lifts his hand father up - with distinctly more care than before. He doesn't know if frogs can throw up, but he doesn't really want to know, either, and he sure as heck doesn't want it all over his glove anyway.
He might be a little bit proud of himself for figuring this out as fast as he did, but, hey, frog charades definitely aren't in the SOLDIER manual. ]
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One step at a time.
Which meant enjoying what he had given her. With a few more happy pats to his thumb, she looks up to meet his eyes and then deliberately narrows hers, long pat-pat of back froggy feet against the leather of his glove as she settles into a more stable stance. With what she hopes is a 'let's do this' ribbit, she wraps her small arms back around his thumb again, ready to get down to serious business now that he knows what's going on.
Except...
At first, she'd just intended to let him figure out her steering motion and then get him to lever her over to his shoulder to sit on so she could see what was going on out the window but, somewhere in the very back of her mind where she'll never encourage it or admit to it, there might just possibly be spark of some kind of mischief.
And steering him is pretty fun.
Knowing better, she still gives in to her impulse and decides to see just how far he'll go to let her 'steer'. Luckily for him, they're already trapped in a fairly small space. Unlikely for him, once she starts, Tifa has no problem seeing just how willing he is to climb onto benches or move to the opposite corner only to move back to his original corner for as long as he'll let her before he figures out she's just messing with him.
Lesson One, Cloud: All Frogs Are Evil.]