Game Desc:

Ever since SLA Industries were created around 900 years ago, Ebb has strictly been for the Ebon races, and most humans have regarded Ebb as something obscure and unobtainably, this all ends with the 'Higher Learning' project from Dark Lament.

The 'Higher Learning' project simply put allows the natural non-ebon races to 'use' ebb abilities such as Thermal, Blast, Enhancement and Voice of the Ebb. As mentioned Stormers and Vevaphons are currently not able to use 'Higher Learning', and spokeswoman Susan Hannon has told us that Dark Lament does not intend to include the Biogenetic races in the 'Higher Learning' project within the next couple of years.

Strictly technically speaking, 'Higher Learning' works by uploading the formula for the ebb ability into the users memory (by using VR goggles), when used the ability will naturally need some kind of source of Flux, this is provided through an injection of 'HL' which contains the needed Flux. The ability is triggered by certain key memories, which is customisable by the user. After using the ability the memory of it will disappear from the users memory, rendering the ability a one-shot only resource.

When going out to 'buy' an ability the user gets three things: two dataslugs containing, one holding the ability 'code', and one holding the 'time specific' validation and personla alteration/correctional data, finally the user recieves an vial of HL that needs to be injected into the body to provide Flux for the ability and to put the user in the right kind of state when the ability is fed to him with VR goggles. It should be mentined that both Dataslugs uses a complex Data-Rot encryption system, thus securing the data from being copied.

Finally, for a person to use 'Higher Learning' he or she must have a personal profile made for formula alterations, this is due to the fact that the human brain works in differently from human to human, and thus small alterations must be made to the formula of the ability he or she wishes to use. TO get a personal profile, he or she must enroll at a Dark Lament course of Ebb Usage, this course takes one day. After the profile has been made, it is stores in the Dark Lament data core, and the person recieves a plastic Dark Lament ID card that must be shown each time they come to acquire an ability.

Game Stats:

Available schools: Blast, Blue Thermal, Communication, Enhancement, Healing, Illumination, Reality Folding, Red Thermal, Senses and Telekinesis.

Max Rank:

Pricing: Rank * 50C for all schools.

Timing & Triggering: 2 Phases, trigger in first, ability happens in the beginning of second. User goes through the selected trigger memories, and the ability is activated.

Notes:

When the user has injected HL, an Ebon with the Protect skill called 'Suck Flux' could drain them if he or she wanted to.

The amount of Flux in HL varies from skill to skill, in the case of skills with variable flux usage (Ebb Healing as an example), HL contains as many points of Flux as the ability number (With Heal 6, HL would contain 6 points of Flux, and the ability would be able to heal 18 hits).

Rumor has it that the Detect skills were omitted from the program because of fear of uncovering too many Necanthropes doing 'the things they do'.