Recall

Art Statistics
Focus:	DreamSoul
Cost:	1
Orbit Required:	25
Affected:	Self
Duration:	20 minutes

Description

Places a Recall point. If the dreamer is collapsed, they are immediately returned to that point. Recall can no longer be removed by Abjure. The Dreamer will lose less experience when collapsed if they have Recall active.

Plateau Effect

Decreased evoke time.

Duration increases by 20 minutes.

Art History

Recall was created in it's original form by Dublin. Dublin was widely renown for one thing, which were his terrible memory troubles. He could remember the tiniest of things, such as remembering to button his top tunic button up on the first Sunday of the month, when the wind would blow very briskly. However, he could never remember the important things, such as the names of the very few friends he had, how to evoke, or even whether an Earth Abyss Shield was better than a Teal Gold. Naturally, this made him quite a source of amusement, so he finally had enough one day and decided to put a stop to it. He made a resolution (and just so happened to remember it), and he was seen from that day on carrying a small notebook around with hi. Every time he heard a notable fact or was explained something he wrote it down carefully and recorded it. This went on for a fair amount of time (recording and remembering) until he realized that he could not continue this forever. So it was at that time that he first evoked the art of Recall in one of his private rooms where the majority of his notebooks were stored. Naturally, this art didn't have much use to the other Dreamers as they did not have the many problems poor Dublin did, that is they didn't need it until the coming of the Sanctuaries. One of the junior Dreamwrights approached Dublin and asked him to teach this art. This Dreamwright then made a modification to the art, so that it wouldn't actually recall "memories", per se. It would recall a certain place, where it was first evoked, and also the form that we were in when we first evoke it. It then monitors us, to see if we ever change from this form. If our form does change (being collapsed), it immediately brings us back to that place so that we can "remember" our avatars, cohesive once again. So naturally there became great use for this, as it was also the great deterrent against the deadly art of Dreamstrike. And to this day it is a highly sought after art.

Alternate History

The art of Recall was developed by a great Gatekeeper by the name of Renrut Nek. He had heard rumors of dreamers getting ward trapped and either forced to wake as a Soulsphere, or wait for the wards to drop and chance being dreamstruck in the process. Renrut pondered this and tried something, he took the knowledge of the art of Know and mingled it with the art of Return, he then set a spot by evoking the art, and ventured out to find battle, he came across a Shamblix protecting its lair, he had purposely left himself vulnerable by not using the art Free action. He was immediately collapsed. In the blink of an eye, he found himself back in his study safe and sound, and that is how the art of Recall came to be.

Researched by Ballaster

References

• http://www.angelfire.com/ab7/dranak/Arts/arts-dreamsoul.htm#recall

Notes

It used to be believed that Recall was marked in the nearest sanctuary. This is not the case Recall will mark any room it is evoked in for 'recall' when the dreamer is collapsed.