I believe this is a perfect example of "karma" here.

uhhhh wut

also by "not having a damn clue" I mean "I think I stole it from pokemon, but not sure"

I don't think I've seen that before. Looks cool.

Thanks. Really, simple, just turn off auto redraw, make a sprite from a region on the screen, and use some alpha transparencies while drawing in the step event so as to not clear the previous frame. OK, maybe not that simple, but whatever :P