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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jun 25, 2012 19:56:33 GMT -5
I'm. Alive, more or less. A lot just happened. Mostly, everything went wrong, with a few things that went almost right. Let me start from the beginning here.
I was there, after leaving that last message, bleeding really really bad. So I climb up Zero's Pinnacle of Miracles, so I can hopefully ascend to God Tier. And I run into Zero and Aloice. Zero's wearing this incredibly badass power suit thing- I guess he didn't have the grist to make a proper giant mecha, or something, but damn if his robot chassis isn't awesome anyway.
Zerovirus: SC! Oh my god, are you okay? Benedict: No, I... fuck, I need... Zerovirus: Get up! It'll be okay. I have this under control. Aloice: We brought the waspsprite, you can jump in and be healed. Zerovirus: Come on, over here. Benedict: NO! I... I've got another plan. I know what- Aloice: It's not going to work. Benedict: ...what? Zerovirus: The Shadow King told us. He said you'd show up here, dying. Benedict: REALLY. Zerovirus: I've been saving my sprite just for this kind of thing, in case- Benedict: Fucking really. He told you I'd be here about to die. Aloice: Well, I- Zerovirus: She's been using her time powers to see the future- the King's been helping, he provided her with- Aloice: This magic mirror, it lets me see the near past and future of- Zerovirus: Wherever she's standing, but- Aloice: Hey. Stop. Zerovirus: Sorry. Aloice: He helped us with this quest, and told me to use the mirror here. It's really hard to see, though, I don't think I'm- Zerovirus: High enough level. Benedict: Dude. Zerovirus: Agh, right. Aloice: But we came here to save you. Benedict: I don't need your help. Zerovirus: SC, don't- Benedict: I just need... that. Zerovirus: What? No, that's mine, it's not supposed to work for you. Benedict. I know what- aaaaa! Ow. What I'm doing. Aloice: You don't- I've seen you, dead on the slab. Benedict: No, that's- that's how it WORKS, it's the dreamself that
So here's, uh. Where everything goes really insanely wrong. I don't... know if, like this is. I'm not going to post the rest of the transcript. Nobody comes out looking good. What happened is... she started going on about prophecies and the future, how the Smoke Knight had to replace me, that I could still live as a sprite... I was supposed to be powerless. Trivialized. I was supposed to be expelled from my Role and forced into the role of support character- as a game abstraction who would eventually become irrelevant and disappear. Despite my protests, they brought the sprite, the fucking WASP, the horrible insect- closer and closer and I wasn't going to. What I did next wasn't great. If you want to hate me for it, sure. Go ahead. I was angry, I couldn't handle... anything. I took out my 2xGinsu, and put it through Aloice's chest. I expected more resistance, like a rib or something in the way. But it went right in, and right out, covered in blood. She yelped and then fell down. And then Zero... he stood there in shock for a second, and as soon as I tried to say something it was too late. He grabbed me in one giant robot claw and slammed me onto the quest bed, and then... I blacked out right after the first hammer blow, but I've since snuck a peek at my body and... it wasn't recognizable. Like, blood everywhere, rotting flesh and seriously I almost threw up. He must've kept going until there was nothing left to mangle. And, uh... I guess I should say, don't worry, we're both alive. She's the sprite, now, in with the wasp and stuff. I guess... I probably wouldn't have done it if I didn't know that was an option. I don't think Zero knew about kiss resurrection? Or was uncomfortable with it for whatever reason? I don't know what was going on with him, I haven't... talked with him, and stuff. I didn't have him down as the revenge type- he's all read up on the sunk cost fallacy and stuff, he doesn't think it's useful. But that... probably wasn't a situation where he had that on the brain.
But yeah. How I survived. That's a different story.
after Zero bashed in my head, I woke up on Derse. On the slab. It had to be the slab, what else would it be? Really convenient, when you come to think of it. I think... maybe the Shadow King or the Smoke Knight or whatever had this planned all along. How they could have orchestrated this insane Xanatos gambit (or why) is a mystery, but it worked out as well as it could have for me. I turned to Jack, who hastily put away some kind of dog magazine? I was about to ask him to kill me, but he said "say no more" and put a really nasty-looking knife through my eye socket. Hurt less than I expected- maybe a dreamself thing.
So as far as I can figure, here's what happened. The Sand quest bed wouldn't have brought me to God Tier- I would've probably just stayed dead or whatever. But the bed in the crypt... that one's different, in order for it to function properly your real self needs to be dead, and your dreamself alive, and then your dreamself dies on it? And according to a few really confused FAQs, there's a bunch of insane circumstantial activation conditions, too. Like, you can die by green fire, or die without certain body parts attached, or die without ever having your dreamself wake, or die with an odd number of dersites/prospitians crying over your corpse, or just be really Lucky in terms of like actual game luck that Light and Law manipulate... seriously it looks like a crapshoot. But for whatever reason, it activated, and... The game must've gotten confused somewhere. Unsurprisingly, given how shitty the game's coding is alleged to be, it got its ascension scripts mixed up or some shit. Like, okay, if player is on the bed and condition X Y or Z is met, and his real self's dead, then... bestow god tier powers and spawn at crypt? But then, there's the live activation conditions on the main bed, where it checks "is ascending" which presumably has its own logic but maybe also gets toggled by the crypt ascension? This is all guesswork, but it bears investigation- although given the inherently risky nature of the endeavor further research seems mega dangerous. Bottom line. I ascended inside Derse's crypt, as some weird-ass mixture of Smith of Sand and Prince of Law. I. Don't even know what the fuck. The game's identification is going kind of insane- I'm being referred to one or both of the titles (sometimes with mismatch of title and aspect) seemingly at random by consorts and carapaces, prophecy books just give up and print all the words at once (when they're not zalgo'd to death), and... my Sprite's calling me a "fallen prince" (prince with a capital P? or game-story moon prince?) and has bestowed the title of "Knave" upon me. I don't know if that's a generic identifier, like an opposite of Hero? Or like some emergency title when the game has no idea what's going on. Or maybe version drift? oh and my outfit is less terrible than the normal one would probably be- there's like this apron-tabard thing with a mashed-up unrecognizable law/sand symbol (god damn it law) and a hood and a cape and then a second, shorter cape underneath because the Ragripper scripts for this shit are probably bananas.
There's also the matter of problems. Like, you'd think it'd be awesome to have the powers of Law and Sand combined? Well, it looks like the game pulled more of an && operator than an ||, and... like the abilities I had before aren't working. Ascension came with a shitload of scrambled Revelawesomes, but almost nothing's actually working, like each Aspect is saying "what, that ability isn't mine, cancel casting." What's weird, though? Besides the rest of this insanity? There seem to be like extra-special powers for the combination of aspects. Like, maybe when someone was coding they thought "man, wouldn't it be cool if players could dual-aspect, let's put in some bullshit special abilities just for that combo" and then they never finished scripting it and dummied it out by disabling whatever what would've ordinarily let players pull this crap. So I've got this cool haze thing, like a magic smoke bomb that lets me poof away? Fuck that saccharine chessmaster, I'm gonna show him who's really in charge of smoke around here. I guess they thought "um, darkness, and also sand... that's like, smoke, right?" fuck whatever, I'm tired of guessing why any of this is possible.
Anyway. There's more stuff to talk about, namely what I think was supposed to be Supes' disaster but that didn't actually go through maybe? Or maybe something worse's coming. I've gotta go figure out what to do about my Denizen, though- his Minion showed up and won't stop badgering me.
EDIT: woot first log thread to reach two pages! What this means is probably that I'm unforgivably chatty and nobody cares about my terrible adventures, rather than that I've actually accomplished anything in particular. ???
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jun 26, 2012 18:43:42 GMT -5
Buhhhhh. So, like, I was all prepared to not hate my Denizen, like I'd put up with whatever the fuck his deal was and then just get things done, but... RRRRRRRGH what a shit head this guy is. Nothing particularly exciting happened there, and I still have stuff to recap.
So right, Supes. When I ascended, I was all like "what the fuck" and Jack told me that our Grace was about to fuck shit up and I needed to go shut her down. I started to ask more questions, told him why should I follow the orders of the Smoke Knight, and he pointed up at Droog, sitting with a pile of firearms leveled at me. Then he said that the SK said she's scratching the session and that I'd know what that meant. Needless to say I took off like a bullet because FUCK NO, I fully intended to keep existing, you know? Oh, and. I can totally fly now. I wasn't thinking about what'd just happened- my existence was allegedly being threatened, so I just shot outta there. Seriously? FLYING IS THE COOLEST THING EVER. HOLY SHIT. Like, any of you ever been on a roller coaster? Where you're going like sixty miles an hour on a carefully engineered track in a safety car? Well, when you're flying there is NO safety car and also I dunno if it's the incipisphere being weird (my top speed really seems to vary) but like shooting through space it's like I dunno, a hundred mph? It's hard to tell because it's space and all the inertial reference frames are screwed up. but yeah FLYING
So I showed up on Supes' planet, which, by the way, is on fire. Like, apparently that's supposed to happen, it's not even Denizen damage. It's just, there's huge infernos everywhere and the consorts (crocs) don't seem to mind it- I guess it's special undeadly fire or something? I didn't test it. The Land of Torrents and Flame- it's fires and huge... rivers? They're like living things, huge snakes of water that just rush at insanely high speeds across the landscape, putting out fires and being generally ultra-destructive. I'm bumming around here on LOTAF, and the crocs ride these river-snake things on surfboards (where did they get surfboards) and it looks so fucking intense, it's awesome. Okay enough about how cool LOTAF is. LOTAF's not where she was, duh, the Scratch object's supposed to be the Time player's world and I forgot that like a moron. Thankfully, I can fly mega fast when not in atmosphere, like fuck gates I'm super flying speed man over here.
The Scratch object was like... some kind of mountain, with a gold spiral path going up its slopes. Supes was there, somehow lifting a gigantic white needle thing without even trying. The hell is up with her... mangrit? What's the female equivalent of that stat, who cares. Or more likely, she was casting some kind of rejection-fueled Hope spell that was letting her do it. And that needle was carving a blindingly bright gouge in the mountainside. She was almost done, about to reach the top.
what happened next was a kickass fight, like not murders or anything just goin' at each other with weapons while I tried to keep her away from the mountain. There was no need for words, she knew I didn't cotton to her game-breaking ambitions and she wasn't gonna give up. I held back, see, on account of I didn't feel like doing any additional murders. She pulled out a pair of hatchet-kinda things, and used them like extra legs for flipping around and doing all sorts of kickass acrobatic shit. Seriously, like, she must've been doing something really off the wall with Hope abilities because Graces are supposed to be mega casters, not unbelievable strifers. And an unbelievable strifer she is, haha. I mean, WOW. She didn't need to be able to fly, she was just a whirlwind of destruction with those things. Again, theorizing, but I think her Hand&Pockets modus in conjunction with [Eject] was letting her pull off all kinds of stunts- like it'd look like she jumped but really she was just launching herself by holding onto her weapon? For my part, I had my 'lightsaber' but she was too fast so I went for a different tactic. Pulled out my motor rod, hooked one of her axes, sent her flying. And then she went FLYING RIGHT BACK and nearly bisected me, so I decided to end the fight right there. Can't tell if what I did was a Law, Sand, or Law/Sand weird glitch hybrid ability. I grabbed the scratch needle, and expended a bunch of Pluck to encase it in black chains- and then shatter it into pieces. No more reset button.
She was furious, it was great. I think she was going to kill me there, but I sidestepped her charge and kicked her off the mountain- where she got snagged by some kind of pixelated sprite (no, like... her sprite, was all pixelly, not that it was a game sprite or...), some kind of dragon or winged thingy with a castle-shaped doohickey on its back. That thing was SPEEDY, I couldn't catch up even flying. I tried to hook onto it with my rod, but she chopped the line and got away.
So yeah! I'm gonna... work on talking to people, soon. Right now, lemme post a vital stats kinda page like from before, I haven't done that in a while. Prince of Law: Benedict, spacetimeCounselor 95BDDE 153D6B Land of Stars and Pulse (Ghosty salamander consorts) Entry: shield w/cross Prototyping: Strong Bad, [fish]
Smith of Sand: Zerovirus, bayesianMechanist CC2706 Land of Craters and Splendor (PETA iguana consorts) Entry: globe Prototyping: wasp, [Aloice]
Seer of Time: Aloice, arachnidsDevotee 005682 (FFAE00 as sprite) Land of Clans and Falls (Angry turtle consorts) Entry: clock Prototyping: flowers, [?]
Ward of Mind: Obselescence, ??? Land of Peaks and Pages (Conspiratorial axolotl consorts) Entry: ? Prototyping: dog, meteor
Grace of Hope: Superfrequency, superFrequency EBDB05 Land of Torrents and Flame (Surfing croc consorts) Entry: rook Prototyping: rook, [some pixelly flying creature]
Witch of Space: ???? ??????? ????????? Prototyping: impaled puppet, [?] ?? (seriously who is this)
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jun 30, 2012 10:26:21 GMT -5
Oh yeah in case you missed the OP I'm typing in dreamself color now because the other one looks bad with the forum theme.
-- spacetimeCounselor [SC] began pestering superFrequency [SF] -- SC: well? SF: well what? SC: well what was that all about SF: I'm sure I don't know what you're talking about. SC: come on SC: seriously SF: I don't know what's not serious SF: What do you want? SC: im just all to asking why did you just try to erase us all from existence there SF: oh, that? SF: I told you, I don't want to keep playing this game. SC: so, of course, you decided 'why not wipe myself and everyone else from history' SF: don't make this more dramatic than it is SF: it's just a reset button. SC: oh really SC: how exactly do you know this SC: did you, by any chance, actually read the faq i sent you SF: no. SF: I'm not about to start cheating just because I'm sick of the game SC: a) oh cmon don't tell me you don't use cheat codes b) then how'd you know what that thing was SC: also where'd you get that uh SC: hang on what's it called SC: quill of echidna SF: Butterfly gave it to me SC: who SF: astralLepidoptera SF: one of the other players SC: wait you mean the space player SC: i haven't seen her since i got involved with a conspiracy with the midnight crew and took a shuttle to a meteor from derse in order to perform her entry sequence while already in the medium, after which she kicked my dreamself out the window SF: see SF: this is exactly the kind of convoluted ad hoc story structure SF: that makes sburb such a terrible game SC: i think you mean such an awesome game SC: but yeah, stupid-lookin' shiny shirt, kinda looks like a vocaloid? SF: how should I know, we talked over pesterchum SC: well okay SC: but i should mention how she totally was wrong/lied/tricked you like crazy SF: excuse me? SC: the Scratch? it's not just a reset button for the session SC: it's a reset button for the UNIVERSE SC: it re-initializes earth itself with different initial conditions SC: we, the players, get wiped from existence, and uh SC: well there's convoluted ectobiology stuff but bottom line we live out our lives in a completely different time period while our paradox time relatives play the session instead SC: so yeah if you feel like never having existed go ahead and find a way to finish the scratch without a Quill SF: ... SC: seriously read the fucking faq SC: this isn't the kind of game you're supposed to just figure out on your own SC: it's loaded with unfair difficulty and you only get one life SC: well sorta, extra lives are complicated SF: ... SC: yeah that sure is an ellipsis SF: fine. I'll play the game through to the end. SF: Unless you know a way out SC: well, i actually kinda do SC: but it's sorta especially convoluted and risky and it won't matter until we win anyway SF: keep me posted on that, then SC: one more thing SC: you're the Grace of Hope, right SF: yes SF: that's what everything's calling me SC: okay so what that means is SC: the "grace" half means you have to cause some kind of horrible cataclysm SF: I have to? SC: well, you will, whether you like it or not SC: remember i told you about the predestination mechanics SF: You don't need to remind me SF: I told you about the beef I have with those SF: fuck sburb's time mechanics up the butt SC: haha SC: but yeah, if the leaky time energy from the scratch doesn't count, find something to do that'll satisfy your title SC: without being especially inconvenient SC: wrt hope, just read the faq archiveofourown.org/works/340777/chapters/705748 -- superFrequency [SF] ceased pestering spacetimeCounselor [SC]--
yeah just hang up why don't you Well, okay, Supes is probably less likely to cause a disaster intentionally now. Or at least, cause an actual disaster on purpose because she doesn't know what she's doing. Or... whatever. But this "Butterfly" person... well, now's as good a time as any to deal with her.
-- spacetimeCounselor [SC] began pestering astralLepidoptera [AL] -- SC: oh my god your color is white SC: seriously why AL: :? SC: okay well i guess it'll show up better on the forum bg than my own color, whatever AL: :? who are you again? SC: who am i, i'm the mfing boss of getting things done here SC: benedict, prince of law (kinda) at not-your-service SC: my question pertains to who the hell YOU are again AL: -_-; well, that's not a very nice way to ask. AL: :3 you should be a little more grateful, shouldn't you? AL: :3 if it weren't for me, your session would be SO doomed, you don't even know. SC: hey i'm fully aware of what kind of space player we didn't have until right the fuck now SC: mainly i'm getting to wondering who you are and why you're even here AL: })^_^({ i'm Butterfly! AL: B) four session veteran of Space, never rolled anything but! AL: O.o first time as a Witch, though. pleased to meetcha! SC: right. very nice introduction, lady SC: you danced this dance before? AL: -o- four times, i think i just said? SC: yeah whatever SC: listen i'm glad we're not ultradoomed thanks to you being here but SC: i got a couple questions wrt/misdemeanors you got up to AL: ^_^ ask away! SC: uh okay SC: question number 1 is why you felt it necessary to throw my dreamself out your window AL: :/ well come on, a girl is supposed to be okay with a strange boy showing up in her room while she's asleep??? SC: uh AL: XD lol no, it's fine. AL: B) i just didn't need any distractions while i was getting set up for this run. SC: so you threw me out a window AL: :| don't be such a baby. AL: -o- dreamselves can fly, remember? SC: not off-moon they can't AL: B| pffffffffff SC: okay look that barely even matters SC: the larger problem is more to do with the thing i just had to deal with SC: that is, you allegedly told sfreq that the scratch was totes a safe reset button and she should totally go scratch it SC: and presumably you gave her a quill of echinda AL: ^_^; did i do that? SC: yes. AL: :> well it hardly matters, does it? AL: ;) clearly you had the chops to stop her just in time! SC: that's like completely besides every single point SC: why would you think that was a good idea AL: :S well, all that time energy leaking everywhere... AL: :O maybe it serves some important purpose? AL: :/ one that i'm not totally ready to spill the beans about because of future time plans? SC: oh okay future time plans that's the best explanation there is for making two people engage in combat over their own existence sure SC: all makes sense now AL: })^_^({ glad you see it my way! SC: hrrglgjrk SC: seriously what is your deal AL: :? my deal? AL: >:D i'm just trying to make the game a little more challenging, is all! SC: what SC: no no no back up SC: i'm pretty sure the glitch faq says something about that SC: like how Umbral Ultimatum is a really bad thing AL: -_-; jeez chill. AL: :V i know what i'm doing, i've been doing it longer than you! SC: jesus SC: just uh SC: i dunno go breed some frogs or do some land stuff i dunno AL: :) already done! SC: what AL: XD i've got the frog right here! and i nabbed the Heart, took down echidna, terraformed my land, etc etc. AL: B) i am so pro at this game, you have no idea. SC: wh SC: how AL: >:D it's not hard at all, when you know what to do! AL: ouo let's just say i have a little helper. SC: what AL: :V and to be honest, sessions like yours make my job a whole lot easier! AL: -o- no need to rely on any pesky server player. SC: but SC: it can't have been more than like SC: not even a day by this point AL: -_-; well i skipped over some boring stuff. SC: ... SC: look i'm kinda busy SC: can i look into what the hell is up with your preposterous claims later AL: :) no problem! AL: })^_^({ see you later! SC: holy fuckin' shit -- spacetimeCounselor [SC] ceased pestering astralLepidoptera [AL] --
oooookay what the fuck, you guys does anyone have any idea who this is or what her deal is
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Post by apianAnchorite on Jun 30, 2012 22:38:25 GMT -5
((Man, your logs are so cool. I love reading about the crazy shit that goes down in your session))
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Post by tenaciousTheseus on Jul 1, 2012 1:21:02 GMT -5
Textbook case of Umbral Ultimatum. Keep an eye on her. Also there is no way she finished the whole thing while you're just now reaching your denizen. Also, Witch. She's not gonna be easy to get info out of. And Space four times in a row? How the hell do you manage that? The Space lesson is one of the most obvious ones: Exploration and Discovery. That means that she's locked into some mental boundaries. Try getting her to do something outside of her comfort zone. And this may be me basing it on white text and nothing else, but it's possible her "little helper" is an Angel. They tend to pull stuff like that.
Whatever the result, you have a lot of hard work ahead of you. Good luck, man.
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Post by stanzicApparati on Jul 1, 2012 3:44:45 GMT -5
[RAngoon wArning]
TEst yOur aBilities, PRince. WHat oF LAw oBeys yOu? TEst oN uNderlings fIrst - bUt iF aBle, hEdge tHe bUtterfly aBout wIth fLowers. LEave hEr rOom tO fLy, bUt wHere aNd wHen aNd hOw yOu cHoose.
SHould iT bE vIable, iT mAy gIve yOu sOme hOpe oF sUrviving tHis sEssion.
FAiling aLl eLse, sHould LAw sTill hEed yOu, wEave hEr a nEcklace oF mOre fLowers, eDged iN fIre aNd sTeel. THe eNd rEsult wIll bE uNpleasant aNd iS uTterly lAcking iN eLegance aNd I aM sUre gM wOuld dIsapprove sTrongly, bUt yOu mAy nEed tHe aCe iT cReates.
...I sWear tO SKaia, iF I cOuldn't hEar tHe BEat sO cLearly, I wOuld tHink I wAs RAin, nOt TIme. THis iS gEtting rIdiculous.
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jul 2, 2012 23:16:23 GMT -5
((Hey, thanks for the feedback! Glad to see my increasingly unrecognizable mess of a session is entertaining someone.))
Haha, thanks for the advice, you guys. It's hard to tell who's the sketchiest out of all the mysterious people popping up in our incipisphere, but I'll try to sort out these outrageous convolutions. I'll stop by... LO?A? or wherever she's at, to see what she's actually done over there. And... SA, I guess I'll take your advice(?) to heart. Whatever that's supposed to mean. also yo anyone know what's up with the forums, holy jeez
Also, before I head off to yet another ad-hoc confrontation, I should probably recount my dealings with the Denizen from earlier. I read something about it being named Ahriman? But then other people said Themis? Whatever I got something called Eunomia, who's pretty much just like this giant snake lady in what looks like plate armor but is actually more like... it kinda looks like the black crystal from the dungeons but different. Obsidian, maybe? I don't know shit about geology. And I don't know if they're like, actually part of her, but in the room there were like these huge hands coming out of the ground, not visibly connected to her. They moved like they were, though. Kinda weird. Anyway, Eunomia is the biggest bitchy bitch that ever bitched a big bitchy bitch. Here's the FACTZ:
1: Like, okay, I was thinking "seriously, how much is a big asshole monster really going to rile me up, I'm cool as a cucumber arright". But yeeaaaaaah no. She talks, like, EXCRUCIATINGLY slowly, with looooong pauses for effect. And not only does she refer to me as "child", but she treats me like one, too. Like, kindergarten teacher condescending, with this fake sweetness that totally sounds horrible with her booming monster voice. Her catch-phrase is "Be silent", and coming in a close second is "I am not going to tell you that." No riddles, no coy bullshit, just total refusal to cooperate. 2: She TOTALLY REFUSES TO COOPERATE. Like, you're supposed to go through this whole Contest thing, and then sing a song and then do dungeons and announce a Stake and then do the Knell and... well, apparently it was super important that she talk to me immediately, because she just sent her Minion to bring me in early. And then like EVERY SINGLE QUESTION I asked she just said "It is not time to tell you yet." Or, as mentioned "I am not going to tell you that." 3: Seriously, she does not cooperate. Here's the deal: the Denizen damage is, as theorized, actually the solid half of my Land. It's supposed to be 100% Starry Bullshit Zone, but a lot of it's encased in that fake bismuth stuff. And how do I have to clear it? Well, I need to manually break it to pieces and cart it away. I asked about quests and she's like "yeah, there's some" but she won't tell me what they are and they allegedly won't have any actual bearing on my Terraforming.
seriously i'm hoping this serpentine broad stops being such a goddamn pain whenever i finally get around to doing the knell properly and shit. Anyway yeah Land quests are kind of on hold until I sort out the mess with Butterfly and the doppelgangers and the Zero-thinking-I'm-a-dead-murderer. And maybe the messed-up dual-classing thing, if there's a "cure" for a god tier gone wrong. I'm keeping away from my dwelling spire in case Zero shows up, so I'm basically laying low on LOTAF because nobody ever goes the fuck to LOTAF, it's on fucking fire.
{one space-flight around Skaia later} Can't find Butterfly's planet in the ring of planets- and it doesn't appear to be connected by servers or gates or anything. Butterfly is... not answering on Pesterchum, I guess she's busy? I've got a lead wrt/how I can find her, though- I can check out that weird Veil meteor and see if there's a teleporter or some clue or whatever. Or I could just wait until she's online? But I can wait for that whilst I investigate manually, so whatever. Don't recall which meteor it was, so I'll have to go visit Jack and the boys, ask what they know and how they're doing. {one flight to Derse later} okay two weird things. First, I'm pretty sure Zero completed his actual mech- I don't think he saw me, but there was this huge robot-lookin' thing in orbit over LOCAS. Second weird thing, maybe more pressing? Derse's been redecorated. Loads of buildings have been painted black, and where they haven't, black banners with spades have been hung. Looks like Jack's been busy. Did... did he do this himself, or did the Smoke Knight give him the ring? I'm going to head for the palace to investigate.
{few mins later} Change of plans, I've run into someone here. Lemme switch on the transcriber here:
Benedict: Okay, it's rolling. You are? BQ: The Queen. Benedict: Right. And...? BQ: My kingdom has been usurped by my treasonous archagent, Jack Noir. Benedict: Got that, yeah. What else? BQ: What else? BQ: Chaos reigns on Derse. I have been driven from my throne, and order must be restored. Benedict: Gotcha. What else? BQ: Why do you ask for more information? Your task is clear, prince. Benedict: Prince or Prince? BQ: What? Benedict: Like, are you calling me "Prince" with a capital P, like that's my title? Or is it the lowercase "prince" where I'm just like a prince of the moon. BQ: Both. Benedict: ...okay that doesn't actually help. Whatever. Benedict: So, you want my help retaking Derse? BQ: Yes! Benedict: What's in it for me? BQ: ... Benedict: Okay, I'm reading that as an upset face, but it's kinda hard to tell with carapace people? Are you- BQ: Have you forgotten your duty, prince? Benedict: Uh... yeah, probably. I had a duty? BQ: As a prince and dreamer of Derse! Your loyalty! Benedict: Jeez, okay! Carapace rep, and all that. Sure. Benedict: Is that like, actually tied to you as a stat thing, or could I get the same rep from Jack?
after that part she thwacked me with a scepter. Not The scepter, that's presumably on the battlefield. Just a fancy cane, really. I told her I'd consider her offer, and then flew away to the palace. Just outside right now, uploading this in case Jack's a ringwraith or something and murderfies me. Man, I wish I managed to figure out [Misfortunate Declarative], I'm like 90% sure that's a strong luck debuff just from the name. Wish me replacement luck in stead of my actual bad luck powers.
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jul 2, 2012 23:25:11 GMT -5
Buh, just walked inside and got a pester. I'm mega angry at it, and you might see why.
-- smokeKnight [SK] began pestering spacetimeCounselor [SC] -- SK: Congratulations on your ascension, Knave. SK: The King and I await your return with bated breath. -- smokeKnight [SK] ceased pestering spacetimeCounselor [SC] --
This medieval fuckface knows I'm alive, somehow, and I can only hope Zero and Aloice aren't in on it because I'm gonna be WAY in for it if they find out. If they get a hold of me... well, I'd say what I did puts me in the "Just" category, probably. Oh, dang, and I should probably let Sfreq know that I'm supposed to be dead- although I'm not sure if she's going to be inclined to keep the secret.
Hold that thought.
Deuce's here. He says welcome, Jack's been waiting for me. That's not good, I don't think. oh dang he doesn't look good either. Strong Bad mask, a couple flowers on his shoulders (wut), butterfly wings (gee i wonder who prototyped that, also how), a spear in his chest and a gold tooth, this rocky sort of meteor skin, and a sort of rook-shaped collar-hunchback dealie. Looks like a freak, basically. Aaaaand yeah. Ringwraith. Only... the ring doesn't look too good. It's all... well, the orbs are flashing, and it's like made of glass instead of gold? The hell even happened here?
Jack says what do you want. I ask the hell even happened here? He says the Smoke Knight backstabbed him- gave him a fake ring, made with alchemy. Or at least he thinks it's alchemy. Allegedly trying to duplicate that thing is insanely dangerous even if you can find the code? Dunno how Jack knows all this about alchemy. He says the other prince has been trying to help. I say other prince? He says yeah, the squinty-lookin' one with the less dorky glasses. Zero. He says the thing is stuck to his finger, and that the prince (zero) told him the ring was crazy fucked up and playing havoc with AI scripting. He also says he doesn't know what an A-eye scripting is, but it's sposed to be important. He can't move from the throne (which seems pretty wrecked- did that happen recently or when the queen was... ambushed or whatever?) and he's been forced to actually deal with his paperwork and the hassle of running the city. He says when he gets unstuck he's burning this place to the ground. I ask what ground, he says it's a figure of speech, who cares.
I say change of subject, do you still know where that meteor is? He says ask Droog, he doesn't keep track of shit like that. I say sure. Deuce takes me to see the new Archagent, I ask what does he mean Droog, he says yes. (if this is getting kinda confusing it's because it's kinda rude to be running the transcriptor all the time, and I don't want to provoke these guys.) Droog says hey, kid. You want a smoke? I say no thanks. I take a seat. He says he's had his hands full with refugees from Prospit. Apparently some shit went down there? I start asking, but he interrupts me and hands me a duplicate shuttle access form from last time. Says his new girl's gonna drive. Really sweet thing, name of Taylor. He asks if I like his new suit, I say yeah. Looks hella dapper. He smirks and looks back down at his paperwork.
{walk through town later} Miss Taylor meets me at the shuttle station. I give her the shuttle form, which is stamped with a diamond. She looks at it and blushes, which is kinda weird. You ever see a carapace blush? You'd think you wouldn't be able to see it through the shell, but it's practically luminescent. Anyway, she's a faster driver than Droog- either this is a better shuttle or Droog was drawing out the trip so he could get a good smoke in. Okay now I'm saving and uploading this log, and I'm gonna check out this lab. The section from before is missing- I'm gonna have to sleuth out the problems all over the place. (Little Problem Sleuth reference, there- MSPA is really cool, but its latest adventure has been going on way too long. Ever since he started this Bard Quest thing he's been spending way too much time on highly detailed art and mature, intelligent writing- not one codpiece joke to be found! What a wash.)
Anyway yeah stay tuned for updates later.
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jul 4, 2012 20:17:32 GMT -5
Okay, so. The house-type lab thing is gone, but the surrounding lab bits are still kinda there. There's not much here, just like... there's no crater or anything. Checked the labs out, there was some... I dunno, equipment? Hang on, I should make a little diagram to see if anyone's seen this before.
The top is the main terminal, and the bottom is the keyboard display there. Okay, so like there's this triangley bit and a spirograph? And a bunch of other weird symbols. The sburb cursor on the right looks like ours, only the actual cursor doesn't have the little moon rectangle. I don't know what half this shit means, even. There's the space symbol up on top, too. Also, the room's got lots of tubes of green goo everywhere? And loads of tubes and cracked displays. It looks like someone trashed the place once they were done with it.
But yeah, I didn't find any transportalizers or anything, so I'm going to need to wait for Bfly to get online before I can scope out her planet. Right now, I'm just gonna hit my land for more quests. Like, I've been doing some small dungeons since I... tiered, or whatever this is, but all they had was grist from monsters and random shit from my room. Some imps formed a cult around my little dragon dude, though, that was kinda funny. Isn't it consorts that's supposed to do that, though? I didn't bother logging all that, nothing eventful happened. I'm gonna stop tabbing over to this log file for a while unless something noteworthy happens or until Bfly logs on.
{bout an hour later} Strongbadfishsprite decided to fly off- dude said he had emails to check and rambles to wreck, and he gave me my player pendant. Pretty sad to see him go, I guess, but like... where do they even go. Before he went, I grilled him on how he types with boxing gloves on, and... he says he's just good at using the gloves to hit keys one by one, really fast. Not complicated. Also he said to never tell anyone but HAHAHAHAHAHA
{ hours later, like four or five} 1. Gonna just number quests I do, y'know? Just met the secret consort- he latched onto this painting that was hanging in my room, just like... a painting my dad's friend did, of some kid bundled up for winter in the middle of a field? But it was stolen by imps and I had to get it back. And then they followed me around for a while, being all "omg hero". The player pendant I got from strobro's solved a lot of player identification problems- dungeons are responding right and consorts aren't thinking I'm Zero. Abilities are still fucked up, though- I'm gonna see if I can relearn them from scratch, find my Homefree and "commune" with the Whisperings and whatnot. Like, a lot of this I'm thinking comes from activation conflicts between Law and Sand? If I put some serious effort into understanding the two aspects instead of relying on the auto-revelawesomes from tiering, I might be able to sorta... I dunno, actually figure out how they work and learn the abilities from scratch.
2. HOLY JEEZ landed in an Atomyk Ebonpyre. The batman theme wasn't working and there were dudes everywhere and I didn't have the sprite to heal me and aaaaaa. I just escaped with my life after kicking significant ass with the lightsaber dealie. Maybe like, if I can do some Vow or restriction or some Law trick, I can prevent the blade of the Unreasonably Dangerous Pole from hitting me. And then murderflail like a boss. Rook and meteor-prototyped underlings make pretty nice flails in a pinch, though.
3. Okay that last one wasn't really a quest. But I found, like... this place full of weirdo star bits that whispered at me? I think the whisperings are here, but they're like... being unruly and stuff, like the stars are swirling around and I need to kinda keep them in line so I can listen proper. -the blue ones come near when I'm not looking at them, they move behind me -the yellow ones leave when i'm not looking, unless I draw them to the red ones, which don't move at all. -I thought the white ones kinda just floated around without any logic, but actually they seem to follow these tiny green ones -green ones move to the points between yellow and blue okay here's the trick- the red ones move to where i tell them to- I need to order the red ones to move so that yellows bind to them, and then make sure i keep my line of sight fixed on the yellows, and then scatter the blue ones properly so the white ones will follow the green ones to, there's these twinkly ones that amplify the white ones, which carry the whispers? So it's a puzzle where I need to use sight and blindness alternatively, as well as restricting movement with red-star commands. This looks like a very Law puzzle, and DAMN it's pretty fun. I need to sit here and... work within these rules, so I can hear my Whisperings. I'm thinking this is some kind of Skaian Summoning, actually.
4. Met some consorts in a Tribal ebonpyre and killed myself a GICLOPS. Hooked his eye and YANKED IT OUT, it was kinda gross and it started leaking cobalt blood and thrashing around. Oh and this was on "land", so the consorts... once I floored the Giclops, they started trying to tie it down with starry string things Gulliver style but fucked it up, so I just stabbed it in the empty eye socket with a sword and it burst into some SERIOUS grist. Didn't get a scratch on me- he was faster than he looked, but I had the advantage of distance. I think my specibus is kind of an exploit, actually- underlings are using melee tactics against it, even though I'm hooking them from a distance. The buzzsaw bow counts as melee, though, even though it's like a ranged specibus type. Are range rules even a little consistent?
5. Got what I think was my first Maturity Quest proper- a salamander elder sent me to the Meadow of Stillness- which is like, kind of a field of green stars that don't really move around or anything. There's this soft ringing that fills the air here- I'm supposed to learn a Maturity component here- he rattled off a list of the things I need to learn, but I didn't catch all of it because he had this dumb pseudo-mexican accent and just kept talking and talking in one incredibly unbroken sentence so that no one had a chance to interrupt him- it was really quite hypnotic. Anyway, I'm here to learn to "destroy stress" using a Choice. I have a Choice between Psyches, and I can conquer Stress using either [My Serenity], [Forward Movement], or [Sweet Dreams, Timaeus]. If I understood correctly, each of these choices corresponds to a part of the Sarabande- which is either another name for the song of the Land or some kind of intermediate song-foundation thing that gets built. I'll be grilling consorts on this stuff more later, try to sort it out.
'k, I just kinda sat here and chilled for a while, but then the ringing got louder and more annoying and I got sick of it and swam right out of the place. And then... some kinda revelawesomey thing, where I got this sort of beat in my head? elder says I completed the quest, and chose [Forward Movement]- I had three options for dealing with the sound. [My Serenity] would have entailed sitting there and being unbothered by the noise, whereas [Sweet Dreams, Timaeus] would've been covering my ears or humming a tune to myself. Dunno really what those choices are supposed to entail, but probably it's super deep and stuff.
6. whooooa okay this star skaian summoning puzzle is WAY more complicated, it's like now there's pink ones that randomly switch what color they're attracted to and orange ones that... I don't even know. And now there's some that CHANGE COLOR in response to the positions of the purple ones, and little turquoise ones that run around and steal white-whispering-star's focus from the little green ones, which start freaking out when they're not being followed, and... I mean, trying to restrict their movement and keep these goddamn stars in line is so crazy but I think I'm starting to figure it out.
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jul 6, 2012 0:04:10 GMT -5
-- astralLepidoptera [AL] began pestering spacetimeCounselor [SC] -- AL: ^o^ hey there! SC: agh fuck AL: :) everything alright? SC: no it's fine SC: i was just waist-deep in weird puzzle shit AL: -_- pfffff. AL: )O you don't need to waist your time with that diaper school stuff! AL: >:D this game is so easy to beat, if you know what to do. SC: what was that AL: ^_^; sorry, i misspelled waste. SC: no the emoticon AL: )O this one? SC: yeah AL: :O it's kind of like a disdainful face. AL: -_-; i'll admit, it was kind of a stretch. SC: okay whatever SC: i'm having a little trouble, idk if you can help me out here AL: :P can't find my land? SC: the hell SC: yeah, exactly AL: <_< LOPAF is off the grid. AL: >_> it's not hooked up to your chain of gates! SC: yeah i know that, that's kind of the issue AL: :O it's positioned above Skaia, not coplanar with the usual ring of planets. AL: ;) if you want to visit, you can always fly. AL: })^_^({ or you could let me drop you a portal! SC: oh uh SC: yeah sure, i guess SC: can you even use abilities with that kind of range AL: :/ please. AL: B) if you thought i didn't achieve the god tier already, you haven't been paying attention. SC: whoa okay that sure is a portal SC: where's it go AL: ;) where do you think? SC: hm i dunno where do i think the magic god portal made by a psycho umbral ultimatum space lady goes to hm SC: the answer must be totally obvious and benign and have no possibility of being a trap at all AL: D: what, you don't trust me? SC: ... AL: XD no it's cool, i get it. AL: :V but no worries, this just goes to my dwelling spire. AL: ;) i promise not to shove you out the window this time! SC: okay that's reassuring SC: allons-y -- spacetimeCounselor [SC] ceased pestering astralLepidoptera [AL] --
turning on the transcriptor, filtering out all this dance music...
Benedict: Oh hey! Butterfly: Hey! Benedict: ...yeah, okay. Butterfly: Hm? Benedict: Has anyone ever told you you look like a Vocaloid? Butterfly: Hahahahaha! That's a new one! Benedict: Uh. ???: Howdy. Benedict: Who's that? ???: Hehe. Butterfly: Meet DM, spacetime! Benedict: Benedict will do. DM: Dancemaster Maniacal, at your service. Benedict: Uh, hey. Nice to meet you. DM: Likewise. Butterfly: He's been helping me get through the easy stuff, here, haven't you? DM: Most certainly. Benedict: ...what do you mean "the easy stuff"? Butterfly: Take a look outside!
holy shit there's a giant gaping hole in her land
Benedict: I- what? Butterfly: Like it? Benedict: But... what? How did- what? DM: Hehehe. Butterfly: That's where we went and grabbed the Heart of the land. Butterfly: Show him what you've got, Mani! Benedict: Mani? DM: Mani? Butterfly: ...hmph! DM: Well, if it's all the same to you, you mind if I put the kid through a little test first? Butterfly: Oh, hahaha, sure! Benedict: wait what.
Music's starting. Oh well of course it's World's End Dancehall, is she running with the Vocaloid thing or something? And DM's... whoa he can MOVE so how about I FUCKIN' MOVE check it, check out the dance skills yeah bfly shake it what am i doing why would i ask that question, this is the coolest thing that's happened in this damn game so far unf GET UP GET DOWN GET THE FUCK DOWN YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAH
{half an hour or so later} okay that was easily the best impromptu space dance party i've ever been a part of it's like i suddenly don't even give a shit about everything leading up to that just MOTHER FUCKING GROOVY They had, like, World's End Dancehall, a bunch of Daft Punk (including Harder Better Faster Stronger), some Jet Set Radio, some vocaloid stuff I didn't recognize because I don't actually know much about that stuff, etc. Plus DM stopped and put on some of his personal collection- Megadancevania, Dance-Stab-Dance, Jackpot, this kickass "Sburban Titans" thing... like okay that was so awesome.
DM: HAAAAAhahahahaha! Benedict: Ha ha, heeeeeh. Butterfly: *panting* (this thing picks up panting?) DM: Freakin' frogs, kid. You are... Benedict: Huh? DM: ...the WORST dancer I've ever seen. Like, ever. Butterfly: BAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA! DM: Hahahahahaha! Butterfly: Hee hee hee hee hee! Oh my god! Benedict: ... DM: Ahahahaaaa... Benedict: I- Butterfly: HAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! DM: Heheheheheheh. Benedict: I feel like I'm bein' disrespected here, you- Butterfly: Eheheee... oh, I'm so- DM: It's okay- Butterfly: I'm so sorry, I just... DM: Okay. So...? Benedict: T_T (the transciber didn't actually pick this up but i thought it was appropriate) Butterfly: Yeah, let's show him.
writing this from a little bit later because i was too freaked out to write things down. Because. DM is a Ringwraith. He took out the ring and put it on and basically he looked like Jack but white and not immobile, so I screamed and flew off as fast as possible. so this means like Butterfly has a ringwraith working for her somehow and that ringwraith is an incredible dancer Did the Smoke Knight give him the real ring? Or is it the White Queen's ring, and all hell is breaking loose on both the dream moons? Like, I don't even what is. I... really need to get in touch with Zero and get this team's shit together, because there are way too many irons in the fire and mysterious impossible deadly shit and convoluted plot twists and oh god I don't even know. We need to stop being scattered and embroiled in this gamebreaking shit and get our act together, ride out the rest of this session proper-ways. I've got to... neutralize DM, rein in Sfreq and Butterfly, reconcile with Zero + Aloice, and then do something about those doppelgangers if they haven't already killed anyone. Maybe I can get Butterfly to have DM take out the SDs? But they might be a part of her plan, or maybe she's a part of theirs, and what about Jack, and... AGH
fucking where do i even start with this royal train wreck of a session
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jul 11, 2012 19:45:35 GMT -5
So Butterfly showed up in the IRC. Some of her emoticons aren't transcribed because mibbit is awful and auto-replaces standard emotes with custom smilies, but who cares, she needs to stop doing that anyway.
02:23 tenaciousTheseus Never have I ever destroyed a planet 02:23 stanzicApparati Never done that. 02:23 tenaciousTheseus That includes Lands, prospit, and derse 02:23 ballisticSpectacle Never done that personally. Came close, though. 02:23 unseeingAugur I'd be drinking. 02:24 ballisticSpectacle Also, 02:24 ballisticSpectacle 02:24 integratedInfiltrator Does that include pre-entry? 02:24 stanzicApparati Nope. 02:24 integratedInfiltrator And what does destroying involve? 02:24 ballisticSpectacle Strawberry-Rhubarb pie. 02:24 stanzicApparati That wasn't you. 02:24 stanzicApparati That was the game. 02:24 tenaciousTheseus As in 02:24 stanzicApparati <3!!! 02:24 integratedInfiltrator Not my own planet. 02:24 astralLepidoptera })^_^({ *drinks* 02:24 tenaciousTheseus Oh, yeah, that doesn't count 02:24 integratedInfiltrator Other planets. 02:24 tenaciousTheseus Also, holy shit BS 02:24 integratedInfiltrator Remotely. 02:24 tenaciousTheseus Will you marry me? 02:24 stanzicApparati As in "it isn't viable for life any more" 02:24 tenaciousTheseus Sure 02:24 ballisticSpectacle Um... 02:24 ballisticSpectacle No? 02:24 astralLepidoptera gonna need more shot glasses for this 02:24 ballisticSpectacle But I'll make some more pie if you want? 02:25 astralLepidoptera :D i go through those things like tissue paper! 02:25 integratedInfiltrator has uploaded file "piepatch.~ath" to the memo 02:25 stanzicApparati You're not supposed to break those. 02:25 integratedInfiltrator For you, UA 02:25 astralLepidoptera -_- pfffffffff. 02:25 unseeingAugur oh my god this is delicious 02:25 astralLepidoptera >_> that's what they WANT you to think! 02:26 ballisticSpectacle Also, here's some Apple. 02:26 ballisticSpectacle www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&biw=1920&bih=955&tbm=isch&tbnid=7LXG4cKrS5OibM:&imgrefurl=http://joshuatrent.com/classic-apple-pie&docid=V0xKVN1Qc82yhM&imgurl=http://joshuatrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/apple-pie.jpg&w=280&h=280&ei=Wtb3T7rdBMHlrQHT-K2LCQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=1000&vpy=165&dur=37&hovh=224&hovw=224&tx=136&ty=100&sig=113258092253615465674& 02:26 ballisticSpectacle Apple pie. 02:26 stanzicApparati No, that's 02:26 stanzicApparati like 02:26 stanzicApparati fact 02:26 stanzicApparati You aren't supposed to break planets. 02:26 ballisticSpectacle Going back to cupcakes now. 02:26 ballisticSpectacle Or maybe just regular cakes. 02:26 ballisticSpectacle Nah, cupcakes. 02:26 astralLepidoptera :\ but it really is so much easier to just get those things out of the picture once you're done with them! 02:27 astralLepidoptera T_T can't be having players moping around in magic land when there's work to be done. 02:27 ballisticSpectacle Have you tried cupcakes? 02:27 ballisticSpectacle I mean. 02:27 spacetimeCounselor oh my shit when did you get here 02:27 tenaciousTheseus What? No, you need them all the time 02:27 stanzicApparati A little while ago. 02:27 tenaciousTheseus ? 02:27 astralLepidoptera : D hiiiii! 02:27 stanzicApparati She's been telling us how she breaks planets. 02:27 spacetimeCounselor what 02:28 tenaciousTheseus What's going on? 02:28 stanzicApparati Astlep is spacou's Space player. 02:28 ballisticSpectacle 02:28 tenaciousTheseus Oh 02:28 ballisticSpectacle Here's a Cherry cupcake. 02:28 tenaciousTheseus You're butterfly? 02:28 ballisticSpectacle Cherry Coke, I mean. 02:28 spacetimeCounselor what about planets 02:28 astralLepidoptera ^_^ don't worry, this time around i don't need to waste time cleaning them up. 02:28 stanzicApparati We're playing "Never have I ever" 02:28 astralLepidoptera everything is under control! 02:29 spacetimeCounselor the hell 02:29 tenaciousTheseus No, wait, what? 02:29 tenaciousTheseus Don't destroy your planets 02:29 tenaciousTheseus Ever 02:29 stanzicApparati See, I've been saying that. 02:29 tenaciousTheseus That's kinda stupid 02:29 stanzicApparati You're not supposed to break those. 02:29 stanzicApparati There's a reason they're made out of bedrock. 02:29 ballisticSpectacle Yeah, destroying planets on purpose is kinda... 02:29 ballisticSpectacle bad 02:29 stanzicApparati Runs counter to the game. 02:29 ballisticSpectacle Who's turn is it? 02:29 tenaciousTheseus And to space 02:29 astralLepidoptera <_< it's not like anyone /needs/ them 02:29 tenaciousTheseus Yes 02:29 tenaciousTheseus They do 02:29 spacetimeCounselor i'm inclined to agree yeah WHAT 02:30 ballisticSpectacle We kinda do? 02:30 stanzicApparati They are vital, even. 02:30 spacetimeCounselor i meant wrt the bad idea 02:30 tenaciousTheseus And the fact you do that explains why you keep getting space 02:30 astralLepidoptera :? 02:30 stanzicApparati Haven't you gotten Space four times in a row, astlep? 02:30 stanzicApparati We'd heard that you had. 02:31 astralLepidoptera })^_^({ yep! 02:31 tenaciousTheseus That's bad 02:31 tenaciousTheseus That means you don't learn the first THREE TIMES 02:31 tenaciousTheseus Come on 02:31 tenaciousTheseus Space isn't nearly as complicated as the others 02:32 astralLepidoptera : P what's there to learn? 02:32 stanzicApparati While I'm still on my first session and my aspect runs counter to yours - Space's lesson is /easy/. 02:32 astralLepidoptera :V it's not like i don't win! 02:32 tenaciousTheseus That is not the point 02:32 tenaciousTheseus At all 02:32 stanzicApparati Has anyone else survived your sessions? 02:32 astralLepidoptera -o- most of the time, yes! 02:32 stanzicApparati Ever? 02:32 tenaciousTheseus Most of the time 02:32 stanzicApparati "Most of the time" 02:33 stanzicApparati How many sessions have you done? 02:33 astralLepidoptera : ( four, not counting this one. 02:33 astralLepidoptera :\ there were a few casualties 02:33 stanzicApparati "A few" 02:33 stanzicApparati how many people did you kill 02:33 astralLepidoptera 0_0 but nothing major! 02:33 tenaciousTheseus Due to your machinations 02:33 stanzicApparati Even one is important. 02:33 tenaciousTheseus Nothing major?! 02:33 tenaciousTheseus People died! 02:33 tenaciousTheseus That's pretty fucking major! 02:34 astralLepidoptera >:{ i don't kill people! it's not my fault they can't keep up! 02:34 stanzicApparati You speed-run, don't you. 02:34 tenaciousTheseus It kinda is 02:34 astralLepidoptera ;> when you're gaming with the game grl, you gotta step it up! 02:34 spacetimeCounselor what am i reading 02:34 spacetimeCounselor what is going on 02:35 tenaciousTheseus Here 02:35 tenaciousTheseus Let me spell it out for you 02:35 tenaciousTheseus If what you're doing results in the deaths of players... 02:35 tenaciousTheseus STOP 02:35 tenaciousTheseus FUCKING 02:35 tenaciousTheseus DOING 02:35 tenaciousTheseus IT 02:35 stanzicApparati How many people did you kill, astralLepidoptera? 02:36 stanzicApparati You didn't answer my question. 02:36 stanzicApparati I would like for you to answer my question. 02:36 stanzicApparati How 02:36 stanzicApparati many 02:36 astralLepidoptera -_-; i never killed anyone. 02:36 astralLepidoptera even though that would be so much easier! 02:36 stanzicApparati They died because of your recklessness 02:36 tenaciousTheseus What 02:36 tenaciousTheseus Okay 02:36 stanzicApparati your insanity 02:36 tenaciousTheseus No 02:36 tenaciousTheseus Stop 02:36 astralLepidoptera :\ the lands release the hoard when a player dies automatically, you know. 02:36 stanzicApparati ... 02:36 astralLepidoptera if i didn't care about people, i'd just skip to the end! 02:36 stanzicApparati You do not understand the point of the game, do you? 02:37 unseeingAugur That is no reason to just let them die! 02:37 tenaciousTheseus If you cared about people, you wouldn't get them killed! 02:37 astralLepidoptera >:| it was only like, three people. 02:37 stanzicApparati That's four people too many. 02:38 astralLepidoptera *_* two of those were, like, completely not my fault! 02:38 stanzicApparati Oh 02:38 stanzicApparati really 02:38 stanzicApparati do explain 02:38 unseeingAugur Well, then. Two of them are at least partially your fault. 02:39 astralLepidoptera :V one got himself stomped by a plain old giclops, and the other one got assassinated by jack (and it totally wasn't my fault i didn't even enter by then jeez) 02:40 astralLepidoptera :\ and if people are going to go trying to kill little old DM just for wearing the ring 02:40 ballisticSpectacle You know, you're starting to sound like the Seer of time in my last session. 02:40 astralLepidoptera i can't be held responsible!!! 02:40 stanzicApparati ... 02:40 stanzicApparati Excuse me for one moment. 02:40 stanzicApparati I need to make a post on the forum. 02:40 ballisticSpectacle She was a bitch, too. 02:40 tenaciousTheseus Yeah, that's for the best too 02:40 astralLepidoptera :[__] 02:40 astralLepidoptera >:< you did not. 02:41 ballisticSpectacle Call a bitch a bitch? 02:41 ballisticSpectacle I did. 02:41 ballisticSpectacle If you think that player death, especally ones that could be easilly prevented, is not a big deal... 02:41 ballisticSpectacle You're a bitch. 02:41 astralLepidoptera >:<<<<<< excuse me while i look up an angry enough emote. 02:41 astralLepidoptera >:{{{{ i usually don't need those. 02:42 stanzicApparati astralLepidoptera 02:42 stanzicApparati I have so many doomed selves, just from ensuring that none of my co-players die. 02:42 stanzicApparati You 02:42 stanzicApparati are a bitch 02:42 stanzicApparati and quite possibly a murderer. 02:42 ballisticSpectacle Especally since you seem to enjoy it, since it moves the game along quicker. 02:42 ballisticSpectacle Bitch. 02:43 stanzicApparati The point is not to speed-run. 02:43 stanzicApparati The point is to /learn/ 02:43 stanzicApparati to /grow/ 02:44 astralLepidoptera ASDSADi SAID it wasn't my FAULT they just made MSITAKES 02:44 tenaciousTheseus Mistakes that YOU caused 02:44 tenaciousTheseus Mistakes that got people killed! 02:44 astralLepidoptera NOOS> 02:44 tenaciousTheseus That takes a bit more than just "oops, my bad!" 02:44 ballisticSpectacle Y'know what? 02:44 ballisticSpectacle I think I'm done sending baked goods for a while. 02:44 astralLepidoptera I HELP peopel I don't make things DNAGEROUS i KNOW WHAT IU'm DOING 02:45 stanzicApparati No 02:45 stanzicApparati you clearly do not 02:45 stanzicApparati If you knew what you were doing 02:45 ballisticSpectacle I need to calm down. Can't make good stuff while angry. 02:45 stanzicApparati you would not be space 02:45 stanzicApparati five 02:45 stanzicApparati times 02:45 stanzicApparati in a row 02:45 ballisticSpectacle (("My girlfriend rolld space 47 times." "In a row?")) 02:46 astralLepidoptera v_V there's a PERFECTLY GOOD EXPLANATION for that and it's also a SECRET and i don't have to TELL YOU 02:46 tenaciousTheseus There is no good explanation 02:46 tenaciousTheseus At 02:46 tenaciousTheseus All 02:46 tenaciousTheseus What are you even trying to do? 02:46 tenaciousTheseus What fucked up plan are you concocting? 02:48 astralLepidoptera >:E i'm the BEST at this game, listen, ,.. i KNOW how to win it's NOT my fault when people fail i TRY to help them it's SUPPOSED TO BE SAFE 02:48 tenaciousTheseus It isn't 02:48 ballisticSpectacle Do.. 02:48 ballisticSpectacle Do you think that, if you finish the game quickly enough, you leave? 02:48 astralLepidoptera but ONE PERSON goes TOTALLY crazy and ties to RUIN EVERYTHING and suddenly it's my FAULT ansaa 02:48 tenaciousTheseus And anyone who rolls space FIVE TIMES is obviously not that great at the game 02:48 astralLepidoptera SHUT UP 02:48 *** astralLepidoptera quit (Quit: www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client) 02:48 tenaciousTheseus Augh 02:48 stanzicApparati I believe that was a 'yes' 02:48 tenaciousTheseus Someone THAT dumb 02:48 tenaciousTheseus With MY aspect 02:48 stanzicApparati I am 02:48 stanzicApparati I 02:48 ballisticSpectacle At least it wasn't Time. 02:48 tenaciousTheseus Seriously 02:48 stanzicApparati I have never hated anyone that much before 02:49 ballisticSpectacle Oooh, man. 02:49 spacetimeCounselor i think 02:49 spacetimeCounselor i need to go lie down 02:49 ballisticSpectacle This is exactly what I'm on vacation to avoid. 02:49 stanzicApparati Prince 02:49 tenaciousTheseus Yeah, SC, you should just cap her 02:49 spacetimeCounselor or alternatively not lie down, and instead do something about this
okay, and then they gave me advice on how to bypass DM, and uh...
-- astralLepidoptera [AL] began pestering spacetimeCounselor [SC] -- AL: omg i'm not going to use emotes here, i... SC: seriously what AL: i really don't hurt people! AL: i really do know what i'm doing, i wasn't just being AL: they kept saying he was MY fault, but i TOLD him the plan and he just went CRAZY! SC: wait what SC: who's this 'he' now AL: omfg it doesn't matter. AL: he tried to kill DM just because he heard ringwraiths were dangerous. AL: but they're not! at least, not DM! AL: unless you try to go and SHOOT HIM to death even though i TELL you he's on our side!!! AL: because you'd have to be an ACTUAL PSYCHO to do that! SC: ... SC: so... SC: you said three? AL: :\ about. SC: One of them got killed by a giclops, one died before you entered, and this other one... attacked DM? AL: yes!! AL: and maybe a couple others at a BK fight, i didn't stay to see if their deaths were heroic or not. AL: i really do try to help people, i NEED to have strong allies to win! AL: i can move things forward quickly, but it's all about the team! SC: so you think SC: stanzic was judging you with incomplete information AL: >:P duhh! SC: and you're not exaggerating any of this SC: you're not covering anything up AL: })^_^({ yep! SC: okay that butterfly emote is clever and adorable but i really need to know SC: if i'm going to defend you here i can't be working from the same incomplete picture as stanzic AL: :( ... AL: ? will you promise not to hate me? SC: wow that never prefixes anything good SC: how about i just say that my opinion of you won't be worsened by whatever it is AL: XD omg that's not nice. SC: yeah i'm not nice AL: ... AL: my first session was a TPK. SC: tpk? AL: :\ total party kill. SC: yeah i was just SC: idk expressing sympathetic disbelief or whatever AL: :P AL: i was grace of space, then. AL: jack noir told me about the queen's ring, and how he would help me if i retrieved it for him. SC: ooh AL: :( yeah. AL: (:o i didn't know, back then! AL: i thought i could trust him, but instead... AL: when i used my space powers to steal the ring, jack stabbed my dreamself and started attacking everyone. AL: he killed the time player and destroyed his land, so we couldn't scratch. AL: and then... SC: he started killing everyone AL: ... :( AL: when he came for me, i was waiting at my quest bed. AL: and when i ascended, i teleported him into the lit Forge. SC: oh nice SC: that's a thing you can do? AL: -o- well, i didn't bother to light the forge this time around. SC: dang AL: :? SC: nvm SC: how's this story end AL: :( i didn't think i could win without the others... AL: so i went and hid in the veil for a while. AL: ^_^ then i found something! SC: i see the kawaii face is back AL: :P yeah, i'm feeling a little better. SC: so what was the thing AL: :|c hmmmmm... AL: :? what if i told you it was a thing that explains why i'm always space, how i came to this session, and what i'm doing here? SC: uh SC: i would ask please tell me more about this thing AL: >:D and what do you think i would say? SC: probably "spoilers" like that coy broad from doctor who SC: and then i'd be exasperated AL: :o omg you're a psychic. SC: so okay very sad story SC: i guess the obvious reassurance is that it was jack's fault, he tricked you, etc SC: so uh SC: you know they listed you as a PK, right AL: >:I those jerks! AL: D:< i mean it when i said i don't kill people! helping people really is the most important thing! SC: is that why you kicked me out a window AL: omfgggggg are you going to let that go??? SC: yeah probably not AL: :( awwwwwww! SC: yknow while you're in the business of trying to help people SC: i could really use a hand fixing some huge crazy game problems sometime AL: :? SC: like the saccharine doppelgangers and poisoned ringwraith jack and a grace of hope gone kinda sorta rogue and some kind of situation on prospit that i don't know a lot about AL: ^_^; oh, prospit! AL: <_< yeaaaaaah there MAY have been some riots when the queen was dethroned and DM MIGHT have tried to get them under control with the miles. AL: 0u0 the dreamselves are fine though! don't worry about it! SC: yeah you sure know what you're doing SC: listen if you want people to trust you, you're gonna have to be SC: i dunno, more coherent? SC: these guys are really dramatically averse to gamebreaking and speedrunning and stuff so i'm p sure they just assumed that made you a horrible monster AL: :/ SC: listen, i've got your back here- you need to work things out with those guys SC: i'm not posting this log until you've made a good solid attempt to clear your name AL: :P aw, you'd put your super important livejournal on hold for little old me? SC: hey shut up my logs are awesome SC: let's just get your issues with stanzic worked out SC: c3< AL: ~u~ omg is that the troll mediation thingy? SC: yeah i am all kinds of auspicistify shipping you and that guy, it is giving me a case of the vapors AL: ^_^ hahaha! -- astralLepidoptera [AL] ceased pestering spacetimeCounselor [SC] --
Okay there was another log where she tried to defend herself but ended up getting into a bunch of weird tragic backstory shit. I completely lost interest and so should you.
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jul 12, 2012 22:33:26 GMT -5
Those BASTARDS. They rejected me. Even though she's FINE, even though their new buddies are insane monsters who want to destroy everything, even after what I did to SAVE ALL THEIR LIVES- no, their EXISTENCE. After HE killed me, and trapped me in this Knave form. No, they don't care about that. They're just going to REPLACE me with a Saccharine fucking Doppelganger of all things.
And of course SHE'S no help, up in her dumb gamebreaking ivory tower. Maybe her house is actually ivory? Well, porcelain, maybe. Land of Porcelain and Frogs. She just gets to laugh at me for fucking up? After everything she's done? You know what, FUCK Butterfly. And fuck Zero and wasp-Aloice and SF and the SDs and all of them. Fuck them all, I'm going to put an end to this.
We've screwed up enough already, right? Planets wrecked, players dead, wraiths on the loose... the Reckoning can't be too far away, can it? I'm surprised it hasn't already had us skip to the end. And if it's not coming already, I'll have to jump-start it. Get this goddamn session over with.
Time to go.
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jul 12, 2012 23:49:05 GMT -5
Whew. Okay. IRC's on board with the plan, because I'm a reasonable person who makes good decisions that help people. Phase 1: nab the real Ring from the Smoke Knight. Phase 2: (okay I know i numbered phase 3 phase 2 in the irc but whatever) give the Ring to Jack. Phase 3: Get Butterfly to send DM (or another white carapace with the ring like PM) to fight Jack. Phase 4: Reckoning happens, this mess gets wrapped up.
Just PMed Zero to ask what the Smoke Knight is doing on LOCAH. Like a total schlub he corrects me and says the SK's not on LOCAH, he's on LOTAF, narrowing down the options to 2 unless he's being very clever about his lies.
{on LOCAH, why even have timestamps imma just mark timeskips with location} Just struck me that I have no idea where to find the guy. Ummm... {on LOCAH still} Just struck me that I have the guy's chumhandle right here. smokeKnight because I guess SF's lack of username creativity is contagious? Dude tells me he's at LOTAF's [Drawing of the Four] (which is like a templated land feature where four of something meet?) and he'll be waiting for me. This time, though, I can fly and turn into smoke and use combat Vows and all sorts of shit. He's not going to know what hit him.
{LOTAF's Drawing of the Four} Place is cool- huge river-snake things writhing and... like, fighting everywhere. Only he's not here. SF is.
Okay so here's what happened with SF- she's completed her Contest and -made claim- to her Land, even though she hasn't finished the Denizen bit yet. She came to the Drawing for a Denizen Quest, which was to drive off an intruder sent by Abraxas- the Smoke Knight. So wait, are the SDs actually Denizen-made like they claim? Whatever. Anyway, she had a duel with him (and lived???), and as a victory prize he gave her the fucking ring. Just like that. But I guess SF wasn't on board with the replacement thing, because she gave it to me, no stealing-from-the-SD required. Which is WAY too convenient, but you know what? I'm done second-guessing these asinine plot twists. Even if I'm playing right into this guy's hands- into Butterfly's hands or the Shadow King's plans or whoever the hell is in charge, I'm putting an end to this fucking game as soon as possible. SF flew slash launched off using that megacool Hands & Pockets modus/[Eject] ability she nearly beat the shit out of me with before, and now... it's time for Phase 2. Or, well, Phase 3, because I probably want the white wraith on hand to deal with Jack as soon as he gets wraithed. Okay switch phase 2 with phase 3 again, whatever. Thinking things through is for people who aren't trying to screw the game up so hard it flat-out gives up.
No need to wish me luck this time, everybody out of the god damn way. I've got a hand full of lightsaber, a debuff full of Batman, and a head full of crazy.
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Post by stanzicApparati on Jul 13, 2012 0:00:34 GMT -5
IRC's on board with the plan, because I'm a reasonable person who makes good decisions that help people. [RAngoon wArning] I aM nOt "oN bOard"! I jUst cAn't tAlk yOu oUt oF iT! ANd yOu aRe sTill nOt aLlowed tO dIe!
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jul 15, 2012 23:10:20 GMT -5
AAAAAAAAAAAAAA okay too many As the plan went off without a hitch well okay it went off with a couple of hitches but the hitches in question ended up not being a big deal
Anyway, because this was climactic as FUCK, I thought I'd represent this huge cataclysm (lol not even a waste) in an animation set to a music score. Only, it turns out I can't draw? Or animate? And also I don't have the fucking time already jeez. Anyway here's some shit doodles of what happened that I drew up of the handoff. Also check out the OP for a less-shit image, aight?
Here's something to jam to whilst I regale you with tales of some bisnasty shit that went down.
So I walk up, all regal like in my fucked up artifact robes of two different aspects, and I present Jack with the ring. DD radios "Rampage confirmed, proceed with evac", which I'm like what does that mean? DD and some carapaces pile into a shuttle while like, a bajillion shuttles take off from Derse at once, just like this huge fleet of ships full of guys. At the time, I didn't know why it was happening, but it's consistent with "Butterfly running her goddamn mouth off and pulling strings behind my back in maybe-support of the operation", something I didn't put together until just now. Anyway, Jack takes the real ring and stands up from the throne as predicted, and immediately stabs me in the chest as predicted. Only, you know how I mentioned leftover doubletier abilities from before they tried to remove the feature from the game? One of those is, basically, an active-cast version of the Misty Thing, like how they disperse into stuff instead of getting hit? Basically if I could predict his strikes (and the dude was trying to adjust to using a longspear as a weapon, so I totes could) I could nullify them selectively by going partially smoke-form or whatever.
So what followed was the most KICKASS spear/lightsaber duel what ever happened. If I hadn't had the misty thing I'd have probably died a hundred times over because DAMN the dude is good with sharp objects, but I got in a few good hits. Nothing that did more than bump his vitality gel, but I held my own and it was so great, you have no idea. Just play your favorite battle music, right now, and imagine a dude with a sparkly version of Darth Maul's lightsaber dueling a freaky prototype monster armed with a spear and shit while hundreds of rockets take off in the background HOT DAMN.
then DM showed up some kinda dancey music played i didn't recognize he started wrecking jack's shit and they started miles-fighting and tearing the whole damn moon apart while i ran but then jack impaled him in one hit with red miles and i was like SHIT so that part of the plan didn't go super well also butterfly is never going to trust me when i say "send DM to Derse RIGHT NOW don't ask questions" ever again, so
okay so jack didn't survive though because a couple of assholes showed up shadow king, smoke knight, you know- the Sacc. Dopps. The guys who last I ran into them killed me so hard it wasn't funny? They... What they did was kind of fucking terrifying. You know the Rage ability [Dark Carnival]? Where everything just completely loses the will to fight and begs for death, or whatever? It was kind of like that- they lit up like fireworks and Jack collapsed to the floor, shuddering in silent agony. And then the Smoke Knight took his candified version of my lightsaber and beheaded him like THAT. Then he turned to look at me and I hightailed it the FUCK out of there.
After that, someone used the player command [Calamity], and I could see the meteors take off for Skaia. So, plan successful?
We're at endgame, now. I'm going to stop by home and alchemize some endgame gear, and then take off to put an end to this shit once and for all. The Black King? Going down. Jack? Dead. Doppelgangers? Already dead, but they don't know it yet. Everyone else... they are going to have a HELL of a lot to answer for.
Maybe I've fucked up this game. Maybe it's beyond repair, and our reward won't just be broken but nonexistent. It's a virtual certainty that my original plan- to stop the Reckoning early and save Earth from a firey doom... is no longer feasible. Realizing that is kind of like... there's a sinking feeling in my stomach, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. Earth. Planet Earth, home to over seven billion individual living human beings with hopes and dreams and loves and fears, is going to end in a firey cataclysm and there's nothing I can do about it. It's clear that this game needs to die. But if I'm going to kill it, I'm going to need to survive its attacks first. As long as it is within my power, I will fight against the systematic and brutal harvesting of reality itself. I will put an end to the cycle of destruction and creation, potential universes be damned. I hope you all feel the same, because what this thing does to people is beyond unacceptable. I, Benedict Monstone, Prince of Law, here resolve with the utmost conviction that these seven billion will be among the last of the victims of this horrific machine.
So for now... I fight so that I can find the opportunity to destroy the Law that binds us all with its shackles of damnation. Having lost this battle, I will move on to the next, and begin the war anew. There will be no surrender.
-spacetimeCounselor out, guys.
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