Hi... I lost.

[crossroadssquared]

Um, hi.

I only discovered this forum a few days ago, and only found whatever connection this is a few days before that. The first thing I found was GGTG's glitch FAQ, and the parts of it that are up helped out a lot with figuring out what happened with our session. Like all the bullshittery that went along with being Thief of Mist that I never understood. Or how much dungeon crawling we actually should have been doing. Or what abilities we should have been using. It would have helped me and everyone else here out a lot I think, if we found it sooner.

I don't even know if I should post this to the hello forum or the help-me-my-session's-dying forum to be honest, because I'm not sure if there's any help for me and my friends. We sorta lost the game. We got to the Black King, and did our thing, and I swear to hell and back that we were so close to beating him it hurt. Ferris, this guy I knew from school, he was our Space guy and something happened in the last part of the fight that I didn't catch. But whatever happened, he replied with some attack that, um.

I dunno what it did, I bugged out before it went off. I just know that after it was over everyone was gone except for me at like almost-dead and zero pluck from the fight, and I guess the game counted it as a loss because now the Battlefield and Skaia are gone. I dunno what happened, but there's chunks of white and black where Skaia was. I think Ferris blew it up.

I think it's a glitch thing, I don't know, because according to everything the guides are saying you don't survive if the Reckoning finishes. Everything else is still here, our six Lands are still here and everything but all the mobs are gone and the consorts and stuff are still talking like it's just before the last battle, like the "We believe in you!" and "Here comes the end, do your best and claim your Ultimate Reward!" and stuff. I thought maybe the Space thing did something crazy, like threw the whole thing out into space, and tried pinging everyone's computers, but noone ever responded. It's been over a month and nothing's happened.

I suppose if anyone does know if there's a way to fix this I'd love to hear it. I just don't know anymore though. I spent a while crying and feeling like absolute shit and spent a little more time looking around for I dunno, some switch to flip or thing to turn on to start a fix or something. I looked around for the timey-wimey stuff that Sarah was using, but I think she had it all sylladex'd. The stuff on doing a Scratch looked really awesome but it looks like in order to scratch you need to send something to Skaia, and I don't have one of those now. I've gone and made myself every other player to look for some fix, but... I think lately I've just been trying to accept the fact that we lost. And then I found the board, and I just feel like a loser looking at everyone's sigs saying they've beat the game ten, twenty times and me and my friends couldn't manage the one.

Sorry if this all should have gone into the help forum. I feel like I'm a little beyond help, honestly, so I posted here.

So, hi, I guess. Thief of Mist, first time I ever played, got right up to the Black King with my friends and we bitched it up and lost. Haven't had anyone to talk to for a while. Not sure what to do now, but whatever I do it looks like I've got lots of time to do it now. Saying hello seems like a good way to start. Hi, everyone.

[darkChernozem]

Hey there. Man, just when you think you've seen everything this game can throw at you, it goes and comes up with a new way to fuck shit up. I really hate to say this, but I'm stumped for ideas. I'm tempted to suggest trying to communicate with those tentacle beasties from the Furthest Ring and seeing if they could help, but that's all kinds of dangerous. Heck, the only reason Derse dreamers can get away with the small amounts we do is because the game intentionally sets things up for us.

[musicalDecay]

can't help much, but it sounds like your co-player may have used a high scale telepotation attack. It's possible that xe/xhe may have teleported a majority of skaia away but not enough to not leave some scattered behind. I would suggest the others to try to fix this too, but I do know of another really really REALLY risky way to try to fix this. It's something called a copy bomb, got a smith player to make one for me once. It works by placing it where an item was before and exploding it, after it's done exploding you should see a copy of the thing you wanted where it used to be. But there's a catch. If the thing you are trying to copy is still in your session, and not completely destroyed. The explosion will rip a hole in paradox space, which will lead to a gigantic portal in your session where others can come an go like it's a tea party. Keep in mind, it is not the good kind of tea party.

[meticulousDemiurge]

Have you tried talking with the forge player's denizen? The FAQ says it should still be alive by the end of the game, I don't know if bargaining with it is a smart idea but you could at least see what it wants in exchange for possibly helping you.

[musicalDecay]

I think my "use a giant bomb idea" is still a good second bet.

[genesisArtificer]

Well shit.
The best possible scenario? Space Player used Berserk- version of [Eat Me, Drink Me] and shrinked your Skaia to the size of mote. It... never happened to me, but I know that could be a case. Scry for it and have the Space Hero magnify your Door. The Frog can be microscopic, cause it's size doesn't really matter.

Other possibilities are much worse: Destruction of your Reward. If you still have your Dream Moons, try highjacking a ship. Get your Time Player and have them (it pains me to say it) negotiate the passage with the Others. You could scry for another Session, just feed the Haze with the request "I am so going to seize this Substance once we find it"

Space Denizen... well I have no idea if they can reconstruct THIS.

[crossroadssquared]

Thanks for the advice, you guys. I'm really wary about getting my hopes up on this stuff, I've had a bit too much of that already over the first few weeks of this. But I'll look around and into stuff. Definitely ideas here I haven't seen before, but - again - I really can't hope for positive results, otherwise I think I might have a total nervous breakdown.

I'll move questions and results over to the Help forum, since that's where this thread seems to be ending up.

Thanks for the greets too. Been a while since I could talk to someone who wasn't a consort. (No offense to the blacksnout guy, he's cool.)