Just in case I need help!

[oliveGarden]

I'm going to document some of my second session, I've decided. I hope this isn't too soon or anything like that! I was just hoping that this would be a convenient place for me to ask for questions and advice, and to maybe start documenting observations of my own about the game we all play against our collective wills. After all I do hope to someday be useful to the community at large!

So this morning I went out to school and met the remainder of my coplayers. We all apparently live in the same area and attend the same school, which is news to me! It was so odd, going through a day of ordinary life. Lunch break, toting around a backpack of heavy books and having to pretend it was heavy even though the game's toughened my Mangrit up to passable levels. A boy hit on me. Shot him down, obviously... It was all so strange, to see how alien 'normal' life feels now? I guess I have a new paradigm for normal! Hoo-ray.

I got back home and then something very odd happened! My 'Guardian', who I apparently only know as Sis, pulled me aside. Gave me some snacks she'd baked. Told me she knew I wasn't her real sister, right to my face. Told me it was alright and that she'd protect me all the same. Handed me a key on a chain that apparently used to belong to the person I've replaced? I didn't know whether to be terrified or awestruck or somewhat touched! I ended up prototyping that key, and my sprite ended up being the person I replaced. Morbid. I was creeped out to hell and back. Apparently the player I replaced died early on in the session when they failed to navigate their ARC right and that was what doomed it? I don't know. They're rather weepy about their death, and I haven't been able to console them yet with how cryptic they are about how they feel. Sprites and all, I guess.

Everyone's safely entered, escaped their Ebonpyres, and are busy processing what just happened. I moved ahead and was able to puzzle out all of our titles with help from skiddingZebra's (very slang heavy) guide to navigating and exploiting Consort dialogue trees (poor guys!):

I'm now a Page of Doom. Whatever that means? I didn't have Doom in my old session, so if anybody could give me a rundown? I'm still trying to get through this other guide and see if there's any useful things I need to say to my Iguanas. And the rest of my session, in order of entry:

We have a very polite and reserved girl (I'm not going to describe my coplayers in too much detail, to respect their privacy. I've tried to hand them the links to the Replayer sites but for some odd reason those links are broken for them), who is apparently a Thief of Space. A guy who's kind of shouty and seems to dislike me for some reason? He's our Ward of Might. A kind of funny but kind of rude, tall boy who is to be our Prince of Time. We have a Guard of Rhyme player, which means I'm familiar with the psybuffs in our session! Unfortunately she's quite the scary girl. I swear she's going to punch me every time I glance her way. And finally we have a Witch of Rain, he's kind of dour and doesn't speak a lot, was always quietly sketching while the rest of us chatted and was in fact was still wordlessly working on art even while the meteors were falling!! :0

Apparently Witches prototype things that can cause problems? Ours prototyped a pumpkin from his garden. What could possibly go wrong with that?

[horrorTerror]

Supposedly I'm not supposed to post so much in others' logs, but they keep asking questions lol. And this looks like a 'send help' case.

Oh, cool, you've got that old option where the replayee becomes a sprite. Sweet. It was apparently preentry. Shit's fucked if it was.

You've got a pumpkin prototyping. And possibly multiple player prototypings.

You are (or at least it's likely) all going to die horribly to things appearing and disappearing and decently-midgame abilities everywhere. Pumpkins are not stable, and incredibly powerful V id charges are attached most of the time, to the point where Space and/or Time players have to make an active effort to keep them in place via stabilization fields or they will decide to fall out of spacetime like a Perfectly Generic Object. Negative outlook I know, but prototyping entire players preentry is fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu. I've heard various horrible apocryphic things about pumpkin prototypings that result from key entitites randomly happening to not exist anymore. The royalty ceasing to exist sometimes breaks things, sometimes doesn't. Inconsistent game...

Also if you find a special appearifier designed to catch pumpkins don't use it you risk grabbing underlings.

Ugh, gtg, another meeting cropped up.

EDIT: While Glu'thor'gnash of the bloody roses is feasting on the flesh of mortals, the blood of the fallen heroes, and some squiddle treats I brought to the breakbubble, all the horrible things about pumpkins aside it's really player-level aspect powers which toss the balance to hell and back. Luckily the breaky parts of Rain have been subbed by a pumpkin but if Rainwitch dude also tossed his key in there beforehand everything is even worse because there is even less obligation to view reasonable balance as a thing that exists. And his sprite might cease to exist at any moment.

Honestly I'm inclined to say that on the off chance the Reward decides even not working is too nice and ceases to exist entirely just sell us your souls and be done with it. For the sake of politeness at least make the frog though we don't need to be in it to purify it of the sins.

Doom is the aspect of decay; the essentia of paradox space which trims away doomed timelines, enforces death, sometimes illness-

ugh gtg again the big guy finished his snack back to meetings

[goosedTracklete]

you prototyped a person? i didn't know that was possible. i prototyped a goose on accident. like HT said, if it was pre-entry then i'm terrified for you. i don't want to imagine what that would end up as, in terms of the underlings and the king.

but, wow, a pumpkin? i remember pre-sburb my dad and i used to grow pumpkins, we had a little farm and would sell them before halloween. it was nice... anyways, they had a habit of getting lost in the grass so easily, and sometimes when i picked them up, they'd straight up disappear. i also had a habit of breaking them a lot accidentally. who knows why. they'll probably mess with the underlings a lot.

you going through "normal" life again sounds surreal. i already miss it terribly, and it's been a few weeks since i got into my session and lost everything that i knew and loved back on my Earth. you might want to figure out why the Might player dislikes you, i wouldn't want him as an enemy. 

[oliveGarden]

Oh okay sorry let me say that again I only prototyped an inanimate object presession. Somehow when I got into the postsession my replayee sprite was already prototyped, though I'm not sure how that came about! And I'm the only one with a humanoid sprite as of now. I'm trying to keep her hidden from the others, I dunno if I'm ready to tell them about what happened to their friend yet. Or about who I really am. I think we'll need to be focusing entirely on the game and not interpersonal drama now! If horrorTerror is right and pumpkins are that big and scary a deal-

EDIT: Okay yeah the imps are super weird. They randomly stop and start being there when I'm not looking. The future self of our Time player, TC (Akash), messaged me after I was done trying to fight the imps and failing horribly at it. I think it'll probably just be best if I copypaste (with my responses omitted) what I think the important bit is?

danny (the witch) didn't know shit aint his fault
besides dude's hella hot so i ain't inclined to blame him

yea yea angie i know now is not the time

duh i know it's you and not our actual friend i'm from the future your illusion breaks like skaterboy bone at some point
btw ari (the guard) clocks you
it's gonna happen so gg in advance
anyways
the tendency of rain to be weird as shit is kinda kept in check i guess
really shit balances out until the glitch starts

nah i can't tell you yet
but suffice it to say that timespace instability is balls to deal with
i'm here to give you this
you will know when you need it

Akash handed me what appears to be a picture of me Danny drew and then spent the next five or so minutes hitting on me before completing the time loop and going back to his present. I should tell him what happened, right? Anyways horrorTerror even if the pumpkin prototyping is going to doom us all I intend to at least breed the frog! That's... my thing, I guess. I feel like I'll end up helping our Thief with the breeding somehow. Maybe tell her how it all goes down, and help her do the frog picking out. Only the best for our little baby! ... But I'm not selling you guys my soul. I've seen what corruption looks like. I'm not ready for that quite yet.

Alright, I'm looking up Doom now? It seems weird and wrong to me somehow. Like, I'm supposed to be propagating life, not ending it? I can't even see how this helps us in the long run. I guess this is my challenge for the session.

goosedTracklete I miss everything from my home too. But chin up and keep on trucking, right? We both have to try our best! And, I think the Might player (Gavin) is just sort of stressed out in general. Gavin fancies himself our leader and seems kind of insecure about it. Keeps sending us messages like this:

AND JUST TO REMIND ALL OF YOU GUYS WE GET IN AND WE START PLAYING ACCORDING TO THE PLAN
MY PLAN
MAKE SURE YOU ALL HAVE YOUR LINKS

He then linked the same doc like 21 times repetitively. And apparently I'm the one who got spammed the least! If I have any more questions I'll be sure to ask! For now I have to figure out how we can all get grist to build the homes up if all our enemies are going to be so hard to get a hand on now.