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Post by spacetimeCounselor on May 21, 2012 9:47:41 GMT -5
Oh jeez okay I don't know if we've fucked up with this, but uh... one of our players (she's either a Sylph of Time or a Grace of Hope, haven't figured it out yet but hopefully not the latter) was kinda ticked at me when I was helping her with entry, and when I told her it was crucial to break her entry item in time, she instead decided to, uh, prototype it. It was a rook, like from chess, and a bunch of our imps are huge with rook-shaped turtle shell hunchback things and way too many hit points, and uh
like seriously what does this even mean, what do we do here. Is this a catalogued phenomena or have we fucked up and ruined everything forever?
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Post by tungstenTinkerer on May 21, 2012 9:58:00 GMT -5
Worry about the enemies later. Did the game register it as "breaking" and let her enter? Because if it didn't I would worry about that if I was you.
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on May 21, 2012 10:08:05 GMT -5
Yeah, she's in (although she p much hates my guts now and broke contact, guh)- it just seems like what happened was Not Supposed To Happen, like... the entry item is supposed to be doomed, but was... undoomed by the regenerative aspect of the prototyping process? I don't know what would differentiate between "breaking" and "not breaking" aside from successful entry.
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Post by tungstenTinkerer on May 21, 2012 10:21:01 GMT -5
If she's in then she won't die by meteor, which means you are good.
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Post by genesisArtificer on May 21, 2012 10:54:18 GMT -5
Only bad thing about is - don't prototype Chess. It is not as bad as putting a gourd or a clown in a kernel, but it gives Underlings properties similar to combatants on Battlefield. The Pawns are not that deadly, but Rooks? Expect a lot of mutated shits out there.
Just please, I beg you, don't Prototype a Queen. Just, no.
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Post by ExtropianDreamer on May 21, 2012 11:24:33 GMT -5
Yeah, we should probably make a list of all the things you're not supposed to prototype. It'd probably be pretty handy for all the first-time players who somehow find their way here.
Chess pieces aren't the worst thing you could do - they don't give the final boss any unusual properties, glitch your session or prompt a Wraith to appear - but it's still on the list of things typically only prototyped by Witches.
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Post by spacetimeCounselor on Jun 16, 2012 13:06:58 GMT -5
Okay, so, uh. Maybe I should just make a list, of all the things that are freaking batshit about my session.
We have a Grace of Hope here, which basically means there's going to be some kind of insane rejection disaster, but I mean that's normal, that's a title that Sburb generates with a specific purpose. What's probably NOT intentional is that none of us show signs of being ectobiologically generated- everyone I've asked has a birth certificate and their eye color doesn't match their text color and some of them didn't even USE pesterchum until now.
What else? Our Grace prototyped her entry item instead of breaking it- which just happened to be a chess rook. Our Space player was until recently missing entirely- we closed a server/client loop of five players, only one of them died on entry. Or we think he did- we never found a body and his Land's not dead.
How about Derse? I didn't start retaining memories from my dreamself until recently, and it turns out he's been swept up in this conspiracy involving the Archagent and his men. They're following someone called the Smoke Knight, who stole the Queen's ring and is using it to bribe Jack and co into his service. They've set me up with a bunch of quests and shit out there.
One of those quests was in the Veil, where, okay, this is weird, I found our Space player. I think. There was a building on a meteor with a bunch of entry equipment, some unconscious girl in gray dream pajamas, and a closet full of junk to prototype. The Dignitary had me handle her "entry" and then she woke up and kicked me out a window.
Other miscellaneous weirdness: Our Time player is referred to by the game as alternatively a Seer or a Sylph, although Seer is more prominent and confirmed by her Sprite and consorts. My Land has some pretty ridiculous Denizen damage- it's chopped in half, and the missing half is all fulla weird antigrav and stars and also my consorts are incorporeal, kinda. Also, there's a fairly common extra underling type called a Drake and one of them BIT MY FUCKIN' HAND OFF but okay that's more inconvenient than a sign of a messed-up session.
Oh and our Grace of Hope has been refusing all communication since the start of the game. Fun.
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Post by ExtropianDreamer on Jun 17, 2012 8:48:09 GMT -5
Oh and our Grace of Hope has been refusing all communication since the start of the game. Fun.
Go find her and hug the shit out of her. Graces need hugs and they need friends and they need support. Hope will try to push folks away, but ignore it and hug her anyway. She'll never be able to admit it or ask for help, but it's everyone else's job to tell the Strife go get fucked and dole out out those warm fuzzies no matter how loudly she objects. |
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Post by Nefer Nightbug on Apr 30, 2015 9:29:47 GMT -5
Idiot! You should have prototyped Bishops!
actually that would force a draw
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Post by horrorTerror on Jun 7, 2015 10:18:41 GMT -5
For obvious reasons I don't follow Skaian battles too closely, but from what I've heard of various Dersite military commanders across the sessions, it'd mean a LOT more magical magic being thrown around since carapacian bishops serve as caster units.
While the bishops' ability to heal carapacian sicknesses induced by battlefield trying to keep time with the Reckoning clock might actually delay the Reckoning for once in a miracle because any Prospitian advance won't get stopped, especially toward the end, it might mean Derse isn't delayed at all and instead accelerate it right back and then some.
Also, those giant Prospitian bishop-bots are pretty cool-sounding and spraying their Underling counterpart all across the Lands is probably gonna hurt.
If you were making a joke about bishop tiling, both sides get bishops on both black and white, and the king's status as king might override being forced to pick, especially if it would prevent them from killing WK. Does anyone know if carapacian bishops pick tile color or not? And it probably won't matter at all on Lands.
I wonder how THIS session turned out, honestly.
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