Bard of Time is being a dUmbass

[casualUcalegon]

[Warnings, get Ur warnings here! Only 5 caegars a bUndle!]

All U need to know is in the title, really, bUt I'll clarify.

My session has two poor UnfortUnates who are in their very first session. They were natUrally as confUsed as fUck aboUt why Us veterans are there in the first place, since they had been Under the impression they woUld be playing with some acqUaintances of theirs before they began.

We're past that. What we're hitting now is that oUr virginal Bard of Time has realized that doomed selves = soon to be dead selves and has decided that the best way to deal with it is avoidance. He's refUsing to listen to timeclones or even stay in conversations that so mUch as mention them, and as U can imagine this isn't doing the dead Bards sitUation any good. We're practically getting flooded with them becaUse their warnings aren't sticking. Clearly that was a brilliant idea.

How do I get his head oUt of his ass and make him do his job? I've tried asking, whining, physically going over to smack him, and going behind his back to get his palecrUsh to whine at him. None of these have done anything bUt make him throw rocks at me.

SerioUsly, he's acting like a child and he's only a sweep yoUnger than me.

[stanzicApparati]

[RAngoon wArning]

HAve yOu tRied tElling tHe BArd tHat tHe dOomed sElves wIll kEep sEeking hIm oUt? THat tHe gAme wIll eNsure tHey fInd hIm? THat tHe dOomed sElves wIll kEep hAppening aS lOng aS hE iSn't lIstening tO tHeir wArnings?

IF sO, tRy cAptchaloguing a bUnch oF tHe dEad oNes aNd tHen dRopping tHem oN hIm. THe gAme wIll dO tHe rEst.

[tungstenTinkerer]

Dude. Time players have it bad. Give the poor guy some time to get his shit in gear and maybe dump some psychobuff on him.
Have him UU with their friend, if you think it could help. Give him some support. Dealing with dead selves is never easy.

[casualUcalegon]

Yeah, UU is a no-go. The palecrUsh platonically hates my lowblood ass and is the reason I had to perform emergency first-aid on my ectogrUbself. I'm not letting a Time player UU with her.

So we have two opposing ideas here. Anyone want to be a tiebreaker?

[apianAnchorite]

I think psybuffs sound like a really good thing to apply to this situation. I'm not sure what aspects your other players have, but having just gotten to the point of accessing some I think they're pretty much the shit right now.

And maybe a UU wouldn't be that bad if they could be kept focused on something that wasn't hating on you? Cause, yeah. The kid sounds like he could use a hug or two. That's a lot of nastiness and pain he's been letting pile up.

[casualUcalegon]

The Aspects we have are Doom (me), Time (him), Rage (palecrUsh), Mist and Light.

Any of those have good psybUffs? I know Light does lUck stUff, bUt that's all I know aboUt it.

[stanzicApparati]

Light does have good buffs. If your Light player has [Hello, Sunshine], use that. [Daylight Is Never Wasted] is better, but best held in reserve if your Light player is also a Derse dreamer.

Rage kinda-sorta has psy-buffs? In that they can yell at someone and make them do things. [Stand Up] or [Stop Hitting Yourself] are both useful, apparently.

Time has a lot of good self-only buffs. If he doesn't have them running already, get your Rage player to yell at them 'till they put up [Time Heals All Wounds] and [All The Time In The Medium]; they cost a big chunk of initial pluck to get running, but it's barely one pluck each to keep them running once they're up.

You've got a couple of useful abilities too. [Caustic Retort] for one, and [In Memoriam] if a literal corpse party seems more appropriate.

(I am freely cribbing from genart's Mental Support Abilities FAQ, by the way.)

[casualUcalegon]

I forgot to pUt it in, bUt we have a Space player too.

The Light player is a castist asshole, so I'll have to get Mist to pUt that bitch's ass in gear. I'll ask the palecrUsh if she has either of those abilities. There's no way she'll let Timey Wimey bastard stay moping if she can help.