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Post by conqueringSynesthete on Aug 20, 2012 18:29:22 GMT -5
Ok, I am very confused here and im hoping for some help. This is my first session, eight players, even balance of active and passive, male and female, Prospit and Derse, Etcetera. But I apparently rolled the Clown title. A whole list of things has gone wrong, such as abilities sometimes misfiring when i am nearby, the White Queen has gone absolutely insane, refuses to leave her castle, and has taken to referring to her subjects as "unfortunate little anthills". Is this all my fault or some move by the hand of fate? I could use a little help here, conqueringSynesthete previously capriciousSaturn.
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Post by ExtropianDreamer on Aug 20, 2012 18:59:42 GMT -5
Seriously? You rolled motherfucking Clown?
Shit.
I hate to have to be the one to break it to you, but your future, and that of your co-players, is not looking good. Being the Waste of Time/Space would be more merciful here, because at least then it'd be over quickly.
Clown is critically glitched. Your odds of making it out of this alive are minimal, and even in the unlikely event that you do you're likely to spend the next several years trapped in a nightmare of insanity and delirium that is seemingly without end. And not the fun sort of crazy that us Rainy types usually get either.
What makes it even worse is that the extent of the glitches affecting the Clown title is so severe, and rolling it is so rare, there's not really much advice anyone can give you. Every poor sod who rolls it gets their own unique, personalised nightmare glitch-fest to live though (and likely get killed by).
I'm sorry. I know what it's like, to go through what's about to happen, My own time was the worst thing I've ever lived through, was the closest things have ever come to killing me, and I want to help but... there's nothing I can do. I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry.
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Post by conqueringSynesthete on Aug 20, 2012 21:02:00 GMT -5
w-what?!?!
well crap.
well that sounds...terrifying. But you know what? Im going to survive, and i will make sure my friends do too.
Also, you said personal nightmare? How convenient, my planet is the Land of Dandelions... and Nightmares....
Huh.
Well im screwed
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Post by musicalDecay on Aug 20, 2012 23:47:18 GMT -5
All classes have a fail safe CS, even clown. There some way to actually play it I think. I remember this one person, early on. xe rolled clown, but xe found something in xis class that was buried under piles of glitched code and unreadable text. A class specific ability, [Jack in a box]. To this day the only thing we know for sure is that it makes the person disappear for a couple of days. As in the game says they don't exists type of disappear.
Now there's good news and bad news. Good news: xe had almost full control of all xis title ability's that were too glitched to use before when we found xim again. There was no random glitching around xim and xe looked the same and acted like nothing much happened to xim. We were all jumping for joy that we didn't have to worry about xis class messing with the game that much. We were all as happy as can be... Bad news: For five minutes. After which xe started to kill us while saying this is what xe has to do to play his class. So yeah, if you use that ability. There's a slight chance you will find out how to play clown and control it's ability's. But also a tiny tiny tiny chance you will also go insane and brutally murder your session mates in the worst way possible. I think it's a 50/50 thing.
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Post by mislaidLullaby on Aug 21, 2012 8:22:07 GMT -5
If I remember correctly, Clown is not the cause of the glitches, but rather another symptom of a heavily glitched session. It's not supposed to get rolled at all- So try to hang onto that memory.
Frankly, your best bet is to either try and learn how to be a clown, or vagabounce to something else that isn't as broken. Only issue with that is that vagabouncy is pretty damn hard from what I recall hearing. You're overwriting a lot of scripts after all and by the sound of it? Those scripts are broken as all hell.
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Post by conqueringSynesthete on Aug 21, 2012 21:39:12 GMT -5
I guess ill either have to learn to clown or try that [Jack In A Box] ability, because i cannot and will not vagabounce for a variety of reasons.
... This should be fun
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Post by musicalDecay on Aug 22, 2012 0:04:04 GMT -5
keep in mind, 50/50.
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Post by ExtropianDreamer on Aug 22, 2012 2:15:24 GMT -5
If I remember correctly, Clown is not the cause of the glitches, but rather another symptom of a heavily glitched session. It's not supposed to get rolled at all- So try to hang onto that memory. While rolling Clown is a symptom of a heavily glitched session, it is, in and of itself, heavily glitched. Faun worked fine, but Clown is the glitchiest glitch that ever did glitch.
Even the way you're supposed to play it is glitched and unstable. As a result, you could end up having to do anything from the relatively benign "Make things more fucked up via [ASPECT]" (which is still pretty bad) to the explicitly monstrous "Brutally murder your friends via [ASPECT]". The whole thing is roughly as glitched as self-prototyping yourself with a pumpkin.
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Post by genesisArtificer on Aug 22, 2012 6:19:53 GMT -5
ok the best thing to do? Vagabounce into Faun of Rain.
This is basically the same thing. Faun IS Clown without the heavily glitched "harlequin" variable-code-whatever. Basically it is an Active counterpart to Maid, which is benign and sane Class. It would unscrew many of your session problems, especially those centered around you.
Main problem? You would have to dig deep in Vagabounce files to find that Class, cause it was long "time" ago since I have seen it the last.
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Post by conqueringSynesthete on Aug 24, 2012 20:27:06 GMT -5
ugh the waste of flow put a thing on the game so that i cant vagabounce because he wants to "win fAir And squAre" or some crap, so i guess im stuck being a BLUH BLUH HUGE GLITCH and ill probably have to use [Jack In A Box]
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Post by ExtropianDreamer on Aug 24, 2012 20:53:31 GMT -5
ugh the waste of flow put a thing on the game so that i cant vagabounce because he wants to "win fAir And squAre" or some crap, so i guess im stuck being a BLUH BLUH HUGE GLITCH and ill probably have to use [Jack In A Box] How did he even do that? Never mind, just get him to remove it.
Just go explain to him that the game has broken and that it's the quickest and only way to fix things. Be sure to remind him that you will all die horrible deaths if you don't. If that fails, punch him (or get your Bane/Sylph to punch him if you have one - this is totally Bane-slap worthy). If even that doesn't work, possibly because he can't remove it, try throwing Headaches at the block until it goes away or becomes irrelevant - Rain is good at removing limitations.
I have never understood why some people think "fair" has any place in matters of life and death. Seriously, if there's a chance of someone dying, "fair" goes out the window right alongside "nice" and "fun". It's not like anyone actually uses Vagabouncy unless they roll a glitched role anyway.
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Post by musicalDecay on Aug 24, 2012 21:08:12 GMT -5
Tell him if you use the ability [jack in the box] he has a 50/50 chance of dying.
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Post by conqueringSynesthete on Aug 25, 2012 12:22:16 GMT -5
Tell him if you use the ability [jack in the box] he has a 50/50 chance of dying. I told him this, he realizes this, and he says that he'll just leave if that happens... time to get the sylph to punch im
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Post by musicalDecay on Aug 25, 2012 15:39:56 GMT -5
He has no idea how clown kills people, does he?
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Post by stanzicApparati on Aug 25, 2012 15:44:34 GMT -5
Sounds more like he has no idea how the game works, and apparently believes that you can just, y'know. Step out of a session at will.
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