Lost: my everything important.

[crossroadssquared]

(tl;dr: The fight with the Black King went wonky seven weeks ago and Skaia + Battlefield + Frog are gone now. Space player's Denizen says screw off. I'm a Thief of Mist. Wat do?)

Hey, everybody. I just stumbled on the forums a few days ago and posted a lot of what this problem is in my 'hello'. At the time I was thinking that I had a hopeless case on my hands, and it would be best just to get used to it. Now, I don't know.

So here's the setup. During the final boss fight, we had him down to where like one good fraymotif barrage from all of us would have sealed the deal. But the King landed this really solid hit on Ferris, who was Smith of Space, and she did something in response that GGTG's guide would probably call a Berserk Trigger. You know that whole sucking-in-lines and spitting-out-crackling thing that a player sometimes does when the attack they're about to use has an instant-death radius? That was going on everywhere. I yelled at everyone to get the hell out of there and did [You Are Now The Other Guy] to GTFO immediately. There was a flash, and then a smaller flash, and then a really goddamn huge flash, and then I was a carapace guy on Prospit, and then I was myself, and Skaia was gone. I could see maybe some little chunks of it left, just sort of floating in space. Definitely no Battlefield, definitely no clouds anymore, definitely no Frog.

The problem: Skaia, the Battlefield, the Frog, Black King, and all my friends are gone. Everything else is stuck in that "you can do it, here comes the final battle!" script. It's been about seven weeks, I think, give or take, and no Reckoning finishing, and clearly I'm still here. The idea I had was that we lost, but the game glitched so that it didn't wipe everything out with the loss. I'm not sure about that now, so right now the official diagnosis is "fuck if I know". Friends aren't showing up online, and haven't replied to pings.

What I have: I'm Thief of Mist at top of echeladder. Didn't hit God Tier. Ferris and Sarah did, they were Smith of Space and Mage of Time respectively; noone else did. Got five worlds of consorts, resources, probably a ton of undone quests, endgame equipment, tons of grist, about eighty boonbucks and change. And given that it's been nearly two months, I'll go out on a limb and assume that I've got time, too.

There was some advice and ideas from my hello post:

"Copy Bomb": I'd really rather not try to duplicate Skaia until I know it doesn't exist. The consequences of copying something still in existence are a little scary.

Grab a ship from Derse/Prospit, get Time player to negotiate with Others, and GTFO: Also scary. Also I don't have a Time player now, see above.

Ask the Space player's Denizen: Here's where shit gets weird. Ahriman just laughs at me when I ask for a boon. He said - and I quote - "Oh, are you all done with your little angsty pity party? This is your quest, you clean it up. Pick up your beat and come back when you have a real problem, chunky."

...it seems really weird that this actually makes me feel better. If the Denizen doesn't give a shit, doesn't that mean that the session is still okay? Somehow?

So... I need ideas. If my session isn't broken, what's going on with it, and what do I do with it?

[ExtropianDreamer]

Ahriman said it was your quest, correct? Assuming he was being accurate here, then that means you've got your own personal quest as the Thief of Mist and this whole situation was intended by Sburb.

Which means you have to fix it. Which means there is a way to fix it. As a Thief, this will likely involve stealing something. In fact, you should probably start thinking of this whole business as you wanting to steal all that stuff back, it'll help your ARC at the very least.

His comment about picking up your beat could be a hint. Try fogging into your Mage of Time as a first step. I'd try scrying the exact moment this little catastrophe happened, seeing if you can't figure out exactly how this went down. Once you know what happened to everything, you can work on how exactly you're going to steal Skaia back from wherever it ended up

[stanzicApparati]

As long as the Aspect was in your session at some point, I believe you can still fog it even if the player has died.

[ExtropianDreamer]

Aug 28, 2012 18:24:06 GMT -5 stanzicApparati said:

As long as the Aspect was in your session at some point, I believe you can still fog it even if the player has died.

You can. I had a session where everyone but me died during entry and I didn't realise I was fogging them until the end of the game.

[crossroadssquared]

Three updates real quick - I've got some work to do and I have no idea even where to begin.

1. This:

...this whole situation was intended by Sburb.

Which means you have to fix it.

I needed to see this. Thanks.

2. I couldn't scry on the fight - the whole thing was fuzzed out like a bad frequency. Sarah's equipment back in her Villainous Lair of Agendas (her nickname for it not mine) didn't usually do that. But.

3. There's a disc left here, with what I think is my handwriting, and covered in what is most definitely blood, and what I really really hope isn't mine. I've got five minutes of the BK fight on Tivo, looks like, the five minutes up to Ferris starting the Scary Death Crackle, and then it fuzzes out. Right before it all goes fuzzy, Sarah shows up right behind Ferris and does... something?

VERDICT SO FAR: Smith of Time and Mage of Space did something together. Don't know what.

This is complicated. I feel like it's finals week and I didn't study for it. I'm... probably gonna be a while, gotta figure some stuff out. Also I need to steal me Sarah's timey-wimey stuff.

[tenebrouspsycher]

sounds like you have the beginning of a handle on this. was there a light player in this session? See if you can't gank some information out of this with some light player fogging.

[tenaciousTheseus]

Dude, this was months ago. I'd be surprised if they were still in the same session