lost half our players - possible n ll sessi n??

[mercuricdistillate]

[Rango n warning]

Hello, everyone. I. Well. There are some serious glit(h issues o((urring in my (urrent (first) session, and I was hoping to get some kind of dire(tion or advi(e.

Things went... badly wrong. Terribly badly wrong getting into the game. We were supp sed to have six players in our session, but ( nne(tion issues for(ed us to (lose ur loop with only three. I was supposed to be solidly in the middle of the (hain, but have ended up as sever to our group leader. Snakedad – that is, my lus s, is de d nd. It was frankly the s(hoolfed definition of a (lusterfu(k, and the less detail pr vided the better. Here is our (urrent situation:

As so n as I entered in the medium, our (hat (lient st ped fun(ti ning (o re(tl – it ope s but disp ys no li t of w o is onl ne, and se s to e ase m t f th l ters y u ty e in t. Em il is sim l rly unr sp sive. On dis( vering this, I relu(tantly returned to my hive-tower and found the lo(al imp (lusterfu(k level has abated for the moment. Getting ba(k here was a whole other story, my Land of Murk and (hasm is ex(eedingly hard to navigate. I then managed t (onta(t my server player by means of writing on the walls and some amount of undig ified (harades/interpretive dan(e. Thus at least we have a (rude means of (ommuni(ation via the server-(lient link. My two (oplayers are both in my server player's dwelling. Dearest Leader (I (all her this humorously be(ause she is not very likable yet ex(eedingly in(lined to give orders (ugh, highblo ds)) apparently be(ame (onvin(ed that my server was in need of emotional support and left her own Land to join her.

I have seen no eviden(e of said breakd wn on the part of my server. She seems to be a very busy, mis(hievous s rt, not at all like I pegged her from our few previous (onversations. I will never get used to things levitating around my hive on their wn and randomly disappearing. But I digress.

Sin(e Dearest Leader was busy with whatever pale shenanigans they are up to (thank gog they are n t at my (lient player's pla(e – how embarrassing), she re(ommended (ordered) that I try t do something about Trollian. And thus I did go forth nto the internet, whi(h inexpli(ably still exists here though mu(h of it does seem to be (orrup ed or bl (ked, and thus did I find these message boards, and thus my (urrent plea for help.

I am endeav ring to set us up a private message board, whi(h hopefully will bridge our ( muni(ations gap. My question is, is there some way ur missing (oplayers might have... survived? (ould they possibly have (ompleted their own (lient-server ring and entered the medium with us? The way things were g ing when last we heard from them, my hopes are n t parti(ularly high. I just... don't wish to believe that... they are really g ne.

N t him on top f the entire w rld.

Ple se ex( e e.

[ExtropianDreamer]

First thing to do is to find either your Sprite or some Consorts.

Ask them how many Heroes of Skaia there are supposed to be. If they say three, your friends were never meant to enter your session, though they may have entered their own. If they say six, then something has gone wrong and you might be able to fix it and see them again soon.

Three players would be a very unusual number to have, what with ectobiology and all. I'd also hope that your two remaining coplayers have the aspects of Time and Space. Because if all you have is Void, that means you're in a Null session. Which is bad.

Had any of your friends entered on their own before you lost contact? Have you read the GG's Glitch FAQ and GM's Etiquette Guide? Did any of you lost friends show signs of being players, like one of them maybe living in a tower in some remote location?

[mercuricdistillate]

I did not see any sign of my (onsorts when I was briefly outside. The Land of Murk and (hasm seems to (onsist entirely of massive (liffs and (anyons everywhere, and visibility is as poor as the name implies. Travel is ne(essarily rather slow if one wants to avoid falling to one's death. F rtunately my hive-spire is (onspi(uously tall and the murk gets thin enough at high altitudes for me to get my bearings. There are little fli(kery glit(hy looking things hovering around up there whi(h help to sort of outline the shapes of tall things. They don't seem h stile, fortunately.

The last person I sp ke to before various ( ne(tions went b d was supposed to be my server player. H wever she was not very forth(oming on her situation.

My sprite has done nothing but hover around gl wing in a distra(tingly freneti( manner sin(e it was released from the (ruxtruder. N help there.

Alright, I have l (ated and read the parts of some FAQs and arti(les that are avail ble to me. I... apparently did not prot type my sprite before entry. I... I am trying not think too hard about the possible impli(ati ns of a n ll sessi n. It just... s unds very b d. I (an't seem to f nd any det iled inf rmat n ab ut th m any h re.

My server player is still m ving things around, but is ignoring my vehement wall-writings. Argh. Perhaps best to just leave her s me instru(tions and go out looking for my (onsorts. Since my main spe(ibus is fistkind, I will h pefully be llright with ut additional gear.

[incidentalCompeer]

Have any of your coplayers managed a "Prototyping"? If they did, then you should be okay. The point of "Prototyping" is setting the game parameters like enemy strength and stuff. If none of them have then you're going to encounter trouble in the future when it comes to leveling and the "Reckoning". I don't know how to tell if your session is "Null" but a lack of "Prototyping" seems like it would be one. A good way to tell if they "Prototyped" is that the enemies won't have the default appearance.

[mercuricdistillate]

[Rango n!]

Well. That (ould have gone better, but I am somehow still alive, so I will refrain from (omplaining. I managed to find some (onsorts. They greeted me as a Se r of. A((ording to the FAQs, this means I must be a Se r of V d. So, apparently, I (an se n thingness. Frankly, I feel like the master of kn wing n thing right now, so this seems appropriate in a ki(k-to-the-shameglobes sort of way. Beh ld! I am the troll Alex Trebek of kn wing ja(k shit! Please phrase your ans er in the f rm of a questi n!

Pretty mu(h as soon as I left my hive-spire I got jumped by a bun(h of imps. I swear I've gained enough levels on my e(heladder that this should be easier, but apparently not. Maybe be(ause I use fistkind? Anyway, my proverbial oinkbeast fatstrips were were saved from a humiliating imp-delivered (harring by some kind of sylladex ba(kfire that kn (ked me right off a (liff. I suppose the appropriate quip would be s mething like ' ut f th fryi g p n i t t e v d.' I pani(ked and somehow managed to (ause a se(ond ba(kfire whi(h for(efully propelled me onto a ledge. When I re(overed suffi(iently, I dis(overed why I have been previously unable to find any (onsorts – their villages are all built into the sides of the (liffs.

My (onsorts are little brown s(alebeasts with toothed beaks and webbed wings instead of arms. I (ould see them (ir(ling and swo ping around a (olle(tion of (aves and little houses (antilevered out from the ro(ks. A positive flood of them appeared out of the murk and swarmed me after I managed to get their attention. They helped me a(ross some ledges to a natural bridge of sorts and ba(k around to the village. It w s... harr wing. Then I was then for(ed to sit through a great deal of (heering and squeaky spea(hifiying, as well as a sort of... show they put on for me. This (onsisted mostly of (onsorts jumping the (hasm on various two and four wheeled devi(es whilst preforming various a(robati( maneuvers. The whole thing was both inexpli(able and stupid. Honestly I have no id a why they are so taken with these a(tivities when they (an fly.

Eventually I was able to question the bearded wings(alebeast that made the spee(hes – the matriar(h of the rookery a((ording to her (why the beard, then?). After a lot of stuff about the Denizen and my first quest, I finally got to ask about the other heroes of Skaia.

She told me there are five Her es of Skaia. But she gave me six titles when I asked for a list: Page of Spa(e, Muse of Time, Maid of Sand, Ward of Stars, Bane of Life and S er of. When I asked her whi(h Heroes were still alive, she just looked (onfused and repeated herself a lot.

I'm now ba(k at my hive-spire with my pointless-hoofbeastshit-o-meter nearly maxed. I have not managed to (orral Dearest Leader (definitiveLegionnaire, (oin(identally, so DL from now on) into my makeshift messageboard. But via wall-wr ting she ( nfirmed that she and my server are the Time and Spa(e players, and that they both pr totyped their lusii before entering the medium. This seems to pr ve we are not in a n ll ses I n, but does not solve our problem of being unable to ( muni(at with the ther three players, if they are rea(hable or even still alive. If they are somehow (ompletely separate from us they would then be the ones without a Time and Spa(e player. That se ms bad, right?

Lo king ab ve, it se ms V d is rem ving (h r ters at r nd m fro my p sts. This se ms t be h p ning bet en my s bm ti g a p st a d it ap ear n e n t e si e. DL (l ms i s h peni g o m w ll-wri ng als , wh (h is wh she has n t made it to a y websit s I have tried to sh w her. Either that or she's just pret nding not to und rstand the med ling Jadeblo d.

Thank you both for your help, eD and i(. Would it be more appropriate to move this log to a different board at this point? I'm sure we will (ontinue to need advi(e, sin(e our ign ran(e approa(hes life-threatening levels and find ng out anyth ng in this game is like milking the pr verbial ro(kbeast. Ev ything here is so b (kward and p intl ss and glit hy and FR STR T NG I sw ar I w uld just q it if t w re i a y way physi( lly p ssible.

[ExtropianDreamer]

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The miscount is also normal too.

Having Time and Space players, successful prototypings and being referred to as Heroes instead of Nobles are all signs that you're not in a Null session, which is one worry out of the way for you.

Bad news? The stupid frustrating bullshit isn't even close to over. This is Sburb, where the stupid, pointless, incredibly frustrating bullshit never ends.

Good news? Your friends (probably) aren't dead! Reaching them might be as simple as building up your dwelling spire to their gates and going through, or it might require something more elaborate. I'd chuck something useful into your Sprite so you can ask it some questions - it'll likely answer with some sort of cryptic riddle bullshit, but Sprites do generally know more than Consorts.