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Post by whimsicalDerivator on Sept 6, 2012 10:47:16 GMT -5
Okay.
Uh.
According to everything I've managed to find this might fit in Emergency Situations too but no one's actually dead so I dunno. And things seem pretty m'eh now that my heart's stopped pounding like batshit from that meteor that I apparently just escaped from... Anyway.
From what I can tell from searching 'OH GOD WHAT DO +sburb' (well not really but close) and checking out everything (and how does internet even work in this place for me to Google shit?) I think I and my friends need to tuck our heads between our legs and kiss our asses goodbye. Why? The seizure-inducing spirograph things are still all flashy and seizure-inducing and blank spirographs, and I'm pretty sure we're all in what the guides called the Incipisphere. This is apparently something really stupid.
Okay, because that was far too long for a brief explanation and I think I know the right terminology: None of us pre-entry prototyped, are we completely screwed or can we stab defeat in the guts until it pukes up victory?
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Post by mislaidLullaby on Sept 6, 2012 11:10:44 GMT -5
Okay, first things first- Lob something in the kernel sprite. It doesn't matter what any more, it won't have any gameplay affect accept making it easier/harder to talk to 'em.
Once you do that? Talk to them. Talk to your consorts. Find out if they're calling you Heroes or Nobles. Is there any reference to the arrival of additional players? These details will vastly change the advice we're able to give you.
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Post by whimsicalDerivator on Sept 6, 2012 12:34:16 GMT -5
Okay, I've done that... also I think my house got plonked in the middle of a dried riverbed on the upper edge of a former waterfall. I am going hunt down and kill the designers of this game if I get a flash flood.
Ahem. Anyway. There aren't a lot of the poor guys left, but the badgers (at least I think they're badgers, look like 'em but they're gold with black stripes instead of black with white) called me a Hero. And the Witch of Void, which Galisprite said too. I brought my laptop with me to keep an eye on Sophie and pestered her when she ran into her own consorts and she said they called her a Hero too. And she's the Seer of Space, according to her Carrotsprite. (That's Carrot as in the six foot six dwarf. Discworld sprite. I'd be jealous if mine wasn't just as awesome. [Still jealous, actually.])
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Post by bustedcasuality on Sept 7, 2012 23:46:33 GMT -5
Holy cow, another Witch with badgers? Say it ain't so!
Whatever you prototyped the first time around? Probably a bad idea. All witches apparently prototype something that makes things needlessly complicated. This isn't ALWAYS a bad thing, but it can lead to a lot of headaches. Really, making things more complicated and being confusing is sort of the witches deal. One tip- never answer questions directly, but ask a leading questions instead, or give them information that can lead to an answer. Or some otherway of making the answer obvious without actually telling them. So if someone asked you "Dude, why is you bed a charbroiled mess?" don't say "I dumped kerosene on it and dropped a match on it because Fate said so." Instead, look at the kerosene lamp guiltily and make sure the box of matches in in plain view, and make sure everyone's read the FAQ section on Fate. Being straightforward as a witch will result in your powers shorting out, or just plain bad luck. Making other people have to put things together- even a little- will help make your life easier.
Speaking of powers, your aspect- Void- concerns absence, pr marily, extending into deletion. Unfortunately, Void is buggier than a Louisianna bayou, and it can't even be both red to bug the same way all the time. The most c mmon bug it that it conc als all inform tion about itse f. Luckily, you should get some pretty good offensive attacks, although that may just be the the player in my session rather than void as a whole. The biggest thing about void is that not being there is your greatest ally. Void players can be and absolute b to find even when they're not trying to avoid notice. Nobody should see you unless a) you need to talk to them or something or b) you need to throw around some serious firepower. After you're done, disappear again. Preferably when they're not looking, like batman. This has the double bonus of helping to get in tune with your aspect- which helps when throwing around powers- and being terribly mysterious, which is always good for a witch.
Tell me, have there been any references to not being the "true" heroes of the session?
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Post by whimsicalDerivator on Sept 8, 2012 12:04:34 GMT -5
Ehe. Does not prototyping something count, seeing as I was first in and everyone else was like "hey, Tanya did it, we can s t on our butts and not do a th ng!" and then I go look for Sburb guides and right there n bigass text s "DON'T NOT PROTOTYPE BEFORE ENTRY" so uh whoops. (Kinda fucked up there huh)
Far's I can tell we're the only heroes. My badgers haven't said anything about other heroes, or Galisprite, or any of my friends' consorts or sprites. Is that good or bad?
Convoluted and hard to find... Uh-huh. Yeah. Funny, Sburb. I'm about as mysterious as a brick to the face and just as blunt. (This is that 'challenging you' bit of title allocation, isn't it)
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Post by ExtropianDreamer on Sept 8, 2012 13:46:47 GMT -5
Far's I can tell we're the only heroes. My badgers haven't said anything about other heroes, or Galisprite, or any of my friends' consorts or sprites. Is that good or bad?
Most solutions are going to require a good bit of power to pull off, so for now I'd just play the game normally. Watch out for the Draconian Dignitary though, he's much more likely to go Wraith in a Null session.Convoluted and hard to find... Uh-huh. Yeah. Funny, Sburb. I'm about as mysterious as a brick to the face and just as blunt. (This is that 'challenging you' bit of title allocation, isn't it) |
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Post by whimsicalDerivator on Sept 9, 2012 10:56:35 GMT -5
A bit of both? On the one hand, Nobles tend to die more than regular players. On the other, it means that fixing your session will be a whole lot harder.
Most solutions are going to require a good bit of power to pull off, so for now I'd just play the game normally. Watch out for the Draconian Dignitary though, he's much more likely to go Wraith in a Null session. Yes, yes it is. The apocalyptic murder-game is, in case you hadn't noticed, kind of a massive dick. |
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Post by captianMaudlin on Sept 9, 2012 16:02:36 GMT -5
I'm almost d with my session as a v player- it feels e knowing I'm g to l my native Aspect behind.
Anyways, though you might not l the idea, 's something you should k about being a H of Void. You are going to be fighting like a horror movie monster. For s classes this means getting punched in the g and not even reacting, but for us Cryptics it means flickering in and t of existence, separating and wrecking h monster one at a t, not even letting the cameraman t a clear shot at you. J remember, the monsters in horror m get defeated only w we t a good look at them. You won't allow them t privilege.
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Post by ExtropianDreamer on Sept 9, 2012 19:25:59 GMT -5
Anyways, though you might not l the idea, 's something you should k about being a H of Void. You are going to be fighting like a horror movie monster. For s classes this means getting punched in the g and not even reacting, but for us Cryptics it means flickering in and t of existence, separating and wrecking h monster one at a t, not even letting the cameraman t a clear shot at you. J remember, the monsters in horror m get defeated only w we t a good look at them. You won't allow them t privilege.
Roles are pretty flexible in how you play them, though they they tend not to budge once you've decided on a way. You have to somehow conform to the expectations of your class, your aspect and your active/passive status, but Sburb isn't particularly concerned how exactly you interpret those things, just that you do.
Take my current title of Bane for instance. It's the Passive Champion title, so some folks take that to mean that they have to champion someone else's ideals and become the ultimate minions. Other folks think it means that they have to fight for an ideal, but have to do it by helping and supporting their friends. And then there's yet another set of folks that think it means they have to be the unthinking champions of their aspect, doing whatever their whisperings tell them to do without thought for themselves and letting their aspect act through them. Me? I think I'm the big scary monster that stands between my coplayers and anything that'd hurt them like a big ol' papa wolf, their devoted guardian that can never be part of what it protects (because Hope is rejection and solitude). And Sburb is okay with all of these interpretations, because all of them are in some way passive champions - just no switching between them once we've decided.
Don't feel beholden to follow someone else's interpretation of your role. If you think you've come up with a way that fits your role, then go for it. |
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Post by Nefer Nightbug on May 28, 2015 8:21:18 GMT -5
Okay, I've done that... also I think my house got plonked in the middle of a dried riverbed on the upper edge of a former waterfall. I am going hunt down and kill the designers of this game if I get a flash flood.
Ahem. Anyway. There aren't a lot of the poor guys left, but the badgers (at least I think they're badgers, look like 'em but they're gold with black stripes instead of black with white) called me a Hero. And the Witch of Void, which Galisprite said too. Galisprite. Ask to borrow her Mask of Water Breathing if you are that worried. (P.S. you will not need it, all you need to do is build OVER to the waterfall and you will be safe) |
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Post by horrorTerror on Jun 6, 2015 22:22:49 GMT -5
A. Timeliness! Without the staff to actually point out this all I can do is be a failtroll, but still. This was YEARS ago and the thing either resolved or the member unfortunately permadied.
B. From what I have heard, the Sburb construction interface does not like to go very far sideways or down.
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Post by Nefer Nightbug on Jun 7, 2015 6:51:47 GMT -5
...?
Oh, so you DID move into someone's house and bake pies.
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Post by horrorTerror on Jun 7, 2015 10:08:48 GMT -5
It's not my fault there was this perfectly undefended house full of equipment to make delicious pies just floating around in the Furthest Ring! All I had to do was can the Breath tornado pushing it in circles and scrape a Witch of something (Space I think?) off the bottom. I had her reanimated and donated with the canned Breathnado to Lady Gaga's stash of Skaianet's SkaiaTech-brand Sburb-making equipment in the Furthest Ring as a peacemaking gesture to strengthen this tense ceasefire we've got going on with those grumpy old Denizens, but otherwise it was quite wonderful once we got the alchemiter hacked via eldritch majjyks and some grist conversion recipes and the utility scripts running again.
My roommate keeps getting his hand stuck in the garbage disposal so we're considering getting some refurbishing done, but otherwise it's a pretty nice place.
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