Team Ascending Cascade

[nerdyProspector]

(Note: Because my natural text colour doesn't show up well here, I'll be using my sprite's colour when posing logs)

Hello everyone, nerdyProspector here with a log of the adventures of my first session. Some weird stuff has happened already. You know those Sburb things that happen even before you hit the enter key? Well, something huge happened that screwed up all of our plans.

But first I should say what the plans were. Well we planned on playing the day after my friend’s, smashingBrawler, birthday with him going in first. We knew what we were getting into so we hit up the FAQs and stalked the forums here for information. I’ve only just signed up to post the details here. Anyway, fortunately one of our players is a real wiz with computers so she hacked into the game coding to find out stuff such as out titles. Don’t worry, she didn’t touch anything. Sburb’s messed up enough even without a blind computer girl messing it up. Anyways, here is our planned line up.

smashingBrawler, Page of Time

faultyCoordinator, Seer of Heart

Yours truly, Guide of Blood

beautifulLimn, Maid of Space

innerDesign, Prince of Rage

masqueradeFanatic, Heir of Life

duskWalker, Rogue of Rhyme

lupinePersona, Waste of Doom

invisibleFollower, Scout of Breath

sanitysController, Witch of Rain

As you can see, we already have some threats with a Waste and a Witch. But the thing is, as we were preparing to enter, a future me showed up on my doorstep. Wearing a Time God Tier hoodie. Yeah, it turns out that some of the things FC figured out from the coding were wrong. So future me told that I was the one who had to go in first. Of course I’ve never wanted to be a leader and SB was a born leader, so of course, Sburb made me the leader. We had to block SB from his computer for a while. A soon as future me told us about it, he ollie outied and changed the order the meteors fell to fit with our changed order of entry. Of course, being from a doomed timeline meant he had to die, so he ended up headbutting a meteor. We recovered his body to prototype him once I got into the medium. I got in without much problem. All ten of us managed to get in, though with a couple of hitches. Here’s a list of everything in detail.

nerdyProspector, Guide of Time, Land of Desert and Wire.
Bookkind, Rubberbandkind, Watergunkind, woodwindkind, flamekind
Tiny wallet modus -- > Measure modus
Otter statue with rope tied around it 1st prototype, dead doomed me post entry

Here I am, nerd extrodinare. Yes I have 5 strife specibi. Though most of them suck, I blame my tiny modus. Who makes a wallet modus that caps at 4 cards and can’t pick up things bigger than a suitcase? And don’t ask about why there was rope tied around the otter. Just, don’t.

faultyCoordinator, Seer of Heart, Land of Pillars and Pillows
Screwdriverkind, CPUkind
Encryption Modus
Apple 1st prototype, AI named Adam post entry

Our computer wiz. Blind, though Adam acts as her eyes. I’m not quite sure where she found Sburb, but playing it was all SB’s idea.

invisibleFollower, Scout of Breath, Land of Currents and Fans
Guitarkind, Boomerangkind, Whipkind
Solitaire Modus
Headphone 1st, I-pod with Siri post entry

IF is a cool kid, plays the guitar, strong, though I’m not sure how well his class and aspect match up. Flying around everywhere probably.

beautifulLimn, Maid of Space, Land of Beaches and 
Umbrellakind
Collection modus
Turtle lamp 1st, twilight sparkle post entry

BL is ID’s ‘girlfriend’. A rather odd girl, obsessed with many different fandoms. Almost prototyped a Link figurine before entry. Probably the least battle capable out of all of us.

innerDesign, Sage of Rage, Land of Beasts and Shadow
Scissorkind, Ballkind
Colour Modus
Magnezone card 1st, tiger beast from land

ID is my younger brother. Don’t worry, we were in completely different houses. His entry was a huge mess due to MF messing around with the house. Despite not being the witch, that Magnezone card in my opinion was our worst prototype. One of my favourite Pokémon, but gave the enemies access to ranged attacks and resistance to a bunch of attacks.

masqueradeFanatic, Heir of Life, Land of Temples and Jungles
Batkind, Ribbonkind
Shuffle Modus
Candle 1st, owl chain post entry

MF is our trouble player hands down. It’s her fault that the Magnezone card was prototyped first. She really tormented my brother, which is usually my thing, but even I say she took it too far. I would never trust her with being our healer. We wouldn’t have to worry so much if I was still Blood, but I guess we have to deal with her. And judging by our prototypes and her title, she will probably have the easiest time fighting enemies. Why are things easy of our problem player? -_-'

duskWalker, Rogue of Rhyme, Land of Cherryblossoms and Snow
Cardkind, Sythekind, Bowkind
Sift Modus
Telescope 1st, Scott Pilgrim poster post entry

DW and SB are best bros. He’s a rather cool dude, though I guess that now that he’s rhyme, that give a whole new meaning to that phrase.

lupinePersona, Waste of Doom, Land of Skyscrapers and Wasteland
Paperkind, Clawkind, Fangkind
Poem Modus
Wolf plush 1st, dragon statue post entry.

LP is an online friend of mine from Britain. She’s a good friend and loves wolves. She’s also a writer. Though with a title like that, I feel bad for her.

smashingBrawler, Page of Stars, Land of Platforms and Magnets
Hammerkind, Axkind
Factoid Modus
Guns, Germs and Steel book 1st, old spice post entry

SB was the planned leader of our group. His parents are politicians and he’s a rather good friend. The book wasn’t his fault, our witch grabbed the wrong book for prototyping. The worst part about it is now the armies will now know biological warfare.

sanitysController, Witch of Rain, Land of Mirror and Mazes
Pistolkind
Array Modus
Pirate Flag 1st, nothing yet post entry

Witch is bad news as well as Rain. She is obsessed with being normal, and after seeing her house, I can see why. Her mom has weird ideas for buildings.

So here’s the pros and cons of our team:

Pros
-Managed to get everyone in
-Guide of Time, Maid of Space and Seer of Heart are great combinations
-We’ve done plenty of research into Sburb

Cons
-No one can stand our healer
-Having a Waste and Witch
-Enemies will have electric powers, biological warfare and pirate traits
-Poor class balance (2 explorer and tactician classes and only 2 classes good with combat)
-Poor connection between some players

As always with Sburb, the cons outweigh the pros. Right now we are having problems in the middle of our Mobus Reacharound. MF never deployed the punch designix for ID so he can’t alchemize stuff and DW ‘accidentally’ burned down her house and destroyed her computer. So right now ID can only hold out until MF reconnects with him. However with her computer blown up, MF can’t communicate with us. Fortunately ID’s sprite was prototyped with a tiger-beast from his land and is keeping the imps at bay. My best guess is that at any second now MF will come back into contact with us saying that I flew down from her gates and supply her with a new computer. And probably keep an eye on her just so she won’t screw around with my brother again. At least, that’s what I would do. Once I’m able to time travel of course. My doomed me sprite already told us what went wrong the first time around, I just hope we don’t end up repeating it.

[nerdyProspector]

Hey NP here with another log. I know that I haven’t posted one up in a while, but that can be chalked up to the fact we haven’t done much beside dungeon dive and do dreamself stuff.

Oh yeah, the computer problem with MF has been solved. Sure enough, a future me pulled up to her house and gave her a computer and kept an eye on her as she sorted things out with ID. ID and his sprite managed to hold off the imps in the meantime. His sprite seems to be the strongest fighter of the sprites. Not that I mind of course, I like having myself as a sprite. My sprite knows exactly what I’m thinking and has knowledge of what happened in the doomed timeline.

Right after exploring each of our lands on our own for a bit and clearing a couple basic dungeons and built up our houses in order to use the gates, we got together at SB’s house. Because of the metallic properties of some of our prototypings and SB’s land is filled magnets, at least half the underlings get stuck to the magnets. That will be our go-to safe land. Each of our lands have annoying quirks, ID’s probably being the most dangerous. There are hostile animals everywhere hiding in the shadows which are tough to kill and don’t drop grist. My brother thinks it’s a good idea to go all Pokémon Trainer on them, but the rest of the team thinks it’s stupid.

As soon as everyone got organized, we split up into Unbreakable Union pairs. Me and LP, MF and DW, IF and FC, SB and SC, and ID and BL. You can refer back to my first post for titles and aspects. My brother and BL split early because they had a close connection before entry, as well as the fact we thought that it would be a good idea for our Rage player to stay away from the Frog Breeding. As soon as they were done exploring each other’s land, they split off with different future versions of me. Or should I say, current me and future me. I’m currently helping out my brother around his land. He certainly got the Rage part down, but he needs to work more on being a Sage, he is much too direct and violent. Future mes have been popping up once in a while to give little tidbits of advice to everyone. One said that before I help BL, I only travel back far enough to see the end result of where all the frogs were and copy them down to give to BL when I help her from the beginning. Yay, stable time loop. -_-‘

Right now, all of us are building up to waking our Denizens. From what I can tell, I only travel back in time once before I wake my Denizen and I’ve already done that. If you’re confused, here’s a little timeline.

I I -- __________ - from doomed timeline
I I -/ - Entry
I I -I
I I -v – continues on as sprite
I I n –- n - ID and BL split
I I^I-- ^I – I?
I I^I-- ^I ----- I? – random appearances
I I^I-- ^I --- I?
I I^I-- ^I – I?
I I^I n ^I
I U I ^U ?
I - I ^ -Wake Denizen
I - I ^
I - I ^ -Slay Denizen
I - I ^
? -- U?

Black = everyone else’s timeline
Light green = Past me
Red = Current me
Green = Future me
Dark Green = doomed timeline me
U/n = started/stopped time traveling
^ = time traveling
? = unknown

…that was a waste of time, wasn’t it? Whatever, I have time to spare.

As for our dreamself stuff, our royalty haven’t been up to much shenanigans on the dream moons from what I’ve heard. I don’t really have a first-hand account of this because even though I’m awake, I have what my friend FC calls ‘dreamself amnesia’ or something like that. Apparently my dreamself can’t remember anything about my real self and vice versa. But other than that, nothing of much importance has happened. Everyone is awake on the moons, with the odd exception of myself. Here’s a list of who’s on which moon.

Prospit: SB, ID, BL, LP and IF

Derse: Me, FC, MF, DW and SC

No one has died so far, besides doomed me of course. The underlings are tough, but we can handle them. In all, things are quiet, probably too quiet. No one knows how the war on the battlefield is going. I imagine thing will be interesting with biological warfare and pirate aspects. I wonder what sort of monsters the royalty look like. We threw in the most random shit ever. Anyways, up next is waking up the Denizens. Wish us luck with those!

[genesisArtificer]

((OOC moderator message: it would be prudent to darken your characters text color a bit to make it readable without the need of highlighting.- GA))

ok, first of all: you had a brick shitton of luck in that Grinds FaQ managed to appear in your internet space, you know that? ... I think that your Future Self could set that, though. Don't forget to check when it is the time to go back. Probably meteor voyage will be involved.

second: looking back in my first session, our two most dangerous combatants were, even in the endgame a Muse of Life and a Seer of Space (that would be me). A Seer is invaluable in strife, especially if they have some prophetic hunch, and a Guide is really good into that too.

Seriously Guide of Time is an awesome Title. about every single Title in your Game is good if well played (then again, one of the most badass women i had known had rolled Smith of Breath on her second, and rocked it. Yes, Creator through Destruction. it is an awesome combo, if you want to know my opinion.)

Third: Waste and a Witch are not as much a problems as you think they could be. Don't isolate the Waste. make her feel needed, talk to her, do attempts at socialization, integrate her into your team. if you do so, the Cataclysm should be less destructive and more manageable. Witch of Rain will be unpredictable, but you will have more problems, like Page of Stars. because their Aspect is tied to Acceptance, expect the Knight Syndrome to hit hard. hugs and positive cheer, and maybe enlisting help from Heart Seer and Rage Sage would be a blessing.

Finally: Heir of Life being a jerk? well, his very character arc is about being as helpful as possible for the benefit of the team. if he would do something underhanded expect the Game to kick him in the ass. Hard. With steel-reinforced boots. That have spikes. you get the metaphor. i would tell him that this attitude will get himself killed, and i would do it asap if i were you.

PS: don't hack the Game code more than you already did. I think that you did predestinations job by prancing around this , but any furthe change will crash the game.

[nerdyProspector]

((ooc: It's fine for me, but sure thing, I'll change it. Though it will be annoying changing all of those colour tags -_-' ))

Woah, a mod. Nice to see someone taking notice. I'll make a point of each of the things you said.

1. Huh, I guess you're right, I never thought about that. It might be from some other source, but I'll see if I can get FC to track down where it came from. As for a potential ride on the meteor, I believe that's how my doomed me traveled back to pre-entry. Can a reckoning in a doomed timeline transfer to the alpha? Unless there is a way to get to our pre-entry without the meteors.

2. Yeah, I'm pretty comfortable being a Guide of Time and that is a great combination. Though of course being a time play means that I've played longer than everyone else, I think I have the best connection with my title. If only some people could wise up.

I hope you're right about those not having combat oriented classes being good fighters as well because this session if off balance when it comes to that. I'm more conserned about people not following their class when not fighting the way that fits.

3. Yeah, SC, our Witch. has already made her damage with prototyping, now we just have to deal with what insanity Rain brings. LP, our Waste is a little bit of an outsider, brought into this by me. I was paired up with her after we got our group together. We're both worried that she's time bomb waiting for the right trigger to explode. As much as I want to avoid doomed timelines, I'll make sure to help prevent anything bad from happening.

You're right about SB. Right now he's paired up with our Witch so Hardchorale should help him. At a later point we should probably pair him up with FC, our Seer of Heart. As I said before, ID, our Sage of Rage is being a lot more Rage than Sage.

4. First of all MF is a girl. Here, I should type down everyone's gender.

Me, male
FC, female
IF, male
BL, female
ID, female male (couldn't resist bro xp)
MF, female
DW, male
LP, female
SB, male
SC, female

Anyway, back to the point. Right now she's pair up with DW, our Rogue of Rhyme. Hopefully that will cool her down. Also my brother is annoying everyone, I hope Sburb sorts him out. I can't wait to see the look on his face when he realizes that his Denizen will be worse than me and MF combined.

5. As a note for the PS, FC never touched the code, all she did was 'look' at it to figure out who had what class and aspect, though she missed mine and SB aspect and ID's class. Though seeing as it's better than anything I could do, I must respect that.

Anyways I thank you for reading my log and the next one I hope to have up will be about us dealing with our Denizens. Of course, unless someone else pops up with some advice.

NP, out.

[incidentalCompeer]

A little bit of advice following along with GA's advice regarding MF as I'm a native "Heir of Life" myself. "Heir" is all about learning to take on responsibility on behalf of others, and "Life" is exactly what it says on the tin. Her whole job is going to be learning to help out with everyone's wellbeing. From healing and kicking "Imp" ass during "Strifing" to making sure everyone is eating later on when "Alchemizing" food becomes important. The "Role" is really flexible in terms of how to help out and "Heir" starts off with a really strong "Aspect Affinity" so if she hasn't gotten herself in gear for this then her "ARC" is going to tank hard.

"Doom" is "Life's" opposite in terms of abilities, and I've had a pair of "Cataclysms" in my last two sessions so I'm familiar enough with the lore of both to give this bit of advice: Remind your "Waste" that whatever happens that you don't blame them for what happened. That caused a lot of problems in my last session and our "Grace" pulled a "Berserk Trigger" causing another "Cataclysm" event. Remember "Cataclysm" doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing, it's just a change of status quo and that can be a good thing. Like maybe your "Waste of Doom" causes you all to go "God Tier" with the event.

I really hope this helps.