Backstory Questions

[wanderingDreamer]

Hey people, me again.
Okay, I've been reading, Binging(Because Google isn't working for me right now), and Searching, and got jack squat.
First, I recall reading something somewhere about "Old alchemy system", something to do with the machine automatically tacking on I think it was 43 0's to the code. What?

Second, what's this 'Vagabouncy' people keep mentioning? I know it's something that let's you change... Uh... Titles, I think, and that it's risky(The risk being 50/50 Live/Die?), but where did you guys get that? I've done everything from Google Site Searching to re-reading the FAQ, not a mention of it. At all. What, is it Void-censored or something?

Third, genesisArtificer mentioned over on tenebraMagistra's topic that, and I quote:

Space players are handicapped by Magicants to the point of debilitation in the case of Tacticians and Explorators.

My question THERE, is 'Where did he get that?'
The guide only says that:

After Void Players, Space Players are the best at spotting entrances to skaian magicant. It works on a different level. Void Players find themselves at home in these cracks between the worlds but Space Players hate them. It’s a Space thing, they don’t like spatial fuckery or at least, they always think that they could do better. When they stumble on a fake wall for the first time they’ll just pause and stare at it while saying "You know what, I really really don’t like this wall" without really knowing why.

Where did he get "Handicapped to the point of debilitation" from "Really freaking hates the place"? Or is this something the admins/mods decided on?
Meeeeeanwhile, it seems like everyone else uses Skaian Magicants as Group HQ.
So... What's up with that?

Fourth, I've been meaning to ask, why do they say Explorators will die if they backtrack? I mean, in order for a Scout to relay information to his commander, he must return someway, and it's really difficult to Guide a person through someplace you've never been. Do they mean, like, backtracking EXACTLY? Like taking route ABC there and reversing it to get route CBA back = bad while taking route D back = good? Or backtracking in general? In the latter case, again, why?

Fifth, if I have more questions, should I have just posted them to the Questions topic?
I'm sorry, I honestly would have brought it up on the IRC, but with how search engines are randomly not working, and it flat-out not letting me connect on Pesterchum, as well as it not letting me log in over on FFNet, I'm not going to risk it.

[tenebraMagistra]

I'm curious about the vagabouncy thing, too. Also, you have a fanfiction.net account?

[genesisArtificer]

Where did he get "Handicapped to the point of debilitation" from "Really freaking hates the place"? Or is this something the admins/mods decided on?
Meeeeeanwhile, it seems like everyone else uses Skaian Magicants as Group HQ.
So... What's up with that?

Magicant handicap is a thing we devised during roleplay. We did minor changes to the CANON for fun/lessened squick (ex: you don't start with deadkidsprite unless you hadn't prototyped nothing in it). Note that gG the character is writing from subjective point of view. He can note that Space players refuse to go there, and write that they hate Magicants (which is true).

You don't need to go all ballistic because of this.

Vagabouncy is a method of changing your Class. It is ill advised, because it may result in erasure of a player from existance, critical glitches or other nastiness. It is usually used only if you are Clown. Easiest, and least prone to getting fucked up change is a simple flip of the Active/Passive spectrum, so Clown becomes Maid, etc. (that is, if you don't have a Maid in the game already, then it glitches). Rule of thumb is that you cannot have the same Class as one of your coplayers, or the game will critically glitch, although it may be possible. Talk to the people in IRC for more data, cause above is mostly just my headcanon on this.

[wanderingDreamer]

Sorry, I didn't mean to make a big deal out of this. I just got confused. The deal with the Skaian Magicant confused me because I read the chapter several times. Plus I was, again, confused because, like I had said previously, everyone seems to use them for Group HQ. Half the time, it's recommended by the Space player.
Taking a wild guess and assuming that this is NOT common knowledge?
On that note, what debilitates them, again? Just suddenly losing access to their abilities, their passives and all that? Do they get a migraine? Or what?

As for Vagabouncy, okay, so, basically...
There's a safer method that involves switching the Passive/Active status of your Role, so if a Page does it, he would become a Knight and vice versa, likewise, a Guide would become a Scout, and vice versa.
But there is no limitation, you can, hypothetically speaking, Vagabounce from Page all the way to Smith and back, assuming you didn't glitch out of existence.

Am I understanding this correctly?

@tm
Yeah, I do.

[tenebraMagistra]

WOuld you be willing to share the username of said account so I can find you?

[genesisArtificer]

Sorry, I didn't mean to make a big deal out of this. I just got confused. The deal with the Skaian Magicant confused me because I read the chapter several times. Plus I was, again, confused because, like I had said previously, everyone seems to use them for Group HQ. Half the time, it's recommended by the Space player.
Taking a wild guess and assuming that this is NOT common knowledge?
On that note, what debilitates them, again? Just suddenly losing access to their abilities, their passives and all that? Do they get a migraine? Or what?

Who is everyone? Can I get links? Does it happen on our fora? I mostly RP on the IRC, which is a smidge different than forum-rp.

Of course, if you got this from outside this particular community, then all bets are off.

Debilitation ranges from minor headache to keeling over and assuming fetal position. The latter is only a case for native Space players who replayed more than few times as a Space and/or are Tacticians or Explorators of Space. They cannot use their abilities in Magicant, cause of spatial anomalies.

There's a safer method that involves switching the Passive/Active status of your Role, so if a Page does it, he would become a Knight and vice versa, likewise, a Guide would become a Scout, and vice versa.
But there is no limitation, you can, hypothetically speaking, Vagabounce from Page all the way to Smith and back, assuming you didn't glitch out of existence.

No. The method is the same, it just is a bit safer if you are just changing the "polarity". Scripts are less fucked. That is because Classes that differ only in passive/active axis have basically the same or very similar main quest line and abilities. Changing into other Class is much riskier, and will almost surely bug the game, or fucks you over, but it is possible too.

I hope that it was informative.