Waste of Dreams. HELP.

[tradingcardgamer]

Yup. Panicking and generally making a fool of myself in front of the little panda people, because one just told me that I'm the Waste of Dreams. I mean, that's bad right? As in kill everybody in the session accidentally bad? Please give me a little advice, like something that will hopefully NOT KILL EVERYBODY. I'm not a bad person, I'm just "that kid over there who likes trading card games or something"! Not the bringer of the apocalypse or anything like that! And now I'm probably dooming everyone here!

[tenaciousTheseus]

First off: Calm the fuck down. Deep breaths, take a seat, drink something, listen to some calming music.

Now. Calmer? Good.

Wastes are defined as one who causes a massive change in their sessions. It's usually bad, but it's not always TPK, nor is it even always killing someone. There's plenty of stories with a cataclysm that didn't kill anyone. The Founders, back before they became high-caliber vets, in their session together, had two cataclysms, a Waste and a Grace, and they all survived. Cataclysm classes are not that bad.

What most people think of Cataclysms is pretty much wrong. It isn't a BT, except worse. It can be much more varied and dependent on your aspect. A Flow cataclysm, for example, can speed up the reckoning clock so that the meteors come tomorrow. A Rhyme can do the opposite. A Blood cataclysm, that my girlfriend went through, severed the connections from the players to the lands, so that the consorts et al didn't recognize them as the heroes of the land. Stuff like that. It can get very interesting if it wasn't so life-threatening.

So what can you do? Well. Not a lot, really. It'll happen whether or not you want it to. Holding it back will make it worse. So, relax. Feel free to abuse the sheer power that Cataclysm classes have. You're the strongest class in Sburb, in terms of raw power. Use it.