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we don't want another traumatic past

Tips That Can Save Your Kid’s Life.

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More joy, this time a... Thief of Joy

Thief: Active Displacement Class

Joy: Happiness, Insanity, The Jonkler

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can i please take the soup, anyways this post is a... Bard of Joy

Bard: Passive Destruction class

Joy: Happiness, Insanity, Laughter, The Jonkler

ow. my bones

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timetrav encryp be my friend today

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took them 15 fucking minutes

now THIS is why we all put everything on AO3 working day and night post-apocalypse to cure us of just a bit of trauma

this post is a... Muse of Hope

Muse: Passive Creation Class

Hope: Rejection, Determination, Hope, Being the fucking coolest (and hottest) because hope is so good

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Posted: November 17, 2024, 11:15 UTC

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hope powers do deal obscene damage to vampire like underlings

Concept: in a setting where vampires exist and can only be harmed by symbols of faith (crucifixes, etc.), a James Randi-style skeptic/supernatural debunker witnesses his family murdered by vampires, and dedicated his life to hunting down what he believes are a cabal of ordinary serial killers with a blood fetish and some cheap plastic fangs. They die when he shoots them with an ordinary gun, granted holy status by the sheer force of his belief that they are actually just ordinary humans who will die when shot.

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Ant, i feel like you're just making fun of me (i would like it's strength and determination) (can't vote for timetrav encryp reasons)

You show up for your first day at Copyright-Free Magic School. As you're going through orientation, you're informed that all new students get a school-assigned familiar that they are responsible for housing and maintaining. The staff member assures you that your assigned familiar is appropriately chosen and reflects you in some way.

Spin this to find out yours. (Remember, you are responsible for maintaining this familiar in your dorm room.)

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who are you? some troll knight

ppppppft, this loser can't even sharpen her glaive. everyone point and laugh at her until she cries and falls in love with us!

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Just an experiment. Reblog if you actually give a fuck about male victims of domestic violence and rape.

Of fucking course

What sick bastard doesn’t

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first thing a time player should do (especially princes) is MAKE A TIMETRAV ENCRYP

explanation > my hatchmate is a prince of time

explanation > most of our sessionmates have had personal problems with another time player

explanation > a very destructive lord to be specific

explanation > because of this my hatchmate sees her classpect as something evil and destructive

explanation > i dont want her to think her classpect makes her a bad person as she has struggled with such thoughts before

explanation> shes a huge fan of your blog so maybe if i showed her this she would believe me when I say a prince of time can be good

explanation > so

request > any suggestions on ways a prince of time can use their aspect constructively

uu: WHY WOuLD YOu WANT TO DO THAT?

uu: THIS IS WHY PRINCES AREN'T GIRLS. THEY TAKE ALL THE FuN. OuT OF GRATuITOuS DESTRuCTION.

uu: START SHOWING THE OTHER TIME PLAYER. WHO IS BOSS. BY BREAKING TIME RELATED THINGS. SuCH AS THEM.

uu: TIME IS EASY TO BREAK THINGS WITH. THIS SHOuLD NOT BE HARD.

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UU: answer the qUestion, dUmbass. or can yoUr boy brain not think of how to Use yoUr own aspect to bUild?

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uu: SHuT uP SHuT uP SHuT THE FuCK uP.

uu: FINE! YOu COuLD JuST NEuTRALIZE THE POWER WITH THE PRINCE POWER.

uu: IT WOuLD BE EASY. I AM SuRE THE FISH PRINCE. COuLD NuLLIFY JAKE'S POWER. IF HE EVER GOT HIS SHIT TOGETHER.

uu: WELL, PERHAPS NOT A PAGE. BuT A WITCH OR KNIGHT, YES

uu: OR YOu COuLD DESTROY THEIR MACHINATIONS. BY RAPIDLY AGING THEIR STuFF. AND DECAYING IT. IF THEY ARE THIS MuCH OF AN ASSHOLE. MY STuPID SISTER. WILL PROBABLY ALLOW IT.

uu: ARE YOu HAPPY NOW?

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UU: yes, actUally!

UU: yoUr sister's power is the perfect foil to other time players', bUt princes act like their opposite aspects.

UU: many space players are nonconfrontational Until pUshed very far...

UU: that is why it will be Up to yoUr sister to find coUrage, and once she does, she will show her power. this is mostly a thing for Us space players, bUt it is twice as trUe for a prince.

UU: the prince and bard have hard powers to control, thoUgh...perhaps a close friend or moirail coUld stay close to help her get them in control, if she is afraid of what they do.

UU: good lUck! and remember, a prince of time does two things!

UU: destroy yoUr own time: make yoUrself bUsy and occUpied

UU: destroy with time for yoUr own end; this means what caliborn said aboUt neUtralizing or Using fear will likely not happen Until she is wronged personally.

UU: bUt still, i do hope yoU take the more protective and less crUel roUte...

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shittiest take ever, life players can give people mega cancer, and TAG YOUR GOD DAMN RANGOON, or if you're a troll TAG THAT YOU DON'T HAVE A RANGOON, like HOLY SHIT

classpecting hot takes?

UU: it shoUld not be gender based, and sometimes the best way to be a sUccessfUl player is to transcend yoUr classpect and make it yoUr own. i think dave is very close to doing this!

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uu: SOME OF YOu. HAVE BEEN MARKED AS DEAD WEIGHT. AND THE BEST WAY TO STOP THIS. IS TO SPIT IN THE GAME'S FACE. AND uSE A CHAINSAW INSTEAD OF BEING A DuMB HEALER.

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[S] Skeptic: Enact Daily Process

9:00 AM: Wake up. 1:00 PM: Actually wake up. 1:01 PM: Become acutely aware that time still doesn’t exist in the Furthest Ring and that this schedule is arbitrarily based on an analog wristwatch. 1:02 PM: Disregard that completely because the concept that social conventions don’t exist is a social convention and thus doesn’t exist. 1:05 PM: Brush teeth, brush hair, accidentally brush glasses and spend minutes wiping toothpaste from them. 1:10 PM: Eat pathetically lacking breakfast rations. 1:15 PM: Realize that you foolishly brushed your teeth then ate breakfast, go brush teeth again. 1:17 PM: The inside of your mouth kind of tastes like crap and the concept of brushing your teeth has thus been rendered ironically redundant. 1:20 PM: Spend some time browsing the internet and seeing what the daily news is. Newcomers to the Replayernet, obituaries, new recipes, etcetera. 1:40 PM: Log into PrototypeTowers. 1:41 PM: Get clogged with bullshit almost immediately. 1:41 PM: Put on your adult pants and begin smacking down the unruly mobs of the internet. 1:41 PM: It’s been tangible years since veritableVerses quit bringing it up. 2:30 PM: Complete smacking down the unruly mobs and engaging in mutual blocking. 2:35 PM: Okay it’s time to get to work on this very blog you are looking at right now. 2:35 PM: Check asks. 2:35 PM: It is entirely “hey can you describe [Classpect]”. 2:35 PM: Come to the sobering realization that the other posts that you put actual care, research, and imagination into are basically candy at this point to the main course of classpecting. 2:35 PM: Realize additionally that Classes & Aspects are explained by the game as these people play and they still come to you, meaning that you have effectively become IT for SBURB. 2:35 PM: Enter state of despair and hopelessness. 2:36 PM: Disregard state of despair and begin putting forth earnest effort to create content and provide additional information on SBURB and the culture around it. 4:00 PM: Feel genuinely proud in job well done and people made happy/informed. 4:13 PM: Feel like something is important but don’t know what. 4:15 PM: Realize that despite feelgood in the Replayernet World, you need to take care of yourself in the real world. 4:15 PM: Begin tending to garden that supplies glorious food. 4:16 PM: This isn’t as fun as Minecraft makes it looks. 4:17 PM: Why is something so essential to life so boring and arduous? 4:18 PM: Also how come you have so many mushrooms but every time you get your hands on Pumpkins they just keep disappearing? 4:19 PM: Consider making a meme about having to farm all these goddamn fuckin’ mushrooms and imagine the success thereof. 4:20 PM: Make jokes about and pretend that you spend all day blazin’ it even though you’ve never even seen a blunt in real life. 4:30 PM: Begin tending to other life processes, including the ventilation, navigation, and other tasks that may or may not end in “-tion”. 5:00 PM: Realize that this would be a lot easier with friends. 5:00 PM: Begin considering regrets of stealing this Escape Pod and leaving your admittedly traitorous coplayers behind. 6:00 PM: Cease considering. You’ve been staring at the wall formerly known as a sealed window for too long. 6:05 PM: Do quick check and see if there’s any other Escape Pods full of potential escapees. 6:05 PM: There isn’t. 6:10 PM: Go back to your computer. 6:12 PM: Get hit again with the feeling that something is important. 6:15 PM: Look over Replayernet and see what other people are like. 7:00 PM: Be filled with fuzzy feelings that makes you feel a bit better about yourself. 7:05 PM: Fuck with TimeTrav and get it working. 7:10 PM: Access CorpseParty. 7:11 PM: Realize you’ve mistaken infamous Ring Server site akin to The Chans with popular japanese horror franchise Corpse Party. 7:12 PM: Correct mistake and access CorpseParty for real. 7:13 PM: Shitpost furiously. 9:00 PM: Cease shitposting if you hadn’t already gotten either banned or accidentally ran into the end of the TimeTrav lifecycle. 9:05 PM: Come to oddly morose realization that the 4chan analogue died and there’s no suitable replacement for it in the age of Replayer Networks but Tumblr and that Seergate cult site did. 9:06 PM: Also Reddit I guess but nobody cares about Reddit. 9:10 PM: COMMIT SUDOKU 9:30 PM: Become invigorated by engrossing sudoku puzzle. 10:00 PM: Go back to working on blog. 11:11 PM: Again, something really feels important but you don’t know what. 12:00 AM: Done working for now. 12:10 AM: Go have another meal. 12:20 AM: You should probably go to sleep now. 12:21 AM: Procrastinate. 3:00 AM: Crash.

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me when i'm playing sburb:

anyways, this post is a... Ward of Stars

Ward: Active Inheritor class

Stars: Acceptance, Gravity, Being a Pussy and Just Taking Everything You Get

who else up pushing their boulder

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This post is a... Dame of Hope

Dame: Active Protection class

Hope: Determination, Rejection, Being Objectively Better As This Is The Best Aspect

I made this, please feel free to use

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fun fact: there actually are four races in sburb,

Playeroid (trolls, humans, cherubs, whatever the fuck else, any other player races, all counted as one as they play the same role)

Carapaces (dersites, prospitians, and Snurglines)

Consorts (the weirdos on your land)

Underlings (the enemies you beat up on your land)

Hey its me, triforce dude again

So a lot of shits gone down and a lot of interesting things

So first off time travel is seemingly completely locked as is a lot of sburbian stuff in general though we keep like basic 'magic' relating to our aspects

Me and my coplayers kinda got a reverse four sword thing going on

Honestly they were kind of pissed off at the beginning but we all seem to be having a damn good time now

It's nice to break up the routine every now and then you know?

Also fairy fountains are busted as fuck, as far as we can tell and from what the fairies have told us they have a 3 time limit (rule of threes baby!) on complete resurrection but can also heal all wounds at any time and drinking the water from the fountain acts like a healing potion

Also it's neat interacting with the four races, game constructs they may still be but they definitely have more to talk about than the carapacians or consorts, more like actually people

Sadly our sprites seem to have completely vanished and our lands are like, fading away? For lack of a better term

They seem like they're slowly being unrendered and our denizens are gone (maybe they're in hyrule somewhere?)

Ill keep you updated but for now we're having a blast :D

>time travel is seemingly completely locked

Considering how influential Ocarina of Time was on the series, you must have rolled shit on whatever lottery caused this.

>the four races

Of course, the four races of Weasels, Elves, Clowns, and Hogs.

I actually struggle to imagine that any NPCs ad-hocced into existence through what is either a severe bug or a hostile takeover of Skaia by a foreign divine presence would have a more intricate internal world than the Carapacians, who are themselves fairly complex and well-realized if you actually emotionally invest in them. I know replaying can dull that facet of the game, because we're getting acquainted with infinite versions of Ms. Paint and you get disillusioned with it, but it does actually kind of grind my gears when people act like they're Skyrim NPCs.

>our lands are disappearing and our denizens are gone

WAY TO BURY THE LEDE. So off-handedly as well. I'm glad you guys are having fun, but if your Denizens vanish, your Session is as good as dead. Once a Session becomes nonviable, or enters a Doomed Timeline, they ollie-outie unless they need to facilitate some "grander purpose", usually that which pertains to delivering critical information to the Alpha Timeline. Your Lands vanishing is similarly concerning, but the absence of your Denizen is basically a sure shot, "you fucked up and the game is unwinnable".

By all means, keep playing. This is the copium speaking, but maybe if you defeat Gannon and help Morshu pay for his college tuition, the Denizens will come back and clap for you in a circle while the Door comes back and you win. In general though, I do not have high prospects for whatever's going on here, or what happens next.

PREDICTION: If the Door Beyond The End does show up, the "replay" option will probably say "Second Quest". It will either do the same thing "replay" usually does, or you will be stuck in Zelda Purgatory forever, in what must truly be a mega-fucked version of whatever it is we're already going through, with no way out.

SECOND PREDICTION: If the above happens, people will theory spitball at me about how we might see a "Triforce singularity" as SBURB becomes Zelda. I will refuse to listen to them, because this current thread is implausible as it is. There is a ceiling to the amount of silliness that can be going on at once!

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there's actually a variety of vagabouncing methods

Hey, relatively new to the replayer thing (only in my third session so far) and had a few questions.

1) Any rhyme or reason to how titles and aspects are distributed to replayers? I've been a native Maid of Breath, Rogue of Hope, and currently Sylph of Mind.

2) Is there some sort of benefit to yelling out your special move names like an anime protagonist, or is my coplayer just being a nerd?

3) Any specific "noob traps" or habits that replayers can fall into that will make the gods of the game itself slap you with a heavy dose of hubris?

4) What's vagabouncy? This is the only place I've heard about it, I haven't met any other players yet who know of it.

thanks in advance for any help! -emeraldFeathers

Your Native Title is significant, every Title after that is just nonsense. Or more accurately, it was significant for the previous occupant of the "slot" in the Session you are now filling, but isn't anymore because you're a different dude. Some people think their Replay Titles are significant along their "infinite journey across Paradox Space", but that's mostly wishful thinking. Assign meaning to it at your discretion.

There's no benefit unless you're a Rage Player, because Yelling is the elemental manifestation of Rage. Your coplayer is a nerd, but also you're a nascent godling who does in fact have magic powers, so let them have this.

Your experiences in previous Sessions do help, but don't assume that every Session will be exactly the same as the previous one(s). The game can be pretty inconsistent even before taking bugs into account. Virtually everything is semi-randomized. Don't fall into ruts or adhere mindlessly to patterns and you won't be caught off guard when the game throws a curveball. There's a balance to be struck between experience and flexibility.

Vagabouncy is a method through which one can change their Title to anything they want. It's a one-per-Session thing, so only one person can Vagabounce, once. Someone told me they were in a Session where half of their players Vagabounced, so I don't know if I'm just wrong on that (unlikely) or if they are somehow misunderstanding or lying or whatever. Basically, go to the house of mirrors on one of the Dream Moons, there's one special mirror that will change your Title if you smash it while thinking about another Title. Don't deliberately pick a Title you know the game shouldn't give you, and try not to Vagabounce for no reason.

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HEY, not sure if you get a lot of cherubs so maybe you can’t answer, but I HAVE a problem.

CHERUBS are generally either destructively or creatively inclined, and that tends to correlate strongly with our morality. IT’S also impossible to hide, because it seems to also correlate with whether or not we’re DERSE or PROSPIT dreamers.

I AM a destructively-inclined, DERSE dreamer.

MY other half is of course a creatively-inclined PROSPIT dreamer.

BUT despite our differences, we pulled though our first session together. I THINK because we didn’t know we would be playing forever.

NOW however, it’s our second session.

WE’RE teamed up with humans in this session, and they hate me. THEY think I’M EVIL, and that my other half is good, just because of the creative/destructive distinction…

I GUESS that a lot of stuff on the networks corroborates that, and my other half is going full-throttle on turning them against me. BUT I DON’T think I’M THAT bad, and I THINK if they would just hear me out, they’d realize that my other half is horrible and delusional, even if they have a saccharine veneer to them.

HOW do I get them to stop judging me, and get them to listen? THEY all have me blocked now, so I CAN’T just message them, and I THINK they’ll attack me if I JUST show up… MAYBE not since it would hurt my other half as well, but I’M BAD at keeping my cool, and I’VE NEVER had to interact with anyone besides my other half before, I FEEL like I’LL JUST incriminate myself if I TRY to talk to anyone in person. THE only reason I’M ABLE to send you this message is because with text, I CAN spend hours wording everything exactly right, and even then I WORRY that I’VE SAID something wrong, or not been convincing enough…

MY classpect this session, in case it’s relevant, is MAGE of RAGE.

I am going to be real with you chief, I've never heard of a "Cherub" before. I know there's Humans, Trolls, and I think birds or psionic dog things as valid player species, but never a Cherub. I'm not gonna write you off as some sort of prankster, because dismissing inquiries out of hand discourages further inquiries, it would be a crime to deprive the world of my advice, and it's possible I have some network issues that has kept this information hidden from me (in which case this must be correct as soon as possible), so I'll operate as though everything said here is true.

First thing's first, given how your "destructive inclination" seems to be an inborn part of you as part of your species' weird dualism thing, and people are judging you based off that, I think it's safe to say that everyone here (but you) is kind of racist? This isn't part of my advice, because running up and saying "hey guys stop being racist" to the guys that hate you will be the opposite of helpful, but I'm just pointing it out and earning positive reputation online by denouncing bigotry because it's bad!

Another unfortunate piece of news is that your classpect this session is fucking you over. Rage gets a bad rap among players and is subject to lots of misconceptions, because people think it's about anger and hate and stuff, and your coplayers will probably say "oh so you ARE going to destroy everything, if not because of your weird Cherub thing but because of your aspect". It's not that, just to clarify, Rage is about authority, control, and influencing events and moods from the outside (as opposed to Heart which influences nature from the inside). And worse yet, Mages are Cryptical classes who are not meant to be direct or forthcoming, they complexify the situation in passive manner. This means that coming forward and having an honest conversation will be actively penalized by the game.

I guess the first thing you could do is try finding out what specifically they've been saying about you. The references to "other half" seems to imply that you share the same body, which, I have no idea how that works and I'm pretty sure it breaks several fundamental aspects of the game, but if you can "switch over" while they're with someone, you at least have a few seconds to ask around. I know you kids with your internet think that if you can't use Pesterchum then you can't talk at all, but you can just ask in person (as you said, they probably will not attack) or leave a message or something. Most people feel inclined to respond in those situations, shunning is pretty abnormal behavior. Messages are probably best considering your self-admitted lack of interpersonal skills, but if you do talk in person, keep what you want to say in mind but don't rehearse, because it's easy to come across as inauthentic and if they break the script, you'll flounder. As far as keeping your cool, this is a skill you'll have to learn yourself. When I talk with someone who's frustrating me, I usually calm myself by remembering that I'm right, they're not, and that if I don't give them a reaction they usually get worked up themselves.

While I said before that your classpect is hurting you in some respects, there might be ways it can help. Mages invite complexity and mystery to the session, and often operate by leaving "triggers" for other players to activate, and this is a good opportunity to leave behind those aforementioned messages. If one of said triggers really helps the player because it invites control over something they were having trouble with, and it's clear you left it, this does a lot to endear yourself to them (as well as disprove any "evil" allegations). If worst comes to worst, you can use the signature ability of Rage, issues commands to things, and command them to [tell me why you hate me] or [listen to me]. I would advise against commands like [stop believing my other half] or [stop believing I'm bad] because those sound suspicious and they aren't permanent, the former are just small "stops" where they'll be forced to hear you out. I would also try talking to your other half (if you can? how does that work???) and see if you can't convince them that this behavior is self-destructive bullshit that jeopardizes the success of the session and potentially their own life considering you two share a body.

My last pieces of advice is that if worst comes to worst, "saccharine veneers" never last long. The archetype of "is super sweet and kind but is actual an awful abuser" is pretty common on the internet, and it's only a matter of time until the jig is up. As long as you don't do anything incriminating, things should work themselves out. Also, you might be a bit too kind or otherwise aren't that familiar with your current aspect. It's impossible to block Rage players. People who have tried either have the messages come through anyways, or their chat clients open themselves up/the computer turns itself on to receive the message. So you can always use that. Just don't come across as too desperate.