#dead session

[botanicalcanopus]

a dead session can go many different ways to the fundamental parts of the game, meaning that it can be anything other than snooker, of which was tailored to caliborn alone

I mean yeah I'd defo agree with that. Sburb can allow nearly anything and its usually tailored exactly to its players. Even though Calliope said that its the result of every dead session, her like us have only that one small sample size and can't guarantee that. Plus it's boring that everyone get the same treatment in a game that is often so unique to its players. Show me the hell that would be a dead session of Scrabble cowards

[words-writ-in-starlight]

listen I expected literally Nothing from the D&D movie okay, like I can't make it clear enough that I expected the most soulless money grab with a good cgi budget imaginable, I went in having already gone through every stage of grief and landed on acceptance and LISTEN

I fucking CRIED during this dumb RPG movie. it wasn't just "not terrible" it was objectively good with a clever plot and compelling characters and sincere emotional beats. this movie loves D&D so fucking much and it NAILS the "a bunch of goobers try to be cool and accidentally discover The Power Of Friendship And Also Great Violence" classic D&D party vibe. their barbarian's last name is fucking Kilgore and my entire family cried in the theater.

I hope they make twelve of these motherfuckers.

[typenonsense]

hey. hey. is anyone else thinking about how this is the first time skizz gets to properly mourn a teammate. is anyone else thinking about the fact that this is the first grave he can lay flowers at, the first eulogy he spoke.

[frankensteinposm0]

« But you are everything to me. »

I might turn this into a comic but I have to think about it. Anyways the sillies 🫶🏻

[isjasz]

[Day 165]

This time there is none

[grailknightmonty]

free from cage walls, the canary no longer first to fall

the curse might actually be over I'm so proud of him :'D

[magic-dustt]

The way I would sell my soul just to have one person who would be willing to lie on the floor with me and listen to my favorite podcasts. Am I asking for too much? I know you'd like Limetown, I know you'd like TMA, I know you'd like Archive 81. Why won't anyone just lie on the floor with me, goddammit…

[samwise1548]

Feeling nostalgic for early podcast days

Share which ones if any, or if I misses some (range is some ambiguous time between 2015 and 2020)

[solixr]

time is delicious

couldn't decide which version I preferred

[caramel-caracal]

Got caught up in Emmet & Burgh discussion with some pals so I couldn't resist drawing them together-

They are bug friends to me- Burgh likes hanging out with clowns-

[densewentz]

i dont know much but i know Jenny the Butcher and Johanna Constantine should get absolutely wasted together

[botanicalcanopus]

imagine a dead session that's basically an adaptation of dante's inferno

[note: the planet taken into the session becomes treachery while the black queen is holed up in fraud]

Okay I think this will be rather long but only because I am genuinely in love with how many possible ways you could use Dante's Inferno for Sburb. So bear with my rambling.

First: Holy Fuck Cool Session Idea Like it would be really cool for a 9-12 player session. We only have the small sample size of Homestuck that shows sessions tend to evenly distribute players between moons. But, like I keep iterating like a broken record Sburb literally makes Anything Possible* (yay). So whether you do one dead session like the ask says, a session of nine with each character/land/denizen being represented by one circle, or adding in some extra "circles" such as the the bottom layer with Satan where resides, Earth/mortal realm, and Heaven. Literally a fun concept to give your characters probably even more religious trauma! :D *As far as I've seen

Second: Putting the Dead in Dead (Skip to the Third Section for Ask Answer) What is a Dead Session: A dead session (for anyone new or too busy to research) is what happens when you don't prototype your kernel sprite pre-entry to the Medium. The referenced ask is in relation to Caliborn's session, which is a unique case where if a player tries to solo the game, the kernel turns into a blackhole to bring your entire planet into the session as your land. Skaia then darkens and explodes into 15 planets with a blackhole where Skaia used to be. One must then travel to and defeat either the planet's boss or all life on that planet, and place a bomb strategically somewhere (and by proxy escape said planet) to blast it into the blackhole. This is obviously a reference to the game Snooker (what is commonly called Billiards but they are actually different!) which fits English's whole Pool Ball theme. Once a planet is concurred the player will receive a follower/helper (in Caliborn's case the Leprechauns) and each planet gets progressively harder with less time to defeat the next one. If you survive this and if you survive your Denizen's Choice then you will be granted power beyond comprehension. Calliope did say that it favors Time players and that should be relatively obvious why. It is a fair bit more complex but that's the main gist!

Third: I'll Stop Fucking Rambling and Answer Okay so a Dante's Inferno would be a sick way to handle this and assuming that it doesn't have be exactly like Snooker each time with all 15 planets showing up (or you just get super lucky and have some pocket immediately), it would be 10 total in this session. The Player's planet brought in would be one of the layers like the asker says. The nine layers of hell, and therefore the nine planets that would be summoned would be Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Wrath, Heresy, Violence, Fraud, and Treachery. All of these would need to be defeated in order like we've seen before, skipping 8 for last as well since that seems to be the mechanic. Now Satan in the story technically lives in the last layer (Treachery) but you can also separate him by technically putting him in a sublayer called Judecca. Soooo, if you make Satan/Lucifer/Devil your denizen you could technically have Treachery be its own planet. The Black Queen being holed up in Fraud makes sense. It was the layers of thieves, sorcerers, flatters, beggars, etc. A royal who's main job is to oversee the kingdom would have the silver tongue necessary to charm and make many fraudulent claims. My headcanons for this would be that the helpers you'd get could be something from Christian-based mythos, and since The Felt members were so broken power-wise it wouldn't surprise me if you either get young cherubs, some of the higher ranking demon princes, or some version of fallen angels as your crew. Your Land if you end up winning would be something like Land of Sin and Salvation, but the aspect doesn't have to be tied to Hope per say it just has heavy themes.

Or do whatever you want. That's just my two cents :) Cool ask, Anon.

[xiuminsmygrandpa]

I know the general fandom consensus on Edwin saying “that’s entirely too much emotion for one day” is very British of him. But that line hits different when you’ve had to compartmentalize trauma to get to be where you are today. Edwin is seen as cold and collected to everyone because he had to be to escape from Hell not once but twice.

The last two years have been especially difficult for me but what kept me going was being so busy I literally didn’t have time to process what was happening. When a traumatic event occurred I’d just say “well I really need to finish this assignment then I’ll deal with it.” And before I knew it I’d finally graduated from grad school.

Now that I’m in a place where I have the time and space to process what happened to me I don’t know how. Because enough time has passed that I can think back on it as a thing of the past. I think the same is true for Edwin. Even if he were in a safe space where he could talk about how awful Hell was, he’s compartmentalized his trauma for so long he’d have the hardest time coming to terms with how he feels about it.

When life, and in Edwin’s case death, is deeply traumatizing it’s easy to shut down and not feel any emotion. Because if you don’t feel things they can’t hurt you. But by doing that you can never truly heal.

While I know I still have a ways to go I’m learning slowly to open myself back up to the emotions I’ve bottled up for years. At first it was incredibly scary and made me feel vulnerable in ways I hadn’t since I was a child. But it’s also allowed me to let go and move forward with my life.

I know there will likely never be a season two but if there was one I would love to see Edwin finally unpack over 100 years of trauma and finally start to feel human again.

[alexwilltellyouthings]

Edwin was doing great you know! Before being dragged to hell! Did you think about that!!!!

He figured he was in love, put on a nice outfit and was ready to fucking GO. He stood up to the Cat King for the first time in that forest, after having a very honest heart to heart with Monty, before finding things out. Later he gave Crystal's method its own name, acknowledging her part in the group in a way he hadn't really before.

He was at the top of his game given the circumstances, the best place mentally ever since the first episode.

And then.

HE WAS DOING SO GOOD WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS

[beano-no-know69]

hey can anyone give me recs for good spooky audio dramas?

Also bonus points if there’s gays in it (although honestly at this point I go into podcasts assuming there will be, and am hardly ever wrong)

Ones I’ve liked and listened to are: the Magnus archives, the box, king falls am, old gods of Appalachia, darkest night, limetown, spines, the bright sessions, wolf 359, all the public radio alliance ones, Alice isn’t dead, archive 81, life after, the message, the far meridian, the bridge, mirrors, the 12:37, penumbra, strange case of starship iris, girl in space, the leap year society, Mabel, and the white vault

[jameslongforjimshortforgabriel]

honestly I love that we live in a timeline where beautiful queer media is available in so so many places and so easy to find and even mainstream like that's amazing and we overlook it most of the time