SESSION START - Planning

[PARCAE PELTIS]

While I don't know what sort of hilarious shenanigans this session will devolve into, I do know that we are going to need to plan some of them out!

I guess this is sort of an informal planning/discussion type deal? Someone in a moderator position will probably throw together something more formal later, idk.

So let's start small: anyone have any ideas for prototyping stuff?

For the MAID OF VOID (beta troll session), my current plan is that she somehow gets her grubby claws on some anti-matter. This seems to have no effect at all except that grist windfalls immediately become much less than expected right after her entry. The players can see it appear but a large fraction of it seems to be sucked into some sort of blackhole. And it might have some other effects too... >;o

As for the HEIR OF DOOM, he somehow loses his hand to his kernelsprite. He would have prototyped his entire body but some competent Guardian/Serverplayer/Timeplayer realizes how stupid he is in poking the giant glowing ball and stop him before he prototypes himself entirely. This still creates the DOOMHANDSPRITE and endows the queen's ring with powers that the HEIR OF DOOM'S HAND might possess.

I'd be curious to know what you guys are planning! Do share! >

[wray]

whataccountamIevenloggedinas

Belial will probably just fuck everyone over by rushing off on his own and somehow breaking time ewe I am not really sure yet though, so if anyone has any ideas shoot 'em my way.
He's probably going to prototype clothing and then more clothing because he has too much of it laying around.
"YOU ARE THE MOST FASHIONABLE KERNELSPRITE"

[PARCAE PELTIS]

Prototypes a spare wardrobifier he has hanging around?

As for the prince of time, I assume you can spontaneously induce massive spates of procrastination and do that neat thing where time speeds up so quickly bad guys turn to dust.

Maybe also send people forwards in time, to compliment the procrastination/killing time wordplay that's going on. I dunno how well it'd go over with everyone else, but I'd be really down to role-play a session where belial massively fucks everyone over by sending them all forward in time to the point past their loss (this also has the side-effect of saving their lives, of course; in an alternate timeline they're all slaughtered for hilarious reasons) but they have to tip-toe around the game or risk being culled and the difficulty is thus majorly ramped up because their session is already 'over'.

And then shenanigans or something.

[whimsy]

I have no plans! |D Lori is just sort of going to chill and stuff. Um, anything there is fine from anyone please throw plots my way I love plots! D:

Isixis on the other hand is going to be awesome. She has her skuttlebots that do things for her, her VL and she is going to be the SYLPH OF DOOM according to Emily, so there's that. She's the resident computer/robotics troll so if anyone needs any prosthetics or whatever. She's probably going to try and blow up whoever takes the jadeblood and threaten Pripas repeatedly with the same fate and stuff! Because of her memory problems she's going to have notes on all of the trolls which I'll form as I go in a separate thread! Lots of irons for Isixis~ And I need plots

[PARCAE PELTIS]

Oooh, sylph of doom is a very interesting combination! As a healer aspect (according to aranea), I suppose a description of her mythological role would be something along the lines of either:

Active: One who heals doom / Or one who causes healing through doom.

Passive: One who allows doom to be healed / Invites healing through doom.

Both are phenomenally intriguing roles, I'd be really interested to see where you might decide to take it. To a certain extent I could see that sort of mythological role as being capable of salvaging beta timelines, turning them into alphas. Plus, you would sort of be the go-to person by default when it comes to stuff like tumors/bacterial/viral infections and so on and . :3

But that's just speculation, I'm sure there's other stuff you're considering. :3

[PETE WASUPON]

Oh wow, what am I doing replying to a public thread!? aaaaaaaaaaa Well, that aside, I...pretty much have nothing in mind for Khun Pete Wasupon right here, at least nothing really set in stone. He's just going to adapt to whatever the situation is, probably, and explore or something mundane like that. Any ideas or something(havetostopsayingthat) would be very welcome. -_-"

In the case of prototyping, I reckon that the dead and dried out gecko he has on his table might be put to use. If not he might just do a, i dunno, a football or, or some raw pork or chicken or something of that sort. As the KNIGHT OF LIFE, I guess it would make sense for him to do stuff in that trend.

Speaking of his role, I'm thinking that he'd be able to save the lives of people and at the same time cut the lifespans (or kill them entirely i dunno) of enemies? Teehee?

[al]

Oh jesus yes. Just.
"Whoops guess we missed the entire final fight SORRY GUYS"
I think that's a great idea though .u. I'll totally do that if everyone else can agree to it.

[PARCAE PELTIS]

I have ideas MM! Well, speculation mostly. It's a lot of waffling so just take what you want from it. =3=;

The only canon description of knights so far is from Aradia:

ARADIA: the knight of time is not necessarily the tactician
ARADIA: he is a powerful warrior class which exploits the flow of time as a weapon

So you would exploit life as a weapon! Which is kind of vague, and potentially a lot more subtle than strictly suggested. As Knight of Blood, Karkat exploited blood as a weapon maybe thrice, once in gaining the allegiance of his session's Jack Noir (through their mutually colored blood), once in waking Kanaya to rainbow drinkerhood (if indeed it was his kiss that triggered it) and once in messing up the frog breeding duties (if indeed he is responsible for the cancer that is jack noir in the beta kid session, and not just being a self-loathing drama queen). If you consider Karkat to be the actual leader than the fact that he takes control of all the hemocastes and then uses them as weapons, I suppose that also counts. All of it is pretty tenuous though!

There is an implication that where the Knight and the Prince differs is that where the Prince destroys, the Knight protects. This is best observed in Dave who is all about protection and dying in the line of duty. But the Knight protects with the philosophy that the best defense is a good offense.

From all this I'd boil him down to:

ACTIVE: One who protects life / or One who causes protection through life. Caveat: (but does so violently)

Alternately:

KNIGHT OF LIFE: One who exploits life as a weapon. (for their own purposes)

I don't know what active powers you'd get, but plotwise I think it fair to say that you might actually have some abilities that function similarly to that of a Seer of Light! i.e. The class/aspect combination requires your character to be able to protect 'Life', or protect through 'life' which means you will be protecting the right person at the right time to maximize the survivability of the players in your session. Which might not exactly be what luck is all about, but from the standpoint of the players it probably fits. This probably wouldn't just extend to players, any NPCs that would be important further down the line, such as Warweary Villein would be within your purview.

But how to turn life into a weapon? I'm not sure if he could cut lifespans, or not to such an extent that it would be immediately noticeable, but I do see him turning himself into a weapon which probably means something along the lines of Hulk/Wolverine or an incredible degree of martial ability. As for turning other lives into weapons, I think he would be able to exploit WV's loophole and take control of the defectors among the prospit/derse army (after saving WV). Also, if there are creatures to tame, he has the potential to tame them, sort of like Tavros. Also, I could easily see a lot of his alchemizations being actual living creatures, that could then be used as weapons. Of course, living creatures are notoriously expensive (Matriorb, Dave's brain) so that might not be possible.

There is other myth stuff (Dave is tormented by his future selves always protecting him, Karkat is tormented by his future and past selves always heckling him) but I dunno how that would fit in.

Edit: No wait, I actually thought of it. Pete somehow clones like a million copies of himself that are running around doing their thing and they all mutually detest each other. That would actually be awesome and would fit perfectly in the 'life as a weapon' sort of thing. Not sure how you would make those clones though!

Wow, I just blabbed on forever here. I hope something's useful in all this; it is mostly just a baseless, speculative infodump. =3=;

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Yes, an after-the-end sort of game would be so cool. Added benefit: they might be equally confused as to why the Kids scratched their session especially if the Kids somehow ended up travelling to the troll session while they were absent and from the troll session the two ride into alpha, rather than in some other order. It would just beautifully shake up most of the standard canon stuff.

Course, if it gets that complex we'd need to start major planning. =3=;

[al]

It's not already complex? |D

[PARCAE PELTIS]

Complex in a different way, I guess? Haha, I mean we can't just follow the script, that would completely defeat the point of an AU in the first place!