99 posts
Seer of Heart
Played by Harrison
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Post by faultycoordinator on May 17, 2016 2:09:56 GMT
Back by popular demand, it's the heart centre!
Love and friendship - they're important matters, especially in SBURB - and sometimes, despite everything, you don't have a heart player to help your entire group with your problems. Well, never fear, because the Heart Centre is now officially a thing which exists, again. Come here and you can get help from longtime Heart Natives, and maybe even current Heart players, depending on how the internet and sessions align.
So, for any and all matters of the heart, please, feel free to ask any questions. I will help as much as I can, and hopefully more competent Heart players and Heart natives will join in.
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3 posts
Sylph of Heart
Played by Rowan
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Post by seelieAce on May 17, 2016 2:15:45 GMT
Any advice involving preventing corruption and/or people going on insane killing sprees using my Sylph of Heart powers, would be much appreciated. Cause with the way things are going with our Seer of Mind it might be a serious worry.
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77 posts
Prince of Void
Played by William
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Post by goosedTracklete on May 17, 2016 2:20:15 GMT
this generally goes out to everyone but. how do you get over accepting the loss of your pre-session life? everyone i know and love is dead and gone, or will be i guess. my family that entered the game with me are doomed, literally, and there's nothing i can do about that. i'm just trying to keep them safe and hoping that SBURB's version of doomed is "doomed to die of old age" because i don't want to lose my sisters and parents.
i didn't mean to be so melodramatic but i figure this thread is where all that junk is going to go. this probably seems like long-buried stuff to you guys but this is my first session and this is all so new to me. im a bit worried is all. god i sound pathetic dont i.
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19 posts
Thief of Breath
Played by Mara
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Post by maternityDeparted on May 17, 2016 3:16:17 GMT
I've rolled Heart only once, but I did win that Timestamp's Bleeding Heart Award for Most Likely To Fix A Player Without Shiny Manipulation! I'd like to think I'm at least adequately qualified to help out. This is a collaborative effort anyways, so I'm sure any mistakes I make can be properly corrected.
seelieAce : Thinking along preventative lines is a good way to go about your business as a Heart player! I'm personally in the camp that Heart players should always minimize Shiny manipulation of sentients, due to the inherent risk involved. If I had to guess I assume your Seer of Mind is having a Tactician Downfall and doing things they shouldn't be doing, putting the causality of your session at risk? Tactician Downfalls are hardwired into Tactician Class ARC, if they don't do it they're either supremely well actualized or at risk of suffering a collapse of their Knife's Edge. What you can do as a Heart player is gentle guidance and advice. Be there for your Mind player, almost to the point of suffocating them. You should be their main Cuddle Pile buddy, and should be passively keeping an eye on the status of their Shiny via your passive [Vision Lonelyhearts]. Use your guidance and counsel to nip any anomaly in the bud before it sprouts into something that will require more surgical intervention. Emotional appeal and compassion are weapons, as much as your Shiny manipulation abilities are, so use them judiciously.
@goosedTracklete: You don't sound pathetic. This is a conundrum that haunts many a veteran Replayer to this day. Please sit down, and have a coplayer watching over you, before you read on.
There is essentially no recourse for your doomed family. And there never was, which is impossibly hard to hear, I know. They live on in your dreambubbles, and in whatever justice you can do them in living on. Remember that every life is precious and sacred, and when any are lost the remainder must become all the stronger. Be with them as much as you can, and steel yourself for the day when they will no longer be there. I'm sorry.
Every heart that beats around you is beautiful, and even when it stops the memories that remain imprinted on your Shiny are never any less real. Hold them close, and however you suffer when people are lost, know that your memories go on forever. No matter where you go, they will be there with you.
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99 posts
Seer of Heart
Played by Harrison
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Post by faultycoordinator on May 17, 2016 4:09:38 GMT
Everything MD was pretty much on point for you seelieAce, though be careful not to alienate the other person with too much closeness. Still, stick on them. Just, y'know, make sure to 'feel the room' if you catch my drift. Still, MD is on point.
As for you goosedTracklete, you might have a shot at having family out there if you scratched as you left your session of if you were post scratch and your pre-scratched session left theirs before scratching. That said, don't hold on to that one. It's pretty rare, and they still could've died. Or be completely missing. It's a tiny hope, but it's usually reserved for people who got advice on that stuff early on. Don't count on it though, you'd probably know if they were out there by now. It might not be your guardian either, it could be somebody as tangentially related to you as your great grandpa or great aunt or somebody completely unfamiliar to you.
I'm actually one of those specific cases, so I don't know that much about that loss - I only had it for a little while before I found her again. All I ever knew of family was my sister, and I know she's still out there somewhere in the replayer chain still. I'm gonna find her again.
I guess, my point is, you can give somebody in your family a second chance, but only if you've got a time player or mist with a scratch device. You can set a scratch in motion and then skedaddle. I've done it a bunch. Just... be really careful if you do - just because it's possible doesn't mean it isn't risky. You've gotta be careful or someone will end up erased forever.
I wish I had more advice, but this is one of the places I'm sorely lacking in the understanding that just about everyone else here can provide.
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16 posts
Bane of Flow
Played by mollusc
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Post by fourierAnalysis on May 17, 2016 14:09:06 GMT
dealing with the death of the other people on your world when you enter the medium is always a problem everyone has, to an extent I think. I know I took the death of my sister hard (although it helped that I met her pre-scratch alternate self because it turned out near the end that our session was post-scratch and they were void hopping) but you get over it over time.
I think the best thing you can do is accept the inevitability of their passing. it helped me at least, when i reassured myself that nothing i could have done ever could have saved them, and that gave me peace.
I know that there are some people out there trying to perform ridiclious gamebreaking stunts to try and find ways to save presession doomed players but I really wouldn't wanna go down that route some of them do some crazy unethical shit in that pursuit making it not worth it in the end anyway.
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19 posts
Thief of Breath
Played by Mara
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Post by maternityDeparted on May 17, 2016 14:25:48 GMT
Yes, forgive me, I forgot about the power of the Scratch! It is not something lightly undertaken though, as fourierAnalysis has pointed out in his critique of gamebreaking. When a Scratch is your least dangerous option for acheiving something... However, I know how the heart like to beat. Sometimes things just have to be done. At the bare minimum ensure you have the cooperation of your living coplayers before you attempt to summon Postscratch versions of your guardians. And honestly, for some handling the concept of a younger version of a guardian or family member may be no harder than the concept of death.
There is also the possibility of them existing within a parallel existence, somewhere within the Replayer chain. Or perhaps even existing within a non-bugged session that properly received their Ultimate Reward. One could always hope... Some do find comfort in such abstractions.
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92 posts
God of the Furthest Ring
Played by Nedben
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Post by horrorTerror on May 27, 2016 4:55:41 GMT
What do you do when you want someone? When you want to pick them up and take them with you in the best of ways? To drag them up and out and be with them forever? The part of me approximating human is feeling things. The rest of me doesn't get them very well. I am confused. I want to just take him and give him a hug and it's all so beautiful and confusing.
I knew the experience was one hell of a sensory overload but damn the sweetness is overpowering and I love it.
is this normal for playeroid mind structures
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99 posts
Seer of Heart
Played by Harrison
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Post by faultycoordinator on May 27, 2016 16:22:09 GMT
To start let me just be clear about the fact that the Heart Centre is not at all equipped to deal with the emotional states of Others of Angels, or really any non-player entities in its current state.
That said, a feeling of wanting to escape the game with somebody is not entirely uncommon when romantic feelings develop. The overpowering emotions you are feeling may be something along the lines of infatuation. To be clear, however, infatuation tends to be falling in love with a version of a person that does not actually exist. It can start many relationships, but often can be the downfall of them as well.
It often happens that infatuation comes when you idealize somebody or even idealize the idea of them or being with them. Often it is not the reality, and is rather prone to being volatile and dangerous, especially when the illusions that support it begin to be proven false. Now, that said, infatuation can develop into something deeper, and can only really be told apart through retrospection.
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