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Ah, we meet again.

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[C: \ ■■■th■ta > Documents > briefing.txt] [REVISION: M5 - 08 - 22] It is prohibited to repost or use my work.

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Greetings! I shall not prattle. As you may suspect, this is @aueua’s side-blog for Inscryption - mostly to avoid being incessant in the main tag and flooding the blog itself with meaningless doodles. Also makes it easier for friends to avoid game spoilers and for this administrator to ramble about absolutely nothing in particular. (I get embarrassed and shy very easily.)

I have only recently stepped foot into the fandom, so please be patient with me as I work out my interpretations;;

I like P03 a normal amount. I exclusively use (it/its) for it, but I won’t be upset if you see it as the other sets. I’ll occasionally rotate the other characters around at random intervals, but... you can probably expect one machine at least a week, haha.

Provided they are not weird, I am fine with requests/asks.

That concludes the briefing. Thank you - take care!

[aueua]

BEGGING for more inscryption mrs bomb

sure, since it's been a while and mrs. bomb is one of my favorite cards [:

[aueua]

could you possibly draw p03 in My Wife Fucking Left Me or Global Warming ... slides monopoly money across the table to you

[x] [/eats your monopoly money]

[that-crazy-australian]

[jame7t]

*hands you a cartoon bomb with a lit fuse* this is our son 

[primarining]

*holds him close* he’s so beautiful. what’s that hissing sound though

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he just wants milk 

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I've got it: cardpoly ship -> 12 letters

t4t4t4t = cardpoly ship = 12

12t⁴ =12

t⁴=1

Boom, simplified 😎 algebra >>> other math

you did it! you solved math! 😭🙏

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Using algebra, wouldn't t4t simplify to 4t² and if so then wouldn't t4t4t4t be 12t⁴ instead?

(I do actually like T⁴ as shorthand though, its cute and concise :D I just also like math)

😊 (nodding blindly)

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t4t4t4t or. t^4

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hi! I napped a little too hard!! let me cover the bases for the mmo tag and never speak of it again unless prompted, probably. the read is (2k).

PREFACE //

...OK. let’s bear in mind that I have not played a MMO properly in so long I miss them, but I did absorb enough of them to lay some groundwork. I’m always up for clarifying/revising these things at a later time if something’s weird/too idealistic (but it’s an AU who cares who cares) or bouncing off some thoughts. [-:

BASICS //

First and foremost: this is a card game at its core — just with a more expansive world because this is an AU and we are having fun with it. Indulge me and pretend that the ACT II game was successful enough that it had earned a passionate community, one large enough that it gave way to a relatively active online game with passionate developers and moderators for this funky fictional world.

Minor variations may be introduced when it comes to the Scrybes and their respective domains. They do not have entire campaigns for you to play, but they might be subtly revealed in their maps and/or events and the like. As a minigame, you’ll usually find these are lackluster/optional in the start of the game’s release since the focus was... well, not there.

(But it’s why the player can have a weapon! For fun.)

You still follow what is done in the base game. Defeat everyone’s subordinates, their Scrybes, and battle the one you want to “replace.” This does not actually replace them, but you do earn some sort of merit for it, whether it be in visuals, title, name-card, and so forth.

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SETTING //

Open world. Why? For fun. Think W 101, but with cards and only the standard UI for playing — no Magnificus models to appear before your eyes since that would be troublesome. Your challenger and the rest of the environment best resembles how you saw those in ACT I and ACT III, albeit interaction is limited.

It’s a very optimized game that can run even on the worst of computers (though that usually means low-poly no texture type of beats).

The game does not necessarily have servers, but it does have instances (one opens up once one is filled with the maximum amount of players allowed).  Allows for playing with those overseas. Most chats are region-locked, though.

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CHALLENGER // Character creation aspect.

You start with the game’s intro, the details omitted. From there, you can customize the appearance of your challenger with the usual presets alongside custom slider scales. The options are limited. Appearance can be altered later on through Grimora’s mirror or random apparels.

After, you select the deck you wish to start with. This is accompanied by needlessly impressive visuals of the monuments and a little bit extra; beyond that, it’s a simple selection screen with the starter pack art and no further details. This only changes the UI slightly, but most importantly: it will lock you into a temple faction, regardless of if you utilize different cards or play a variety of them at any given moment. (How much you play of one temple’s deck can determine the color of a purely visual function  — like your name or something.

Which is the final step — your name! Then you play and mind your business happily.

At the game’s first release, it was impossible to change your name even though you logged in by email (of which you can only have one challenger on each email, since alternate accounts (though difficult to work with) can give way to exploits/cheating). With it gaining more traction, a unique ID was implemented (mostly for friending) and to make it easier for those to change a name they felt unhappy with. This may or may not give rise to impersonation incidents as well as a strange congregation of people with the same Scrybe alias just hanging around each other in solidarity or joke groups.

Changing your alias is generally a formal process to ensure no unsavory names are kept in and to make sure you aren’t changing it on a whim. It requires premium foils (your money). Like five dollars at most.

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MULTIPLAYER ASPECT // Note: Online play is entirely optional and does not disrupt individual, offline play whatsoever. Maybe achievements, but those are a separate category that do nothing more than function as possible aesthetics.

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BATTLES // It’s time to duel! (Please do not get us copyrighted.)

The ability to know what the opposing party will play is removed. Your standard stuff. Settings are set and agreed upon beforehand (such as a time limit to how long a player can decide during their move, if the battle can end prematurely, etcetera). Also includes Scrybe gimmicks, which only comes with both players completing the game.

The [cards]? [Ouruborous] is not removed; however, it is nerfed in that you have to start from [1 : 1] stats in order to use it. The [Stim Mage] also has a damage and health cap if you use the energy conduit gimmick.

There is a list you are able to create and see of cards that you or another challenger do not want to play with and/or against. This is for those who want to have an absurd time, or a more serious play. (Maybe to fulfill a quest.)

New players generally cannot play against those who have gimmick cards in their hand to prevent them from being too overwhelmed by damage hell.

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CHAT //

1. :: You have to enable chat yourself. This works the same with disabling private messages and the like; people will be able to see whether or not you can chat.

2. :: Filter is default toggled on and replaces words with #$%^ or increasingly creative words (there is a thread compiling them on the forums since there seem to be that many).

3. :: Free chat. Profanity and the like are allowed, but players are warned beforehand that messages are logged.

The chat system is mostly available anywhere, even during battle or cutscenes. You have: a local region chat (e.g., if you are in Temple of Beasts, you will be able to speak to those who are also in that instance but not in another temple), a general region chat (doesn’t matter where you are, might matter internationally), and other usual hubbubs, like friends/guild/trading/community help tabs.

Once again though, there are forums for both your faction and in general. [-:

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FOIL SYSTEM //

To prevent farming with other players or certain NPCs (like the training dummy), overdamage will not give you foils past a certain point due to the existence of gimmick cards... er, well. There is still farming, but it’s harder to do that alone than it is to play a natural game with someone else or the game itself. This currency is used broadly.

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TRADE //

Toggle. Accessible in most places, and some areas are designated by the community as a hub for that (even with the existence of a trade chat, since that one limits how often you can speak there). WTB/WTS/WTT... rare cards are, well... Rare, in this game. Sometimes there’s some person trying to just mycologist-experiment a lot of their nonsense, though.

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...COSMETICS? //

You can buy some of these with foils or earn them as a reward/benchmark.

There is also a Gamblobot variant that allows you to use your foils/sacrifice cards (the cards are able to be sold at standard NPC price, which is only moderately affected by volume). What do you get from this thing?

Colors. Maybe some extra visuals.

Listen. Why not get the power to change your section of the board, your UI, or even a bit of your challenger’s model? Sure you can’t change the appearance of the faction being played, but why not get fancy?! (This option can be disabled by other players.)

Outside of that, there are titles that can be obtained by general (or extremely bizarre) play.

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STATS //

This is already a little long-winded, but I’ll put it short as similar to the analysis screen you see in Kaycee’s Mod, if not more detailed and with some additional flairs/titles.

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I’m getting a little tired so let me try to wrap it up here.

THE DEAD //

I like to think that you could travel to the temple through something similar to The River of Styx. It’s a very barren territory with a constant fog cast over the lands; it’s gloomy and headstones are everywhere. It’s worth noting that these tombstones have the names of other players who started with the deck. Epitaphs are only given to those who best a Scrybe in the final fight, no matter who. (This may or may not be editable... for a fee and the necessary replay.) These headstones are cleaned by those who visit them and by how active a player is.

What’s important is that it matters more on the inside of that crypt, which can be considered a labyrinth.

Grimora generally tasks you with things that involve the death of cards. She only asks you to outright toss a card once (which can be as new as buying it from a Trader). In other cases, she wants you to get used to losing them and spending time with them. Playing to deliberately lose does not make a worthy challenger though.

Sometimes it’s just a bit of memory game with the cards and other people (similar to the tombstones of her subordinates).

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BEASTS //

It’s your standard path through his territory. There are a few odd tasks involving screenshots and the like on your way through, but it’s a matter of enjoying the atmosphere and getting into the groove of considering your caravan of cards as (disposable) companions.

In any case, it feels more like roleplay than anything else...? Side-quest valley with his subordinates.

You can pet the dog. There is a pet counter, and there’s a fishing mini-game. (´。＿。｀)

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TECHNOLOGY //

Mix of futuristic cyber aesthetics alongside some possibly out of place stuff, like western NPC robots milling about and old objects. Everything is towering and big; these are machines, and those machines are quite impressive to look at sometimes.

As said in another post, the tasks really here really are just a matter of forcing you to mess around with a bunch of cards and get creative with your play (or very standard but efficient). P03 will have you pilot all sorts of things to get you to understand the synergy of cards and sigils so that you can be at least tolerable enough company when it comes to its fight. Its deck is pretty simple and easy enough to use, isn’t it? It’s to get you involved and introduced to the game.

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MAGICKS //

Also ridiculously massive structures and the like. What is a wizard if not for some inane pride? Challengers first study into one Mox tower and gradually graduate from all three to then go through the final exam tower. Magick starter students go through this process a lot more intensively and their forums are horrifically long when it comes to strategy and the puzzles involved.

I will best note this with the Magick Trio getting to have more interaction and screen-time gd bless. (Sorry Goobert. No matter how many challengers you defeat or lose against you’re kind of...)

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I recognize this is all rather idealistic and omitting a lot of details, but I am tired!! And just wanted to note the basic stuff to make you a little interested, but it’s okay if you considered it all boring LOL in my heart I would be able to have a group of friends and we would sit on the bridge together watching the sky transition in-game into night or hang around a campfire at leshy’s territory while we mess around on different tabs.

I don’t know I don’t know... would love to see what the scrybes’ domains would have looked like 2D or 3D with a lot more playroom and not just (straight into the designated area)... the final fights, too... pain! I yearn! but that is all for now, I think.

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In the beginning… The world did not know cards.

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MMO-scryption. Leshy gives the most fucked up quest for your first ever quest (remove an eye and a tooth) and then EXCLUSIVELY gives you the task of taking pictures of different kinds of birds. PO3 just tells you to battle 50 other challengers and then fight him. Magníficos is always available for quests but the puzzle to turn on the teleporter to reach him requires you to be able to see the location of the moon in the actual sky, not the game. Grimora wants you to hack the Epicgames server.

%*@#()^*() addition to the leshy quest hell: after realizing you cannot pick a new faction (at the start), you then realize this guy means he wants ACTUAL real life birds. drawings or made-up ones will not count. anything from google images/duplicate images will NOT count. this contributes to a public and active forum section of various people offering to send bird pictures to assist, in which any scammers/liars will be blacklisted. why? because the AI system, for whatever reason, is really good in this aspect. flipping the image... cropping... altering... doesn’t work! Get Some Birds.

I feel like 03 might ask for a bit more than that since in theory, you can kinda just fuck around and lose fifty times - I suspect it’d make you want to win [x] consecutive times (sure, pay your way... doesn’t change the beatdown you’ll get if you try to fight it after its workers - assuming you scrape your way past them), and another quest requires you to have increasing/different modifiers after each one. forces you to get cards - interact with other decks, find your synergy in the deck you want to pilot... even if that means a joke set-up or one that relies entirely on RNG. also some captchas! for fun. but like, the ones that make you overthink and second-guess them (sea plane).

I wish Mags a very I hope he falls down a spiral of stairs. I hope he has an anmal-jam type of drawing application at least, even if that means he might receive unsavory things (which would just lead to account suspension and probably more consequences).

and yeah yep yes anything for you mora I’ll risk it all for her no questions asked etc etc

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all jokes aside, pocket 03 is still a concept I want to indulge in

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Half a hamster ball then? Ahfjahah

this no longer functions as a ball to begin with . . .

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a nose. he has (at least) one.

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Scrybe cuddle pile (with you in the middle)

god. i wish.