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[techtakesoff]

how do you think a Rogue of Space would act if they went grimdark?

Hm... grimdark. An interesting hypothetical.

I will say, it is difficult to gauge any exactness in this case, as I only have a hero title to go off of, but I can give it my best nontheless. Take anything I might say with a grain of salt. Or maybe a whole shaker... The grimdarkness we see in the comic is a result of horrorterror intervention, combined with a great deal of pent up emotion.

It causes the player to act more aggressively than they usually might, taking less time to think things through. In terms of the hero title system, it inverts a player's class. In this case, a Rogue would invert into a Knight, meaning the RoS would begin to act adjacently to that class.

Don't take this to be some sort of magical personality swapper though. The grimdark state is an artificial one, a forceful display of the player's flip side. It can be freeing, of course, but not healthy in the long term, just as any denial of the player's true self. In the case of Homestuck, where denial of the Hero's Call is basically synonymous with doom, it may as well be a death sentence.

The grimdark Rogue's behaviour might be reminiscent of a Knight, but it would be, at best, a cheap parody. They might become uncooperative, unwilling to compromise and work together on tasks. I imagine they would become fiercely protective of their role, and since they are a Space player, frogbreeding.

"I can do this by myself. I am the only one fit to do this." As I'm sure you can imagine, this behaviour, if left unchecked, could very well result in the dooming of the entire session.

I hope you have a Seer or Sylph at hand, because unless there is someone present when the Rogue is turned, they very well might not even let anyone know. Knights are known for hiding their problems, and a grimdark Rogue may very well be the same.

They would carry on in their task with a grim determination, set on proving their capability, moving past what hurt them, being valuable. All the same, they might also choose to abandon their task altogether. They're not good at this anyway, right?

Might as well give up trying and do something they can be truly effective in, priority be damned. Time be damned. Needless to say, a grimdark player of a cardinal aspect would be fucking terrifying.

Rose seemed to have an aura of Void surrounding her when she was grimdark, her form obscured by a dark mass and her speech unitelligeble.

Perhaps a Space player might have an aura of Time, then. They might repeat sentences or skip forward in the conversation when talking to someone, objects around them might jump back and forth in their existential timeline. Or perhaps entropy might be more befitting? I'll leave the cosmetic details to you, dear anon.

Thank you for your question. It was fun to answer.

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[techtakesoff]

hope this one could be a fun land idea request for the mods.

i have a prospitian prince of doom. their life is not an easy one, as someone who grew up without a family or any support system. however, they try their best to be positive, ghosting their opposite aspect in the silly way teenagers usually do. by acting like action movie protagonists. they're still influenced by their aspect tho, even in small things like their interest in apocalyptic scenarios and how to prepare for it, and preservation of fine art and renaissance sculptures. their land would probably be traumatic for them. filled with things they find beautiful and signs that the consorts have already loved them the way the prince have dreamed about all along even though they never met, but it was all ruined.

A fun foundation for a land you've made here indeed. At the cost of a tortured Player, but alas. What's that saying? Can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.

That metaphor would work a lot better if you had a Prince of Life. Oh well.

Speaking of, the components of your Prince of Doom. A Destroyer of and with Fate, Ill-fortune and literal Doom, dreaming on the moon of defense. Quite the powerful little bugger! Let's hope they can keep their sanity about them - otherwise they might prove to be a mighty obstacle for their team.

I can see your Prince on the Land of Remnants and Dunes. A quite sullen planet, its consorts have long since died out in futile wait for their hero. The harsh winds whip sand back and forth in evershifting deserts and barren wastes, littered with salt deposits and fossils where there once was ocean.

Among the half broken temples and emptied villages the Prince can find statues, some better preserved than others, all referring to a great hero - a figure of legend prophecised to save them from doom.

The depictions have very little in common with the actual appearance of the Prince of course, the lizards inhabiting this planet had no idea what humans (or trolls) look like, but the sentiment is clear. These people needed the Prince, and they weren't there.

Beneath it all sleeps Hel. The planet's even-tempered denizen, she is neither dead nor alive, just like LORAD itself. The Prince's quest would likely have to do with bringing back the glory of their planet, and therefore so would their Choice.

What that Choice would be is up to you, but there are quite a few directions you can take the Prince's development from here, so I think you won't be pressed for ideas.

[techtakesoff]

hi, ive been playing a homestuck ttrpg thing and the session manager and almost every other resource for classpects dont really define what a mage of breath can do or cant do. like yes they know direction and all that jazz but what can we do with it? how can we turn that explaination into something that can be used like a power? and i know that abilities are highly dependant on the type of person one is, but i just need general ideas of what we could do

tldr: please help i dont know what powers mages of breath have and my brain is too empty to theorize without doubting myself

 A Mage of Breath is one who actively knows Direction, Freedom and Change. As such their powers would be… interesting to say the least. 

 The first thing that comes to mind is an intuitive sense for where the Mage is, and more importantly how to get where they want to be, or if the Breeze wills it, where the narrative wants them to be.

At higher levels this might grow into an innate awareness of their position on the proverbial map anywhere they happen to be, be it underground or in a dense forest, they know exactly where they, and by extension their team, are located.

It might take some focus to Know the location of others, as the Mage is an active class, but it shouldn’t be too hard. 

 Another thing would be an intuitive understanding of how to exercise the Change they want to come about. Say the Time player foresaw the Black Queen killing an important person on Prospit, they travel backwards and consult with the Mage, who would have an itch as to what to Change to make that outcome turn in their favour.

This would start out as simply a gut feeling of vague nature, but might progress to a more solid understanding as the Mage climbs their echeladder. 

 They might have some knowledge about the game itself they’re not aware of - locked away for later use. After all, John’s classpect gave him some measure of one-up-manship over the rules of Sburb via the retcon.

The Mage might know how to dodge the rules of the game, sidestep the shackles constricting them. They might have creative ideas on how others could use the powers of their godtiers in unconventional ways.

 They would make a great advisor to the Friendleader, provided they learn to trust their intuition. This is where Moon sway may come into play.

A Derse dreamer would be more pragmatic and skeptical, which might lead them to go against the flow of their powers at first. A Prospit dreamer on the other hand would probably be more inclined to follow along with their hunches.

 There are of course some smaller things with Breath the Mage would be able to do regardless of their class verbiage - we see Rose use Light as a weapon in Collide, the Mage could very well levitate things or send someone back with a blast of wind.

They would be much less proficient in using their Aspect in this sense than say a Witch, but don’t be too quick to write off a classpect as solely the combination of their aspect and verbiage. The Sburb system is a lot more versatile than many people seem to think, your abilities are only as limited as your imagination and your willingness to think outside the box. 

[techtakesoff]

Speaking about pages, what are the kind of things that would unlock their potential? how long do they have to struggle? The only pages i've seen so far are jake and tavros and both of them arent exactly fully realized pages on their own. Or at least versions of them that have realized their powers arent given narrative spotlight.

i have a page of life in my session and i planned that even after finishing their quest, theyre still relatively powerless. but then, their friend, a prince of doom, went grimdark. their leader pushed them to fight the prince on their own. they were hurt badly and they have to drag themselves to die on their quest bed with their meagre powers. and that was the catalyst for the page's powers. do you think thats enough for the page or did they have to go through another arc to control their overflowing power so its useful instead of self destructive? im not even sure what kind of power upgrades my oc should get. pages are hard to write.

   Where other classes develop sort of naturally, be it fast or slow, pages need a massive amount of introspection to get anywhere. Their true potential is unlocked by great emotion, in combination with a self-assurance and humility few pages will attain without help.

Most of them will find themselves relying on a strong figure in their life, willingly or not, and their relationship with that person may often be what kick-starts their development: A battle betwixt their own want for self-reliance and their dependency on others. 

   Tavros was quite literally dependent on others’ care in his disability, Jake relied on Dirk to lend him his skill and strength via the Brobot. Both were happier when freed from these restrictions, but their effect on their development can’t be written away.

   As for your Page of Life, if the Prince of Doom is someone important to them, I can definitely see how such a challenge might push a Page to the edge of their mental capabilities and cause the awakening of their powers.

Survival instincts might kick them into overdrive, that happens even to non-Sburb players, and there’s little as transformative as a death, in the most literal sense.

   If not for the sake of keeping their powers going, the Page would definitely need time to reel them in afterwards, as such great potential can hardly be wielded by someone who doesn’t know its capabilities, its limits, like learning the sensitivity of the engine on a new car.

Their presence might overwhelm the ground and air in plants and pollen, an explosion of flower power. Learning to take hold of and really control their inner power requires looking inside, and that’s something the Page will resent. The preferred plot of Pages is one that serves them, moves at their own pace and at their whim, and in turn they allow this plot to mold and move them as it pleases.

Truly mastering a Page’s power is to go against the grain and flow, to know themselves. They know how to get others to do what they want, now they must know to get *themselves* to do what they want.

[techtakesoff]

Hello,

I was wondering if you could maybe talk about the Light and Mind aspects a bit? They seem very similar, and I feel like they're two sides of the same coin, so to speak. If not, that's ok.

Thanks! Have a good day.

Light and Mind are indeed sister aspects, same as Void and Heart. I personally feel the ‘two sides of the same coin’ analogy fits better for opposing aspects (despite the name, they are not opposites), but I do agree they are connected quite intimately. 

They both deal in information and knowledge, the difference being that while Mind prefers knowledge for the sake of informed decision and strategy, Light indulges in knowledge for the sake of knowledge, alongside knowledge in terms of the narrative and story-telling. That all seems awfully complicated and self-important, but that is the nature of Light as an aspect, I’m afraid.

Light and Mind players also present themselves differently. Out of the two, you are more likely to see a Lightbound flaunting their knowledge, appearing smart and knowledgeable, self-assured, is part of their desires, and the haughtier ones will sacrifice an advantage to maintain this image.

Mind players on the other hand excel in keeping personas, and when they are in possession of a plan or piece of information that will turn the tide you likely won’t know it until said advantage is revealed. Light players put effort into maintaining a consistent image, where a Mind player will change your perception of them on a whim to suit their needs.

Additionally they also both deal in luck, or the abundance vs absence of it. One of Vriska’s chief forms of combat relied on lucky dice rolls, Rose’s plans often relied on a number of variables to go right for them to work, where a Mind deals in objective correctness and law, two things where the presence of luck does more harm than good.

In that same vein: Truth, or subjective truth in the case of Light, and objective truth in the case of Mind.

[techtakesoff]

Do you have any planet ideas for a prospit Heir of Hope?

An Heir is one who passively changes (through) their Aspect. They are said to quite literally embody their Aspect. Hope is the Aspect of Beliefs, Imagination and Idealism. Prospit is the moon of Defense, and its dreamers recieve visions through the clouds of Skaia, which guide them to complete important milestones in the timeline.

Ah... another worringly passive player. I'm sure Sburb will take care of that well enough.

Let's see those planets.

the Land of Bells and Choirs

In this land, the Heir is revered as an almost Christ-like figure. The consorts are fully convinced that through the Heir's sacrifice, they will all be raptured into a better life, and with the Denizen feeding their cult of personality with oversimplifications and hyperbole, at some point recently the consorts' opinion of the Heir has passed from devoted faith to manic obsession.

It is on the Heir how they will deal with this, and the Denizen will be observing them closely. It will be an uphill battle, either way.

the Land of Mist and Laughter

The amphibian inhabitants of LOMAL are an interesting bunch. Somehow, somewhere, the entire population became convinced of something so laughably stupid it sounds like a joke when they begin to explain their theory to the Heir.

Anyone else would simply shrug and chuckle and move on, but the Heir is quite used to more... esoteric beliefs, and hey, maybe they're even right! They're not, of course. The Heir needs to find a way to convince them of this, and have enough strength behind their own beliefs to do so properly.

the Land of Crystal and Truth

The planet of LO(L)CAT is one holding vast knowledge, and as the name suggests, vast Truth. Its consorts maintain a great library that stores many tomes, each holding some universal truth that has been proven time and time again and can be attested to by many a scholar.

For some reason or another though, the Heir finds something here that goes against what they previously knew to be true. Be it something they believed themselves or something they were made to believe, the books say it's wrong. How do you deal with being wrong? And how do you not let it affect winning that murderous game you're playing?

Thank your for the ask.

[techtakesoff]

Drikle ma man! Can i ask for a planet of a derse witch of life? They're a bit of a loose canon that is waaay to intrested is crispr (which is a gene altering method)

The Witch is a class of active change through and of their Aspect, in this case Life, Life being the Aspect of Growth, Resources and Defiance. Its players usually find themselves in positions of privilege and possess the unique ability to heal. The Witch is a painful class to have, though some might argue the payoff in terms of powers more than makes up for it. It's one of the classes that need allies in their corner in order to function effectively.

Upon entering the Medium, this Witch might find themselves on LOMAU, the Land of Movement and Uranium. The tectonic plates of this planet shift constantly, and so its continents are always in motion. The landscape itself is sparse, as most lifeforms cannot survive in the presence of the uranium spikes that dot the landscape. Beneath it all, Gaia, the planet's denizen, cackles in glee as it drives the continents back and forth like a child with toy cars. LOMAU's consorts are largely arboreal, chattering lizards in a trillion shades of green and yellow. I imagine the Witch wouldn't find them very helpful, but unfortunately thus is the way of things.

The ocean is an intersting place to be on this planet, as while the water manages to neutralise most of the radiation from the surface, any semblance of natural currents or circulation between warm and cold ocean is made nonexistent by the constant shifting of the tectonic plates. Some few lifeforms manage to survive, and there might be a few dungeons for the Witch to explore, were they to figure out how to breathe underwater, but largely the situation is similar to the one on dry land.

The Witch must figure out a way for life to prosper once again on LOMAU, be it by getting rid of the uranium, altering the species that have survived to prosper in its presence, or some other thing altogether. It would certainly help if the ground would stop rumbling.