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[moveslikestrider]

Dave: Get your damn gear.

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[moveslikestrider]

theres a link with the scratch but the tumor is
special

do you know anything about the lands yet

[freshprints]

Rose said she was from the Land of Light and Rain. I assume that's what you mean?

[moveslikestrider]

yeah
mines land of heat and clockwork
knowing me and knowing that
what do you think created the scratch

[freshprints]

The fact that it's Heat and Clockwork is probably significant, since it's not exactly the same thing as if you'd said Heat and Clocks. The clock suggests time, which would reference your aspect (so I assume Rose's aspect is light, if the hunch follows), but clockwork makes me think of...gears.

Knowing you, the obvious solution to creating a scratch would be with a bladed weapon, which you like to use. But nothing about heat or clockwork would suggest blades, and you've suggested that I needed to know that to work it out. So it's something else.

...

Or maybe it's that it's a different kind of scratch. Not one like a wound or relief from an itch, but — that's what it's called when a DJ moves a record on a turntable, isn't it?

[moveslikestrider]

wow
gotta say you work things out pretty fast but after seeing you chew up and devour info like your pacman
not surprised
thats right dj scratches
the reset device for our session was a giant turntable and disc
the scratch is the release of temporal energies that change the only things it can for a more favorable outcome

[freshprints]

That's an oddly specific game mechanic. Does that mean your interest in turntables was influenced by your destined role in the game, or was the game influenced by your interest?

[moveslikestrider]

the trick to all of this is not to overthink it
overthink it and thats when you start failing the loops and everything else
its all ass backwards

for the sake of this whole explaining the game business
lets say that each planet is tailored to the person it belongs to
the two have always existed but the reason for their interests didnt come because of the planet
you remember how godtiering happens right

[freshprints]

I remember that you have to die in order to do it.

[moveslikestrider]

thats all
nothing else about it

[freshprints]

...That it's not enough just to die. You have to do it on a "quest bed"?

[moveslikestrider]

feels weird discussing this and not being there
kinda like
dunno i just never talk about it
youve seen what happens when john gets going
it all sounds insane and thats not even touching this next part to make the whole death thing make a little more sense
makes no sense for a dead body to get back up does it

i mean
despite being removed from all we know that place has rules and logic
once a body dies it cant be used again or get back up

[freshprints]

Which means someone reaching God Tier would need a new or a secondary body to continue on?

[moveslikestrider]

mind blown yet or are you sizing me up for a new straight jacket

you got it right
when a session starts each player possesses two bodies but one they dont know about at the start
it also has a secret to it
that secret gives us two ways to godtier

[freshprints]

I remember John mentioning something about being revived, though. By a kiss.

But if the dead body doesn't actually revive, then achieving God Tier means that someone has to kiss a corpse, doesn't it?

[moveslikestrider]

nope
when youre kissed the same process happens that would for godtier
but you dont get the godtiering you would if you just died on your quest bed

[freshprints]

Meaning that if you die once before reaching God Tier, and are revived by a kiss, then you're precluded from reaching God Tier entirely because you don't have a third body to ascend into?

[moveslikestrider]

not quite
i told you the other body has a secret
its an exception to the rules i just told you
but only if its used to godtier

theres two ways to godtier
just like theres two quest beds not one

[freshprints]

...Hm.

Well, you've made something clear to me, at least. So how does the process work?

[moveslikestrider]

when you die normally
you can get revived with just a kiss
the dream body takes over in that case
but if killed and placed on your quest bed or you know die on it
your dream body ascends becoming the godtier self and you continue on

the secret is
the second quest bed and the dream body
theres another location besides the main battlefield and the planets
the moons the dream bodies are on
within each moon is the other quest beds
if the dream body dies on it
even if you already died once
you ascend anyway
thats something we found out the hard way
so i can back that up

[freshprints]

Does that mean you died twice in your session?

[moveslikestrider]

shit you caught onto that one fast
nothing really gets past you does it
yeah i did
didnt think you could but then i accidentally went godtier and here we are

[freshprints]

And if you didn't know that you could, that means you must've spent at least part of the game thinking you never would — the portion after you'd died the first time, but before you ascended anyway.

...

How did it happen? The times you died.

[moveslikestrider]

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[moveslikestrider]

i spent most of the game operating on a different plan than the rest
my aspect is time
that means i have to obey whats already going on
the time loops

[freshprints]

You knew your destiny and couldn't change it. Is that what you mean?