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[moveslikestrider]

Dave: Get your damn gear.

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[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]

[...]

[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?

[moveslikestrider]

[It takes several minutes before he answers.]

the whole business of timeloops is you have to complete the loop
if you dont then it becomes incomplete and any loops you made before that could become meaningless
meaningless loops are quickly cleaned up because time is fickle
no
its very precise
what it doesnt need it gets rid of
thats why overthinking it is a bad idea

[freshprints]

[Clearly one or several nerves have been struck here.]

Divergence from the path of the loop. Dead worlds are cleaned up by being eliminated; it stands to follow that a meaningless loop, then...

[...]

I understand.

For every choice, there was the potential for an elimination.

[moveslikestrider]

[...

Yeah it's a bit of a nerve that got hit here.]
the more loops you form in a chain
the more potential that one incomplete will collapse the whole thing
and possibly everyone else with it
the mistakes actually happen
you just dont see them in action because theyre alternates of the alpha timeline
to prevent the alpha from being doomed they give warnings
but any shift from the original loop leads to the death of the timeline that is no longer the alpha
and sorry sucker giving the warning

[freshprints]

And you're the alpha.

Ergo, you've encountered a fair amount of suckers as warnings, haven't you.

[moveslikestrider]

yeah i have
the bodies stick around and thats pretty upsetting to people so i had to dispose of them
but the first sucker is still around he just became something else and we became two different people
the thing is
being the alpha
being a doomed one
none of that actually means a thing
im just the one that survived

[freshprints]

Dead bodies have never bothered me much.

But then, I've never had to dispose of my own.

[moveslikestrider]

i bothered me at first
but once you see it once its pretty boring
it wouldnt be like that for jade rose and john

so i got rid of them


[But it's not everything.]

[freshprints]

Is that how it is all the time? You're the one tasked with protecting the others because someone has to do it, and it might as well be you. Because you're the one with the resilience to handle it.

Or maybe it's just that someone's given you that job anyway, so there's not much you can do except fulfill it.

[moveslikestrider]

its a bit of both

[freshprints]

That's fairly lonely, isn't it?