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[Legendary]

You were right the first time.

[Superdog]

That doesn't affect your position in the entry chain.

...Because that's based on who I'm grouped up with and how the story progresses. Gotcha. I misread and thought you were referencing the order of the Sign Up list, my fault.

Well, back to waiting and IRC-ing, I suppose.

[awfulAlliteration]

So let's assume the IRC won't pull up for me for whatever reason. May I presume that posting in here would be a good way to learn more about this in such a case? Because this just sounds fascinating. I've started reading through the Alpha logs, and I want in on this.

[tz413]

Are sign-ups for S2 still open? If so, I'd want to join as a player.

[Legendary]

At this point, I doubt there's room. You can sign up in the hopes that lots of people opt out, but that's it.

[awfulAlliteration]

At this point, I doubt there's room. You can sign up in the hopes that lots of people opt out, but that's it.

Oh well that sucks. Guess it wouldn't hurt to try though. Uhm. Is there a particular sign-up sheet that must be filled out?

[Freack]

First post of the thread has everything you might need.

Read all the spoilers, towards the bottom of the post.

[Rikushadow5]

Good News, Everyone!

Progress in S1 is being made! We're approaching the final 4 player entries fast! And it only took us 5 Months! Soon everyone will be in the Medium,and then it'll only be a Year IRL before S1 is over we'll be done in no time at all!!

[myto_alkoreath]

God.

Being one of those final four SUCKS

I've had to sit back while everyone else rps up a storm, stuck only pestering as many people as possible.

SOON I SHALL FINALLY ACT!!!

[Paradoxius]

God.

Being one of those final four SUCKS

I've had to sit back while everyone else rps up a storm, stuck only pestering as many people as possible.

SOON I SHALL FINALLY ACT!!!

Being one of the first four isn't too great either. For about two months everyone has been behind me on the timeline, and I've been waiting for them to catch up. What's worse is that I'm unconscious at the point on the timeline where I am, so I can't even RP at all until I get perspective again and wake up.

[Superdog]

OH JEEZ. With these new logs, it's getting even harder to wait for S2!! But it's seriously so much fun to read all this. XDD

[vengeanceCreed]

Being one of the first four isn't too great either. For about two months everyone has been behind me on the timeline, and I've been waiting for them to catch up. What's worse is that I'm unconscious at the point on the timeline where I am, so I can't even RP at all until I get perspective again and wake up.

So THAT'S where you've been. :O

[Paradoxius]

So THAT'S where you've been. :O

Yes. I've been KO'd in the future.

[Unclever title]

Occasionally some ridiculous shit happens in an RP that is so off the wall and ridiculous that it can never see the light of day in the logs thread, cause seriously. That shit will never be CANON.

Once such log I've decided to do a little color formatting for because it was way too hilarious to let it die forever.

Now that the CANON log for Derek's ascension to his first gate has hit the logs I feel that this won't even remotely spoil anything.

Some quick notes:
UT/Derek = me.
Kroked = himself.
FS = mythicalWashrag (important to note cause someone else is FS now!)

Now that that's done with, enjoy.

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<Kroked> are you ready?
<FS> One second
<UT> Ready when everyone else is.
<FS> Okay. Good to go.

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<Kroked> as the light returns, you find yourself in an amazing location, you are on the top of a mountain hundreds of miles in the air, you are SO far up, that the ground is shrouded by a veil of clouds.
<Kroked> The veiw is stunning, unlike anything you've ever seen, its as if you could see for forever. And all around you, it's like you can here a subtle music playing. The wind is like its own symphony, the the subtle movement of the rocks like a drummer
<Kroked> wait
<Kroked> that drumming doesnt feel too subtle...
<Kroked> oh god
<Kroked> this isnt a mountain
<Kroked> its a volcanoe

UT after remarking for a moment how unlike Kansas this place is, Derek suddenly becomes nervous about the rumblings.

<Kroked> you can feel heat rising from the ground beneath you
<Kroked> you're gonna want to get out of there, and fast

FS zooms out of Derek's room to view the surroundings

<FS> Hey wow what the hell where are you?
<UT> Definitely not where Cam ended up.
<UT> Plus I think this mountain is active.
<UT> Like, geothermally.
<FS> That sounds like a bad thing
<FS> For you
<UT> Yeah....
<FS> Okay so let's get you away from danger-mountain I guess?
<UT> Sounds like another pointy good plan.

<catfish_sprite> bloop
<catfish_sprite> bloop bloop
<Derek> Whoa, hey.
<Derek> So.. hi.

<FS> Ahaha that thing looks fucking ridiculous.

<Kroked> and what is it you see? its a a big floating orange catfish, it really IS ridiculous looking
<Kroked> it also seems it cant talk properly for some reason
<Kroked> it seems to want you to do something

<catfish_sprite> bloop bloop
<Derek> Uh... can you say something else?
<Derek> I don't understand "bloop"
<catfish_sprite> blooop
<catfish_sprite> blooooooooooooooop
<catfish_sprite> bloop bloooooooooooooooop
<Derek> Right...
<Derek> I'm going to go ahead and interpret that as "Get the hell off this volcano."

<FS> Well this thing is useless
<FS> You needed a fucking fish to tell you to get off a volcano?
<FS> Wow if you're Cam's savior he's boned.
<UT> Hey! It was part of the plan.

FS picks up the toilet and throws it at the fish
<Kroked > theres a bright FLASH and all of the sudden, the catfish sprite is...
<Kroked > a Cat Toilet Fish SPrite!

<Derek> Oh good lord.

<FS> AHAHA oh my fucking god

<Cat_Toiletfish_Sprite> bloop gloop *gurgle gurgle*
<Kroked > unfortunately, it seems this is as intelligent, if not LESS intelligent than the catfish sprite

<FS> I am dying over here (figuratively. I'm not the one stranded on a volcano)
<UT> This is YOUR fault.
<FS> Yep!
<UT> Right, well screw this now disturbingly smelly asshole.
<UT> Wow I just typed that didn't I?
<FS> Well I can throw something else at it.
<FS> Yeah you know that was kind of way too specific not to be a subconscious thought.
<FS> Got something on your mind?
<UT> Only that Freud was a moron.
<UT> And "Get the fuck off this volcano already!
<FS> Oh yeah that's still a thing you should do.

<Kroked > the rumbling has gotten worse
<Kroked > you also think its getting hotter

<FS> Let me zoom around here and see if I can find a decent escape route.

UT goes over to the hole in the wall to look down the mountainside. Maybe there's a way down?

<Kroked > its incredibly steep and smooth
<Kroked > there's NO WAY you're getting down that way

<Derek> Well... fuck.

FS views parts of the mountain to look for a way down... or up.. or away?

<Kroked > you notice that some distance above the house is some kind of glowing orange spirograph

<FS> Hey there's like a seizure circle above your house.
<UT> Seizure things got me a toilet catfish ghost!
<UT> But I don't have options now.
<FS> Haha yeah it did. So let's go for it.

<Kroked > the smelly catfish toilet seems agitated
<Kroked > it keeps jumping around getting water and shit everywhere
<Kroked > and i do mean shit

<FS> Oh for fuck's sake.
<UT> I kind of hate you right now, FS.
<UT> Just thought I'd let you know.
<FS> Aren't you just the sweetest. I think maybe I'll start erasing the floor of your house.
<UT> I might just be dead either way.
<UT> But assuming I'm not.
<UT> Try throwing something up there to the seizure thing if you can, maybe it will turn into something like before
<FS> Okay.

FS views Derek's room

<FS> Hey who is this old guy you have on your wall?
<FS> Do you enjoy his disturbing smelly asshole?
<FS> Hanging over your bed?
<UT> What? Don't tell me you don't recognize the "Father of Robotics?" Isaac Asimov
<FS> So you can smell it in your dreams?
<UT> Shut up.
<FS> Nope. All I recognize is a poster that's getting tossed at a toilet ghost.
<UT> I'm only interested in his works and ideas, platonically.

FS takes the poster from the wall and throws it at the sprite.

Derek is sad at losing the image of his hero.

<Kroked > the sprite FLASHES and becomes... Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite !

<Derek> Oh god.
<Derek> This is... I don't even know.
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> what the hell...?
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> am i a toilet?
<Derek> Well, you can talk anyway.

<FS> Oh my god yes.

<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> well of course i can talk!
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> what else would i do with my mouth... err, toilet flap mouth thing?
<Derek> Well, Mr Catsimov- agh! I mean Asimov.
<Derek> Just to clear the record, I'm totally not responsible for you being a toilet cat.
<Derek> Cat toilet fish... whatever!
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> hmm, yes, that would be your server wouldnt it?
<Derek> Yes!
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> it's fine my boy
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> but we must hurry, for you are in dire danger

FS loses interest in the old man toilet and starts remodeling Derek's house upwards-ways

<Derek> Yeah I kinda got that impression... but where can I go?
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> up, to the FIRST GATE
<Derek> Up?
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> you must pass through the gates to progress my boy
<Derek> Where will that gate take me?
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> to another part of your land, far from here
<Derek> Well far from here is exactly where I want slash need to go.
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> you say that now, but you may regret it later
<Derek> ...
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> but enough of the chatter, you must hurry!
<Derek> Regret, not dying in a fiery eruption
<Derek> You speak in riddles, Asimov!
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> i only speak what i know
<Derek> Don't we all.
<Derek> Alright.
<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> but hurry! the volcano is not your only obstacle!

Derek goes back to the computer to type

<UT> Okay.

FS starts building walls up on his roof

<Kroked > you have spent roughly half your grist already FS

<Toisaac_Catsimov_Sprite> boy! get off that computer! you dont have the time!

<UT> So... FS.

<Kroked > the ground rumbles harder

<UT> I can't believe I'm saying this but remodel my house.
<UT> Upwards.
<UT> As fast as possible.
<FS> Okay I'm going to screenshot that you said that, for future reference
<UT> :|
<UT> Fine.
<UT> I gotta go on the roof.
<FS> Wow building shit is expensive, by the way. We're through half our resource pile.

<Kroked > you hear aa strange blooping behind you...

<UT> Use it all if you have too!
<FS> Noted.

FS continues to build up with walls and stairs as far as her grist pile will allow her to.
UT turns around to tell AsmovFishCat-

<Alabaster_Imp> bloop bloop bloop
<Derek> Oh shoot.

<Kroked > the imp leaps at your face!

UT blocks throwing his arms over his face.

<Kroked > it latches at your arms, and probes its whiskers over them on your face, stinging it

UT reflexively tosses the imp away. That HURT!

<Kroked > the imp flys across the romm and gets back up

UT retrieves his trusty shovel from his strife deck.

<Kroked > it seems angry

UT does too.

<Kroked > it jumps at your face again

FS continues to build, oblivious of the strife below her.

UT swings at the imp like a baseball hero... with a shovel.

<Kroked > you smack the imp and explodes on impact!
<Kroked > HOMERUN!!!
<Kroked > you see a bunch of little gem things on the ground

UT grabs the grist and snatches his laptop bag.

<Kroked > you gained 10 B.Grist and 5 Alabaster Grist!

FS notes the rise of grist in her cache.

<Toisaac_Catsimov> that is grist my dear boy
<Toisaac_Catsimov> your friend needs that to build up
<Toisaac_Catsimov> and you need it for alchemy
<Derek> I know! I already got my friend Cam in the game earlier.
<Derek> Oh, alchemy?
<Derek> That's awesome.
<Toisaac_Catsimov> hurry and have your friend place the last machine necceasrry for alchemy so you can upgrade your armaments before continuing!
<Derek> Ok Asimov. I'll trust your fishy wisdom.

<FS> Hey are you doing something useful down there? I got more shit to build with now.
<UT> Yeah, I picked it up from killing an enemy.
<UT> Also, could you deploy the...
<UT> the
<FS> The the?
<UT> Oh yeah.
<FS> I don't have a the.
<UT> The Punch Designix.
<FS> I suppose!
<UT> All this magic technology is a lot to keep track of.

FS deploys that in Derek's living room.

<Kroked > the room, even extended, has gotten quite stuffed

<UT> Cam did this before too.
<FS> Before you let him die or whatever?
<UT> !!!!
<UT> Why bring that up now!?
<FS> KIDDING. I doubt he's dead.
<FS> Come on start designing punches or whatever that thing does.
<UT> Anyway. Just make me a new door if you can? I'm kind of roomtrapped at the moment.
<FS> Yeah let me go ahead and make you an exit.

UT walks over to the punch designix and flips over the card holding his shovel... blah blah blah. Shovel + computer

<FS> Oh by the way watch out

FS picks up a rock from the mountain and tosses it through his wall.

<Kroked > you now have a large hole in your wall
<Kroked > in fact
<Kroked > you have a large hole in TWO of your walls, it seems the rock sailed right out to the hallway as well

UT seethes for a moment.

<FS> I figured that would save valuable grist. Doors cost resources, you know.
<FS> I'm just being
<FS> efficient.
<UT> I'll deal with you later!
<FS> Blah blah blah get me more of that grist stuff so I can build you off this volcano.

<Kroked> actually, you notice your already near the top
<Kroked> and you still have 40 grist left
<Kroked> the mountain is really shuddering now
<Kroked> QUAKING practically

<FS> Well actually if I conserve it right....

FS builds a ladder to heaven... err... the gate.

UT places the CHEWED UP SLATE in the totem lathe.

<FS> Okay I got it covered. You can make your great escape via this
<FS> LOVINGLY
<FS> crafted ladder
<FS> by yours truly.
<FS> What are you even doing.

<Toisaac_Catsimov> you must hurry boy
<Toisaac_Catsimov> i can see the lava leaking

<Kroked > there is infact little streams of lava lighting things on fire and melting them, its not TOO severe yet

UT alchemizes shovel and computer.

<Kroked > you go through all the steps to alchemize and make...
<Kroked > THE COMPUTASHOVEL!

UT admires his handiwork, briefly.

<FS> whoa what the hell
<FS> What the hell are you holding.

<Kroked > it a fully computerized shovel, SOMEHOW, you were able to afford it, it works as both weapon and computer, and it adds a little zap to combat

<Toisaac_Catsimov> good job my boy! I couldnt have done better myself! now hurry, the mountains about to blow!

UT replies to FS using the handle based interface

<UT> Something awesome.
<FS> God damn. You're talking to me through a shovel.

UT Lad scampers the hell up the tower!

<UT> Yyyyyyyyep.
<FS> this game is so fucking weird.
<FS> CLIMB LIKE THE WIND

<Kroked > you make it to the top, but it seems you have a problem

<Derek> Uh...

<Kroked > the ladder is blocked
<Kroked > by a ....
<Kroked > Alabaster Magma Beast!

<FS> Hey. What the fuck is that.
<UT> He's in my way.
<UT> That's what the fuck he is.
<FS> Well push him over or something

<Kroked > It stands at the height of a tall man and is glowing hot with magma, it also seem to have... what the fuck? is that... Catfish whiskers!?

UT readies his computashovel and also begins to notice a pattern here.

<Kroked > it takes a step toward you, leaving a peice of melted floor behing
<Kroked > the rumbling has gotten much worse

<Derek> Uh... Catsimov! You're retaining water! Help!

<Toisaac_Catsimov> the fishy writer comes up to see whats wrong
<Toisaac_Catsimov> hmmm
<Toisaac_Catsimov> this is a proble, but, good thing im here!
<Toisaac_Catsimov> run around him boy, I'll get his attention!

UT does what his disgraced idol tells him too.

<Kroked > as you move you see catsimovs moth/toilet flap open wide and a beam fille with what looks like robots and... things youd rather not describe, burst toward the beast and consume it
<Kroked > the beam fades and all thats left is a small pile of grist

UT hesitates for a moment.
UT though disgusted, collects the grist.

<FS> You know that is not a thing I thought I would ever see. Or even think to see.
<UT> This stuff is too useful to leave behind.
<UT> I still blame you.
<FS> Like that would be an oddly specific thing to say you'd want to see.
<FS> You're the one who had a toilet in his house.

<Toisaac_Catsimov > Hurry boy, SHES GONNA BLOW!

<UT> Yeah.. cause that's weird and I'M STILL ON A VOLCANO WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING?

<Kroked> the rumbling has become unbelievable

UT ascends the ladder.

<Kroked> and it seems your house is melting

UT ascends the ladder while panicking.

<Kroked> you ascend, and as you reach the gate, the world goes black
<Kroked> just before you enter the gate, get a glimpse of your house exploding from lava

UT hopes that the gate is lava proof.

[wolftamer9]

Hey, I thought triple-prototyping was impossible. Also Isaac Asimov was my mom's boss some time around the 80's.

[Legendary]

3x-prototyping, prototyping an entirely inanimate object with no living qualities whatsoever, and also Asimovsprite dying so early are the three reasons that this whole RP was scrapped and I had the DM crucified by ancient Romans.

[Varkarrus]

I thought the catfish counted as the dead item?

[Unclever title]

I thought the catfish counted as the dead item?

The catfish pillow at least resembled a living thing. The toilet (despite containing organic matter in the form of bacteria ) not so much.

[llamamiah]

On the 3x Prototyping, I could've sworn that the Tavrisprite-prototyping panel showed that each of the four separate body parts was a separate prototyping...



Ayup, I'm pretty sure that it flashes a separate time for each thing thrown in, therefore 4x prototyping.

[Varkarrus]

Oh it was a pillow.

[Legendary]

1- That RP was well before that update.

2- The rules for S1 were well-established anyway and are remaining that way.

3- Tavrisprite still is a 2x prototyping. One part Vriska, one part Tavros. That there were multiple Tavros bits is not a major issue here. Nannasprite is 1 part harlequin, 1 part ashes, and ashes are not a composite entity but rather katrillions of tiny little pieces. If each separate one counted as a "1x prototype", Nannasprite is a 10 million-x prototyped entity.

[Paradoxius]

So I just realized that I've been the perfect Prospit dreamer so far without even knowing what that constituted. Prospit dreamers, according to the Huss, are acted upon by the game, rather than acting upon it like Derse dreamers.

So far I've:

- begun playing because of scientific curiosity

- had my house wrecked by CT

- been chased by an ogre into my basement

- been forced by increasing numbers of underlings and decreasing stability of my tower into the first gate

- wandered aimlessly

- been caught and subsequently escaped from a penguin trap

- fought more underlings, not for strategic purposes, but because of my own morality, so in a sense I was metagame-forced into doing so

- chased an imp

- passed out

- been collected by penguins

Literally nothing that I've done I did to aid my quest in the game. I have made no strategic decisions. At all points I was free to break out of the path the game was leading me down, but I chose to stay in it. I am a Prospit dreamer.

*Prospit pride*

[General-jwj]

Same. I've defended myself against an underling, been kidnapped, been incarcerated, been sprung out by a mysterious third party, been helped along in my alchemy by said third party, been chased down by Carapaces and stumbled upon a thingamabob.

Only active thing I've done so far is shoulder charging a defenceless carapace going about their paperwork and interrogating them.

[Unclever title]

Huh. Seems the same for me, though my own journey so far hasn't been filled with the same variety my actions were forced mostly by geological activity on LOSAD.

I've had a couple IDEAS that could be against the grain (not mentioned in any RP as of yet) but haven't had quite the motivation to try them. At least... not enough motivation.

Edit: Though I guess that just furthers the point then doesn't it?

[Rikushadow5]

Huh. Seems the same for me, though my own journey so far hasn't been filled with the same variety my actions were forced mostly by geological activity on LOSAD.

my actions were forced mostly by geological activity on LOSAD.

geological activity on LOSAD.

LOSAD.

LOSAD

Found your problem. Your land is SAD.