How would you screw up your own session?

[astuteBookworm]

What do you think would be your (or your team's) fatal flaw in playing Sburb? I think mine would be that I wouldn't want to make decisions that could result in a doomed timeline.

[obolisk0430]

One of my friends probably just wouldn't pay attention to anything at all and completely fuck something up.

[kingotavio]

I would
A) Waste my time alchemizing a bunch of useless but cool stuff.
B) Die an idiotic death, like tripping and falling in a hole.
C) Friendly Fire (accidentally, of course)

[Qmark]

I'd waste all my team's grist trying to alchemize more Nutella.

[Kíeros]

I would probably over-analyse things, and would not get into the medium in time, or not get my server player in time. And then flaming death spiral follows quite neatly from that.

[kingotavio]

I'd waste all my team's grist trying to alchemize more Nutella.

Totally worth it.

[SM64Guy]

I would plan my own screw-ups.

[Ktalaki]

I'd coordinate the Black King battle so the BK goes through a defense gate to Earth... at which point the chain's last player would pre-entry prototype him to see what would happen when s/he enters the session

[Ekul]

I'd probably make my server player get worried about me or impatient. I also might end up getting overly paranoid about the game. Especially if I am what I think I am, a Derse Dreamer, who are exposed to the Horrorterrors. Fortunately, if I'm a Seer, a Mage or a Time player, that might end up working for the best. I also wouldn't be able to be the Leader or the game would get screwed from the start since I'm sure whatever I alchemize will offset my bad hearing and physical problems. I'd be best left to be near the end, or maybe the middle. I would almost certainly need somebody to coordinate closely with or I'd end up getting hung up on something that I overestimated the importance of.

SBurb is a game designed to exploit your flaws so that you correct them. I honestly don't think my problems would doom the game, unless someone else was unhappy with my actions. The main problem I'll have is that I'm most likely to die right after I get into the medium before I become stronger.

[Centimani]

I would ally myself with the Denizens and their minions and treat them as the actual players once I am in the Medium, utterly losing sight of my main goal.

[Action Sandwich]

I would miss the point of the game entirely by trying to blow up Skaia in order to prevent its defense system from shifting meteors into the Earth, protecting Earth from armageddon but totally ruining the session.

[WackoMcGoose]

I would miss the point of the game entirely by trying to blow up Skaia in order to prevent its defense system from shifting meteors into the Earth, protecting Earth from armageddon but totally ruining the session.

Nah, I think I'd rather decompile and recode my copy of Sburb so that Skaia would direct non-timeline-critical meteors to Derse (leaving important ones like ectobabies and the Frog Temple to still go to Earth), then make sure I was the first player in so my version of sburbclient.exe would instantiate the session with my changes. Then, to be nice to my co-players (especially because I recently found out in another thread that I'm a Derse Dreamer myself), I would contact all of them and let them know to stay the fuck away from the obsidian planet when it got close to Reckoning time.

Alternately, I would save Earth and not ruin the session by reprogramming the defense portal script to do the SMART thing and sendificate non-timeline-critical meteors into empty space. Just because a session can't be successful without a Reckoning, doesn't mean home-planet destruction is itself a prerequisite to victory.

[astuteBookworm]

Snop

The problem with that is that there might still be those idiots out there with their own copies of Sburb who just HAVE to play, even though they won't succeed, and send meteors to your planet.

[Sporkaganza]

Simple incompetence, I'd imagine.

[Action Sandwich]

I don't really think Sburb is something that's decompilable or reprogrammable. I think the CD that Sburb comes on is a CD in the same sense that the pill Morpheus offered Neo in The Matrix was a pill-it's not an actual physical CD that literally stores data the way a CD is in reality so much as an mechanic of Sburb that serves to get players into the universe-generating part of Sburb, an abstraction of the concept of beginning a game (and by extension, beginning an adventure). Given that your world would have itself been generated by the result of someone's game of Sburb, you would already be in Sburb, technically, before you even entered the game, so, I can't imagine how you could reprogram it. The whole Homestuck world is Sburb generated and perpetuated, unless I've badly misunderstood how the story works.

Also, that doesn't seem like it would end up screwing up your session.

[Kuyan J]

1. Not prototyping anything.
2. Taking too long to make up my mind on such questions as "what do I prototype", "would it be moral or evil to kill these imps", and The Choice.
3. Not having a weapon.
4. having too slow a reaction time.
5. Being too slow in general.

[Paninis Cupcake]

Either:

1) Prototyping something to try and create a "creepypasta'd" session OR...
2) Unwittingly prototyping something that'd give all the enemies horrible superpowers. Like a copy of Uzumaki or AKIRA.

[BlackholePA]

I would probably find myself relying too heavily on the predestined nature of a Sburb session, but I suppose that isn't really a tangible reason. I might end up prototyping something terrible in the name of experimentation, however.

[Professor Science]

I'd probably get myself killed

[Atomic Kitty]

First, prototype something dangerous
Second, spend all your time in useless quests
Third, get your Dreamself killed
Fourth, fuck up your co-player Hero of Space's quest up.

There : a failed session.

[proserpine]

One of my friends probably just wouldn't pay attention to anything at all and completely fuck something up.

That would be me. I would totally misread the directions to something and fuck up royally because I wasn't paying enough attention to what I was doing. I do it all the time.

[Kaleb702]

@guys about CD hacking:
Sburb is just a way into the game, as said by Andrew.

Anyway, I'd overwork the time player. I'd go fight the toughest bosses before ectobiology, making it so if I die the time player has to save me. Over and over again. He'd flip out eventually.

[Sightedjt]

Uhh, likely creative use of shenanigins to obtain firsst gaudian powers in some way, or using various game breaking stuff like alchemising orbital lasers and the like
Playing like the loony, And treating things I am not allowed to do in X lists as challenges or checklists.

[Centimani]

I wonder if I could sabotage or blow up the prototyping towers on Derse. Could be possible if our group has a Hero of Time. We could even do it as part of a stable time loop.

[La Diable]

Self-prototyping pre-entry.