SBurb Session Guide

So we do have a Masterlist( https://sburbsessionguide.tumblr.com/masterlist )

It basically goes over every class aspect and everything in between we’ve done where we probably explain the nuances of the classes over multiple posts.

The rules for each class are pretty simple for most such as the Page has incredible potential but reaching that full potential is the hardest journey a person could go through but in doing so they get power that rivals even the Master classes, so id say look through our masterlist for classes and see what you can pick out from there and if you need more help let us know!

Here are some archetypes an heir of light could be.

Heir is passionately interested in an esoteric subject, often infodumping or making allusions to it. They don’t know that much about this mysterious subject and look up heavily to parental figure/mentor/celeberty/random person who is greatly knowledgeable about it, but secretive about their work. Heir admires this figure greatly, but wants to find out more about this subject and share it to the world, even if it’s against the figure’s wishes. Bonus points if esotreric subject is related to SBURB/the green sun in any way.

The opposite! The Heir has pretty much encyclopedic knowledge on everything but no passion to put it to any kind of use. He has the info, sure, but rarely thinks outside the box without someone else’s intervention. 

Heir is the luckiest person born. Think Gladstone Gander. Extremely lazy, never works for anything, but just goes where his luck takes him. He doesn’t bother learning or training or fighting or working for anything because his luck brings him everything, making him a bit too confident and not very sympathetic.

Child actor and movie star who lives and breathes spotlight. Will do anything and everything for views. Also a big narcissist, whose ego is stoked with even the lightest touch. Bonus points for an SBURB quest  about grabbing and holding everyone’s attention and can create physical lights that draw your attention in.

Some more general traits: loyal, naive, relies on others while also being an emotional rock for some people, sees thing by how profitable they’ll be for the whole team.

Mages are mysterious, and there isn’t much known about them but I’ll tell you what i use

Mages have innate talent with their aspect, borderlining supernatural.

Sollux heard voices of the doomed and Meulin is an expert matchmaker, without the help of SBURB given powers and without some self discovery quest.

Mages are cursed to have the worse of their aspect

Sollux died so so so many times.The state of his mortality is practically a joke. Meulin could make anyone a perfect couple, but all of her own relationships failed.

An explanation for the “Mage’s Curse” is that mages start out the game so “OP” in their aspect, SBURB nerfs them.

Mages tend to gain a disability

This is suppose to reference “the blind prophets” kind of thing. Meulin became deaf and Sollux became blind. I wouldn’t really stress this toooo much since the examples are limited.

(This one is a maybe) Mages exist in the extremes

Sollux had frequent and hard mood swings, from super depressed to incoherently angry, and later on “everything is 0k and n0thing matters”. Meulin shifts between MOG MOG KITTY CAT SHIPPING MIMES and chucklevoodoo religous mumbo jumbo. Neither of them have an inbetween.

That’s all I have, I’m afraid to say!

Hmm.. Good question! All the Sprite Squares weve seen so far have been one Full Prototype (Davesprite, Jaspersprite) and one Half Prototype (Rosesprite, Nepetasprite). If you want it to work, it might be safer to have one player prototype themselves a second time before merging.

It would have to be a dead or doomed session. A sprite is a fickle being, and prefers dead or doomed things for prototyping. If the players are able to prototype themselves like that without the kernals rejecting them in the first place, its very likely that the players were doomed from the start.

However, seeing as a two player session may be time and space player, if they train hard enough they can likely traverse the void safely and find a session they could help in.

weve been quite inactive as of late @a-vague-wolf but im feeling it.

Powers:

Being protected by space means a lot. Space will warp around you to dodge attacks. Bomb coming towards you? Skaia itself may use its power to shove a portal in front of you to protect you. You would be guarded even more then Jade was by your First Guardian to the point of untouchable. You could probably create escape portals and teleport you (and eventually your friends) out of combat in a pinch. Heir’s get a few big bang weapons too. You could probably shrink you and your enemies to small sizes or telekinetically hold them back. After god tier, it becomes more interesting. You inheirit and become Space. Things that crack the fabric of time would hurt you physically. Space will no longer protect you in en emergency, but you now have the powers to protect yourself. During the Reckoning, I would expect the Heir of Space to completely nullify the meteor barrage by assisting Skaia with portals, buying extra time. You might be able to control the size, shape and speed of your threats to manipulate the advantage to your side. You could make dimensional doors to pockets in space as places of recuperation by making a small cut on your finger. You are the universe’s voodoo doll, like the frog is, but much more localized in scale, maybe only referring to your immediate space or a planet’s size. 

Personality:

theres all sorts of archetypes that would fit here.

Overly confident nerd that feels like everything will be fine because it would be statisically improbably if it didnt

A art kid who submerges themselves in their work (bonus points if they get a power which their drawings come to life and protect them. Land quest could be that they draw themselves an army to protect the consorts from the Denizen and imps)

v2.0 of this except with a fashion kid and their army of mannequins and living clothes. Something something fabric of reality

An astrology kid who makes aesthetic moodboards and relies entirely on the stars for guidance. (bonus points if their land quest has stars which DO affect the land and the player learns how to control them to affect the land’s space)

Quiet homeschooled kid who lives alone/a high security goverment area/high security prison/very remote safe location

bonus points for agoraphobia.

a nature kid who believes in magic and fairy tales and considers their first guardian best friend to be proof

if first guardian isnt an animal, you can have kid be very interested in what the first guardian really is (a doll would have toy loving kid instead of nature loving. preferably the hobby is within the arts and sciences)

A kid on the run or who travels a lot. First guardian and/or ectoparent is their only companion as they trot accross the globe

Bonus points if their house when they play SBURB is super unconvential, like a mobile home or a hotel.

sure is. normal sessions are kind of boring. its just => enter =>land quest and travelling through gates => denizen deal =>frog breed =>defeat black king.

heres sum ways to spice it up!

-Moon drama. you can do lots with jack noir and the black queen’s relationship. Is jack an ally like he was for the trolls, or a big bad like he was for the kids? You have to get both of the rings SOMEHOW in order to light the forge and incubate the frog

-First Guardian drama: antagonist? friendly ally? perhaps it was going to be a loyal ally until someone/thing evil mindcontrolled/blackmailed it.

-Sburb+: a normal sburb session with an addition of outside element. Like maybe the peice of Sombra’s horn snuck in and is corrupting everything it touches into horrible glitch thats slowly spreading. Or there are changlings just, yknow, changelinging around. You can come up with more things, im sure!

-Sburb-: a normal sburb but its missing something important that the kids have to make up for. Maybe there are NO frogs and the space player has to create them from scratch and probably do something that causes frogs to exist in the first place. Maybe the dreamselves are seperate entities that work on their own, either with or against the players. maybe there is only ONE planet for all of them, with different regions for each of their own Land Quests and they have to stop it from bleeding into each other

or you could really push power of friendship and instead of making it your goal to defeat the black king before the reckoning, establish peace and an alliance between the two and take the scepter peacefully

We can do do it, dont worry. But since none of us watch it, it would help alot more if you gave us a description of his character, get what i mean?

I’m just foing to answer the page part for now, ok?

Pages are a very hard class to speculate on because of the nature of what they do, giving. Some aspects are easy and some can be very very very challenging. Right now I’m rping as a page of void. Enough said. Hardest class I’ve done so far. But thats helped me a little decide on their place. A page of heart would be more of a support player. Since heart is tied to both affection and soul they could do a mix of both. Imbuing thier team with positive feelings towards each other to boost morale and team fighting. They could turn enemies into allies by showing them compassion, almost like a charm. But of course the hardest part is will the page ever reach the level where they can use their powers. They have LOTS of potential. You decide weather or not they use it. But remember its almost never that it happens. You can have a page reach half way and they would still be immensely powerful. Just think how you you want to drive the page to doing what it needs to do.

Ectobiology: All players are formed ectobiologically, when their guardians DNA is paradoxified and their own DNA is made from the combination. Thus the game ensures that it is played because in order for the players to exist in the first place, they must have played the game. The whole familial system is locked in, they are related to no one outside their system (unless they choose to have biological children) and this is the family structure that will always be.

a scratched session still does ectobiology (see: karkat), but the original “guardians” are still not related (see: dirk and roxy are not siblings. jake and jane are not siblings), even if they no longer have the guardian role. people who still have the guardian role are still siblings despite being guardians (alpha dave and rose, alpha jade and john are biologically related).

Scratching a session does not mess with this ectobiological system. It just adjusts the location and times the meteors are sent to, to create an alternate universe that will still play the game.

if a scratched session deciedes to scratch, itll just edit the where and when the meteors were sent. guardians become players and players become guardians, reversing the order to be identicle to the original session. Theres a possibility that there could be minor differences in the timeline, but the players and their classpects and lands are likely all going to be the same.

Theif OR Heir of Heart OR Breath.

Heart is identity, soul, literally self.

Breath is direction, motivation, sense of purpose (and more but this isnt the focus)

Theives start out with none of their aspect, like Vriska’s lack of luck, or even an abundance of their opposing aspect if you subscribe to the inversion theory. A Thief of Heart has no sense of self, literally soulless. They could have an abundance of memories that dont belong to them. A Thief of Breath does nothing. They persue no interests, strive for nothing.

Heirs are kind of complicateder to explain. As an Heir of Breath, John had no direction, no desire, no nothing. He did whatever WV told him, the command prompt told him, dave, jade, rose, terezi told him. he straight up flew to his death in the seventh gate because of TZ’s direction. And now that the game is over and he has nothing to do and no one to guide him, hes depressed. John IS breath, breath he inherited from those around him. Replace breath with heart and you have a heir of heart character concept, someone who forms a sense of self from others around them.

If by blank you mean no personality, but still has a goal and motivation, choose heart. If you mean does nothing, cares about nothing, accepts everything with indifference, choose Breath

if your character will end up with a lot of aspect, taken for themselves, and by themself, use theif. if your character depends on others for aspect, choose heir

classpects and analysing yourself is a personal thing that only YOU can truely choose for yourself! if it feels right it IS right. my advice only ranges to “figure out how to fit stroking the forge in your land quest” and “think about cool weapon upgrades.” if you got it figured out, no need to ask for a double check~ you wouldknow better then me

There is a canon 48 player session of squiddles that created the troll universe. however, we dont know their classpects.

there could easily be more aspects then just those 12. in addition, the secondary space and time players, if there are repeats, could have an alternative space/time related quest without any frogs or forge stroking involved.

a scratched scratched session is technically possible,but itll just make a time loop in which neither session is the original session, but the scratched version of the other.

a scratch just reverses the destinations the portals that the ectobabies go to during the Reckoning so the players become guardians and guardians become players. Scratching a scratched session will just bring you back to the normal session.

Yup. The session that created the troll universe was 48 players.

hey, i think thats pretty cool! though, you wont have a generator. you would have the Forge, a big volcano near the seers house! it would do the same thing though. maybe the forge powers the generator! 0-0 thatd be sick! that way you can restore both warmth and electricity while stroking the Forge