#mod ridas

Seer of Breath: one who knows freedom, movement, the wind(, etc) and with/through them.

Maid of Space: one who creates and maintains space, matter, creativity, physics, creation(, etc), and uses them to create and maintain.

Witch of Void: one who manipulates and controls shadows, secrets, the Void(, etc), and [manipulates and controls] with/through them.

Mage of Void: one who learns and experiences shadows, secrets, the Void(, etc), and [learns and experiences] with/through them.

Passive vs Active: 1/3

Overlapping Classes: None

Overlapping Aspects: Void

Okay so, first off: you have your Space player, which is super good! You can breed the Genesis Frog. However, your session lacks a Time player–which means that you’re going to have a few issues with breeding the Frog. Moreover, since your session lacks a Time player, you can’t Scratch the game; if you mess up, you’re stuck.

Moving forward, your Space player is a Maid, which tends to indicate that there’s something toxic of their Aspect that permeates the session that they have to replace; in this case it could be that there’s not enough space in the Medium, there’s something peculiar with the fabric of spacetime in Paradox Space, or even that something’s wrong with the genetic code of the frogs on their Land. 

Your Witch of Void also poses an issue to be addressed–that your session has a problem of the Void aspect looming, and your Witch needs to solve it. In this case, you need to keep the Witch on track, because you also have a Mage of Void–which means there’s a disaster within the Void aspect, and the Mage needs to prevent it. 

Combined with your Maid, it’s entirely possible that these three issues can be expressions of the same thing–i.e., your session has something wrong with the frogs on the Maid’s Land; the problem the Witch needs to solve revolves around appearifying a solution to the frogs/how to win the session; the Mage needs to prevent the disaster that will Doom the session, and possibly clear the way for the Witch to solve their problem.

However, you have a Seer of Breath, who should be instrumental in helping your teammates to work towards their shared goals. More than that, they should be able to help the others work with each other–if they learn to balance their Breath-y need to be free with their obligation to the session.

And that’s the other issue in the session: teamwork. Your session is strongly slanted towards Active classes, which means that, generally, they’re going to go and try to solve issues themselves. Not necessarily by working together. Your Seer is the only Passive class, which places them in the precarious spot of being the person whose powers have the tendency towards working together/through others, but being most definitely a free spirit. 

Ultimately, breeding the Genesis Frog and keeping your team together are going to be your largest issues in the session. Focus on working together, and do your best to keep everyone on track; you don’t really have a great deal of wiggle room for victory if someone does a pirouette off the handle.

And now for roles! Okay, I’m going to be honest with you: leadership is going to be an issue for your session. Half your session is made of Void players–and, let’s face it, Void players can be pretty difficult to find or pay attention to sometimes (especially if they isolate themselves). Your other half is a Seer of Breath who will probably be chafing to some extent at the idea of leadership and a Maid of Space who should probably be focusing on breeding the Frog. As it stands, however, your Seer is probably going to have to take up at least some portion of being friendleader, just because your session needs someone and they’re going to be one of the better options.

As for other roles, your Witch and Maid will probably end up running frontlines/heavy-hitters, with the Maid joining the Mage and Seer on support as necessary.

And now for the tips section! ;3

If your Witch accidentally rips a hole in reality, I’m fairly sure your Maid can fix it, but still. Be careful, please?

Your Seer may occasionally have homicidal urges due to frustration. This is perfectly normal, I assure you.

…Hey wait, where did your Witch and Mage go? Spooky vanishing children.

Your Maid may end up bringing in a great many frogs to the session–look, here’s a frog, there’s a frog…they’re everywhere!

Maniacal laughter is generally a bad sign–especially from your Witch or Mage.

Just so you know, resizing and carrying along cat-sized horrorterrors is not a good idea for anyone’s sanity–take it from a fellow Witch of Void with experience.

Hope this helps!

Witch of Space: one who manipulates and controls space, matter, creativity(, etc), and [manipulates and controls] with/through them.

Knight of Doom: one who protects death, decay, inevitability, rules(, etc), and exploits them to protect themselves and others.

Mage of Light: one who learns and experiences knowledge, fortune, (literal) light(, etc), and [learns and experiences] with/through them.

Heir of Time: one who manipulates progression, rhythm, continuity(, etc), is protected by them, and Becomes them.

Passive vs Active: 1/3

Overlapping Classes: None

Overlapping Aspects: None

Okay, so, first of all: your Cardinal Aspects are covered. First step accomplished! The problem here, though, is that your Space player is a Witch—which means you’re going to have some massive problem in their Aspect that they have to solve or fix in order for the session to be successful. Taking Jade Harley (our canonical example of a Witch of Space) as an example for possible issues, she had to figure out how to make travel between sessions possible. So. Keep that in mind.

Your other issue in regards to your Cardinal Aspects is that your two most powerful players in terms of sheer possible firepower available (barring strifekind and alchemized weapons) are your Space and Time players. That can come around to bite you pretty badly.

Your Knight of Doom also indicates that there’s a toxic lack of Doom in the session. Possibilities can range from the enemies just straight up not dying unless specific conditions are met (which basically means every fight is a gimmicky boss fight), or even that the players can’t achieve godtier because they can’t die. This…can be a problem. 

Your Mage of Light, on the other hand, indicates that there will be some sort of disaster in their Aspect that they have to avert somehow–which could manifest as an inability to communicate with others in the session (a lack of knowledge), miscommunications, some kind of large scale blackout or explosion, or even too much or too little clarity or knowledge leading to something terrible happening. 

One further issue that you’ll need to take into account is that your session is primarily made up of Active classes; as I’ve said before, this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but your players will likely tend towards a sort of…’self reliance’ to an extent. More or less, they may be more likely to go and do things on their own rather than work together with the group, and may end up acting very impulsively and/or recklessly in ways that could have been avoided through communication and teamwork. Basically: your Active players may be very…direct and/or solitary in how they solve things. Sometimes a good thing, sometimes a bad thing. Definitely something to keep an eye on.

Overall, your session has a lot of challenges to overcome–your Witch will have to enact a massive change in the Space Aspect in order for the session to succeed, your Mage will have to avert a disaster in the Light Aspect, all while your session suffers from a toxic lack of Doom. Your session also has a lot of Active classes, so you may have to work harder for good teamwork than other sessions, and the vast majority of your “raw” firepower is wrapped up in your Cardinal Aspects. 

Helpfully, though, your Heir of Time means that you’re likely going to have all of the Time you need–if they don’t completely lose themselves in the maze of possibility that is Time itself.

Now for roles! 

In this session, I think your friendleader is a somewhat obvious choice simply in light (heh) of the tasks being leveled at the rest of your team: the Heir of Time. However, should things turn out to where the Heir is incapable of leading, then I can also see your Knight of Doom taking up the role–but, depending on personality, I don’t know if they’ll be able to keep on it as a long term role.

As for frontline fighters versus “support,” your Witch, Knight, and Heir fall into the frontline category with your Mage probably running support, but in all honesty all of your players will probably end up switching between roles depending on the situation.

And now its time for the tips section! Now with 50% more snark.

Your Mage may or may not become a mad scientist. This can be good or bad–on one hand, they can do some truly incredible things and they’re probably on your side. On the other, they’re probably on your side. Maybe.

There may or may not be upwards of ten different versions of each of the players in the session at any given time (not counting dream- and ghost-selves), each from a different place in their own linear timeline. Time travel is the ultimate hax.

Together, your Witch and Heir can probably completely take over the fabric of Time and Space as it exists in your session. 

Please, do not let your Witch of Space follow Jade Harley’s example when prototyping your Sprites. Bad Times and menacing theme music that way lies.

Your Mage and Knight may be able to find a way to alchemize a weapon that will raise a zombie and/or ghost army for the user. On the one hand, it’s a very cool weapon; on the other hand, simply being players does not preclude you from zombie apocalypses or angry poltergeists of alternate selves with a grudge.

You all probably either know way too much about what everyone else is doing or absolutely nothing at all.

Your Heir of Time is alternately either the only sane person or that one very mystical and confusing person who rattles on about time travel and paradoxes. The Doctor. Your Heir of Time is alternately either the only sane person or the Doctor.

So as a Knight, your Knight may not have a lot of intrinsic powers with Doom, but weapons…Doom affiliated weapons have possibilities, you get me?

Your Witch may or may not accidentally tear a hole in the fabric of Space occasionally. Try to fix it quickly; those tend to be…invitations for Other Things.

Sylph of Heart: one who heals self, identity, (general) emotions(, etc), and allows the creation of such.

Maid of Void: one who creates and maintains shadows, obscurity, secrets(, etc),  and uses them to create and maintain.

Seer of Time: one who knows progression, rhythm, continuity(, etc), and with/through them.

Mage of Mind: one who learns and experiences logic, thoughts, justice(, etc), and [learns and experiences] with/through them.

Rogue of Space: one who takes/steals space, matter, creativity(, etc), from others and events to benefit others.

Witch of Breath: one who controls and manipulates freedom, movement, the wind(, etc), and [controls and manipulates] with/through them.

Page of Blood: one who inspires bonds, blood, relationships, family(, etc) in others, makes themselves of them, and exploits them to benefit others.

Heir of Life: one who manipulates growth, wealth, food(, etc), is protected by them, and Becomes them.

Thief of Rage: one who takes/steals determination, passion, anger(, etc), from others and events for their own benefit.

Active vs Passive: 4/5

Overlapping Classes: None

Overlapping Aspects: None

So, first off, you have your cardinals! That is, your Time and Space players. First step is done. Main issue I can see with them right now is that they’re both passive players, and Seers of Time don’t really…do the Timey thing the same way other Time players do. I.e., no time travelling/time loops. They’d probably be one of the best at seeing timelines, however, so that’s a bonus. But, your Space player is also passive, and a Rogue. It’s not…bad, per se, but it definitely leaves you with a lack of direct firepower. Not necessarily a bad thing, but it can leave you with some issues you may not be able to address easily.

Next major issues to look out for: your Mage, Witch, and Thief. 

Your Mage is a Mage of Mind, which means that there will be some kind of large disaster/problem within the Mind aspect that they need to work to avert–which means that their attention will need to be on that, not necessarily working to help the team personally. 

Second, your Witch of Breath means that there will be some massive problem within Breath that will require them to step up and create a change within Breath to solve it. Paired with the Mage of Mind, this means you’ll probably have an issue with logic/justice/thought and an issue freedom/movement/etc, which will probably build off each other. Basically? You’re going to have some big problems with being trapped and not thinking clearly.

Third, pair that with your Thief of Rage. Thieves (as I’ve said many, many times) aren’t bad people. It’s just that their initial reaction to their powers is overreaction, so they’ll likely end up hoarding Rage within the session until they learn to even out a little. Combined with the problems mentioned above…it’s probable that you’ll have issues maintaining the determination and passion to solve the problems and/or free yourselves.

Past that, you have an Heir of Life, which means the session will probably have some issues regarding change (i.e., it’s there, but needs the Heir’s help in some way). However, the Heir can heal and bring people back to life! Which is very good, because you’re probably going to need that.

In addition, your Page and Sylph will help with keeping your players tied together and emotionally healthy, which will help mitigate some of the issues. However, be careful with the Page that they don’t add to the issue regarding freedom–it’d be all to easy if they don’t work to strengthen their grasp on their powers.

Finally, your Maid will likely end up having to control the flow of information to aid in solving the issues. This is good, because bad news at the worst time can be a critical turning point for the worst–and vice versa with good news at the best time. 

Basically, your players need to learn to cooperate and rely on each other quickly, and not lose their determination to win (or get overconfident) in the face of obstacles. Your session’s also a little passive, which may add to your issues regarding freedom/movement, so keep a careful eye on that.

Now, for roles. For friendleader, I could definitely see either your Page or Heir stepping up. Your Page because they’d ‘inspire bonds’ and probably feel a sense of responsibility for the other players (to some extent, as we’ve been shown that our two confirmed canon Blood players have also). Your Heir, however, for the sense that change and growth will tend to center around them to some extent, which can naturally pull others in around them. Your Thief might end up taking the role at some point (or at least try for it), in which case it depends on how they’ve developed. Thieves (especially early in their development) can tend towards being reckless, selfish, and cocky, which would be intensified in a Thief of Rage–so be careful.

Past that, your ‘frontline’ roles will most likely end up being your Witch, Rogue, Maid, and Thief, Heir, and alternately the Page; the Rogue, Maid, and Thief will likely end up playing sabotage as well, while the Heir and Page will end up probably running occasional sneak attacks.

Your support players, on the other hand, would probably be your Seer, Mage, and Sylph, with the aid of your Rogue, Maid, Thief, Heir and Page. Your Seer would be strategy and tactics alongside the Mage, with the Sylph playing a more ‘classic’ support role as the emotional meddler of the session. Your Mage would probably also end up aiding in sabotage as well.

So, now it’s time for the tips section.

Don’t let your Seer try and guide the Page–it’ll stunt the Page. Seriously.

Your Maid and Mage are a match made in heaven–or hell. Information control? This is the dream team.

Your Sylph and Page probably either love each other or hate each other. Get them to work together!

Your Sylph is often the only sane person. They’re tired. Let them rest before they break someone.

Your Witch and Thief are your enemies’s worst nightmare. Bad news? They either hate each other or love each other. A thin line, that is. Do I spy spades or hearts? who knows, not me…

Your Space, Void, and Rage players should be careful not to accidentally tear the fabric of reality. They may have a harder time doing so, but it’s certainly possible. Fix it quickly!

Your Seer and Witch will probably clash pretty badly. You…may want to get an auspistice, there.

Your Heir and Rogue are the masters of making things appear and disappear. It’s magic, honestly.

Let’s start with Space.

Space is typically associated with space, matter, creativity, physics, creation, frogs, the universe, mass. Space players also have the job (typically) of breeding the Genesis Frog, the next universe that the players will inhabit and become ‘rulers’ of.

That...doesn’t really tell us much, though, does it? It’s dry and impersonal. So let’s try this:

Space is the birth of everything--the first sparks of a star as nuclear fusion sputters to life in its core, a plant breaking free of its seed for the first time, a chick breaking its shell, a child being born.

Space is thoughts being born inside your head, stories and people that speak and are real in all but truth, entire universes encapsulated in your thoughts and imagination. It’s fairies in the forest and marsh wights and will o’ the wisps, the Fair Folk in the woods and superstitions in the minds of children.

Space is three dimensions, twisting together to create swirling discs of solar systems, stars, galaxies. It’s massive blue stars radiating their light across the universe, and tiny quarks vibrating and working to create the basis of physics as we know it. It’s electrons and neutrons and protons, gravity and the movement of everything in harmony with everything else as the planets circle their sun, which circles the center of the galaxy, which travels through the universe.

But Space is also incredible power, nuclear fusion igniting at the heart of every star. It’s power without an outlet, hanging stagnant and motionless in the skies, created but not ending.

It’s being lost within your own head, so enchanted by what you see that you forget reality; being so captivated by worlds that aren’t real and people that can’t truly talk without being puppets that you forget to live. 

It’s starting projects and dropping them before you finish them, leaving a litter of discarded and broken ideas behind you; it’s a pervading lack of entropy, enforced creation without end; bloated red giants and white and brown dwarfs slowly wasting away, turning from once great stars into barely there charcoal.

It’s a tiny, hot, dense packet in the nothingness and the vast, starry expanse filled with galaxies and stars and nebulae--hung there, unmoving, frozen into a single moment of eternity.

Space is the expanse of the universe, infinite without end, vast beyond comprehension. It’s stars born--but not dying--and constellations, and universes encapsulated in a single thought. It’s being so enchanted by your own thoughts that you forget to live; picking things up and dropping them without thought, discarding what is no longer useful.

Space is creation itself, and is insanely powerful--but while it’s everything that entails, it’s not unstoppable.

Now, let’s talk about Time for a bit.

Time is typically associated with progression, rhythm, continuity, paradoxes, entropy, predestination, timelines, endings, clocks. Except...that doesn’t exactly tell us much, either. It’s still dry and impersonal. So--let’s try this:

Time is constant movement forward, progressing through everything with constancy. It’s a rhythm in the back of your mind, a steady forward movement against everything. Where all else dies, Time continues all the same.

Time is a supernova, a star flaring brilliantly in its death throes, exploding--and collapsing in onto itself, leaving a black hole in its place. It’s neutron stars pairing and spiraling into each other in a deadly dance; it’s empty moons around planets and asteroids impacting; it’s pulsars spinning on their axis in perfect, steady time.

Time is eternities in every second, and seconds in every eternity.

Time is the slow, eventual death of the universe, marching ever onwards.

Time is waking up every morning, knowing that it’s inevitably a new day, and that what is past can’t be changed. It’s knowing that something new will come tomorrow, and living with what is here and now than what is in your head; it’s precise steps and dances, words twisting around each other trying to capture the inevitable, self-fulfilling reality of itself. 

It’s being and being not all at the same time, quantum mechanics at its core. 

It’s also being so lost within loops that you can’t progress, living the same days over and over in useless attempts to change what is--for what has happened cannot be changed without dire consequences.

It’s chaos over order, entropy trickling into every spare crack; it’s a black hole, gobbling up every single star it can get its hands on, sparking off one of the brightest phenomena in the universe. It’s ancient stars and galaxies and quasars, reaching our eyes only now and long, long dead.

It’s fatalism, for what will be cannot be evaded in your eyes. It’s being so stuck in never ending cycles that you lose everything--yourself, your life, everything you ever knew--to the constant, uncaring march of Time.

Space and Time need each other to truly exist--so let’s talk about them in contrast for a moment.

Space is endless infinities, hung in the countless eternities Time spins. Stars being born and dying, the soft glow of a protostar and the brilliant, brief flare of supernovae. 

Space is making something, letting it grow and grow and become it’s own from your hands and hard work; Time is letting it go, knowing the end must come.

Space is the wondering birth of infinities; Time is the quietly ready end of eternities.

Space is laughter and joy, the beginning of something wonderful and new, the horns and drums pushing forward onto the new era. Time is melancholy and readiness, the ending of an era to make way for the new, the flute and violin solo bidding farewell to what was.

Space is the beginning of a story, the opening of a new world, of new places. Time is the ending, the final farewell to beloved characters and familiar places as the story closes.

Space is the new, the child, the curiosity of the young, the successors; Time is the old, the veteran, the understanding and knowledge of the old, the previous generation waiting to pass the torch.

Space is being so lost in your head and the new you lose sight of what is and was, what must be. It’s forgetting to live, lost within fantasy and illusion. Time is being so stuck in what will be, what must be, the end of all things that the now is lost in the constant push forward. It’s regret, a refusal to live, forcing yourself to confront that everything ends, and being so stuck in that never-ending march forward that you lose what it means to exist.

Space is the fabric of reality itself.