#sburb analysis

So my question is: how far will the aspect try to protect the heir before it fails?

According to canon, *very* far.

We see John receive an unprecedented level of freedom -- freedom from the narrative itself -- in order to protect himself and his friends. The other two canon Heirs don't fare quite as well, but they also didn't give as much to their aspect in return.

By the time John gets unstuck from canon, he's saved a planet from a radioactive firestorm, ascended to God Tier, Scratched a session, and traveled across reality itself to another universe. He also completes his planet quest before gaining full control of his powers.

Maybe if Equius had progressed as far, the Void would have shielded him from Gamzee; if Mituna's session had gone according to plan, perhaps Doom would have befallen the mysterious threat before he had to burn himself out fighting it.

Ooh, a two player session. Don't see those a lot. First off, you're obviously missing a lot, and highly unlikely to succeed. But part of what I'll cover involves how best to account for your flaws.

Sylph of Time Knight of Space

Heart, mind, life, doom, light, void, breath, blood, hope, rage Seer, mage, heir, witch, thief, rogue, page, maid, prince, bard You're missing a lot. This will be a problem. Lucky for sessions this small, you don't really need blood-breath or hope-rage. What you do have is well distributed, though I might have prioritized seer or witch above one of your classes. While you have a good active-passive split, it would actually be better here to skew your classpects active. Using aoe buffs on just two players is not particularly efficient. To remedy your lack of light-void, the easiest way would be finding a way to safely communicate with greater beings like the horrorterrors, or having read homestuck before entry. Heart-mind can be remedied by paying close attention to your actions, and which actions you should be taking. Get good at planning, or self actualize, before the session. Maybe do it several hundred times, that's probably within sylph powers.

Sylph of Time buffs and controls Knight of Space does damage and utility

You have a typically good split for the combat types. In a tiny session, it might be better to swap buffing for dps, but you'll never really have enough of anything regardless of how you split the classes. To improve your lethality, try having the knight of space create mechs to fight in, or having the sylph of time abuse loops for more loot.

Leader: Nope Weaver: sylph of time Guide: sylph of time (weaver and guide bleed into eachother in small sessions) Therapist: Nope CleanupCrew: Sylph of time (if at all) (wow, its not the knight for once) RingWranglers: Both Phreug(Frog): Both

You're obviously doing a lot of doubling up, and some slots are empty. Not great, but it's what we have to work with. Leaders are more important in larger sessions, you'll be fine without one if you both just keep a phone on you at all times. It's not hard with two. Weaving and Guiding are also more important in large sessions, like quite a few of the roles, but it's still good to have them in small sessions. Therapists are again, say it with me, more important in larger sessions, but they're also important anytime that players don't enter already self-actualized. Try to do that. Become a good person before playing sburb, it will ease many issues. The cleanupcrew is usually an extra player that doesn't need to do anything else. You need both your players. However, the sylph of time will be cleaning up the timeline anyway, might as well have them do some odd jobs while their at it. Neither of your players is an expert ringwrangler, but the queen is weak here. It's not a big issue, just don't be an idiot about it and you'll get the rings easy. Frog breeding is done by the space player. Knights tend to help, which was probably your intent with assigning a knight of space, but you'll be better off if this is a team effort, regardless of which classes the aspects are. Your knight might want to do it alone. Do not let them. Time isn't always needed for a frog, but you're much more likely to succeed if you include them.

One flaw that large sessions often have is classpects taking or destroying resources that other classpects need to be most effective. As a small sesssion, you shouldn't have any of... what do you mean there are still interferences. The knight of space works best with lots of space to pull power from. The sylph of time will end up creating and healing time, inadvertently destroying space. Your knight won't be as powerful as optimal. With a leader or therapist you might have been able to fix this, but, well, small session. Just don't get too much Blood and it won't be too big of an issue.

With only two kernelsprites, the battlefield will be a cube, and the royalty will be weak. You'll also be weak but it's manageable. Lets assume that skaia is ready to receive a tadpole with few prototypings, but keep in mind that it might not be and you might just be screwed by default. Anyone willingly playing with only two is either a fool or an expert. If you're fools, I can't help you. You will lose. Find more people, or find a way out of your incipisphere. If you're experts, keep in mind to balance your unclassed aspects. Mind and heart are the most important. Make good decisions, keep logic in mind, and you won't screw up completely.

The Land of Fountains and Plazas

Enter: Sylph of Hope

The Land of Fountains and Plazas is a cheerful place that has the ambience of a mall in the early 2000s on a weekend. People are friendly and accomodating, but something seems off about it all.

As the Sylph progresses, they soon realize that they have become lost. The massive swaths of plazas seem to be nearly identical in nature, and the consumer-minded consorts they come across are increasingly burnt out.

The denizen of this land is Bacchus, who is promoting the use of materialistic pleasure to compensate for a lack of more natural sources of Hope.

The quest of the Sylph is to repair the problems of this society and to give it a true framework to create a true source of Hope rather than the artificial distractions the denizen is offering.

Good luck, o Sylph who carries many dreams,

Hello everyone!! I know this blog has been dead for years now and I kinda just gave up on it, however, I’ve recently been getting into the habit of God tiering again. I decided it would be fun to try and see if I can revive this blog! The other admins will probably not be here so it will be just me. They don't even know I am doing this. But screw it! Send me your questions about fraymotifs, sessions, God tier quadrants, lands, anything! Send me ya questions!

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The Mage of Mind

Oh so eepy.

Mage - one who understands their aspect, or one who takes action through knowledge of their aspect.

Mind - the power over thoughts or control over minds.

The Mage of Mind is one who understands Mind, or one who takes action through knowledge of Mind.

The opposite of a Mage of Mind is an Heir of Heart.

Quite like their Seer counterparts, Mages of Mind are still naturally curious people, but what sets them apart is that this knowledge comes to them easily, especially from a young age. They're the kind of kid in your preschool class to always predict what people are going to say, type beat.

They're curious, yes, but also a little uppity about what they know in the process. Part of the Mage's journey is realising that they can be wrong sometimes, and that other people might know more about something that they think they know all about. Part of that is just realising that everyone fucks up at some point.

They have a deep fear of fucking up, because even if they know they know a lot, Mages of Mind are acutely aware that they do not, in fact, know everything, and they might even constantly be on watch to try and fix that, always trying to learn answers to obscure questions nobody asks.

They're always thinking, always asking questions. They're self taught psychoanalysts, and they're always trying to get into people's heads even if it's just for fun. They like messing with people, and might have a weird obsession with seeing how people respond to certain stimuli.

Like an SCP researcher. Researching the critters. Except I believe human experimentation is against the Geneva convention so don't do this.

Mages of Mind seem like the kind to love mind puzzles and games, and love to pick up patterns, like in strategy games such as Minesweeper. They love to see how those patterns work, and would make great neuroscientists in the field of how humans respond to general stimuli.

They're like curious little cats, always searching for new ways to wonder. Mages are the active class for knowledge, and Mind is up in knowledge and people and how things work on a different level to Light.

I like 'em/

The Sylph of Time

More stuff from the bottom of my drafts.

Sylph - passive creating class, one who heals/fixes their aspect, or heals/fixes with their aspect.

Time - control over time itself and the purity of the timeline, it represents patience.

The Sylph of Time is one who heals/fixes Time, or heals/fixes with Time.

The opposite of a Sylph of Time is a Prince of Space.

Healing and fixing through Time. Interesting. Immediately that makes me think that a Sylph of Time is a natural multitasker. Always bringing on some new big project one after another, and even if they get lost in the clouds about starting so many, they always try their hardest to set aside even a little bit of time for it.

They seem like the kind of person to love to compile old archives full of media that would be lost otherwise, and encourage definitely not illegal collection of these types of media.

The Sylph of Time is someone I can imagine keeping the Internet Archive up to date on all their favorite old websites, and donating to projects like that when they have the money for it.

In other sorts of terms, the Sylph of Time seems like someone who would split themselves up to help their friends. They feel like the kind of person to always want to be there for their friends, even if it means they sort of destroy their own health in the process.

They only want what's best for others, and in this sense, can be sort of overbearing about how much they try to involve themselves in their friends' lives. Perhaps it's a daily DM someone gets sick of or a constant stream of 'are you ok?'s that other people get sick of.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with being concerned for your friends like this, and the Sylph of Time isn't doing anything wrong, but part of the adventure that the Sylph of Time needs to go on is to learn that sometimes, you don't need to always be there for other people, that they can handle their own issues.

A way I like to interpret lunar sway is that a player's dreaming moon affects which traits of their aspect they think are "good" and which they think are "bad."

Accordingly, the player's personality and actions will tend to lean in a way that emphasizes the "good" traits and minimizes the "bad" ones, unless they are intentionally playing a villainous role.

Prospitians, in general, favor traits that have immediate benefits, especially when those traits benefit them personally, and those which encourage action and creativity.

Dersites prefer to "play the long game," favoring traits that play defensively, pay out benefits over time, and focus on introspection and self-awareness.

For example, consider Vriska and Rose: both Light players but with opposite sways. The Light aspect is about knowledge, luck, and notoriety. Vriska, a Prospit dreamer, favors the elements of luck and notoriety, but finds academia boring. She cares a lot more about a story being entertaining, and about making her seem important, than about it being accurate.

Rose, conversely, hates relying on luck and puts a lot of emphasis on acquiring knowledge, even at personal cost to herself.

Breath is about freedom, change, and detachment. It's true that Breath and Prospit sway mesh together especially well, but Derse sway brings out some really interesting things about this aspect. A Dersite hero of Breath can be frighteningly self-focused; they are an unstoppable force who will take advantage of every opportunity to get what they want.

Nothing deters them from their own whims; criticisms from their friends, society, laws, or perhaps even the physical rules of the universe -- they float above all of these, untouched. They believe in the adage of Murphy's law, "whatever can happen will happen," and seek to make sure that the things they want to happen are the *only* things that *can* happen.

If they spot a weak point where something could go off course, they will close it off. In this vein, when their plans do come to fruition, it will seem like they were really the only possible course of action all along.

They are not as fickle as their Prospitian counterparts, nor do they find randomness and unpredictability fun or comforting, but they fully embrace the inevitability of change and are quick on the draw to make sure things change in a way they find favorable.

At extremes they might act drastically under the assumption that the ends will justify the means -- even if they aren't entirely sure what exactly the ends will be. For all their plotting and scheming, the Dersite Breath player doesn't actually have a final destination in mind; their goals tend to escalate exponentially and there is always a "next step" waiting for them.

In their personal relationships, a Dersite Breath player is the kind of person that everybody *thinks* they know a lot about, but in actuality this person is very careful about what information they give out. No one would suspect them of keeping secrets because they seem very open and talkative, but this is a precisely crafted facade.

The Dersite Breath player is very savvy and pays attention to who they're talking to, and will create a new version of themselves for every situation. Everything you know about this person, you know because they *want* you to know.

This makes them an impenetrable fortress to their enemies, but sort of difficult to be friends with. They struggle to trust others, and make themselves deal with all their heavy emotions alone out of fear of vulnerability. If they decide a relationship isn't working out, they will cut it off instead of trying to fix it.

Their social circle is a mile wide but an inch deep -- they prefer to have lots of casual friends and contacts, but shy away from forming strong attachments to any of them. They don't like other people trying to take care of them and prefer to do everything themselves in order to minimize uncontrolled variables.

At points they might seem cold and uncaring, tending to view people materialistically in terms of what purpose they can serve or what they are "worth" in a given situation. Of course, the player's class will influence a lot of this information; which parts they act on and which parts they suppress or hide, the particular decisions they make, all of these depend on class and their unique personality.

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The Rogue of Rage

I love the Rage Godtier colors.

Rogue - passive stealing class, one who steals aspect, or steals through aspect for others.

Rage - control over negative emotion, as well as Rage itself.

The Rogue of Rage is one who steals Rage, or steals through Rage for others.

The opposite of a Rogue of Rage is a Page of Hope.

Right off the bat, I can tell you that the Rogue of Rage is crafty. Rage is all about negativity and negative energy, perhaps literal Rage, and the Rogue of Rage is likely really good at taking that in stride.

They are smart enough to know how to diverge the Rage from others, either through careful wordplay or just being really good at changing the topic.

One of the themes of Rage is the concept of No, and I think that a Rogue of Rage would find very unique ways around this, because I think that they'd be incredibly clever people.

Rogues steal their aspect and turn it around, so I think that the Rogue of Rage would constantly be helping their friends out of trouble, because they can twist around people's words to make them look good or look bad depending on how they want it.

They are good at diverting Rage, but it always has to deflect elsewhere, like cause and effect. I think that they wouldn't be the best at perfectly getting around this, and that they might occasionally suffer the consequence of slipping up every so often.

But I think one of their flaws lies in that they never know when to be serious. They'd be so good at getting rid of the serious bad negative aspects that they'd never be able to focus long enough to understand that sometimes, shit has to go down.