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I’m going to play this straight and analyse this session as you’ve given it to me, but I question the possibility of a Muse appearing in a session with more than two players without session merging occuring. It’s suspected that Lord and Muse only appear in the two player and solo runs to make up for the fact there is so few players with sheer power potential.

You have no classpect clash and both the key aspects but an uneven number of players. This means there will be an uneven number of dreamers and gender ratio. Skaia generally seems to avoid this when possible, for game balencing (half get prophetic clouds, half get ‘advice’ from the Horrorterrors) and suspected pairing should the group win for repopulation/survival of the species. Basically, an odd number session means one set of dreamers has an unfair advantage which Skaia doesnt generally allow. It’s possible the session that made your one messed up, but that means your session will have some unexpected challenges….Add in the fact you have a Muse of Space and jeeez this sessions gonna have issues.

You have three Classes that cause/appear in sessions with specific conditions. Firstly; Muse of Space is ‘One who Inspires mass/velocity/physics/physical existance’. Muses don’t deal with things on a sessional basis like all the other canon Classes do. as one of the two Master Classes, they deal with their aspect on a Paradox Space-wide level. The actions and words of the Muse will ripple across space itself and reach into other sessions, inspiring them as well as your own. This comes with the unfortunate side-effect that other session will intrude upon yours, seeking out this inspirational figure. Add in the fact there maaaaay be an in-built glitch in your session from the fact it’s imbalenced and this could become chaotic quickly.

Second, the Knight of Heart (ayyyyyy :D) that would only show up in a session lacking in their aspect. This session will lack some form of soul, sense of self or emotional responses in everyone/everything except for the Knight themself. Perhaps all the consorts, enemies and carapacians are all super-duper drab and dull? Maybe all the players (except the Knight) struggle with knowing who they are and are vulnerable to things such as Trickstermode or Grimdarkness (as both heavily change a persons personality which falls under Hearts area of influence). You can pick and choose for your session or speculate your own ideas of the effects.

Third is the Prince of Mind. Princes show up in sessions with an abundance of their aspect for them to destroy (nice interplay with a Knight of Heart showing up in the same session there). So a session with one of the Mind aspect in it means there is TOO MUCH choice and logic. They’ll be like three options for choice given to the players. this could really bite into the players time limit if they have to keep stopping and weighing all the options. It’s the Princes duty to destroy all theses exesses to get everyone back on track. The problem there is Prince always HATE their job, they are super angsty about it. But this could be vital in this session, I recommend having th Maid pair up with them to streamline the process and stop the Prince from becoming overly self-destructive.

In comparison the Witch of Hope and Maid of Time are just slow-growers (the Witch especially, slowest non-Page Class plus slowest growing Aspect? This Witch won’t do anything amazing until right before the end). The Maid will need some cojouling into doing their time-keeping duties but a few doomed timelines should teach them the reason pretty darn quickly compared to other Maids.

Against the Black King you have 2 offensive, 2 defensive and a support/defence hybred. You have no Healer so bring ALOT of healing items. Have the Knight and the Maid share the defensive duties evenly, one keeping the each attacker safe, the Muse should be able to keep themself safe fine. I would say you have a good shot at killing the King with this set-up, despite lacking a strategist due to the high number of defenders.

Suggested quadrants (take with a pinch of salt):

Maid of Time <> Prince of Mind (Timeline stabalisation and support team)

Witch of Hope <3 Muse of Space (Adorable cuties being adorable and powerfu l as heck late game)

Knight of Heart <3< Prince of Mind (Defender Vs Destroyer is classic rivalry)

Overall, I would say this session has a 70% chance at winning. The 30% at failure coming from the potential session-invaders and glitches, but the Witch of Hope means I upped your chances as literal Manipulator of Miracles right there.

Even numbers, Both key aspects and no classpect clash? Yes. Good. You have a shot at winning with minimal chance at glitches and extra challenges popping in.

Rogue of Time + Knight of Space is an ok key combo. Not the best, not the worst. The Knight will be a bit of a loner, although not entirely deliberately, mostly from  taking their defensive and breeding duties seriously and that includes keeping the little froggies safe from alllll potential threats. The Rogue however will be friendly and helpful in balance they will make sure to help the Knight if Time says they need it. While the Knight will quietly keep an eye on the Rogues movements and if it’s obvious they’re overworking will intervene. They wont be very good at communicating with each other due to personality differences likely, but will look out for each other.

The Mage of Heart and Sylph of Breath can help there ALOT. The Mage is ‘One who understands Self/Soul/General emotions’ while the Sylph is ‘One who heals freedom/communication/physical wind’. These two together are the understand the team and help communication ultimate combo, Which is just what the first two need. Good classpect combo x4 is good. This is a team that will click.

Against the Black King you have 2 support, 1 offense and 1 defence, with one healer and one stats inflicter. You’ll need to be careful to not let your attacker die and you dont have a strategist but you should win so long as the team works together (which as I said earlier, should happen).

Overall I’d give this session a REALLY good chance at winning. These classpects all compliment each other pretty well! I’d give you a 90%.

Hello again! Sorry this is so late, I’ll give what advice you asked for though and hope it’s still relevent. if not, hey someone might be able to use it somehow.

So let’s start with the frog breeding. Page of Space + Knight of Life is, as I just said in the last ask I answered actually, a terrible combination. Really, really bad. A Page in either of the Key aspects is turning on chaos-level difficulty for your session. Add in a Knight who only shows up in sessions lacking their aspects… Pages are already the slowest of growers, add another layer of detriment to growth on top of that due to the Knights existance and your Page is NOT going to mature. The lack of a Light player also means you get no bonus to getting the mutations you do need quicker either if you actually manage to find the frogs….Yeaaaah. I’d don’t give you a very good shot at getting a healthy frog here. You’d probably end up with an incomplete one like Karkat and Kanaya did and thats the BEST possible result.

In more general terms the classpect combos you have will all grow slower than normal, meaning you Time player will be under more pressure than normal. Also if your Thief of Rage will likely be a problem (and they are one of the fastest growing classes, the penalty wont hold them back for long) for quite a long time unless the Witch or Maid (Slow and Medium growers respectively usually plus the penalty) manage to get ahold of their powers before the Mage breaks down from the Curse. 

If you manage to get to the Black King, you have 3 support, 3 offense and 2 defence. This is a very good set-up for a balanced fight. You do not have a healing specialist (either a Sylph or a Life player) so bring ALOT of healing items. ALOT. Have one defender with the offesive group and one with the support group and you should be golden. I’d give you a good chance at winning the fight should you all reach it and your teamwork is in-tact.

Overall however, your chances are slim. That Knight/Page combo plus no quick or stable check for the Thief is going to absolutely gouge your teams morale and team-spirit. A slow-growth curse on a session that has a quick growing trouble maker really isn’t likely to succeed. I’d say about 25% chance for winning since you do have the Mage to intervene early on and the Maid and Witch to take over later if luck goes in your favour. But that Page is going to cause sooooo much work for the Seer and Knight it’s unbelievable.

Pssst - sorry for how late this is, hope you still sorta care about an answer.

Key aspect are present, even numbers, no classpect clash. All the hallmarks of a potential winning session…And then I looked more closely at the actual combos. Page as a key aspect is ALWAYS a bad sign. You have turned on chaos-mode with that (A page in a non-key is hard mode, in a key aspect is the level above). Usually the fact your Seer is your Time player would help mitigate that (best time player. BEST) but then you had a Knight of Life. Your session will lack the potential for growth in all your players except the Knight. With a Page in a key aspect in session that is DISASTEROUS and puts ALOT of pressure on both the Knight and the Page.

This isn’t even adding in the fact you have a naturally selfish and soon to become know-it-all potential mind controlling Thief and a massive classpect clash between the Maid and the Sylph to deal with as well (maintainer of Light versus healer of Void? Oh god worst clash. They will HATE each others powers). This session is a train-wreck waiting to happen I’m afraid. Your Seer will need to help the Knight and Page alot to keep the frog breeding on track, and if possible also need to recruit the Thief into getting inbetween the Maid and Sylph…Which maaaay be impossible since Sylph and Thieves always start of friends then have a massive falling out in canon and those two might want nothing more to do with each other or become dangerous to each other as well.

Basically this session is in desperate need of a Blood player, maybe a Hope one to. There’s waaaaaaay too many ways this session could fall apart from poor relationships and slow personal growth. I’d give this session a 10% chance at winning, and I’m being nice with that.

*Emerges from the sea of University and family responsibilities*

I LIIIIIIVEEEEEE!

Now I have time to do session analysis again :D

You have most things in-order but have an odd number of players. Most sessions have an even number for stability, even dream moon and suspected reproduction reasons so you maaaaay have a few problems in this session for an odd number to have been picked. Possibly the session that made this one messed up somehow. Be prepared for possible extra challenges and/or glitches.

Seer of Space + Rogue of Time is a really nice key aspect combo. Seers start off bias in the view of their aspect while Rogues feel like they are missing something in regard to thiers. These two could really help each other see through their blind spots and support each other. Good combo is good. The Seer of Space + Knight of Doom is also a GREAT combo for the frog breeding team. ‘One who sees Space’ plus ‘One who weaponises fate/rules/decay to defend’ means the Seer will find alllllll the frogs while the Knight can super easily keep them safe from any dersite of enemy-monster threats. The actual mixing/breeding may take a while as mutations are kinda a random crapshot and you dont have a light-player to rig it in your favour. Just make sure to check in with the Rogue to keep on schedual and you should be fine.

I’m really, really, REALLY struggling to see how the Mage of Rage is your teams leader. ‘One who understands negative emotions/passion/single-mindeness’ means if they KNOW the team can win they’ll push everyone towards that goal. Thats where the potential leaderness comes from I think…But then you have to remember two other things. One, the Mages Curse. Mages are always negatively effected by their aspect. One of Rage can easily find their team-mates turning against them for their single trackness and harsh words. And two, you have a Sylph of Breath. ‘One who heals freedom/communication/physical wind’. If the Sylph feels the Mage is becoming overly controling, even if the Mages does so by accident by poor word choice ala Mage Curse, then you will have a very meddling Sylph whispering the others into rebelling from the Mages control to do things their own way. However the opposite COULD also happen. If the Sylph realises the Mage is having problems getting their true intentions across, they might decide to play mediator/translator and help him keep the others in order. But thats a big IF with the Curse, Be very careful.

Against the Black King, you have three support, a defence and an offense…That is not a very good set-up. You NEED to keep your offense alive to win. And you’ll definately need a good long-term strategy in place before you even start the fight to win. Capatalise on you Rogues time-stealing in combo with your Mages attacks while the Sylph and Knight keep people alive and the Seer points out oppertune places to attack. It will be a looooooong fight. Good luck.

Overall, this session has a solid chance of getting the key quests done but may struggle at the final hurdle of the Black King fight, especially if they did have a leadership rebellion against the Mage later on as the Curse begins to bite. I’d say this is a 50/50 session. Good luck to you.

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bejesus yall are in trouble. no time player=no Hephaestus= no Forge= no frogs escaping out of whatever they need to escape. luckily, you have a sylph of breath who in when "healing freedom" can assist in alevitating the burden of frog breeding. both Knights and Princes are super angsty classes, and with only each other to double their angst, things can get in trouble from there. the Sylph with their fix-everything attitude might try to unangstify them, but it will be a draining effort and distract the sylph from her land quest and her truer quest- Independence. also without a Time Player, you only get one shot with no timeline resets or scratches. Prince of Mind will start of surrounding themselves with the opposite aspect, so this prince will be very introspective and maybe try to play miorails with the Knight until he realizes how stupidly bad he is at it or how unimportant it is. also he'll probably be mentally broken in the end.

i give this the lowest of the low chance of winning. i doubt it will win unless an outside force helps

Hello there again! Well I can tell you right from the start one of your players is going to perma-die. You have two Space players! Either the Rogue of Maid is doooomed. Considering the fact you also have a Page as your Time player, I already can’t see this session going well, as that turns on Ironman-mode since Pages are the only Class that start off UTTERLY without any understanding of their aspect, in-fact they tend to have a handicap in it to make up for the sheer potential to be game-breaking if they manage to mature.

Basically you’ve got a time player that will be so bad with dates and time-keeping at the start that its actually too dangerous for them to time-travel since they won’t be able to set-up stable timeloops. So any wrong move early on dooms your whole session. The only way you can win is if you are destined to by Skaia, because then your Page will have matured safely and will travle back in one giant loop to protect and guide themselves and the session into winning. It all lies on the Page. Poor luck friend, which is incredibly ironic considering you have a Sylph of Light.

The Thief of Rage could be a major problem with a Page in session as well, considering they steal passion and Pages need all the motivation they can get to keep pushing through their flaws and not give-up. Your Witch would be a counter for them but because of their slow-growth as well it won’t be until late-game, if you can even get that far.

If you make it to the Black King, you have…well alot of potential set ups depending if the Page mature or not and which Space player dies. Either way however you will be down one player for the fight which puts you at a disadvantage. You do have a healer either way but no natural strategist to plan around your handicap. You’d have to brute-force it. Not the best chance here.

The fact you have a Sylph of Light is pretty much the only reason I can see this session having a chance. You will have luck on your side. But thats pretty much it. It’ll be a HARD road to get this session to win. Page as the Time player is one of the worst. Overall I can only give about a 15% chance and thats only because of the Sylph or it would be even lower.

(+ Oh, and, sorry, but the Knight and Witch are in matesprits, and the Sylph/Mage and Witch are moirails.)

No need to say sorry friend, I’m the one super behind on asks *stares at the literal tower of session asks still need to be answered nervously*. But onto you’re session. Key aspects are here, even number of players for stability and dream moon splits and no Classpect clashing. You’ve got a chance at winning! Since you’ve asked for in-depth i’ll be putting the rest of this answer under the cut: