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𝗔𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗕𝗨𝗥𝗕, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗲-𝗼𝗹𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗻𝗮 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗴𝗲. 𝗡𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹𝘆, 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳... 𝙄𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙗𝙪𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙙, 𝙤𝙧 𝙙𝙤 𝙄 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙞𝙩?

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—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 15d

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—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 43m

What do I have to do to make this happen.

🪼Rini🫧 @scyphozoatidology.bsky.social · 44m

I could totes make you one actually :0

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 45m

Get me a fancy ass suit.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 44m

Get me a fancy ass suit.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 45m

We making fuckin' COSTUMES baby.

🪼Rini🫧 @scyphozoatidology.bsky.social · 45m

What did he mean by this

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 50m

Dress me up, chief.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 50m

Dress me up, chief.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

But wait: As an extra middle finger to the player, the code always ends up being something that you ALREADY HAD A COPY OF the whole time.

Once he cheers up he runs the machine again (???? what??) and then your torrent suddenly has better download speeds for some fucking reason.

It sucks ass.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

So the guy gets super depressed 'cuz of this, and even if you remind him you held up your end of the deal he'll just stay sulking in the corner.

So you have to go and alchemize the code the machine gave you to manually create what he most desires.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

So you do a fuckton of quests to help him finish it but WHOOPS, it turns out the machine is BROKEN and DOESN'T WORK!!

All it does is spit out a random slip of paper with a captcha code on it.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

It's this huge thing in the basement that looks like it came right out of a fucking Dr Seuss book, and it supposedly creates whatever the user desires most in the world.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

This guy is gonna take one look at you after you install the Torrent CD and be like "HMMMMMM.... YOU HAVE THE LOOK OF SOMEONE FRUSTRATED WITH SLOW DOWNLOAD SPEEDS..."

And he'll offer to spruce up the program for you in exchange for helping him complete his ultimate machine.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

Each one is always gonna have this one extra-hatable dude in it, and since Carapace names change on a session-by-session basis we usually just refer to them by initials.

Derse gets HG (Something like Hackneyed Genius or Hoarding Grumbler.)

Prospit gets PI (Ditto, but more "positive" sounding.)

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

Each copy of the dream moon has this place called the Mad Engineers Guild.

It's just a bunch of brainless chess people waffling around their shitty laboratories making completely nonfunctional machines and scratching their heads like doofuses.

lily. @guileatrophy.bsky.social · 7d

ok, ok, i'm guessing that not being capped at 20 is one of my benefits to leveling up? i've got like 30 tar on me at the moment? anyway guilds. whats the guild?

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

It won't let you alchemize anything you can't actually HOLD the required grist for, but it'll help keep you topped off.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

It won't let you alchemize anything you can't actually HOLD the required grist for, but it'll help keep you topped off.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

It's a function of GristTorrent that stores all of the excess Grist that every player in the session collects, and periodically distributes it to everyone who isn't maxed out on what it has stored.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

But then you notice they DESPAWN eventually and you think "oh okay this game just fucking hates me"

AND YOU'D BE RIGHT

But not for this particular reason.
This is what the Gutter is for.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

Then you notice the game doesn't actually stop you from picking up grist that would put you OVER the cap and it goes to waste and you're like "yo what the hell"

So you think you're gonna be chill and cheat the system and just leave the extra lying around for later

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

This is most notable in the early game when these numbers are stupidly low.

You might notice that even some of the imps and even the occasionally large mite are dropping like, upwards of 15~ grist, so you fill out that limit pretty quick.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

So basically SBURB limits your ability to alchemize cool shit and progress to fast by adding some arbitrary cap on how much Grist you can actually store.

Y'know, First player in the session can hold 20 of a given type, Second player gets 200, Third gets 2000, etc etc.

lily. @guileatrophy.bsky.social · 7d

this is perhaps the best question i've been asked ever. gutter.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

Both of those topics require their own mini articles with how much bullshit there is to cover.

You wanna hear about the Guild or the Gutter first?

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

fuck off brah you CAN NOT see my fucking shiny it does not work like that

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

straight fucking slander on tl 2nite idfk where ts is coming from

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

my reaction too dawg idfk what she's on about

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

Both of those topics require their own mini articles with how much bullshit there is to cover.

You wanna hear about the Guild or the Gutter first?

lily. @guileatrophy.bsky.social · 7d

i do not have a CD drive, so i suppose i'm SOL. also, M.E.G quest? gutter function? please elaborate.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

Please grow and change as a person.

🪼Rini🫧 @scyphozoatidology.bsky.social · 7d

It's part of my charm and you love me for it ^_^

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

You act like a fucking freak, I don't know what you want me to say.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

You act like a fucking freak, I don't know what you want me to say.

🪼Rini🫧 @scyphozoatidology.bsky.social · 7d

Uh huh?

Like what.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

so that's why she's like that

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

Not that it actually matters OBVIOUSLY because the download speeds are abhorrent and nobody likes doing the M.E.G quests to upgrade them.

People only install that shit for the gutter function.

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

Probably. Feature isn't useable at all unless you've got some device that can read CD-ROMS and is also SBURB-enabled.

Which are becoming increasingly rare these days, so? Maybe you're in luck.

lily. @guileatrophy.bsky.social · 7d

you mean to tell me that they've been holding out on me? i haven't been paying the most attention to my grist, has my shit been getting ganked for at most 9 hours without me knowing?

—𝙂𝙤𝙙𝙨𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙏𝙤𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙨 @octogenesis.bsky.social · 7d

Upon entry of additional players new items become available to deploy. The second player allows (Among other things) the GristTorrent CD to be deployed.

It is a program used to whisk away all of your friends hard earned treasures while they do the same to you.