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DO WE NEED TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ALCHEMY (edited)
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 06:56 PM
No
Well, mostly no.
Alchemy is supposed to be the main game mechanic of HS
And it's thru alchemy that like
The whole theme of, "creativity is powerful enough to create a universe!" Is expressed.
Combine two things to make stupider third thing etc
And the new universe you make at the end
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 06:58 PM
and its a fun thing to think about and would make a fun actual game mechanic
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 06:58 PM
Is made thru Ultimate Alchemy
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 06:58 PM
you know, you go like 'aight ima combine my water bottle with this lucina amiibo' and the DM is like 'alright you made a water bottle amiibo'
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 06:59 PM
Basically each land has a huge huge grist cache at the center that u can drill for using a very very expensive machine. This cache is emptied into skaia, eaten by the universe frog you made, and then, presto! Universe.
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 06:59 PM
'now if your switch characters get thirsty you can use this to give them some water'
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 06:59 PM
Or, you made an amiibo for water Lucina
Itd work a lot better if they hadn't decided to make the base water too
It splashes out of your hand.
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 06:59 PM
or, you made a water bottle that looks like like lucina and you have to unscrew her head to drink the water and its kinda grisly, honestly
jerkagree 1
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:00 PM
There's a lot of, like, extremely geeky Actual Code that Hussie wrote to back up the alchemy system
Fans replicated that code -- u can genuinely successfully convert captcha codes to punchcards to totem lathe curves
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:01 PM
huh
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:01 PM
Obviously not the last step of like, the actual items themselves
But John Egbert even just rambles abt it for like a page or two in HS proper!
It's kinda cool actually
Will I ever ask you to use this though
No
Not ever
Not a single time
Okay, so why do I care
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:01 PM
neat fun facts
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:02 PM
Well, in game the crafting is backed by ingame creativity currency called grist
And grist has a million different subtypes, usually w each type introduced with each new player's kernel being registered.
Grist is like, mob item drops, bc the mobs are connected directly to the prototyping mechanic.
So it's kind of a brilliant loop of your creativity (prototyping) feeding your creativity (grist) so you can feed your creativity (more cool weapons to kill more mobs to get more grist) (edited)
But again
I won't ever ask u to grind for grist
If I think you're trying to make something too cool
I might be like hold off on that
And then like you kill a cool imp and I'm like you get a Specific Grist
And that's like the one you need or something.
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:05 PM
but if you want, like, five computers that you can wear on every part of your body fuckin go for it
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:06 PM
Also lol slash awwh no, the alchemy simulator i mentioned is hella dead after last year's Sarah Z fandom implosion
urls all dead, Tumblr privated
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:06 PM
oh
rip
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:06 PM
that's Homestuck :/
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:06 PM
wow was that last year?
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:06 PM
yeah
insane
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:07 PM
huh yeah i guess it was around when i was in recovery wasnt it
watched the video w ceci
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:07 PM
Ohhh
They revived it
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:07 PM
oh!
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:07 PM
https://genesis-project.herokuapp.com/download/
The Genesis Project
Official website of The Genesis Project.
What the fuck
It's a goddamn one to one Sburb simulator
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1610900/The_Genesis_Project/
The Genesis Project
Sburb, But RealThe Genesis Project is the Homestuck fandom's attempt at recreating SBURB, the legendary world-ending game from the webcomic Homestuck. Build your way up through each gate and defeat unique enemies, bosses, and stairs.Play In Co-opPlay a no-canon solo session, or create lobbies and play with your friends to wreak havoc upon the un...
Release Date
Soon
Image
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:08 PM
well thats a thing to keep an eye on
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:08 PM
Yeah holy shit wow
It's out in beta
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:08 PM
if they ever succeed the world will end
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:08 PM
I don't
Know if I want to
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:08 PM
oh no
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:08 PM
Move this rp there
Part of the fun for me in HS content is the act of creation? And if it's just mostly interacting w someone else's
It's like, I mean, it's fine, I guess??
I dunno. It's DnD vs Divinity Original Sin 2
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:09 PM
no yeah a big part of why we're doing it as rp is so we have the like
granularity
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:09 PM
Like both are tabletop games w the same base ruleset, kinda (edited)
But
I can choose what I give a shit about
Vs them choosing for me
Yk
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:10 PM
divinity is super neat but its also just... by its nature its more rigid
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:10 PM
Yeah, exactly
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:10 PM
more mind than heart
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:10 PM
Okay phew sticking to the plan lolmadeyes
Don't get me wrong that shit looks cool as fuck
I wonder what dm tools it has
But I think I wanna stick to this
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:11 PM
yee
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:11 PM
I was like sitting and eating dinner and thinking oh shit maybe this rp will get me finally interested enough in a specific concept to actually sit down and learn a DAW and make remixes!!!
And like!
If it's just a bespoke app with an ost
Won't happen.
Shrug.
Also there's no classpects yet (edited)
I mean it's just a fundamentally diff approach lol
Alchemy system working your way out
Vs classpects working our way down
I love classpects the most from anything in hs
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:13 PM
starting from the characters
yeah
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:14 PM
So
Yeah
Characters vs world/lore and systems
Anyway.
I will never ever
Ask you to open the phernealia registry
Except maybe once as a joke
Because we can just call it a crafting menu, bc that reflects the kind of game I think we want to actually be playing a lot more
Homestuck to me is a story first video game second
Vs the other way around :p
Anyways
What's left
Sburb roundup?
Oh
Sylladex
Should be short
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:17 PM
oh yeah!
just inventories with a gimmick
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:17 PM
Honestly we could put it here
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:17 PM
but theyre fun to play with too, haha
yeah
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【ＳＫＡＩＡ】 12-Jan-22 07:17 PM
Eh
No
This is specifically alchemy and has too much of a digression abt 😠 fandom stuff
Vs sylladexes are actually fun sometimes lol
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aorticAblution 12-Jan-22 07:18 PM
lol
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