Dirk: Talk to alien.
uranianUmbra [UU] began cheering timaeusTestified [TT] i see yoU're aboUt ready to begin. how splendid for yoU. ^u^ i'm at dangeroUs risk of jealoUsy. Why? oh, it's jUst i'm rUnning a bit behind schedUle. i wanted to coordinate with yoUr groUp in something approximating real time, and that is starting to look less likely. my client player continUes to be a soUrce of frUstration. u_u i'd thoUght we had everything settled, bUt it's always something with him. i even told him in my last message it woUld sUit me fine if he wanted to be the server player instead. i jUst want to begin! bUt i have not heard back from him... >:u That's probably the way it always is. I've run into plenty of problems here already, and I've had to improvise heavily. Ain't nothing about our situation to envy yet. bUt at least i know how certain things go when it comes to yoUr story. i don't qUite have that lUxUry with mine! it is nerve wracking sometimes, especially when i mUst coUnt on him to be responsible. Well, your bro definitely has got some problems. Not gonna lie. this is trUe. thoUgh i'm sUre i've said, he isn't qUite my brother. we are related, yes, bUt not in the way hUman brothers and sisters are. we are genetically similar, bUt in many ways qUite different. in fact, oUr blood coloUr is not even the same! bUt i have referred to him as a brother at times becaUse it is close enoUgh to being trUe, mUch as yoU refer to the one yoU regard as yoUr ancestor in the same way. Yeah. Just give him some time. He'll probably come around. You would never even have woken up on Prospit if you weren't going to launch the session, right? I mean, there wouldn't even be a session for a Prospit to exist inside if you weren't about to instantiate it in the first place. Unless I'm just totally not getting how this works. no, i think yoU're probably right. while i await his response, perhaps i will take a nap, and see if the cloUds may offer any gUidance. thoUgh lately i have been seeing many more black cloUds cropping Up in skaia than UsUal. it is a most Unwelcome trend. u_u; You're lucky to have any clouds. Only thing I have to look up at is infinite monsters. good point! :U i am so pleased to be a prospit dreamer. i'm sUre my brother finds his netherworldly affiliation similarly pleasing. Speaking of which, I have a problem, and I could use your advice. is that so? I killed an agent who snuck into my room to assassinate me. I'm not sure what to do about it now. I guess I could just ditch the corpse. But it's still only a matter of time before my cover is blown. yes, that is a pickle. I honestly can't think of a way around this. Getting found out, I mean. Roxy has it easy. All floating off into space, completely oblivious to any danger. I don't know why it had to be this way for me. Juggling these two waking selves at once. I guess I'm used to it, but it still makes for a pretty intense existence. Do you even know what the deal with that is? Like is there any precedent in your readings? i don't know aboUt precedent, bUt it makes plenty of sense to me as the type of path one might expect for a hero of heart. a path rUled by the heart aspect can be a joUrney of splintered self. that is, the player's being may exhibit the same kind of fragmentation which certain classes coUld caUse in others. i think this is what has triggered yoUr dUal-awareness between waking and dream selves, thoUgh it woUld not sUrprise me if the symptoms manifested in even more ways than this. So, that's what a Prince of Heart does? Just has like, multiple waking consciousness disorder, or something? Sounds kind of stupid. no! like i said, these can be traits of sUch a hero, bUt is not necessarily always the case, nor is it the defining property of the aspect. to Understand the heart aspect better, yoU might Use it interchangeably with the word soUl. the hero Uses the methods endowed by class to inflUence in some way the soUl, or essence of being, of oneself or of others. Then I'm basically the Prince of Soul. yes. That sounds kind of maybe a little cooler. Sort of. Then what am I supposed to be able to do as a Prince? Like, rule over souls in a pompous, regal manner? no! again, sUrface meaning of classes and aspects can be deceptive. a prince is a destroyer class. it is very far on the active side of the scale. its more passive coUnterpart woUld be the bard class. both of these are exclUsively designated for male players. to Understand a hero's capabilities, it always helps to search for the right way to parse the class/aspect pair into a more explicit statement. for instance, being active, a prince coUld be viewed as "one who destroys x, or caUses destrUction throUgh x," if x is the aspect. while the more passive bard coUld be seen as "one who allows x to be destroyed, or invites destrUction throUgh x," as if by the will of the aspect. I'm obviously no expert, but that sounds like a pretty odd thing for a Bard to do. maybe! it's a qUirky class. somewhat like a wildcard role…
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