"Skaianet is the source of, and protector of, all universes. We give the tools to those worthy, and weed out those who have no hope. Through machination and machinery, we sort the wheat from the chaff, the strong from the weak, and create the most able universes possible. We do this for reasons that few can grasp, and that change constantly, regardless of any opinions. We guard and spread reality. We are the opposite of oblivion. We areskaia net." - Khalik
Berserk Button: Killing Daniel's friends will earn you a very quick death. Turning them against him will earn you a slow, painful one.
Blood Magic: The Sufficiently Advanced Technology version, i.e. using blood iron extracted from hemoglobin to construct things. Unfortunately, this is a very painful process.
Bluesunnyday OH GOD! IT FEELS LIKE MY VEINS WERE TORN OPEN!
Tricia Glasswell: Why do all the non-organics assume that blood iron is an unlimited resource!?
Butt Monkey: Blue Sunny Day. He has narrowly avoided death at least once every catastrophe that befell Skaianet.
Cerebus Syndrome: It was a bunch of people running around being incredibly awesome and occasionally fighting off disgruntled players. Then Itchygot dangerous.
The Chosen Many: There is not one session of Sburb. There are untold, infinite sessions who pick their participants from their home planets and give them superpowers. Many an adventurer has embarked on a Knight Errant's quest to defend the multiverse and bumped into Skaianet doing exactly the same thing.
Dysfunction Junction: Mostly the fault of the company religion, but the only admin who ends up not being half a ball of complexes is Daniel. And even he fails at being optimistic eventually. He gets better, though.
Elsewhere Fic: Type II due to the existence of Andrew Hussie, but that's about it.
Everyone Is Armed: Because you're required to have some kind of strife specibus, and if you're not good with it, you don't last long.
"Apparently, the Superintelligent Hammerspace Gatling Multicannon requires "Skynet Grist" for alchemization. While I'm sure we have it, I'm not sure that I'd trust anything that required it. Especially not if it's superintelligent."
The Missingno.: The cause of the "Glitch Invasion" plot.
Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness: of Phlebotinum-level. The Code is the underlying structure of the universe, but it at least follows rules, and all the other technomagic in the setting is really derived from extensive programming of the Code.
More Dakka: Avery's smart gatling gatling gun (and, more recently, his MarSec M4000 machine gun), Bluesunnyday's SMG's with bottomless magazines, Girard himself (the guy is pretty much made of guns) . . .
Nanomachines: The "Virus" plot (which is not an example of The Virus, sorry!) goes something like this:
A genetically engineered virus is programmed not only to create copies of itself, but also copies of a nanomachine. The nanomachine is designed to make copies of itself, and copies of the virus if it is in a biological organism. So guess what gets into Skaianet...
No Sell: Surprisingly uncommon, were it not for the fact that this is still a roleplay. Nonetheless, happens when Daniel attempts to take onTon Ialfnu
Oh [REDACTED] : The standard reaction to many, many events that transpire at Skaianet Laboratories.
Oh My Gods!: "Oh frogs" (Tricia), "[UNPRINTABLE CHARACTERS]" (Avery), "Dear Space Hero"*
by analogy with "Mother of God"
(Daniel).
One Steve Limit: Zig-zagged with Omnikid's Demon of Beasts form, who's apparently also called Daniel. However, after finding out about the other Daniel's existance, hir codename is changed to Damien.
One-Winged Angel: A regular occurence, like many others that'd be world-shattering in any other context. Even in a regular day's work, the Black and White King and Queens would be enough to count as this, but then there's when things go wrong...
Reality Warper: Everyone who works at Skaianet Laboratories is one, either directly (through their powers as former God Tier Sburb players) or indirectly (by working on Sburb, which in turn affects the very nature of reality itself).
Recruit Teenagers with Attitude: Because Sburb players are generally just pubescent, the fact is that Sburb players who somehow find their way into Skaianet are... well, they're teenagers. Also, Tricia Glasswell is described as an "overgrown teenager that represses things".
Replacement Goldfish: Bluesunnyday's brother, brought in after Bluesunnyday killed himself to be with Tricia.
Serial Escalation: Needless to say, the people that MAKE Sburb have a few abilities of their own. And that's not even going into what they have to pull out of the bag for the various catastrophes they face, OR their offices.
The Almighty 404: IM: After negotiations with Lord English, I managed to bag us a Pink Sun in a Dyson sphere and a quantum accelerator. I also alchemited an infinite rubik's tesseract using a standard Rubik's cube and a map of our offices.
that has bindings for several popular messaging programs, thus why it shows up buried in Pesterchum's code.]] It turns out that Hadron snuck in some Seer powers to ensure that Tricia had the wisdom to lead Skaianet.
Star-Crossed Lovers: Goranius/Blue and Tricia. They die. Then they are sealed in a coffin, together, but with an impenetrable divider between them that will never be broken.
Stealth Pun: Avery T. Deaconari. Since the T. stands for "Tom", the name is a play on the phrase "every Tom, Dick, and Harry".
Made recursive with Girard's nickname for Avery: "Truman". As inHarryTruman.
Stuff Blowing Up: Invoked, inverted, subverted, played with . . . actually, you could probably say that about half the tropes on this wiki.
Super Mode: Many, many editors are already God Tier players, but then there are other examples of super-one-up-manship.
Girard used to be fused with a robot body, although this could have been And I Must Scream for the robots' personality.
Daniel alchemised with a Metagross to gain it's Metal Skin and Psychokinetic capabilities. Then he lost the metal skin but got his Technology powers supercharged.
Blue Sunny Day is capable of using his powers of pure determination to even stave off death. It's because of these abilities that he often has to suffer through injuries that would kill anyone else, cementing his Butt Monkey status.
Tricia somehow alchemized herself with a Codering. She doesnot exactlycope well. Then she uses the codepowers to merge with the entire Skaianet building-complex.
The plan to take out Itchy revolved around this, using Scratch Devices. Then Itchy used one of them, and everything went to hell in a handbasket.
Taking the Bullet: Daniel Kopton does this when a digital avatar of one of the Grey King's minions attempts to show Ani its stabs.
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Invoked during the discussion Avery and SHODAN have about what weapons they might need for their return to Skaianet.
Avery: "Obviously, We will want Reason, and plenty of ammunition for both it and the M4000. Plasma pistols as sidearms, I think, with enough elerium pods to power them for an extended period of time."
SHODAN: "What about M22 assault rifles, Apollo H4 laser pistols, or TC-11 grenade launchers?"
Theme Music Powerup: The Musical Aura is a literal case, as you choose from a playlist of all of the music ever composed and whatever music you choose will have various effects on your allies, enemies and yourself.
It basically works as a high-tech iPod with the power to alter reality with the music.
Timey Wimey Ball: The introduction of gigersLich was this, as after setting off into the Furthest Ring, his posts came in anachronistic order.
Anything that any editor who used to be a Time player does is, to some extent, this.
Unexplained Recovery: Tricia inexplicably shows up again after a Just-type permadeath, pointing out that she set an alarm on the Code that would resurrect her from backup if the Founders showed up.
The Xof Y: This appears in many forms. For example:
The characters' former roles within Sburb and its variants usually take this precise form (e.g. the Monk of Mind, the Seer of Tactics, the Sleuth of Problems, the Rogue of Void, and so on).
The various "lands" created within given Sburb sessions follow a similar pattern (the X of Y and Z, where X is always "Land"): the Land of Heat and Clockwork, the Land of Little Cups and Tea, the Land of Spice and Flow, the Land of Cathedrals and Signal, and so on.
Viewers Are Geniuses: Programming terms are thrown around sometimes, and some Codetech attacks are based on real-world computer processes.
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