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Does anyone here have access to something obscenely powerful to prototype?

Remember that one guy who prototyped his Gurren Lagann poster? It gave all the enemies spiral power, but also made them two dimensional.

Does Alduin count?

Actually, is it ever established if effigies of things will give the sprite the power of the things they're effigies of?

I was gonna say, I have a number of Gurren Lagann figures...

^I certainly wouldn't want to fight him.

edited 7th Sep '12 3:39:18 PM by RedSavant

I have a small figure of Hotei and he's a god who has made physics his bitch so...? I guess that could be obscenely powerful.

Something obscenely powerful? I guess I could get some fanart of Hitoshura.

...but then we would be stuck fighting something with that god damned smile on its face.

...

Fuck it toss in the Alduin figure.

Would anything bad happen from prototyping an empty soda bottle? I have those lying around all the time.

Or maybe a scrap of paper. I have a lot of paper lying around. I'd probably pick something without any writing on it.

I have a dead rabbit buried on the side of my house. Also maybe some turtles and a hamster or two...

Though what I FEEL like prototyping is either one of my stuffed animals and maybe one of those Google Android statues my dad built.

Androids are smart. If a statue of a frog makes Aradia ribbit, then an Android would make Mr. Brown a genius. ;p

edited 7th Sep '12 3:48:10 PM by Keybreak

I wonder if the rules of Sburb causality don't have methods in place to prevent "improper" prototypes, or ones that won't sufficiently challenge the players. I mean, Sburb is meant to challenge its heroes to live up to their inner potential and grow into people worthy of being the gods of a new universe, right? It probably has ways to make things difficult even if people try to get cute with their prototypings.

If SBURB controls the fate of everything then we'll just see what it lets us do and hope for the best.

That's what the persona quests are supposedly about, yeah. And that's what happened to the trolls. Their society was so good at killing that the enemies were no match for them, so fate had Feferi's lusus prototyped, and then they actually had to work at their goal.

@Red: Most likely it does. Rose tried to prototype the sprite with a book and it kept dodging it. John chalked it up to the Harlequin's mischievous nature but I wonder if it was actually the game rejecting an invalid prototyping.

How do prototyping things like posters work? If I put in my Keep Calm and Carry On poster, would I accidentally prototype the British Empire?

What if I poured some tea into the Kernelsprite pre-entry? Would we have enemies with Caffeine Bullet Time? Would they all become distinguished gentlemen?

edited 7th Sep '12 4:09:02 PM by Anura

Is it caffeinated tea?

All of the never-living things that have been prototyped were like dolls and statues. Those seem a little more than something Made Of Paper.

edited 7th Sep '12 4:23:55 PM by Keybreak

Dolls and statues of humanoid things, yeah. There's probably no hard-and-fast rule about it, but having a humanoid (or lusus) prototype just feels like it's 'right' according to the rules of the game, you know? It's meant to be a mentor and a guide, as well as a challenging enemy, and I feel like trying to cheat either of those just wouldn't work.

Also, it's just not how it's done. There's a way to this sort of thing.

edited 7th Sep '12 4:20:16 PM by RedSavant

Maybe an origami guy would work, and be properly fragile. Or an origami frog, so the Queen wouldn't put on the ring.

If my family had gone the Harley route with our pets, I'd be able to prototype my old dog. Then all the enemies would be OCD cowards.

You know what would be an interesting choice? Prototype yourself, pre-entry. Then, proceed through the game, defeat the Black King. Then, when the game is won, prototype yourself with the Black King's Scepter...

Of course doing so would be kind of pointless unless you were planning to betray your allies and become a tyrant or something.

Aradia was already dead. I don't know if you can prototype anything living...

Example A) Bec.

I would prototype my cat's deceased sister... but we've now moved away from the house that has the backyard she's buried in. Besides, Chilli was... not as friendly as Pepper.

Bec's not alive! He's a product of ectobiological engineering!

So, he's like a ghost...

So none of the kids and guardians are alive?

Also he's a product of a secret code locked away in Rose's subconscious.

You know, I never really got that. Those random things that the kids scribbled on their walls in their dream towers...and how sometimes they wouldn't show up?

What's that about.