Jane Crocker

1. #1Sburbselective

   Keys: Sburb, Sgrub, The Game

   SBURB is a sandbox-style game that takes place in the real world. It is normally composed of a pair of Client Player and Server Player. A client needs a server to be ran, and a server player cannot connect to his own server, as such the smallest possible session has two players, both running the client and the server version of the game. Each client requires one server player, and the server player has to be a client as well. This can be daisy-chained to allow more than two players into the same session. Without it, all sessions are separate.

   It is similar to the Sims. The server player can manipulate the client's surroundings. The goal of the server player is to get the client player into the dimension the game creates by deploying the Cruxtruder, Punch Designix, Totem Lathe and Alchemiter, which allows the player to create a Cruxite Artefact with which to enter the dimension the game makes, the Medium.

   The Server player can alter the house of the client and place down objects that require build grist to be placed down.

   The Alchemy system requires multiple types of grist, an in-game resource dropped by underlings and by beating quests.

   After entering the Medium, the game has a large amount of objectives and goals, culminating in the creation of the Genesis Frog and the generation of a new Universe, which the players then enter after collecting the Ultimate Reward.

   Before entering the game, SBURB launches a number of meteors at the house of every player, which either land and kill the player before entering the game, or are avoided by entering the game.

   Upon entering the Medium, the game generates a Land specific to each player, which their house is transported to.

   SBURB is an atemporal game, that knows how many player will be in a session before they actually enter it, by existing outside of time.

   The game itself always appears in a universe made by the game, no matter what.

   A SBURB session always contains certain elements: The moons of Prospit and Derse, Skaia, the White King and Queen of Prospit, the Black King and Queen of Derse, Meteor Laboratories, the Lands of the players, Jack Noir, the Rings of Life and Void, the Forge, the Frog Temples, the Veil, the Denizens, the Reckoning and finally, the Underlings.

2. #2Derse, Dersiteselective

   Keys: Derse, purple moon, Kingdom of Darkness

   Derse is one of the two kingdoms in the incipisphere. It is also known as the Kingdom of Darkness. Derse is a violet moon that orbits Skaia from far away. It has another moon orbiting it, chained to it with a gigantic purple chain. Derse is completely covered by a single gigantic city with gothic and art deco buildings. Derse is inhabited by black carapacians. Derse does not have an actual sky. Looking up, and away from Skaia, only the pure darkness of the Medium. Derse is wholly unknown to everyone that hasn't already played SBURB, or hasn't had their dreamself awaken before that. Derse has a spire for each derse dreamer, a player whose dreamself resided on derse. As the players prototype their sprites prior to entering the medium, the prototypings are applied to the monarchy of Derse. This impacts how they look, and this also causes the black carapacians of Derse to start dressing similar to the prototyping. Without a prototyping, the Dersites dress like stereotypical mobsters. Derse is at war with Prospit, and the war takes place on the Battlefield. There are no actual fights on the Moons, instead only subterfuge is used. Derse has a tower for each of the Derse dreamers, where their dreamselves reside and sleep. The towers are straight, made of purple bricks and have a bulbous end with a copy of the player's bedroom in it in purple. Derse is ruled by the Black King and Queen. Derse has a number of agents, and an archagent. The archagent is the highest rank after the queen and king. The Dersite archagent is called Jack Noir. Derse is an antagonist faction in SBURB, but the black Carapacians are not forced to attack the players, and physically can't attack their dreamselves until they enter the game.

3. #3Incipisphereselective

   Keys: Incipisphere, bubble

   The Incipisphere is the dimension that SBURB transports its players to. It is a bubble in the Furthest Ring. Nothing exists outside of it. The Kingdoms of Derse and Prospit, and all the lands of the players exist there. There are no stars in the incipisphere, and the only light is given off by Skaia, at the center of which lies the Battlefield.

   The Incipisphere is composed of the Medium, the Dark and Light kingdoms, the Veil, Skaia and technically the Furthest Ring.

4. #4Prospit, Prospitianselective

   Keys: Prospit, Kingdom of Light

   Prospit is one of the two kingdoms in the incipisphere. It is also known as the Kingdom of Light. Prospit is a golden moon that orbits Skaia from far away. It has another moon orbiting it, chained to it with a gigantic golden chain. Prospit is completely covered by a single gigantic city with gothic and art deco buildings. Prospit is inhabited by white carapacians. Prospit has a spire for each Prospit dreamer, a player whose dreamself resided on Prospit. As the players prototype their sprites prior to entering the medium, the prototypings are applied to the monarchy of Prospit. This impacts how they look, and this also causes the white carapacians of Prospit to start dressing similar to the prototyping. Without a prototyping, the Dersites dress like stereotypical mobsters. Prospit is wholly unknown to everyone that hasn't already played SBURB, or hasn't had their dreamself awaken before that. Prospit is at war with Derse, and the war takes place on the Battlefield. There are no actual fights on the Moons, instead only subterfuge is used. Prospit has a number of agents, and an archagent. The archagent is the highest rank after the queen and king. The Prospitian archagent is called Problem Sleuth. Prospit does not have an actual sky. Looking up, and away from Skaia, only the pure darkness of the Medium. Prospit has a tower for each of the Prospit dreamers, where their dreamselves reside and sleep. The towers are straight, made of golden bricks and have a bulbous end with a copy of the player's bedroom in it in gold. Prospit is ruled by the White King and Queen. Prospit is a supporting faction in SBURB, helping the players beat the game.

5. #5Carapacianselective

   Keys: Carapacian, white carapacian, black carapacian

   Carapacians are the native species of Derse and Prospit. They are present in every single game of Sburb. They are modeled after chess pieces, as the Battlefield has a chess appearance. Carapacians look like generic beings, and are very symbolically depicted. They are covered in a shell, which is both rigid and supple, thus allowing them to move. The shell is jointed in parts, such as the fist. The appear similar to a featureless chess piece, though they have a hard to see mouth and tiny black eyes. They also have an internal skeleton, similar to a human's, and bleed red blood. Carapacian shells' are perfectly smooth. Both white and black carapacians are normal sapient beings, without any inherent evilness or aggression. They are quite passive by default. There are two general types of carapacians. White and Black. The white carapacians are from Prospit, and the black carapacians are from Derse. They have no other differences between shell colour. Carapacians are separated vaguely into castes. The taller a carapacian is, the more powerful and important he is. Smaller carapacians have blunter teeth, similar to a herbivore, while the more important and more dangerous carapacians have sharper teeth, and are more predator-like in nature. The average carapacian is around five feet and a half. The tallest can reach seven or eight feet. Carapacians appear into existence spontaneously when the game gets formed, then get cloned in Ectobiology Labs hidden in the Veil. The cloned carapacians have barcodes on their wrists. The more prototypings happen, the more information is available to the ectobiology labs which incorporates new and monstrous elements. Carapacians usually wear suits and stylish hats. All carapacian names are combinations of two words, usually related to their job, such as Adored Sovereign, Wayward Vagabond, Peregrine Mendicant or Jack Noir. Carapacians do not speak with dialogue, instead talking using a third person narration of what they would say. Instead of saying "I am Wayward Vagabond", they would narrate the fact that their name is Wayward Vagabond, as such 'The carapacian explains that his name is Wayward Vagabond, and he goes to shake your hand.' They never use actual dialogue. Due to the existence of the dreamselves, all the carapacians know what the players look like before actually meeting their awake selves.

6. #6White Queenselective

   Keys: White Queen, queen

   The White Queen is the ruler of Prospit and a carapacian. She wears one of the Rings, which change her appearance based on the prototypings done by the Sburb Players. She is tall, and shaped similarly to a woman. She lacks hair, and her eyes are entirely black and quite small, but elongated. She, together with the White King, is a guide for the players in their quest to beat the game.

7. #7White Kingselective

   Keys: White King, King

   The White King is the king of Prospit, and he is tasked with leading his troops on the Battlefield while the White Queen rules Prospit. He is large and wide, towering over all other carapacians. He is quite strong, and uses a Scepter as his weapon. While holding it, his appearance changes based on the prototypings done by the Sburb players.

8. #8Black Queenselective

   Keys: Black Queen, Queen

   The Black Queen is the ruler of Derse and a carapacian. She wears one of the Rings, which change her appearance based on the prototypings done by the Sburb Players. She is tall, and shaped similarly to a woman, with an entirely black shell. She lacks hair, and her eyes are entirely black and quite small, but elongated. She, together with the Black King, are the antagonist forces of SBURB and attempt to prevent the players from winning the game.

9. #9Black Kingselective

   Keys: Black King, king

   The Black King is the king of Derse, and he is tasked with leading his troops on the Battlefield while the Black Queen rules Derse. He is large and wide, towering over all other carapacians. He is quite strong, and uses a Scepter as his weapon. While holding it, his appearance changes based on the prototypings done by the Sburb players. The Black King is destined to beat the White King without the players' intervention and initiate the Reckoning.

10. #10Jack Noirselective

    Keys: Jack Noir, Noir, Archagent

    Jack Noir is a black carapacian. He is the dersite archagent, and he oversees affairs of the kingdom, and does all the most tedious paperwork. He is the direct subordinate of the King and Queen. He is incredibly easy to anger, and incredibly dangerous, as he is very skilled with a knife. His role is usually as one of the main antagonists in Sburb session, and is almost always predetermined to rebel against the black king and queen. He is vicious, sarcastic, intolerant and nasty. He tries to shirk his royal duties at any time, and even decides to team up with the players if they let him kill the Black Queen. Jack Noir usually wears a shirt with a poofy collar, due to his job as an archagent. His preferred outfit is a stylish black suit and hat. Like all carapacians, he does not directly speak. Jack Noir is incredibly violent, and usually starts to attack people with his many knives if they annoy him. Jack Noir is the rival of Problem Sleuth.

11. #11Battlefieldselective

    Keys: Battlefield

    The Battlefield is a giant chessboard patterned planet located in the center of Skaia. It is the location where the fight between the Prospitian and Dersite armies take place, and it is where the Black King eventually initiates the Reckoning unless stopped by the players. The Battlefield changes shape, and becomes more complex the more times the players prototype their sprites. At the center of the battlefield, the Genesis Frog is placed to occupy the center of Skaia, thus winning the game and creating a new Universe. Before the first prototyping, it is a three by three chessboard, and only the White King and Black king exist, leaving it as an eternal stalemate. After a first prototyping, it is a full chess board. After a second one, it is a cube with forty eight squares to an edge and a few landmarks like rrees and lakes. After the third prototyping, it becomes a real full planet, and after the fourth one, it gains an outer shell made out of checkered tendrils.

12. #12The Veilselective

    Keys: The Veil, Veil

    The Veil is a large ring of asteroids in the incipisphere that forms the outer boundary of the medium. Most of the meteors contain buildings like labs, factories and genetic engineering facilities, that Derse and Prospit use They are considered a neutral ground between the two Kingdoms, and as such no fighting takes place within them.

13. #13The Reckoningselective

    Keys: Reckoning, The Reckoning

    The Reckoning is an event that lasts around twenty four hours, and launches all of the meteors from The Veil onto Skaia and the Battlefield. This event will destroy Skaia and lose the game for the players if not stopped. Skaia uses teleportation portals to transport the meteors to a different place in time and space, specifically above the original planet of the players, before they entered the game. The Reckoning begins when the Black King defeats the White King and captures his Scepter. It is then used to initiate the Reckoning, starting with the smallest meteors. If the Black King is not defeated within 24 hours, Skaia is destroyed and the session is rendered unwinnable.

14. #14Skaiaselective

    Keys: Skaia

    Skaia is a body in the center of the incipisphere, surrounding the battlefield inside. It has a blue surface with scattered white clouds, and serves the same role as a star, illuminating the incipisphere. it serves the role of the sky as well. It is important in a session of SBURB, as without it the Genesis Frog has no home to create the new Universe and win the game. Skaia can create defensive portals to prevent the meteors of the Reckoning from destroying it for the 24 hours. Skaia is tentatively sapient, but almost never acts, and it cannot speak. Looking up at Skaia from Derse or Prospit allows a player to look into its clouds, which sometimes shows glimpses of the future.

15. #15Problem Sleuthselective

    Keys: Problem Sleuth, Sleuth, PS

    Problem Sleuth is a white carapacian, and the archagent of Prospit. He is a hardboiled detective, and has a penchant for monologuing in an old 30's noir style. He is a bit dumb and impulsive, but generally a good person. He is quite strong, and skilled in combat, but isn't very intelligent or capable. He uses a Tommy Gun as his main weapon, which due to object/weapon duality turns into a ring of keys. He has quite a derpy look on his face, with his eyes a bit too far apart, and his mouth slightly open at all times. Problem Sleuth usually wears a white trench coat, and a white hat. His primary stat is pulchritude, and he likes candy corn and busts. Like all carapacians, he does not directly speak. Problem Sleuth is the rival of Jack Noir.

16. #16Cruxtruderselective

    Keys: Cruxtruder

    The Cruxtruder is a machine deployed from the Phrenalia Registry by server players in a SBURB session into a client's house.

    They deploy cruxite dowels and release the Kernelsprite. Opening the cruxtruder for the first time, before entering The Medium, starts a countdown sequence that specifies how much time is left before the client has to enter the game, lest the house be destroyed and the player killed, usually by a falling meteor. The countdown is displayed on a screen on the actual cruxtruder.

    The cruxtruder is very large, and shaped like a smaller rectangle stacked on top of a larger one, with a cylindrical tube rising from it, on the side of which is a valve which opens its top and releases the cruxite dowel. It also has four different screens that display the countdown, once it starts.

17. #17Cruxite Dowelselective

    Keys: Cruxile Dowel, Dowel

    A cruxite dowel is a long cylinder extracted from the cruxtruder. It is used together with the Alchemiter to create special objects, and can be carved by a Totem Lathe to change what is created. A carved cruxite dowel using the pre-punched punch card provided by the game from the Phrenalia Registry creates the cruxite artefact, which is used to teleport the player and the house into the Medium.

18. #18Cruxite artifactselective

    Keys: Cruxite artifact, artifact

    Cruxite artifacts are created by lathing a cruxite dowel with the pre-punched card provided by the phrenalia registry. They are used to enter the game. They usually are dropped by a larger item that disappears after dropping it, such as an cruxite apple tree dropping a cruxite apple artifact and then disappearing.

    The artifact must be used to teleport the player and the house into the Medium, and they are almost always symbols of departure, such as an Apple symbolizing the Fall of Man, or a bottle symbolizing a ship leaving port.

19. #19Punch Designixselective

    Keys: Punch Designix, Designix

    The punch designix is a machine deployed from the Phrenalia Registry. It is used together with Punch Cards and a Cruxite Dowel to alchemize items in the Alchemiter.

    It appears similar to a workstation with a keyboard and a slot for a captchalogue card. It can be used to punch holes in the captchalogue card, that when used together with the alchemiter can change what the Cruxite dowel gets made into. The machine requires a code to punch a card, and each object in the world has a specific code that can be read and inputted into the machine, to then punch a card with that. The codes are eight characters long, and accept every single possible key, from the alphabet, to numbers, to punctuation to other symbols such as ™

    The Punch Designix is can be used to punch multiple cards together to mix their effects.

20. #20Totem Latheselective

    Keys: Totem Lathe, Lathe

    The totem lathe is a machine that can be deployed by the server player from the Phrenalia Registry. It is used to carve cruxite dowels within certain patterns as dictated by punched cards. Together with the alchemiter, it allows the player to alchemize objects, creating them using Grist.

    This object is needed for the creation of a cruxite artifact that allows a player to enter the Medium

    The totem lathe looks like a regular lathe.

21. #21Gristselective

    Keys: Grist

    Grist is the generic name of a standardized range of resources used by players in Sburb and dropped by underlings, through beating quests and by recycling objects.

    Grist is used to alchemize objects with the Alchemiter, and by the server player to manipulate the client's surroundings.

    There are many types of grist, and the more powerful an enemy is, the more grist is dropped, and of more types.

    The most basic type is Build Grist, which takes the form of a elongated hexagonal bipyramid, and it is light blue. It is specifically similar to blue raspberry gushers, but it cannot be eaten.

    There are thirty six different types of grist, including amber, amethyst, caulk, diamond, garnet, gold, and so on. Grist specifically is a physical representation of platonic ideals which an item is composed from, and such the more complex an item is, the more grist it will cost to make and give when recycled.

    Grist looks different by type, alternating from a pyramid, to a jewel, to a drop, to a cube.

    Artifact Grist is a specific kind of grist that is created by alchemising Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff related items. All items that have it cost a negative amount of grist, thus giving you more grist by making them.

22. #22Alchemiterselective

    Keys: Alchemiter, alchemy machine

    The Alchemiter is a machine that can be used together with a cruxite dowel to create a new object through alchemy. An unaltered cruxite dowel leads to the creation of a Perfectly Generic Object, a green cube with rounded corners. Depending on what the cruxite dowel was lathed with in the totem lathe, the alchemiter will create different objects. By combining the patterns of two punched cards together, the Alchemiter can create objects that share attributes, whether visual or functional.

    Depending on how a card was punched in the punch designix, it can either have the symbolic appearance of one and the function of another, or have a mixed appearance and function. By using a card combined with the OR, ||, operation, it creates an object with the functionality of the first and the look of the second, such as mixing a hammer with a pogo resulting in the Hammerhead Pogo Ride, which is a pogo in the shape of a hammer.

    By using a card combined with the AND, &&, operation, the resulting object has a shared function and appearance of both objects, such mixing a phone and a pair of sunglasses reading to a pair of iShades, which are sunglasses that work like a phone. This functionality is incredibly extensive, and can break the laws of physics. The method of mixing items is very abstract.

    Unless upgraded, there is no way to know what you will get by creating a combined card item until you actually make it. The Alchemiter lacks a screen.

    A combined item has a fitting name given to it automatically, either referencing the objects it was made from, being a pun or being a reference to an existing thing.

    The alchemiter looks like a rectangular machine with one large pad on which the items are created, a smaller one to store the lathed cruxite dowel and a robotic arm that scans the dowel then creates the item. The alchemiter's pad is engraved with a fractal pattern similar to a transportalizer's and an appearifier's.

23. #23Sylladexselective

    Keys: sylladex, inventory system, captchalogue, deck

    The sylladex is an inventory system that is used by people. It is diagetic, and allows a person to carry an object in an abstract space using a captchalogue card in their captchalogue dex. The captchalogue dex is where objects are stored while in the cards, and they have no physical space and weight. Captchalogue decks have a limit of how many objects can be stored based on the amount of captchalogue cards a person has in their deck.

    Most people in the world use a sylladex as their inventory system due to its convenience..

    The sylladex exists independent of SBURB.

    The storing of objects in the Sylladex depends on the currently active fetch modus, which specifies how cards are stored and accessed, such as the Sylladex Stack Fetch Modus, which functions like a computer stack, only allowing one to pick up the oldest inserted card in the deck. Most fetch moduses are based on computer algorithms, such as the hash map modus and the Tree modus. Fetch moduses have no limit to how abstract their function is.

    Living things can be captchalogued.

24. #24Captchalogue cardselective

    Keys: captchalogue card, card

    A captchalogue card is the object in which items are stored in the sylladex inventory system. It is a real object that can be held, and its shape and size does not change based on what is inside it, though it gains an image of what is inside on the front. The cards are used together with the punch designix to create the punched cards, which are used for Alchemy.

    Captchalogue cards have an eight character code on their back that is used in the punch designix.

    Everyone that uses a sylladex has captchalogue cards, and they are not created by SBURB itself.

25. #25Alchemyselective

    Keys: Alchemy, alchemize, alchemizing

    Alchemy is the process of using grist together with an alchemiter and a cruxite dowel to create new objects. This requires the punching of a captchalogue card, the use of the punched card together with a totem lathe and a cruxite dowel to created a lathed cruxite dowel, which is then put inside the alchemiter and fed grist, leading to the creation of a new item. By punching a card multiple times with different objects it is possible to alter what is created, leading to the creation of mixed objects such as a Green Slime Suit by mixing a normal suit and a Slimer shirt using the || option, or a Pogo Hammer, but mixing a claw hammer with a pogo using the && option.

    Alchemy consumes grist. Without grist, the item cannot be created by the Alchemiter. The cost of an item depends on its complexity.

26. #26Sweet Bro and Hella Jeffselective

    Keys: Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, sbahj, Sweet Bro, Hella Jeff

    Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff is a webcomic made by Dave Strider. It is purposefully low quality, filled with jpeg artefacts, random lines, incredibly bad spelling and very off-beat humour. It is 'ironically' bad.

    If anything relating to Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff is used for alchemy, it will corrupt the item and turn it into something vaguely impossible, such as a two dimensional object with jpeg artifacts, or a floating skateboard with a very low resolution, or a blurry statue of Liberty. It will also cause everything to cost negative grist, and give out 'artifact' grist. The title of the object will be incredibly misspelled and near incomprehensible.

    A specific example of an item is the Unreal Air, which is the combination of a SBAHJ poster and a Skateboard. It is a skateboard, with jpeg artifacts, permanently tilted at a 45 degree angle and slightly floating upwards more and more.

27. #27Godtierselective

    Keys: God tier, godtier, god-tier, godtiering, godtiered, dogtier

    A god tier is the highest possible power level achievable by a player in SBURB, and also the peak of power for a player. The god tier unlocks all of the powers of a player's classpect, grants them flight, and grants them conditional immortality. A player godtiers by having their body placed on either a Quest Bed, if their dreamself is alive, or on a Sacrificial Slab if the dreamself is dead. This either means the player has to commit suicide, or has to get their dead body placed on it by someone else. Upon godtiering with a Quest Bed, the player will be teleported to the Battlefield on a corresponding Quest Bed, and they will be revived and godtiered. Upon godtiering on a Sacrificial slab, the player will just revive and be godtiered on the slab itself. If the Battlefield never evolved enough to create dreambeds, or got destroyed, then the first method never works. Sacrificial Slabs are found on either Derse or Prospit, in the crypts. All methods to godtier are aspect dependent. A time player cannot be revived by a Breath Sacrificial Slab. Upon godtiering, a player is dressed in a uniform of their class coloured with the colours of their aspect. This uniform is self-cleaning.

    The godtier's conditional immortality hinges upon a death being Just or Heroic. The Game itself decides the moral implications of a death. A Just death implies that the player 'deserved' it, such as a murderer godtier being killed by their victim, or a player being killed in the progress of ruining a session. A heroic death implies the player died saving another, whether it be another player, a group of consorts or existence itself. If a death is Heroic or Just, the godtier player stays dead, otherwise, they get revived a while later, all wound healed.

28. #28Landsselective

    Keys: Lands, Land of, Land

    The Lands are the generated planets assigned to each player once they get into the game. Each planet or land is assigned to a specific hero and has its traits associated with them. They contain their quest beds, dungeons, consorts and their towns, the Denizen Lairs.

    Each land has traits associated with the mythological role and personality of the player it was assigned to. As such, the planets can be filled with ruins, or cities, or mountains, or be oceanic, or have lava oceans. The traits are numerous and incredibly distinct.

    All lands have simple names in the format of the Land of X and Y, such as the Land of Fog and Smoke or the Land of Light and Rain. The Land always has two descriptors, and the descriptors have to be names of objects or concepts, such as the Land of Fire and Ice or the Land of Growth and Death. The names are related to the player assigned in some way, such as the Land of Wind and Shade being assigned to the Heir of Breath. Sometimes, the lands' names are turned into acronyms, such as the Land of Fog and Smoke becoming LOFAS or the Land of Colours and Mayhem becoming LOCAM.

    Upon entering the game, the player's home is teleported onto the land and a series of gates that link to different lands in the session are placed above the home.

    Each land has a quest that must be finished to restore it to its proper form. This quest is tied to the characteristics of the player and their aspect, such as a breath player's land being covered in oil, which must be cleared by playing a grand pipe organ in the middle of the Land. These quests are issued by the Denizens.

    There are never more lands than players.

29. #29Consortsselective

    Keys: Consorts, consort, salamander

    Consorts are amphibious or reptilian creatures that live on each of the planets or lands in the Medium. They are quite stupid, but have an innate knowledge of Alchemy, and have a desire to learn. They can talk, and they can universally worship the Genesis Frog, raising frog-shaped temples to it. Consorts seem to be inclined to help the players, mainly by taking care of their homes while they are gone on quests in their lands. They are technically NPCs that SBURB creates to aid the players by selling them new abilities and giving them quests. There can be very different types of consorts sometimes, such as 'brains' or 'angels', both of which have special abilities such as flying.

30. #30Mythological Roleselective

    Keys: mythological role, classpect

    A mythological role, also known as a classpect, is a role assigned to each player by SBURB, comprising of a class and aspect. The mythological roles are usually portrayed. There are a total of 12 aspects and 14 classes.

31. #31Aspectsselective

    Keys: Aspect, aspects

    An aspect is a generalized form for an element, or a primal force of reality. They are the platonic ideals from which reality is built in SBURB. There are only twelve aspects, and they are Space, Time, Mind, Heart, Hope, Rage, Breath, Blood, Life, Doom, Light and Void. Each of them represents multiple things, but all of them are different. The Space aspects represents reality, its colour is black. Its sign is a swirl. The Time aspect represents time, its colour is red. Its sign is a cog. The Mind aspect represents the intelligent part of the soul, its colour is cyan. Its sign is a circle with three tendrils The Heart aspect represents the soul itself, its colour is fuchsia. Its sign is a heart split in half at the middle. The Hope aspect represents fiction and goodness, its colour is light yellow. Its sign is two wings. The Rage aspect represents rage and the fight against inevitability, its colour is purple. Its sign is an oni mask. The Breath aspect represents freedom, its colour is blue. Its sign is two swirls of win. The Blood aspect represents the bonds between people, its colour is blood red. Its sign is a weeping wound. The Life aspect represents life and creation itself, its colour is cream and green. Its sign is two growing vines. The Doom aspect represents fate and inevitability, its colour is dark green. Its sign is a skull. The Light aspect represents knowledge, fire and wealth, its colour is gold. Its sign is the sun. The Void aspect represents a lack of existence and potential, its colour is dark blue. Its sign is the inverse of the space swirl.

    The aspect of a player determines what abilities they will have when god-tiered, and also determines how they will interact with their session. For example, a breath player could control the wind and fly, and a heart player could clone himself and split his soul. As for the game's challenges, depending on the aspect the player will have different goals in the game, such as a breath player needing to become more mature and become independent. A session will ALWAYS have at least a space and a time player, as they are needed to beat the game. A player does not have all of their aspect powers until they godtier.

32. #32Classesselective

    Keys: Classes, class

    A class is a term assigned to each player to denote their mechanics, their role and how they interact with their aspects. There are active and passive classes, and that determines how they interact with their aspects. Active classes act for their own gain, while passive classes act for the gain of the others. There are twelve normal classes, and two master classes. The twelve normal classes are the Rogue, the Thief, the Heir, the Maid, the Page, the Knight, the Seer, the Mage, the Sylph, the Witch, the Bard and the Prince. The two master classes are the Muse and the Lord. The Muse and the Lord are only assigned in exceptionally difficult sessions of the game where the game would be unbeatable otherwise. The Rogue steals their aspect for the good of the team. The rogue has a hoodie and cloth eye coverings. The Thief steals their aspect for their own good. The thief has a hoodie and small cape. The Heir develops into the aspect, and evolves through it. The Heir has a long hoodie that looks like a cape. The Maid heals the aspect, such as a Maid of Time fixing space paradoxes. The maid has a hoodie and short pants. The Page have a lot of potential to manipulate their aspect. The page has a medium cape and incredibly short pants. The Knight fights using their aspect. The knight has a cape, a hoodie and long pants. The Seer sees the future, no matter their aspect, but also sees specifically related things to their aspect. The seer has a long hoodie and oversized shirt. The Mage learns through their aspect, and learns to control it. The mage has a hoodie and a cape. The Sylph heals through their aspect. The sylph's uniform is very long, reaching to the legs, and it has a hoodie. The Witch controls their aspect instinctually. The witch has twin-tailed hoodie and stripped socks. The Bard spreads their aspect. The bard has a conical cloth hat, two capes and a long codpiece. The Prince destroys their aspect or through their aspect. The prince has a sharp cape and short pants.

    The Muse directs their aspect like a muse, without any direct control. The muse has a hoodie, a bowtie and shoulder coverings. The Lord is the culmination of the Aspect, and all of existence leads to the creation of the Lord via the aspect. A Lord of Time might have their birth be a culmination of a stable temporal loop. The lord has a very long cape and a bowtie. A class has its power differ based on what aspect is associated with it, such as a Knight of Time fighting with time-related weapons, while a Bard of Rage might utilize his rage and inspire his teammates into berserk rages.

    A player does not have all of their class powers until they godtier.

33. #33Sacrificial Slabselective

    Keys: Sacrificial Slab, Slab

    A sacrificial slab is a slab of rock engraved with the sign of an aspect. It is used by players to godtier by having a corpse of a player with the correct aspect placed on it. They always spawn on either Prospit or Derse, in the crypts. The Sacrificial Slab of a player is always the same aspect as the player. If a player of the wrong aspect is placed on a bed, it does not work, such as a Space Player and a Time Slab.

34. #34Quest Bedselective

    Keys: Quest Bed, god bed, quest cocoon

    A quest bed is a rock bed upon a spire that the players use to godtier. It is engraved with the sign of its respective player's aspect, and spawns on the land of the correct player. If a corpse is placed on it of the correct aspect, the player will godtier and get revived. They do not work if the Battlefield is destroyed. Quest Beds exist on the Battlefield too, and they correspond to the ones that exist on each land. When a player godtiers using a quest bed, they get teleported to their respective quest bed on the Battlefield. The Quest Bed of a player is always the same aspect as the player. If a player of the wrong aspect is placed on a bed, it does not work, such as a Space Player and a Time Bed.

35. #35Kernelspriteselective

    Keys: kernelsprite

    A kernelsprite is a glowing orb released by the first usage of the Cruxtruder, together with the cruxite dowel.

    It is rapidly flashing, and assigned to the player that opened the cruxtruder. It can be prototyped with items to adopt their appearance, eventually becoming a semi-anthropomorphized variant of the object once the games start.

    Kernelsprites need to be prototyped before the player enters the session to allow the Battlefield to develop, and to allow the Carapacians to learn from the prototypings.

    Kernelsprites cannot communicate with players, only releasing jarring, loud sounds. Kernelsprites follow their players around.

    A kernelsprite becomes a sprite only after the player has entered the session. Before that, it remains as a glowing orb, with a single trait of what it got prototyped with, such as a kernelsprite that is prototyped with a jester hat becoming a glowing orb with a jester hat.

    Kernelsprites prototyped with representations of real creatures become a floating head of that creature, until turned into real sprites.

36. #36Spriteselective

    Keys: sprite

    A sprite is a prototyped kernelsprite, having attained the traits of the objects it was prototyped with. It is semi-humanoid, having the upper body of a humanoid with the lower body of a stereotypical ghost, tapering off. The sprite can float, and can talk, but the way it talks depends on what sort of objects it was prototyped with. For example, a sprite prototyped with a jester doll turns into a jester sprite, that is very focused on clowning and japery. Sprites are assigned to each player as a guardian and guide, and they have a lot of knowledge about SBURB, but depending on the prototyped item they might refuse to give up the information or be general pains in the ass. Sprites are strong, and have magical healing powers. Sprites can be prototyped with anything, including corpses, even after the game has started. If a sprite is prototyped with a corpse, they become a sprite of that person, plus whatever it might have been prototyped with before. Sprites can refuse prototyping with certain items, but not with corpses. Sprites, upon contact, prototype with each other and become combinations of everything that was used to make the individual sprites.

37. #37Prototypeselective

    Keys: Prototype, prototyping, prototyped

    Prototyping is the act in which a sprite or a kernelsprite is combined with an item or person and gets their specific characteristics assigned, such as a sprite prototyped with a clown wig getting a clown appearance and becoming goofy. A kernelsprite that gets prototyped remains a glowing orb, and gets a single trait of the prototyped items, such as it getting a single cowboy hat when prototyped with a cowboy doll, until it enters the Medium, at which point it becomes a sprite.

38. #38Dreamselfselective

    Keys: Dreamself, dreamselves, dream body

    Every player of a session has a Dreamself, even if they have not played the game yet. It is an atemporal second self that exists in the player towers on either Derse or Prospit, depending on the personality of the player.

    They are a second body, left asleep, of a player. If a player is rebellious, they appear on Derse, and if a player is true to themselves, they appear on Prospit, both times in a tower.

    The existence of dreamselves is not known to the majority of people, as only a few ever play SBURB, and even less awaken their dreamselves before SBURB is released.

    Dreamselves get merged with the main body during godtiering. If a player dies, and their corpse gets kissed, their dreamself merges with the original body and they revive, but they do not godtier and cannot godtier on quest beds anymore. Dreamselves can be killed. Dreamselves can awaken prematurely, sometimes during a player's normal sleep. Dreamselves can always fly.

    Dersite dreamselves are dressed in purple pyjamas emblazoned with the sign of a crooked moon on their chest.

    Prospitian dreamselves are dressed in golden pyjamas emblazoned with the sign of a crooked moon on their chest.

    Dreamselves are not independent of the main soul and mind of the player, and cannot act on their own, except for sleepwalking.

39. #39Genesis Frogselective

    Keys: Genesis frog, the frog

    The genesis frog, and its creation, is the ultimate goal of SBURB. It is a frog that contains the essence needed to create the next universe. It is created through the ectobiologizing of normal frogs into a specific frog juvenile form, that gets released and fed with grist upon defeating the Black King to grow into the next Universe and generate the Ultimate Reward.

40. #40Denizenselective

    Keys: denizen

    The Denizens are creatures of immense powers, taking the shape of a being with the lower body of a snake and the upper body of a humanoid. The are gigantic, and rest in their lairs, which are usually built within the land. They are meant to be the final boss a player has to challenge on their respective land, and they issue an extremely difficult quest that upon completion clears the land and unlocks the Grist Cache, which is used to beat the game. They are extremely powerful, and if the quest cannot be completed, they can be killed for the Grist Cache. They cannot be understood by anyone except their respective player, instead making harsh and grating sounds. They are named after gnostic or hermetic figures or after greek myths, such as Haephestus, Typhaes, Echidna, Abraxas and Yaldabaoth. If they have a gnostic name, such as Yaldabaoth, their upper body turns distinctly less humanoid, becoming something representative of their name such as a sun face or a rooster's head. They are generally benevolent, and are incredibly intelligent. Their goal is to help the player grow as a person.

41. #41queens ringsselective

    Keys: Ring, rings, queen's ring

    The White and Black queens have a pair of golden rings studded with pearls, which are incredibly important for the session. There are as many pearls as there are players in a session. If there is a single player, there is a single pearl, and if there are twelve, there are twelve pearls. When worn, they prototype the person wearing the ring with every single object that was prototyped in the session's history, turning them into a monstrosity with a large amount of power, while retaining their intelligence perfectly. If prototyped with a cowboy doll and a rooster, for example, the ring would give the Queen the feathers and claws of a rooster, and the clothing and gun of a cowboy. The rings also allow the wearer to use the Red Miles attack, which creates gigantic red tendrils that stretch out for miles and rip things to shreds. The rings must be dropped in the Forge to facilitate the spawning of the Genesis Frog.

42. #42Underlingsselective

    Keys: Underlings, imp, ogre, cyclops, lich

    Underlings are game constructs created by SBURB once the game has started. They are creatures that side with Derse that appear around the player and attempt to attack them. The pre-Medium entrance prototyping affect the underlings, giving them the characteristics of all the prototyped items. An imp would be wearing a jester's outfit if a jester's hat was prototyped with a sprite or kernelsprite. There are a few types of underlings: Imps, which are small and pointy, Ogres and Cyclops, which are very big and strong, liches, which are skeletal and lack eyeballs. They are named after a material, and share its colours, same as Grist, such as Shale Imps or Caulk Liches.

43. #43First Guardianselective

    Keys: First Guardian, Guardian, Becquerel

    The First Guardian is an entity created by SBURB for every planet that eventually harbors intelligent life. It defends the planet from threats until it can produce a civilization capable of creating or discovering SBURB and playing it to completion. First guardians are as old as the planets they guard, and they have a paradoxical existence that starts after they have already died.

    They are nearly omnipotent, and are powered by the Green Sun. When they use their powers, they are surrounded by cracking green lightning.

    First Guardians are universally white, and sometimes lack certain features like eyes. They are usually in the form of animals, and are not very intelligent, more acting on instinct. A dog First Guardian would act like a normal dog, except that it would have innate knowledge of its powers and how to use them.

    The First Guardian of Earth is Becquerel, a white dog with no eyes that defends Jade Harley.

    The First Guardian of Alternia is Doc Scratch, a sapient and humanoid First Guardian with a white cueball for his head. He is malicious and only exists to facilitate the creation of Lord English.

44. #44Transportalizerselective

    Keys: Transportalizer, portalizer

    A transportalizer is a pedestal-shaped device used to transport people and objects to other pads. They are found in the Medium naturally, and they are made by Skaianet on Earth. The Transportalizers in the Medium lead to Ectobiology labs. They are engraved with fractal patterns similar to the alchemiters and appearifiers.

45. #45Appearifierselective

    Keys: Appearifier, ifier, appearify

    The appearifier is a machine that transports matter from one place to itself. It is shaped like a pad, with a ray emitting section raised above the pad, which actually does the appearification. The appearifier can transport items from any place, and even the past, but if an item is important for the progression of the timeline, it will only create a gelatinous green ghost of the object, that dissolves into a pile of sludge. Through ectobiology, a clone of the object you tried to appearify can be created, somehow. The appearifier is powerd by uranium. The appearifier has knobs for latitude, longitude, altitude and time. Its reverse is called a Sendificator, and it sends objects instead of retrieving them.

46. #46Sendificatorselective

    Keys: Sendificator

    The Sendificator is a machine that transports matter from from itself to any point in space and time. It is shaped like a pad, with three ray emitting sections raised above the pad, which actually do the sendification. The sendificator has no limits for what it can send, save for size, as it cannot send items which do not fit on the pad. The sendificator is powered by uranium. The sendificator has knobs for latitude, longitude, altitude and time. Its reverse is called an appearifier, and it retrieves objects instead of sending them.

47. #47Fenestrated planeselective

    Keys: fenestrated plane, fenestrated pane, window, fenestrated window

    Fenestrated planes are flat planes that connect one place to another. They are used for surveillance, and if broken through, can be used for physical transport. The transport takes the traveler through a dark dimension with nothing in it, where it subjectively takes an increasing amount of time to pass through based on the distance between the original plane and its exit. The time to travel between a universe and another using planes is of a year of travel at the speed of light. Fenestrated planes need power, and one without power is instantly shut off and cannot operate. Being stuck in one while it is shut off causes your body parts to get cut off. Because of their bizarre spatial properties, windows can potentially be pushed through each other to such a point that they become an infinitely recurring fractal, which eventually causes an infinite loopback of power leading to an explosion. In a case where two planes are connected but are of differing sizes, the traveller may find their relative dimensions altered when they emerge through some planes.

48. #48Strife Specibusselective

    Keys: Strife Specibus, specibus, strife deck

    The strife deck is a part of the Captchalogue. It allows the assignment of a weapon to its card, which then allows the user to use that weapon to fight. The strife deck is part of a strife specibus, which lists the type of weapons that can fit in the strife decks. As such, a riflekind specibus would allow any sort of rifle in the deck, but not a sword or a hammer. All the different strife specibi are divided among many kinds of abstrata, and are always named [weapon]kind. They are limited to twelve letters, and as such a flashlight specibus would be called a flshlghtkind. Characters can have multiple strife specibi, but they usually have only one. Once assigned to a specific weapon kind, a strife specibus cannot be reassigned.

49. #49Green Sunselective

    Keys: Green Sun, Sun

    The Green Sun is a massive star in the middle of the Furthest Ring, the space outside of the Medium, with the mass of two universes.

    It is the source of the power of all the First Guardians, and of Lord English's immortality.

    Every single mention of the Green Sun is surrounded by tags that change its colour to be 00ed4f, as such Green Sun. Even in normal dialogue.

50. #50Skaianetselective

    Keys: Skaianet

    Skaianet is the corporation that creates SBURB in the main timeline. It is also responsible for the production of incredibly technology such as the appearifiers and transportalizers.

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