@rinshn @rng_malrab

I wholeheartedly agree, fraymotifs are always awesome and it's a shame that we don't see them more often. I think what we did get still gives us a little to talk about though. We know that they are like special attacks and that there are both solo and team-up versions of them. That they are connected to music, at least thematically... Though what we don't know is quite a lot too haha. Like, once you buy them, can you use them whenever you want, or are they one time use? Do classes matter to fraymotifs? What about generally the player themselves, are they person specific? So much to think on.

I think that's a pretty fun headcanon you have about grist hordes, btw, M.

Dreamselves are a little tricky... I think if you have skaian precognition or wake up in the incipisphere you have to have a dreamself and therefore the ability to play a game, you're likely destined for it or were set up by a temporal force, but I'd argue theoretically anyone could play the game and have both their session and their dreamself made after the fact. As you might know, sessions are "older" than the games they are the settings of, but I don't think you would retroactively gain memories of your dreamself doing things, since that would be impossible, as even if to the POV of the carapacians and other game constructs it has always existed, in your POV it's only just come into being. HS2 might confirm this, I don't think any of the Omega or Delta kids have mentioned dream abilities just yet, but it might not either.

@mutteredverbatim

The porkhollow is cute! And yes, talk of sylladexes, modii and specibi is welcome here.

I wouldn't be hasty with the assumption that they are unrelated to SBURB, but they are constructs that can exist independently of the game (like Mom's laboratory, transportalizers or the frog temple) and them being very game-y systems that are unique yet tie perfectly into the game makes them interesting for me, like you've said.

Without alchemy, how are modii developed? Do they use the magical-technological systems such as ~ATH in order to have all the abilities and incredible amount of variety they posess?

I think you're right in why the characters were hardly surprised by the magic house construction of SBURB when they've been living with sylladexes their entire lives. Nothing would really surprise you at that point.