For some reason I had the idea that SBURB will try to kill any extraneous people who get brought along into the game. Not supposed to be here, don’t need you messing around, die and get out of the way. Presumably this impression is from the beta session, but that was Bec Noir, and there is nothing normal about Bec Noir even by SBURB standards.
What SBURB tries to do with extraneous people is throw them in jail on Derse. Keep them out of the way, but offer them to the successful player as a bonus reward.
Now that I’ve thought of this it seems incredibly obvious.
related concept: sollux sending karkat the bee movie script at every opportunity possible not because he actually thinks it’s a funny prank, but because karkat never fails to get pissed off about it in a spectacularly entertaining way and only grows more incoherently angry each time sollux does it
sollux: ugh i feel like shit, time two give myself a present *double clicks “fuck KK up” executable on his desktop that automatically downloads 800 copies of the bee movie script to karkat’s hard drive*
[1 minute later]
sollux: *checks his computer*
trollian: 50 unread messages from carcinoGeneticist
