Seigest

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11432091

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04/25/10- "Dave: Be the puppet.” (/homestuck/1755) to 04/27/10 - "AR?: Pop a fucking wheelie.” (/homestuck/1778)"

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Dave has awoken in the dreaming world. Or he’s sleeping in the waking world. Unlike John and Rose it seems there wasn’t much stopping him from doing this sooner. Rose had just shown up in Dave's dreamscape and woke him up to jam to some tunes for a while. One weird thing about Daves room in the dreaming world is that Lil’ Cal is not only there but seems to be moving on its own. In the real world Cal had appeared to do this, but Big Bro was moving Cal at near light speed. The strife between big bro and Dave destroyed Cal. So how the hell was Cal here and moving on its own? Rose took the wise route by hucking Cal out of Dave's window before she returned to the waking world.

Dave had no complaint he found Cal very annoying. But, Cal’s gets caught by a random rocket board going through the streets of Derse. Also in Derse, are the exiles from a time before their exile. Aimless Renegade (AR) is an Authority Regulator at this time. This scene of a weird puppet falling onto a preposterously convenient rocket board caught AR’s attention. AR would need to investigate. Cal absconds into a transportalizer followed by AR.

John is on the Land for Light and Rain (LOLAR) where Rose entered the game. Since Rose was asleep when John had gotten there he’s decided to go exploring with his jetpack. He discovers the Island cave where Rose's mom had gone to with Maplehoof. Though it is still swarming with monsters, these ones look a bit more demonic. But John's new Fear No Anvil is very strong and takes care of them quickly.

John finds the same transportalizer and goes through it. He's sent to a lab floating on an asteroid in the veil. This is entirely off of the planet he was just on. It seems This is the same place Roses mom, John's dad, that guy who looked like Jade's Grandpa, and Cal all ended up at. We know this is the case because dad’s old oily fedora, the Colonel Sassacre, Maplehoof and Cal are just there next to the transportalizers. John naturally hops on Maplehoof, because free mount. The lab itself is huge, there is a huge wall that looks like old tape drives. The center of the lab has 4 massive jars containing huge chess pieces. Around those are jars that seem to contain capricians. John also discovers a Junior ectobiologist lab suit that seems made for him. The suit even has his green ghost logo on the belt. There is also a 4 monitor display wall.

It seems AR is outside of the lab. John isn't aware of them, and they are not aware of John. AR doing some sick tricks in ZeroG on the rocket board. This is against their uptight personality but they seem to be letting loose.

Till tomorrow, keep riding the ~~ponies~~ pumpkin tide.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11393489

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04/23/10- "John: Visit Rose's alchemiter.” (/homestuck/1737) to 04/24/10 - "==>” (/homestuck/1754)"

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John is still at Rose's house awkwardly loitering around waiting for Rose to wake up. John visits Rose’s alchemiter. It looks like Dave had upgraded her alchemiter at some point to be similar to his own. John uses this to create the item from the code given to him by DaveSprite.

The item is a very expensive and gigantic hammer. Though by scaling it to a usable size he could actually build it. This is likely with the help of Maplehoof recently looting a huge amount of rare resources. The hammer, called Fear No Anvil, is a clockwork and ruby theme. John asked DaveSprite where he got it, but was only told “Hephaestus”. Hephaestus is also the name of Daves web browser oddly enough.

Dave, the “real” Dave, is hanging out with Rose in the dreaming world. It seems his computer from there can still see Rose's house and Rose and Dave have noticed John is there. Rose decides to return to the waking world to greet her guest.

Meanwhile twinArmageddons [TA] is helping grimAuxiliatrix [GA] with her computer. It seems the trolls have software called Trollian. It looks like the trolls can see the timelines of calling the kids (“chumps”). The “viewport” feature even allows them to see the kids. They are currently watching Rose wake up next to a panicking salamander child. She notices immediately that someone was using her pesterchum account. She goes to confront John on this but gets pranked as a bucket falls on her head filled with gushers.

John, being impatient, decides to rocket off and explore the Land of Light and Rain (LOLAR). This leaves Rose watching him zoom off as she’s just missed his departure. He takes Mewtini with him. As they’ve swapped companions they’ve also given them new names. Not knowing what names they had previously. John has named Mewtini as Doctor Meowgon, I think this is a reference to Dr. Egon from the GhostBusters Movie. Casey is now Viceroy Bubbles Von Salamancer.

Till tomorrow, wait patiently and keep riding the pumpkin tide.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11348091

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04/20/10- "==>” (/homestuck/1714) to 04/22/10 - "==>” (/homestuck/1736)"

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John for, possibly, the first time has just met Rose. Which is to say he’s crashed through the wall of her bedroom in a jetpack. Somehow Rose is still asleep. John is trying to not be a creep about this situation. So in true non-werido fashion John is now on Rose's laptop. He responds to the troll who is messaging her, pretending to be her.

grimAuxiliatrix [GA] is trying to reach Rose. It seems from GA’s perspective this is her first contact with any of the kids. GA considers Rose a friend in Rose's perception of time. Someone she has trolled into submission of some sorts, the GA John is about to talk with knows none of that.

John uses this opportunity to hype himself as Rose's crush. He suggests GA contact John in the past to confuse him. This will explain some of the conversations between GA and Rose on page 1093 and 1592.

We get to see a bit of what is going on when the Trolls end here. We see GA in a compound of some sort on a PC. Other trolls are on her side but we can’t see who. Also gallowsCalibrator [GC] is behind her. The set-up is like an old fashioned LAN party. QA us contacting another troll twinArmageddons [TA] who we haven't seen yet. It seems that TA is sort of the IT guy of the groups and GA needs them to help with setting up the “viewport”. GA is apparently not good with computers and TA is a bit of a dick about. But, they forget GA is in the same room as she goes and bonks him for his comments.

TA is much like the other trolls, grey skinned, symbol of Gemini and 4 small horns. They have notable glasses with one red and one blue lens.

Bothe Dave and Rose are asleep in the waking world which means they awake in the dream world. As the both reside in Derse when creaming they’ve met up to jam. We get a taste of some really good tracks here. The whole time they are jamming Cal is just warping around annoyingly so Rose chucks Cal out of Dave's window.

For some reason we now get to see what Maplehoof is up to. Maplehoof went to the same island with Rose's Mom on the Land of Light and Rain (LOLAR). They'd been waiting outside while Roses mom utterly destroyed a huge monster inside. Maple hoof collects all the Grist and other resources that Roses Mom left behind. It seems she has no need for any of that. All the grist Maplehoof collects goes to Rose for some reason. As it is too much, much of it goes to a “gutter” where it's redistributed to the other player via GristTorrent. We then see maple hoof follow Mom into a transportalizer.

We also see the fedora John had delivered find its way to John's Dad on the Land of Wind and Shade (LOWAS). His current hat is stained with oil. He had found a replacement to his missing shoe. John's dad also encounters the same stranger that saved John from the Basilisk back on page 1455. They are holding the Colonel Sassacre. Also, look suspiciously like Jade's long dead grandpa. John's dad follows him through a transportalizer.

Till tomorrow, enjoy some jams with sleeping friends, and keep riding the pumpkin tide.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11152808

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04/16/10- "John: Answer GC.” (/homestuck/1684) to 04/20/10 - "John: Deploy beloved daughter.” (/homestuck/1713)"

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DaveSprite saved John from his own gullibility. gallowsCalibrator [GC] had convinced John that he could skip a big chunk of the game. He only needed to go directly to a late level boss. But, DaveSprite came from the doomed future where John did that and died. So John, warned of his impending doom, eventually avoided it.

John is again confronted with advice from GC. She doesn't seem to know what John could be so salty about, it's not like her advice in this timeline. GC has a map to the second gate for John to regain his trust. John's supposed to go through the second at this point in the game so it should be safer and not lead to his death. Also this map isn’t hand drawn by a blind troll so it's actually legible. John, seemingly having learned nothing, flies over to it in his jetpack.

That gate takes him directly to the Land for Light and Rain (LOLAR). Jetpacks are not exactly easy to control, and Johns ends up crashing right into Rose's bedroom. This does not wake her up. We can also see her room has “MEOW” all over it. I also noticed her lathe is now completely trashed.

This is awkward for a lot of reasons. As far as we know these friends have never met in the real world. Imagine you had a lady friend on the internet for many years. Seeing them for the first time is already pretty awkward. Crashing through a wall of their bedroom in a jetpack is just too invasive. Especially since she's asleep. At least Mewtini is awake.

DaveSprite explains that John had in fact gone through the second gate and wasn't tricked. Though he is ahead of schedule. Gate 1 for John leads to his planet, which means Rose needs to get to gate 3 to get to her own planet. And gate 4 on Roses planet leads to Daves. Normally John cant get here without building up his house more but the jetpack was a bit of a cheat. Though John finds all that fascinating he actually wanted to talk to “real Dave”. DaveSprite gave him crap for that as he is also real. DaveSprite experienced a trauma that year just to give John's timeline a chance. He gives John an item code before moving on.

Dave wants John to rummage through as much of Rose's stuff as possible before she wakes up. John isn't comfortable with this gross idea but agrees to give Dave the item codes to Roses journals.

Rose meanwhile is floating around Derse. She is ins A Purple Derse garb. She goes to Dave's tower and throws a ball of yarn at him. This actually causes him to awaken, and fall asleep in the waking world. Dave's dream tower is a bit odd, it looks exactly like his room but Cal is also there in the Dersite garb and moving around. It also has crows and the graffiti on his wall are just drawings of sweet bro and hella jeff.

In the waking world John Dave sends him a line of gibberish as he’s now asleep on his keyboard. John pursues Rose’s book selection, finding a philosophy book by Charles Barkly. This is a callback to misquoting him in a poem. John eventually succumbs to his curiosity to see what Rose was going to send him as a birthday gift. She was also sending John a Con Air Bunny but one that was half knitted. The non-knitted parts also seem to be splotch in crude oil.

Her letter suggests that it was from her childhood and something she loved dearly. The years had made it tattered and too delicate to ever wash. She resurrected it using the knitting supplies that John had given her. Now she wanted John to have it. It’s clear that this was the original con air bunny that Dave had given John. That one is currently in possession of Casey the salamander. But will somehow go back in time and end up with a child version of Rose.

This reminds John that Casey is currently in his inventory. John deploys the salamander child to stay with Rose as he believes that may be safer.

Till tomorrow, Don’t leave your kids in inventory slots and keep riding the pumpkin tide.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11106471

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04/13/10- "[S] Jack: Ascend.” (/homestuck/1668) to 04/15/10 - "==>” (/homestuck/1683)"

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Jack Noir is a pretty cool guy. He is remarkably similar to certain 60’s mob boss and killing machine Spades Slick. What Jack absolutely is not is a bureaucratic pencil pusher, and definitely not a dress up doll. So In the animation we are starting with we see Jack being all these things by his Queen. The black queen of dark (mostly purple) planet Derse.

Before we get into the meat of this is the first time Derse gets identified. We’ve seen it a few times though. The Mayor painted Derse, on the walls of his ship. We’ve seen plenty of Prospit as the land where Jade goes when she is sleeping. Though Prospit is very close to Skaia, it actually touches the cloudy sky. Derse is far. Derse is beyond the veil, at the edge of the medium. We’ve learned the story of SBURB as a game. The players need to prevent the black kingdom from taking over, and destroying the battlefield. The battlefield is the center of Skaia, between two kingdoms. And we can assume Prospit is the location of the white kingdom. We also know the 2 queens are on these planets.

The Peregrine Mendicant (PM) was asked to assassinate the black queen and king by Jack Noir. At that time, the Kings were said to be on the battlefield. This means the battle for Skaia is already on. I’ll point out that these are anthropomorphized chess pieces. Some have suggested this is potentially a racial thing, I’m not going to open that can of worms.

Back to this animation. This is a critical scene. We see Jack finally snap. The black queen showed up in his office forcing him to wear ridiculous outfits. We never actually see what is in the green package that PM had been trying to get from him. We can see Jack is able to use it. This item had the ability to cut the ring off of the queen, and apparently make her explode. I can assume this would not be possible with any conventional weapon. The ring is also the source of power and it seems only the queens have them. With this ring no longer on the queen Jack takes it for himself. He seems to gain the powers of every active Sprite in the game. Nannaquin, Tentacle cat princess, and an overpowered time traveling player of the game. A character of the game having this power could be a huge friggin problem.

It also messes up some things. Does this mean Jack is now the black queen, and does this void his deal with PM?

We see other important things in this animation. Rose awakens in Derse. Mewtini also seems to be there. She’s now able to see the messages she had scrawled all over her walls. It's “meow meow meow meow” and “cat cat cat”.

We also get a glimpse of what the guardian's up to. Roses mom, John's dad and Saves bro are all fighting huge monsters in their respective lands. They are all very confident fighters. We also see John's dad carve the mini tablet for his fedora that we saw way back in the beginning of this act. This means John was delivering his dads stuff to him with the Parcel Pyxides. But John had no idea he was doing this. Also Maplehoof is with Roses mom for some reason.

This animation also marks the end of year 1 of the comic. Because of this Andrew Hussie proceeds to break the fourth wall for a bit to do, pretty much what I am doing, but better. Page 1674 is a good recap of everything up to this point in a written format with lots of links to important events.

I’m not going to attempt to recap a recap. I should have read this sooner to help with my own understanding on my second read-through. But I forgot this existed and I probably didn't read it the first time. And I’ll admit I am only skimming through it now (I am very tired). But I’ll point out a few segments that are interesting though.

After conversing with GA, Rose found Jaspersprite and interrogated him about the secret which she found so maddeningly mysterious years ago. He explained elements of the mythos of her land, and how she'd need to learn to play the rain to produce the musical analogue of a genetic code to reintroduce life into the ocean. In response to her question about his secret, he simply replied "Meow." She mistook this for more nonsense, but it was in fact the secret he told her years ago. The four letter sequence MEOW unlocked a genetic code in her subconscious, which she would spend years scrawling on her wall using those letters in place of the typically used GCAT letters, while completely oblivious to the scrawlings and their meaning just as John was. As Jaspers said, she would understand their meaning when her dream self wakes up.

The genetics stuff hadn't really popped up much yet. So this may have been easy to miss or I assumed it would get explained more later.. But I guess that’s what happened.

The relation between Jack Noir and Spades Slick is also explained a little more here. We know that since the Trolls are in a different session that have many of the same elements of the game of their own. It would make sense they also have some of the same characters. This is like a game using the same NPC for different roles. Spades Slick is an Exile in the Trolls session. Spades is like the Wayward Vegabond (WV) is to John but for carcinoGeneticist [CG]. This is why at the end of the intermission Spades sees and recognizes CG on a monitor. Spades slick is the Exile guide for CG. Jack however, is not an exile in the session with the kids. Though the same character he is playing a different role in the story.

Feel free to let me know if I got anything else wrong.

We also get a small sense here that maybe Andrew has some contempt for his readers. And he has a creep plush version of Cal.

Till tomorrow, don't antagonize killing machines, and keep riding the pumpkin tide.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11058465

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04/0310- "==>” (/homestuck/1652) to 04/05/10 - "John: Get trolled by CG.” (/homestuck/1667)"

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John has been taking the advice of a Troll gallowsCalibrator [GC]. He’s planning to skip several milestones of SBURB to get to a late stage boss fight. Supposedly this boss enemy will be asleep and not fight John allowing him to get a quick victory. However, in a doomed timeline we learned this is nonsense and John's killed in this attempt. Dave from this timeline managed to warn John of his fate. However, John did not buy that Dave can time travel and he’s blasting off to his doomed fate anyway.

Rose, in the doomed timeline, ceased existing. This apparently allowed current timeline Rose to fall asleep and potentially “awaken”. The formally doomed timeline Dave, is now impaled bird sprite Dave. We’ll just call DaveSprite. DaveSprite reaches out to GC to let her know her plan to get John killed has been foiled. Though at this point that doesn't seem to be true as John is an idiot.

This conversation is interesting. GC mentions that she genuinely didn't think John would die from this. Since they are in a reverse timeline, she knew he’d be OK. But she’s also not surprised that one of the humans would time travel like this. The trolls have their own time traveler, they are not talking to the humans and do not approve of trolling them. She fully admits she is just trolling John, and badly. Dave points out that she convinced him to kill himself. She seems somewhat shocked by this, not realizing John is just really trusting and dumb. DaveSprite vaguely threatens to harm CG if she does anything “coy”. GC doesn’t really buy DaveSprites threats. Even with his new sprite powers, she compares him to captain planet. This seems to genuinely put them on peaceful terms.

I’ll again point out that this is Hanlons razor in action. GC may genuinely not understand the full effect of her trolling. Though she knows in the end it won't be too harmful, her getting John “killed” was not out of malice, just ignorance. It seems DaveSprite recognized this and chose a vigilant peace over aggressive vengeance. With that of the way DaveSprite can do his job and be Daves guide in the game. Instead of annoying noises and riddles DaveSprite gives straight answers. He mentions that Dave now has a bunch of high level gear, and can get through the game easily. DaveSprite can't join him on the planet yet as Dave needs to hit a certain level first. Until then he’s going to chill around and make comics or whatever. They performed a fist BUNP as bros.

At this point we are taken way back to page 131. This is when John opened Daves red package to retrieve the Con Air Bunny. This time though we see the note Dave had written to John. At least I don't think we got to see this the first time.

This letter mentions that Dave mentions he likes John because he is naive and weird. He promises John that if his naive nature ever gets him into any trouble that he will have his back. John is currently basting off towards the final ring and his death. He considers this message and reconsiders. John tells Dave he trusts him now even if his claims that his future self showed up and told him things seem insane. This loving bro moment get's interrupted by carcinoGeneticist [CG]. CG's confused about how human babies are born. This is because John will at some point convince him that babies spawn from larvae. The trolling between them is mutual. CG mentions he will troll John harder in John's future (CG’s past). CG mentions that the trolls are hiding in the Veil. This place is a belt of meteors between Skiai and a place called Derse. He’d mention that the Veil has a bunch of genetic labs and facilities used by the planets of the medium.

The game's central story is the fight between the white and black capricans in Skaia. This will end with black winning. This results in “The reckoning” the black King and Queen will use the meteors of the veil to destroy Skaia. Skaia can handle some of these by creating portals to remove them. But it is a countdown and the players need to kill the black king and queen. CG mentions that John and his friends have already screwed up terribly. The reckoning will be triggered too early for them to stop anything. This will result in something bad happening. But CG is too frustrated to tell John all this again. John asks CG to tell GC “nice try” but he believes this is another of John’s pranks.

Till tomorrow, give yourself a fist bunp and keep riding the pumpkin tide.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10853123

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04/01/10- "[S] Dave: Accelerate.” (/homestuck/1641) to 04/03/10 - "==>” (/homestuck/1651)"

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Prepare for more temporal nonsense. When we last saw Dave he had built the trigger item to give him access to the medium. He had plenty of time before he needed to use it. It was a red egg. But, his sprite was a bird he had impaled with a sword. It took the egg to the top of a radio tower and placed it on a nest of random swords and plush asses. We saw Dave climbing to retrieve it when Rose was trying to contact him. Then we hear from him when talking to John that he had already entered the medium. He needed John's advice on giving his second prototype. This skips anything about how Dave got the egg back.

And now we have this animation sequence. Dave: Accelerate. which seems to skip even beyond his conversation with John into a further point in the future. Dave is in the Land of Heat and Clockwork (LOHAC). This place looks awesome, but like a wildly difficult place to live. It's pretty much an ocean of hot magma with steel beam structures coming out of it. All the steel structures have large rotating cogs.

We see Dave teleport to a cog. And immediately start slaying imps and ogres. He’s dressed in something more formal with a red bowtie. He’s also wielding a broken sword with a very odd looking hilt. He is also summoning a floating mixing board. His fighting style has changed significantly. He appears not only to be accelerating time, but also cloning himself to inflict more damage. Also his sprite is now fully prototyped with both the bird and Lil’ Cal. The Cal Sprite has the laser beam attack we have seen with the others. It also summons a giant plush rump to… uhhh… thrust into enemies.

After the animation we see Dave talking with his sprite. Though it's apparently useless at communicating like Rose's tentacle cat princess. It just laughs and somehow talks in weird emojis. Dave complains about this to Rose on his computer glasses (ironically with the apple logo). He mentions it’s felt like months since he entered the medium. The “time hopping” is messing with his perception.

Rose says the point of this is for him to gather as much data as possible on where they went wrong before “returning”. Apparently they messed up Jade “the witch” is possibly dead and so is John “the heir”. It seems John skipping over the gates to the denizen got him killed. Also meteor possibly took Jade out before she could get in. The trolls also stopped communications at that time. The timeline is completely doomed.But Dave is chill about this as he can fix it. He’s just going to go back stop John, tell Rose how to awaken her dream self, and absolutely not prototype Lil Cal. Rose questions if she will continue to exist if this timeline, but trusts Dave. She doesn't have much of a choice.

So Dave uses his floating mixing board thing to go back to the conversation between himself and John. This is the one where Dave asked Johns for advice on what to prototype his sprite with. But, before John could take off Future doomed Timeline Dave (FDT Dave) shows up in front of “present?” Dave.

FDT Dave tells his past self to not let John fly off in the jetpack. Dave tries to explain to John that his future self just appeared and told him to not let John fly the cool jetpack. This doesn't work, FDT Dave tells Jon that he really is from the future in a separate chat. John doesn't believe this either but agrees not to fly off yet. FDT, satisfied with this, drops off a huge stack of cards to his past. Thes cards contained items: the floating mixing board and his weird sword. He then tosses himself into the Sprite. The Sprite is now a crow with a sword in its gut mixed with FDT Dave.

John apparently decides to fly off anyway. Which may just doom the timeline again.

Till tomorrow, keep riding the pumpkin tide.. Maybe not with a jetpack.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10811119

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03/27/10- "Rose: Pester Jade.” (/homestuck/1627) to 03/31/10 - "==>” (/homestuck/1640)"

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When we last left Rose she’d just had a conversation with her game sprite. This sprite contains her dead cat that she claimed not to care about, but clearly did. Rose is now consulting with Jade who is “asleep” about the sprites' comment. It said that Rose is the one who is actually asleep.

Jade explains the dream selves they all have. Her sprite likely meant that her dream self is still sleeping.. Only Jade can communicate with the waking world because of her dreambot. But Rose's dream self is trying to leave messages, scrawled on her walls. John had been doing the same and his own memory had convinced him the scrawings were the work of the imps. This is even though they had actually been there long prior. Rose had been pushing John to believe he was insane for not knowing the scrawings were his own doing. She had been psychoanalyzing the heck out of him. And she knows the cause of it, and that she is also doing it. She tries to get ahold of Dave to confirm this. Apparently he’d have noticed this, but hasn't mentioned it to her. But, Dave is currently climbing a radio tower on top of his apartment building. He needs to get the egg back from his spiteful sprite.

Meanwhile he is looking at the piece of junk he had made. Also the salamander child he hugged randomly seems to be there with the oily rabbit plush. A cool jetpack with a brick, violin, and a flowerpot merged into it. gallowsCalibrator [GC] mentions to him that she can fix it. She mentions she has a “hacker” who can make it work. As John is preparing to take off in the new jetpack. Dave reaches out to him. This seems to be a bit of a time jump as Dave is already in the medium apparently. Dave sprite needs its second prototype but Rose is apparently asleep at this point. Weirdly he is saying the sprite is suggesting what it wants to be prototyped with. The jetpack seems to work very well blasting John into space. I guess air, and the deadly vacuum don't seem to affect him? Very whimsical!

Till tomorrow, keep riding the pumpkin tide.. with a cool jetpack.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10768817

I am back. I will only be doing this 3 days a week for now to avoid burning out. I may have taken on a bunch of other projects. but this one is my favorite. Today I’m reading.

03/23/10- "WV, AR: Prepare gift for the WQ.” (/homestuck/1608) to 03/26/10 - "==>” (/homestuck/1626)"

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A Wayward Vagabond (WV) and an Aimless Renegade (AR) became a bit infatuated. The target of this was the Peregrine Mendicant (PM). This is likely because she is the only female of their species they've seen in who knows how long. That is until the Windswept Questant (WQ) showed up. It seems these guys immediately forgot about PM and went full servant mode for them instead. They made her a crown.

PM witnesses this and remembers the dreadful mission she had been sent on by Jack Noir. her duty to get a package from him pretty much made her into an assassin.

The flashback has skipped ahead for this story. We see PM, sword ready consulting the white queen. Not the black one she saw earlier. Though the white queen looks pretty much the same, just white. Also this one's left arm is missing, whereas the black queen is missing its right arm. The queen shockingly gives the PM her crown as well as her ring. The ring has 4 pearls on it 3 had been lit, but once she removed it only 2 became lit. The queen's body also became normal looking, with 2 arms and no tentacles or scars. They now look a lot like WQ.

If I had to guess it seems the ring is related to the prototypes the player has chosen. The ring provides powers from each of these. PM’s quest is to take the crown and seek the white king out on the battlefield. In the present time PM and the white queen meet again as exiles. PM bows before WQ. She is crowned by WQ with the crown made by WV and AR.

Having completed her quest, WQ has abdicated, and PM is now the queen. WV and AR have no idea what is going on.

Rose is on her island in the Land of Light and Rain (LOLAR). Her Sprite has finally emerged to guide her. Her sprite is a combination of a tentacle princess doll and her dead childhood cat. It turns out it's not a great selection of things for communicating quests. It mostly just meows but is actually capable of speech. It tells Rose she is not just the seer but the Seer of Light. Also that all the fish in LOLAR have been eaten by its Denizen. John recently learned that his land's Denizen is something he needs to defeat. We can assume this is something Rose needs to do as well. The sprite also mentions Rose is asleep and needs to wake up still. This is something Jade had told John as well, we can take some guesses on what this means. Much like we know John and Jade go to Prospit when they are sleeping, it makes sense Dave and Rose may also have a place. Perhaps it's these places where they are actually awake.

The Sprite mentions in a vague way that Rose needs to get a song in the waking world. playing it will be the key to restore life to the land.

Till tomorrow, keep riding the pumpkin tide.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9884487

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03/20/10- "==>” (/homestuck/1594) to 03/22/10 - "John: Hop in.” (/homestuck/1607)"

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Last time we 2 trolls connected with Dave and Rose. The trolls grimAuxiliatrix [GA] and adiosToreador [AT] are trying to gain knowledge. They want of weak points for their targets. GA came to Dave, he provided terrible advice to GA which she caught on too. But she used his bad advice to perform a decent troll on Rose. AT got equally bad advice from Rose. We’re about to see how that works out.

Predictably it’s the cringiest thing I’ve read since my own live journal. AT attempts to lay down a whole page of rhymes to damage Dave’s pride. It's a long page of senselessness. Gibberish. Dave would have utterly destroyed it but opted to simply not ignore AT. Dave just mindlessly doodles SBAHJ stuff with AT's chat window burried behind it. AT takes Dave’s non-response as a victory for himself. We see AT a male troll, as he is a Taurus his horns are huge. Otherwise I'd describe him as looking like a knob.

Sadly I am a Tarus myself, and even as self hating as I am this character is terrible.

When we last left John he had taken the advice of a troll gallowsCalibrator [GC]. on this advice he hopped in a large pipe in LOWAS to get delivered closer to his destination. We now see John being flung out of a pipe, covered in oil and his inventory scattered all over. This includes the box bunny. Reunited with the bunny and surviving the horrors in the pipe he reenacts the Con-Air scene. The one where Cages's character is returning the bunny to his daughter. In John's case a random consort and its mother. I am sure they were both confused and horrified. An oily alien creature just came up to them with some soft oily thing and started embracing a child.

2 trolls immediately have things to say about this bizarre action. John explains to carcinoGeneticist [CG] that he was re-enacting a movie. CG likes movies, and they actually nerd bond over it.

John mentions he’s receiving help from GC. It seems CG doesn't like that. This is against whatever CGs plan is. It seems the trolls even troll each other and that causes issues for them. John also mentions he hasn't talked to Jade on their behalf yet. But it seems in the time of confusion CG's shocked to hear his future self wanted John to do that. He believes it's a bad sign.

More confusing is the GC is in the same room as CG. But they are not on the same point in the timeline. GC is slightly behind the conversation John had with CG. John attempts to relay some message between them. But he inevitably ends up making them turn on each other.

GC’s guidance has actually led John to his planet's Denizen Palace. John needs to slay this huge beast to get a massive amount of grist. Also something called “ultimate alchemy”. This normally doesn't happen until gate 7, but CG is assuming it won't be awake yet and John can sneak up on it. He’d be way too weak at this point to win a fair fight. IT seems they are trying to exploit and speed run the game. It also seems super risky.

Since the area isn't accessible John locates a Return node and gets sent back to his bedroom. GC mentions she will get him to the gate shortly.

The trolls have mentioned that the human kids really mess up their entire session in the future. It’s looking like they may actually be the cause of this.

Till tomorrow, don't go hugging random amphibian children. That’s weird. also keep riding the pumpkin tide.

Notice: in true Homestuck fashion I am putting this project on hiatus. Just for a few weeks though, not for years. I'll need some time to focus on family, and career stuff. I'll still being doing all my mod stuff so please behave

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9842988

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03/11/10- "Rose: Strife.” (/homestuck/1582) to 03/18/10 - "==>” (/homestuck/1593)"

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Rose is now in the Land for Light and Rain (LOLAR). She’s been loving it so far, getting left alone by both her mother and her exile guide. She is free and independent. But like John house the game eventually starts spawning imps. Rose imps are marble and chalk. She's not afraid to fight them. She’s vicious with the knitting needles and yarn. Taking her first 2 imps out without any difficulty. John nearly died from his first fight. Then after only 2 imps Rose's faced with a Lime Orge. She manages to take this out as well. She jabs the needles into its eye and rides the dang thing like a blinded pony. Meanwhile Mewtini is just enjoying hanging out doing kitten stuff. Most violent scene yet!

Despite this act of violence when Dave suggests giving the ogre the old coup de grâce for some grist Rose refuses. Seems she only wants to fight in self defence. Apparently Daves gristTorrent also helps him with Rose’s session. They’re both leeching off of John but the process is apparently slow. Both Rose and Dave get pestered by Trolls. Dave is chatting with grimAuxiliatrix [GA] we're shown this one is the sign of Virgo. They ask if Dave is the one “commanding the seer” this confirms Rose is the seer, and we know John is the heir. She also tells Dave he is the Knight. GA has come to Dave asking for advice on Rose. They seem interested in gauging her sincerity. Though it really does seem like a “how do i get her to like me?” situation. Dave provides terrible advice. Rose is sarcastic so Dave suggests that GA use sarcasm and assume Rose is always doing the same. GA points out this is just trolling but Dave encourages them to troll Rose harder.

Rose is benign pestered by adiosToreador [AT] with the mark of Taurus. AT is the troll that failed hard to troll Dave. AT got counter trolled ruthlessly as a result. Rose is also quick to detect AT is just incompetent . They’ve come to Rose seeking advice on finding Dave’s weak points. Rose plays along with this making AT think she wants to destroy Dave. Her advice is to attack Dave with poetry. Dave being very into rap battles will likely repeat his last encounter with AT and destroy them. That’ll be a cringy trainwreck we can look forward to.

GA now pesters Rose as she is still sitting on the unconscious body of the ogre she took out. GA mentions that she got some insight from Dave but isn't falling for his sabotage. It seems GA is not as dumb as certain other trolls. GA is the one who had explained the whole temporal mechanical situation to Rose back on page 1093. To Rose this is their second conversion but to GA it’s their 7th. Rose was considerably more sceptical of GA’s claims back then. They now seem a lot more plausible, thus Rose was wrong about a thing. GA has a punishment for this. They’ve given Rose a transcript of their first conversation, and asked her to transcribe it. They may have hidden a message in it that's found this way. But this also forces Rose to scrutinize and relive her error. Apparently the motivation for this is to weaken Rose's intellectual superiority. This way their first conversation from GA’s perspective is one where she will have the upper hand. This is a ridiculous and unnerving manipulation. But I suppose it may have actually impressed Rose a little.

Rose ends the conversation as her sprite has come to find her.

We get a shot of GA at their computer. She is a female troll. Her horns resemble the virgo symbol. She seems to put effort into her appearance. Her hair and eyes have a well manicured look to them.

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Till tomorrow, manipulating your friends before you even meet them is a great strategy! also. keep riding the pumpkin tide.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9810116

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03/06/10- "Dave: Punch some cards.” (/homestuck/1557) to 03/11/10 - "==>” (/homestuck/1583)"

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Dave has recently entered SBURB. Unlike John and Rose, he’s got a lot of time before the meteor hits. Jade is his host, and she is new to video games in general. This means the extra time is really needed here. Dave also has other advantages. IT seems the game has some balancing mechanics to help out the players who get in later. Dave has a few extra tools that we don't know the use of yet. He also had a CD for a tool called GristTorrent that allowed him to take resources from other players. Using this he’s built the Punch designix and a bunch of cards. Jade has provided various random items for him to punch.

The Card Shunt and Jump seem to be able to alter the Alchemizer with potential upgrades. Adding a blender or game bro magazine to it was.. Not an upgrade. Jades pictograph Modus allows her to get the code for items that she draws. This is assuming she can draw it well enough. And that the terrible guessing mechanism to understand. She gets the idea to draw the Punch designix. Dave makes the card for that and adds it to a shunt. This gives a useful upgrade appending a punch desinignix to to the Alchemizer. What is even better than having the crafting stations near each other? Having a multipurpose station. They can't afford to build a holopad, but using this same method they append one to the alchemizer for free. This lets them see what items would get created without having to commit to building it. Adding the lathe naturally lets them create totems, at the alchemizer. Adding a jumper block to the jumper block makes it compacts and removes the need for shunts. Jade wants to add the intellibeam laserstation. But she can’t draw it, and it's extremely expensive. Dave has grabbed a photo enlarger from his photography. This upgrade lets them make items bigger or smaller, though the price's affected. So before the game has even really started Dave has an OP crafting station.

John is still in LOWAS. He ventured far from where he started and managed to get to his fathers car. It’s smashed of course and both the package and beta are gone. We know that Authority Regulator (AR) has confiscated those items. The Postal Maiden (PM) has sent the betas out for delivery but hasn't gotten the package yet.

gallowsCalibrator [GC] pesters John. The blind troll who dumped a lot of lore on us earlier. She forcefully advises John against his will pointing out he is nice and push-over. She is right.

She says she has a map of LOWAS and can lead him to the next gate. She draws him one but it is illegible garbage. She does agree to lead him to a pipe that will be a shortcut.This boy is hopelessly trusting isn't he?

Till tomorrow, multipurpose stuff is cool! Also, keep riding the pumpkin tide.