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@lemmy.worldToday I’m reading.
07/16/10 - "======>” (/homestuck/2252) to 07/17/10 - "======>” (/homestuck/2267)"
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We learned that Vriska had not only broken Travos spine, but murdered Aradia. She wasn't alone in this. This girl with the power to manipulate others had herself been manipulated. An omniscient third party with no name and white text had been messaging her. We’ve been calling them the blank one, but his name is Doc Scratch.
Scratch is in a green tinted room with a sort of old fashioned Victorian mansion vibe to it. He is wearing a pure white tux, with a green undershirt and bowtie. He’s phasing into a familiar green lightlining. His head is just a pure white sphere. Around him are 2 miniature versions of the battleground of Skaia, one the cube and the spherical version nearby. He also has a typewriter and holstered pistol on a nearby chair.
He’s described as an officer for Lord English. His job is to destroy the universe so that Lord English can come into it. This will bring about something called The Great Undoing.
If you've been paying attention you might notice guys Lord English is mentioned in the intromission sequence with the Midnight Crew. This was Spades Slick's key target but he failed to even see him. I’ll also note that Lord English’s name is spelt differently by Doc Scratch. The o in Lord, is now a gif of various pool balls.
Scratch is apparently the “First Guardian” of Alternia. This is what grants him omniscience and the ability to facilitate the planet's purpose. It mentions every planet has a first guardian and they come in various forms. He also has a specific genetic sequence in common with all other first guardians of all other planets supporting intelligent life.
I’ll point out a theory here. I probably didn't piece this together in my first read. Doc Scratch, is related to Jade's Dog Becquerel (Bec). Bec must therefore be the first guardian of earth. As Doc is guiding Vriska, Bec is guiding Jade. Though since Bec cannot speak, we dont know its motivations.
That audience isn't able to control Doc, though at this point I'm not sure the audience was even playing any character or if Hussie had taken full control. I honestly never cared. For this scene Doc's actions are only speculated on by the writer.
It seems he’s concerned Vriska is getting harder to control. He plays games with her but lately she is nearly winning, he doesn't know how. At this point he receives a message on his typewriter. This is even more concerning as his account shouldn’t even be listed, and the others shouldn't even know about him. It’s from Terezi. Before she can really say anything he deducts that she had Sollux trace his account and open the line of communication. This must still be in the context of the flashback as it seems to be shortly after the death of Aradia.
He hints that Aradia is not as dead as they think. Terezi isn't sure what to make of that but tells Doc that he will help her with revenge once she provides a tip to him. That tip is that Vriska has been cheating in the games she has been playing with him. She will tell him why in exchange for his help.
Before doing this, Terezi has one last chat with Vriska before she has doc kill her. Though not surprisingly Vriska thinks Terezi is bluffing and has no way to kill her. Terezi suggests Vriska consult her artifact. It seems before she switched to crappy magic 8 balls she had acquired an actual magic cue ball. With her 8 fold vision ability she could use it to tell the future. This Cueball of course belonged to Doc Scratch. By using it she was able to predict even his moves.
Terezi tells doc scratch about the CueBall which makes him pretty pissed off. Vriska was gazing into the cue ball for answers on how Terezi plans to kill her, the cue ball only states “I will explode in your face”. It then does so, presumably by Docs command. This destroys Virsika’s arm and her eye. Obviously as this is a flashback we know this doesn't actually kill her.
Till tomorrow, always expect vengeance for your misdeeds, and keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Today I’m reading.
07/14/10 - "Moments earlier...” (/homestuck/2236) to 07/15/10 - "======>” (/homestuck/2251)"
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We are moments before a doomsday had exploded outside of her hive. Vriska is on a tirade of “meddling” with the other trolls. So Vriska is now chatting with Terezi. Terezi is now on the roof of her treehive, she is battling imps with a more battle ready version of her cane. She now has glasses that project a holographic screen so she can chat hands free. I’m not sure how she is seeing that screen.
Vriska tells Terezi that she is terminating their truce for the duration of the game. The truce was an agreement between them to not back stab each other. For Vriska this included not using her powers on anyone who didn't deserve it. This is apparently related to whatever happened to Aradia. Terezi mentions that whatever Vriska did to her broke Aradia’s brain. This implies that Vriska potentially murdered Aradia somehow. Vriska feels the gift she is going to give Aradia, a robot made by Equius, will absolve her of whatever it is she did. Terezi was the other half of “Team scourge”. Terezi believed they were taking “bad guys” to Vriska’s spider lusus to eat. But Vriska was just feeding anyone to it. Terezi was very good at breaking people down and using headgames. Manipulation without powers is something Vriska finds powerful. Vriska then just lambasts Terezi for not offering any kind of forgiveness or trust. The convo ends with Vriska hearing an explosion and avalanche outside. This was the doomsday device going off.
We flashback to just shortly after Vriska breaks Travos’s spine. We see Terezi, she isn't wearing the red glasses so this is from before she had been blinded. Her room looks more like Vriska’s with a FLARP poster, character sheets on the wall and some dice on her desk. Terezi is chatting with Aradia about Travos. Aradia is mad about the incident. She suspects Equius will never give Travos prosthetics out of hate for his blood color. She wants vengeance and to make Vriska pay. Apparently Aradia is immune to Vriska’s powers. But, Terezi warns her against taking action, powers or not Vriska is still dangerous. They also mentioned that they failed to help Travos because they were distracted. Someone associated with Vriska prevented them from coming to his aid. Someone who has “playing her” and is potentially even more dangerous. They agree to not take action for now.
Aradia isn't satisfied though and the voices of the dead are calling out to her loudly. She has powers of her own. She summons the ghost of all those she has fed to her spider to haunt her. Vriska is feeling all this, and it's freaking her out. The blank person reaches out to her. They tell Vriska she needs to kill Aradia. We also learn they’d played a role in hurting Travos, but the goal was to kill him as well. They tell her that all they are doing is giving Vriska the opportunities. These are things that she actually wants to do anyway. They claim they haven't convinced her to actually do anything at all.
Blank's motives are to bring about the events which will allow their employer to enter into the universe. They’re acting as a linchpin, and subtly altering things to get the desired results. Blank claims they are omniscient (knowing everything). But, they also have gaps in their knowledge. This doesn't make much sense. But he seems to know a lot of things Vriska doesn't so she has to believe him.
Vriska, plans to use someone who she only has limited control over to do what she needs to do. She messages Aradia to tell her that her boyfriend is waiting outside for her. Aradia suspects it's a trick, but falls for it anyway. It seems she was with Sollux at this time. Aradia sees Sollux floating over to her hive. He holds his glasses in one hand, and a bunch of mind honey in the other. We’ve seen that when Sollux consumes mind honey his eyes blast out a powerful laser with massively destructive potential. We can only assume that this completely atomized Aradia. This left her hive as nothing more than the foundation that she presently sits in.
Vriska had used mind control on Sollux to kill Aradia.
Till tomorrow, maybe don't walk into obvious traps, also keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Today I’m reading.
07/13/10 - "Vriska: Be in cahoots with Equius. Cahoooooooots.” (/homestuck/2222) to 07/14/10 - "======>” (/homestuck/2235)"
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So far of all the trolls we’ve met it seems like these 2 may be the worst. So far at least. Vriska is an utter psychopath who only seems to take joy in the misery of others. Also, Equius is a creepy muscle head . He's obsessed with “pure bloodlines”, very demanding towards others. They live close to each other and have very similar blue blood colors.
It seems they are pretty cordial with each other. Vriska has commissioned Equius to make a gift for Aradia. Equius considers Aradia a lower blood, and doesn't approve of working with her. But Vriska tells him to mind his own damn business, she had made a promise of some sort with Aradia. This present will help in the plan to take leadership from Sollux. This will in turn help Vriska to take leadership from her.
Vriska and Equius want all the trolls to be led by those of the “highest” bloods. They are exempting Gamzee who is apparently of the highest blood among them. They are also exempting the “underwater freaks”. It seems they have an agreement but don't actually trust each other.
Vriska attempts to read Equius’s mind and he in turns slaps her with her own robotic arm. He made this arm for her and seems to have control of it in order to keep her in line.
Equius is planning to double cross Vriska . He reveals the gift for Aradia is a robotic version of her. This could be handy for a ghost. He plans to deliver it himself to gain her favor and bypass Vriska in a run for leadership. Neither of them know that Aradia isn't actually leading anything. They are just wasting time.
He gushes a bit about the AradiaBot and how he’s built it to perfection. He’s creepy and Pygmalion about it. He feels that if she inhabits a robotic body then her blood will no longer be impure. In a moment of creepy passion with the not yet active AradiaBot he freaks out at one of his battle bots. He smashes it through a wall and into the giant doomsday device outside.
This was a device that Vriska had built and had hanging in the canyon between her hive and Equius’s. It's called the Catenative Doomsday Dice Cascader. It looks a bit like an old board game called Trouble. This has more pop dice, and is like 60 meters in diameter. This device appears in Problem sleuth as well and is explained there. It can cause up to 50 trillion points of damage, but also only deal 1 point. It's up to luck. In this case it activates and after a lot of crazy effects, the machine just dies. But, all the jostling caused the machine to fall into the canyon. It then explodes killing Vriska’s giant spider, Lusus. Also Equius’s Lusus Author, then fell into the canyon for some reason, and also probably died.
::: — Till tomorrow, Don’t leave your doomsday devices in precariously stupid locations. also keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Today I’m reading.
07/11/10- "Vriska: Check on lusus.” (/homestuck/2205) to 07/13/10 - "Equius: Talk to friend/enemy.” (/homestuck/2221)"
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Vriska has been trying to meddle in everyone's business. But it seems she's been the one getting meddled with. A “friend” grimAuxiliatrix [GA] has just informed her that her lusus is doomed to die soon. She is now going to check on her lusus.
It seems Vriska's hive is some sort of tall structure. She needs to descend down “millions” of stairs to reach her lusus nest. She passes a huge contraption hanging outside. She explains it was a doomsday device she had built for a member of the nautical aristocracy. We’ve seen some nautical trolls briefly, perhaps one of them?
Reaching the near bottom of her hive, Vriska finds her lusus. A gigantic spider, it looks to be about 70m tall, and healthy. We see her hive is a building on top of a canyon. It's about as big as Karkats. The spider's nest is at the bottom of the canyon under the hive. On the other side of the canyon is another hive.
Vriska's neighbour it seems is centaursTesticle [CT]. Who we now have to be introduced to. As we saw before his room is covered in robots, broken bows, and naked pictures of muscle bound centors. His name is Equius Zahhak he’s obsessed with strength.
He talks about wanting to join some noble group of Ruffiannihilators and Archeradicators. But he’s unable to actually use a bow properly as he destroys every bow he tries to use. He describes it as “fetishistic” as Vriska did with her 8-balls.
He says the priceless masterpieces around his room are of Nude Musclebeast. These are apparently local creatures Equius finds their strength to be stunning. And tosses a comment about how those of “lesser bloodlines” are unable to appreciate art.
When he is angry, which is often he goes into violent rages. His robots are designed to fight him and give him a target to focus his violence on. His lusus is also his butler, one who milks himself to give Equius to give something to drink… damn that's just wrong. His lusus apparently bruises at the slightest touch. But Equius believes his lusus is the strongest.
He has 3 weapon specs. Fist, bow, and 1/2 bows. This is only the second time we see the Strife Portfolio that allows for multiple specs. The writer hints that he may have forgotten it existed.
After spilling his milk Equius flies into a rage breaking a bow. He chats with Neopeta to calm down in the conversation we saw earlier. This is where Nepeta had asked him if she could join the red team, but he forbade it. He wasn't sure if he had actually convinced her to join him on the blue team. He’s still angry, Nepeta is associating with lower bloods.
He decides to chat with Gamzee. He says Gamzee is a friend. But friend and enemy are the same word in trollian, and he hates Gamzee. This seems to be because Gamzee is of the highest bloodline. However, Gamzee does not act in a way that Equius thinks someone of his class should.
Gamzee is more concerned about running out of Faygo while in the medium.
Equius commands Gamzee to stop drinking Faygo. Gamzee agrees. Equius then back pedals. He doesnt feel like he has the right to make demands of someone of a higher blood class then his own. He suggests Gamzee need to be more commanding. Gamzee agrees but has no idea what the hec Equius is talking about, and doesn't desire to be better than anyone.
Gamzee mentions he is on the red team and in the game already. He was defeating imps but now just eats pie with them. Equius suggests they roleplay a scenario of Gamzee being authoritative towards him. Totally not for some kind of homoerotic kink thing. Though this likely became the source of a lot of fan material. Anyway, Gamzee strongly suggests Equius stay out of the sea. This being pretty low impact as Equius doesnt live near the sea. He pressures Gamzee to be even more bossy, he humours the request. It was another very creepy interaction.
Gamzee, again mentions he has no idea what Equius is going on about with all this bloodline stuff. Equius finds it terrible that someone with Gamzee's blood behaves in such an undignified manner. This while “she” of low blood can have such dignity. He doesn't say who “she” is and ends the convo.
Till tomorrow, chill out with your enemies and enjoy some pie. also keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Today I’m reading.
07/09/10- "Aradia: Be the huge bitch.” (/homestuck/2194) to 07/11/10 - "Vriska: Endure meddling.” (/homestuck/2204)"
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We’d seen a lot of a character who’s under the sign of scorpio. arachnidsGrip [AG]. She’s the one who broke Travos’s spine. She has an ability to control or place strong suggestions in the minds of others. This ability seems to have no limited range as she had controlled Karkat while he was in the medium. With this seemingly overpowered ability she’s completely psychotic.
So we start with “Being the huge bitch”. This phase being a reference to Sn0wball back in the intermission. Her name is Vriska Serket, somehow a fan favorite. Also an artist favorite as we’ll see later. I truly do not understand this.
As we’ve seen she is into extreme roleplay, the game that got Travos injured. It seems to also have caused her own injuries. As we’d seen in previous pages her arm is robotic. This was not the case during her encounter with Travos.
Vriska mentions her lusus needs to feed on the flesh of young trolls. She uses the “Flarping” to take advantage of the impressionable and get spider food. As a hobby Vriska thinks heavily about the Apocalypse and builds potential doomsday devices. She also likes to develop prophecies. It seems she used to have the ability “Vision eightfold” that gave her the ability to see the future. She now uses “Black Oracles” (magic 8-balls) which she often destroys in frustration. Her room is littered with broken 8-ball and the d-20 dies that they contained. She is apparently addicted to destroying them, despite the bad luck it brings her.
Her room also has spider webs, “devices”, game manuals, and character sheets on the wall. She also has a drawing of her Flarping character Marquise Spinneret Mindfang. Which given this is larping, is just a picture she drew of herself in a costume.
She steps on a d4 dice (the pointy one). She blames this on bad luck that she’s been having since her accident. She seems like the sort to blame her misfortunes on anything but herself, her floor is covered with these damn dice so luck had nothing to do with it. She’s just a brat who needs to clean her damn room. Her weapon is also dice. 8 enchanted d8’s called the Fluorite Octet. The weapon has a wide range of effects that can help or hinder the wielder. With her bad luck she is afraid to use them.
She starts off a long night of bugging, fussing and meddling. But she receives a message from a meddler she hasn't heard from in awhile. Against the rules of pester clients this user is unnamed, just blank. The also chat with all #FFFFFF white text which is annoying as hell to read. They are well spoken and don't seem to have quirks either.
The blank one mentions this is their last communication with Vriska. They seem to know what events will soon take place in Vriska’s future. They blatantly tell her that they’ve been exploiting her. Vriska doesn't believe she's being exploited in any way. Given she usually is the one exploiting others this is not acceptable. The blank one states they will no longer hold Vriska accountable for her actions. This is because of the “incident”. Also they feel she was a complete waste of their talents. He suspects she won’t survive to see the destructive results of her own actions. They then end the conversation.
This conversion seems to get to her a bit. There’s a lot of vagueness and unexplained history here. Vriska is unable to even smash one of her magic 8-balls. grimAuxiliatrix [GA] had also been trying to get ahold of Vriska. GA let Vriska know that her lusus had died. GA’s lusus was the A Virgin Mother Grub, it had decided to stop producing offspring and died shortly after. She is telling Vriska that her own lusus will die as well as many others have already. Aware of Karkats curse, she doesn't believe that is the case. GA believes the death of the lusus is an inevitable result of the game. This is much like the destruction of their planet. Vriska relates her bad luck to the curse. Though GA points out her bad luck is just a messy floor. Vriska‘s problem is that she is dangerous. GA feels that despite this she is important and it's her job to try and keep Vriska in line.
Vriska is obviously not cool with this but is too concerned about her lusus to really care.
Till tomorrow, clean your damn room, and keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Today I’m reading.
07/07/10 - "Back in the present...” (/homestuck/2178) to 07/09/10 - "Nepeta: Interrogate frog girl.” (/homestuck/2193)"
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We start back on page 2061 Karkat had recently entered the Medium. His home had been terribly vandalised by his game host Terezi. He’s gotten the hang of the game quickly, fighting mobs, and gathering resources. He’s just discovered his own toilet, not in his home but out in the field. He calls up Terezi for an explanation. Having a blind home designer who is sensing the game via tasting colors on her screen has some drawbacks. Though it’s likely that Terezi is just screwing with him.
Terezi reminds Karkat that meteors are currently destroying his home planet. Everyone left on it is in trouble. He had no idea He needs to talk with Aradia([AA]) to get caught up because Terezi needed to “step-out” of her tree for a bit. After this conversation we had a 100+ page flashback. So now we’re back to this point.
Karkat, still in a field of the medium standing in front of his toilet. arachnidsGrip [AG] pesters him, He is aware of AG’s predilection for betrayal and general evil. She wants to be on Karkat’s team. He doesn't buy this at all. Her actual purpose seems to have been to psyche him out as she is the “leader” of the blue team. Also to threaten use of her mind control powers on him. Karkat reminds her that she is bound to an agreement with “Better scourge sister” to not use her powers. That other sister is on his team. However, she uses her power to make him rejoin the chat after he leaves it, just to flex on him.
We’re given brief looks at 2 of the other trolls. centaursTesticle [CT] we see in his room with his lusus. His walls are covered in pictures of nude muscle bound centaurs. Mercifully they are censored. His lusus is also a centaur, but with an utter, and a black eye. He’s surrounded by broken robots and bows. CT himself wears broken shades, broken teeth and has a broken horn. He wears a tanktop with the mark Sagittarius on it. We also see a troll under the sea poking a sea creature with a trident.
Using her telepathic powers Aradia is riding the giant stone frog head home. She broke this off of the frog ruins she had been living in. She needs to start the session for the blue team. She decides to go to her previous home. She mentions she lived there before she found her “calling”. The voices of the dead had ordered her to move to the ruins after the death of her lusus. She mentions she never buried it, but it’d have been unusual to bury the dead.
Her old hive is nothing but an overgrown foundation. It has some holes around it that she had dug to test her archaeology skills. She sits on the foundation floor and opens her Crosbytop and loads the game. Next to her is a music box. She logs in on to the session started by her co-leader. She wanted to be the second player in the chain. She’s selected a specific troll to be the third in the chain.
Shortly later, her non-prototyped sprite is already out. No fancy base, the Cruxtruder is just deployed next to the remains of her home. All the others had used their Lusus as a prototype, but hers is long gone. Her instructions from the dead are to use the giant stone frog head. This is the true reason for her taking it.
It's revealed to us now that the first player in the chain was not Sollux or AG, but Nepeta. We can see her watching Aradia in utter confusion. This technically makes Nepeta, who didn't really even want to be on the blue team, its leader. She likely has no idea.
Later again, we see Aradia no in the medium. She’s in Land of Quartz And Melody as the Maid of Time. She mentions the player she is hosting has an important item to give her. But it's one too expensive to alchemize. Once this player gets to the second ring, they will be able to meet her in person. This is how John eventually ended up seeing Rose at her house. This item is important to Aradia’s plan.
Nepeta hosting her is also part of the plan. For some reason Nepeta isn't able to actually see Aradia in game. She needed someone less savvy with games and who would be more oblivious to what was going on. Someone only following instructions.
The reason Aradia hasn't been visible is because she had been dead. A ghost. It's possible none of the other trolls knew this. Though to us it was pretty obvious (right?)
Aradia prototypes her sprite once more, with herself. She is now a frog girl sprite. Nepeta is now able to see her for the first time. She explains that her death was caused by ignoring the advice of a friend. She asks Nepeta to keep this a secret, and she agrees to do so.
Till tomorrow, check the pulse of your friends, and keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Sorry about last week, my other projects need extra attention. Today I’m reading.
07/05/10- "======>” (/homestuck/2165) to 07/06/10 - "======>” (/homestuck/2177)"
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Travos has been told his friend Nepeta won't be joining him. She seems to be obedient to some arse hole going by centaursTesticle [CT]. Travos was reminded of his accident and wondered if Nepeta wasn’t better off on the opposing team. Thinking back to the days of his more intense and dangerous role playing, he is looking forward to the game he will soon play with his friends.
We flash back to Travos in a “boy skylark” outfit holding a tiny “dagger lance”. He is going to engage in some “Extreme Larping”. He pesters Aradia to let her know his game grub has laid eggs and that means he is nearly ready to play. Terezi is supposed to join them but she is running late. Aradia reminds Travos that the class of character he picked is not effective until higher levels. But she is supportive of his choices. Aradia is very different from the character we met recently. It would seem these events took place prior to whatever changed her. She gives Travos a pep talk and reminds him that the “clouder” will be at the top of its game, they will have fun.
The eggs hatch into little bats called Gaming Flapstractions that will provide the game data. This game also has 2 teams. Team Charge is his team and Team Scourge is the opposition. The clouder is a member of team charge and will affect the scenario he will play. The bats fly off but one remains his “stat bat” to keep track of his attributes.
We see a bit later Travos is surrounded by large monsters backed to a cliff. He’s chatting with arachnidsGrip [AG], the mean spider girl. She seems to be his clouder and has made things far too difficult. He lets her know this but she’s yelling at him for being weak.
He tries to contact his team but neither Aradia or Terezi respond. AG appears before him with the monsters pressuring him to make a move. Travos refuses, he knows the only right move here is to give up but AG will not allow that. They had agreed to not use any of their troll powers during the game but she’s breaking that rule.
AG’s power seems to be mind control, or at least powerful mental suggestion. She convinces Travos he can fly like Pupa Pan. With this he jumps off of the cliff. AG laughing psychotically as he lay broken at the bottom. He reaches out to Karkat to let him know what just happened, he can no longer feel his legs. Karkat just tells him to stop playing a “girls game”. If girl games are that dangerous maybe that is good advice. It seems as dangerous as the extreme roleplaying stuff was the real danger was AG.
Till tomorrow, flying is for the birds, and keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Today I’m reading.
07/02/10- "Be the mysterious spider girl.” (/homestuck/2145) to 07/05/10 - "Nepeta: Give Tavros the bad news.” (/homestuck/2164)"
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Last time we met Aradia Megido. A troll with very powerful telekinetic powers. Despite her powers though she seems completely without emotions, desires, or memories. Aradia gives off ethereal vibes and can hear the dead. We start today off with a look at arachnidsGrip [AG]. AG has glasses with one lens being solid, one robotic arm, fangs and blue makeup. But this is all we get. Apparently we the readers are not cool enough to learn more about this character. For now they are just arachnidsGrip [AG].
Sollux pesters Aradia. She is floating just outside his window but he doesn't know this. Sollux apologises for freaking out on her. He says he doesn't mind not being the leader, he just wants to play the game. Aradia informs him that he won’t be playing the game yet. She tells him to look out his window. Before Sollux can even see her she snaps him into an instant sleep with her powers. He passes out right into the mind honey. Sollux wakes up much later. We're told he has dreams of visions that will help guide his allies. He’s now the last to log in and needs to log into Karkats server. We see his lusus is still fine but there is an intense meteor shower occurring all around him. Upon awakening he accidentally consumed some of the mind honey he had passed out onto. This causes his eyes to shoot intensely powerful laser beams Cyclops style. This destroys everything above him, likely vaporizing his lusus.
Now we are the cat-troll living in a cave. We'd seen this character briefly before but didn't get an introduction. Safe to assume this is arsenicCatnip [AC], her real name is Nepeta Leijon. She has cat-like facial features. Pretty much the :3 face, with fangs. She's wearing a blue hood, a blue tail, and an oversized green jacket. She lives in a cave and likes roleplay. She empathizes that she likes “Friendly” roleplay. Not the dangerous kind that gets people hurt. But she also likes to hunt large beasts with nothing more than her claws and fangs. Her cave's littered with the blood and corpses of her kills. She uses the blood to paint “wall comics”. Her claw gloves are her primary clawkind weapons. Her lusus is a large 2 mouthed cat sleeping in the corner named Pounce De Leon. Nepeta seems aware of her lusus’s fate, but not when it will happen. But we're shown it’ll be a cave-in. I am not sure we are always shown the fates of lusus in this way. But, it isn't surprising to see weird time skips and flash forwards at this point. Though they're written like they are from someone's perspective. Karkat pesters Nepeta. He reluctantly role plays with her to recruit her into the red team. He refers to her as the “autistic girl”. As if he and every bloody character in this thing isn't neurotypical in some way. Karkat, Terezi, Gamzee And Tavros are already in the game. He needs her to log in from Travos and wants grimAuxiliatrix [GA] to log in from her. But, much like when Terezi tried to recruit her she says she needs to talk to someone first. Karkat's annoyed by this but can't actually do much about it.
That guy is a troll we've yet to meet. centaursTesticle [CT]. They choose that name for themselves. We’ve only seen this guys creepy silhouette. This was during the scene where grimAuxiliatrix [GA] removes Travos’s legs with a chainsaw. We can learn a lot about this guy from this conversation. He’s not at all receptive to Nepeta’s roleplaying. He seems to be all business and always fully serious. He’s also a classist as blood color seems to determine a trolls class. Also their text colors seem to represent their blood colors. He accuses Nepeta of having "loosened morals" for having “fraternized with the base classes”. Nepeta doesn't care about blood color or classes. Nepeta mentions that CT uses a bow. Also CT has seemingly no idea how to actually use a bow. This means Nepeta is actually a better hunter as he is. She's actually taking out large prey with nothing more than her claws. CT apparently is against killing beasts as he venerates them.
CT claims Aradia and him have made a deal that he will co-lead the blue team. It seems she’d made this deal with everyone on that team. The collective ego’s of everyone on that team just seem to have made that possible. Nepeta tells him she will be joining the red team. This really seems to upset CT. He claims she is too delicate to associate with base blooded hooligans. Painfully Nepeta obeys CT’s demands and lets Travos know she can't join the red team. Travos is ok with this. He mentions this happened during the dangerous role player event that caused his injury. So perhaps it's better that Nepeta stays with the blue team.
Till tomorrow, an exception to what i said last time, don't be the creepy testicle man, and keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Today I’m reading.
07/01/10- "Be the other other girl.” (/homestuck/2132) to 07/02/10 - "Aradia: Get bugged by AG.” (/homestuck/2144)"
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A few times we’ve cut to a girl who seems to have strong psychic powers destroying the frog ruins. We now get to meet her. Her name is Aradia Megido, she mentions she had interests such as Archeology. But, but she no longer remembers any of that. She says her current calling is to destroy the mystic ruins she found because she's bored. Like Sollux she hears the voices of the dead and they guide her. She’s always been able to hear these since an accident involving a kind of role playing caused an accident. This accident also killed her lusus. Instead of building her own home she’d apparently been living in the ruins. This is also where she had also discovered the game. Knowing this game would destroy her civilization she gave it to Sollux to adapt and play. She’s named the game SGRUB (like SBURB). She got him to get 12 players for the game including herself. He believes he’s the leader of the blue team but she says that isn't the case.
Her modus is a Ouji Board she can only gets items if the spirits will it. In this case she's given the Bing CrosbyTop used by Spades Slick. She says she had found it during an archaeological dig. She has no idea who the person is but she finds its mobility practical.
grimAuxiliatrix [GA] is pestering her. GA has genuine concern for Aradia. She mentions that today is the day that Aradia wanted to doom everyone. GA tried to remind her that she doesn't actually need to follow the will of the voices in her head. But, this doesn't seem to work. Aradia and GA will be on separate teams but GA offers to help should Aradia need her. It seems Aradia's transfixed by whatever will is controlling her and ignoring GA.
Aradia checks in on Sollux in a conversation we’d read before. The one in which she informs him of the ploy and he tries to abort the game. She’d then go visit his home. Or at least the roof of it where his Lusus is chained up. Sollux’s Lusus isn't a threat to her as she uses her powers to hold the creature in the air above her. She holds the creature while she responds to some chats on the cosbytop.
arachnidsGrip [AG] pesters Aradia. AG seems to know everything Aradia is doing. She asks if she has hatched her plan against Sollux yet. Aradia is working on that. AG also mentions that the plan is that she and Aradia would co-lead the blue team. AG mentions that she had a present for Aradia that she will find later. Aradia has no reaction to this. AG wants a “team” name for the pair of them. Apparently they had some kind of beef in the past and have only recently begun collaborating. Aradia seems to tolerate this arrangement but doesn't actually seem to like AG. AG just seems to talk considerably more than she listens.
Till tomorrow, be as weird as you want to be and keep riding the pumpkin tide.
Today I’m reading.
06/29/10- "And way back again...” (/homestuck/2121) to 06/30/10 - "======>” (/homestuck/2131)"
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Last time we met Travos. He’s odd, especially for a troll. He’s not afraid to show vulnerability and isn't ashamed of his interest. At least not to the audience. Though this isn't why I dislike the character, these are positive traits. The reasons I don't like will come later. Also that creepy expression on his face.
During his zoning out flash forward thing Travos has gotten a few messages. Firstly arachnidsGrip [AG]. This one is new, the troll under Scorpio. They are mean. They inform Travos he is on the red team while she is on Blue. She points out his team has “blind girls” and points out his disability insinuating team blue is for disabled people. Travos doesn't want to talk to her but also doesn't seem to be doing much about it. He mentions he’s given a name to his self esteem, on the advice of grimAuxiliatrix [GA]. He named it Rufio a character from the Peter Pan based movie “Hook” (1991). This gets him ruthlessly insulted by AG for having imaginary friends. She instructs him to stop listening to GA and she rambles on like a dang coke fiend for a bit before leaving.
Polar opposite to this encounter Travos then chats with Gamzee. Gamzee apologized for zoning out mid conversation even though they had not actually started the conversation yet. Gamzee is also on the red team and is cool with Travos. He’s actually somewhat nurturing towards Travos being more confident. They enjoy some slam poetry and discuss the game. The chain for the red team is that Karkat will log in from Terezi. Gamzee will then log in from Karkat, and then Tarvos from Gamzee. Then supposedly 4 others. We know karkat is in already but Terezi is off doing something in her forest. Then after faygo they have the worst rap off in all of paradox space. Fortunately, it doesn't actually show us any of it. I’ll be thankful for that small mercy.
Terezi is doing a thing in the forest. Which is to say she is in a forest which is burning all around her. In front of her is a giant scale. On one end is an egg, her lusus that she has never met. On the other scale is a giant skull. The skull is over an ominous button. We can guess if the egg hatches then the skull will depress the button. Terezi also mentioned that the day she meets her lusus the world would end. The reason she hasn't met her lusus yet is because it had not hatched yet.
Terezi explains that there is a dragon in the egg. The dragon is blind until it reaches maturity so it was able to psychically connect to Terezi and teach her how to survive without sight. She was able to access her dream self and vaguely see the world around it. To us is familiar, as is her outfit. She was seeing Prospit.
The fire from the forest was caused by falling meteors. This is much like what Rose experienced before entering the medium. The heat of these fires hatched the young dragon causing the doomsday button to activate. The dragon is immediately struck by a falling meteor and killed. We are told this one will be prototyped into a sprite. The doomsday device counts down from 6:12.
Till tomorrow, maybe don't keep doomsday buttons under heavy scales? also keep riding the pumpkin tide.
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