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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. Bu

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

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 explai

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,

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

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

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 t

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

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 ha

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-r

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

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.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9771546

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03/04/10- "Rose, I must leave now.” (/homestuck/1538) to 03/06/10 - "Jack: Open it.” (/homestuck/1556)"

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Rose had been chatting with a troll who’d dumped a tonne of lore onto us. One thing they had mentioned was that the voices in the heads of players are those of exiled agents. They are living on ruined earth in the future. We’ve met A Wayward Vagabond (WV), a Peregrine Mendicant (PM) and an Aimless Renegade (AR). But who’s voice Rose has been hearing? All we know is they seem polite and have an elegant font.

They repeat she needs to find her sprite, and her purpose. Then says they will never hear from them again. Rose felt very free and liberated as she didn't need any guide. She was the guide, or at least the writer of one on GameFaqs.

In the future, on earth, WV, PM, and AR had gotten along and set up camp. WV and AR just had

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9728382

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03/02/10- "You guide the Heir. Consult with him.” (/homestuck/1523) to 03/04/10 - "==>” (/homestuck/1537)"

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Rose is enjoying her new island home. It seems her mother fled to a different island which we can assume would make this place even better for her. She’s just chilling on the dock on her laptop Mewtini the kitten napping on a post nearby. It seems idyllic, if it wasn't for the bright colors and the rain I’d love to be there.

John and a troll are pestering Rose. The mystery audience is suggesting Rose consult the “heir”. This is John, one of the consorts called him that as well. John is just checking in. He Hasn't heard from Rose since before she escaped earth. He’s relieved she is ok and fills her in on his location. They figure out they are not actually near each other. John also mentions what the trolls had told him. T

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9698537

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02/25/10- "Rose, find your sprite.” (/homestuck/1491) to 03/01/10 - "Dave: Download a bunch of grist from John. He has plenty.” (/homestuck/1522)"

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Rose had nearly escaped a fiery death. The meteors destroying earth created a firestorm around her home. Dave had some difficulties getting the beta installed. Though after a frantic first phase of the game Rose and her home got sent to a new land. The Land of Light and Rain (LOLAR), and Rose seems to love it. A new mystery audience with a fancy font had instructed Rose to explore this now world. Now they are suggesting she find her sprite. Her sprite contains her deceased childhood cat. She isn't able to find them but sees footprints in the white sands that now surround her house.

The footprints lead to the foundation of the now destroyed mausoleum. The path that leads to the lab now goes

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9652587

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02/22/10- "So many years ago, entrenched in the temporally oblique...” (/homestuck/1455) to 02/25/10 - "Great! I would like you to carve something on it.” (/homestuck/1490)"

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Many years in the future. A Wayward Vagabond (WV), a Peregrine Mendicant (PM) and an Aimless Renegade (AR) have now become friends. It also seems both WV and AR have interest in PM. AR has given PM an ancient artifact. This is a squiddle plush that Jade had lost many years prior. This gift makes PM recall a memory.

We see what looks like AR. He is in the Land of Wind and Shade (LOWAS) next to John's Dad’s Car. They're dressed in the sort of outfit that the imps and Jack Noir wear. He is an Authority Regulator working for the some and needs to deal with an illegally parked vehicle. He left a parking ticket and has confiscated the contents. This includes the Packa

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9617968

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02/18/10- "AR: Cautiously drink TAB.” (/homestuck/1408) to 02/22/10 - “==>” (/homestuck/1454)"

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A Wayward Vagabond (WV), a Peregrine Mendicant (PM) and an Aimless Renegade (AR) had been fighting. WV and PM had separately landed near some ancient frog ruins. AR had set up base there and immediately began shooting at intruders. But after seeing the icon on WV pumpkin bindle AR freaked out and called a cease fire in his own way. Now the 3 of them are enjoying WV’s cans of preserve and Tab.

AR goes and gathers some of the artifacts to show off to his now welcome guest. WV takes PM to his bunker. It seems ARs rockets blew a hole into a room he wasn't able to access before. The console in there has a lot of spirographs on it and a frog. We learned recently the frogs are “Illegal contraband” so AR may not want to see this. Apparently its out

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9582081

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02/13/10- "John: Pester Rose.” (/homestuck/1391) to 02/17/10 - "[S] ==>” (/homestuck/1407)"

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John is still exploring the Land of Wind and Shade (LOWAS). He's aware of this because his grandmother resurrected as a game sprite and told him. Johns is now attempting to contact Rose but not having much luck. He is able to chat with Jade though. Jade already knows that John is in LOWAS. Jade explains to John that she now has the game and needs to contact Dave to get started. John mentions it doesn't make any sense that she’d get Daves copy of the game. Especially since she didn't know what SBURB was last time they talked. Her response is that she was asleep at the time. She also tells John he needs to get his server a copy of the game so she can get into it. This means John's priority is to now walk over to the area directly below his house. Then

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9536533

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02/11/10- "In a future settled askance of the present...” (/homestuck/1359) to 02/13/10 - "Jade: Pester chums.” (/homestuck/1390)"

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In the “present” as we see it. 2 of 4 children have left earth via a video game SBURB. This is a good thing as the earth is currently getting pelted with millions of meteors. Somehow years in the future the earth has new inhabitants. We’ve met 3 capricians. There’s a Wayward Vagabond (WV), a Peregrine Mendicant (PM) and an Aimless Renegade (AR). WV and PM had both found rockets that lead them to some ancient frog ruins. This place in the Present is next to the home of Jade Harley. But currently these ruins are home to an Aimless Renegade (AR). There is a huge stash of weapons and ammo left by Jade's Grandfather. AR is not happy that WV and PM are on his turf. AR is also a gun nut who has no idea how to aim.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9499826

Today I’m reading only one page! But it's a really huge interactive segment.

02/09/10- "[S] ACT 4 ==>” (/homestuck/1358) to 02/11/10 - "In a future settled askance of the present...” (/homestuck/1359)"

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We’re back to the main story finally! We last left John leaping through the first gate. We got a peek of this place in the last act when granny tossed a copy of Sassacre down below the clouds. A dark and cloudy planet we now know is the Land of Wind and Shade (LOWAS). Our intro to this act is a big interactive segment where we play as John exploring this land.

– tangent –

This segment has a really great song playing in it called “Doctor”. This theme will come up a lot mixed into many later works. I’ll mention here again that in the original experience we didn't get the handy music credits for these. The band camp also only credited the artists on a