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Fan made Black King vs Trolls flash, complete with Rex Duodecim Angelus.
edit: For clarification, it was made in a week, by three people.
maybe later
Karkat: I FINALLY WOKE UP ON PROSPIT.
Terezi: YOU D1D???
Gamzee: Ok wElL If yOu gEt yOuR MiNd aLl cHaNgEd aBoUt tHaT ThEn yOu kNoW WhErE To fInD ThE PiLe, BeSt fRiEnD
Eridan: airin out all his dirty laundry like that puttin a big fuckin pile a horns in the middle of the room
Feferi: T)(ere's no reason to be scared! T)(ey are not as terrible as t)(ey look.
Sollux: 2o unle022 youve got a real good rea2on ii dont thiink iim gonna bother fiixiing them.
Aradia: just keep listening t0 y0ur angry impluses it will all be fine
Nepeta: :33 < but equius already furbid me from doing that
Tavros: iN THE MATTER,
Equius: D --> Yes, I can follow that order, sir
Kanaya: I Did My Best To Clean Up The Blood Before You Woke Up
Vriska: Fine, I will take a 8r8k, Karkat. 8ut only 8ecause you were so polite about it.
Also known as "a way to test that my colorization script worked":
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And it doesn't matter if we see a DEAD for Nepeta
Cats
NINE LIVES
it's anyone's game at this point
I kind don't want my Alterniabound LP to get stuck back here either.
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The first installment of the Let's Play would be better, actually. What better way to look forward to 10/25 than with the flash we got last 10/25?
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Looks like we have the next OP.
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I don't think I will be up late/early enough for that to happen though... we're still on page 98 and it's 2:00 AM here. I will be up for another hour or so probably just to get Karkat's stuff ready and start doing Terezi's walkabout.
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Edit: oh god the speculation about what happens to Aradia after she explodes...
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Drunkstuck presents
LET'S PLAY
ALTERNIABOUND
Soundtrack now available from What Pumpkin! Records
Yes, that's right folks. I figured it would be fun to do Alterniabound as a Let's Play kind of thing. Apparently this is because I hate myself. Nonetheless, my pain is your gain! Featured inside is ALL the dialogue, all the treasure, and all the Easter eggs of the original in a convienent text and picture format! (Just cut me some slack on the text, there may be a couple of typos.)
So let's get started. For reference, all of my commentary will be in the current font, while all text from the game will be in this font. Also, this is pretty long, so it is spoiled.
This is where you start. The flash takes place shortly after Terezi's first chat with Dave, as Karkat wakes from his nap that was caused by him passing out at the sight of Kanaya's impromptu surgery on Tavros. You might also recall Terezi just
watchedsmelled Prospit getting destroyed by what we knew a year ago as the Demon.And these are your basic controls. You can see this clicking the controller icon on the top right (like the other walkabout flashses), and control the volume by clicking the horn in the top left. The back arrow in the bottom left hand corner resets your game.
When you intereact with another character (by pressing spacebar), you get a prompt like this. There are two other playable characters in the flash - one of them being Terezi. We'll get to that later though. For now, we'll pick the first option.
This is what the dialogue boxes look like. Note that, of coruse, this is the first time in Homestuck we've ever actually seen living two characters talk to each other "in person" - as I pointed out before, when Equius met Aradia (remember robosmooch) that was technically a spritelog.
Terezi has a pretty wide range of expressions, but we'll get to see more of those later. Karkat does not, so I show his dialogue boxes sparingly. All the portraits are animated, which also made it difficult to capture screenshots because I thought it looked kind of weird for them to be frozen with their mouths open.
Like I said, Terezi has a wide range of expressions.
We'll be Terezi a little later. Let's check out the rest of the lab first.
This is about the full extent of my image editing skills. Anyway, I lost my train of thought while making that. Where were we... oh, yes, right, wandering around aimlessly and talking to people. Quite.
Gamzee seems to be excited about something... (you can't tell, but he's doing the dance like the shopkeepers from Secret of Mana).
Both options result in the same dialogue. I hadn't played this in awhile but I still found myself thinking the exact same thing.
Twitchy Karkat! Gamzee's text was the hardest to transcribe.
You can also intereact with objects the same way you interact with the other trolls.
Sigh. Yeah, I guess.
Well, Karkat makes short work of that. Let's go up top and see what folks are up to.
Feferi also has multiple options. We'll explore them both.
Most of the dialogue portraits are pretty good - there's really only one I dislike. I'll probably talk about that more when I get there.
I assume she means the kids.
Anyway, let's see what Sollux is up to.
Let's talk to Aradia. I'm sure this will be motivational and uplifting!
Oh, right, we had another option.
Pay close attention to Nepeta's hat here.
A year later, I am still giggling to the idea that Nepeta's hat mirrors her facial expressions.
I was less crazy about ANIME KAWAII NEPETA here at the end though so I didn't screenshot it.
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LET'S PLAY
ALTERNIABOUND
Part 2
Previous installments:
All right, we last left our hero in the midst of talking to his comptraoits. Let's see who's next on the chumproll..
This is not Tavros's most common expression.
This is.
Are you ready for a STRONG dialogue box? I'm not sure. But there's only one way to find out.
Anyway, we just remembered there was a memo we needed to finish.
And we then this ends the same way as this memo. The lines are actually in the game, but they're already right there on the site, as well.
Of course, this gives us a good idea of whom we should talk to next.
I really don't like Kanaya's portrait. This may be the only time we see it. Hehehe. Karkat still refuses to troll our human protagonists. So what or who could've been the catalyst? Well, there's only one more troll to talk to...
Well, now we know! Anyway, that's all the dialogue up here, but there's a ton to see in the rest of the lab!
These are the transportalizers like we've seen elsewhere. They work like you would think.
We got one floor below. Well, we're assuming is below. It could be anywhere in the lab, honestly. Anyway, exits are
north
and south.
So, obviously, we're going to pick up some sweet loot first.
Okay, let's go north.
So the idea of this room is that each of these transportalizers leads to each trolls' own room. I think there is one exception, otherwise, you cannot go in anyone else's room other than your own.
See? Doesn't do anything...
This is ours, let's give that a shot.
That's better.
Karkat's room, as such, is basically a long corridor with some treasure chests in it. I'll spoiler the parts where I'm just opening chests to save some space.
As you might imagine, no one here is really excited about money at this point. Well, unless you get, say, a lot.
There's lots of stairs in this lab, no wonder they felt the need to give Tavros some legs.
Let's just head down here.
Yep, more chests. But I feel oddly compelled to check out that gap in the wall right there.
What'dya know?
That's what it says for everything back here, except for...
More treasure chests:
Let's get out of here.
We transportalize to a large, empty room.
With a bank of tubes... oh no. Oh god no. Let's see if there's any pleasant distractions in this chest.
Sweet!
Hey wait a minute...
Fucking a!
Sigh, it's about time check out that twinkling thing in the middle of the room that cannot possibly be of any significance whatsoever.
We ran out of there as fast we possibly could, back up to the 2nd room we transportalized too... hey, where are you going?
Just to hammer this point home, some of the other pads do give you this option (this is Terezi's) but you can't go in.
Oh what in the hell? WHAT DID YOU DO?
WHAT DID YOU DO WHAT DID YOU DO WHAT DID YOU DO
Oh, right, I hit Ctrl+T. It's called Trickster Mode and it's usually an Easter egg in Homestuck walkabout flashes. You should try it, it's fun. Especially if you don't want to buy the Alterniabound album for some reason.
Anyway, you eventually end up here:
A shop from Chrono Trigger with the kids from Earthbound and Gamzee doing his Secret of Mana shopkeeper dance? IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE. Anyway, the only person you can actually talk to is Gamzee.
Fuckin' miracles.
If you don't hit Ctrl+T again, you actually get the Chrono Trigger warp gate effect whenever you transportalize (though without the sound effect or the whooshy time travelling). Either way, you end up back at the beginning.
But wait, what about...
That south transportalizer?
You end up in another room, with more stairs and more treasure.
I WARNED YOU ABOUT STAIRS etc. etc.
You got a CHAINSAW! Still some brown stains on it. Yuck.
I TOLD YA etc. etc.
Geez, more stairs.
Anyway, we reached the bottom transportalizer.
> Transportalize
And so we end up here. This is similiar to the one John transported to, of course:
Here's a better view of the monsters.
Up next, Terezi.
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mmm.
Sometimes people have very ... individual ideas for what characters look like which is completely at odds with everyone else's opinion. And sometimes these people are on the art team and lobby very hard to draw specific characters.
Pretty sure someone else did the ones for the next walkarounds, though. I seem to remember they were different.
I think they were too. But yeah, I realize it's probably just me...
Anyway, I just finished Terezi's chats. But I haven't done any of her walkabout stuff yet and it's 4:30 and I really need to go. Catch y'all in the next thread.
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er. Not to spell it out, but I'm pretty sure I was saying that it wasn't just you at all.
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It's always you.
Aha, I knew it!
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It's a surprising amount of good-looking portraits considering the range of artstyles and that we're pretty much only used to two styles: normal and "hero".
Wasn't that one was by Peter Turner? And the Kanayabound portrait was by Lexxy
yes and yes.
not poorly-drawn, she just looks like an ugly person
which doesn't seem to mesh well with her character
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