Let's pick up where we left off, with John and Karkat.
EB: but now they don't have dream selves left!
EB: who ever goes will be risking their life for good, won't they? CG: THAT WOULD BE THE LOGICAL EXTENSION OF THOSE FACTS, YES.
EB: this is unacceptable!
EB: couldn't i do it?
EB: i am apparently immortal, because of this god tier business, so the bomb probably would not kill me! CG: OK, BUT DON'T YOU THINK THERE'S A REMOTE POSSIBILITY THAT GOING ON A SUICIDE MISSION TO SAVE ALL OF REALITY WOULD COUNT AS A HEROIC DEATH?
There is one thing neither of them know that we do: Aradia is waiting for "friends" to arrive at the Green Sun.
CG: BUT I MEAN, THE THING IS SHE SPENT A LONG TIME BEING DEAD AND MOVING ON, IT'S NOT LIKE YOU CAN JUST BRING SOMEBODY BACK AND EXPECT THEM TO GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ALL THE STUFF YOU THINK IS IMPORTANT.
CG: I'VE TRIED TO TELL HER THAT HER SPRITE SELF IS PROBABLY NOWHERE NEAR AS DESPICABLE AS SHE'S MAKING OUT WITH HERSELF TO BE.
[...]
CG: AND FOR ALL THE SHIT SHE'S GIVEN ME ON THIS VERY SUBJECT, SHE KEEPS HERSELF DANGLING FROM A VERY HIGH HOOK.
CG: SHE'D BE DOING ME A MAJOR PERSONAL SOLID BY MAKING AT LEAST SOME ATTEMPT TO GET HERSELF OFF.
CG: WAIT
CG: FUCK
CG: WHAT DID I JUST SAY
That's an important part about the dead, but it's sort of lost among Karkat's Fruedian slips.
Via some shenanigans Jade will get the quills John needs to cause the scratch.
Here's the part I don't think we know all of yet.
CG: ANYWAY, AFTER SHE GIVES THAT TO YOU, SHE THEN HAS TO GO THROUGH WITH THE REST OF THE PLAN, WHICH IS MAKING SURE YOU ALL SURVIVE AFTER THE SCRATCH, MINUS ONE OF THE DERSE DREAMERS OF COURSE.
CG: THE PLAN REVOLVES AROUND SOME REALLY BAFFLING HAND WAVEY MUMBO JUMBO WHICH I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND, BUT SHE TOLD ME TO TRUST HER ABOUT IT BECAUSE THE INFO COMES FROM A "Reliable informant."
CG: WHITENED FOR SMUG TOOL.
CG: IT INVOLVES SOMETHING TO DO WITH A YELLOW LAWN RING.
CG: WHICH ISN'T THE HUMAN WORD FOR IT, IT'S JUST YOUR WORD IS SO DUMB I FEEL DUMB SAYING IT.
We've seen the 1 yard come to play now... well, that's open for speculation I guess.
EB: since she is mortal, and i am not (sort of), and i don't need to do the scratch for a while, can i go help her? [...] CG: SWEET BLEEDING JEGUS, EGBERT, YOU KEEP BRAGGING ABOUT YOUR IMMORTALITY, AND THEN BRAINLESSLY ANNOUNCE PLANS TO GO OFF AND DO SOMETHING HEROIC! YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE THE SHORTEST LIFESPAN OF ANY IMMORTAL IN HISTORY.
I've said this many times throughout this Drunkstunk thing, but I'll lay it out here. The story's tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement of John as the hero is one of my favorite running gags.
cilla black gonna kick em while they're down, kick em while they're down in the downtown brown
it's just that, man, if you wanna speculate and prognosticate potential things happening in the future of MSPA that's all cool and good and half the fun in the first place
but if you happen to be right, silently punch you fist in the air and feel good about yourself. don't point it out to everyone.
this doesn't even go exclusively or particularly to speed. it's everyone yo
I guess I can say that I knew Vriska was dead and not going to be god-tier revived, but Vriska's death was ambiguous and I can't really brag about totally calling it.
i remember when we found out vriska could put the kids to sleep and i was like 'welp that explains jade's narcolepsy then' and got told that was a ridiculous idea
I was going to screencap them but worst-case I only have an hour and a half left. Maybe if I hate myself to do this again for EOA6 I'll go back and fix this.
Let's start with the bottom right, where past John is being messaged by Vriska.
AG: 8ut this is all true. I've seen it already. You have no idea how delicious the dramatic irony is right now!
AG: You will die. I will lead you into a trap, and watch you 8leed to death on a 8ig stone sla8 with a sword stuck in your chest.
The dramatic irony is so thick I could cut it in half with a knife embedded in a cane with a dragon's head on it!
Er, right. Let's cut to the chase.
AG: 8ecause this isn't really happening. GT: it isn't?
AG: It did, once.
AG: 8ut now it's just a memory.
AG: I guess I must 8e dead.
Someone once pointed out that GT had more lines than a few of the trolls. Look, Past John had a long chat with Kanaya and then there's this one. So it makes sense.
GT: i was going to block you. but then...
GT: i didn't for some reason. AG: Exactly. 8ecause we've already 8een through this. You're either asleep, or dead like me.
AG: Man! I can't 8elieve I let her trick me like that. Such an amateur mistake.
GT: i guess i am feeling something like deja vu... maybe.
GT: i still don't think i believe you, though.
There was a lot of speculation about this John when this first went up.
AG: John, there is no present! You are not in your hive, and you don't have anything to send. She received it a long time ago. None of this matters anymore.
AG: If you don't 8elieve me, you are free to look out your window.
We'll get back to that in a bit.
What about the Derse battleship on the lower left? That looks familiar.
Oh, right, these guys.
What about the top of Dave's apartment?
Is this what I think it is?
TG: ok first do you even have burger kings out in the fucking woods
TG: why do you reference things that obviously arent in the woods like terrible burgers TT: I'll limit my establishments of reference to lumber mills and sugar shanties from now on.
TT: Also, there's a Burger King less than forty minutes from my house. I won't let this stand in the way of the new policy though.
Yes, yes it is.
TG: i just want your professional take on how many things in my dream symbolize dicks TT: We've already established that all of your dreams are packed with enough homoerotic symbolism to lift Freudian theory from the ashes of discreditation.
TG: yeah thats a given but i didnt even dream about puppets this time TT: Are you serious?
TT: I'm clearing my schedule. This is a major breakthrough.
When people say this "miss the old Rose", I assume this is the sort of thing they're talking about.
TG: well obviously i knew the birds were just black screaming sky dongs just hear me out
TG: i kept dying
TG: there kept being these traps like i would go one way and get my head chopped off
TG: or go another way and get stabbed or whatever
TG: and every time i died the dream reset itself and i was standing there alive and ready to try to escape again
TG: but each time i would be watching myself from the vantage point of a different crow
TG: like i was the crow all squawking around in circles like a macabre flapping douche
TG: and i would always watch myself try to do something different to dodge the trap but i always ended up dead TT: Hm.
TT: Well, if I've learned anything from my extensive skimming over the Wikipedia articles on dream analysis,
TT: It's that this dream is very unlikely to have any literal significance whatsoever.
TT: It's probably not about dying at all.
Well... actually. Anyway, let's cut to the chase.
TT: Listening to you conjure imagery of my mother in her underpants is definitely keeping us buoyed high above this swirling Freudian hellhole.
TT: Well done. TG: please its not like shes my mom i can visualize her choice ass all i want without it gettin much more than moderately uncomfortable for everyone involved
TT: What if you're wrong? TG: about what
TT: Her not being your mother. TG: uh
TT: Don't worry, you're probably safe. Luckily I can think of no literary or historical precedent for that sort of folly whatsoever.
Okay guys I'm sorry but.... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA I am literally trying to keep from rolling on the floor of my cubicle here.
TT: If the rest of it is incompatible with prognoses of the zoologically dubious, I will withdraw my insinuation. TG: theres not even much more to it
TG: i looked up into the sky
TG: didnt see anyone singing
TG: but even though the sky was black i could see the sun
TG: it was bright as hell even through my shades
TG: so i flapped my wings and flew up away to it like a fucking piece of garbage
And this is where they realize the truth.
Let's go with the one with the Leo sign on it now.
Huh.
Anyway, this is the most definitive statement we've gotten about what happened to Jaspers:
JASPERSPRITE: Yes one time i was with rose and i was sitting there dressed up in my suit with her as happy as can be.
JASPERSPRITE: But then she disappeared!
JASPERSPRITE: The whole place disappeared and i was in another place. There was no rose there was someone else.
JASPERSPRITE: I guess i loved her too in time but never as much as rose it just wasnt the same.
JASPERSPRITE: I kept waiting to see rose again but never did and finally i lost hope that i would and then i died.
Yep.
Okay, let's close this out with something sad:
AC: :33 < so, youre saying that maybe i will have to die to get to be with him? JASPERSPRITE: Yes maybe.
AC: :33 < i hope thats not the case!
AC: :33 < but i guess you just have a different way of looking at things
AC: :33 < thank you for the advice jaspers!
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That's an important part about the dead, but it's sort of lost among Karkat's Fruedian slips.
Via some shenanigans Jade will get the quills John needs to cause the scratch.
Here's the part I don't think we know all of yet. We've seen the 1 yard come to play now... well, that's open for speculation I guess.
I've said this many times throughout this Drunkstunk thing, but I'll lay it out here. The story's tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement of John as the hero is one of my favorite running gags.
The entire plan is contained on this page: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005772
I read the whole thing and couldn't think of a way to summarize it. So it's up to you.
Let's see what's been going on elsewhere.
Quite a mess you got there, Doc.
And so begins our first scrapbook update.
and then it turned out I was right
I remember that
because I'm a self-absorbed shitheel
http://www.audioentropy.com/
hahaha
I have
all the luck
http://www.audioentropy.com/
it's just that, man, if you wanna speculate and prognosticate potential things happening in the future of MSPA that's all cool and good and half the fun in the first place
but if you happen to be right, silently punch you fist in the air and feel good about yourself. don't point it out to everyone.
this doesn't even go exclusively or particularly to speed. it's everyone yo
http://www.audioentropy.com/
http://www.audioentropy.com/
just 'cause it's fun to be all "holy shit how did I get that right"
so long as we're avoiding anything like "YES I AM THE SMARTEST YOU ALL BOW DOWN TO MY GENIUS"
unless you're larlar who gets a free pass for obvious reasons
it's true, i was
We probably won't even finish the thread on the same day the update goes live.
especially because I am illiterate
and on a related note that was the same conversation where you were asking me if they were releasing portal 2 dlc
and now they have and we still haven't played it!
http://www.audioentropy.com/
well
I can contribute to that noble cause
(stealing other people's youtubes?? yes indeedy)
heh yeah
i keep telling my brother to download it but he won't do it
(Watch as I am promptly proven wrong.)
comeon boys we got 'till sunup to tear this thread down bring in the wrecking ball
I guess I can say that I knew Vriska was dead and not going to be god-tier revived, but Vriska's death was ambiguous and I can't really brag about totally calling it.
reading is for chumps and i'm just too cool for that nonsense
go give him a noogie
right now
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I am ready for this flash now
hahahhahaaahahahahaah
Plowing through with no time for breaks was really the best way to do it.
I'll post a link, as such: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=005774
I was going to screencap them but worst-case I only have an hour and a half left. Maybe if I hate myself to do this again for EOA6 I'll go back and fix this.
Let's start with the bottom right, where past John is being messaged by Vriska.
Er, right. Let's cut to the chase.
Someone once pointed out that GT had more lines than a few of the trolls. Look, Past John had a long chat with Kanaya and then there's this one. So it makes sense.
We'll get back to that in a bit.
What about the Derse battleship on the lower left? That looks familiar.
Oh, right, these guys.
What about the top of Dave's apartment?
Is this what I think it is?
Yes, yes it is.
Well... actually. Anyway, let's cut to the chase.
Okay guys I'm sorry but.... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA I am literally trying to keep from rolling on the floor of my cubicle here.
And this is where they realize the truth.
Let's go with the one with the Leo sign on it now.
Huh.
Anyway, this is the most definitive statement we've gotten about what happened to Jaspers: Yep.
Okay, let's close this out with something sad:
And now, the last one, with Jadesprite.
Davesprite?