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MSPA: Hivebent - Ash Ketchum's Mom; Good Mom, Best Ho-Bag

Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of ForksRegistered User regular
edited September 2010 in Social Entropy++
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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet.
Here our story of seven acts begins.

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A story of...
Andrew wrote:
Andrew wrote:
Futility brought on by their own mistakes.
Are they mistakes if they have no free will? If their mistakes are the reason they exist in the first place?
Whoops, there you go, asking the Ultimate Riddle.

Why you got to be asking all these Ultimate Riddles like that???

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Meteors earthbound.
My friends fighting for their lives.
Fruit gushers? Hell yes!

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John, Rose, Dave, Jade

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Their Guardians

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The Sprites

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The Exiles

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The Villains

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Elsewhere in paradox space, we examine another planet, forgotten by time.

But we will strive to remember. What was this planet's name?

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Aradia Tavros Sollux Karkat

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Nepeta Kanaya Terezi Vriska

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Equius Gamzee Eridan and Feferi

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The Mobster, The Femme Fatale, The Demon, The First Guardian

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Weyr wrote:
The four kids in play
Mirror the twelve hostile trolls'
separate session

Their journeys began
in quite a similar way
all paradox clones

Fallen from the sky
as infants amidst space rocks
with shared destinies

To save their homeworld
they end up destroying it
for Skaia's safety

But was it worth it?
Agents and exiles settle
on their barren home

What's my point again?
I lost it some time ago.


For those of you who are just joining us, and would like to know more about the story...

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The story is told as if it were a text adventure game. Each command you click underneath the comic is really just a next button. All the commands for the first year of the story were suggested by Homestuck readers on the MSPA forum. A few weeks before Homestuck's anniversary, Andrew locked all the suggestion boxes and took over command-authoring. He still gets input from the community in subtle and unpredictable ways.

If I wasn't REALLY LAZY, I would have edited each photo to include character descriptions.testmb.gif

Other Works by Andrew Hussie
Misc confusing stuff
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The server user builds up the client's house.
An exile's station will appear at the server user's location. That exile will talk to the client.
For example, WV found the cork station at Rose's place and talked to John.
The station will resemble the cruxite item.

John had a blue Sassacre book, and found an aged brown copy in a safe. The brown book had an inscription from his Nanna, which we saw at the start of Act 3. At the end of act 3, Nannasprite inscribed the blue book and sent it to LOWAS. Grandpa Harley retrieved it and took it to the Veil. The blue book went back in time on a meteor and eventually became the brown book.

Rose and Dave dream on Derse and hear the gods. Aradia hears the voices of her dead ancestors. Terezi dreams on Prospit and hears her incubating lusus. Sollux hears screams of the imminently deceased and has psychic visions.
I think of trolls as being a bit like slashers/shippers, in that almost any interpersonal relationship of sufficient strength can be grounds for romance, but the nature of that relationship determines the character of the romance.

Humans have one icon to depict romance: <3

Trolls have four.

Broadly implicated: redrom = good, blackrom = not so good

Heart:
Matesprits
Probably the closest to human romance

Diamond:
Moirallegiance = Moira (mythological personification of fate) + allegiance
Kyriaki wrote:
moirallegiance is about devoting yourself to someone precisely because of their faults.
Diamonds are droogs!

Club:
auspistice
Zuki wrote:
trolls can conceive of a kind of emotional intimacy being implied by the necessity of mediation. Of taking two individuals that might be polarizing on their own, and forming a new stable triad. Takes at least three legs to create a stable base for a table, stool, or chair. And it has to be something that all three parties are willing to engage in, like a negotiation.

Spade:
Kismesis = kismet + nemesis
The troll equivalent of an arch nemesis, tied to some element of destiny. Nemesis in no way associated with human concept of romance, but for trolls it apparently is. Clearly falls under blackrom category.

MSPA Forums Stuff
SE++ CHUMFORCE
Andrew Ryan - raptureFounder
Baidol - somaticAlchemist
Caulk Bite 6 - tsaritsasAmorist
Centipede Damascus - damasceneChilopod
crwth - crumblixTzar
Davoid - adenoviralCryptographist
Delzhand - gamepadActuator
EidolonOrpheus - halcyonEidolon
Flay - fractalDiaglyph
GeoMitch - conspicuouslyAffluent
Goatmon - anthropomorphicAviator
Gumpy - interestingOctagon
Koshian - invisiblePhysician
Lexxy - freneticArtmonger
Lord_Asmodeus - omnibusArchiver
MacGuffin - pixelatedPlotdevice
PikaPuff - pikachuHairasser
Romanian My Escutcheon, Doxy - finalEscutcheon
Sal - unlikelySalvation
Shock G - frostbittenWinterbeard
Skull Man - cranialAntagonist
SLyM - overtlyEsoteric
Speed Racer - automobileConquistador
Snowbeat - corrosiveGambler
Squall - tempestuousGalestrom
Tarranon - auspiciouslyTarrmato
TheExAm - discordianCabbage
The Infra - mexicanKreplach
Traikan - illusiveOpportunist
VALVEjunkie - steampunkAddict
Vic - spuriousSycophant
VoproSTEIN - artificialDirector
ZeroFill - cavalierCatapillar
Zombies Tossed My Salad! - ZombiesTosser

We also have a Pesterchum Spreadsheet, if that's your sort of thing.

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THIS IS IMPORTANT
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Original OP by Avraham, other pieces of compiled information courtesy of TDOT.

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    NeoTomaNeoToma Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Growing up is hard
    And no one understands....time travel

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    SwissLionSwissLion We are beside ourselves! Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    CCG: OH, ALL OF THEM YOU SAY?
    CCG: FASCINATING.
    CCG: HEY FORGET THE BAN BUTTON, USE YOUR MIND POWERS TO HELP ME LOCATE THE DESPERATELY ATTEMPT TO GIVE A SHIT BUTTON. WHOOPS WE BOTH FAILED, IT DOESN'T EXIST.


    And that is why Karkat is the best (for now)

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    Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    BACK TO THE PAST BACK TO THE PAST SAMURAI JACK WAACHHHAAA

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    GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    MSPA blows
    it's all about Questionable Content now

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    SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    also, what speed is saying makes perfect sense, I just think a lot of you guys don't understand the concept of creating a parallel dimension when combined with the concept of time travel

    it's like speed is putting jelly in your Hot God and you guys have fucking clue what he is doing

    just eat the Hot God jesus

    Just how high do you have to be to do something like that

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    TerrendosTerrendos Decorative Monocle Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    CCG: THERE, GREAT, ANOTHER HAPPY COUPLE
    CCG: IN WHATEVER HIDEOUS QUADRANT THIS BATSHIT PAIRING WILL SUSTAIN.
    CCG: NOW OFF YOU GO.

    CCG banned PAT from responding to memo.
    CCG banned PAG from responding to memo.

    Oh, Karkat. You have a direct line to my Moirallegiance.

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    GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    here's how time travel works in mspa

    Step 1: Something funny is in the update
    Step 2: Time travel
    Step 3: Who gives a shit

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    Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I've found myself lately describing large quantities of things as "all the ____. All of them." And I'm not going to stop any time soon.

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    Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    GeoMitch wrote: »
    here's how time travel works in mspa

    Step 1: Something funny is in the update
    Step 2: Time travel
    Step 3: Who gives a shit

    see, the reason this response pisses me off a bit is that the time travel in mspa is really really really good

    and just plain old good time travel is rare!

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I would be happy with an entire comic of Karkat comments

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    MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    BACK TO THE PAST BACK TO THE PAST SAMURAI JACK WAACHHHAAA

    I TORE OPEN A PORTAL IN TIME AND FWUNG HIM INTO THE FUTURE

    Macera on
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    MolybdenumMolybdenum Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Grey Ghost wrote: »
    I've found myself lately describing large quantities of things as "all the ____. All of them." And I'm not going to stop any time soon.

    oddly enough I started doing this a month or so before first discovering MSPA

    I picked it up from my roommate, who doesn't know where he got it from

    I bet this is a tangled friend-of-a-friend who reads MSPA thing

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    Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    this thread needs

    some fucking miracles
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    IsoldaeIsoldae Hats Off To JigglypuffRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    It's all about the red chalk.

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    Rear Admiral ChocoRear Admiral Choco I wanna be an owl, Jerry! Owl York CityRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    The acronym for Future Arachnid's Grip made me do a spit take when I saw
    FAG: Kaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarkat!

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    Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Oh, hey, look, new thread title.

    Thanks to Tommy for the inspiration.

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    OptyOpty Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Macera wrote: »
    BACK TO THE PAST BACK TO THE PAST SAMURAI JACK WAACHHHAAA

    I TORE OPEN A PORTAL IN TIME AND FWUNG HIM INTO THE FUTURE

    WHERE MY EVIL IS RAW

    Opty on
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    Tommy2HandsTommy2Hands what is this where am i Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Oh, hey, look, new thread title.

    Thanks to Tommy for the inspiration.

    hearts

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    SwissLionSwissLion We are beside ourselves! Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Hilarious Update.

    Hilarious and very strange.

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    That was pretty great

    And now to wonder how many people look at the text and go I'M NOT READING THAT BECAUSE I AM AN ILLITERATE GIT

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    RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Hearts Boxcars as Tavros' exile?

    All

    Right...

    Also, I wonder how many people would've guessed a throwaway joke made off a fan donation would become a central part of the next story's plot?

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    L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I skipped reading a few of the troll logs that didnt have trolls I liked, but skipping this stuff would be dumb as hell

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    Synthetic OrangeSynthetic Orange Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    KISS THE GIRL

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    alright so I'm a little confused about how the other trolls see these memos

    seeing as Vriska manages to comment on a memo technically before it's written

    so can they see any memo at any point in the timestream and comment in it at any point?

    YaYa on
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    ASimPersonASimPerson Cold... and hard.Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    So I've been playing Final Fantasy Tactics for like the past 6 months on the PSP I actually looked at the zodiac signs the other day and went, "oh hey, wait a minute..."

    So I'm sure someone has done this already, but I haven't seen it and I thought maybe someone else might get a kick out of this, so...
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    GumpyGumpy There is always a greater powerRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I am a fan of all the memos. All of them.

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    MegaMekMegaMek Girls like girls. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    ASimPerson wrote: »
    So I've been playing Final Fantasy Tactics for like the past 6 months on the PSP I actually looked at the zodiac signs the other day and went, "oh hey, wait a minute..."

    So I'm sure someone has done this already, but I haven't seen it and I thought maybe someone else might get a kick out of this, so...
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    That's pretty fantastic.

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    Andy JoeAndy Joe We claim the land for the highlord! The AdirondacksRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Hearts Boxcars is awesome.

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    YaYaYaYa Decent. Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    oh god I just saw the new update

    Hearts Boxcars wants Tavros to get some so badly

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    Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Totally called this.

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    NerdgasmicNerdgasmic __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2010
    Good Boxcars

    Best Exile

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Boxcars/HB won't take no for an answer, runt

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    JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    YOU KISS THAT GIRL THIS INSTANT is one of my favorite pages in recent memory.

    He is so flustered.

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    KeidrychKeidrych Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    6 solar sweeps, HB!

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    RadiusRadius Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Keidrych wrote: »
    6 solar sweeps, HB!

    Ain't nothing wrong with wanting Tavros to grow a pair.

    Radius on
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    SeriouslySeriously Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Hearts Boxcars is the ultimate shipper.

    Seriously on
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    AMP'dAMP'd Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Hearts beats it pretty frequently to Red Cheeks

    I don't know if this is better or worse

    AMP'd on
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    tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    AMP'd wrote: »
    Hearts beats it pretty frequently to Red Cheeks

    I don't know if this is better or worse

    CCG: FIRST ONE TO START A WANK FIRE GETS A SHINY BOONDOLLAR.

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    EmperorSethEmperorSeth Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    God, that shame globes line was great.

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    BugBoyBugBoy boy.EXE has stopped functioning. only bugs remainRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    hearts boxcars sure is getting mad

    I wonder if he's a secret romantic

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