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MSPA: TH1S 1S WHY W3 C4NT H4V3 N1C3 TH1NGS

RentRent I'm always rightFuckin' deal with itRegistered 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.

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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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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    i'm feeling vrisky

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    It begins...

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ah, a fresh start.

    Let's count the pages until it gets corrupted!

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  • BugBoyBugBoy boy.EXE has stopped functioning. only bugs remainRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    and

    here

    we

    go

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  • Lord_AsmodeusLord_Asmodeus goeticSobriquet: Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Suggest Title Change: Make Ash's Mom a member of the Midnight Crew

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  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Now the burden of witty titles falls to you, Rent.

    Jegus speed.

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  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    sorry if i stepped on any toes, didn't mean to, romanian

    also romanian what was your original name?
    Baidol wrote: »
    Now the burden of witty titles falls to you, Rent.

    Jegus speed.

    oh I'm good at that

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Suggest Title Change: Make Ash's Mom a member of the Midnight Crew

    And

    there

    it

    went

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ah, a fresh start.

    Let's count the pages until it gets corrupted!

    Well, let's see...
    GeoMitch wrote: »
    i'm feeling vrisky

    I'm going with Zero.

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  • BugBoyBugBoy boy.EXE has stopped functioning. only bugs remainRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Suggest Title Change: Make Ash's Mom a member of the Midnight Crew

    I support this notion

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    yay new thread

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  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    BugBoy wrote: »
    Suggest Title Change: Make Ash's Mom a member of the Midnight Crew

    I support this notion

    NO

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  • WindfayirWindfayir Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Who knows what kind of hilarious antics await!
    probably dicks

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  • MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    you people I swear to god

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ah, a fresh start.

    Let's count the pages until it gets corrupted!

    Well, let's see...
    GeoMitch wrote: »
    i'm feeling vrisky

    I'm going with Zero.

    Someday, we'll find a thread that doesn't get so dirty so fast.

    (cue Somewhere, from West Side Story)

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
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    fucking ripped

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  • WindfayirWindfayir Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    he's got quite a grip on that 'roni tendril

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  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    (cue Somewhere, from West Side Story)

    wait bfl are you the musically-oriented one out of you two

    because if so we have to talk about musicals whilst going and getting pedicures and fondling each other because we're so gay

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  • PlatyPlaty Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    GeoMitch wrote: »
    atag-2theancientland-1.pngfucking ripped
    Strong like a bull

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Rent wrote: »
    sorry if i stepped on any toes, didn't mean to, romanian

    also romanian what was your original name?

    No worries, I didn't want to monopolize the thread anyway.

    Also, old name was AoR_Final, and then Tube's coin decided to fuck me up the bong hole. :(

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Potential thread title: The Unending Quest For Fanart Where The Heroes Actually Look Like Children

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Rent wrote: »
    (cue Somewhere, from West Side Story)

    wait bfl are you the musically-oriented one out of you two

    Well, I'm not very knowledgeable about musicals, but I have been known to enjoy them from time to time...
    Rent wrote:
    because if so we have to talk about musicals whilst going and getting pedicures and fondling each other because we're so gay

    Wait, what

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    somebody post that one art piece that had all those little things like FUCK TH3 POL1C3 and Tavros braiding Vriskas hair

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    We've had a pretty good amount of excellent fanart where the kids look like kids

    but yeah the vast majority do not

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  • WindfayirWindfayir Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    this thread's startin' to heat up

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  • SabreMauSabreMau ネトゲしよう 판다리아Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
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    Mainly an experiment in combining cell shading with gradients and soft shading. Inspired by the whole "Pirates vs. Ninjas" thing.
    Here, have some Nepeta

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    Finished it, after some modifications...

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    Added two more trolls to that pose as a team picture. That should be the whole team!
    From left to right: Tribor, blacksheepDaydreamer, Beep, Red Pen, mediokreKarapase, and Metaflare.

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    Lineart's done, color to be added eventually.
    DD > Threaten your little girl's girlfriend.

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    Not that you really have to. Look what happened to the last dame that broke your princess' heart.

    (I like daddy!Droogs way too much, ok.)
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    Not to be used for trolling...

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  • DysDys how am I even using this gun Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I just realized that I have yet to set up Pesterchum. Should the initials for it use CGAT, or did nobody care to do this?

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    what kind of chump still uses pesterchum(p)

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  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    GeoMitch wrote: »
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    there is absolutely nothing about this photo that isn't awesome

    Rent on
  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Rent wrote:
    because if so we have to talk about musicals whilst going and getting pedicures and fondling each other because we're so gay

    Wait, what

    Sorry, it's the truth dude

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  • Romanian My EscutcheonRomanian My Escutcheon Two of Forks Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Troll Arc suddenly has me wondering if the kids will actually be shaded when we get back to their arc.

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  • GeoMitchGeoMitch Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Rent wrote:
    Sorry, it's the truth dude

    If that's the way it has to be, I'm in.

    Does this mean I have to learn to whistle show tunes?

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Musicals are awesome

    or at least have the potential to be so

    fuck yooouuuu

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  • BaidolBaidol I will hold him off Escape while you canRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Ain't nothin' wrong with a good musical.

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  • Butler For Life #1Butler For Life #1 Twinning is WinningRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Wait, I like muscials!

    Why are you made at me, Cilla?

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Troll Arc suddenly has me wondering if the kids will actually be shaded when we get back to their arc.
    probably not any more than they have been before

    I mean, three of them have already swapped out their normal clothing fancier stuff

    but the kids themselves are probably going to remain monochromatic

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  • RentRent I'm always right Fuckin' deal with itRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Musicals are awesome

    or at least have the potential to be so

    fuck yooouuuu

    i...love musicals

    i mean i thought my username made it clear

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  • Cilla BlackCilla Black Priscilla!!! Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Wait, I like muscials!

    Why are you made at me, Cilla?

    rent, butler for life number 1

    rent

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    All of you!

    Stop watching plays for little girls!

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