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This is it. This is the mindfuck. What the hell?
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Jan 11, 2013 11:30
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Something is broken.
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Jan 11, 2013 11:37
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Uh. I don't know what I was expecting, but it sure as hell wasn't that. Where did the cherubs and horrorterrors even come from? I thought Jane might just be hallucinating, but Caliborn and Gamzee can apparently see all this too so that's not on the table. 
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Jan 11, 2013 11:42
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Oh gently caress. Can we load the game from a previous save point?
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Jan 11, 2013 11:51
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I just realized another thing. Trickster Mode turned the act curtain violet. We've now seen curtains in red, blue, green, and violet, a quartet of colors that should seem familiar. The fact that the curtains themselves changed colors suggests we're looking into an entirely new universe, as well. Edit: HAA HAA HEE HEE HOO HOO Bongo Bill fucked around with this message at 12:01 on Jan 11, 2013 |
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Jan 11, 2013 11:54
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Roger Explosion posted:Oh gently caress. Can we load the game from a previous save point? Sorry, bro. You checked hardcore mode.
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Jan 11, 2013 11:59
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How long before Jane runs into Yaldabaoth or Lord English and corrupts them into Zillyhoo?
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Jan 11, 2013 12:01
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Ok so this is just a theory but I'm thinking that the juju's don't put someone in trickster mode necessarily, but instead maybe grant subconscious wishes (with a twist?) and/or grant the power to make one's wishes come true. When the two halves united that twisty snake thing from thing from the Neverending story (never seen it) showed up and it grants wishes right? So what might Jane be wishing for? To be happy- and now she is, and she's making everything else happy too.
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Jan 11, 2013 12:24
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Kazoo's are such a great musical instrument. And I just rechecked the flash and I must have missed the instructions at the bottom because things now make far more sense, which is to say things now almost make a tiny bit of sense. Jane now turns Horror Terrors into Squiddles, Earth Cherubs into that rare grist and Cherub Cherubs into Lil' Cals. I take from this that Lil' Cal seems to be what Caliborn would look like in Trickster Mode. No wonder Caliborn loves him so much.
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Jan 11, 2013 12:32
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This is incredibly zilly. Also, Caliborn's pose here echoes Karkat becoming all  with John and Vriska becoming all  with Nick Cage. Caliborn is now smitten with Jane, in a new type of glitched romance.
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Jan 11, 2013 12:41
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I am on my knees, in a field, under heavy rain, fists hanging limp at my sides, screaming into the abyssal heavens.
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Jan 11, 2013 12:50
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Who would have thought an update like this would be the full explanation for how Caliborn becomes Lord English? drat!
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Jan 11, 2013 13:03
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Oxxidation posted:I am on my knees, in a field, under heavy rain, fists hanging limp at my sides, screaming into the abyssal heavens. In all the excitement I almost forgot about A6A5A2. Welcome to hell!  e/ For some reason I am absolutely positive it is Bowman spazzing out into a kazoo in this flash. Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 13:22 on Jan 11, 2013 |
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Jan 11, 2013 13:17
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Renaissance Robot posted:In all the excitement I almost forgot about A6A5A2. Welcome to hell! Don't worry, I'm sure it's just going to be an act explaining what the gently caress just happened. That or another one panel act and we'll remain just as confused as before.
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Jan 11, 2013 13:27
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiHJ0EdVY4o Fuckin' Toons
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Jan 11, 2013 14:08
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I love this comic.
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Jan 11, 2013 14:10
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Ah FINALLY some Zillyhoo backstory it's about goddamn time. I have a feeling that this describes where Jane is now: "There she is. Forged in fire by the smiths of Pipplemop, commissioned by the sage Lord of the Wozzinjay Fiefdom in the Realm of the Snargly Fruzmigbubbins."
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Jan 11, 2013 14:29
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Are those background elements reused from problem sleuth's epilogue?
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Jan 11, 2013 14:51
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I'm trying to figure out how this all fits with established reality. - Same pink cherubs as when John got the Zillyhoo hammer. Gamzee liked using that hammer, but hates this? - Cherubs confirmed for having wings. Might be a clue Lord English isn't god-tier, since he doesn't have them? - I have no loving clue. Akett posted:Don't worry, I'm sure it's just going to be an act explaining what the gently caress just happened. That or another one panel act and we'll remain just as confused as before. I think he meant more how the subacts are roughly paralleling the original acts, and the first Act 5 Act 2 was where we got Horrorstuck and all four kids dying.
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Jan 11, 2013 14:55
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Jesus Christ, we're on a candy-coated wonder ride all the way to hell aren't we? 
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Jan 11, 2013 15:09
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I wonder, wheter we're going to have this background for just this flash, for a portion of this act, or for the entire rest of the act.
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Jan 11, 2013 15:18
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Anyone play Pokémon Red and Blue way back when? Remember the Missingno glitch? When you turned it on, it made chunks of the game into a surreal nightmare but gave you infinite items. Remember the power-up everyone always duplicated, because it let you boost your characters up a level for free, so you could push a character all the way to level 100 instantly: Rare candy.
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Jan 11, 2013 15:18
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It is like all of my dreams are coming true at once  All of my fever dreams, that is.
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Jan 11, 2013 15:26
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Bobulus posted:Gamzee liked using that hammer, but hates this? This is an interesting point. Gamzee had the Warhammer of Zillyhoo in his inventory in Act 5 Act 2, but we don't know how he got it (or his incredibly powerful Jokerkind specibus). To have alchemized it, he'd need one zillion units of Zillium, but as far as we've seen, Zillium can only be obtained using Trickster Mode, and he didn't seem to have known what was happening when he first saw Jane engage. The presence of cherubs in this strange violet-curtained candy universe introduces the further, albeit remote, possibility that the Warhammer of Zillyhoo is a juju. In fact we don't know the complete timelines of any of the rabbit's armaments. The Quills of Echidna, Royal Deringer, and Ahab's Crosshairs are easy enough to guess, as they were quite obviously found or created in B1, carried to B2, shrunken, and given to the rabbit for its journey back. The Warhammer of Zillyhoo, on the other hand, was not created in B1 at all. If it was forged in fire by the smiths of Pipplemop and commissioned by the sage Lord of the Wozzinjay Fiefdom in the Realm of the Snargly Fruzmigbubbins, then there's plenty of opportunity for it to somehow come to Gamzee's possession in A2, then back to B2 via the meteor, then shrunken down and sent to B1.
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Jan 11, 2013 15:44
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Yeah, I just finished a 100% accuracy run of this flash. Not a single missed lollipop swing. Pretty badass I know.  A bit disappointing that nothing unexpected happens if you just decline to kill(?) anything. The flash progresses at the same rate and everything, probably so the music still matches up. MY IMMERSION 
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Jan 11, 2013 15:56
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loquacius posted:Yeah, I just finished a 100% accuracy run of this flash. Not a single missed lollipop swing. Pretty badass I know. I was trying to see what would happen if you hit only the red cherubs, because that seems like the sort of thing that'd hide an easter egg somehow, but my timing wasn't good enough and I got bored quickly.
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Jan 11, 2013 16:02
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Bongo Bill posted:The presence of cherubs in this strange violet-curtained candy universe introduces the further, albeit remote, possibility that the Warhammer of Zillyhoo is a juju. If the Warhammer was a juju, I doubt John could have alchemised it at all. Or used it to make the Pop-a-matic Vrillyhoo Hammer.
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Jan 11, 2013 16:15
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He never alchemised Zillyhoo, it was given to him by the bunny.
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Jan 11, 2013 16:20
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YggiDee posted:He never alchemised Zillyhoo, it was given to him by the bunny. He means that it was used in alchemy to create another weapon, and possibly destroyed in the process.
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Jan 11, 2013 16:23
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So does this mean that Jane was the one that was/has been terrorizing the horrorterrors and why they called for help from Rose? Or is there something I'm not getting.
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Jan 11, 2013 16:51
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What's that? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUhOnX8qt3I
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Jan 11, 2013 16:53
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Dogbutt posted:So does this mean that Jane was the one that was/has been terrorizing the horrorterrors and why they called for help from Rose? Or is there something I'm not getting. Lord English remains the only character who has been directly witnessed harming horrorterrors; shards of broken spacetime spilled some of their blood when he exploded all those ghosts in [S] Caliborn: Enter, and while that may just have been collateral damage, he's nevertheless a danger to them. But there's a lot we still don't know about their predicament.
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Jan 11, 2013 16:58
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I have this nagging feeling that Homestuck just jumped the shark, because this is basically past my breaking point of stupid thing tolerance? I really loving hope Hussie is going somewhere with this. Somewhere that is not here.
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Jan 11, 2013 16:58
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I dunno, from a narrative viewpoint it kinda makes sense - the kids are inside a video game, and jane just collected a powerup. Now she's going loving bananas with power, and we won't know what the full narrative ramifications are until she comes back down to normal and we find out what was really going on in the background. The B1 kids are all crazy powerful with video game abilities thanks to their god tiering - I hope each of the B2 kids gets equally powerful through alternate paths to the top. Jane has become a trickster goddess due to mysterious cherub juju nonsense, and likewise caliborn has made a solemn boypledge to turn jake into a killing machine. roxy has the void ring which is pretty cool, but whatever the condense has planned for her may take her to even higher levels of power than that. and as for dirk, who knows?
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Jan 11, 2013 17:09
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Rooreelooo posted:I dunno, from a narrative viewpoint it kinda makes sense - the kids are inside a video game, and jane just collected a powerup. Now she's going loving bananas with power, and we won't know what the full narrative ramifications are until she comes back down to normal and we find out what was really going on in the background. Dirk doesn't need poo poo.
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Jan 11, 2013 17:12
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It's not like trickster.php is going to be in use the whole rest of the comic, you could always just check back in after a week or whatever if it bothers you that much.
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Jan 11, 2013 17:18
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Nate RFB posted:It's not like trickster.php is going to be in use the whole rest of the comic, you could always just check back in after a week or whatever if it bothers you that much. Or if Hussie's narrative style is consistent, the next couple of weeks will be centered around other characters and the trickster mode thing won't enter into the story again for awhile. Possibly when characters from a future POV start referencing it, or when some other story elements turn out to be explained by it. Or even better, when some established characters (say calliope or some of the dream bubble trolls) turn out to have known about it for awhile and had planned for it to show up.
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Jan 11, 2013 17:27
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YggiDee posted:He never alchemised Zillyhoo, it was given to him by the bunny. Yeah, but it also says that it would cost ONE ZILLION zilliums to make were he so inclined. Also yeah about how he used it in alchemy.
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Jan 11, 2013 17:33
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I guess all i can do is trust in the Huss. I do think this is getting a bit silly, but i know he'll do something completely ridiculously cool with it somehow. On the bright side, these are literally the best Homestuck things ever made.
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I think Trickster Mode is starting to fundamentally break the reality of the site. 
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