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BrightWing posted:On her Shellphone obviously. Her undead shellphone.
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nerdbot posted:Aranea you're nuts. At least when Vriska talked herself up it was stuff she could actually do.
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Arthur Crackpot posted:I stand corrected. Apparently the real world and the afterlife have GREAT cell reception. Man how do I get Meenah's carrier. I go down the loving block and drop calls. And when v-serks thinks your plan's stupid, you've pretty much left Stupid city limits and are speeding down the Moron Memorial Expressway towards the unincorporated community of What The gently caress No Don't.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:10
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I wonder how long until the anti-climax.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:14
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Watch Aranea cause Lord English to happen. Also we don't really know of Vriska is down with the plan or not. We just know what Meenah said about it. Vriska might actually be wanting to give important advice to help Aranea.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:16
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Grrl Anachronism posted:So... two Serkets down in the quest to be responsible for all the irons in the fire. What happens if you die while wearing the ring of life? Is that a thing that can happen?
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Sep 3, 2013 22:16
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If Meenah, of all people, says your plan is dumb and won't work, then you know you're hosed.
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Kgummy posted:Watch Aranea cause Lord English to happen. This is a plan that doesn't star Vriska (Vriska) in the lead role. Of course she isn't down with it.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:17
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Tenebrais posted:I'm interested to see where this goes. Aranea has a point about her power level - she's several thousand times older than even the Condesce, she has more complete knowledge of the situation than anyone alive, and she's a god-tier to boot. Her plan is seriously stupid however and contradicts what little we do know about homestuck time mechanics. Like Meenah said, preventing this session from succeeding doesn't mean Lord English won't exist because Paradox Space already sanctioned his existence. "He's already here" is his whole shtick! She's just going off the deep end here and if Meenah is the one who has to talk someone down from going to the deep end and even Vriska is like "this is stupid", then we have a problem.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:18
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God, even when she's directly involved in the plot Aranea is still a snorefest. Why couldn't it be Meenah coming back to kick her own rear end? 
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Sep 3, 2013 22:19
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Feranon posted:God, even when she's directly involved in the plot Aranea is still a snorefest. Why couldn't it be Meenah coming back to kick her own rear end? Whenever i see a pesterlog involving Aranea my eyes just kind of glaze over because she's not even funny-boring. She's boring-boring. Which i guess is the point, but still.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:26
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To be fair to Aranea's idea, the "light" aspect has been played up heavily as dealing with fate. Hussie even said that Rose, as a Seer of Light would basically be like someone who "sees/reads fate", while Vriska stole it, etc. Aranea's plan might have a sliver of hope as a "healer of fate", at least to a certain kind of logic. In some ways, she's almost trying to do something similar to John, in loving with continuity, but not doing so via "paradox space"-sanctioned methods. Bypassing the entire point of an alpha timeline and the reason why Lord English has a stranglehold on it. That said, Paul.Power posted:And if her plan did work, it would be a very unsatisfying ending. C'mon, Aranea, I thought you liked to tell stories. This is probably the biggest wrench in her current plan's success rate.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:29
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Dorroile posted:Crappy Serket I'm sorry you'll have to be more specific. Also yeah, this is a terrible plan, but the only reason Vriska's not on board with it is because she's not involved. If Aranea somehow brought her along she'd think it was the greatest thing ever.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:32
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Okay, real talk for a second here - it's really annoying how the only proactive plans we've seen in the comic all but have big flashing neon signs hanging over them reading "THIS IS TERRIBLE, IT WILL FAIL AND RUIN EVERYTHING HORRIBLY". Meanwhile all the other characters are farting around, in some cases even actively refusing to engage or do anything. And the passive schmucks are in the right, evidently, because the only correct thing to do is wait for the proactive characters to gently caress up and let things resolve themselves through self-perpetuating bullshit.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:35
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Serkets are all hubris and no downfall. The inevitable failure of their plans never seems to deter them. I would like to read more of the protagonists whom I actually want to see succeed.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:37
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It's possible that this will result in weakening Lord English. Not destroying him, but weakening him. And John might be able to fold some of the traits of this 'doomed alpha' timeline thing into the actual alpha one. It's not very likely though.
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So if this is a doomed timeline, what happened to the ring when John went to get it? Was he in this doomed timeline all along? Did someone else get it in the Alpha timeline? Seoinin posted:Okay, real talk for a second here - it's really annoying how the only proactive plans we've seen in the comic all but have big flashing neon signs hanging over them reading "THIS IS TERRIBLE, IT WILL FAIL AND RUIN EVERYTHING HORRIBLY". Meanwhile all the other characters are farting around, in some cases even actively refusing to engage or do anything. And the passive schmucks are in the right, evidently, because the only correct thing to do is wait for the proactive characters to gently caress up and let things resolve themselves through self-perpetuating bullshit. GodDAMN do I agree with this.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:45
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Nephthys posted:So if this is a doomed timeline, what happened to the ring when John went to get it? Was he in this doomed timeline all along? Did someone else get it in the Alpha timeline? Its not necessarily a doomed timeline YET. It'd only become a doomed timeline when Aranea stops the next universe from being made, but before she succeeded in healing the timeline (if that actually IS possible.)
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Sep 3, 2013 22:49
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Seoinin posted:Okay, real talk for a second here - it's really annoying how the only proactive plans we've seen in the comic all but have big flashing neon signs hanging over them reading "THIS IS TERRIBLE, IT WILL FAIL AND RUIN EVERYTHING HORRIBLY". Meanwhile all the other characters are farting around, in some cases even actively refusing to engage or do anything. And the passive schmucks are in the right, evidently, because the only correct thing to do is wait for the proactive characters to gently caress up and let things resolve themselves through self-perpetuating bullshit.
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Paul.Power posted:John and Roxy had an active not-horribly-doomed plan going for a minute there until Aranea intervened. Yeah it's like a little bell went off in Hussie's head and he was like, whoops almost had some people doing something that might work and not end in humiliation and catastrophe. Whew bullet dodged.
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Sep 3, 2013 22:53
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Seoinin posted:Yeah it's like a little bell went off in Hussie's head and he was like, whoops almost had some people doing something that might work and not end in humiliation and catastrophe. Whew bullet dodged. Plans only succeed in animations.
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Seoinin posted:Yeah it's like a little bell went off in Hussie's head and he was like, whoops almost had some people doing something that might work and not end in humiliation and catastrophe. Whew bullet dodged.
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Sep 3, 2013 23:09
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Doesn't Aranea fancy herself as a storyteller? She should know better than to let anyone know her plan. She should take a lesson from her 8ard and in future communicate solely by honking and getting shot.
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Sep 3, 2013 23:26
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This is her goal, certainly, but who has any idea how she plans on carrying it out?
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attackbunny posted:Doesn't Aranea fancy herself as a storyteller? She should know better than to let anyone know her plan. She should take a lesson from her 8ard and in future communicate solely by honking and getting shot. Preferably more the latter than the former.
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If Twerket isn't the newest cosplaying craze since the Dave clone armies, I will be thoroughly suprised.
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Seeing what the average Homestuck cosplayer looks like, I think I'd rather not see it  Paul.Power posted:Doesn't mean it won't work out in the long run, though. Just gotta get past Aranea first. Yeah, I still think that John and Roxy's plan is gonna work somehow, after a lot of shenanigans.
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Assuming Aranea is right and this session's offspring is the one that Caliborn and Calliope grow up in, that means that we know the main timeline definitely has someone creating a session and crafting the matriorb, since we saw trolls in that session (that Caliborn's dad blew up) I mean, those were almost inevitabilities, but it's nice to have confirmation.
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So Aranea wants to be the immortal god-empress of creation. Well, it's nice to have goals.
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Ok, so she's not evil-evil, she's just become Vriska+. And just as certain to screw up horribly.
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I'm honestly expecting the Kids to have the situation all wrapped up neatly, then Areana accidentally causes Lord English to exist in his current form. Like all Serkets, she can only make it worse.
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It doesn't help that, if Terezi's eyes are any indication, Aranea's "healing" tends to make things worse instead of better. Also she had a loving brain-damaged friend wandering around her bubbles for thousands of years so where was her godly healing power and piercing insight then, to hell with this broad
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I'm wondering if the combo of Aranea & John's powers might end up with two rings of life, or some-such game breaking glitch.
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Oxxidation posted:It doesn't help that, if Terezi's eyes are any indication, Aranea's "healing" tends to make things worse instead of better. Can you heal the dead? I thought healing Terezi's eyes worked because, y'know, Terezi was an actual corporeal being not stuck in eternal limbo.
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Sep 4, 2013 01:16
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Reading her explain why her plan wasn't doomed to failure was so similar to listening to politicians answer/dodge questions it was astounding.
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Cabbit posted:Can you heal the dead? I thought healing Terezi's eyes worked because, y'know, Terezi was an actual corporeal being not stuck in eternal limbo. Excuses, excuses.
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ARANEA: Water. 8oat. Me. Oh nautical puns.
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SynthOrange posted:ARANEA: Water. 8oat. Me. That specific one's shown up quite a few times before, though usually from Meenah's mouth, I think. (Normally I'd search, but I expect most of it would be in the walkabouts.)
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She silenced the clown. She really IS good guy!
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