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Jacior

2013-06-14, 08:00 PM

PARANOID NERD
===>IRVEKT DIRMIN

You are in your BEDROOM typing on your HUSKTOP, enjoying the relatively quiet day you've been having. Your LUSUS has been out hunting since last morning and you haven't had to deal with its incessant urge to "PLAY" with you. Which would consist of WRESTLING and other HOOFBEAST-PLAY. All in all, not a way to spend the day.

Your room is what one might consider BARE and UNINTERESTING. But that's because you have everything HIDDEN using state of the art HOLOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGIES. Being the smartest guy around has it's benefits after all. You switch it off to look at your various TREASURES and SUNDRIES.

The walls are covered with movie posters, a GUILTY PLEASURE to be sure. What might surprise your acquaintances it that they are almost all about COMEDY and ACTION. You're not really sure why you have an affiliation with the genres, but you love them. It's not even really that embarrassing, you just don't feel the need to show people that you're really not into the movies they've come to expect from you. It's a weird thing.

In a corner of your room lies a pile of SHATTERED YO-YOS. They're from when you were younger. Practicing your TELEKINETIC ABILITY on them without restraint has left many UTTERLY DESTROYED. You can't bring yourself to throw them away either. THEY might use them for a NEFARIOUS PLOT.

The other corner of your room holds your TREASURE CHEST OF MIGHTY SPOILS. Which means it holds all your FLARPING stuff, plus most everything that isn't clothes. You fail to mention the other two corners, because one just holds your RECUPERACOON and the other is where you're sitting at your desk.

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-14, 09:51 PM

IDIOTIC FOOL
===> YSCTON YAGMUR: Duck

A smoking tyre bounces over your head into a BLOOD-SPATTERED WALL. That test could have gone better, you think to yourself as you stalk over to your HUSKTOP to run another simulation before the next prototype, wrenching open a vial of the VILE SACCHARINE CONCOCTION that is part of your religious association. Warped metal and dry blood cover the workshop behind you, bordered by carnival-ground shrines in protective mesh cages.

Regalus

2013-06-15, 10:18 AM

BARBARIC BROAD
==> DOLIMI CERULL

You find in yourself within the INNER SANCTUM of your fortress Hive, archiving information about your latest PREY. Though you find the task INCREADIBLY TEDIUS it has proven far more EFFICIENT than your old notes; especially after your LUSUS used them to RELIEVE itself, you still can't enter that room without holding your breath. So it was that you finally caved in to your MOIRAIL's INCESSANT demands to secure your secrets of your MANY WONDERS fromTHEM, and acquired the unexpectedly useful application from your FLARPMASTER. The subject of your latest discovery, an OMINOUSLY GLOWING azure gem, lays several feet away with the rest of your expertly made EXPLORERS KIT.

The reat of your LAIR bare the spoils of some your most GLORIOUS HUNTS; from from mounted beasts, fur rugs, and shelved objects of mysterious origins and questionable use. Ofcourse that only makes your INEVITABLE mastery of their secrets all the sweeter. Your LUSUS lays sprawled over your RECUPERACOON eagle spread, blocking its entrance with its prone form.

Lord Raziere

2013-06-15, 08:38 PM

===>

Kildah:
You leave your quarters, and find yourself on top of the long spiral staircase of the tower. oh gog. so many stairs. Dracodad's always telling you about the stairs son. Always warning you.

You see a plush wizard-crocodile (much like Lemonsnout or Pyralsprite) right next to you. It was some weird dragon-wizard hybrid gift from Dracodad, perhaps trying to relate to your interests or something. How it got this high, and outside your room, you have no clue.

Descend?

Irvekt:
You recieve a SECRET MESSAGE from Makdan.
This is one of the easier codes, and it asks
"Has sh3 found th3 gam3 y3t? Th3 on3 spok3n in th3 things sh3 has b33n digging up?"

Yscton:
Could have gone better indeed.
It is times like this that you are particularly creeped out by one of your religions strange central icon, this toad plush:

http://i.imgur.com/1faEnTz.gif

It is mentioned in the HOLY TOMES as the HYPNOTOAD from a mythical show known as TROLL FUTURAMA. and furthermore it is said that it looks into your soul and always commands thus:
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD

You try not to look at its eyes much, and go back to running simulations. All glory to it, you guess, but for some reason you never wanted to look it in the eye. You always like other icons of your religion, whatever it is, far better.

Dolimi:
The azure gem ominously glows ominously in an ominous manner.
It is very ominous.

most ominous of all, the center of the glow seems to be centered upon your computer.

LordChaos13

2013-06-15, 08:49 PM

===> CAPTCHALOGUE Dragon-Wizard
You give the PLUSHIE a FURTIVE CUDDLE, looking around for WATCHERS
Then putting it inside your SYLLADEX as the first BASE CARD.

===> USE TRANSPORTALIZER TELEPORT CIRCLE

Regalus

2013-06-15, 09:14 PM

You find the gem's enlightening response most ominous; you briefly wonder tentively if the gem is reacting to some component of your HUSKTOP as you lean in for a better look.

===> Examine area of HUSKTOP illuminated by gem.

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-15, 09:28 PM

You are suddenly struck by a sense of comfort in the strange creature's being caged, though not, as usual, for its protection.

Regardless, you have work to do if you're to make your MOST POWERFUL ENGINE YET. You'll need the simulator to have more detail on the speed's effects on the wheels, not just the tyre wearout, fuel consumption and engine heat.

===> Fiddle with parameters while logging onto Trollian

Jacior

2013-06-16, 12:10 AM

===>Respond in Code

You sort through the coding and fire back a response.
"0_o Not that I know of. But I haven't talked to her today. She could have by now. 0_o"

Should you bother her? It might be prudent.

Lord Raziere

2013-06-16, 04:56 PM

===>

Kildah:
Well of course you wouldn't go down the stairs! Thats crazy.
Instead you teleport down using a piece of technology that rips all your atoms apart and then puts them back together someplace else instantaneously, risking complete disintegration and if you want to believe the more insufferable philosophers of our day, killing a version of ourselves and making a new one each time you go through, but who listens to those idiots? Much safer.

You reappearify at the bottom where you discover that most of the statues seem intact, you look around until you see dracodad sheepishly standing near the broken one…but who is the statue of the wizard dracodad broken is it Gandalf, or Merlin or…

no….its worse….

its…..

RINCEWIND NOOOOOOOO!!!!! D:

Dolimi:
No, when you look it seems just the opposite: the COMPUTER is reacting to the GEM.
mostly because you see a small spirograph icon that wasn't there before being uploaded onto the net, as if the gem was using the computer to put something online.

How do you feel about this?

Irvekt:
A small spirograph icon appears on your computer screen.

Yes.

Yes, it might just be prudent to do that.

Yscton:
You see that only Irvekt and Makdan are online right now.

You are however thankful that none of the GOBLINS of the Gobbotown list are online, always engaging in this weird act of GABBING at you. Whatever that is. Goblins are strange.

IMPULSIVE JE-
wait. your not impulsive. that even seem to be the right insult for you. someone must've gotten the insults mixed up. oh well.
===> MAKDAN BELDIN

You are in the middle of your LIBRARY. as usual, you are ALONE. except for your LUSUS which you know is sneaking around SOMEWHERE.
You have sent an encrypted message to your Secret message buddy, Irvekt. He is kind of like a special DATAFRIEND to you. Despite your efforts to maintain your scientific objectivity, you cannot help but hope that your datafriends are actually real. You of course have to face reality and just accept that your the only real person in existence according to the evidence presented to you so far,
but its nice to humor your dreams sometimes.

However despite reading all the books in your library, and despite you being the only real thing in existence, you have never found a book that tells you anything about yourself. One would think that such an important book would be written first, like the ones for physics or chemistry. But no. You have knowledge of everything. Everything but yourself. You know that your name is Makdan Beldin, you know that like to pretend to be a NINJA sometimes, that you like to RECORD things and READ BOOKS, and of course you have STUDIED YOUR FAVORITE MANGA INTENSELY to figure out how to be the CHARACTERS within them…
but you don't know what you ARE. There is no book about yourself, leaving a void where knowledge should be. It is quite annoying, at best.

What will you do? and the more important question: Who will you be?

===> respond to Irvekt with second secret message
"W3ll just to l3t you know, the most r3c3nt run3s Iv3 d3ciph3r3d, says som3thing about this dat3 in particular for som3 r3ason. The sixth hour of th3 sixth night of th3 sixth solar sw33p. 666. Som3 crazy proph3cy saying som3thing about d3ath and r3birth. Probably just som3 d3ad civilization's stupid sup3rstition."
Makdan checks the date just to be sure. Hm. Your time says three hours until six. Strange.

Regalus

2013-06-16, 05:58 PM

===> Stay Calm

You fail to stay calm as you witness your PREY tampering with your HUSKTOP; more importantly, tampering with the resting place of ARCHIVE OF WONDER. Seeing your life's work endangered once more understandably shakes your usually UNWAVERING cool. After successfully resisting the urge to TERMINATE the gem with the nearest blunt object repeatedly you scramble to your HUSKTOP and boot up Trollian. With so many DISCOVERIES on the line you knew just who to call; the GEEK SQUAD.

===> Troll Irvekt, Makdan, Kildah.
AudaciousPursuant has begun trolling SensibleSchizophrenic, NinjaSkeptic, and FlarpMaster*.
AP: (GUUUUUUUUUUYSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!)
AP: (I)-found a weird-(gem) and (it's)-shooting-a-(data-laser)-at-my-(husktop)!
AP: (I)-think the squiggly-(thing)-on-(screen's) the (game)

*Kildah appears to lack a screen name on his sheet, so I'm using this as a place holder until we get an official one.

LordChaos13

2013-06-16, 08:07 PM

===> Fall to knees screaming dramatically

===> Be interrupted
The BUZZING from your IHUSK interrupts your dramatic screaming.
With a HUFF of FAILED DRAMA you take it out of your SYLLADEX and BOOT UP TROLLIAN (for TXTING is for CHUMPS and GOBLINS)

FlarpMaster is Online
FlarpMaster has begun TROLLING AudasciousPersuant
FM: iZ the gem a clear cryztal? iT might be psionically charged.
FM: dO not worry unlez the hUzktop explodez then YOU May commence the worrying.
FM: iT iz likely merely a new file that is being downloaded, like from the iNterwebz but in cryztal form

Jacior

2013-06-16, 08:33 PM

===> Be Devious

You utterly fail, of course. There is no point in being devious at this moment in time. As such any attempts would fail nigh instantly. But there ARE important things to be doing. One might even say that you have some IRONS in the FIRE.

Then the icon appears. WHAT WAS THIS TRICKERY! You know your friend to be quite the HAXXOR, but she's been warned about trying to dig into your stuff. WARNED SHE WAS.

But first, respond to Makdan.
"0_o Suspicious. Prophecies are a tricky business. In most cases they are very fake things made by false leaders to trick their followers. Politics, essentially. But there are those rare few that end up being right. I'm not going to risk it, I hope you don't either. We need to make sure everyone is connected by 6. After all, we are the smartest trolls here. 0_o"

===> RESPOND TO TROLLING WITH TROLLING

SS: That's utterly bizarre
SS: It's on my screen as well
SS: Did you hack into my computer in preparation for this game?
SS: I'VE WARNED YOU ABOUT THAT.

FM responds in the group chat.

SS: That's a point too.
SS: But why would it work that on the computer.
SS: HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS
SS: ...
SS: ...
SS: .......
SS: Link me to your databases AP
SS: Maybe between us we can figure out what's going on.

LordChaos13

2013-06-16, 09:00 PM

===> Respond to Group-Troll

FlarpMaster is Trolling in Group Chat
FM: gIve me a minute, i Am on the ihUzk not my huzktop. i Do not zee any new applicationz on the phone though, zo either it doez not zeed through wirelez interwebz or IT doez not recognize what an ihUzk iz.

===> Scold dracodad for breaking Rizban then use transportalizerTELEPORT CIRCLE to return to QUARTERS

DukeGod

2013-06-16, 10:04 PM

STUBBORN JERK
You wake up in your...wait, some moron got your name wrong...HOW DARE THEY? Your name was related to metal the most precious thing and...don't give that lecture, just fix it...

===> Eisens Ferrem

You wake up in your BEDROOM. There are METAL INGOTS absolutely everywhere. Your BIG BOOK OF ALLOYS is there so you know what makes what metal. You woke up LATER than usual for most trolls. It's your fault for staying awoke until way later than you should aniway

In the west side of the room, is the tunnel that leads into the VOLCANO and deep underground it are your ORE VEINS and the FROG TEMPLE. Outside of your hive is another building, which is your FORGE. One would expect you to use the volcano lava, but the volcano is deactivated

===> Check that bitchin' gold plated husktop

You check your HUSKTOP. Time to log in

DireSomething is Online

Seems like your friends are talking...Soon there might be colored text walls. You find that annoying

DS: Actually NEVERMIND NEVERMIND, don't READ what is above. I changed my mind. DireSomething is NOT NOT online

You don't log out and instead go do something else. You go outside! Good idea. Some of the VULTURE-YAKS should be flying around. You need their milk and eggs to make your breakfast! You just hope you can get there fast enough for your GIANT EAGLE LUSUS to not have simply eaten their meat. Seriously, what a waste!

===> Go outside

Lord Raziere

2013-06-17, 01:47 AM

===> Dolimi:

The gem quickly appears to stop glowing as soon the download ends. Now it is completely dull, as if it ran out of power.

===>Kildah:
Dracodad seems relieved that you didn't want to STRIFE over this. Dracodad Then decides to go and find somewhere more spacious to rest. Got to be mindful of the kid's interests, don't want to stop being fed because you were too careless.

===> Irvekt:
Huh, it finishes downloading and then just….stops. huh. it doesn't look like its spreading anymore. strange.

===> Eisens:

You go outside.

You look upon the mountain range that is your home, the tall powerful mountains looming in their immensity over you, the peaks being home to many predators, but also much metal, much ore to mine and remake. The freezing mountainside air blows through your nostrils and your hair, you see your Forge-building built in front of you and marvel at how hard work and perseverance always pays off, creating works to last throughout the world and inspire everyone.

"And on the pedestal these words appear: 
'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: 
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
 Nothing beside remains.
Round the decay 
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare 
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Your are pretty sure the Troll Genghis Khan said that. and that it is totally appropriate for the moment.

Oh hey, there are those Vulture-Yaks you were thinking about earlier.

===> Makdan:
NS: It is not how3v3r on min3, 3ith3r.
NS: Strang3. P3rhaps it was only int3nd3d as a boost, or a start3r?
NS: It could also b3 a trap though. W3 cannot b3 sur3.
NS: Not saying w3 shouldn't start th3 gam3 at som3 point.
NS: But mayb3 just b3 car3ful about this, consid3ring what just happ3n3d.
NS: Don't hav3 to start it imm3diat3ly, all I'm saying...

LordChaos13

2013-06-17, 02:04 AM

===>Return to Husktop

PLOTTING on ways to make your DISAPPOINTMENT known to Dracodad you enter your QUARTERS.
You find the screen just as you left it, on the beautifully made FLARP DUNGEON. Quickly closing it down (you saved before you left of course, you aren't SILLY and FORGETFUL) you check the desktop

FlarpMaster is Trolling the GROUP CHAT
FM: uM guyz it iz on my zcreen.
FM: iT iz zo weird...i Will open up the...
...
FM: tHe game filez are not in any programming language i Know, nor iz it bazed on any. iT izn't a variant of ath or any other language.
hEre iz the file (removing what i Think iz the boot-up .exe of courze)
FM posted a file: wEird_cryztal_program

FlarpMaster has stopped Trolling the Group Chat

===> Try to dechiper the code
[roll0]
I assume we are still using the sem-freeform rules the last DM had us make?

Lord Raziere

2013-06-17, 02:41 AM

OOC: yes we are still using those rules.

but Kildah isn't really supposed have the program yet exactly? it only got to Irvekt and Dolimi now?

hm. perhaps time shenanigans are involved….

LordChaos13

2013-06-17, 02:45 AM

I may have misunderstood something earlier but yeah let's go with Weird Time Shenanigans
Probably to do with the ATH Programming Kildah was doing earlier acting as the focus point in time

Regalus

2013-06-17, 11:14 AM

Easy there folks, I can fix this without the need of time shenanigans.

===>Troll SS
AP: Relaaaaax.
AP: (I)-haven't-gone-huntin for (your-files).
AP: No (clue) how (you)-got-one
AP: [Link]
AP: (Lemme)-know-if-(you)-find-(anything)

===>Calm down.
You release a deep sigh of relief once the gem has ceased its unsolicited acts; especially since your HUSKTOP has not been replaced by an ALL-CONSUMING CONFLAGRATION. You inspect the now dead gem curiously before sharing the knowledge of your survival with the rest of your group.

===>Troll Group
AP:Whelp, (crystal's)-done and no boom.
AP: (I)-call-(this) a win
AP: shared Crystal.zip.
AP: (Irvekt), (Lemme)-know-when-to-start-the-(file)

DukeGod

2013-06-17, 02:46 PM

===>Meditate upon those words

ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND? You don't have time for that. That Vulture-Yak is gonna escape! Just, take out your damn weapons and go kill it!

===> Draw 2xbladekind

You pull out both of your swords from the card. The yak thinks it's ridiculous. Yea yeah, trolls think it's ridiculous, now yaks too.

===> STRIFE!
Aggrieve!

[roll0]

Jacior

2013-06-17, 03:10 PM

===> Troll AP
SS: 0_o Sorry
SS: We've connected before, I know
SS: I need to not freak
SS: But what if THEY do something
SS: I've got to be ready 0_o

===> Relax Frazzled Nerves
Impossible. You're always on edge. Even when you aren't anxious, you are. It doesn't make sense to all but the most knowledgeable of trolls. Where was your LUSUS anyway. It was unlike the giant wolf to be out this long. It might be prudent to turn on some of the security systems...

===> Troll Group-chat
SS: I think that the sooner we start this
SS: The better off We'll be
SS: Prophecies make me nervous
SS: AND I DON'T WANT TO GIVE THEM ANY MORE ROOM THAN POSSIBLE
SS: Sorry, thought I heard a noise
SS: Got Voice Typing on
SS: Might have freaked a little
SS: Dolimi, let's start this puppy up

===> Initiate Spirograph Program
You double click that spirograph symbol post-haste.

Regalus

2013-06-17, 03:41 PM

===> Troll SS

AP: Don't-worry-(Irvy)!
AP: if (they)-ever-show-up (I'll)-just-have-'ta-(flay'em) for (ya)!
AP: [^_^]

===> Troll Group

AP:(This)-is-gonna-be-awesome!!!!!!

===> Start Game
You initiate the ever living crap out of the game; eager for the GLORY and WONDER that SURELY awaits you.

Lord Raziere

2013-06-17, 04:56 PM

OOC: aaaw, no time shenanigans this time? no fun. we could have totally had started some real complicated messed up hijinks with the timeline there, get some read headache inducing chronological-based fun with it. oh well.

===> Dolimi:
All you can make out through inspecting the gem is the burnt out words inscribed, along with the image of a face you don't recognize:
"YOUR

WELCOME"

[S]===> Irvekt and Dolimi: Fondly regard awesome loading screen (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/sburban-jungle-2)

As the game loads you listen to the awesome music that SGRUB plays. It is the best loading screen, it is the best loading screen music. It is simply the best there is. The hypnotizing undulating spirograph in and out entrances you in surreal, adventurous wonder, offering you a tantalizing glimpse into the dreaming unknown, and seemingly pulling you in to something greater, something that might change your life forever when you cross its threshold.
What splendorous things will you experience? what great deeds of yours will they tell in your legends? You wonder.

"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."

Your pretty sure Troll Christopher Columbus said that. You are absolutely certain. There is no possible person that could have possibly said that.

===> Eisens: Miss

Despite all odds, You BARELY miss! All you get is a stupid feather! You can however try again. But remember: your eagle warned you about the mountains bro.
Mountains after all, if you look at them from a certain point of view, are really, really big stairs after all.

===> Makdan:

Things seem to be going well. You have other business to attend to before you start playing yourself though. You have three hours, it can wait. Namely more decoding of those runes, every time you solve something about them and thus get answers, it seems many more questions pop up. Its annoying like that.

You see some movement out of the flickering of your eye. oh right. also deal with your trickster lusus. get it to settle down before you start this game thing to prove other people exist. It will be, as always, a tiring ordeal, full of conflict and much unnecessary trouble. it is also annoying like that.

You start walking towards the decryption chamber. First things first.

Jacior

2013-06-17, 06:10 PM

===> Fondly regard awesome loading screen

You do so, enraptured by the hypnotic image and amazing music. As you watch, for the first time in your sweeps of existence, you actually relax. Everything seems right with the world, how could it not be? The spirograph speaks of dreams and a future of adventure.

But too soon, it ends and you're plunged into the cold waters of reality. What happened while you were entranced? Someone could have gotten in. Your hive could have burned down. THE FRIDGE COULD HAVE OPENED.

===> Stop being stupid and play the game

... Fine. Your pointless worrying can wait till later. You turn you attention back to the computer screen to see what this game is about.

Regalus

2013-06-17, 06:27 PM

There is still room for such things, just giving a way out is all.

===> Fondly regard awesome loading screen
You take in the sights, and the awe inspiring symphony that no doubt heralds your coming glory. Eagerly observing ever frame as if it were the last, for as enrapturing as it might be; it pales against the barely contained passion within you. Once the final screen passes you release an exultant cry. Your time has finally come.

===> Get your Game On

Lord Raziere

2013-06-17, 06:37 PM

===> …..

The game finishes loading and…..

NOTHING HAPPENED!

Dolimi:
No "game" is there, it just….completed loading and now an "SGRUB" appears on the screen, but there is nothing else there! what gives?

Irvekt:
You observed that nothing else has changed aside from you having a view of Dolimi's room and a menu of actions to choose from.

This is sure……anti-climactic.

Regalus

2013-06-17, 06:52 PM

===> Swear profusely

Enraged as you are by the sudden anticlimax, you do so with gusto; drawing upon your vast recollection of your archives wares and invoking 6 of the 13 unspeakable phrases to properly express your fury. The act no doubt curling several beverages from the most foul curses exuberantly released by your lips.

===> Troll SS
AP: NOTHING HAPPENED!!!!!!!

Jacior

2013-06-17, 06:55 PM

===> BE DISAPPOINTED

Not a difficult one. You've seen Dolimi's room before. This is not an exciting game so far. The spirograph LIED TO YOUR EYES. It spoke of adventure and you get... an image of Dolimi's room and a menu screen.

===> Troll Dolimi

SensibleSchizophrenic has begun trolling AudaciousPursuant

SS: 0_o This game is disappointing.
SS: I'm just looking at your room
SS: And there is a menu
SS: I think someone has tricked us
SS: WHY WOULD THEY DO THIS TO US?
SS: I wasn't freaking
SS: Just yelling 0_o

AP: NOTHING HAPPENED!!!!!!!

SS: 0_o You can't see my room?
SS: I would assume the game would show us each other's rooms.
SS: ....
SS: Did you just swear so horribly that you curdled my drink?
SS: Cause I just watched you do that.
SS: And now my drink is ruined. 0_o

Regalus

2013-06-17, 07:07 PM

===> Calm down and respond to Trolling

You manage to get your all-consuming fury down to an irrate simmer before setting back down to your computer.

AP: Possibly >_>
AP:But-that's-not-the-point!
AP: All-I-got-was-a-crummy background.
AP: If -there's-a-(menu), (it)-must-do-something!!!!
AP: So click-around-or-something!

Also, I am no going to add swearing as one of Dolimi's skills... because yes

Jacior

2013-06-17, 07:18 PM

===> Be amused at moirail's behavior

SS: 0_o Aren't I the one who's supposed to freak out?
SS: It's just a game man
SS: Calm your toes. 0_o

You minimize the trollian window, and click around the menu. You're curious what a view of Dolimi's room has to do with this game.

Lord Raziere

2013-06-17, 07:30 PM

===> Irvekt:

You see the various options:

SELECT
REVISE
DEPLOY
PHERNALIA REGISTRY
GRIST CACHE
EXPLORE ATHENEUM
ALCHEMY EXCURSUS

But you specified view, so you inadvertently zoom out to the maximum view of Dolimi's hive. It seems that across a certain point, helpfully designated by a red circular boundary, you cannot zoom out further. curiously, Dolimi seems to be at the exact center of this circular boundary.

You wonder what other things this menu contains?

LordChaos13

2013-06-17, 07:48 PM

Regalus

2013-06-17, 07:50 PM

===> Get the message

AP: Pfft.
AP:Fine! *pout*
AP: (I)-just-want-(this)-to-work.
AP: (I)-mean-this-could-be-(our)-chance-to-make-(history)!
AP: Something-that'll-make-(our-ancestors)-proud-of-(us)!

Jacior

2013-06-17, 07:52 PM

===> Explore menu further

This was interesting. It let you view the entirety of Dolimi's hive. But what were these menu options? SELECT was obvious, it should let you pick things. REVISE means to alter... so maybe it let's you modify the environment in the game? DEPLOY, put things down, also an easy one.

PHERNALIA REGISTRY. Maybe it was a list of monsters or something. This game might pick after all! You click that first. For a poke around inside it. Then you click through everything else. This was a LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Best to familiarize yourself with the controls first.

===> Troll AP

SS: 0_o I think this is some kind of simulation
SS: Like FLARP
SS: But all on computer
SS: I think if I start doing things on my end
SS: Your screen should start up and then the adventure starts!
SS: This could be better than we thought 0_o

AP: Pfft.
AP: Fine! *pout*
AP: (I)-just-want-(this)-to-work.
AP: (I)-mean-this-could-be-(our)-chance-to-make-(history)!
AP: Something-that'll-make-(our-ancestors)-proud-of-(us)!

SS: 0_o How exactly do you think playing a game is going to make our ancestors proud of us? 0_o

Lord Raziere

2013-06-17, 07:59 PM

===> Decode SGRUB-Programming

[roll0] Try to decode the actual language of the thing. it's not ATH that's for sure.
Your wizardy fingers fly over the keyboard as you try to analyze this weird program that had popped up onto your Husktop.

OOC: oh right, the system is backwards, meaning 1's and 2's are basically super-successes because threshold is 6 and anything lower results in success rather than higher

and since you got both I'm going to say…

IC: ===> After two tries you decode a small part of it but….

its a lot of code! we talking about…..enough code to rival or even match the internet itself! sure you decode a small part of it, but decoding all the rest would take…..who knows how long? but just from looking at this small part of it, you can tell its incredibly complex, and that its processes induce massive chain reactions from the smallest of details.

fiddling with it might cause damage you might never be able to repair. if even a single letter is out of place, the entire thing might cascade out of control.

LordChaos13

2013-06-17, 08:16 PM

===> Stare blankly at the massive amount of coding

You suddenly get a rather bad feeling about posting the link and missing an entire file.
Oh well, you're sure NOTHING BAD WILL HAPPEN...Oh god YOUR GOING TO DIE!1!1!1!
You carefully close the files without adding or deleting anything new, remembering to NOT SAVE! any changes you might have done and forgotten about.

FlarpMaster has begun Trolling the GROUP CHAT
FM: gUyz, do not DOWnload the link i Pozted. fOr the love of all that iz magic and Fantaztical leave it alone!
FM: i Figured out a teeny bit of it and it zeemz to be procedurally generated and zo balanced that even a tiny change cazcades into mazive effectz.
FM: tHere iz more code than every zite i Have ever gone on too combined

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-17, 08:17 PM

===>Troll indiscriminately

reverendCounter has begun trolling direSomething
RC: morrRning my ferrR=s-orrR=nted frrR=nd...
RC: do y= know of any alloys orrR orrRes capable of withstanding larrRge quantit=s of frrRict=n...
RC: my wh=ls and axles arrRe t= w=k forrR my latest crrR=t=n...

reverendCounter has begun trolling flarpMaster
RC: grrR=tings...
RC: what is occupying y= this day...

Lord Raziere

2013-06-17, 08:17 PM

===> Explore menu further

This was interesting. It let you view the entirety of Dolimi's hive. But what were these menu options? SELECT was obvious, it should let you pick things. REVISE means to alter... so maybe it let's you modify the environment in the game? DEPLOY, put things down, also an easy one.

PHERNALIA REGISTRY. Maybe it was a list of monsters or something. This game might pick after all! You click that first. For a poke around inside it. Then you click through everything else. This was a LEARNING EXPERIENCE. Best to familiarize yourself with the controls first.

You see these machines:
CRUXTRUDER
TOTEM LATHE
ALCHEMITER
PUNCH DESIGNIX
PRE-PUNCHED CARD (it has a teal archery target on it)

they cost no grist. Deploy?

Everything else:
The Atheneum only contains PERFECTLY GENERIC OBJECT's for now, costing two grist. you don't see how green cubes are generic though.
maybe white would be more generic- no that has light connotations
black? no, that is associated with darkness and death
grey? hm, sounds a lot like steel and technology.

what about an orb? nah, that has ties to planets and cosmology.

oh well, you guess green cube is just as generic as anything else.

You have 20 generic build grist

Regalus

2013-06-17, 08:18 PM

===>Enlighten SS

AP: In-order-to-find-this-(game)-(I've)-had-to-go-through-a-great-many-ordeals.
AP: (I've)-visited-great-heights-and-hidden-alcoves.
AP: (We've)-deciphered-ancient-gibberish-for-clues.
AP: (I've)-hunted-down-(beasts)-too-rude-to leave-something-to-mount.
AP: (We've)-had-to-make-(sacrifices), and even get-my-(Lusus)-to-help.
AP: (ANYTHING)-hidden-that-well-has-to-be-all-kinds-of-awesome!

LordChaos13

2013-06-17, 08:24 PM

===> Troll your Moirallegence

FM: i Juzt finizhed thiz awezome new FLARP dungeon. tHough i Need thirteen playerz for the plot.
FM: aLzo our hunter friend found a cryztal that downloaded something called ZGRUB and it iz mazive! tHe code bogglez my mind
FlarpMaster posted a link: wEird_cryztal_program
FM: cHeck it out

Jacior

2013-06-17, 08:28 PM

===> Explain thingses

SS: 0_o That or someone is trolling you hard.
SS: Both are possible
SS: Ok
SS: I'm about to put some stuff down
SS: Your screen should start up once I start putting them down
SS: If it works like I think it does. 0_o

===> Place things down

You try and find the room to stick these things down as close to each other as possible. No point in making Dolimi run her character around all of creation. Actually, if you move some stuff around, this might all fit into one room. You decide to start moving things around to make room. Can't hurt to make it easier.

Lord Raziere

2013-06-17, 08:39 PM

===> Dolimi: Strife!

Your Lusus notices things being moved around and storms in, a little angry.

DOLIMI WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE!?

WHAT THIS NONSENSE THIS IS SO OUTRAGEOUS.

Your lusus pulls you into a strife!

===> Irvekt: observe

Whelp, so much for assuming that moving some things around wouldn't get her hurt...

Jacior

2013-06-17, 08:45 PM

===> Troll AP

SS: 0_o I think the game started!
SS: Check your screen!
SS: It looks like your lusus is about to strife with you
SS: I think I might have freaked it out.
SS: This game renders really well 0_o

Regalus

2013-06-17, 08:50 PM

===> Troll SS
AP: Oh, if-some-(fool)-is, (they'll)-pay...

===> Be rudely interrupted after your room comes to life.
SS: 0_o I think the game started!
SS: Check your screen!
SS: It looks like your lusus is about to strife with you
SS: I think I might have freaked it out.
SS: This game renders really well 0_o
AP:No, this-is-actually-happening-in-my-(room).
AP: AFK-for-a-bit. Need-to-deal-with-this.
AP:Try-not-to-drop-(anything)-important.
Just what you needed! First your room comes to life, and now your Lusus wakes up early from its nap. This can't possibly get worse!

In any case, you pull out your trusty Bola from your HuntingKing Specibus. Today will be the day you finally catch the rambunctious kitten, or your attempt will atleast make it flee from a perceived pursuit...or so you hope.

===> Immobilize Lusus

You wait, hopefully luring it into a false sense of security before launching the whirling orbs at the grumpy cat.

[roll0]

Jacior

2013-06-17, 09:12 PM

===> Troll AP

SS: 0_o What do you mean it's actually happening
SS: It's a game.
SS: Don't mess with me.
SS: Tell me what's going on on your screen
SS: Stubborn girl 0_o

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-17, 09:13 PM

===> Reply to moirail

RC: fantastic... perrRhaps that will give some time to tw=k my simulatorrR...
RC: y= know i hate to ask but it misses some components and my latest prrRoject necessitates an upgrrRade...
RC: i can w=t as long as is n=ded naturrRally...
RC: ill take a gander at this link forrR now...

===> Follow link and download

LordChaos13

2013-06-17, 09:18 PM

===> Continue Trolling RC

FM: wHat do you need done to it?
FM: aNd did you get hurt when making the failed prototype? (i Azume that iz why you need a better zim?). i Apologize for not making a perfect zimulation.

DukeGod

2013-06-17, 09:26 PM

You missed! This is ridiculous. Do it again boy! Gotta get that food
Aggrive (AGAIN)
[roll0]

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-17, 09:27 PM

===> Resume conversation

RC: i was not hurrRt... barrRely...
RC: i n=d to acc=nt for generrRal metal w=rrR at high rrRotat=nal velocit=s...
RC: the axle gave =t and the wh=l did not farrRe much betterrR...
RC: ferrRem will likely provide useful data as us=l... beldin might have the stats if not...

Lord Raziere

2013-06-18, 04:49 PM

===>Dolimi: Ok…

Your lusus feels completely secure in calling out out what is going on in here, really what is all this nonsense? why are things moving around? have you become a witch, young ma'am!? your consorting with angels aren't you! this is light angelic magic at work! and don't tell you've acquired some white dog pet!? you know those things bring bad luck, from The Deva those things are...

catmom also feels completely freaking secure in leaping at you, and trying to claw at you.

===> Eisens:

This time you successfully use your swords to kill the vulture-yak! picture-perfect kill! no mess or anything, allowing you to get your food.

===> Makdan:

You get to your decryption room, it takes time to go through your library. it is large and dark like some sort of mausoleum, whatever the heck a mausoleum is. Seriously, what is a mausoleum? Wait you have the memory of a freaking computer you remember it instantly. A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A little morbid that.

You spend a few minutes decoding some of the the runes. Unlike Irvekt, whom you respect for his skepticism and similar commitment to intellectual pursuits, you do not believe in rushing into things. Patience and the ability of think out ones actions is a vital part of the clear, unbiased mind.
Hm.
This latest decoding claims that the game they are playing/about to play, is going to destroy the world. The prophecy does speak of an end, it speaks of an end brought about by the games very activation.
"Hm. Int3r3sting."

You look out your window and see the desolate, sandy wasteland that your surrounded by, the emptiness that you see forever into without any answers provided back no matter how hard you look. The boring, unceasing sun glares down at you, unmoving and solid. The only other life you see are random desert beasts that you have killed before in your defense of knowledge. Aside from your lusus, you consider yourself utterly alone.

You see no reason to inform the others of your discovery. The world sucks, at least your world does. If this game will give you real friends in return for getting rid of this blasted, sandy place, you will gladly make the trade.

"No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were:
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind,
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee."

You are pretty sure troll Gandhi said tha- no wait you have the memory of a computer, you remember who really said it instantly.

It was troll John Donne. whoever the heck that is. a poet apparently.

LordChaos13

2013-06-19, 02:58 AM

===> Troll the metallic one

flarpMaster is trolling direSomethings
FM: hEy i Need a favour
FM: i Know you are there...
FM: fIne ignore everyone as uzual. i Need the detailz of different metalz 'wear and tear' when uzed az wheelz at high velocity
FM: iT iz for rc TO update hiz zimulator
flarpMaster has stopped Trolling direSomethings at ??:??am

DukeGod

2013-06-19, 11:01 AM

===> Collect food

You take your food from the yak. These things were handy, they could lay out a whole brekfast. Milk, eggs and meat!

===> Prepare breakfast

As you start to prepare it, you see two people are trolling you. Didn't they read you saying you were offline? Wait, now that you thought it out loud saying you're offline probably means a particularly attentive person would notice you were actually online...

You just decided to answer back

===> Answer RC
DS: hmmm;;; that's not really something I use,
DS: So: take this with a grain of sugar? start with cobalt! and add some nickel, manganese, chromium in roughly equal parts each! my formulas say it could work

And FM
DS: I already told him what he could use;
DS: Aniway| seems like you're all fired up:::
DS: \\\ not fired up. no fires here. no fires.
DS: Excited about a game again, what is it you're gonna play this time!

LordChaos13

2013-06-19, 11:15 AM

===> Begin long-winded explanation of FLARP game

FM: wEll it beginz with a king and tHirteen playerz and they have too go on a really long journey for this magical castle and fight hUghmanz and eLvez and reztore the dorfen emperor to hiz underground palace.
FM: iT will take them out into the cozmoz meeting all zortz of inzane thingz like the dEcrepit oNez
FM: mAzive armiez clazhing below them az the pLayerz face betrayal, danger and zhape the deztiny of millionz
FM: aLl culminating in a giant explozive battle at the drawbridge of the cAztle between [zpoilerz ;D]
FM: iT iz my greatest work ever!!!
FM: aH if only my lazt batch of playerz had not activated the flame trap and been killed. i Am lacking the numberz needed to truly realize my vizion in game.

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-19, 03:00 PM

===> Reply to DS

RC: my thanks... i shall trrRy this suggest=n...

===> Question moirail

RC: so what is this w=rrRd crrRystal prrRogrrRam...
RC: i am not a coding gen=s as y= well know...

LordChaos13

2013-06-19, 05:51 PM

===>

flarpMaster is trolling reverendCounter

FM: dOlimi found a cryztal that when near his hUsktop downloaded it.
FM: iT then ended up on mine and iRvectz hUsktopz
FM: bOth of them ztarted it up but i Have not heard from them zince

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-19, 07:37 PM

===>

RC: currR=us ind=d... currR=us...
RC: my apolog=s... what is occupying y= at prrResent...
RC: aparrRt frrRom y=rrR rrRegrrRetably underrRsupporrRted flarrRp game...

LordChaos13

2013-06-19, 07:49 PM

===>

FM: mY familiar broke rizban!! HE BUMPed it when he did thoze dragon-y thingz he doez.
FM: i Am going to get him back...yez i Will...i Will uze my wAnd of bLudgeoning on him!
FM: brb GOIng to go strife with dracodad...goddamn dracodad
flarpMaster has stopped Trolling reverendCounter at ??:??

OOC: The Wand of Bludgeoning is basically a wandkind piece of stonework. it casts 'Smack" with the somatic component of 'hit the guy in the face!'. Each wand has a certain number of charges (unknown and variable) and when out of charges will shatter
Its a long piece of stone he hits things with...

You log out of Trollian. If anyone wants to contact you, say in case of EMERGENCY or WEIRD PLOT S*** they need to wait...
NOT THAT THAT WILL EVER HAPPEN...
As you move to close the laptop you accidentally boot up the weird crystal application the "Sgrub" install. of course you are MUCH TOO BUSY getting your WAND OF BLUDGEONING to notice such things

===> Obliviously leave the room. Remember to be vewy vewy quiet, Your hunting dwagons

Lord Raziere

2013-06-20, 04:19 PM

===> Present Kildah: Hunt Dwagons.

Your obviously teleporting down first then seeing the tracks your dracodad left behind as he stomped away from the broken RINCEWIND. poor wizzard. he could outrun everything but your dragon. well, all heroes had to meet their fiery draconic end someday you suppose.

follow the tracks?

===> FUTURE Kildah: Fix this mess up?

You suddenly teleport in from the future while your present/past self is away. Oh my god, how could your past self be so stupid? Its always fixing mistakes like this before they go horrendously wrong with your past you. You just never hope you have to speak to him, that would just cause headaches like you wouldn't believe!

install Sburb fully and properly?

===> Eisens: Meteor, Crash.

A very small meteor suddenly crashes ten feet away from you, causing quite a startle! and perhaps even some rocks falling, this rumble and vibrate a bit….

….but no avalanche or anything like that happens. whew! that would suck, wouldn't it?

You see a glint of metal in the side ways crater….

LordChaos13

2013-06-20, 07:12 PM

===>

You follow the dragon tracks, your heavy weapon is put in the STRIFE SPECIBUS where it belongs.

===> Be the future you

You are now OLDER AND WISER (or so you tell yourself).
Seated at your HUSKTOP (did you really use this?? It is soo slow compared to what you create later) you finish the SGRUB INSTALL PROPERLY. You aren't quite sure what would have happened if you hadn't done this...probably best not to think about it, TIMEY-WIMEY and all that. You just know you have to do this. THEY told you to fix this mistake.

DukeGod

2013-06-20, 08:40 PM

===> SECURE THAT METAL!

You run like a madtroll towards the crater. You pick up the metal thingy and OUCH! It's hot! Moron!

===> Try again

This time, using your telekinesis you lift it, and place it in your sylladex. Yours is the CCG Sylladex which was given to you by one of your friends. You never saw a reason to change it. To captchalize the metal, all you need to do is point the card at the object and wait for the magic to happen. This is really cool because you don't even need to be that close to something to captchalize it! It's also a really powerful one, capable of captchalizing entire mountains!

On the other hand, you can only bring it back to the word by placing it into a roughly square-ish surface and yelling the name of whatever its with all your lungs.

On a last resort you can THROW the card and it will transform in flight. That completely destroys the card though. You get the feeling you're gonna end up using that quirky ability of it a lot despite its cost...damn weird feeling

LordChaos13

2013-06-22, 06:19 AM

Kerbumpity. Wasnt this more active in the beginning?

===> FKN: Finish installing SGRUB then connect to your Moriall

You set the whole thing up the RIGHT way like you should have done but didn't because you are doing it right now...Damn time bulls***
You hear the awesome music, something you missed earlier case you're a stupid grub who doesn't know how to NOT hit the enter key when standing up.

===> Troll clueless past-friends

flarpMaster began Trolling the Group Chat
FM: gUyz zthttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gifp being zuch ignhttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gifrant pehttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gifple.
FM: iRvekt yhttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gifu are changing hiz rhttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gifhttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gifm for realz.
FM: hhttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gifNeztly 1/2 the crap i Have thttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gif deal with cauze http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.giff you thttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gifhttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gif
FM: kIldah http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gifut

Having yelled at your friends you return to your own time.

===> Minutes in the past, but not many

You are Doomed Future Kildah. You appear at your desk way in the past just as the door to your Quarters shuts. Poor Rizban, even now it brings a tear to your eye. You weren't fully in your own mind back then, the coming of Sgrub and your manifesting Mage of Time powers beginning to activate leading to a more distracted and running-everywhich-way course of actions you know set up soo many problems.
But enough about the Past/Present, you have a Job! Taking your SGRUB Grub out of your Sylladex you install it onto the computer, allowing Yscton into the game before his untimely demise...you miss your Moriall.

Just as said install finishes you hear the transportalizer!
===> Quick into the Wardrobifier!

OOC:
Doomed Timeline: Kildah does not have SGRUB on his computer, thus Yctson doesn't get his copy, thus he doesn't get into the Medium before the meteor hits
This breaks the chain leading to a Doomed Timeline so Kildah comes back and installs it then hides in the cupboard

Future Kildah: Having come into his time powers (and outfitting every o and 0 instead with http://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gif in Trollian) returns to before entering the Medium and fixing the install like he always did, a stable timeloop that always happened, before returning to the future/his present
While he is here he Trolls the Group Chat set up when Irvekt mentioned the weird crystal and the Sgrub file, yelling at the two probably because they annoy him in the future right before he comes back but Im leaving the why up to future-us.

Doomed Future Kildah is hiding in Kildah's Wardrobifier and has been since practically the start of the game
I also explained why Kildah is moving around so much and not Strifing with dracodad immediately but will now, his mind is trying to cope with getting Mage of Time powers and all the time travel. All of it. that is happening now.

Lord Raziere

2013-06-22, 04:19 PM

OOC: yes this was….and I honestly don't know what to do next. no one seems to be responding.

if no one is responding….this game might already be dead :( think I should try messaging them?

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-22, 10:37 PM

===> Attempt to run new game

You don't have much else to do, after all, what with both the new flarp scenario and improved simulator taking some time to get finished.

Jacior

2013-06-23, 01:33 AM

===> Entertain Yourself

Everyone seems to be going crazy. Talk of movement and now FM was using CLOCKS in his messages. CRAZY THE LOT OF THEM. Not like you. You just saw what others chose to ignore. The SIGNS were everywhere if you knew where to look.

You decide to start looking around your hive. It was time to make your rounds anyway. Make sure nothing was going on. And maybe go outside and check on your LUSUS. WOLFDAD has been gone for quite some time now. Maybe he was INJURED. That'd be a surprise, but weirder things have happened.

Lord Raziere

2013-06-23, 11:48 AM

OOC: kay, sorry for giving up hope too soon I guess.

and I'm guess I'm sorry for not giving Scion/Yscton enough to do :(

IC:

===> Present Kildah:

you keep following the tracks until you….come across a strange box, decorated with a bow, what the heck? however the tracks lead on afterwards….

===> Makdan: Catch pumpkin.

With your ninja reflexes you catch an APPEARING PUMPKIN. You keep an entire garden of these things inside the greenhouse, so that you are well-fed. they keep disappearing but you've always had a knack for knowing when they would appear again, and thus ready to catch and eat them.
you captchalogue it for now. you'll just have to eat it later, you have important business to do….

===> Yscton:

You receive a message from the game as it starts running:

NOW CONNECTING AS IRVEKT DIRMIN'S SERVER PLAYER...

[S]===> Irvekt: STRIFE! (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/showdown)

You go outside…

only to find your Wolfdad was waiting right there.

all this time.

patiently.

in complete silence.

how you do not know.

but he gives you a big slobbery kiss!

Then he strifes you. the runt of the pack must be made stronger!

===> Eisens: Eagle Lusus, kidnap.

Suddenly your Eagle Lusus decides to swoop down upon you to try and kidnap you! probably to have a strife on its nest on top of the mountain for some stupid reason. you don't know why, its a brainless feathery wastehole.

[S] ===> Dolimi: STRIFE! (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/showdown)

You are fighting against your CATMOM! what will you do?

Jacior

2013-06-23, 01:44 PM

===> STRIFE with WOLFDAD

AUGH. THE SLOBBER. IT'S EVERYWHERE. IT'S IN YOUR CLOTHES. AND YOUR HAIR. AND YOUR SHOES. OH GOD IT'S IN YOUR SHOES. HOW IS IT IN YOUR SHOES?!

Why is it every time you go outside it's time to STRIFE? It was time to show WOLFDAD that just because he's like 5 times your size, doesn't mean you're the runt. You admit to yourself, without the near constant STRIFING, you wouldn't be as strong as you were.

You decide the best course of action is to PUNCH WOLFDAD RIGHT IN HIS SNOUT. Someone, you feel, would be proud at you for just punching things. But you don't know who.

PSIONI-STRENGTH PUNCH! [roll0]

Lord Raziere

2013-06-23, 02:20 PM

===> Irvekt: Defend!

You hit WOLFDAD with a COMPLETELY ADEQUATE PSIONIC PUNCH. A couple more should persuade him that your not a runt for the day. But if you can get one even BETTER, it will be over EVEN FASTER.

But for now he is attacking YOU! with his FANGLY JAWS! how will you defend, young mental-disorder gold-blooded genius archetype?

Jacior

2013-06-23, 02:42 PM

===> Stop this SILLINESS

Seriously. WOLFDAD needs to realize by now that you are not a runt. You've been doing this how long now? SWEEPS! That's really quite enough.

You raise your hand and project a BARRIER from your outstretched palm. Some people might say: But you don't have a barrier psionic ability! To those people you merely scoff at. Your NIGH-ULTIMATE mastery of TELEKINESIS allows you to do things people can't even imagine.

Not that you like to share this knowledge. After all, people would be terrified if they knew how easily you could BREAK THEM. But that's why no one knows. Not even your Moirail.

As for the barrier, in case anyone was curious, simply brought together enough particles to prevent movement past the barrier. Though, you don't really even need to do that. You could just push outwards at a short range to make a barrier.

So much you can do with your TELEKINESIS.

BARRIERS! [roll0]

LordChaos13

2013-06-23, 06:52 PM

===> Follow that Dragon!

Captchalogue the STRANGE GIFT and head onwards. No time for more distractions, it can sit there in your SYLLADEX until it's needed

Regalus

2013-06-23, 07:09 PM

==> Avoid Catmom's claws
You curse you luck silently as you attempt to avoid Catmom's pounce without crashing into any of the floating furniture around you, and attempt to hop unto Catmom's back; with any luck you'll be able to scratch her special place behind the ears and get her to settle down long enough to explain.

==> Scratch Catmom's special place.

Agility:[roll0]
Beast Wrangling: [roll1]

LordChaos13

2013-06-23, 07:27 PM

OOC: oh right, the system is backwards, meaning 1's and 2's are basically super-successes because threshold is 6 and anything lower results in success rather than higher

Just pointing out that DC6 is the base, before modifiers. If something is easy then raise the DC to like 10. If it's really really hard then its a -3 to it.
This is also why the D4 is there, they only fail at -3 checks 25% of the time, compared to the 50% of the D6

Lord Raziere

2013-06-23, 10:11 PM

===> Irvekt:

Wolfdad bounces off your barrier and hits his head on the wall, dazed and defeated! the barrier was so good, it defeated him for you. Truly you are masterful at what you do.

Wolfdad however soon recovers. he has endured worse in his life time. he then barks happily and the victory tune plays.

GOOD DOG. BEST FATHER. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sva6iJLpiU)

Ok enough of that silliness, what room to go first in your complex of paranoia?

===> Kildah: Finally find dracodad.

He is just minding his own business as he always is, in his airy aloof draconic way. Oh hello son! how are you doing today? I was thinking upon my gem pile today and they remind me of the clouds, which in turn reminded me of my gems….his scatterbrained look communicates to you. Dracodad is easily distracted. He seem to come out here to get one of his many SHINY THINGS.

===> Dolimi: Puuuuuurrrr

As always you manage to get catmom to settle down. she always loved a good scratch RIGHT THERE. Always her weakness, that.
But of course you cannot afford to dawdle upon this, this Sgrub has done weird things to your room already, and Irvekt doesn't seem to realize that this is all really happening to you.

===> Makdan: Waste time cospl-er ninja disguising

You come across your COSPL-ER NINJA DISGUISE MIRROR.

You are tempted to cosplay, I mean ninja disguise in front of it. but no, you have important things to do, you ca-

you spend an hour on this dressing up silliness.

I am Shikamaru Nara, lazy genius tactical extraordinaire! fear the brilliant plans I conjure up in but mere seconds, fiendish outlaw ninja!

No, I am clearly SHINO, the awesome. I am the emotionless guy who somehow makes bugs awesome. because I'm Shino.

Oh Naruto! I, Hyuuga Hinata, used to love you, but unfortunately my love has moved on! moved on to greener pastures! I…..am…in love with….MAKDAN! The ninja from the enemy village! our love is forbidden and tragic! you cannot understand it! love is hard! love is hard and nobody understands!

Hinata was always your favorite character. so nice, so caring.

Then your LUSUS speed past you while smacking you upside the head. interrupting your nonsense. you stand up with a cross expression and change into your sasuke cosplay outfit, using your COSPLAY MODUS. (one of three limited modii you possess)

It was time to deal with your lusus.

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-23, 10:22 PM

LordChaos13

2013-06-23, 10:26 PM

Regalus

2013-06-23, 11:02 PM

==> Clear the air.

You thank your ancestor for the day you discovered Catmom's special spot; it has saved you more times than you can count. You swiftly take the chance to explain to her that this is all just part of some really weird game your playing and that it'll all be just fine, really. You stop for a moment wondering why the room darkened slightly, or why your room sounded ominously echoi there for a second.

Probably just your nerves.

==> Troll Irvekt
AP: (I)-told-(ya)!
AP:(My-Screen's)-blank!
AP: No-(game)
AP: Just-(you)-screwing-with-(my-room)
AP:(I)-told-(ya, we)-found-something-good!
AP: Now-deploy-those-(thingies)!
AP: Maybe-one-of-(them)-can-clue-(us)-in-on-what's-the-(goal), or (who)-made-this-(game)!

==>COntinue Trolling Group
AP: (Kildah)! Thank-the-(ancestors-someone)agrees!!
AP:The-(game's)-seems-to-do-telekinesis-or-some-crap-on-the-other-(players-room)!
AP:Thinking-maybe-some-kind-of-(psyfocus)!
AP:I'll-post-more-(info)-later
AP: Hey...
AP: What's-up-with-the-(clocks-Kildah)?

Lord Raziere

2013-06-23, 11:06 PM

===> Check if Irvekt is online, send message

RC: so apparently y=rrRe my serrRverrR playerrR...
RC: in this unus=l game that nemh= linked me to...

===> Watch loading screen, fiddle with simulator specifications in another window

OOC: *facepalm*

FUTURE NinjaSkeptic trolls CURRENT RC
NS: No, you ar3 HIS s3rv3r play3r, Yscton.
NS: Irv3kt is th3 cli3nt play3r to your s3rv3r play3r.
NS: According to this gam3faqs guid3 I'm r3ading….its r3ally wordy and full of pros3….

Lord Raziere

2013-06-23, 11:11 PM

===> STRIFE with the big ditzy lizard
===> Why is there no shout-pole on this thing

You briefly wonder why there is no SHOUT POLE in Dracodad's GEM PILE before you realize what SILLYNESS that was. GEEZE why can you not foucs today, strange orders and the weird sounds of CLOCKS TICKING and CLOCKS SOMEHOW REWINDING... kcot kcit is not a sound dammit!!

Shaking off the weird feeling you BRANDISH RIZBAN'S SHATTERED HEAD at your DRACODAD
Then to make it really clear to your dimbo (dragon-bimbo) of a LUSUSFAMILIAR you EQUIP YOUR WAND OF BLUDGEONING and CAST SMACK right on the golden snout of your father-figure

===> AGGRIEVE STONE WIZARDS DEATH

OOC: How are we handling Exiles? Do we eventually get to play as them or are they weird NPCs used to complete WEIRD PLOT S*** without us seeing how?

OOC: …..hm….I was thinking of having them as NPC's used to complete weird plot things you do see….but if you want you could play as them, but you wouldn't be able to determine who they ARE. I'd essentially be creating the characters, and you'd have to stay true to them- after all, they aren't the main characters, they are guys that are there to complete time loops and arrange things so that certain things happen.

also, I wasn't going to introduce them until we get to the Medium, since that is when the Exiles are first introduced: when a player first gets into the actual game.

LordChaos13

2013-06-23, 11:20 PM

Thats why I'm asking in advance.
And Im fine either way.

DukeGod

2013-06-23, 11:32 PM

===> Jump into Lusus's wings

Most trolls would have the presence of mind to ignore this, or strife right there. But you think it's a best idea to go with your Eagle Lusus. Maybe it's something actually important

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-24, 10:00 AM

OOC: *facepalm*

OOC: Oops. Correct that to being the server player for Irvekt? I probably shouldn't write actions at four a.m. Nor should Yscton be messing with their simulator while not really paying attention and having the Sburb code open in another window, though...

Jacior

2013-06-24, 04:24 PM

===> Express that you totally aren't paranoid

You aren't. You just see the things everyone refuses to acknowledge. The signs are there. They just don't realize what they mean! Now that that's expressed, back to business.

You know for a fact that the best place to begin is the observation room. You have the whole hive and the exterior wired up with surveillance devices. Just to be safe. You usually spend a few hours going through the footage every day.

You hope to be able to get some more cameras out into the world soon, so you can keep a better eye on the world. But anyway, you go review the camera footage from the last couple hours. It should only take a few minutes.

Lord Raziere

2013-06-25, 08:37 PM

OOC: Oops. Correct that to being the server player for Irvekt? I probably shouldn't write actions at four a.m. Nor should Yscton be messing with their simulator while not really paying attention and having the Sburb code open in another window, though...

OOC: I have edited the original post. yes, correct it, that is what I meant.

IC: ===> Irvekt:

You look upon the screens. As usual you see MYSTERIOUS GREEN FLASHES, they last for about only ONE SECOND but you see them. You don't know why they happen. They never leave any physical traces behind, and happen in no pattern you can discern, at least maybe not yet.

Why are these mysterious green flashes happening? what is their purpose? who is making them? Each day you observe, and yet no answers are yet forthcoming.

===> Jump into Lusus's wings

Most trolls would have the presence of mind to ignore this, or strife right there. But you think it's a best idea to go with your Eagle Lusus. Maybe it's something actually important

===> Strife!

Your Eagle Lusus carries you to the top of the peak and drops you on its nest.

As it flaps downwards, you notice two things:
An egg with a timer on it that says reads "6 hours, 66 minutes" on it, and a strange house logo on it.

You also see a strange speck in the sky you have never seen before. It doesn't seem to be going anywhere, if it is moving at all.

Then Eagledad lands and stands in front of the egg, as if daring you to fight him for it.

LordChaos13

2013-06-25, 09:13 PM

===> Strife the Dragon

You hit the dragon's snout with your WAND OF BLUDGEONING while brandishing STONE-RIZBANS BROKEN HEAD

Jacior

2013-06-26, 01:33 PM

===> Spend the next few hours speculating on the MYSTERIOUS GREEN FLASHES

NO! Not again! Not after last time! Last time you tried that, you fell asleep at your monitors and oh my gog the nightmares. Never again. Though, eventually, you need to remember to edit all the MYSTERIOUS GREEN FLASHES together. Maybe they'll be coherent then.

But nothing seems to happening on your many VIEWING SCREENS OF LOCAL ENLIGHTENMENT. Ok, that's a stupid name, you realize. But SECURITY MONITORS is lame in a different way. You aren't the most adept at naming things.

Since the viewing screens monitor the whole hive, you have no reason to actually check the rest of the rooms manually. And with the different sensory modes, you can even see the heat left by even footprints! It pays to be a security expert.

You decide to head back to your room, since there is no way there is anything going on in or around your hive today.

Nope, no way at all.

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-26, 01:58 PM

===> Troll Irvekt with corrected information

RC: orrR i am y=rrR serrRverrR playerrR... my mistake...
RC: h=d is still rrRinging slightly frrRom my last test...

===> Request some basics from FUTURE NS

RC: thanks forrR the corrRect=n... may i ask forrR morrRe inforrRmat=n on this game...
RC: it w=ld harrRdly do to be so cl=less while serrRving as serrRver forrR dirrRmin...

Lord Raziere

2013-06-26, 02:45 PM

===> Yscton
FNS: Basically.
FNS: From what I'v3 r3ad from this guid3, you are suppos3d to s3t up a f3w machin3s, which th3n you us3 in som3 arcan3 proc3ss to mak3 som3thing of importanc3
FNS: it is v3ry important that this is don3. Vital, 3v3n. Furth3rmor3, it is important that it b3 don3 in ord3r.
FNS: Th3 first s3rv3r play3r and cli3nt play3r should b3 th3 on3's to start th3 proc3ss of making the strang3 it3ms, followed by th3 s3cond serv3r and cli3nt and so on and so forth, in a chain that conn3cts us all, until th3 first cli3nt play3r's is the last s3rv3r play3r.
FNS: whil3 you can start s3tting up th3 machin3's, it is b3st that th3 proc3ss b3 truly start3d by Irv3kt and Dolimi, sinc3 th3y w3r3 th3 first cli3nt-s3rv3r conn3ction.
FNS: since you and Irv3kt ar3 th3 s3cond, you would b3 th3 s3cond to und3rgo the proc3ss.
FNS: I will not go into d3tail about th3 proc3ss its3lf, th3 making of th3s3 it3ms is a strang3 m3thod that at th3 3nd will produc3 an it3m that is uniqu3 to th3 individual in both app3aranc3 and us3, that would r3quir3 too much tim3 to go into right now, or at l3ast right th3n. th3 guid3 is frustratingly v3rbos3 about this gam3.
FNS: just l3t Dolimi know sh3 has to do that proc3ss soon ok? and that Iv3kt n33ds to s3t up thos3 machin3s...

===> Irvekt:
You go back to your computer to find various people needing your attention. Such as Yscton being your server player, Dolimi want you to set up the making machines already and probably some other weird nonsense that this narration forgot.

Begin The Process?

===> Kildah: Ow! :(

Dracodad is HURT! Why did you do that son!? :( Well no scales off of my snout! You clearly are here to murder me like you did that wizard's head your holding! I'll teach you not to murder your fellow wizard!

Dracodad breathes FIRE at you! just one of many hazards of fighting a dragon.

ScionoftheVoid

2013-06-26, 03:08 PM

===> Troll Dolimi and Irvekt

RC: beldin has filled me in a mite on this crrRystal prrRogrrRam game...
RC: apparrRently the serrRverrR cl=nt pairrRs must worrRk in orrRderrR...
RC: he suggests some morrRe haste frrRom both of y=... and is messing with trrRoll=ns time settings forrR some rrR=son...
RC: rrRegarrRdless it might be prrRudent for me to k=p in contact with dirrRmin to learrRn how this serrRverrR playerrR larrRk worrRks...
RC: h= h= and i th=ght id have nothing morrRe to do today than fiddling with a simulatorrR...

DukeGod

2013-06-26, 03:20 PM

===> Fight!

You see no point in arguing. If the bird wishes to be fallen you will strike it down!

Your swords are again in your hands, you engage, slashing at the things arrogant chest, that many believe to make it proud. Those have not lived with eagles for long enough

[roll0]

Jacior

2013-06-26, 05:34 PM

===> Begin the process

There's no reason to delay it anyway. You have to get everyone in by six as it stands, and there is no reason to give this supposed prophecy any more space than necessary.

So you begin!

LordChaos13

2013-06-26, 08:59 PM

[roll0]

You jump aside from the deadly flame used to your LUSUSFAMILIAR'S RANDOM FIREBALLS
Trying to KITE the creature you repeatedly hit it with your WAND OF BLUDGEONING while repeatedly telling it off for being a bad dragon and not to BREAK THE STATUES when doing his DRAGONY THINGS
Then again it IS a bit of a ditz, probably thinks YOU DID IT. As if you would break your favourite WIZARD STATUE

Lord Raziere

2013-06-27, 02:23 PM

===> Eisens:

Your slashing at its chest was COMPLETELY ADEQUATE! Eagledad's feathers are sure ruffled now! and he is hurt besides!

Eagledad furiously responds with a ONE HUNDRED PECKS OF THE FEATHERY CHUTEHOLE ATTACK!

===> Irvekt:

Begin how?

Nevermind, the gam-I mean narrator will just be specific for you.

you deploy the CRUXTRUDER! it is set down right next to Dolimi.

You then set down the TOTEM LATHE and ALCHEMITER in two UNSPECIFIED PARTS OF DOLIMI'S HIVE! Predictably making a mess of things and also making it a little more complicated to find them.

===> Kildah: Dracodad….be ditzy

What!? I broke it!? huh, so thats what that breaking sound was. I checked around to see if there was any glass, but I didn't see any! Do we even have any windows? and OH MY GOD OH MY GOD I KILLED A WIZARD WAAAH :(
Your SCOLD-BLUDGEONING is ABOVE AVERAGE-EFFECTIVE! He is hurt and realizes that he did it!

He also is furiously flinging fireballs and thrashing his DANGEROUSLY DEADLY CLAWS around in his mourning for Rincewind, making him EVEN MORE DANGEROUS! Nice going there.

Regalus

2013-06-27, 02:54 PM

You thank the ancestors for Irvekt's return, and gleefully watch as the young troll goes to work; spontaneously generator new furniture for your home. You have no idea how the game is doing any of this, let alone what's the deal with that freaky pointer hovering around, but it is amazing.

==> Examine newly deployed structures

DukeGod

2013-06-27, 07:22 PM

==>
You run around, hands to your head, comically "blocking" the pecks from your Eagle Lusus. They don't actually hurt you, your body is like, the strongest there is. You just don't think it's time to reveal that to the universe

Either way, once the peck barrage is over, you snarl with clenched teeth! THIS IS SERIOUS!

You do a spinning attack this time. It comes from so far away, and with some many spins with really not that fast anyone can see it coming. Thankfully, dodging things isn't really that easy
AGGRIEVE!
[roll0]

LordChaos13

2013-06-27, 09:22 PM

===> FACEPALM DODGE 2X COMBO

You do a double-facepalm while trying to avoid your idiot Familiar's MOURN-RAMPAGE
Honestly he does this EVERY TIME you tell him of his DRAGONY THINGS BREAKING STUFF.
As you dive away from a giant FIREBALL you wonder what it would be like if you had a Normal LUSUS like IRVEKT or DOLIMI. Theirs probably NEVER break stuff by accident

Jacior

2013-06-28, 01:02 PM

===> Contemplate unusualness of your actions

You moved things out of one room specifically for the purpose of putting all the machines in that room. You apparently even caused this to really happen to Dolimi's hive and have her CATMOM attack her. Not quite sure you believe that yet, but we're assuming things.

Then, for no discernible reason, you put everything in different places. Did you suddenly lose your mind between when you moved things and when you got back? Well, you've put down three things. What about the rest?

Punch Designix and pre-punched card. Probably a set. The Punch designix... makes more punched cards? Who knows. Place it near the alchemy thing.

Lord Raziere

2013-06-29, 02:28 AM

===> Irvekt: Simply move the machines back into the room.

Because really, what were you thinking? such an action unusual for your character should not go un-rectified, even if things would be a little more challenging and suspenseful and thus interesting in some hypothetical dramatic away during the game.

===> Dolimi:

The CRUXTRUDER seems to have a big squarish base, a little black screen on it, with a tube on top, complete with a valve on the side.

The TOTEM LATHE is a long contraption with circular stuff similar in diameter to the tube, as well as a thing to put cards, presumably punched in….

and of course the ALCHEMITER has a big padly thing with a smaller circle, again similar in diameter to the things on the CRUXTRUDER and TOTEM LATHE.

and of course, the PUNCH CARD DESIGNIX is placed near all three of the alchemy things in an infuriatingly vague manner. and lastly the PRE-PUNCHED CARD, with a TEAL ARCHER'S TARGET on it is deployed right next to you.

If one is too look at this spectacle, they would surely think that what to do next would be obvious and that we could get things movi- your going to do something completely stupid and time-wasting now, aren't you? hang on, just let me prepare the "THIS IS STUPID" sign, I mean why did I even describe the things, you people read the comic right? you know how these things look, why even describe them…nevermind…

===> ignore this narrator's ramblings and do whatever you intend to do.

===> Eisens: completely slaughter lusus

You….

reduce your lusus to bloody ribbons. I mean did you expect? you attack them with swords with a spinning attack, RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU. those things are sharp. your lusus's head rolls right next to the weird timer-egg. Now what, genius?

Just be thankful that there is walkable path down from the nest to your forge and hive. after all, you do like to visit by yourself sometimes.

===> Kildah: fantasize

You fantasize of what life would be like if you had a normal dog lusus:

You walk your dogdad all happily, the moon shining happily!
You play fetch with one of the bones of your enemies!
You happily pet dogdad! You happily send dogdad to kill that other guys lusus and he is all like "BARK BARK" which is totally code-word for "SURE DUDE!"
You even go SURFING! With SEA-DWELLERS! Your dogdad is the GREATEST!
GOOD DOG! BEST FATHER!

meanwhile the words "THIS IS STUPID." flash throughout your fantasy for some reason. probably your brain telling you to stop fantasizing about alternative lusii and their fantastic escapades, especially in the middle of battle while dodging- WHAM! CRASH.

Fight to remain conscious?

LordChaos13

2013-06-29, 02:40 AM

===>Horned boy get up
You moan in pain, eyes closed lying facedown after being batted into the Hive wall
]1d8

LordChaos13

2013-06-29, 02:42 AM

[roll0] cause apparently I suck at typing :smallfrown:

You climb painfully to your feet your Indigo blood running down the ack of your head
"BAD DAD! Bad dracodad."

===> Do the ticking sound

You don't know how that would help in the situation, it's a sound...

===> Doo iiit

NO! Your going to ignore the voice in your head and repeatedly hit your dragon on the forehead with a large stone object like you always do ...
A brief thought of WHY the dragon is so ditzy sparks in your mind but you quickly wave it away, DRACODAD was a dragon-bimbo long before you made your first WAND OF BLUDGEONING

Or you would if the pain of being thrown into a wall by a FREAKING DRAGON wasn't so bad. You win this round Familiar...This round

Regalus

2013-06-29, 07:59 AM

You are way ahead of the narrator having never even noticed his ranting to begin with, what with being a character in the very story being narrated.

==> Begin operation.

This certainly seems to be straight forward enough! You take the PRE-PUNCHED CARD and place it in the PUNCH CARD DESIGNIX; causing it to perform it's namesake. With that done you head ove to the TOTEM LATHE with your newly PUNCHED CARD.

==>Hesitate

You stop your safe from placing the PUNCHED CARD in the TOTEM LATHE upon noticing the the tube. Given what little you know of lathes from Makdan's rants, it's clear to you that this thing lacks both raw materials and a dispenser for such. Best find the materials first just to prevent needless mishaps from going hapenning; no point penalizing your high score after all.

==> Hunt down Raw materials.
At first you consider the CRYSTAL, but quickly dismiss it due to incorrect proportions. So you head on towards the ALCHEMITER. Alas, though it has a similar pedestal, it lacks a card slot and reminds you of Kildah's transportalizers.

Not seeing any way to interact with it for now, you continue undeterred towards the CRUXTRUDER.

==> Turn valve

DukeGod

2013-06-29, 01:13 PM

===> PANIC!

Oh no no no. You didn't plan on this happening! You knew you might hurt it but you didn't plan to simply cut the head clean off. You tought this eagle bastard was supposed to be super-tough or something like that!

Aargh, you pick the egg and run down to your HUSKTOP

=== Troll EVERYONE

DireSomething trolls the Trolling Group
DS: GUYS, I have a PROBLEM PROBLEM!
DS: I KILLED KILLED, my LUSUS by DECAPITATION DECAPITATION
DS: there was also this EGG EGG and it's on a COUNTDOWN COUNTDOWN
DS: HELP HELP MEEEEEEEE X_X (bloody brackets)

Lord Raziere

2013-06-29, 04:27 PM

===> Valve: open

it takes some strength but soon it opens. the lid on top pops out, revealing the little spirograph symbol on said lid, same as the Sburb symbol.

Two things come out of the tube: a plain teal cylinder, and a teal seizure-inducing flashing floating little spirograph thingy.

and lastly, the little screen on the Cruxtruder has suddenly started, going "7 MINUTES, 6 SECONDS". The timer looks ominous.

Future NinjaSkeptic began trolling Present AP.
FNS: I will int3rj3ct to allow for som3 clarity.
FNS: Th3 cylindrical obj3ct is known as a Cruxit3 Dow3l. Th3 s3izur3 ball is known as a k3rn3lsprit3, but you may also r3f3r to it as a "s3izur3 k3rn3l" if you so wish.
FNS: Worry not, you can extrud3 unlimited amounts of Cruxit3 Dow3ls. How3v3r you only g3t on3 k3rn3lsprit3. Th3 k3rn3lsprit3 is also vital to the gam3, and appar3ntly it is vital that you "prototyp3" it b3for3 you "3nt3r" what3v3r that m3ans, but that it can b3 "prototyp3d" twic3.
FNS: "Prototyping" appar3ntly m3ans "throwing som3thing into it".
FNS: Why did th3 author of this guid3 throw a fr3aking clown in?
FNS: th3 author is now going on about th3 prototyping influ3ncing how c3rtain 3n3mi3s look and such? and guid3s? there are no guid3s in this gam3.
FNS: This is all g3tting rath3r myst3rious and cryptic. you or Irv3kt b3tt3r just throw on3 thing in, just to mak3 sur3 your doing it right.
FNS: I b3tt3r stay on, in cas3 you hav3 any qu3stions about th3 alch3my proc3ss, I'll try and simplify it b3st I can, th3 p3rson who figur3d all this out r3ally gon3 into d3tail about how this stuff works.

Eisens: run past second grisly scene

As you run down the mountain, you run past a second creature splattered to nothing? you weren't paying much attention in your panic of course. if you had you might've noticed something about it, but you didn't. oh well.

All that fighting and running has made you tired however. you might start going to sleep soon…well once you stop grieving maybe….but who knows? maybe sleep would be the best medicine for your lusus's head being cut off.

Regalus

2013-06-30, 12:43 PM

==> Troll Future Ninjaskeptic
AP: Sure!
AP: Tell-(me)-this.
AP: Why-are-(you)-adding-('future')-to-(your)-(screen-name)?

==> Search for something to prototype it with

With little time on the clock before you fail the level, you hurry to find something to proto-whatever the sprite with; if only to deal with the sprite before Catmom spots it and tries to eat it. You scramble through your home in desperation, without knowing how long the rest of the level was you couldn't waste much time on this; you briefly consider sacrificing one of your treasures to it, yet you cannot bring yourself to do so. Each one was a moment of a great hunt, of trials overcome, lessons learned and glories earned; not knowing what happens to and object given to the SPRITE made using them far to risky.

You hurriedly riffle through your closet, before coming across something adequate. If you had more time before you could properly measure the pro's and cons, and settle on something truly suitable for your game; for now it would have to do. You give the LUSUS PLUSHY one last hug; it was time to say good bye.

==> Prototype Sprite with Lusus Plushy

LordChaos13

2013-06-30, 12:48 PM

OOC: technically Future Kildah used Present Kildah's account. Like Kernelsprite-Davecrow using Dave's account
Only NS is communicating from the Future anyway, Future FM was in the Present due to Timetravel

Lord Raziere

2013-06-30, 09:58 PM

[S]===> Kernel: get prototyped (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/happy-cat-song)

Your kernel transforms into CATPLUSHSPRITE! it has plushy arms, is soft and teal, cute and everything!

It……speaks entirely in cat emoticons. Basically, like normal emoticons, but with cat faces.

You….can't understand a thing its trying to communicate, except for the fact that its cycling through various emotions:
CP-SPRITE: :3, :((, X3, :O, :3, \:3 /:3 |:3,
>:(, :(((, !:3, (:3, :(. :O, :3, \:3 :3, :((, X3

Yea, your not getting any info out of this thing, might as well get on with the level while you still can. I mean how much time do you have left? 4:13?

DukeGod

2013-06-30, 11:36 PM

===> Keep trolling?

DS: Guys...I'm really...SLEEPY
DS: So...just leave...
DS: ...
DS: ANYTHING ANYTHING here; I'll check LATER
DS: sleeping NOW NO....
DS: Zzzzzzzz

===> You failed. Dream

Jacior

2013-07-01, 12:34 AM

===> Be confused and more than a little

THIS GAME MAKES NO SENSE. What is happening here? Some kind of SEIZURE-SPHERE and a now a CATPLUSH GHOST THING. AUIGH!

You better tell Yscton what needs to be done. THIS ABSURDITY NEEDS TO BE REPEATED 5 MORE TIMES APPARENTLY. You feel like you'd have some CHOICE PHRASES for Makdan, if this wasn't part of a plan to save your small group of friends from the APOCOLYPSE. It was hard to be responsible for everyone.

===> Troll Yscton

SS: 0_o Hey
SS: Ok, so you need to go through your menu
SS: And put all the stuff without a GRIST cost down in my hive
SS: Preferably not all over the place...
SS: But I'd rather you not move my stuff around either
SS: So... I guess put stuff where you find the room for it
SS: Just, no where I can't get to easily
SS: Remember I am rather clumsy
SS: It's why I use my psychic powers so much 0_o

===> Troll Makdan

SS: 0_o Yo
SS: Have you told anyone else about this
SS: PROPHECY
SS: That we've discovered?
SS: I don't want them to get worried
SS: The last thing we want is some of our friends to freak
SS: That's my job
SS: Does keeping this from them make us bad trolls?

SS: Or does saving them make us heroes, even if they never know? 0_o

Lord Raziere

2013-07-01, 05:15 AM

===> Makdan: answer

The answer would depend on whether the fact that they are actually dooming the world to play the game, or if its actually fated. Is it really inevitable or are they the ones causing it? You wonder. But there is not enough information to tell whether those old runes are true or not. Irvekt knows that the world is ending…but he doesn't know that they are the ones causing that end, according to the guide? its too late, they needed to complete the chain or they will be destroyed with the rest of Alternia, apparently by meteors. Irvekt is smart, and only a short trip to gamefaqs away from finding out this truth as well.

You must answer this carefully.

FNS: No. I hav3 not.
FNS: Dolimi is und3r th3 impr3ssion that sh3 will simply fail the l3v3l if sh3 do3s not compl3t3 proc3ss in tim3.
FNS: Unl3ss you wish to worry your moirail by your own logic, you cannot t3ll h3r th3 truth, and wh3th3r or not w3 3scap3 will b3 out of our hands, and pur3ly in h3rs.
FNS: if sh3 how3v3r fails, b3caus3 sh3 do3sn't know 3nough for th3 urg3ncy of h3r actions to b3 appar3nt, th3n th3 blam3 will fall upon us for not informing h3r of th3 urg3ncy in tim3.
FNS: but th3n again? this is probably not th3 b3st tim3 to inform h3r. sh3 has work to do, and v3ry limit3d tim3 to do it. actually informing h3r of the situation could just prov3 to b3 a distraction and l3ad to failur3, and 3at up tim3 w3 cannot afford to wast3.
FNS: as for wh3th3r k33ping this s3cr3t from th3 oth3rs mak3s us bad trolls….

You pause for a moment, does keeping the secret that this game is the very thing that is causing the end of the world, and the players are the ones initiating the process, make him a bad troll?

FNS:….Unfortunat3ly, y3s, y3s it might mak3 us bad trolls. But w3 n33d to mak3 sur3 this happ3ns so that w3 all g3t out of this aliv3 r3gardl3ss. Onc3 the proc3ss starts, it cannot b3 stopp3d. W3….do not hav3 any alt3rnativ3s...

===>Makdan: Answer Dolimi already:

FNS: I am from the futur3, b3cause I am about a f3w minutes in th3 futur3 from my "pr3s3nt" self, who is curr3ntly fighting my lusus.
FNS: Always tough to b3at him. Nine-tailed j3rk, always firing off his energy attacks at m3. You would not believe the kind of dodg3 training h3 gav m3…FNS: But pl3as3, focus on compl3ting th3 alc3my proc3ss, tim3 is short, and w3 do not want to fail th3 first l3v3l, do w3?

===> Eisens: Dream.

You fall asleep…..

and soon wake up in a golden room. it contains an anvil, a forge, a hammer, everything a blacksmith needs, they are all gold though. there is a window with something noticeably bright blue outside.

You realize that your wearing golden colored pajamas.

What a weird dream, what kind of person makes everything gold colored? including the clothes?

LordChaos13

2013-07-01, 05:25 AM

[roll0] cause apparently I suck at typing :smallfrown:

You climb painfully to your feet your Indigo blood running down the ack of your head
"BAD DAD! Bad dracodad."

===> Do the ticking sound

You don't know how that would help in the situation, it's a sound...

===> Doo iiit

NO! Your going to ignore the voice in your head and repeatedly hit your dragon on the forehead with a large stone object like you always do ...
A brief thought of WHY the dragon is so ditzy sparks in your mind but you quickly wave it away, DRACODAD was a dragon-bimbo long before you made your first WAND OF BLUDGEONING. but anyway you move to hit your familiar on the head...

Or you would if the pain of being thrown into a wall by a FREAKING DRAGON wasn't so bad. You win this round Familiar...This round

===>Run from the crazy beast
before Dracodad scores another hit you escape back into your HIVETOWER making a mental note to find a spell that DOESN'T require going into MELEE RANGE with a DRAGON.

DukeGod

2013-07-01, 11:55 AM

===> Dream

Golden anvil and hammer? That's...pretty cool. But it just wouln't work. Gold is too soft a metal...

Oh well, in second glance this whole place is gold everywhere. This is quite weird. You're not sure why you'd be having this kind of dream.

===> Look through the window

The window looks blue. Is that the sky? You quickly run to the window and look up, maybe your lusus was flying somewhere in that? Majestic as he should be?

Regalus

2013-07-01, 12:40 PM

You giggle at the sight of CPS's hijinks, casting a furtive glance at the contents of the chest; fondly admiring the plush bounties of the bygone days of your youth, before sealing the chest once more. Though what you've done weighs on your heart slightly, it was the least sacrifice you could perform; for though you treasure you plush prey for the skills they taught you and their companionship, your newer treasures maybe of use in the coming trials. You take solace in the knowledge that Lord Fluffybottoms lives on within the CPS.

==> Hurry up before time runs out.

You head back to the TOTEM-LATHE and placing the Teal cylinder in it's place, and inserting the PUNCHED CARD into the device.

==>Troll FNS while waiting for TOTEM Lathe to finish.

AP:Pfft! (I'm)-almost-done.
AP: No-way-(I)-CAN-fail.
AP: Also, (Makdan)...did-(you)-crash-(head-first)-into-a-(bookcase)-while-dealing-(your)-lusus?
AP: Again.

==>Retrieve Totem

You extract the finished TOTEM from the device, and hurry over towards the ALCHEMITER; placing it on what you assume to be it's resting place.

==>Watch the magic happen.

Lord Raziere

2013-07-01, 09:21 PM

===> Future Makdan:

FNS:…..Maaaaaayb3
You always try to duel him on the rooftop, always. You can't let these PRICELESS BOOKS around you get WRECKED!
Yet….. It always happens. Foxdad warned you bro. He warned you about bookcases.

You look behind you, at the broken window and the fallen book-case, books scattered all around you from the fallen tome-holding furniture. Your lusus always disliked the library. Even though he was the one who brought you here…

===> Present Makdan: Reach rooftop

You finally open the door and step out onto the roof, the hot scorching sun looming overhead, a great desert as far as the eye can see, with nothing but sand, sand and more sand, the library of black marble and gothic architecture standing atop a mesa.

Foxdad is there, waiting patiently, all nine of his tails idly twitching and waving about. You could never quite understand this aloof bastard, and what he is up to. you just know that he is being a pain. You draw your pencil. You don't need to know anything else.

===> Eisens:

You see various images in the clouds:

A female troll has in her hand an arrow and a bow, standing before a target.

You see a gold-blood fighting against a wolf.

You see another troll, much younger riding upon a fox's back, walking towards a great big black building.

You see yet another troll, on some strange planet, full of sandy, scattered hourglasses, fighting against various black-shelled monsters.

You see what seems to be a random place- but then a green flash happens, and for just a second you think you see two figures in the green- but then they are gone.

You see a meteor hitting someplace long ago when the world was young.

You see the frog temple, going through all its continental drift as if in fast motion.

But finally…..you see Eagledad in one of the clouds, soaring through a strange sky….but also, strangely he is now colored entirely in the same color as your blood.

you have no idea what any of this means, and this dream is rapidly starting to freak you out, if your the sort of person to freak out at this sort of stuff.

==> Kildah: Go back up to your room you guess?

Lets see if there is any weapons, I mean spells in here- oh, your Sgrub thing seems to be fixed. Weird. But good weird. maybe one of your smart friends gave you the full version somehow?

FNS began trolling you.

FNS: H3llo? Kildah? I am to und3rstand that you ar3 th3 fourth to hav3 th3 gam3.
FNS: Yscton should b3 s3tting things up with Irv3kt, and things are going fin3 so far, so I wouldn't worry about th3 gam3's cod3 or what3v3r.
FNS: The important thing is to compl3t3 th3 chain of cli3nt-s3rv3r conn3ctions
FNS: Whil3 w3 do not agr33 on c3rtain things, I do b3li3v3 that our options ar3 slim, as half th3 play3rs ar3 alr3ady conn3ct3d.
FNS: and you know how stubborn 3is3n is.
FNS: it will take m3 som3 p3rsuading to g3t him to join.
FNS: So I propos3 this: You conn3ct to Yscton as his s3rv3r, you s3nd m3 th3 gam3, I b3 your s3rv3r, th3n I will handl3 g3tting 3is3n to b3 my s3rv3r play3r got it? This way, you g3t in befor3 m3, and you have don't hav3 to d3al with th3 stubborn on3 as your s3rv3r play3r, and I g3t to play to. 3v3ryon3 wins.

===> Magic, happen

The Alchemiter scans the totem, and upon its pad a great big teal target appears!

and then a teal arrow falls into your hand.

that is all.

DukeGod

2013-07-01, 09:35 PM

===>

You carve the images in your head. You really only wanted to see your Eagledad flying once more, but that last one had brought a feeling of importance. So, you make you sure you can remember everything you saw

This dream has had you rapidly flow through emotions. Time to find out more, you slip through the window, and climb...the tower? It's not really that possible but since this is a dream, things are working just a bit different

Standing on the golden rooftop, you dramatically look around...

Regalus

2013-07-01, 09:48 PM

==> Troll FNS
AP:Just-be-sure-to-clear-your-(head).
AP: Don't-want-(you)-screwing-up-because-of-concussion.
AP:Now-if-you'll-excuse-(me, I)-got-a-(level)-to-clear.

Well this certainly seems far more straight forward then you were expecting, though given your lack of time you decide to count your blessings rather than dwell on it for long. You draw your bow from your HuntingKind Specibus and ready the arrow. It was time to make history.

==> Fire the Teal arrow at the bull's eye.

Lord Raziere

2013-07-01, 11:01 PM

===> Eisens:

You see that the entire planet you are on, is also gold.

You see that the completely white inhabitants below…..are making golden ships.
Of course

You also see those white inhabitants marching in formation, perfect little squares, their stomp-marching audible even from up here.

You also see two other towers much like your own.

These people are preparing for war.

[s]===> Dolimi: Enter (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/sburban-countdown-2)

It hits the target, dead center.

Suddenly the entire hive begins to glow all around you, and rumbles as it does so….

There is a FLASH!

and then a BOOM!

….And all thats left behind on Alternia is a big mushroom cloud as the meteor hit where it used to be.

LAND OF JUNGLES AND POISON. (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/explore-remix-2)

Things soon stop glowing and trembling…..

revealing that your hive was suddenly on top of a big tree. You can now see for miles into the strange jungle below, shades of blue, green, and turquoise mix with flowers purple and indigo, the sky itself being black…..but you see no moons, no stars…only a strange blue ball in the distance. You take note that many of the plants below have thorns on them, and there is a sense of something…..toxic….pervading this place, whatever it is. You look to see where the ground is…..

but you see no ground, only more branches. only more tree trunks, growing every which way, on and on,ever downwards…

forever.

LordChaos13

2013-07-01, 11:21 PM

===> Troll Future-person

Flarpmaster is trolling Future-Ninjaskeptic
FM: aRe you zeriouzly wanting to play THIZ game. mY god thiz thing haz all the code. aLl of it!!!
FM: iT will take monthz of analyzing the code to get juzt the goal OF THis gigantic monolith. i Do not even know how it fitz on my hUsktop it zhould not have thiz much free zpace for a code thiz zize.
FM: aNd do not agree? yOu laughed at my theoriez and refuzed to even write them down in your ztupid bookz.
FM: bUt fine, if thiz iz a trick i Will forcably inzert you into an impozible flarp ZEZIOn.

You boot up the newly-installed game connecting and praying the massive coding somehow resolves peacefully...though a little voice in your head that chimes in with the tick tock kcot kcit tells otherwise

OOC: Wouldnt this be a predestination thing? Makdan is trolling from the future...ie after Kildah has connected. He knew Kildah would because he did, but he did because Makdan asked, but Makdan only asked because Kildah connected...

DukeGod

2013-07-02, 12:00 AM

===> Talk to one of those white folks

The clouds showed you a troll fighting a black shelled being. Black should be enemies, so these white ones are probably allies. It's something you may have heard from one of the games the others play. Kildah says they have a basis in reality

So, you fly towards one of the ships, and starts trying to talk to one of the creatures. You want to know why they're using gold, HOW are they making it like that, when it's so easy to deform it, do they really expect such heavy ships to go anywhere...

A multitude of questions, really

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-02, 12:41 AM

===> Close all programs that aren't Sgrub or Trollian, saving changes

===> Reply to Irvekt and follow instructions

RC: all rrRight then... i shall get down to business immed=tely...

===> Examine game screen

Jacior

2013-07-03, 02:05 AM

===> Speculate on morality

This has a topic that has come a lot with the discovery of that prophecy. And you discuss it at length with yourself. On one hand, everyone has the right to know exactly what is going to happen. On the other, if there is nothing they can do about it, why tell them? This was the end of their world. And of all those out there who could possibly have discovered it, it was two trolls. Young and full of ideas for the future.

Sounds corny, admittedly. But accurate none-the-less. You wonder perhaps if telling everyone would be the better thing to do. That if the planet, even the empire knew what was about to befall it, it would be better than letting it all vanish in a single night without warning. You almost did it once. Out of some sort of twisted COMPASSION.

But no. You'll sit here and play the part required of you to save who you can. Dolimi has already moved on to the next part of the game. That means you're up next. At this point, you've decided to suspend your disbelief. You're going to accept that this GAME is more than anything you could have suspected.

If you can save the trolls who matter to you, how bad can you really be? Sure, you've doomed hundreds of thousands to their deaths. But they'd do the same given the same opportunities. It was simple survival. You'd do what it takes to make sure that the trolls continue.

Speaking of which, you have an appointment to keep with a certain troll. It shouldn't take long. But you fear what you might have to do. It's not voluntary, she probably doesn't even know you're coming. This might be something you regret for a long time to come. Even more than the deceit of the GAME.

But first.

===> Respond to Makdan

SS: 0_o I guess...
SS: I guess I'll have to live with being a bad troll
SS: If it means we all live.
SS: But
SS: I don't know if I can live with what I have to do still.
SS: I don't think I ever told you about what I'm about to do.
SS: And now, to make sure I can still go through with it
SS: I'm not going to tell you until I have to. 0_o

===>Announce momentary delay to group

SS: I will be gone for a short while.
SS: Do not be worried.
SS: It's nothing to concern yourselves about.
SS: Maybe twenty minutes or so.

===> Do what must be done

You set yourself to AWAY on Trollian. There were important things to be done and you need to focus. You double check the rooms in your hive before going down to the lowest level. Thankfully, the wide, twin spiraling ramps were easy to traverse or else you'd trip down them a lot. Of course, that big space in the middle was there so you could float up and down the various levels without having to use the ramps. The ramps were more for your LUSUS and guests anyway.

Reaching the bottom level, you unlock the TRIPLE REINFORCED STEEL DOORS which pull up and out of the way of the ramps. You descend further and reclose the doors, effectively sealing your having and locking your LUSUS inside. Your hive is actually a giant sphere held up by the ramps. the parts of the ramps outside had special SLOTTED SIDING to prevent people from falling into the forest below. Your hive is very high in the air.

You descend to the forest floor, effectively dropping yourself several hundred feet and catching yourself with telekinesis. You take a moment to enjoy the feeling of the forest floor between your toes and under your feet before taking off.

===> Do what must be done

No. No one is watching this. Begone with your infernal, unending viewings.

Lord Raziere

2013-07-03, 02:23 AM

OOC: Kildah:
Hm, your right, is this bad? Sburb will involve those eventually so….I can only promise minimizing that sort of thing, and time loops are pretty much vital.

===> Kildah:

FNS: Your "Th3ori3s" includ3 ridiculous things lik3 "th3 univ3rs3 is a frog", that ghosts dw3ll in bubbl3s floating among giant squids, and that 3lv3n romanc3 involv3s an 3laborat3 form of gard3ning.
FNS: Which I am sure all of which will b3 disprov3n in r3cord tim3
FNS: B3caus3 s3riously. 3lv3n romanc3. what.

===> Eisen: Meet The White General.

The white person you meet is WG, a stately looking chap with a big general's cap and uniform, pacing about, apparently ordering his men around and planning strategies. He says greetings, my good Knight, have you just woken up? Truly this a momentous occasion! It means that the session is beginning to start.
A messenger runs up to the White General and whispers in his ear and hands him…..a cat ears headband? The White General nods as if in understanding puts the cat ears headband on top of his stately looking general's hat.

Right you have questions? Oh hm. Gold? whats gold? are your referring to PROSPITIUM my good Knight? what else would we use? its all we have. its the exact same hardness and other such properties as DERSITITE you see. and of course the ships will go places! otherwise we wouldn't be building them.

===> Yscton:

You of course get the usual options of adjusting the view, moving things about, modifying the structure of the hive, deploying various objects into existence and so on, essentially a fast-forward overview of things narrative-wise, so that we may get right down to actually doing things.
The only thing that stands out from the usual, is of course the pre-punched card, with a golden peace symbol on it.

Oh hey Irvekt left to do something else. Maybe it would be a good time to do some… redecorating.

Also, SGRUB lets you know that Kildah is now connecting to you as your server player.

LordChaos13

2013-07-03, 03:32 AM

Of course not, just pointing it out in case you missed it.
Having one player (even if its the DM's PC) a few minutes but not too many (:smallwink:) into the future will cause these things when interactions like this happen.
Heck Makdan is probably typing this while watching Kildah use his pre-punched card in the Alchemiter.

Flarpmaster is trolling Ninjaskeptic
FM: cLearly you have not read the linkz and filez i Zent you. tHey explain it all and PROve it uzing argumentz and zuch unlike your zuppozed refutationz that conzizt of naught but "nope cauze zilly"
FM: aNyway though i Am running it, lookz like i Am the zerver player to my moriallegence.

===> Commence with the inevitable whacky hijinks in Sgrub with Yctson's Hive

Regalus

2013-07-03, 08:10 AM

==> Stare in wonder.

You do so fervently. After having lived in the same place for so long these new sights and sounds are a glorious reward for all your hard labor. This unequivocally proves you were right; this game might be the single greatest thing you have ever discovered during your many hunts. If there was any doubt that this would prove to be a magnificent beginning to your legend, it has been thoroughly consumed by the majestic expanse before you.

Yet you can't shake the feeling that there's something wrong about this land. This is not like Alternia, a land were the strong ruled and weak served only to feed the strong; a harmonious cycle of death and rebirth. On the other hand these lands seem so wrong; tainted even, though you know not by what.

A slight surge of panic grips your heart as you race back inside your hive.

==>Check on Catmom

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-03, 09:20 AM

===> Be direct

You have never been a subtle person. You drop the Alchemiter in the middle of the bedroom, throwing a few small items out of the way first. Perhaps you underestimated the strength of the movement function, however. You follow a near-atomised yo-yo into the next room over, apparently a bathroom. After ejecting a pail that would be hidden from any angle other than the viewing port through the window, partially from surprise and partially to keep yourself from the filth, you set down the Cruxtruder. Your final additions are the Totem Lathe and the card, set down at the bottom of the twin ramps. Attempting to place the lathe on the ramp led to a "not level ground" error of some sort, so this is as close as you can get without poking around further.

You wonder where that chest you threw out of the way went?

Lord Raziere

2013-07-03, 04:21 PM

===> Mrrroow...

Catmom gives you one of those looks, y'know one of those sweet-looking looking looks that make her look polite sweet and such, but is actually indication that is angry with you, meant to communicate something like
"Dolimiiiii…….sweetie, have you teleported us to another planet? if so, why have you done so, and is it reversible? after all, we must have gazelle for dinner later this night! a healthy young troll must have her protein after all!"

Catplushsprite has two little catplush faces pop out of her and fly away to far away places, and then follows you around…

meanwhile, below….

something catlike begins to crawl upwards….

===> Chest: land

it crashes through a window and lands somewhere predictably nearby but outside the house, it of course spills its various (probably strange) contents on the ground, contents probably better described by one who knows Irvekt well and knows why he would put such things in his chest, whatever they are.

===>Kildah:

FNS: th3n things ar3 working out so far, y3s?
FNS: moirallgi3nc3 s33ms to b3 th3 nam3 of th3 conn3ction gam3 today.
FNS: and would you 3v3n hav3 thos3 th3ori3s if we only got th3 gam3 today?
FNS: how could possibly com3 to any thos3 conclusions? th3 crazy th3ori3s you wrot3 mak3 too many assumptions and l3aps of logic.
FNS: n3xt you'll b3 claiming that th3 goblins ar3 important.
FNS: I admit, thos3 guys ar3 kinda funny though.
FNS: even if th3 ar3 kinda crazy.

wacky hijinks begin to happen all across his hive. stuff is moved around, the toilet are move to some random place where they shouldn't belong, things are wrecked, and you eject the creepy HYPNOTOAD out the window while Yscton isn't looking, because you think that thing is too creepy for anyone to own. it doesn't belong in Yscton's hive. it doesn't belong anywhere.

and of course you set the various machines down in some illogically spread out way that only makes things more complicated, whats life without a little challenge?

ON PROSPIT:

The dream HYPNOTOAD that mirrors the real one, also goes flying out the window from Yscton's room. Yscton's dreamself suddenly finds things more peaceful in his sleep.

The Prospitians look at it and think only: yay a frog! a good omen for us all! go about their day a little more happy to be graced with a frog's glorious presence.

DukeGod

2013-07-03, 07:08 PM

===> Go check on that frog

Frogs and toads might be important, there is a temple for them after all. You fly to the toad and try to captchalize it. Fail or success, you fly high, and enter the tower from where it came

Might as well find out who are your neighbors in this place.

Lord Raziere

2013-07-03, 08:26 PM

===> Fail to captchalogue frog

You don't captchalogue the HYPNOTOAD. because as soon as you see those eyes…..THOSE EYES……it suddenly occurs to you that it would be a bad idea. why just seeing those eyes is giving you the urge to shout "ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD", and your not even looking directly into them. Then some Prospitians crowd around it protectively. They are sacred symbols after all.
You however found that particular frog creepy. Cultural differences you guess.

You however go up to find Yscton sleeping peacefully, amongst various idols and a golden motorcycle. also you see the word "honk HONK" being repeated all across his walls, as if one drew it there repeatedly over and over again.
Stupid vandals, always wrecking a perfectly good room with their graffiti.

LordChaos13

2013-07-03, 10:42 PM

Flarpmaster is trolling FutureNinjaskeptic
FM: hEhe the goblinz? iMportant?
FM: tHat iz the ztupidezt thing i Ever heard hehehehe
FM: tHankz for the laugh i Needed that.
FM: zO i Zhould be all connected to you and yCtzon now. i Wonder how thiz cryztal game got zuch an accurate reading of hiz hive to the point i Can do thiz ztuff...wait, hey ZOMeone hacked my tRollian account! aNd they added clockz to my quirk, that iz juzt zilly. mAkdan if i Ever use clockz inztead of oz zmack me upzide the head.
FM: tHough thiz guy doez explain zome...oopz maybe i Zhouldn't have moved that toilet if it iz hiz actual one :smallredface:

===> look around mischievously then set up some pranks for Yctson giggling like a crazy person

DukeGod

2013-07-04, 11:09 PM

===>

Seem like your metal friend is sleeping here. Weird, your hives are like, who knows how much apart in the actual world...

You leave Yscton, and in a urge of intelligence check out the other tower to see if any of your friends is there. There could be a pattern to this thing...

===> Check the other tower

Lord Raziere

2013-07-05, 08:40 PM

===> Narrator: cease this unwarranted procrastination.

Ok ok.

===> Kildah:

You do so, oho a bucket on top of the door, such a classic! especially one filled with water! quite embarrassing indeed, especially in troll society.

oh look, did you leave this banana peel here? no your cursor just slipped, you are sure that he will see it and pick it up.

You make various other unoriginal, poorly planned pranks around the house, the Pranksters Gambit meter, is so far unamused.

===> Eisen:

You check on the other tower and find….Dolimi. with various heads mounted on the wall and artifacts strewn all over the floor, neither of which you seen before and of course, all of them gold. You also see the word "MEOW" written all over her walls, just like with Yscton.
Those vandals! whoever they are, they must've struck again!

LordChaos13

2013-07-05, 09:14 PM

===> be the future Kildah

FutureFlarpmaster began trolling Flarpmaster and Ninjaskeptic
FFM: ghttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gifDdamn i Cannhttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gift believe i Waz thiz dumb
FM: wHo the hell are you!!
FFM: tHe name dhttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gifez nhttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gift give it away?
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FM: dUde wait, how did you? aRe you uzing that weird timeline thing tRollian added recently?
FM: pAil that thing iz ztupid
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FM: yEah...what about it?
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FutureFlarpmaster has stopped Trolling Ninjaskeptic and Flarpmaster
FM: wEirdhttp://www.smileyvault.com/albums/userpics/10172/Clock_ticking_away.gif
FM:...goddamn he got me doing it too

Lord Raziere

2013-07-06, 01:56 AM

===>Future Makdan:
FNS: H3h3h3, do3s that m3an I can't us3 book of vil3 darkn3ss?
FNS: Or p3rhaps I should us3 on3 of my Naruto manga books.
FNS: mayb3 th3 sprit3 will turn out as Hinata.
FNS: and w3 can b3 tog3th3r.
FNS: for3v3r.
FNS: but probably not, and I'd 3nd up with that stupid main charact3r inst3ad. Probably not wis3.
FNS: anyways.
FNS: gotta get my present self to download that gam3!

[S]===> Present Makdan, fight Foxdad in a ninja-like manner already (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/beatdown-strider-style-2)

Round 1

You first take a few seconds to have an INTENSE STAREDOWN….NINJA STYLE

Then you both charge forward, stabbing your pencil forward with THOUSAND STABBING POINTY ATTACKS JUTSU. Foxdad dodges all of them and counters with NORMAL PUNCH JUTSU, throwing you off balance then whacking you away with THREE TAILS SLAM JUTSU

You use GETTING UP NO JUTSU, and then use FLASH-STEP NO JUTSU to appear behind him….only to fall prey to his HIND LEG ATTACK JUTSU, but you use the ROLL RECOVERY JUTSU and then jump high into the air and use THROWING PENCILS JUTSU, but he only FLASH STEP JUTSU'S behind you, and then uses his HIND LEG ATTACK JUTSU again to spite you into the ground, but thankfully you ROLL RECOVERY JUTSU away from his DIVE-ATTACK JUTSU.

Foxdad comes towards you again, but you use SAND SYLLADEXS EJECTION NO JUTSU, spraying sand in his face and blinding him, and then you use KICK IN THE FACE JUTSU to send him skidding backwards, but he soon flips over and recovers.

You both then settle into the OBLIGATORY FLASHBACK MID-BATTLE POSE, as everyone knows that people reminisce about their lives in the middle of battle, so that the audience can see their backstory, before the battle resumes and they finish it.

===> Various Years in the past….

A young jade-blooded troll is rejected by the mother grub, for he is male. A fox instead accepts him.

A fox with a young troll on his back climb out of the tunnels, to find themselves in a desert. At first they are distraught, for it means they cannot build their own hive. But then they find the library, and are fortuitous indeed.

However at the door, the fox suddenly protests! This library….is not right. Something just isn't right about this place. the young troll wants to go in anyways. The fox acquiesces. They would probably starve in the desert.

The young troll finds goggles, addressed to one "Makdan Beldin" he puts them on, and decides that is his name.

The young troll grows, he discovers information, but the Fox always dislikes the book, always acting as if there was something accursed amid the library. From…somewhere else.

the young troll discovers the internet, and soon finds datafriends, at his first his text is black, and plain, but soon becomes green and full of thr333s.

He is sent things to decipher with his knowledge, and in his mind grows the possibility that people other than him exists, but not the certainty, he still needs proof, he still needs to make fully certain. Even if it meant the destruction of the world.

His fox however, still caused him trouble, still acted like the knowledge within his library was accursed. He would have to do something about that someday…

[S]===> Round Two (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/beatdown-round-2-2)

FIGHT!

Then you start going again. You draw two pencils this time, and you both start flash stepping across the roof, an art which involves letting you slow down long enough to bait the foe into the first move, but not slow enough to interrupt them mid-attack with your flash step. The basics of it at least.

In practice, you appear, foxdad appears behind to attack you, but then you appear to attack behind him, then he appears to attack behind you again, then you do the same again, then you appear behind him, who appears behind you, until he finally succeeds in his attack like he always does, thus ending the flash-step chain.

After a few flash-step chains, you decide to use FOUNTAIN OF A THOUSAND PENCILS JUTSU where you basically spin like a top in mid air while throwing lots of pencils everywhere like the anime nerd you are, in an attempt to pierce your lusus for once by going for an attack in all directions.
It doesn't work and your spike into the ground your foxdad above you again, who lands in front of you, jump back and use BOULDER EJECTION JUTSU, ejecting a boulder you found from the desert at Foxdad, who kicks it far into the air, sailing out into the dese- no wait you flash step to it, captchalogue it again, and flash step back to where you where and EJECT it again.

This time Foxdad uses PLASMA BEAM JUTSU, where he gathers a bunch of energy to form a superheated ball of plasma made from the air in front of his open mouth with his mind, and then fires it as a laser beam, blasting straight through the boulder and straight towards you- YIKES!

You dodge out of the way just in time for it to trail straight off into the horizon, its really scary when he uses that jutsu. Then he starts using NINE TAILS PLASMA BALLS JUTSU wherein he fires a bunch of smaller plasma blasts from his tails, and now your just dodging around like a maniac in fear of getting burned to death.

But you have left down your guard, and he suddenly flash steps behind you and slams with his tails, sending you flying one way, then another, then down, then upwards so that you go sailing in an arch, falling over the side of the roof- then Foxdad flash steps again and slams you with his tail through one of the windows, shattering the stained glass windows and making you crash into a bookcase and toppling it, making you bounce and land some feet away from it, books scattered all around you.

Arrgh…..Foxdad won this one, like he always does. you are battered and bruised. Better focus on more important things now. You open up Trollian and begin to troll the past….

===> Finish trolling past.

You decide its time to stop trolling backwards in time. Too much of that could lead to….regrettable conversations. Now that we are all caught up, you download SGRUB, and then connect run it and connect to Kildah, watching the loading screen and….
huh? whats this? what is this? this is….WHAT?

PRESENT Ninjaskeptic begins trolling Kildah

NS: What….what is this sound I am h3aring?
NS: What is it. I n3v3r h3ard it b3for3. Its strang3 and patt3rn3d and…
NS:……aw3som3?
NS: t3ll m3 what this is.
NS: I must know. this changing sound I am h3aring. it must b3 r3cord3d.
nS: I want to h3ar it again and again, what is it, what is it? I must knooooow…..

LordChaos13

2013-07-06, 02:17 AM

OOC: Did you download the (whole) one posted by Dolimi/Irvekt (too lazy to check which) or the one with missing files posted earlier in the Group Chat by me?

===>Be Future Kildah in the Past
Um, ok?
While you install Sgrub properly (damn you Past-Kildah!!) you get a Trollian message from the past-Makdan who at this point is present-Makdan

Flarpmaster is responding to Ninjaskeptic's Trolling Attempt
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FM: hUh ztrange i Thught the clck was pre-inztalled i Better d that nw
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===> Stop being in the past
FutureFlarpmaster is trolling FutureNinjaskeptic
(OOC: private conversation continuing from the 3way of PresentFM, FutureFM and FutureNS)
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Lord Raziere

2013-07-06, 03:35 AM

OOC: full version.

===> Present Makdan
NS: So thats what it is call3d?
NS: music?
NS: huh.
NS: w3ird.
NS: n3v3r h3ard that b3for3.
NS: also
With the cursor he picks up something relatively harmless and smacks Kildah with it.
NS: Thats for talking with clocks. Just doing what you told me to do in the past.

===> Future Makdan
FNS: What!
FNS: I will p3ncil you in th3-
FNS: wait your onlin3. how would I strif3 you from h3r3.
FNS: I don't how to 3xpr3ss my ang3r at this.
FNS: I'v3 b33n strifing at my Foxdad to 3xpr3ss ang3r for so long…
FNS: w3ird no?
FNS: now I don't how to 3xpr3ss it at you.
FNS: hrm. no, I don't f33l angry anymor3. a pity I gu3ss? 3motions ar3n't r3ally a thing I'm all that in tun3 with.
FNS: anyways l3ts not mak3 this tim3-trav3l trolling a r3gular thing.
FNS: tooo much pot3ntial for miscommunication and stupidity.

===> Trolls, make time-travel trolling a regular thing, do it, do it, torture him relentlessly with it, go.
===> or not, whatever, its your game after all.

LordChaos13

2013-07-06, 03:43 AM

===> Get stuff done

PresentFlarpmaster began trolling PresentNinjaskeptic
FM: zO, what am i Zuppozed to do?
FM: nOw all that future ztuff is out of the way until it becomez pazt ztuff
FM: hAve you deployed the free ztuff in my hive yet?
FM: And why is that zhoe on my dezk. i Clearly remember putting it on the floor

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-07, 11:33 AM

===> Troll moirail

RC: have y= set down the necessarrRy contrrRapt=ns yet...
RC: dirrRmin app=rs to be absent... so i am not surrRe how to contin= as serrRverrR...

===> Reach for a bottle of faygo, shaking off the effects of a joybuzzer strapped to it. How did that even get there?

DukeGod

2013-07-07, 12:00 PM

===> Look for a pair of swords lying around

Well, you decide you had enough. You're a Knight (or you were called one, so that's good enough) and you will hunt down these vandals

Of course, you don't seem to have any weaponry around. So, you look around for a pair of swords. It's important there be two of them

Lord Raziere

2013-07-07, 04:21 PM

===> Irvekt: Come back already.

You have done what was needed to be done, Now you need to do something else that needs to done, namely get to continuing The Process, mister! We don't have all day you know.

A few small meteors crash around your hive to demonstrate the point.

===> Kildah:

NS: Sorry
NS: Doing that now.
NS: As for that sho3….don't worry about it.
NS: I'm not gonna m3ss with your room, so I'm gonna put th3 cruxtrud3r at th3 bottom of th3 stairs, okay?
NS: don't start the process yet, we kind of need to do this in order.

The cruxtruder appears at the bottom of the stairs amid the various statues, as well as the alchemiter, punch card designix and totem lathe.
you don't deploy the pre-punched card though. not yet.

===> Yscton:

You hear something big come onto shore, far on the other side of your hive.
oh no. it must be your CHELONIAN LUSUS OF MASSIVE SIZE, it has come back here at last, WHATEVER THAT IS.

Its must be important. Your lusus doesn't come back unless there is reason to.

===> Eisen: Wake

You find your swords in your sylladex as always silly!

But now you feel that your starting to wake….

you find yourself back where you were, in front of your husktop. But you notice that your egg now only says "59 minutes".

If you were to look up, you'd find that there is not a noticeably large rock in the sky.

NinjaSkeptic begins trolling you:
"NS: H3llo 3is3n.
NS: Now I know that you hav3 said you don't want to play th3 gam3 b3for3, and that your lusus has r3c3ntly b33n kill3d.
NS: But frankly I don't car3.
NS: If you want to bring your lusus back, you must 3nt3r th3 gam3 and prototyp3 his corps3 as a k3rn3lsprit3.
NS: This will tak3 som3 pati3nc3 as you will b3 th3 last to 3nt3r.
NS: To start this, you must conn3ct with m3 as my s3rv3r play3r...
As he explained the process, the egg hatches at 57 minutes, but the countdown keeps going, there is nothing gooey or messy inside, but instead the SGRUB game that everyone has been talking about. only on discs. weird.
NS: …and finally you must compl3t3 th3 chain and g3t Dolimi to b3 your s3rv3r play3r for you to 3nt3r yours3lf, ar3 w3 cl3ar? It won't work any oth3r way."

DukeGod

2013-07-07, 07:22 PM

===> Think

You have no clue on what that meant. But Kildah provides a good reason. He doesn't know how that would work.

Alright, he'd at least try it?

DireSomething is trolling NinjaSkeptic
DS: ...alright, but if this is a prank. I'm gonna get real mad at you
DS: I got the disks, somehow,
DS: Just going to place this server disk
DS: What now?

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-07, 08:32 PM

===> Set status to "Away" and dash to the beach

You'd rather not be away for long, but your lusus' arrival is a rare and important event. All manner of tomfoolery ensues as you slip halfway through the workshop on a yellow-coatedfruit peel and get soaked by a pailful of water atop the doubledoors into the second floor garage. You pause to shudder before tumbling down the spiral staircase after stepping on a skateboard - you didn't even know you owned one - to land sprawled on the concrete floor of the ground level garage, picking yourself up for a relatively-unhindered run past your MAGNIFICENT METAL STEEDS and down to the beach. You are disturbed to find your toilet out there for some reason, with bits of floor still attached. KILDAAAAH!

Jacior

2013-07-08, 05:41 AM

===> Return from important task

You fly back to your hive at astounding speeds, similar to those you left with. Such a simple task, flying is, with your telekinesis. Of course, it's less flying and more throwing yourself with precise control. But for all intents and purposes, it's flight.

You land at the base of your hive and walk across the dirt to the center of the spiraling ramps quickly, before launching yourself into the air again. You stop short of the entrance hatch to your hive and unlock it, telekinetically of course, then head inside, leaving the hatch open.

Moving slowly now, you go up to your bedroom and land softly on the floor. Your face is very pale. Paler than normal. And your expression is GRIM to say the very least. You see that Yscton has placed the Alchemiter in your bedroom, and with the Totem Lathe and Pre-Punched card all the way on the forest floor, you can only assume that the Cruxtruder is somewhere else in you hive.

Better find it and pop the top.

===>Locate Cruxtruder

Lord Raziere

2013-07-08, 08:12 PM

===> Irvekt:

You find it in the living room, and of course open it, causing the golden kernel to float out in all its seizure inducing vortex appearance. and of course, a golden dowel of cruxite.

what nonsensical ghost-thing will you make? A small meteor hits the ground, making earth tremble under you. Better make your decision quickly before something like one of the meteors drops in.

===> Eisen:

NS: Um, download it, run it, start playing? h3llo?
NS: its a gam3 disc.
NS: this shouldn't b3 a qu3stion.

===> Yscton:

The Chelonian-Father is just…sitting there, having arrived. He seems pretty slow, pretty tired. He looks at you, and beckons you over. He doesn't even look like he is going to Strife you.

You watch as he shakes his head, as if wondering how much you have grown, a single tear falls down his cheek, whether in sadness or happiness you do not know. He reaches onto his back and then puts a strange stone tablet in front of you, with six lines, in old runes.

Then….he just seems to lie down. It must have been a long journey to get that.

LordChaos13

2013-07-08, 09:21 PM

===> Pop the top of the Cruxtruder

You descend from your QUARTERS to the CRUXTRUDER with the intent of FIDDLING WITH IT

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-08, 10:51 PM

===> Have heartfelt moment with patrichelonian

===> Pat the old man's back, make your excuses and carry the tablet back inside, examining it

Lord Raziere

2013-07-09, 03:22 AM

===> Pop the top of the Cruxtruder

You descend from your QUARTERS to the CRUXTRUDER with the intent of FIDDLING WITH IT

OOC: :smallamused:

===> Yscton: Strife.

Suddenly in a RED FLASH OF LIGHT, an imp suddenly appears and attacks you with its claws and teeth, leaping at you in vicious glee!

===> Makdan: Strife

Another RED FLASH OF LIGHT, another imp attacking.

This time Makdan, who starts to defend himself, blocking its claws with his PENCIL-PARRYING.

===> Eisen: Defend.

an imp appears in a red flash of light and attacks you from behind!

Kildah:
[S] ===> Collide (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/time-paradox)

Present Kildah goes down and opens the Cruxtruder, thus unleashing the kernelsprite into the air.

Doomed Future Kildah comes out the closet and goes out of the room, right next to the stairs. It was nice to finally stretch and not be in the dark. taking precautions not to be seen by your past self is sure a pain.

Dracodad, still raging and mourning outside, running around like a manic, rams into the wall, his great might shaking the entire tower.

The sheer force sends Present Kildah off-balanced sprawling, an imp suddenly appearing in a flash of red light, strifing you and preventing you from getting to the kernel.

Doomed Future Kildah also loses balance, and gets sent tumbling down the spiral staircase. Dracodad told you about the stairs bro. He told you dawg.
He warned you.

Makdan is too busy fighting his own imp while this is happening, unable to pay attention to the screen.

and finally Doomed Future Kildah finishes tumbling down the stairs, until he bounces, arc's through the air, and gets prototyped into the kernelsprite.

There is a flash of light and KILDAHSPRITE now floats in the air.

Meanwhile imps and other enemies in the future begin to gain Kildah's features and time powers, including the White and Black Royalties.

…and imps start traveling back in time. to before the players even enter the game.

DukeGod

2013-07-09, 12:20 PM

OOC: IT's Eisens to manage a 6 word name =D
===> Eisens: Defend!

You're surprised as hell. Not being that fast a person, you decided to do something that doesn't take a lot of movements. So, with your mindpowers, you fling this Imp into the wall!

Thank Death and it's Handmaid for the insanely powerful psychic powers your hemospectrum was a capable of manifesting

[roll0]

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-09, 12:50 PM

===> Punch the imp into the ground

Your fistkind specibus is moderately powerful, and you don't want to break your father's gift. Pummelling ensues.

[roll0]

LordChaos13

2013-07-09, 08:38 PM

===> Be surprised

You sure are surprised by this turn of events! Wow.
Drawing your Wand of Bludgeoning from it's card you wallop the imp in the face
[roll0]
"What the Goheng just happened? Did another me just fall down the stairs into a ball of light??"
"TickTockKcotKcit" came the reply much to your consternation
"Great AND the floating head that looks like me can't speak nothing but that damn rhythm I hear in my head constantly. What is TickTockKcotKcit?"

===> Do the ticking thing!
You just DID the ticking thing...You really shouldn't have
Who knew time portals where so Red. For some reason visuals representations of time seemed to be Indigo in your head, same as your blood (which coincidentally is also in your head...go figure)
You are A FEW MINUTES INTO THE FUTURE (but not many)
The sprite and imp are nowhere to be seen, though everything seems rearranged...you wonder why, all you did was see a flash of red and saying some stupid sounds (two of which AREN'T REAL SOUNDS!1!)
Maybe it will all go away if you say it again

===> You trollboy, why is there more than one of you now?
You wonder why there is more than one of you, before berating yourself. You are all alone, there isn't ANY OTHER YOU...Yes, there IS NOT ANOTHER KILDAH and NEVER WILL
...
ANOTHER YOU just appearified on the transportalizer
"Oh is this when this happens? I was wondering." He says smirking
"Where am I? Who re you? How did I-" you ramble on with a bunch of questions
"Oklahoma, myself, Sweet Sciencey Magic, Magicy Science, Purple, 7, Foxtrot, Unicycle, Cyclops, the Kokota, say the magic words again. Stop being an idiot!" The future (or rather, present) Kildah smacks present (or rather, past) Kildah upside the head
"TickTockKcotKcit" Past kildah repeats, returning back to his past, where he becomes present Kildah...you think...Timetravel is Strange

...Is the sprite laughing at you. Goddamn Kildah-head

===>Swat the laughing trollhead trollboy1
===>Seriously no shoutpole? WWHHHHYYYYY

You try to cast SWAT on your laughing sprite with your face but it dodges...probably because your WAND OF BLUDGEONING doesn't KNOW SWAT. It's a 1-spell item you see.

Jacior

2013-07-10, 03:42 AM

===> Prototype Kernelsprite

But the question lies in what to prototype it with. Ideally, something that won't be useless. The question lies in what though. What to prototype with. HMMMMMM.

You speculate intently for a few moments.

THIS IS STUPID.

Speculating has gotten you nowhere. So, the only thing to do is grab something random and throw it in.

You look around your living room and decide that an old Tribal FLARP Mask you got sometime back will have to do. Unless something weird happens in the next few seconds, you grab the mask off the wall and throw it into the sprite.

Lord Raziere

2013-07-10, 10:20 PM

===> Irvekt:
the Tribal FLARP mask goes and prototypes. now you have a floating golden mask that is shouting at you in mask-speak. More meteors fall in the distance.
Its probably best that you start alchemizing…

===> Eisens:

The imp gets destroyed, and it drops some grist around you.

===> Yscton:

You also destroy the imp and grist drops from it.

You think one of the lines of the tablet is more understandable to you than others for some reason, as if its calling to you.

===> Both:

What was that thing? why did it attack you? what is happening!? oh well, best get back to work.But something weird is definitely going on.

===> Kildah:

The imp gets destroyed, but soon another appears, this one taller and with pointy ears to attack you.

OOC: keep in mind, even if you don't prototype elfs in the alpha timeline, its still perfectly possible for imps from doomed timelines to go back in time to this point, just like davesprite! we could have all sorts of monsters from doomed prototyping's show up! :smallbiggrin:

LordChaos13

2013-07-10, 11:10 PM

OOC: considering this imp is lacking a tribal mask I'm going to assume it is a Doomed Timeline
Also: OH GOD EVERY DOOMED TIMELINE MEANS 1 MORE KING TO FACE!!!

===> smack that impudent pointy-ears
You use your WAND OF BLUDGEONING on the TIME-TRAVELLING ELFIMP
Good thing it's skull is weaker than your LUSUS
Though it does give you an idea to mess with Makdan and your ASSHOL FUTURE SELF...Serves him right calling you a NOOB

Transportalizing up to your QUARTERS after grabbing the shimmering 'Doom Grist' you grab your trusty DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS HANDBOOK, tearing out a specific page. Here's hoping this will work a second time...
You throw the paper at your disembodied floating head making strange noises.

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-11, 12:00 AM

===> Return to computer and puzzle over cryptic tablet

reverendCounter is trolling flarpMaster

RC: kildah... wherrRe arrRe the devices...
RC: that i n=d to starrRt this game...
RC: if i am next in line after dirrRmin...

Jacior

2013-07-11, 12:41 AM

LordChaos13

2013-07-11, 01:27 AM

===> Engage time-shenanigans with Trollian

A few minutes into the future (but not too many)
FutureFlarpmaster began trolling PresentReverendcounter
FFM: zOrry i Waz buzy when you tRolled me zo i Am mezaging you from the future back to when you were needing the infor
FFM: wAtch out for that ogre!!!
FFM: i Am watching you on the viewport in the prezent (your future). tUrn around when putting the pre-punched card in the alchemizer
FFM: aNyway the itemz are (insert where I put them here)
FFM: gtg meteor about to kill me. gOod luck
FutureFlarpmaster is Away trying to avoid impending death

DukeGod

2013-07-11, 09:07 AM

===> Back to the game!

DS: Sorry, Makdan, some BLACK small thing just tried to...do something;
DS: Well? I DESTROYED it; it left some weird stuff behind
DS: Don't worry, not going anywhere NEAR it

Eisens goes back to installing. He picks the "server" disk, which was the one he was supposed to introduce apparently, and simply places it in the disk...drive thingy

That's easy enough, but now, you really don't know what happens

Lord Raziere

2013-07-11, 10:34 AM

===> Carve Totem

You grab the CRUXITE DOWEL and ignoring your unintelligible MASKSPRITE, jump into the shaft down to the forest floor, catching yourself handily. You place the dowel into the TOTEM-LATHE and insert the pre-punched card, letting it do it's work. When the DOWEL is carved, you take it back up to the ALCHEMITER in your bedroom and set it down on the platform thing.

===> Alchemize

A Golden Hippie suddenly appears on the pad, a peace symbol in its hand, it flips it like a coin then suddenly disappears. then in a flash of a red light, an imp with mask-like face suddenly appears and takes the golden peace symbol and tauntingly starts running away with it.

Lord Raziere

2013-07-12, 07:30 PM

OOC: sorry for double-posting but…

===> Eisens:

You mean server GRUB. silly narrator, getting his objects wrong.

It starts connecting to Makdan, complete with the obligatory awesome music that we've heard already ( ) Soon getting to the viewscreen of Makdan's hive. he seems to be fighting against some imps, many of them now tall and pointy-eared.

===> Yscton:

You seem to start to understand the line that calls out to you, in some strange way: How is……anger……like……coin? it reads.
what in the world does that even mean?

===> Kildah:

KILDAHSPRITE becomes KILDELFSPRITE, like doomed future kildah, but if he was turned into an elf! He can now talk properly again, if like an elf.

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-12, 09:31 PM

===> Ponder as you watch Irvekt on your screen

"How is anger like coin?" Hmmm... The best way of dealing with it is locking it up safely? It can be passed from hand-to-hand? You've never been the best at these things, and the circumstances are troubling enough to be distracting. Those meteors on the screen in particular are creating a tightly-packed kernel of worry.

LordChaos13

2013-07-12, 09:42 PM

===> Be the pointy-eared one
You cannot BE the pointy-eared one, you are the Alpha Kildah.
Stupid voice in your head
You shout into nothing shaking your hand in a generic upwards direction
"If you are quite done my short-lived friend I believe you may find some knowledge within my wise head."
"Well first how did you get in my room! You look like ghost-me, well except for the pointy ears, and you were just a floating head and...Guhh."

Jacior

2013-07-13, 03:43 AM

===> I thought we had already decided to stop this silliness.

You look at the MASKIMP with some incredulousness. How did it get into your hive? Is it one of THEIR minions? Whatever it is, you will not suffer this indignity. There is too much going on right now to engage in such shenanigans.

===> Seize the MASKIMP, telekinetically

[roll0]

Lord Raziere

2013-07-13, 04:43 AM

===> Irvekt: Enter

You SEIZE him way too hard! the imp is crushed in your grip, along with the peace symbol! masks are known to be fragile after all.

There is a flash of light….

BOOM!

and a meteor crashes where a hive once was...

[S] ===> Land of Strategy and Warfare (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/heat)

You find yourself looking out upon a vast, ruined world. Desolate rocky red wastelands are everywhere as far as the eye can see, and ruined weapons, corpses, broken war machines, shattered fortifications and fortresses everywhere you look, up great cliffs, down great trenches and into craggy canyons.
Yet you look closer, and upon all of it you see strange glyphs inscribed upon them all, tons of them, on every weapon, defunct missile, wall, stone and vehicle. As if in all these ruins of war, there is an underlying inscription, a code or something…

You look around, see that your hive has come with you, that it is atop a mesa, and that you have a bad feeling about all of this.

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-13, 06:37 PM

===> Watch events with increasing uneasiness

No. You can't let your feelings get out of control. This game is too dangerous.

===> Wrench the lid from your Cruxtruder and begin your own entry process

DukeGod

2013-07-13, 10:59 PM

===> Go all out stupid

OOC: I'm guessing you'd have posted Makdan fighting if that was what you wanted?

You decide to help Makdan (that's not what I told you to do!)

Since obviously, you can't just get there, you start to concentrate. You're going to use your psychic powers to smash those imps against a wall...From who knows how many miles away. This requires extreme precision (nevermind, that's pretty stupid)

So, you fire several psychic blasts meant to fling those black shells all over the place

[roll0]

Lord Raziere

2013-07-15, 02:25 AM

===> Yscton:

Your KERNELSPRITE floats out and your CRUXITE comes out.

However in the corner of your vision you think you see more red flashes. great more of those strange black things. You might have to fight your way towards your other machines.

and of course, you hear small meteors starting to come. just great.

===> Eisens:

OOC: he is fighting, I just decided to not focus on that and assume that it was a given.

You…..end up wrecking some of the library all around him. one of the falling bookcases crushes an imp though. Makdan decides to finish them all off himself.

NinjaSkeptic is trolling you! his mood is RANCOROUS!

NS: 3IS3NS.
NS: STOP. H3LPING M3 FIGHT. NOW.
NS: D3PLOY TH3 STUPID MACHIN3S ALR3ADY.
NS: oh my poor books why did h3 hav3 to do that to you...

===> Makdan: Mourn

Makdan then goes around, looking at books, and mourning the wrecking of said books. truly the saddest sight you have seen, the sight of a ruined book, the ripped pages! the torn covers! scattered and opened all over place! So much information inside, who knows what was lost due to stupidity and bad attempts at helping people. Truly a loss for knowledge everywhere. It is a TRAGEDY.

You throw your hands up in the air while falling to your knees at the sight.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

This is stupid.

===> Dolimi: Gurl, oy gurl! Do something already, guuuurrl!

You hear a voice in your head telling you to do something already. Also you start to see imps climbing up the tree and entering your hive. The voice further beckons to "Fight them gurl! Like William Tell and that! You go gurl! YOU GO!"

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-15, 04:08 AM

DukeGod

2013-07-15, 02:27 PM

DS: OKAY OKAY, got it:
DS: It was just a slight mistake though. Next time I'm gonna nail it?

Well, you DO have to work on that long-range telekinesis thing. But hey, at the very least it worked. Relatively speaking. Very relatively.

You deploy the stupid machines. And the card. Though the card is not a machine, you deploy it mostly because you're trying to be an overachiever right now...

You should talk to Dolimii, by the way
..
GO TROLL HER INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR THE NARRATION TO SAY YOU DO!

===> Troll Dolimi

DireSomething began trolling AudaciousPursuant
DS: Hey! AP. met you in a dream.
DS: Aniway, apparently I need you to work as my server player>
DS: Also, you look good in gold
DS: Oh, and watchout for your dream rooms. Vandals!
DS: Oh, and there are these black shell things. THey're enemy. Attack them
DS: ...
DS: I begin to see why you find annoying when I ignore everyone:

Lord Raziere

2013-07-16, 04:19 AM

===> Toss the stone tablet into your GEAR SHIFT MODUS before anything happens to it

This is especially necessary given that you're about to lose your temper. You draw a wrench from your strife deck and loose a menacing roar. Something needs to be added to this ball of headache-induction, right? Well, how about an imp!

===> Attempt to hurl an imp into the unprototyped sprite

H== HAH!!! PrrREPArrRE TO D=!!!

OOC: I'm not sure whether this is 1d10 for unarmed combat, 1d6 for Stength or each in order, so I'll allow you to roll. Assuming the sprite lets me do this at all.

===>

The sprite evades! Its not having any of this recursive prototyping game objects garbage. Pick something more suited to your mythology or something. something that won't basically grant them the powers they already have, squared. This session is going to be screwed up enough as it is! We really don't need to push things into full suicidally overpowered territory.

However, your GREAT STRENGTH does basically smash them against the wall that rains down grist, which the sprite also evades

Outside, you hear the CHELONIAN start to moan and wail, as if it was uttering its dying breaths….whatever a chelonian is.

LordChaos13

2013-07-16, 04:43 AM

===> Be the Past Kildah
YEARS IN THE PAST but NOT MANY a young GRUBLING is messing around with his HUSKTOP, lying out in the sun watching the CONSTRUCTOBOTS do all the building for him. I mean why lift HEAVY STUFF and use your TROLLGRIT when you have ROBOTS to do it for you?
Watching them make the COMPLETELY GENERIC HIVE...which for some reason seems to be more of a green cube than anything else

As you watch them BUILD THINGS you see the flash of RED LIGHT, looking over and seeing a chittering POINTY-EARED FREAK!

===> Skip needless shenaniganry

After some quite hilarious back and forth pranking (or rather 'pranking;...the Prankster's Gambit not being amused in the slightest) you do what all TROLLS do when their playmates aren't fun any more...
You gather up the WEIRD GUSHER-LIKE GEMS, you never liked those strange BETTIE CROKER snacks but these are clearly nothing like them.
Putting them inside your INTEREST JAR where you also keep your BOONDOLLARS...or would if they didn't keep randomly GOING MISSING and then coming back with friends scattered around YOUR HILL. You think you have QUITE A SIZEABLE AMOUNT now, enough to bu practically ALL THE NERDY BOOKS. ALL OF THEM. Of course WHY you would escapes you for the moment...

Still, slightly curious you begin to research pointy-ears and other magic-y things, perhaps hoping to find out how your friend came to meet you in a flash of red light...

===> Stop daydreaming trollboy, you have work to do
You hadn't done anything yet! Just asked a question of your ghostly elfin self.
Hmm...

===> POKE THE GHOST!!

Lord Raziere

2013-07-19, 06:06 PM

===> Kildah:

You poke the ghost.

This has accomplished nothing, and has only wasted two seconds of your time.
The audience facepalms. This is stupid. Great time management skills there, genius! I mean really, what did you expect? That something magical would happen because you did it? please. As if you can solve anything by poking it with your finger.

Well aside from pressing buttons, but really if thats all your good for, your not very good for anything at all. and you are better than merely poking things or pressing buttons.

LordChaos13

2013-07-19, 09:53 PM

===> Get back on topic...now what?

You decide to STOP WASTING TIME...only to realize you have no idea what comes after this

Flarpmaster began trolling Ninjaskeptic
FM: hEy, uh, what do i Do now?
FM: i Have an elfy me-ghozt in front of me giving me condezcending lookz but no idea what to do

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-20, 01:07 AM

===> rrRampage down to the beach

Fine. Don't take the imp. It'll pick up something. You storm down to the beachfront to see what's happening to the giant turtle you know as a father. Any imp that gets in your way is beaten, broken, flung aside, roared at or otherwise discouraged from existing in a fourty-five degree spread in front of you.

Jacior

2013-07-20, 03:58 PM

===> Survey Landscape

Didn't you just do that? Isn't that what the whole description was about? What was with this place though? It's like you came in on the end of a war that just killed... Everyone involved in it. This was not a good place. This should have been some else's. Was there something wrong with the game?

How do you save yourself from the apocalypse by sending yourself into someone else's?

Might as well take a look at the place anyway. There was something weird about those glyphs. Maybe there was a pattern to be discovered.

Lord Raziere

2013-07-21, 06:24 PM

===> Kildah:

NS: you have to wait until Yscton 3nt3rs b3for3 you can
NS: just b3 pati3nt and-wait. mor3 imps b3hind you. thr333 of th3m this tim3.
NS: b3tt3r tak3 car3 of th3m no?

===> Yscton:

You get there just in time to see the old turtle die…..then the kernel touches itself upon TURTLEDAD, thus prototyped….

and now the imps showing up now have hard turtle shells on them! it'll probably be harder to defeat them so easily!

on the plus side, if you've ever made Mario, this would be a piece of cake!

have YOU played Mario? just asking.

===> Irvekt:

You find that there is a pattern: a crown-and-brain seems to be a recurring glyph, as well as pictures of Chihuahua's in various uniforms? also, various maps of what looks like battle plans. a little more decoding might reveal something.

LordChaos13

2013-07-21, 07:36 PM

===> STRIFE!!

Turning to see the three Imps you draw your WAND OF BLUDGEONING from your STRIFE SPECIBUS and CHARGE!!
[roll0]

Regalus

2013-07-21, 10:39 PM

==> Be Dolimi

You return from wondering the cosmos to resume your roll once more.

You are Dolimi Cerull. You are an accomplished hunter of rare and forgotten things. You are the first of your kin to begin to unravel the secrets of this game. You are currently in hot waters.

==> Be someone else

Not wanting to deal with the awkwardness, you attempt to change characters; only to realize the other options are blocked. It seems whoever programmed this game saw this coming.

==> Deal with Catmom

"Maaaybe," you begin awkwardly trying to pour on the cute, "Yeah, turns out that crystal we found had a game in it; and that game might've been some kind of psychic enhancer. Pretty sure the only way back home is to beat the game," you awkwardly elaborate hoping Catmom doens't take the news too badly.

"Also, I think most of the stuff here might be just a tad bit toxic, so don't get near any weird plants until we sort this out," you add shuffling a bit before looking at your side, spotting the two cat faces flying off. You decide it best to inquire further on this later. "Oh this is Mr. Fluffybottom's reborn, say hi Mr. Fluffybottom," you quip with a smile.

==>Pray for the best.

Jacior

2013-07-22, 06:35 PM

===> Apply thinkpan

This was one thing you did well. Codes and ciphers, secrets and hidden messages. It's no wonder that there is code here. Maybe your planet got mixed with someone else's? All this destruction has to belong to someone else. Anyway, you put your magnificent thinkpan to work on the code.

Decipher Code: [roll0]

Lord Raziere

2013-07-23, 12:50 AM

===> Dolimi:

Catmom blinks at you, considering carefully what you just said.
She then goes back to sleep. this obviously all just a weeeeeeeird dream that she has yet to wake up from.

You hear one your chums trolling you! Its Eisens.

You hear a voice in your head! its saying "Hey gurl, gurl! yo guuuurl, you listening to me guuuurl?" what now your going crazy?

===> Irvekt

you…..do not succeed. surprisingly enough. pity that. looks like you'll either have to put more effort into this, such as study it over a longer period of time, or come back to it later when you have more clues.

You hear a voice in your head saying "Duuuuuuuude! gnarly place there! kinda sucky though, remember, always rebel, rebel rebel dude! rebelling is the answer to everything, trust me dude…."

You see little black imps approaching in the distance. great.

Meanwhile Wolfdad is frightened. what the hell just happened and why were they here!? he begins running around in circles and barking at….everything.

===> Kildah:

You destroy ONE of the imps! two more attack, leaping with their claws extended towards you.

LordChaos13

2013-07-23, 12:56 AM

===> Use your FLARPJITSU

Calling on the ANCIENT FORMS of the IMAGINARY FLARP TROLL-BUDDHA you bob and weave swinging your dense granite shaft around. Ducking under a claw you use the ANCIENT FORM of STAB IT IN THE STOMACH-NO-JUTSU
...Oh god your turning into Makdan

Jacior

2013-07-23, 08:21 PM

===> Realize insanity has taken hold

What? What insanity? Trolls hear voices a lot. It's common biology. Admittedly, yours mostly come when you sleep and they're mostly undecipherable, but most trolls do hear voices regularly. You're sure they do. That's what the sopor slime is for. That and the nightmares.

However semi-sentient voices that are perfectly clear is something else entirely. Something about rebelling and gnarly places. Gnarly? Was that even really slang? You figure it's something meaning bad, which is what you've been saying.

You're not even going to bother with the imps. You already crushed one by accident and there has been enough violence today to last you several lifetimes. As for your LUSUS... Well, there wasn't much to do, he'll bark himself out eventually and come inside to roll on the dirty clothing you have yet to wash.

You decide that today you will devote significant time to this code though. You will not be stumped so easily.

Lord Raziere

2013-07-24, 12:41 AM

===> Irvekt:

A tall elf-imp suddenly flashes back from the future into view.
He goes up to you…and….gets puzzled as to why your ignoring him.
He does a bunch of looking over your shoulder and looks at the runes, doing various stuff to examine as to why your not fighting him. Eventually he gives up for a while, becoming bored.

Then out of this boredom…..he starts to study the runes too….

===> "Dude. Kill the imp."

You can't kill the imp. your a pacifist.

===> "DUDE! he is your enemy! kill him!"

No. you just said that you are against violence.

===> "DUDE! YOU MUST KILL HIM, YOUR AT WAR!"

No, you just explained this, you cannot kill the imp.

===> "DUDE, YOU ARE BEING VERY STUPID"

No, your are holding yourself to your philosophy.

===> "KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM KILL HIM"

No. You cannot kill him. You cannot kill the imp. You tell the voice to go bugger off and stop making you insane and murderous. The voice goes "Fine dude, your funeral". You feel like the voice is gone now. strange.

===> People: Future Enter

While we wait for Yscton to get to entering, lets take a look into the future to see how others are entering in the meantime.

Kildah:

Its time to start entering! you don't hear just small meteors outside- you hear large ones, and trembling in the ground, you even see a small light on the horizon, probably one of the bigger meteors crashing down. To your timeframe,
Yscton has already entered.
You don't have much time to waste. you need to begin entering now. You have taken care of those imps with your FAKE MARTIAL ARTS earlier. The Cruxtruders timer says you only have…. 10:24 minutes left!

NS: Dud3, I know imitation is the sinc3r3st form of flatt3ry, but pl3as3 l3t m3 do all th3 sup3rcoolaw3som3 martial arts mov3s from now on, your not trained for it.
NS: got to l3av3 this stuff to the prof3ssionals y'know?

Eisens:

To your timeframe, everyone else has already entered. The Cruxtruder has been set up near up you, as well as the Totem Lathe, but for some weird reason, the Alchemiter was placed on top of the mountain in your Lusus's nest where you came from. You haven't popped the top though.

You hear meteors falling in the distance, and ground rumbles with the end of the world. only 10:24 is left on the timer. only ten minutes until the world ends.

And below, there are big red flashes. where Time Ogres are starting to climb up the mountain towards you...

LordChaos13

2013-07-24, 01:07 AM

===> Do the things

You do the necessary things, alchemizing the Pre-Punched card just like both SpockdahSprite says and Makdan

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-24, 03:04 AM

===> Slaughter imps through the tears for your lost father

Snapping or smashing their tiny, unprotected necks and pummelling their comparatively-weak stomachs should work. As you butcher your way back up to your computer you come across the punched card set down for you, and dimly remember that there are more steps to this accursed entry process. You use the contraptions as you observed earlier, pausing to drub a few imps into the hereafter, and examine your resulting item with adrenaline-drenched hatred.

Lord Raziere

2013-07-25, 04:07 AM

===> Yscton:

You behold your item.

It is an (indigo?) purple motorcycle.

A purple Key drops right next to you.

A time ogre however appears and begins to come towards you.

===> Kildah:

A purple tree grows…..a purple hourglass pinata grows from it….and rose-colored glasses appear on your face? What.

LordChaos13

2013-07-25, 06:20 AM

===> Bash the pinata

A PINATA all for you? No others you'll need to "PLAY WITH" before claiming all the insides for yourself?
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/150/f/2012/230/4/3/awesome_karkat_by_awesomekarkatplz-d5bi7qx.png

but you don't have a PINATA-WHACKING IMPLEMENT!!
Oh if only you had some LARGE OBJECT with which to bash open the PINATA for all the YUMMY INSIDES...
All you have is the WAND OF BLUDGEONING which wont work, it casts BLUDGEON not BREAK APART

===>Check Sylladex

Good idea! You know you've stored all sorts of weird things in your SPELLBOOK MODUS SYLLADEX

...

You analyze the large deck of various coloured cards (why can't all your FLARP Victims Players have the same colour cards) for something to use
Curses. Maybe if you mess around with the holepunches? If the Pre-Punched Card makes a pinata maybe other punched things make different things?

===> ALCHEMIZE, starting with WAND OF BLUDGEONING && PICTURE OF PINATA taken by IHusk and printed out

DukeGod

2013-07-25, 05:30 PM

===> Eisens: Make preparations for your entrance

The forge is burning bright. Loads of objects of several metals are around. You care for none of that. You continue to climb the steps, the dark red ball of light behind you. You don't bother to look at it, not yet

Everyone has been talking about this in greater or smaller measure. Their lusus, prototyped into these balls of light. Your's is about to receive life once more.

You finally arrive at the top of the mountain. Flashes of red below mean more ogres incoming. You'll deal with them soon enough

With effort, you move Eagledad's body into the ball of light

This is probably unadvised, but you don't really remember. You let out your OLD weapons out of the sylladex. The steel twin swords you've been using. You made new ones out of all those meteors crashing around

You're gonna double-prototype before entry!

You ceremonially present the ordinary steel swords to the EAGLESPRITE

Jacior

2013-07-25, 09:32 PM

===> Shoo imp

Just because you weren't going to kill the thing doesn't mean you want it studying over your shoulder. You push it away with your telekinesis, being more careful than you were with the last imp. These things were fragile.

[roll0]

Having taken care of that, you try again to piece together this particular cryptograph. There's got to be something you've missed. There must be a key to it som- WOLFDAD SHUT UP. That barking pain in the rear.

[roll1]

Regalus

2013-07-25, 10:06 PM

==> CHeck Ihusk
You breathe a sigh of relief at the averted disaster before bringing up your Snatch sylladex to check on your Ihusk. The wily little captcha card zooms around with its fellows at the bottom of the screen, but you manage to reel it in with practiced ease.

AudaciousPursuant began trolling DireSomething
AP: Good-to-know-(you)-finally-understand.
AP: On-a-side-(note), (I)-did-not-know-(you)-felt-about-(me)-that-way.
AP:Though-(I)-wouldn't-be-caught-dead-wearing-a-(color)-as-(eye)-catching-a-(gold).
AP:That's-just-begging-for-(trouble).
AP:Any-way, (I'll)-head-on-over-to-my-(husktop)-now.

==>Head back to your room.

You begin venturing back to your inner sanctum, keeping an eye on Mr.Fluffybottoms, before being confounded by the sudden dissembodied voice. You suppose it's just par for the course by this point.

Dolimi: Yeah, (I'm)-here.
AP:That-(you, Irvekt)?

Lord Raziere

2013-07-26, 02:06 AM

===> Kildah:

You alchemize a WAND OF SANDS.

This WAND casts DECAY! Hit something with it, and it starts to crumble and decay due to time energy itself, in addition to normal damage!

===> Eisens:

You make EAGLEBLADESPRITE!

Basically, your lusus, but its two talons holding the swords. Some ogres flying up, wielding two swords in hand.

EBSPRITE: Good work, hatchling. All is according to plan.
EBSPRITE: I will fend the off the ogres while you take care of the entering process. hurry! After this, we will have a real Strife.

EBSPRITE then begins defending against flying ogres coming up.

===> Irvekt:

Wolfdad shuts up, and the imp is successfully pushed away….but the imp frowns and marches away, arms crossed. He just wanted to figure out runes with you.

Wolfdad meanwhile stops barking long enough to focus on the golden mask floating behind Irvekt, growls in sudden focus at the suspicious thing near Irvekt. got to protect the pack!

Wolfdad then rans forward and leaps at the Masksprite….only to get prototyped.

You now have WOLFMASKSPRITE!

WMSPRITE: Huh, this is new. I suddenly knows lots of things, woof.
WMSPRITE: Yes much… I can explain much to you, pup. Might help you a little. can't reveal too much yet though.
WMSPRITE: this game won't let me. it is annoying. But its vital, and it involves what you need to do.

LordChaos13

2013-07-26, 02:22 AM

===> Rules lawyer your way to awesomeness

A quick check of the timer you assume is the time to finish the stage. Plenty of time.
Emptying your Sylladex of all sorts of things
...Why do you have a SEVERED HAND in your SYLLADEX?

===> Throw the severed hand at an Imp

It bounces off the Imps head, making it topple down the stairs
You told him about sta- wait, no you didnt.
You should have told him about stairs bro.

===> Alchemize!
You emulate some of your favourite MAGES of FICTIONNON-FICTION. Combining the WAND OF SAND and GRIMOIRE OF TOLD POWER AND SANE-INDUCING RITUALS
Wasting numerous cards on PUNCHING them in, combining FLARP RULEBOOKS from every edition (including the OPEN ALPHA PLAYTEST of the new 5E), merging a GOLDEN SCALE OF DRACODAD with an IMPMASK
Making all sorts of insane creations, even a PICTURE OF DOOMEDGRIST && BOONDOLLAR

===> Make a PINATA-SMASHING WAND

ScionoftheVoid

2013-07-26, 02:52 AM

===> Ready weapons and ADVANCE MENACINGLY

No. That thing shouldn't be there. It just just fills you with so much RAGE.

[Rage]

Lord Raziere

2013-07-27, 09:30 PM

===> Kildah:

You make…..

A GOLDEN IMPMASK!

this is useless….except maybe to wear or to sell for a good price.

Combining the FLARP RULEBOOKS all together gets you two different results depending on how you combine them, so we will just assume you combine them both ways for fun.

One way you get:

THE FLARP RULEBOOK TRUE EDITION

My gods above. this……this is THE FLARP book. It manages to combine all the strengths of all the editions before it….with none of the weaknesses. Its rules are simple enough for anyone to understand, yet complex enough for all options to be covered mechanically, it is a book that any Flarper could love, it the FLARP book to end all FLARP books, it is the blessed mechanical and flavorful objective perfection that any Flarper seeks, it is the rulebook that no one can hate, there is no possible way to complain about it.

It is the best FLARP Rulebook ever. No FLARP Rulebook can beat this FLARP rulebook in a FLARP-off. It is simply, the best there is- and always will be.

It is also completely useless aside from FLARPing. its also somewhat expensive

The other way you combine them is:

FLARP 6th Edition.

If True Edition is the best, this FLARP rulebook is the worst. It mashes all the rules of all the editions into one great slag, a big heap of rules smashed together that don't make any sense, all the settings mashed into one great cluttered heap that doesn't have any logic, in a way as if someone was intentionally making the whole thing the worst book ever. You have read ~ATH coding books that are more understandable than this thing, no exaggeration.

It is completely useless for FLARPing. However it has many uses outside Flarping, include paperweight, doorstop, bludgeoning weapon due to its big size,
shield, raft, table, coaster, barricade, uncomfortable bed, and of course if you ever need something to burn, its a good replacement for firewood. Its also very cheap.

Sandy Sanity Wand

You have combined a WAND OF SAND and GRIMOIRES OF TOLD POWER AND SANE-INDUCING RITUALS to make…this?
This is weird, because it doesn't actually cast anything harmful. In fact, it makes those you cast upon more SANE, thus healing their mind to be more sane, or at least what a SAND-DWELLER would consider sane, which is questionable if thats actually sanity. This would actually make your enemies more powerful, what kind of weapon is this?

Doomdollar

You have made the Doomdollar from the Doomedgrist and boondollar. You…..are not sure what purpose this serves. Would normal game markets even accept this currency? Yet…you feel like it might be useful someday. better just keep until you can find a way to spend it, perhaps save it for a rainy day.

===> Pinyata-Smashing Wand, be made.

Doomed Pinyata Wand

You combine the doomedgrist, picture of the pinyata and the normal wand to make this. This Wand will unfailingly destroy any pinyata you cast it upon. It doesn't matter how big, indestructible, or whatever, if its a pinyata, this wand will destroy it, wipe it from the face of the universe instantly.

Its also completely useless against non-pinyatas.

You see a big meteor outside the window while your busy making stuff. its getting closer. Maybe its friendly?

===> Yscton:

The ogre gets RAGE-KILLED. or whatever. Ok nevermind about that potential dramatic moment, but whatever, look! purple key! purple motorcycle. oh look, a meteor in the sky heading for you. Perhaps you can rage at the big rock miles above you to? Give it a good hulk-smash. Totally the smartest thing you can do right now.

DukeGod

2013-07-27, 11:13 PM

===> Start your entrance

What was the process behind this again? Ah yes, you put the Carved Cruxite Dowel into the Alchemiter pedestal scanner

You start the process to create your item

LordChaos13

2013-07-27, 11:53 PM

===> End the shenanigans, move on

Using your new awesome wand (not the sanity-inducing one...) you obliterate the Indigo Pinata, eyes going wide as the white flash floods the entire Tower

Lord Raziere

2013-07-28, 10:18 PM

===> Eisens:

You create your item

it is….a little red frog with a crown on top?

===> Kildah: Enter

The lights flash, the meteor falls…..

and soon……

you see your Land…

[S]===> Land of Hourglasses and Desolation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7oAgQk541k&noredirect=1)

It is filled with miles and miles of sand, with great big towers of hourglasses in the distance. On some of the rock islands you see rusty gears scattered around.
Also you see scorpion-like people riding upon some of the quicksand in strange boats…somehow

Your tower itself is on a rocky island amidst this great desert-like sea. Dracodad seems to flying about just fine. The sky is blue and bright. Truly a strange place to be.

You hear voice in your head. "Hey Kid, your one of the guys who screwed everything up right? do us all a favor. DIE."

===> Makdan…

Oh right, your supposed to be doing stuff too.

You quickly go and pop the lid on your Cruxtruder, the jade ball of nonsense floating out. Hm, what to prototype, what to prototype?
Then suddenly there is a red flash and an ogre punches you across the room. thankfully the kernel follows you. You see more red flashes outside, ogres and imps are already climbing up the library! You had to get your kernel prototyped by something other than an imp before they get to it.

You ninja leap around, the kernel following you all the while, Foxdad suddenly jumps in front you then throws….a pirate doll at you? What was that, supposed to be ironic? You dodge and it goes into the kernel creating PIRATESPRITE!

….guess its as good as any prototyping. but now all the enemies are pirates!
However you are a ninja. Pirates should be no trouble for you. Yea right, you have to get to Entering!

Jacior

2013-07-28, 11:03 PM

===> ...

You're unsure how to feel, now that your WOLFDAD is your apparent guide through this game now. But... at least he can't die, right? That's a good thing. It's an unusual feeling to realize that the half-brain you used to get attacked by regularly... might be smarter than you when it comes to this game.

Irvekt: 0_o Well, don't just... float there.
Irvekt: Tell me what you can, so that we might progress quickly.
Irvekt: And stop calling me pup.
Irvekt: I'm not that young. 0_o

Lord Raziere

2013-07-29, 05:32 PM

[S]===> Wolfdad, Answer (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/skies-of-skaia-2)

WMSPRITE: Very well. You see, errrr….runt…
We are currently in a place called The Medium, a realm of pure void between light and darkness, within another bigger place apparently called The Incipisphere.
WMSPRITE: Woof, so hard to explain…At the center of the Incipisphere is this place called Skaia, its this big ball with a lot of sky and clouds in it. and something creative potential or something. and something about Seven Gates to get to it?
WMSPRITE: Well the point is that the sky-ball-place named Skaia is very important ok? Trust me on this.
WMSPRITE: and that this big yellow-ball place protects it. and there is this other purple ball place that wants to destroy the big blue-sky ball place, and um….they basically have fought over the ball since….always. like one pup who wants to destroy another pups ball because they hate the ball and something.
WMSPRITE: and that like a tug of war over a bone with pups of equal strength, this fight hasn't gone well one way or the other. stalemate you see.
WMSPRITE: Until you runts began the game.
WMSPRITE: Now the fight between yellow and purple balls is being tugged. the flashy balls make things um…..other-thing-ish, with like the imps and such being different.
WMSPRITE: This is the real fight and um….the yellow ball or the good pup is always going to lose.
WMSPRITE: however this does mean your quest is useless.
WMSPRITE: You must emBARK on it, to answer The Ultimate Riddle.
WMSPRITE: and that basically you have to go through the gates while building the hive upwards, and becoming stronger and stronger until you can the seventh gate, for each gate will be harder to get to than the last, until you beat The Black Alpha Wolf (or was it King?).

DukeGod

2013-07-29, 06:02 PM

===> Eisens: ENTER!

No wait a minute. This frog stopped you cold. What exactly are you supposed to do with it aniway?

This is nothing like it is said to be. Your dreams said nothing about it.

Oh well. You fall sitting on the ground. This was a puzzle of some sorts.

But then again it should be obvious. Didn't someone said this game involved a certain amount of kissing?

Oh yes, you can see it now

You lower yourself, approaching the frog and...

===> Take that bastard's crown!

You sweep away the crown that is at it's head and place it in yours.
Obvious is obvious after all!

Jacior

2013-07-30, 12:06 AM

===> Be excited

Despite WOLFDA- WMSPRITE'S multitude of canine based puns, you understand him implicitly. You guess it has to do with being raised by the barking fool.

Anyway, this was quite the game, now that you knew what was going on. And here, out of the reach of THEM, maybe you might be able to relax a little. Certainly THEY could not be part of the game.

Irvekt: 0_o I would rather you call me pup than runt.
Irvekt: I'm not that small... Am I?
Irvekt: Anyway, that doesn't matter right now.
Irvekt: My task is to unravel this Ultimate Riddle.
Irvekt: And I am guessing that the first step involves solving these glyphs.
Irvekt: Am I right? 0_o

Lord Raziere

2013-07-30, 12:41 AM

OOC: Heh! That will work.
IC:
===> Eisens
The mountain around you glows and then flashes away….

…..the meteor touches down and blasts it all away…

[S]===> Land of Frogs and Industry (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/whistling-jackhammer)

Your mountain appears amid what seems to be an infinite, open to the sky factory. conveyor belts and jungle-like configurations of complex machines all colored turquoise, cyan or varying shades of green stretching on and on for miles, but you don't see many actual buildings. The machines while completely immaculate and clean, are completely still everywhere you look.

You see some imps lurking in the corners of the machines here and there and you begin to hear a voice in your head: "Sir, may I please advise you? You seem to need some help". meanwhile EBSprite begins flying downwards towards you.

===> Dolimi

Screw it, imps start showing up, they see both you and your lusus and begin to attack both. How will you defend?

Lord Raziere

2013-07-30, 12:46 AM

OOC: sorry for double-posting but I didn't see this so...

Irvekt: 0_o I would rather you call me pup than runt.
Irvekt: I'm not that small... Am I?
Irvekt: Anyway, that doesn't matter right now.
Irvekt: My task is to unravel this Ultimate Riddle.
Irvekt: And I am guessing that the first step involves solving these glyphs.
Irvekt: Am I right? 0_o

IC:
===>
WMSPRITE: To me you are. woof! :DP
WMSPRITE: Sort of. I guess? I'm not too clear on what the Ultimate Riddle is either, but it does seem to be a good place to start. so I do think your are right…
(by the way :DP = dog happily panting)

LordChaos13

2013-07-30, 12:59 AM

===> Reply to the invisible voice
"Hey I haven't screwed anything up. I always obey Da Rulez, it ain't my fault I can game them to leave me the winner. It clearly states in every FLARP Rulebook if a Troll dies except in PvP their Hive, possession and everything else belongs to the FlarpMaster. So who are you annoyed for? I mean there are so many Players over the cycles..."

Ignoring the invisible person you survey your surroundings, marking some landmarks before heading away from your tower. Heading towards the nearest rusty gear, hoping to avoid the quicksand rivers

DukeGod

2013-07-30, 04:37 PM

===> Enter!

This time you went ahead and entered

Your EBSprite is descending towards you. Might justaswell wait

Also, there's a voice. Speaking in your head. That's not cool

None of that matters though. LOOK AT THIS PLACE!
There's conveyor belts, and other stuff, like gears and pistons and conterweights and moving parts EVERYWHERE. Yours is the old kind and style of forging, but only because you never head the means or reasons to acquire such instruments of manifacture. You could probably build weapons and equipment for an entire army. Double angels of death! You could maybe build an entire army!

Quickly, you start plotting. You must master the alchemizing process. You'll need a lot of metal for this to happen.

It's supposed to involve Grist right? This place must undergo some good old fashioned genocide. Those imps will have to die.

Wait, when did your mind change voices? That's certainly not your consicence talking to you

Oh right, someone talking to your head. Eeerm...you think what and use...Nouskinesis to broadcast your current mental activity, which consists of question the voice

You're REALLY stretching your kinesis powers by stating they can do such bull****

Jacior

2013-07-31, 01:22 AM

===> Flex mental muscles

Hearing WMSPRITE even moderately confirm that the first step of the game relies entirely on your shoulders makes you grin psychotically. You mean gleefully. Eh, with your teeth the smiles could easily be mistaken for each other. The first step is to gather the glyphs together. They don't seem to be thrown across the landscape in any particular order. Of course, without having the actual cipher, it was a pretty moot point. You can make approximate guesses as to the proper methods of decryption, but an exact answer would require either the decryption key or an understanding of whomever made them that you don't possess.

So, the first thing to do is to record the glyphs.

You head back inside your hive and head for the surveillance room. With a perfect circle of observation around your hive for several miles, it shouldn't take very long to catalogue all the various glyphs in the area. You just need to set the cameras to capture images of everything different surrounding the hive. It's typically how you do things anyway. It's much faster to just pay attention to the things that change from day to day than to review every ounce of footage personally.

You discovered this recently. After the last time you had a panic attack you did this.

===> Record Glyphs

Lord Raziere

2013-07-31, 06:24 PM

===> Irvekt:

It starts doing so, one of the first glyphs that come up is that brain-crown thing again, then the glyphs start flashing across the screens, the uniformed Chihuahuas show up repeatedly, as well as various pictographic battle plans and strategies, and over time you start to recognize that these might be all the possible strategies ever tried throughout history, whether successful or not, maybe a few that no one has ever thought of before.

Its almost as if the people here were constantly drawing up different strategies every time one failed and tried another in methodical succession, no matter what the situation. It might explained the wrecked state of this world.

===> Kildah:

You do unfortunately come across a quicksand river, but you don't fall in. the quicksand is colored yellow while the landsand is colored orange. You cannot cross the river but one of the boats with a scorpion- the scorpions are colored red by the way- came by and asked
"snippidy snip! Need to go other side, stranger? gears curious yes? garbage, but curious, not good for scavenging and selling at all. Twenty boondollars to go other side yes?"
Twenty boondollars! what a rip! This guy is greedy.

The voice in your head sounds out again "Eh, why am I even watching this? To see how it all goes wrong? Because I'm some sort of masochist?"

===> Eisens:

You hear the voice in your head again
"Sir Knight, don't strain yourself please. That is not needed, a simple pencil, paper and holding up what you write down will be sufficient. Do not be alarmed, I am simply one guide of many. The others have their own guides, don't you worry. We are sort of a group you see, and you are lucky to get me sir the others….are not as helpful, why one girl is bothering me now, something about not being able to see hers..."

LordChaos13

2013-07-31, 10:14 PM

===> Board the scorpion
You hand over the outrageously expensive amount of boondollars from your many thousands generated by your PIGGYBANK, somehow...you're not sure how considering the others dont seem to have the same effect
Of course, you note where he put your money and make sure the WAND OF BLUDGEONING is able to be grabbed, but thats just obvious

You ignore the insulting telepath, no use looking crazy by responding besides he seems to be talking to himself rather than you

Jacior

2013-08-01, 02:44 AM

===> Be brainy

You can't help but be quite impressed with the methodical and thorough execution of so many strategies. That was a problem you had playing in FLARP games. So many strategies, so little opportunity. You decide recording them and learning them for the future might be quite the mental exercise. You relish the thought of applying your thinkpan suchly.

But that's not important right now. Right now we're working on the runes. The important thing was to try and decipher them...

Decipher Runes: [roll0]

Regalus

2013-08-01, 10:13 AM

==> Notice uninvited guests

You sigh a bit as the disembodied voice appears to ignore your response, before cursing your poor luck as it seems a group of rowdy natives have decided to establish their dominance over your party. You gesture to Mr.Fluffybottoms for him to take cover while you and Catmom handle the intruders. You dearly hope Eisens doesn't require your assistance immediately, and then you recall the fact your own level had a time limit. You swear heavily.

Lacking the time to handle them properly, and deciding you'd rather not risk covering your home in possibly toxic substances,you begin launching as many bolas as you can at the invaders hoping to immobilize.

Imobobilize Check: [roll0]

DukeGod

2013-08-01, 10:57 PM

===> Write on paper

You don't have any paper. All of it is in your house, not your trollness

===> Improvise!

Are you sure that's a wise decision?

===> Improvise!!!!

Okay okay. Fortunately the conveyors belts provide a good table-like thing
You place a card on them, and shout "SHEET OF METAL" and behold! For a thin sheet of iron does appear

And then, with a special stylus, you engrave the words

"Tell me what you can that will help me in general"

Lord Raziere

2013-08-02, 04:25 AM

OOC: whoa! I'm late, two days, shows me for being lazy :smallannoyed:

===> Kildah:

He takes you to the other side.
"Doing business with strange person good yes? Will remember. Come to bazaar sometime yes? snippidy-snip! Might even take you there, for 20 more boondollars, get them off imps yes? getting more common those buggers are"
You get to the other side and get the gear and….all it says on it is:

"All things begin
and all things end
until all life dies
and is reborn again."

the heck does this even mean?

===> Irvekt:

This time you decipher it

"This is Our History:
Since the beginning there has been War. We seek Peace, but to do that we need to end War. To end War, it must be won, and therefore to win, one must
plan. Plan a Strategy. Strategies allow us to gain the advantage, and win faster. With the refinement of Strategy, one can win more and more, and therefore end War faster. It is therefore thought, that there must be a Grand Strategy.

This Grand Strategy, is theorized to be the Strategy to End All Strategies. The Strategy that would win the war forever, and bring Peace to all. Therefore it is imperative to find the Grand Strategy. The Strategy that will bring peace. The Strategy that will save us all. However no matter plan we try, no matter what tactic we use…

It does not work.

The War continues. Some Strategies work, others don't. Even the Strategies that do work however, do not bring us peace. It only changes the sides, the positions, what we struggle over. Yet still we must find this Grand Strategy.
We try every Strategy we can think of, every plan that can be thought, try everything and everything, but it does not work. War continues.

However, the prophecies predict one day, that one will come. One who will be known as the Prince of Mind. It is said that he will give us the Grand Strategy, and will bring Peace to the planet. We do not know if this true. However we must continue the War. We must find the Grand Strategy. We must wait for his coming. What other choice do we have?"

===> Dolimi:

They are immobilized! They struggle in their bonds, looking like they still want to fight you, but can't really move. By now the imps look like a very strange menagerie indeed: some of them are wearing pirate gear, others are wearing masks, or have catlike features, or are tall and pointy eared….

but you see more flying about outside, on wings, swooping around….

but one imp has two black swords, cuts the bonds and attacks you anyway!

===> Eisens:

"Well it is a generally a good idea to figure out your Quest upon this planet, generally a good idea to listen to your Sprite over there, to talk with the Consorts of said planet, kill the imps, oh and remain in contact with your other Players. I can't really tell you your Quest myself, I don't have the knowledge, but one thing or another will probably inform you of that sooner or later."

LordChaos13

2013-08-02, 04:33 AM

"How about you simply tell me where it is roughly for 20 boondollars?" You hand the strange man the money, while drawing your WAND OF BLUDGEONING

After GETTING THE DIRECTIONS you 'GET BORED WITH YOUR PLAYMATE'
You wonder if he can SWIM IN QUICKSAND as well as his mount...you doubt it and kind of HOPE NOT.

[roll0] (using my Tricky Trickster skill not my Wand skill because this is betrayal. Also knocking into quicksand rather than a deathblow)

DukeGod

2013-08-02, 09:59 AM

===> Go talk to EBSprite

Well, you figure that it was a good deal of general information. Your sheet only has two sides and you only have one sheet, so you decided to be a bit reserved with talking for now. At least until you can get the paper in your home. You have lots of paper, making countless notes for your materials, equations necessary to create certain metals or figure out chemical reactions required a good deal of paper.

Still, time to follow one of those advices. Talking to your sprite. Well, you wanted to do that aniway, if only because your Eagledad is now part of the sprite!

Eisens: Well, we're here. Land of Frogs and Industry. What's with me and frogs?"

Lord Raziere

2013-08-02, 03:50 PM

===> Kildah: Fail

Unfortunately you completely fail to push him off!
"oy oy oy! whoa buddy, what you doing!? that was a completely pathetic betrayal! you have a lot to learn! didn't even try to push me off correctly! work on technique, stranger! For 100 boondollars I give you proper betrayal lessons!"
Maybe you should try again, paying for something you can probably learn with experience doesn't sound like a good idea.

===> Eisens:

EBSPRITE: Frogs….are key to the Creation. They are the center and they are the edge. They are the end and the beginning. They are the Big Bang and the Big Crunch. They are all. They are nothing. They are all that can be, but are also all that has been. They are also the now, and all the other nows. And yet, they are the past, but in the future. They are the future, but in the past.

and you….hold the key. You are the forger of the key. And within the key is your purpose, young hatchling…or should I say, Knight?"

DukeGod

2013-08-02, 04:44 PM

===> Walk home, get that paper

Eisens: That sounded...cool. But didn't really make any sense whatsoever. What of this Knight honorific?

You climb the steps down back to the bottom, and then to the inside of the mountain.

Also, you start to remember everything you needed to get done so far. Find out your quest, kill those imps, find the consorts whatever they are...

Eisens: Ugh, I wonder if that weird dream would help me again. It definately showed some things...that turned to be true after all"

Jacior

2013-08-02, 06:56 PM

===> Speculate

So... your task is to find this "Prince of Mind" and deliver him to this planet, Losaw. Seems simple enough. The most logical course of action would be to find the locals and see what they knew about the Prince. That way you'd know what direction to go in. Or... You could play around with totem maker thing. Certainly it should be able to make more stuff. Or it would have been wrecked or vanished or something. That's how games usually work anyway.

Nah. You've got your telekinesis to protect you. Worse comes to worse, you just fly away. Not that you could really be hurt unless you wanted to. Time to explore this planet. You grab a beacon/monitor combo from your SUPPLY KIT and fly to the outside of your hive. You attach the beacon to the top of your hive and activate it. The monitor starts pinging incessantly, alerting you to the beacons proximity.

No reason to get completely lost, right?

With that settled, you pick a direction and fly off with your telekinetic awesomeness.

Lord Raziere

2013-08-02, 08:38 PM

===> Irvekt:

Your alchemy machines are fine, but whatever…

As you fly over you pass over more and more black dots of imps and ogres milling about through the weapon and fortress-filled wastes, and you see more and more runes and battleplans everywhere, some forming even bigger runes and battle plans from up in the air, the planet unchanging as far as the eye can see

However you soon see what appears to be a military camp, complete with tactical ground barricades and trenches opposite of another military camp, both inhabited by those chihuahua's you saw in those runes. From above, the camps seem to be in a stalemate.

===> Eisens:

EBSPRITE: A Knight is what you are. Or at least, what you are supposed to be. A warrior, one who defends his friends. More specifically, a Knight of Space. I'm not too clear on what that means, but I am pretty sure your Quest here, is to make this big planet-factory start working. and to do so, you need power. You need to quest for the way to power the world-factory so that it may produce weapons. However that is only a part of the quest. Your true purpose is to begin the beginning, to initiate the chain of events that lead to the Vast Croak, the greatest creation of them all.

As for the dreams….those are of Skaia, and are a part of the game, as well as the golden world that orbits around it."

Jacior

2013-08-03, 12:23 AM

===> Meet the locals

Of course your alchemy machines are fine crazy voice. That's obvious because they weren't destroyed, nor had vanished. That was the point you were making.

But how to introduce yourself to the locals. Subtly is always under-appreciated. A show of force could hoofbeast them into obeying you. But of course that's too much thinking you've done already. People will get bored if you overthink things every five minutes. What people you ask? Hush and do something!

With that being that, you decide to plant yourself in the middle of the warzone and introduce yourself. You drop down, literally letting go of yourself and freefalling until you nearly hit the ground and land solidly between the opposing camps.

===> Introduce yourself

Irvekt: 0_o Hello? 0_o

Lord Raziere

2013-08-04, 11:26 PM

===> Irvekt

The locals look at you wide eyed. clearly they were not expecting a flying troll.
One of them called out
"Identify yourself! Which side are you on?"
They look at you fearfully in their trenches, keeping their various weapons close at hand.

Jacior

2013-08-05, 12:07 AM

===>

Irvekt: 0_o Side?
Irvekt: I'm on no one's side.
Irvekt: At least, neither of yours.
Irvekt: You could say I'm on my own side, if you must label my alliance.
Irvekt: And I want to talk to the leaders
Irvekt: Of both camps. 0_o

DukeGod

2013-08-05, 11:10 PM

===> Reach the house, take the paper

After a boring walk down, you enter the mountain's underground or something like that and picks up stacks and stacks of paper

Sorry, you captchalize them

Eisens: What about the planet's consorts?

That question answered, you suppose it's time to start that Imp massacre

Lord Raziere

2013-08-07, 03:49 AM

OOC: darn it, I think I'm starting to slip :smallannoyed:

===> Irvekt

They both stare at you, freaked out.
"Not….on….anyones……side?"
There is a period of complete silent shock, just staring at this complete anomaly in their existence. As if you had said something totally nonsensical and antithetical to their worldviews, as if by merely uttering it, you have shattered their perception of reality.
Then they run screaming back to their commanders, yelling frantically in fear about a person who isn't on anyone's side, and how the very concept scares them.

The two commanders, bewildered at all this ruckus, come storming down to see what kind of weird person has sent their men running.
They then both demand an explanation for this outrageous nonsense.

===> Eisens:

EBSPRITE: You'll probably find them somewhere, I think they're rats? They don't like to crawl out in the open, that and the imps and ogres and all are out in force so…probably not a good idea for them to be where they can be found.."

DukeGod

2013-08-07, 02:46 PM

===> Kill some Imps!

You had enough talking for now. Maybe EBSprite could tell you more about the strengths and weaknesses of these things, but it seems they're weak enough you don't really need to bother

So, you slowly walk towards each of them. You're not really a fast guy, so running isn't always useful. People get off-guard when they see someone walking instead of running

As you approach each of the imps, you summon your weapons (possibly the one task you can do quickly, considering they simply appear in your hands) and go SLASH!

[roll0] (I'm rolling a 2xbladekind, just once, but I think I'll try to kill as many Imps as it is reasonable?)

Lord Raziere

2013-08-07, 04:47 PM

OOC: yeah…at this point, I think I'm getting bored with the entry thing, and we are starting to segue into act 2. I think its time to rap this act up… get the plot going.

[S]===> Finish Entry (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/sburban-jungle-2)

Eisens slaughters his way through various imps, being a cool-dual-wielding badass while doing it.

Irvekt looks out upon the frightened chihuahua's, wondering how he is going their problem.

Kildah sets sail towards the bazaar, down a river of sand…whether or not he succeeded in getting rid of that scorpion.

Dolimi of course sees an imp with double-swords coming at her.

Yscton does what any sane person would do: take the purple key, put into the motorcycle then start it up, and his hive begins to enter the game…

Makdan meanwhile jumps around some more, quickly grabs his jade colored cruxite and ninja-throws it at the totem lathe, kills and imp in midair then lands, then captchalogues the finished dowel, then begins running from the swarm of imps and ogres coming after him, taking all his ninja skills just to get away from them, jumping about the library to get to the Alchemiter, put the dowel in and out comes a miniature continent…with a little island to the side, almost seeming to fit like a jigsaw-
then a random imp suddenly punches him and sends him flying back wards and the horde of monsters begins to close in around him.
"Oh no. I'm not dying h3r3. Not whil3 I'm still alon3. I'm going to m33t my fri3nds!"
He then jumps upwards and throws his pencil eraser-first, the pencil ramming into the island and making it connect with the rest of the continent, and then they enter….

===> Meteors, Fall

The Meteors proceed to wipe out all the other living trolls there is, one by one…

===> Other Jade-Blooded Troll, making shocking discovery.

One jade-blooded troll, at the periphery of these events goes to check on the Mother Grub amid all this chaos….and finds the Matriorb GONE.

What! no! The apocalypse is coming which means….NOOOOOOOO-
*BOOM*

[S]===> Land of Racing and Euphoria (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN36CetQw6I)

You come to your planet. The entire thing is racing tracks and highways. Everywhere. Forever. Its all of the racing tracks. All of them, every configuration, every twist and turn, all twisting big city towers and sometimes even going through them. And even now you see….cheetahs? riding on motorcycles zooming by even your hive, laughing like they have no care in the world. You also see imp biker gangs, also zooming around. All, amidst the bright blue sky.

If you look closely, you can see some of both playing card games while riding upon them. and soon crashing or falling off the roads because they didn't pay attention to the road and were too busy focused on a children's card game to worry about safety. It was probably the highest cause of mortality rates on the planet, aside from the racing itself.

You hear a couple voices fighting over whom would speak with you. You can't make out much from their bickering. in fact it sounds like random words typed on the keyboard. "knckzdjxh2hiuahkwahuvhjabjchuyagcygiauhh aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaajjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj"

[S]===> Land of Mirrors and Islands (http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/shade)

You however find yourself on a world with black skies and blacker oceans. The islands you see, including the one your on is made entirely of reflective materials, like mirrors. You see yourself distorted everywhere in them, like some strange environmental funhouse mirror.

Thankfully there is some weird little blue orb high in the sky that is giving off light to see among all this darkness above and below, and of course a lantern on the island, because its light is reflected everywhere.

You hear no voices.

Foxdad however prototypes itself, and becomes PIRATEFOXSPRITE or PFSPRITE.

===> End of Act 1.

The curtains draw to a close.

===> Narrator: Make Highly Inadvisable Self-Insertion

Oh come on, Hussie does it! If I doing it, I'm just being true to the source material dude. You can't complain. Besides you know want to gaze upon my thin red-headed GLORY! Because I'm just that awesome. and trust me, I'm going to make the best story possible, I'm going to MAKE THE MAJYYKS HAPEN YO. My brilliance knows no boundaries, I'm the creator of universes and its ender. Because that is what narrators are! GODS! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Now lets recap Act 1:

You all entered.

Whew! That took more time than I thought, I mean, such long-windedness, I do so have a tendency to yap on more than I should. You hear banging in the closet, oh don't mind that, thats just Hussie whom I have kidnapped and locked in a closet. Can't have him breaking out and and taking control of the narrative, or worse, justifiably accusing me of being a shameless hack who is stealing all his ideas.

Now if you'll excuse me, I need to take this broom and beat Hussie back into unconsciousness with it. Carry on.

===> Begin Act 2

===> Years in the future, but not many…

A prospitian GRIM HACKER glares at her blank, black screen. Why? Everyone else's screens were working, even if the players didn't listen to them. It doesn't work no matter how much she tries to hack it. Perhaps she needs to check with the local HARDWARE EXPERT….

===> Meanwhile on Prospit:

A dockworker finds that one of the golden airships has taken off early for some reason, he goes to check, but no one knows who authorized this or who is even flying it, and all the other ships are too busy being built or repaired to pursue.

A mailwomen finds the HYPNOTOAD. aaaw so cute! she picks it up. She must find someone to deliver it to. Its obviously some sort of package that some other mailman, probably a careless one, dropped. How unprofessional.

===> Makdan:

NinjaSkeptic opened a memo in "THE STATE OF THE GROUP."

NS: Congratulations 3v3ryon3.
NS: W3 hav3 succ3ssfully 3nt3r3d th3 M3dium.
NS: With th3 3ntir3 group now playing th3 gam3.
NS: How3v3r now, it is no longer n3c3ssary for m3 to withhold information that could'v3 j3poardiz3d our chanc3s of succ3ss.
NS: I hav3 b33n k33ping a s3cr3t from all of you, 3v3n you Irv3kt.
NS: Its…hard for m3 to say this. Th3 implications ar3 horrific, and I will acc3pt any blam3 that r3sults from this.
NS: Irvekt, thinks that th3 gam3 is what sav3d us from th3 3nd of the world.
NS: H3 is wrong.
NS: SGRUB its3lf, is what caus3s th3 3nd of th3 world.
NS: Th3 m3t3ors coming, th3 3n3tering…its all apart of th3 sam3 proc3ss.
NS: W3 ar3, th3r3for3 th3 on3's r3sponsibl3 for th3 3nd of th3 world.
NS: By choosing to play this gam3, w3 hav3 d3stroy3d Alt3rnian civilization
NS: All the trolls on our plan3t will b3, or ar3 alr3ady d3ad.
NS: and soon aft3rwards, with th3 h3ir3ss d3ad, h3r lusus will soon unl3ash TH3 VAST GLUB and wip3 out all troll life in th3 galaxy aft3r that.
NS: If of cours3, that hasn't alr3ady happ3n3d.
NS: How3v3r, I will acc3pt th3 full blam3 for all of this. I k3pt this s3cr3t from you for th3 sak3 of our survival, and th3r3for3 I am r3sponsibl3 for th3 d3ath of our world.
NS: How3v3r r3m3mb3r: if this was all apart of th3 gam3, th3n th3r3 has to b3 a way to fix it right? To mak3 up for the d3ath of our world?
NS: I don't know. I just know, r3gardl3ss of how you f33l about my actions, that I took th3m with th3 groups b3st int3r3sts in mind
NS: I'm…..I'm going now. to go on my plan3t qu3st…:( signing off...

Jacior

2013-08-07, 05:27 PM

===> Explain this outrageous nonsense

First, you feel as those some great curtains have been closed and reopened, advancing some kind of bizarre play for the interstellar beings that watch the fabric of the cosmos.

Maybe you're not totally free of your paranoia yet.

And of course you aren't carrying any computers on you at all, because why would you need one right now? The others are busy with stuff and you don't need to be bothering them or to be bothered by them.

Irvekt: 0_o Difficult to comprehend that there are those who hold no side?
Irvekt: Where I come from it's most common.
Irvekt: For individuals to have drastically different goals.
Irvekt: And still work together.
Irvekt: On top of that.
Irvekt: I've just arrived here today.
Irvekt: I'm here to help you find the Prince of Mind.
Irvekt: So I need all the information you have.
Irvekt: On who he is. 0_o

LordChaos13

2013-08-07, 10:32 PM

===> Talk in memo

You are humming slightly to yourself the small stack of boonbucks from the drowned guy paling in comparison to what you already have from all of your 'Playmates' you got bored with.
Taking out your IHusk you sign into trollian

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FM: zTill, I think we all just won CHIldhood...
FM: i mean we eradicated all tRoll life, except the qUeen
FM: i Approve of this game, it will likely hold my interezt for a long time
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DukeGod

2013-08-08, 10:22 PM

===> Troll around a bit in the Memo

You're sitting on one of the stopped conveyor belts. There's some grist spread around but you collected most of it

DS: Wow. I don't know what to think of THAT
DS: One ONE ONE hand, I suppose, it's kinda BAD. But I was never a social TROLL.
DS: Part of our BELIEFS BELIEFS were that the strong live...
DS: And the DEATH DEATH and the HANDMAID HANDMAID took them in the end.
DS: I suppose that hastens me to complete this Quest of mine.
DS: Well, maybe it's something about the Frogs. I'll check the Frog Temple on my mountain..."

===> Go check the Frog Temple

In the tunnel system of the mountains, one of them, filled with veins of ordinary iron, and only that (which somewhat got your attention) leads to the Frog Temple. You head that way

Lord Raziere

2013-08-09, 12:56 AM

===> Irvekt:

"…WHAT!? I….hrm….this is most disturbing, this one is not from here. I might have much to learn from him."
"Oh no, I have much to learn from him, you can go lose, he is mine."
"yea yea whatever, as for you… well…..the Prince of Mind…we don't know what the Prince will look like, but it is said that his coming will destroy thought and choice, for he is the one who will destroy all other options until there is only the Grand Strategy left, that he will render all other Strategies obsolete by spreading the Grand Strategy, one better than all the others! One that always works better than the Strategies we have been using! And thus use it to put an end to war so that no enemies are left! And those left will be united in the Strategies completion! A strange savior indeed. For we don't know how he could possibly do all this. We suspect he will somehow destroy our opposition for us"
"No, he will destroy OUR opposition not yours, we are the ones who will be graced and lead by the Prince of Mind not yours."
"No, our prophecies said that the Prince of Mind will lead us to victory!"
"bull, you keep claiming that your prophet prophesied it the same time ours did, which is clearly a lie, as ours prophesied it first!"
"No our prophet did not lie, your the one who is lying."
They continue arguing over which prophet did or did not lie, and who is really supposed to blessed by the Prince of Mind's leadership and other such garbage…

===> Kildah:

NS: I hav3 a h3adach3 from r3ading that Kildah.
NS: and what futur3 you saying is compl3t3ly incompr3h3nsibl3.
NS: B3sid3s I don't think its a good thing.
NS: I m3an, w3 ar3 lik3, th3 last trolls in 3xist3nc3 now?
NS: I know that you guys at l3ast hav3 b33n rais3d to cull 3achoth3r for som3 stupid r3ason or oth3r, but I don't think this only six trolls thing is r3ally sustainabl3.
NS: I m3an what ar3 w3 suppos3d to do now? Th3 gam3 dropp3d us into th3 middl3 of things, and now w3 ar3 playing it for….what purpos3?
NS: My sprit3 won't t3ll m3 anything, h3 jsut k33ps calling m3 a S33r of Void for som3 r3ason, going "yaarr" and t3lling m3 to go on som3 Qu3st, but h3 won't say what I'm suppos3d to do or why!
NS: I'm gonna go 3xp3rim3nt with th3 Alch3mit3r. Th3r3 has got to b3 r3ason its still around.

===> Eisens:

You find yourself in the temple, the hieroglyphics say this:

"To Make That Which is Of Infinite Wonder, One must First stoke the Fires of the Forge, to Animate the Endless Arms of Industrial might, in endless labor.
The fires of the forge, will be a long journey, for one must find the Palace of Rats, where the Consorts hide deep within the factory-jungles to start this great endeavor to make the End and the Beginning.

This…is the quest of the Knight of Space."