ROSE: The only people in this afterlife should be players from those sessions necessary for the creation and uncreation of Lord English.
ROSE: It's not a guest list, it's a rule of dream bubble physics.
ROSE: It's what defines this cluster of reality!
JOHN: i already know all this, rose.
ROSE: Hahahaha! Good! So do I!!!
ROSE: I HAVE to know!
ROSE: Because if I'm wrong, I have no business advising anyone on "beating Sburb" and walking out of it.
ROSE: But if I'm right... there can't be an extra, random ghost in the machine! Not like, a regular, dream bubble ghost.
ROSE: So how is he here?
ROSE: Where did he come from?
MEENAH: good thing yer lookin for a back wave out then
ROSE: I guess so!!
JOHN: well...
JOHN: i can just go and ask him.
ROSE: What?
JOHN: yes, it is the obvious solution for this matter.
JOHN: i will pop over and see if there is an actual orange guy, and once his realness attribute is established, i will ask him where he came from and how he got here.
JOHN: and if he is from somewhere outside of the reality cluster fuck, maybe the process can be reversed?
ROSE: I...
JOHN: for the backup plan, remember?
JOHN: then i will meet up with you, and tell you if it is an option.
ROSE: Hmm.
ROSE: Maybe you shouldn't? Come back and tell me that, I mean.
ROSE: If there is an intruder, and if there is anything that will affect how things play out... yes, of course. Whatever we need.
ROSE: But if there is an escape?
ROSE: It seems impossible. But if I ask you to return and tell me the good news, and you don't...
ROSE: I will always...
ROSE: Know.
JOHN: wow.
JOHN: i am surprised, rose!
JOHN: aren't you someone who thinks that it is better to know things for sure, even if they are sad things, instead of being able to pretend?
JOHN: and be wrong?
ROSE: Is it better?
JOHN: um...
ROSE: I am honestly asking.
ROSE: Until I choose to open the box, the cat might be dead or it might be alive.
ROSE: But it's been a long time since that was a choice for me.
ROSE: I can't remember how to make it.
MEENAH: ugh
MEENAH: now water you blabbin about
MEENAH: cats
ROSE: Right.
ROSE: Sorry to bore you, Meenah.
JOHN: meenah, you have been very helpful.
MEENAH: a HEM
JOHN: er.
JOHN: kelpful.
MEENAH: 38)
ROSE: Yes. You actually have.
JOHN: but if you still want to stab the past mes, karkat's human school may be wrapping up soon. it would be a good time to try.
MEENAH: uh huh
MEENAH: you getting rid of me to have a heartfelt piledown johnfish?
JOHN: .....yes?
MEENAH: sea no moray
MEENAH: thats adorbs
ROSE: No.
ROSE: There's no longer a need to bully his past selves.
ROSE: John was just about to leave.
JOHN: was i?
ROSE: Well, you filed a flight plan.
ROSE: Track down this orange guy of dubious validity, learn what you can, and act on it.
ROSE: I won't expect to hear from you again.
ROSE: I can't keep having our la-- this conversation.
ROSE: I'm barely keeping myself together as it is.
JOHN: okay, okay.
JOHN: i will go.
JOHN: but even if the orange ghost is a dud, there is still the other backup plan we talked about!
ROSE: Of course.
ROSE: Peace through apathy!
JOHN: right.
ROSE: Very well.
ROSE: And when that course of inaction inevitably fails....
ROSE: *Sigh*
ROSE: I trust you?
JOHN: uh, thanks?
ROSE: You'll realize what needs to be done, and you'll do it.
JOHN: ok.
JOHN: i am going to pretend that wasn't ominous as shit!
ROSE: And I'm going to pretend that Meenah's figment will show you an alternate route into the promised land.
ROSE: So we're even.
JOHN: heh.
JOHN: deal.
ROSE: And John?
JOHN: yes?
ROSE: Good luck.
JOHN: hahahahaha!
JOHN: thank you, rose.
JOHN: i know what that means, coming from you.
In case you did not decode the last news update's SECRET CLUE.... WhatPumpkin will be at Emerald City Comic Con once again this year!
So if you are in Seattle this April 7-10, you should stop by and say hi, and also purchase many of our fine t-shirts.
And if you aren't a kickstarter backer, this is your chance to play the Hiveswap sneak preview yourself, instead of being stuck watching strangers make silly choices on youtube. And maybe... your chance to play a DIFFERENT sneak preview????
I know what you're wondering, because I've gotten approximately a zillion inquiries about this: will I personally be in Seattle to meet fans this April 7-10, or will I be too busy doing cries into my keyboard?
(That's a trick question btw. Those things are not mutually exclusive.)
Hiveswap update!!!!! Read it here. It is pretty exciting news, I think, and I am unsurprised to discover that you agree with me completely.
Kickstarter backers will have noticed that they've been sent a playable sneak preview, but if that's not you, there MAY still be an opportunity to get your greedy peepers on it? (And by "may" I of course mean "will definitely".)
It's going to be a surprise, but just between me and you and the millions of other people reading this website, I'll let you have a teensy hint. See if you can decipher the SECRET CLUE:
Homestuck will be on pause until next Monday, but seriously who cares about that when you could be finding out about some awesome new MSPA merchandise!
Hey! You! Did you hear that there's awesome new MSPA merchandise?
Maybe you have been dreaming of a shirt that screams into the world's eyeballs that you are one groovy dude who loves Homestuck? (These things are synonyms.)
Wow!!!! Looks like your dreams just got turned into true reality!
But wait! There is something even more guaranteed to blow your mind with it's unbelievable astoundingness. Homestuck panel prints are a thing now!
For many years it's seemed like an impossible idea, since animation effects don't work on paper, and also every Homestuck panel is online anyway?
But our greatest MSPA scientists have been working on the problem non-stop for years, abacuses and slide rules snapping, test-tubalizers being carefully examined under microscopificators, and at last they have sent word over the mail-electronifier that there's been a breakthrough! Homestuck: solved forever!!!!
These are lenticular prints, which you may have seen on movie posters or really neat backpacks? The secret is that, when you move the image, it appears to flip between frames... kind of exactly like an animated gif that just got turned into true reality! What's left that HASN'T been turned into true reality anymore?
Here are some examples you can click on to see how they work, and you can peruse all 12 at the Homestuck store.
I was so blown away by this technological advancement, I immediately set to work making the next Homestuck book entirely out of lenticular images. Finally, it will offer a full and accurate MsPaintAdventures.com experience.
In unrelated news, the next Homestuck book will be 5 feet wide and $10,000 a copy.
Awwwwwwwwww. (Everyone: Awwwwwwwwwwww.) That was adorable!
Make sure and check the credits page to meet all the contributors who just injected a live kitten directly into your heart. (Awwwwwwww!)
I bet this update sure has you feeling smug that you ordered a pack of MSPA Quadrant Day cards in time for YOUR Quadrant Day celebrations!
What's that? You DIDN'T? (Readers who have their life priorities in order, this paragraph isn't meant for you. You may resume feeling smug.) Well, who said that Quadrant Day is February 14th, anyway. Other than me, I guess??? And now I'm saying that the holiday officially occurs 6 to 8 weeks from the moment you chose to gently caress this news post with your wibbling peep orbs.
Whew! Cutting it close, aren't you? Better hurry and order a set RIGHT NOW.