Homestuck

Dave has awoken in the dreaming world. Or he’s sleeping in the waking world. Unlike John and Rose it seems there wasn’t much stopping him from doing this sooner. Rose had just shown up in Dave's dreamscape and woke him up to jam to some tunes for a while. One weird thing about Daves room in the dreaming world is that Lil’ Cal is not only there but seems to be moving on its own. In the real world Cal had appeared to do this, but Big Bro was moving Cal at near light speed. The strife between big bro and Dave destroyed Cal. So how the hell was Cal here and moving on its own? Rose took the wise route by hucking Cal out of Dave's window before she returned to the waking world.

Dave had no complaint he found Cal very annoying. But, Cal’s gets caught by a random rocket board going through the streets of Derse. Also in Derse, are the exiles from a time before their exile. Aimless Renegade (AR) is an Authority Regulator at this time. This scene of a weird puppet falling onto a preposterously convenient rocket board caught AR’s attention. AR would need to investigate. Cal absconds into a transportalizer followed by AR.

John is on the Land for Light and Rain (LOLAR) where Rose entered the game. Since Rose was asleep when John had gotten there he’s decided to go exploring with his jetpack. He discovers the Island cave where Rose's mom had gone to with Maplehoof. Though it is still swarming with monsters, these ones look a bit more demonic. But John's new Fear No Anvil is very strong and takes care of them quickly.

John finds the same transportalizer and goes through it. He's sent to a lab floating on an asteroid in the veil. This is entirely off of the planet he was just on. It seems This is the same place Roses mom, John's dad, that guy who looked like Jade's Grandpa, and Cal all ended up at. We know this is the case because dad’s old oily fedora, the Colonel Sassacre, Maplehoof and Cal are just there next to the transportalizers. John naturally hops on Maplehoof, because free mount. The lab itself is huge, there is a huge wall that looks like old tape drives. The center of the lab has 4 massive jars containing huge chess pieces. Around those are jars that seem to contain capricians. John also discovers a Junior ectobiologist lab suit that seems made for him. The suit even has his green ghost logo on the belt. There is also a 4 monitor display wall.

It seems AR is outside of the lab. John isn't aware of them, and they are not aware of John. AR doing some sick tricks in ZeroG on the rocket board. This is against their uptight personality but they seem to be letting loose.

John for, possibly, the first time has just met Rose. Which is to say he’s crashed through the wall of her bedroom in a jetpack. Somehow Rose is still asleep. John is trying to not be a creep about this situation. So in true non-werido fashion John is now on Rose's laptop. He responds to the troll who is messaging her, pretending to be her.

grimAuxiliatrix [GA] is trying to reach Rose. It seems from GA’s perspective this is her first contact with any of the kids. GA considers Rose a friend in Rose's perception of time. Someone she has trolled into submission of some sorts, the GA John is about to talk with knows none of that.

John uses this opportunity to hype himself as Rose's crush. He suggests GA contact John in the past to confuse him. This will explain some of the conversations between GA and Rose on page 1093 and 1592.

We get to see a bit of what is going on when the Trolls end here. We see GA in a compound of some sort on a PC. Other trolls are on her side but we can’t see who. Also gallowsCalibrator [GC] is behind her. The set-up is like an old fashioned LAN party. QA us contacting another troll twinArmageddons [TA] who we haven't seen yet. It seems that TA is sort of the IT guy of the groups and GA needs them to help with setting up the “viewport”. GA is apparently not good with computers and TA is a bit of a dick about. But, they forget GA is in the same room as she goes and bonks him for his comments.

TA is much like the other trolls, grey skinned, symbol of Gemini and 4 small horns. They have notable glasses with one red and one blue lens.

Bothe Dave and Rose are asleep in the waking world which means they awake in the dream world. As the both reside in Derse when creaming they’ve met up to jam. We get a taste of some really good tracks here. The whole time they are jamming Cal is just warping around annoyingly so Rose chucks Cal out of Dave's window.

For some reason we now get to see what Maplehoof is up to. Maplehoof went to the same island with Rose's Mom on the Land of Light and Rain (LOLAR). They'd been waiting outside while Roses mom utterly destroyed a huge monster inside. Maple hoof collects all the Grist and other resources that Roses Mom left behind. It seems she has no need for any of that. All the grist Maplehoof collects goes to Rose for some reason. As it is too much, much of it goes to a “gutter” where it's redistributed to the other player via GristTorrent. We then see maple hoof follow Mom into a transportalizer.

We also see the fedora John had delivered find its way to John's Dad on the Land of Wind and Shade (LOWAS). His current hat is stained with oil. He had found a replacement to his missing shoe. John's dad also encounters the same stranger that saved John from the Basilisk back on page 1455. They are holding the Colonel Sassacre. Also, look suspiciously like Jade's long dead grandpa. John's dad follows him through a transportalizer.

DaveSprite saved John from his own gullibility. gallowsCalibrator [GC] had convinced John that he could skip a big chunk of the game. He only needed to go directly to a late level boss. But, DaveSprite came from the doomed future where John did that and died. So John, warned of his impending doom, eventually avoided it.

John is again confronted with advice from GC. She doesn't seem to know what John could be so salty about, it's not like her advice in this timeline. GC has a map to the second gate for John to regain his trust. John's supposed to go through the second at this point in the game so it should be safer and not lead to his death. Also this map isn’t hand drawn by a blind troll so it's actually legible. John, seemingly having learned nothing, flies over to it in his jetpack.

That gate takes him directly to the Land for Light and Rain (LOLAR). Jetpacks are not exactly easy to control, and Johns ends up crashing right into Rose's bedroom. This does not wake her up. We can also see her room has “MEOW” all over it. I also noticed her lathe is now completely trashed.

This is awkward for a lot of reasons. As far as we know these friends have never met in the real world. Imagine you had a lady friend on the internet for many years. Seeing them for the first time is already pretty awkward. Crashing through a wall of their bedroom in a jetpack is just too invasive. Especially since she's asleep. At least Mewtini is awake.

DaveSprite explains that John had in fact gone through the second gate and wasn't tricked. Though he is ahead of schedule. Gate 1 for John leads to his planet, which means Rose needs to get to gate 3 to get to her own planet. And gate 4 on Roses planet leads to Daves. Normally John cant get here without building up his house more but the jetpack was a bit of a cheat. Though John finds all that fascinating he actually wanted to talk to “real Dave”. DaveSprite gave him crap for that as he is also real. DaveSprite experienced a trauma that year just to give John's timeline a chance. He gives John an item code before moving on.

Dave wants John to rummage through as much of Rose's stuff as possible before she wakes up. John isn't comfortable with this gross idea but agrees to give Dave the item codes to Roses journals.

Rose meanwhile is floating around Derse. She is ins A Purple Derse garb. She goes to Dave's tower and throws a ball of yarn at him. This actually causes him to awaken, and fall asleep in the waking world. Dave's dream tower is a bit odd, it looks exactly like his room but Cal is also there in the Dersite garb and moving around. It also has crows and the graffiti on his wall are just drawings of sweet bro and hella jeff.

In the waking world John Dave sends him a line of gibberish as he’s now asleep on his keyboard. John pursues Rose’s book selection, finding a philosophy book by Charles Barkly. This is a callback to misquoting him in a poem. John eventually succumbs to his curiosity to see what Rose was going to send him as a birthday gift. She was also sending John a Con Air Bunny but one that was half knitted. The non-knitted parts also seem to be splotch in crude oil.

Her letter suggests that it was from her childhood and something she loved dearly. The years had made it tattered and too delicate to ever wash. She resurrected it using the knitting supplies that John had given her. Now she wanted John to have it. It’s clear that this was the original con air bunny that Dave had given John. That one is currently in possession of Casey the salamander. But will somehow go back in time and end up with a child version of Rose.

This reminds John that Casey is currently in his inventory. John deploys the salamander child to stay with Rose as he believes that may be safer.

John has been taking the advice of a Troll gallowsCalibrator [GC]. He’s planning to skip several milestones of SBURB to get to a late stage boss fight. Supposedly this boss enemy will be asleep and not fight John allowing him to get a quick victory. However, in a doomed timeline we learned this is nonsense and John's killed in this attempt. Dave from this timeline managed to warn John of his fate. However, John did not buy that Dave can time travel and he’s blasting off to his doomed fate anyway.

Rose, in the doomed timeline, ceased existing. This apparently allowed current timeline Rose to fall asleep and potentially “awaken”. The formally doomed timeline Dave, is now impaled bird sprite Dave. We’ll just call DaveSprite. DaveSprite reaches out to GC to let her know her plan to get John killed has been foiled. Though at this point that doesn't seem to be true as John is an idiot.

This conversation is interesting. GC mentions that she genuinely didn't think John would die from this. Since they are in a reverse timeline, she knew he’d be OK. But she’s also not surprised that one of the humans would time travel like this. The trolls have their own time traveler, they are not talking to the humans and do not approve of trolling them. She fully admits she is just trolling John, and badly. Dave points out that she convinced him to kill himself. She seems somewhat shocked by this, not realizing John is just really trusting and dumb. DaveSprite vaguely threatens to harm CG if she does anything “coy”. GC doesn’t really buy DaveSprites threats. Even with his new sprite powers, she compares him to captain planet. This seems to genuinely put them on peaceful terms.

I’ll again point out that this is Hanlons razor in action. GC may genuinely not understand the full effect of her trolling. Though she knows in the end it won't be too harmful, her getting John “killed” was not out of malice, just ignorance. It seems DaveSprite recognized this and chose a vigilant peace over aggressive vengeance. With that of the way DaveSprite can do his job and be Daves guide in the game. Instead of annoying noises and riddles DaveSprite gives straight answers. He mentions that Dave now has a bunch of high level gear, and can get through the game easily. DaveSprite can't join him on the planet yet as Dave needs to hit a certain level first. Until then he’s going to chill around and make comics or whatever. They performed a fist BUNP as bros.

At this point we are taken way back to page 131. This is when John opened Daves red package to retrieve the Con Air Bunny. This time though we see the note Dave had written to John. At least I don't think we got to see this the first time.

This letter mentions that Dave mentions he likes John because he is naive and weird. He promises John that if his naive nature ever gets him into any trouble that he will have his back. John is currently basting off towards the final ring and his death. He considers this message and reconsiders. John tells Dave he trusts him now even if his claims that his future self showed up and told him things seem insane. This loving bro moment get's interrupted by carcinoGeneticist [CG]. CG's confused about how human babies are born. This is because John will at some point convince him that babies spawn from larvae. The trolling between them is mutual. CG mentions he will troll John harder in John's future (CG’s past). CG mentions that the trolls are hiding in the Veil. This place is a belt of meteors between Skiai and a place called Derse. He’d mention that the Veil has a bunch of genetic labs and facilities used by the planets of the medium.

The game's central story is the fight between the white and black capricans in Skaia. This will end with black winning. This results in “The reckoning” the black King and Queen will use the meteors of the veil to destroy Skaia. Skaia can handle some of these by creating portals to remove them. But it is a countdown and the players need to kill the black king and queen. CG mentions that John and his friends have already screwed up terribly. The reckoning will be triggered too early for them to stop anything. This will result in something bad happening. But CG is too frustrated to tell John all this again. John asks CG to tell GC “nice try” but he believes this is another of John’s pranks.

Prepare for more temporal nonsense. When we last saw Dave he had built the trigger item to give him access to the medium. He had plenty of time before he needed to use it. It was a red egg. But, his sprite was a bird he had impaled with a sword. It took the egg to the top of a radio tower and placed it on a nest of random swords and plush asses. We saw Dave climbing to retrieve it when Rose was trying to contact him. Then we hear from him when talking to John that he had already entered the medium. He needed John's advice on giving his second prototype. This skips anything about how Dave got the egg back.

And now we have this animation sequence. Dave: Accelerate. which seems to skip even beyond his conversation with John into a further point in the future. Dave is in the Land of Heat and Clockwork (LOHAC). This place looks awesome, but like a wildly difficult place to live. It's pretty much an ocean of hot magma with steel beam structures coming out of it. All the steel structures have large rotating cogs.

We see Dave teleport to a cog. And immediately start slaying imps and ogres. He’s dressed in something more formal with a red bowtie. He’s also wielding a broken sword with a very odd looking hilt. He is also summoning a floating mixing board. His fighting style has changed significantly. He appears not only to be accelerating time, but also cloning himself to inflict more damage. Also his sprite is now fully prototyped with both the bird and Lil’ Cal. The Cal Sprite has the laser beam attack we have seen with the others. It also summons a giant plush rump to… uhhh… thrust into enemies.

After the animation we see Dave talking with his sprite. Though it's apparently useless at communicating like Rose's tentacle cat princess. It just laughs and somehow talks in weird emojis. Dave complains about this to Rose on his computer glasses (ironically with the apple logo). He mentions it’s felt like months since he entered the medium. The “time hopping” is messing with his perception.

Rose says the point of this is for him to gather as much data as possible on where they went wrong before “returning”. Apparently they messed up Jade “the witch” is possibly dead and so is John “the heir”. It seems John skipping over the gates to the denizen got him killed. Also meteor possibly took Jade out before she could get in. The trolls also stopped communications at that time. The timeline is completely doomed.But Dave is chill about this as he can fix it. He’s just going to go back stop John, tell Rose how to awaken her dream self, and absolutely not prototype Lil Cal. Rose questions if she will continue to exist if this timeline, but trusts Dave. She doesn't have much of a choice.

So Dave uses his floating mixing board thing to go back to the conversation between himself and John. This is the one where Dave asked Johns for advice on what to prototype his sprite with. But, before John could take off Future doomed Timeline Dave (FDT Dave) shows up in front of “present?” Dave.

FDT Dave tells his past self to not let John fly off in the jetpack. Dave tries to explain to John that his future self just appeared and told him to not let John fly the cool jetpack. This doesn't work, FDT Dave tells Jon that he really is from the future in a separate chat. John doesn't believe this either but agrees not to fly off yet. FDT, satisfied with this, drops off a huge stack of cards to his past. Thes cards contained items: the floating mixing board and his weird sword. He then tosses himself into the Sprite. The Sprite is now a crow with a sword in its gut mixed with FDT Dave.

John apparently decides to fly off anyway. Which may just doom the timeline again.

Last time we 2 trolls connected with Dave and Rose. The trolls grimAuxiliatrix [GA] and adiosToreador [AT] are trying to gain knowledge. They want of weak points for their targets. GA came to Dave, he provided terrible advice to GA which she caught on too. But she used his bad advice to perform a decent troll on Rose. AT got equally bad advice from Rose. We’re about to see how that works out.

Predictably it’s the cringiest thing I’ve read since my own live journal. AT attempts to lay down a whole page of rhymes to damage Dave’s pride. It's a long page of senselessness. Gibberish. Dave would have utterly destroyed it but opted to simply not ignore AT. Dave just mindlessly doodles SBAHJ stuff with AT's chat window burried behind it. AT takes Dave’s non-response as a victory for himself. We see AT a male troll, as he is a Taurus his horns are huge. Otherwise I'd describe him as looking like a knob.

Sadly I am a Tarus myself, and even as self hating as I am this character is terrible.

When we last left John he had taken the advice of a troll gallowsCalibrator [GC]. on this advice he hopped in a large pipe in LOWAS to get delivered closer to his destination. We now see John being flung out of a pipe, covered in oil and his inventory scattered all over. This includes the box bunny. Reunited with the bunny and surviving the horrors in the pipe he reenacts the Con-Air scene. The one where Cages's character is returning the bunny to his daughter. In John's case a random consort and its mother. I am sure they were both confused and horrified. An oily alien creature just came up to them with some soft oily thing and started embracing a child.

2 trolls immediately have things to say about this bizarre action. John explains to carcinoGeneticist [CG] that he was re-enacting a movie. CG likes movies, and they actually nerd bond over it.

John mentions he’s receiving help from GC. It seems CG doesn't like that. This is against whatever CGs plan is. It seems the trolls even troll each other and that causes issues for them. John also mentions he hasn't talked to Jade on their behalf yet. But it seems in the time of confusion CG's shocked to hear his future self wanted John to do that. He believes it's a bad sign.

More confusing is the GC is in the same room as CG. But they are not on the same point in the timeline. GC is slightly behind the conversation John had with CG. John attempts to relay some message between them. But he inevitably ends up making them turn on each other.

GC’s guidance has actually led John to his planet's Denizen Palace. John needs to slay this huge beast to get a massive amount of grist. Also something called “ultimate alchemy”. This normally doesn't happen until gate 7, but CG is assuming it won't be awake yet and John can sneak up on it. He’d be way too weak at this point to win a fair fight. IT seems they are trying to exploit and speed run the game. It also seems super risky.

Since the area isn't accessible John locates a Return node and gets sent back to his bedroom. GC mentions she will get him to the gate shortly.

The trolls have mentioned that the human kids really mess up their entire session in the future. It’s looking like they may actually be the cause of this.

Rose is now in the Land for Light and Rain (LOLAR). She’s been loving it so far, getting left alone by both her mother and her exile guide. She is free and independent. But like John house the game eventually starts spawning imps. Rose imps are marble and chalk. She's not afraid to fight them. She’s vicious with the knitting needles and yarn. Taking her first 2 imps out without any difficulty. John nearly died from his first fight. Then after only 2 imps Rose's faced with a Lime Orge. She manages to take this out as well. She jabs the needles into its eye and rides the dang thing like a blinded pony. Meanwhile Mewtini is just enjoying hanging out doing kitten stuff. Most violent scene yet!

Despite this act of violence when Dave suggests giving the ogre the old coup de grâce for some grist Rose refuses. Seems she only wants to fight in self defence. Apparently Daves gristTorrent also helps him with Rose’s session. They’re both leeching off of John but the process is apparently slow. Both Rose and Dave get pestered by Trolls. Dave is chatting with grimAuxiliatrix [GA] we're shown this one is the sign of Virgo. They ask if Dave is the one “commanding the seer” this confirms Rose is the seer, and we know John is the heir. She also tells Dave he is the Knight. GA has come to Dave asking for advice on Rose. They seem interested in gauging her sincerity. Though it really does seem like a “how do i get her to like me?” situation. Dave provides terrible advice. Rose is sarcastic so Dave suggests that GA use sarcasm and assume Rose is always doing the same. GA points out this is just trolling but Dave encourages them to troll Rose harder.

Rose is benign pestered by adiosToreador [AT] with the mark of Taurus. AT is the troll that failed hard to troll Dave. AT got counter trolled ruthlessly as a result. Rose is also quick to detect AT is just incompetent . They’ve come to Rose seeking advice on finding Dave’s weak points. Rose plays along with this making AT think she wants to destroy Dave. Her advice is to attack Dave with poetry. Dave being very into rap battles will likely repeat his last encounter with AT and destroy them. That’ll be a cringy trainwreck we can look forward to.

GA now pesters Rose as she is still sitting on the unconscious body of the ogre she took out. GA mentions that she got some insight from Dave but isn't falling for his sabotage. It seems GA is not as dumb as certain other trolls. GA is the one who had explained the whole temporal mechanical situation to Rose back on page 1093. To Rose this is their second conversion but to GA it’s their 7th. Rose was considerably more sceptical of GA’s claims back then. They now seem a lot more plausible, thus Rose was wrong about a thing. GA has a punishment for this. They’ve given Rose a transcript of their first conversation, and asked her to transcribe it. They may have hidden a message in it that's found this way. But this also forces Rose to scrutinize and relive her error. Apparently the motivation for this is to weaken Rose's intellectual superiority. This way their first conversation from GA’s perspective is one where she will have the upper hand. This is a ridiculous and unnerving manipulation. But I suppose it may have actually impressed Rose a little.

Rose ends the conversation as her sprite has come to find her.

We get a shot of GA at their computer. She is a female troll. Her horns resemble the virgo symbol. She seems to put effort into her appearance. Her hair and eyes have a well manicured look to them.

Rose is enjoying her new island home. It seems her mother fled to a different island which we can assume would make this place even better for her. She’s just chilling on the dock on her laptop Mewtini the kitten napping on a post nearby. It seems idyllic, if it wasn't for the bright colors and the rain I’d love to be there.

John and a troll are pestering Rose. The mystery audience is suggesting Rose consult the “heir”. This is John, one of the consorts called him that as well. John is just checking in. He Hasn't heard from Rose since before she escaped earth. He’s relieved she is ok and fills her in on his location. They figure out they are not actually near each other. John also mentions what the trolls had told him. That the trolls are now friends but travelling backwards in time. Also they are playing SBURB on a different instance.

Rose then chats with a troll using the handle gallowsCalibrator [GC]

This one is a little odd. They can apparently smell words. They are also not being friendly, but they are helpful. They explain they are choosing to remain linear to Rose's timeline. This instead of going through it in reverse like the others. She wants to be “B3ST H4T3FR13NDS FOR3V3R”. GC explains the voices in their heads are part of the game, they are “exiles”. Beings living on a future earth who subtly and unknowingly guide the players. Also the players are being assigned mythologies. Rose suggests she may be a seer.

CG continues to say that the exiles close loops in Paradox Space. Also though the players will not get to save earth, the exiles will rebuild it. Though this will inevitably be “ripe for seeding all over again”. The players have a greater purpose. The Exiles are former Agents, exiled during something called “The Reckoning”. Rose asks what agents are but GC was getting annoyed by the questions and left. This lore dump recovers a lot of what we already know as the audience, but also a lot of new things.

We go now to the past. Jade's birthday well before all this nonsense happened. I think we had seen this conversion before on page 1000 but we know more now. John messaging Jade birthday wishes. He's asking for apologies as he forgot to account for the long shipping time with her gift. We know now that Jade pulled some time trickery and has actually had the gift for years now. But during this conversation Jade was interrupted by a troll. We didn't see this conversation the first time. carcinoGeneticist [CG] has a message for Jade from her own future self. But CG has been nothing but an ass to Jade at this point so she ain't believing him. Regardless of this he tells her Jadebot will eventually blow up. When that happens she needs to contact the trolls. She naturally thinks CG is full of crap. We then see the troll in question CG. We have seen them before on a monitor during the end of the intermission on page 1353. This was the troll on the monitor that Spades Slick found.

Trolls look like humans. but with candy corn colored horns, sharp teeth, grey skin, yellowish eyes. This one looks pained. His shirt has a symbol representing the astrological sign for Cancer.

Jade then received the green package from her penpal, the one she will later send to John. The pen pal must have a sendifier. She mentions her penpal has made requested modifications to its contents. But we still don't get to see what is in there.

At this same time in the past. John's contacted by gallowsCalibrator [GC]. the troll that can taste words. This one is apparently also blind. Though all she says is that John is a terrible ectobiologist and she will slit his throat.

This is when John changed his handle to ectoBiologist.

We then see GC. She is a troll with red tinted glasses and the sign of Libra on her shirt.

In the present time a mailworker (PM) is trying to get a package from an Authority Regulator. She has tracked him to enemy territory. Her plan is to present the parking ticket that AR had left on John's dads car, then claim she is only there to pay it. She has no idea where she is or how to find the agent. We do see her pass a guy who looks suspiciously like Diamonds Droog but with cat ears.

Somehow she stumbles into the throne room. She's seen but what we can assume is the queen of this place. It’s a bizarre looking creature, a bit like Sn0wman but with a scar in its eye like Jack and milling an arm. But it has a female torso and almost mechanical limbs. It's wearing a harlequin outfit, and has tentacles. Its crown is an elaborate jester's cap. Also it has a ring on its finger.

PM shows the queen her parking ticket and gets pointed to the office of the archagent. We know this arch agent. They are ~~spades slick~~ Jack Noir.

Rose had nearly escaped a fiery death. The meteors destroying earth created a firestorm around her home. Dave had some difficulties getting the beta installed. Though after a frantic first phase of the game Rose and her home got sent to a new land. The Land of Light and Rain (LOLAR), and Rose seems to love it. A new mystery audience with a fancy font had instructed Rose to explore this now world. Now they are suggesting she find her sprite. Her sprite contains her deceased childhood cat. She isn't able to find them but sees footprints in the white sands that now surround her house.

The footprints lead to the foundation of the now destroyed mausoleum. The path that leads to the lab now goes to a dock. It appears that there may have been a boat there but now it's just a rope and an abandoned martini. This is a clear sign that Rose’s mom was also brought over, and immediately left. That audience suggests “A mother will do what is best for her child”. This is odd as they seem to know Rose's mom. There is an island in the distance which is likely where Rose's mom fled to.

In the future the Wayward Vagabond (WV) has reestablished Can Town. Clearly building and being the mayor of a town of cans will get the attention of the Peregrine Mendicant (PM). The Aimless Renegade (AR) who is also trying to get the attention of PM has his militia of bullets to watch over.

Above them a giant egg appears in the sky. It appears to be another rocket like the ones WV and PM came in on. It crashes down right next to them.

Jade trying out the item creation system, She makes Daves trigger item. John had a green apple, Rose had a purple wine bottle Dave got a red egg. Dave now notices that the Alchemiser is on an AC unit on his roof. He points out how that is a terrible place for it. Before Dave can even attempt to get the Egg his kernel sprite steals it. It’s now in a nest high up on a radio tower. The nest is mostly crappy swords, and puppets including Cal.

Dave assumes he needs to crack the egg open and maybe cook it in the microwave. Jade tosses the microwave out of the building.

We get to see the other unique items that only have been available in Dave's session for some reason.

• the card with 6 buttons is a Jumper Block Extension
• the CD is just a “CD” (for younger folks this this is what a cd is.)
• a Punch Card Shunt
• a holopad
• Intelliobeam laserstation

They also seem to have started with 2000 grist. They noticed that Johns started with 20 and Rose’s 200. It seems the more users in the session, the more each consecutive player gets. Jade gives Dave a CD though they have no idea what it does. Jade moves the alchemizer off of the AC. This is expensive but she can afford it. This space allows her to deploy a Jumper Block Extension which connects to it. They add a Punch Card Shunt and try adding a card to it but nothing happens. They assume the card needs to be punched first. But they can't get the Punch designix yet.

The CD installs something called GristTorrent onto Dave’s laptop. This program allows Dave to leech resources from other players. He begins leeching John's shale, and grist without hesitation. Nice guy.

A Wayward Vagabond (WV), a Peregrine Mendicant (PM) and an Aimless Renegade (AR) had been fighting. WV and PM had separately landed near some ancient frog ruins. AR had set up base there and immediately began shooting at intruders. But after seeing the icon on WV pumpkin bindle AR freaked out and called a cease fire in his own way. Now the 3 of them are enjoying WV’s cans of preserve and Tab.

AR goes and gathers some of the artifacts to show off to his now welcome guest. WV takes PM to his bunker. It seems ARs rockets blew a hole into a room he wasn't able to access before. The console in there has a lot of spirographs on it and a frog. We learned recently the frogs are “Illegal contraband” so AR may not want to see this. Apparently its out of power so it is not functional. WV then shows the PM the console to talk to John. But she is more impressed by his drawings. We can tell what planets John and Rose are on. The ones Dave and Jade will inhabit are also pretty obvious. WV hands PM his chalk and leaves her to go investigate a nice smell. PM now goes and interacts with John. We learn she was in the “audience” doing the interactive sequence easier.

We learn what cannon events happened during this scene.

• getting the mini tablets and providing the resources requested.
• meeting “the wizard” and “crumplehat”
• getting the blank tablet, chisel, and serenity (PM doesn't know its the same firefly)
• seeing his house in the distance with the telescope

Meanwhile someone else is talking with Rose. With a very frilly font. They ask her to look around and discover. Rose is happy to oblige now that everything isn't on fire.

John at the present time has wandered through a forest trying to find his dads car. He stumbles onto a small Consort village getting raided by underlings. New enemies a Tar Basilisk which breathes fire and a gigantic Copper Giclops along with a few imps. John looks ready to fight.

Jade is trying to hide Dave's Toilet on his roof. But she has a nap attack and accidentally drops it through the roof. This hits the cruxtruder triggering it, and the 4:13 hours timer. Also spilling toilet water all over Dave's room. Jade can still type while asleep but she’s confused. Dave had been drinking juice while working with Rose. so he really needed that toilet. He also points out that it is very weird that Jade can see him everywhere.

Dave decides to “refill” his juice bottle and give the code to John as a prank. While Dave is in the shower stall doing this. Jade finds the crow Dave had impaled. Weirdly their very Beta copies Jade’s using are still with it. Jade, tired and confused but very compassionate, knows a neat trick to “help” the bird. She tosses it in the kernel sprite. Dave points out that it is a very dumb choice of guides as it can't talk. I'd also point out that he murdered the creature and it may not be cool with that. Dave is aware of how the dream bot works and tricks Jade into slapping herself awake with it. It’s a bit mean but the look of confused astonishment on her face was pretty damn funny.

Meanwhile in the future. AR has brought out his artifacts, this included Jade's food storage device. It seems all the stuff inside is still fresh. He also has the ancient Squiddles plush. He gives one to the PM. This makes WV a bit jealous, it seems both WV and AR are romantically interested in PM. Also Serenity is apparently interested in WV which is adorable but weird. PM accepts the gift but she's reminded of something from the past.

John is still exploring the Land of Wind and Shade (LOWAS). He's aware of this because his grandmother resurrected as a game sprite and told him. Johns is now attempting to contact Rose but not having much luck. He is able to chat with Jade though. Jade already knows that John is in LOWAS. Jade explains to John that she now has the game and needs to contact Dave to get started. John mentions it doesn't make any sense that she’d get Daves copy of the game. Especially since she didn't know what SBURB was last time they talked. Her response is that she was asleep at the time. She also tells John he needs to get his server a copy of the game so she can get into it. This means John's priority is to now walk over to the area directly below his house. Then he'll need to locate his dads car, and get the package. Jade swears she isn't psychic. We know this is technically true now. She’s been getting visions from the clouds of Skaia.

John now also gets pestered by trolls, but we can’t see who. Dave is also trying to contact Rose. This is a bit odd as he should be able to just see her on his screen. He threatens to prod her with a wizard statue if she doesn't respond soon. But Jade is also chatting with him. Jade explains that she's going to be his server host. Dave points out it is a bit stressful to be simultaneously playing the game as both a client and the host player. Jade mentions It’ll be easy and ribbs Dave a bit about being so dramatic in getting the game. She's well aware he was being utterly beaten by a puppet for like an hour. She knows she needs to move though. Not only has she seen “the big meteor” in her dreams but she even has a screen shot from her dream recorder. That technology would be terrifying. I think if we saw our own dream in the waking world we’d all just have a mass identity crisis. Fortunately, it seems Jade's used to this and happy to share her dreams with others. Dave mentions Rose is finally answering. But we switch to John and a troll. carcinoGeneticist [CG] and other trolls used to pester John constantly. Eventually he figured changing his handle would get rid of them and it seemed to work. Until now that is. CG explains that the trolls just didn’t care enough about John to contact him sooner. Also that his ploy never worked at all. GC as was mentioned to Rose before mentioning they are actually friends now. Though that doesn't make them any less of an asshole. But they are in an awkward situation of seeing John's timeline in reverse. Now he keeps having to explain this over and over. IT gets more and more difficult as their own past selves were being total jerks. Also apparently the trolls are also in the game but in a different game session. They need to let Jade know something urgently but she is ignoring them because they are assholes. So they are now bugging her friends to ask her to talk to them. John says he’ll consider it but proceeds on his mission to find his dads car.

Meanwhile years in the future The wayward vagabond has brokered a peace. Now he, the Peregrine Mendicant and the Aimless Renegade are sitting together. They're eating canned preserves and drinking Tab. They may even be friends now.

Jade is learning the game the hard way. Much like the others she is deploying the crafting stations in terrible locations. We can see there’s a few extra options for deployment items. Also Dave's template card is a red egg. We also see a card with 6 buttons and a CD. Dave is trying to chat with Rose who has kind of put him on hold. Dave notices Jade trying to deploy the Cruxtruder in his small cluttered bedroom. At least she has time to learn. Though she also immediately removes Dave's bed. Rose now responds to Dave pointing out the irony given what Dave had done to her bed. She also finds it funny the gamer guy only managed to get into the game minutes before Rose's imminent doom. While Jade, who doesn't play video games, got in ahead of schedule. Rose mentioned she was busy chatting with the troll, also checking on John. It seems while John is on the surface of LOWAS she can't see him from the game. Rose doesn't mention where she is currently but she does mention that she really likes it there.

Jade continues to re-configure Dave's room. She's got the Cruxtrider and room, the lathe in the living room, and she put the alchemizer on the roof on top of an AC unit. This will be a huge pain for Dave. Did they not have Minecraft? You gotta keep your crafting stations near each other! Jade wants to organize more of Dave’s stuff but notes the puppets are actually Dave's Brothers. She finds him intimating. Though much like Rose did she figures she can clean the bathroom. Then proceeds to rip out the toilet. We are now shown where Rose was sent. The Land of Light and Rain (LOLAR). This planet is very bright with pinks, yellows and blue pastel. It's a kind of vapor-wave but I don't think the term is popular yet. It seems to be oceanic, Roses house is on an island and no longer on fire. It seems damn cool but probably annoyingly bright.

We’re back to the main story finally! We last left John leaping through the first gate. We got a peek of this place in the last act when granny tossed a copy of Sassacre down below the clouds. A dark and cloudy planet we now know is the Land of Wind and Shade (LOWAS). Our intro to this act is a big interactive segment where we play as John exploring this land.

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This segment has a really great song playing in it called “Doctor”. This theme will come up a lot mixed into many later works. I’ll mention here again that in the original experience we didn't get the handy music credits for these. The band camp also only credited the artists on a whole album so I had no idea who made what song. This means I didn't learn about who Buzinkai was until long after my initial read. I didn't learn that we had lost them or why. I won't tell their story here. I feel those stories are best told by those close to the subject and not some internet rando’s like me. But I will mention that I think this is a really great song as are the others composed by them. So let’s appreciate it and the artist that made it.

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We can start by chatting with Nana who is our guide to this. She suggested we need to chat with the locals of this land. He asks if Nana was always a prankster or if the prototyping with a harlequin doll made her this way. Nana just gave him a sass answer. It's also worth noting that the player in that case Isn’t known yet. But they seem more polite than our Wayward Vagabond.

The Imps have changed. Some now have elements of princess, cats, and squids. Nana tells us this is because Rose has prototyped her sprite. It seems other players in the session will alter the entire world. John asks if he can get to Rose but Nana mentions he can't yet.

It’s shown at one point that by jumping through the first gate John got warped to the surface. Nana explains John now needs to find a gate on the surface. She doesn't really explain where that gate goes.

The locals are cute salamanders calling themselves the “Consorts” of the land. They seem to eat glowing mushrooms. But they really hate farming them. They also speak the language of bulbs.

They are pretty much bullied by “agents” or “underlings” the imps and ogres John has been mashing up. The title of “Archagent” that Jack Noir has now makes more sense. The agents are causing issues for the consorts. The land's covered in pipes and some are now clogged with crude oil. They’ve also been damaging sacred monuments. The monuments are to frogs. Nana tells us that frogs are very important to John's quest.

The Consorts speak of a hero “the Heir” who's meant to come and save them. They heavily imply that John is this hero.

The Consorts also speak of “the slumbering one”. This slumbering one can make the wind blow again and free all the fireflies who are stuck in the thick clouds. There is a big open pipe with a river of oil flowing into it. John mentions he hears something sleeping within it.

Again, the land is covered in pipes. The wind blows through them creating a pleasant sound. Many got clogged with oil from the agents. Some stick out of the ground like mailboxes. The Consorts call these Parcel Pyxides (vessels). These act as a delivery system like phemonic tubes. You're able to drop stuff into them and find items in them. These include

• Serenity! The bug friend of our wayward vagabond. But this is in the past so they are still stuck in amber.
• a jar of bugs
• 3 mini tablets. These are stone Captchalogue Cards one is blank the others have a fedora and a shoe. Apparently dropping these into a Parcel Pyxis means you are asking for this item. If you receive a carved one your duty is to provide that item.
• one oily cog
• a cruxite dowel, this is just given to you by a salamander
• an exquisite pipe
• an elegant pipe
• “Illegal contraband” which seems to just be a frog
• a bunch of rocks and mushrooms not sure if John canonically took these.

Other things of note about this sequence.

• one of the Consorts has the harlequin doll that fell below clouds way back on page 266. He offers to sell it to you for 5 Million boondollars. This shows that these are actual currency.
• I remembered what trickster mode was when doing this thing. It just makes John shrug here. Also, I've gone back and commented on some of my older logs. These have strange effects in some of the interactive sequences.
• There's a glitch with one of the Parcel Pyxis that when an item pops out from it the item will float up endlessly.
• you can use the Barbasol bomb, and attacking with your inventory works in the game.
• you can throw the box of gushers around and shale will come out
• One notable Consort is CrumpleHat. He has a crumpled hat and claim to have dishonored his ancestors by wearing it
• Another notable Consort is a wizard. Though really he is just wearing John's oily bed cover as a robe. John was too weirded out to ask for it back.

The interaction ends when you leave a path. It just hard cuts to black. I thought it was broken or something.

I’ll summarize this because this whole intermission is a timey whimy friggin’ mess. The Felt is super annoying. So far Spades Slick has killed a guy who creates a speed up time bubble around himself. Then a guy who can jump between timelines shows up with a voodoo doll only to get smacked down with a horse hitcher. Leave to an empty timeline, get bored, then come back to let Spades finish killing him. Spades noticed one of his previous victims had a pin in this voodoo. When he pulls the pin out he's sent to an alternative timeline.

In this timeline Spades encounters Sn0wman. Sn0wman is a lady and also the universe itself somehow. She stabs Spades in the eye with a cigarette brand. Spades then kills one guy and kidnaps 2 others to bring them back to his own timeline. This is where we are now. This doesn't even mention he has 3 associates running around with their own time issues.

So Spades has let his 2 hostages out of their storage containers. It seems Crowbars(7) is armed with an uzi and he’s unhappy. Sawbuck(10) is also out, he's got a lance, and a razor impaling him and a massive slash on his face. But neither of these 2 are from this timeline. Crowbar(7) was already killed here. Crowbar(7) fires his uzi at Spades but Sawbuck(10) is so huge the bullets hit him instead due to gravity. Also when hit with anything Sawbuck(10) sends everyone into a different place in time. These bullets send them all into the past where the Sawbuck(10) from the current timeline is. There’s 2 of them now.

Crowbar(7) fires again, hitting current timeline Sawbuck(10) . This sends both of them away to shoot at each other forever. This leaves Spades and his kidnapped and very stabbed Sawbuck(10) alone. Spades naturally stabs Sawbuck again with a claymore. This skipped him the moment he went to pull Crowbars(7) from the voodoo doll. Spades fails to warn his past self about anything and that loop starts over. Spades adds a butterfly knife to Sawbuck, tossing them to the future. It seems there are 2 decapitated Sawbucks(10) here and the head of Crowbar(7). Spade Pulls the lance out of Sawbuck(10). They're both brought back to where we started when Spades got back from the alt timeline. Spades waits till the second where Crowbar(7) shoots the “real” Sawbuck(10). Then manages to decapitate all 3 of them using his rapier. The scene is a mess of blood, bodies, weapons on clocks. But Spades is finally back in the right timeline and in the right time.

The vendetta itinerary is getting cluttered. 7 members of The Felt are now dead, 2 are double dead, one is dead but in an alternate timeline which doesn't count. He’s also added Sn0wman to the list even though he can’t actually kill her. This may be the original “huge bitch, bluh bluh” meme which became popular with a character we will meet later.

Spades gathers all his stuff and heads out to regroup. Droogs and Deuce Mentions Stitch(9) is still alive, and they got him to make them some Effigies. They had Spades hats from Itchys(1) stupid tricks, but they need Hearts hat still. Using the Effigy of Spade they patch up his eye.

Diamonds Droogs managed to pump Fin(5) full of bullets. This created the blood trail the Droogs followed to this location. But he knows now he can't follow the trail back or he’d be vulnerable to Fins(5) ability to see people's future paths.

Clubs Deuce is tailing Trace(6) who can see the past trails of people. Trace is tailing Droogs and isn't aware he’s himself is being traced. Deuce leaves Doze(2) on the blood trail as part of a plan. He is also supposed to go help out Hearts but completely forgot. Deuce is very forgetful. Trace eventually notices Deuce's trail and follows it. Thus he finds Doze(2) tied to a chair. He doesn't notice the bomb under his hat. Thus ends both Doze(2) and Trace(6). As well as any clocks in the room. We are at 7/15 dead targets and 107/1000 clocks.

Fin(5) is stumbling around full of holes and bleeding out. He notices Deuce's future trail and decides to follow it. But he can't aim at all right now and Deuce is walking around with a block of C4 on the head. If Fin(5) missed it’d be an explosive end for both of them. Deuce meanwhile is just following the trail of blood. And Deuce is doing the same but from out of sight.

Hearts meanwhile is dealing with a huge pain in the butt time clone situation. Eggs(12) and Biscuits(13) seem to have made an endless time loop and are cloning themselves each time. Nearby Clover(4) is willing to provide clues on how to open the safe. He had riddles to offer. But he can't even try his whole riddle routine with all the noisy clones. Clover(4) mentions that Crowbar(7) could solve time issues like this. But Crowbar(7) had died before the midnight crew even got to the mansion.

Stitch(9) is a tailor, he is making a huge Cairo Overcoat that flashes colours. This is for Lord English. All the time shenanigans are apparently damaging to space time and fabrics. Stitch(9) is also the doctor which means he’s exactly what Fin(5) needs.

Things are rough for Hearts, He’s nearly getting crushed by all the clones spawning around him. Deuce has completely wandered off. Hearts calls Spades for back-up. Spades can help, Droogs will join as well once he's done with Fin(5) and Stitch(9).

Fin(5) makes it to Stitch(9). There seems to be large Effigies to each member of the Felt hang in the workshop. Several are burnt and destroyed. The one representing Fin(5) is very damaged. Stitch(9) mentioned he just needed to fix that effigy before… Fin(5) then falls to the floor dead.

Clubs then burst into the room swinging his bull penis cane. Stitch(9) is ready with a Thomson, he’s also smart enough to know shooting C4 wont set it off. But, this was only a (not so planned) distraction as Droogs got behind Stitch(9) with his own gun. They toss him into the Brawlsoleum as he may be useful against Lord English.

Spades has been using that voodoo to track dead members of the felt. He noticed Crowbars(7) pin was still in it. Spades to an alternative dimension where Crowbar wasn’t killed. The voodoo had some of Dies(6) power in it. Since apparently crowbars was a competent one, the felt are doing much better here. Crowbar(7) Stitch(9) and Sawbuck(10) and are in a tense shooting match with the Midnight crew. Spades considers using Sn0wmans pin but thinks an encounter with her is a bad idea. Too bad for Spades she walks into the middle of the gunfight. Unlike the felt she is a tall black caprician. She's slender, beautiful and very fashionable, holding a brand (long cigarette holder). The gunfire immediately stops almost in reverence of her presence. She seems to be able to phase in and out as she pleases. She simply approaches Spades and stabs him in the eye with her brand. She then takes the cigarette from it and casually leaves. This is not a nice lady.

Spades mentions if she were to die the universe itself would be destroyed. Hence no one dares fire a weapon near her, and why she isn't on his hit list. Spades toss the brands into Sawbuck(10) this triggers a time jump into the past. Notably Sawbuck is impaled by a Lance but fine. Spades then murders Stitch(9) and throws his occam's razor at Crowbar(7). Crowbar(7) deflects the razor into Sawbucks(10) head, he’s still fine.

They’re now in the distant past, the same place Die(6) went to. A Scurrilous Straggler watches from a distance. This seems to maybe an ancestor of Spades as they have a little spade icon on their wraps and approve of Spades hat.

Spades gets a good whack at Crowbar(7) with his horse hitch. He needs him alive so he quickly takes his crowbar then crams him into the warchest. He also manages to slash Sawbuck(10) across the face. This triggers a time jump into the future where Hearts showed up to the gunfight. Since the opposition was already gone he was alone. Spades orders him to pull out his Wrathtub so he can toss Sawbuck into it. This is an alternative timeline. But Spades figures if he kidnaps them all here and brings them back to his own timeline he can just kill them there. He tosses Hearts deck into his own. He makes note to not take Hearts smut magazine.

Pulling the Crowbar(7) pin he returns to his own timeline with 3 hostages. He is completely unsure if this means there are now 2 Sawbucks(10), and Stitch(9). But he’ll kill them all to be sure.

We are Clubs Deuce, despite the request of the audience. Deuce seems like a nice little fella. He doesn't seem to want to actually harm any or anything. But he is a member of the notoriously violent midnight crew. He is currently searching through his Battledrobe for his back-up hat. Meanwhile one of his targets Doze(2) is escaping very slowly. His Battledrobe is full of bombs, playing cards, and a cane. Deuce doesn’t remember what his cards actually are. Some items he finds are 2 black liquorice gummy bears, a questionable black liquorice magazine, some C4. Eventually he finds his hat.

We now meet Diamonds Droogs, he’s tall and a bit lanky, currently he is wearing what was Itchy’s hat. He’s standing in a room in front of a river of blood. Like the others he has weapons, 1 pool cue, 2 guns (I can't identify guns), and 2 cards. Droog’s deck is a Brawlsoleum, a mausoleum. Droogs cares about how he looks, he has many back-up hats, and full suites in his Brawlsoleum, also a bunch more guns. He also keeps his black licorice fish in his back-up hats. He claims this was his idea and the other had to learn the hard way.

Droogs get punched from the future. He knows this is Trace(3). Trace(3) can see the time trials that people leave behind. But Droogs points out that this means that he now knows where Trace(3) will be. He calls Deuce and tells him where to be and when. We could see from a flash forward that the Deuce got the message. In the meantime Droogs follow the blood trail up stairs.

Deuce has re-captured Doze(2) using a stretch armstrong. He then attempts to load Doze(2) and all his other junk into his Battledrobe. He realises at this point that his cane is actually a Bull Penis Cane and flips out. We are back to Spades Slick. It seems Die(6) appeared from a parallel dimension. Itchy had cheated in a game of cards and Die(6) wanted to see him dead. Though now he’s in front of Spades. This results in his head getting clubbed by a horse hitch. He manages to escape into another dimension.

With the other members of the midnight crew being distracting we go to Hearts Boxcar. Hearts are big guys. The only time I've attempted cos play was this character because I am also a big guy. He’s got a tv antenna, a big axe, and a morningstar. Hearts has made it to the safe. His usual method of safe cracking is to just rip the door off with his bare hands. But this one is too big.

Hearts stores his stuff in a Wrathtub, a bathtub. Oddly the tub's ripped from its foundation and just looks a bit like John’s after Rose ripped it out. The tub's filled with giant medieval weapons, a magazine, his walkie-talkie and playing cards. Unlike the others, Hearts prefer wax lips over black licorice. He has a bit of a thing for red cheeks.

John's father got captured and is being “held” in the dark castle. Mostly he's just causing problems and punching imps. This is particularly annoying to an Archagent named Jack Noir. Jack has come to deal with John's father personally. Jack doesn't play nice, Jack.. gets whopped to the head. He attempts to respond with a good some ol’ switchblade negotiation strategy. But John's dad Sets Jack's hat on fire then stomps it out destroying it. The only thing Jack seems to hate more than John's father right now was that damn ugly hat. Pleased it's now gone, Jack decides to release John's father instead of dealing with him.

Jade is on top of a short tower near the frog ruins. She uses her bass to summon lily pads to jump across the lake and get to the entrance of the frog ruins. They are full of glowing symbols.

Dave has, after much getting his ass kicked, gotten the SBURB beta. He can now host Rose and save her from fiery death. As Dave instals the game we get another Huge friggin epic animation.

The install animation is like Johns. It seems to take awhile. Dave gets bored and doodles some SBHJ, Rose is just playing with Mewtini. The animation jumps around but I’ll focus on each of the characters.

Dave immediately tosses Rose's bed into the flames then places all the crafting benches in terrible locations. Rose is cursing Dave out pretty heavily. I wish we could see some more narration on that one. Fortunately, having written the guide on this she knows the process already. Dave uses the giant wizard statue to open the Cruxiter. He then tosses it carelessly onto the ground outside. The breaks of the hand holding the orb that we saw as a wayward vagabond blasted off in a big can. She even takes her own advice and prototypes the sprite using her dead cat Jasper. Dave adds the plush tentacle princess doll Rose had on her couch. Dave does the crafting work so he is at least useful. Instead of the apple that John made Rose gets a bottle of wine as her trigger item. But, as the fires rage on they form fire tornadoes. One of these causes the dismembered hand to smack the wine bottle. This sends it flying off a nearby waterfall. Dave cannot help at all as his room had become overrun with crows who attack him. This likely as vengeance for the one he impaled. With no other options Rose makes a hail-mary leap over the waterfall to catch the bottle. She is successful, then rescued by her new tentacle princess cat sprite. Smashing the bottle we see a glimpse that below Rose's home was a giant wine bottle shaped bunker. The "cork" was the can-shaped rocket WV would later fly off in. Rose and her house disappear into the game.

Jade had discovered in the depths of the frog ruins a giant Lotus flower. It had a timer that seemed to sync with Rose’s Cruxiter. On 0 it reveals the silver proto-sprite that she has seen come out of the meteor that had fallen there. This turns into Dave’s copy of the SUBRB beta. The one that the impaled crow took. This gives Jade her own copy of the game somehow. I’m sure it's explained later.

John’s part in this starts with Nana sprite. Nana writes the note in the copy of Coronals Sassacars that we saw in the intermission between act 2 and 3 (page 1149). This is playing on our assumptions that the note had been in there prior. This also means John hasn't seen this note. She then throws the book over the edge of the cliffs around John's house. We see the book fall below the clouds into a land with a beautiful deep blue landscape.

Later we see John going ham with his new weapons. He dual wields both the pogo and the WrinkleFucker hammers. John uses his new sense of business effectiveness on massacring imps. He’s also using the Telescopic Sassacrusher to destroy ogres. John is going to earn so much exp, for this. One imp has his dads hat. This makes John punch the thing to death and takes the hat into his inventory. This ejected his Crosbytop into the void. John then gets to the top after defeating the entire horde and jumps through the first gate.

We get a few pictures that reveal that John's house had been on top of a huge mesa sticking above the clouded planet. The on WV painted on his wall. This ends Act 3.

(I had to re-watch this animation like 30 times to get all that)

We start with the ballad of awakening. As we learned recently Jade, when sleeping, is awake on the moon of Prospit. We also learned this stuff is happening in the past still, at the time Jade wishes John a happy birthday. As the Prospit moon towers piece the skies of Skaia we see some events unfold that are confusing at best.

We saw this conversation as Jade being awake in the present time. But it was actually JadeBot having that conversation, while Jade was asleep. This was when Jade heard a meteor. This was apparently the one that crashed into the earth creating the island she lives on. The one from millions of years ago. The flashback shows that the tower of Prospite was there and so was Jade. This means Jade was there in the past but able to chat with John in the present using JadeBot. The meteor itself was apparently the source of Bec. but it contained something that looked like a silver sprite kernel. Bec was not allowing Jade near it. Jade later explains that the clouds of Skaia create mirages. These mirages are portals to various places and various times.

Also we know John is in the other tower. When he slept on his roof he had seen odd visions of clouds and a girl. That was Jade. But he wasn't awake/asleep enough to really know what was happening.

Jade then had the conversation where she mentioned that she knew things were going to be ok. She mentioned that John needed to “wake up”.

Jade mentions it’s the first time she has seen Bec in the clouds. Discovering this is his birthday she wants to do something about it. She also feels she needs to explore the Frog ruins. Bec had been preventing her from ever entering them. Since he is napping she feels she should try it now.

Jade uses her Harpoon gun to make a zipline from her room to the ruins. She knows this is the same rope that is later used by a Wayward Vagabond. She also needs to "deliver" a package to him.

We check in with Rose, she’s been busy building. It looks like she’s just copied and pasted the entire house in a sloppy fashion. But this makes a tower that nearly reaches the gate. It's got some Escher vibes and most definitely not up to code.

Dave meanwhile is mourning the loss of Cal. He grabs his broken sword. Apparently his strife Specibus has reset in the fight. This caused him to get locked into 1/2 bladekind as his weapon spec. Dumping his inventory all over the roof he takes only the beta and his phone. I guess the arsenal of crappy weapons won't help much now.

Rose is watching the flames close in. She’s done her part for John, and needs Dave to do his part. She takes some time to reflect on the gift she is making for John. She needs to one-up the knitting kit and genuinely heartfelt letter he gave her.

She also recalls a conversation with a troll at that time. grimAuxiliatrix [GA] is one we haven't seen yet. They are rambling about humans not appreciating Temporal Mechanics. When Rose points out they’ve never met, GA mentions they’d chatted in the future. But they are not in the future, just Rose's future. To GA Roses future is in his recent past. Rose says that is pretty stupid but plays along on some level. They decide to be “Friends” as it seems Rose “understands” GA better than her friends do. We also see a flashback of Dave. It would have been around the same time as Dave is opening his gift from John. It's another genuinely thoughtful letter. John suggests Dave “get out of his brother's shadow.” John's gift is the pair of shades he still wears. Before this he had anime triangle shades like his brothers.

Dave also encounters a Troll. One adiosToreador [AT]. This name seems to have a lot to do with Bullfighting. Though a fighter this troll is not. Dave mercilessly counter trolls them until he is actually blocked by the Troll. It's a thing a homoerotic beauty. Witnessing Dave get beat down so thoroughly in the present. It's healing to see him serving up a literal beatdown in the past.

John is in his bedroom. A familiar start to these stories, though John is looking like a business man in a suit now. Something has covered his room and posters graffiti. These symbols of John's childlike innocence were tarnished by invaders. He’s also recently discovered that his father is not who he had thought. His father is a fun street clown, but a boring and serious businessman. Our man here is only 13 and dealing with a hec of a lot.

Rose is also back in her bedroom where we first met her. Her room is in about the same condition it was back then. It's now just glowing red as her home is on fire as most everything on the earth at this point. But she’s doing alright, her new kitten Vodka Mutini or Mutie for short, is keeping her company.

John has a chat with Rose. As John predicted, Rose suggested John not go building too many items. They should instead focus on building up and accomplishing the goal of the game. But John wants to see if he can build something to better fight imps. He’s so mad that they’ve defaced his posters. This confused Rose. She tells Johns that those posters had always looked defaced like that. She assumed John defaced them out of irony. Also that he was never into bad movies. This breaks John a bit more. Something very weird is going on.

Sometime in the future. A Wayward Vagabond (VG) is having a wild day. After finding a bunker full of food and energy drinks he became the mayor of Can Town. Then somehow triggered the bunker to rocket off to an island half the world away. He’s decided to go out and explore this land and its ancient frog ruins. But he’s stuck on top of this giant can rocket ship thing.

He is with his friend Serenity the firefly. Who is able to locate a rope and harpoon nearby. He can use the appearifier in the bunker to fetch it. Though when he does this he instead gets the blue package Jade had recently received in the present. This was a present to her from John, though it seems from the note on it Jade knew this would happen. WV is very confused by this but assumes it's his duty to now protect this package with his life. This is much like a Peregrine Mendicant recently finding a letter. After setting the appearifier to his present time he is able to get the cable he needs to get down from the bunker. Though we learn he is not alone. From a distant tower in the ruins an Aimless Renegade is watching through a rifle scope. They also spot a large metal fruit coming towards their location.

The Aimless Renegade appears to be another black caprician like WV. Though instead of cloth they're wrapped in yellow caution tape. And they are packing heat. I am not at all familiar with guns but this looks modern and probably isn’t a toy.

Jade has had a second strife, This one against a very real and dangerous foe. A god in dog form. But also Jade’s beloved pet Bec. The strife ended in happy dances and snacks. Jade is once again napping out in the middle of her island. Bec returns Jade to her bed.

Rose spent some time in a lab. There she got a scarf and a new 4 eyed kitten. But an ominous timer led to Rose escaping at the last second. She used a transportalizer to an unknown location where we find her now. John had recently entered his fathers room for the first time. Now Rose has appeared in her mothers room for the first time. To no surprise, It turned out to be a well stocked bar. From here she sees the lab she was just in destroyed by a meteor. Goodbye tiny 2 headed abomination kitten :( . Though Rose's house being so close caused a lot of damage and fire to blast into the room she is in. The on full of flammable booze.

John meanwhile has apparently been having some kind of identity crisis. He is becoming an efficient businessman, and a stressed one at that. He's been using the Punch Designix on all the items in his inventory to make cool stuff. Back to Jade. It seems when she is in her bed she dreams she is in a version of her room. She is also wearing the same weird golden outfit that we saw in the portrait of her above the fireplace. She also has a robot version of herself in the waking world. It is emulating her movements in the dreamworld. She can of course fly. She has the package John sent but says she isn't meant to open it yet. She knows what is inside but wont tell us.

Months prior we see John. It is December. We learn from this flashback that Jade's birthday is December 1st, Daves is on the 3rd, and Rose the 4th of December. John is also going by the handle ghostyTrickstrer [GT]. This is not his current handle ectoBiologist [EB]. He is talking with Jade. Weirdly his room is all messed up with graffiti. That almost seems like a continuity error as that didn't happen until the imps showed up.. right?. John has just sent birthday packages to all his friends. Though he’d forget that packages to Jade can take months. He hints that it is a thing she needs. Jade's interrupted by a troll. John mentions they are a huge pain and there seems to be 12 troll accounts. Jade mentions she finds some of them funny but they’ve been bypassing her blocks for years. John decides to change his handle to try and evade them.

To those actually reading this with me congrats on making it to 1000 pages.

We are the Peregrine Mendicant (PM). They are years in the future. A giant meteor destroyed the area where John’s home had been. John, and his house, had teleported away at the last second. But Maple Valley WA. where John lived, is now a large crater. From that crater a large growing tree had grown bearing a metal fruit. PM had wandered into the fruit and activated it. This caused the fruit to rocket westward through the sky. This is where we are now. One of the mailboxes the PM had been casting around contains a very damaged letter. It's addressed somewhere very close to John’s house named Dr. David Brinner.

This I had to look into a bit. It is apparently a character Andrew had come up with through some joking around on the forums. There is planted rumours that it is a whole massive webcomic that existed before MSPA Adventures. We'll only see them as “FedoraFreak” in the “Serious Business” app that John's father uses. Also they have no real significance on the story. The letter but, as well as a postal workers cap that was also in the mailbox for some reason. This gives the PM an overwhelming sense of duty in the style of the 1997 movie the postman. The plot being that Kevin Costner's character is living in post apocalyptic America. He gets the same sense of duty to mail a letter. I didn't hate that one but, wow, what a stupid plot. Also in the PM's case the letter was just at the location it's addressed to. That place is now some dust in a crater.

PM attempts to use the terminal, He is able to see Jade holding her rifle. They think they know her for some reason. Odd that both PM and WV seem to have some knowledge of computers. When they use the terminal to ask Jade (this puts a voice in her head) Jade seems to acknowledge them but with panic. The terminal then explodes. Back to Rose. She is still in a giant lab, she has gotten a green box that gives her mobile power and internet access. Very convenient. The countdown on the wall is at 1:33. She doesn't seem too concerned. The audience points out the pink tea set we noticed earlier. It seems to be an entire bedroom for a little girl. It has wizard plushies and cat plushies. As Rose takes the pink scarf a black 4 eyed kitten pops out of the teapot. It's an adorable abomination. John is up on his roof. He’s just defeated the 2 massive Crude Ogres, with a lot of help. One of the Shale loot items has embedded itself in the roof above John's Dad room. John has never been there. He is apprehensive about taking the loot as it would mean seeing inside for the first time. John hops into the hole.

Rose has escaped the flames or destruction. Meteors from the sky have brought the end times around. The flames have burned a shrinking perimeter around her home. But Rose needs power and access to the internet. A video game caused these issues and she needs to get into that same game if she is going to escape this place. Currently Rose is in a mysterious lab door next to her mansion home. She's surrounded by glowing green boxes. And there is a device on the floor in front of her.

These boxes seem to have outlets on them so she tries to plug her laptop into one. She stores items using a tree modus which was automatically sorted. By grabbing her laptop she’s dumped out the rest of her inventory accidentally. This tosses her dead, and taxidermied cat onto the transportalizer in-front of her. Rose, having never seen such a thing, assumed her cat was vaporised. She turns off the auto sort feature on her modus.

She grabs the box that the kiosk had labelled as unlocked, box SN_LAB0413. She has no idea what it is but it seems to be a portable power source that can charge her laptop. It is also an unsecured source of internet access. Rose notices the lab has a countdown on the wall. It had 14 digits but it's down to the last 3:14 (not 4:13?) It also has the logo Skaianet. Skaia being the name of the central planet in the game.

Years in the future the Peregrine Mendicant is now inside the metal fruit. It also has a countdown that has hit 0. The screen displaying this is much like the one in a can shaped bunker a Wayward Vagabond had found. And the effect of this countdown seems to be the same, the fruit is now flying west. Some details in the scene, is that one of the mail boxes contains a letter. Also of the 4 metal worms protruding from the fruit one is missing its head. This shows that Peregrine Mendicant has decapitated the one. They where mad because it ate one of his mailboxes.

Meanwhile in the present times. Dave is still getting served by a puppet. He attempts to abscond (escape). He's punished by Big Bro directly for this. The strife continues. Dave and Big Bro fight it out, but not surprisingly Dave's beaten down hard. Big Bro eventually uses Lil’ Cal to again kick Dave. He's down the stairs of the highrise, this being the very punchline of a Sweet Bro Hella Jeff comic. The irony is strong here.

Rose has now discovered the primary session terminal for SBURB. The signs were obvious that this place she is in is actually the control centre for all sessions of the game. Before her is a massive array of screens. These are somewhat like the ones we’ve seen WV and PM find in the future, only this one is much bigger. The main monitor is a map showing all the meteor impacts around Vermont. There is a large concentration of them near Roses location. There is also another map of the game's planets but this one has 8 of them surrounding Skaia instead of just 4. Also, there's an out of place pink tea set nearby.

Rose notes there is a massive meteor heading that looks like it could wipe out everything. It's located in the middle of the pacific and still seems to be a ways out. The observant will notice this is actually Jades island. For now she decides to login and connect with John.

We left John in a tough battle between him and 2 giant crude ogres. Unlike other fights John was in pretty real danger here. He nearly died before NanaSprite stepped in with some healing. Rose finds John still in this fight. He seems to have developed a spinning hammer jump that seems very powerful. NanaSprite is still helping out using her eye lasers. Rose also helps but her usual trick of dropping a heavy fridge on the enemy isn't so effective. The ogre grabs the fridge and beams John with it. Eventually though all 3 manage to defeat the Ogres. The loot drop is huge.

Rose mentions she no longer thinks that the Cruxtruder is what summons the meteors. Having seen that there is one heading for her location the timers must only be a warning system.

John levels up to Boy-skylark. This also being the title of a pretty nice jam. He also collects a huge stack of Boondollars which he still has no idea what to do with. He also gets some new materials including tar and mercury. Nanasprite hands John his copy of Colonel Sassacre mentioning it is his birth right. Though only moments ago he was being pummeled with it.

Meanwhile John's father is in the kingdom of darkness. He was brought there as a prisoner. This is not working out well for his imp captors as he is now defeating them with pies and shaving creams. Nearby in a sort of security room a familiar looking figure is watching this unfold from a monitor.

Jade still is trying to do the same task as yesterday. John hasn't been responding to her messages. Jade has decided to move on to her other task. She's concerned about what dangers her friends are facing.

We see John in the present. Like Dave, John is also in a strife. Also much like Dave he is getting his ass kicked. Two giant Crude Ogres are facing off against John. Though John is proficient with his pogo hammer, the ogres are also armed . One has a tire swing and the other has the first edition copy of Colonel Sassacars. They beat John nearly to death but the Nana Sprite rescues and heals him up.

We're taken into a further future. To the time after the world ended and Wayward Vagabond had recently taken a rocket ride across the Earth. In a different part of the world is a Peregrine Mendicant approaching a giant metal fruit. With them they have a cart of rusty mailboxes .

In the giant metal fruit is a giant metal worm. It pops out to eat one of the mailboxes. The Peregrine Mendicant is not happy about this and reaches for a cool looking sword.

Back to the present, maybe? We are reviewing Rose’s newest update to the SBURB GameFaqs page. Though Rose isn't the one actually updating the content. It seems John is, presumably before or after getting repeatedly beaten to a near death state by ogres. He mentions that he's found out how to code punch cards and breaks down the binary translations. He actually does a pretty good job of that, though I am most definitely not going to try and explain. He theorises that by combining items, you can possibly get anything from an atomic bomb to a shoehorn.

Speaking of Rose she has traversed a secret tunnel and ended up in the laboratory which was by her house. The logo has the logo SN the S containing both an atom, and a spirograph. There is hundreds of glowing green boxes forming a “Hubgrid”. There is also a kiosk and possibly a transportilizer in the middle of them.

Speaking of transportilizers, Jade, in the past, has descended with one. She is some kind of trophy room filled with taxidermied animals. Including some weird chimaera. Jade's love of fauna does not extend to these, she finds them creepy. A floor down we see a room filled with “valiant knights” and more taxidermied animals. These are just suits of Armour in poses. Iron man is also there for some reason. The rooms around this are glowing red.

Another floor down she is now in a room filled with taxidermy, knights and decrepit mummies. These are a bit grisly to look at and jade hates them. The surrounding rooms glow purple. I wonder if Jade’s grandpa was into eating jerky.

Next room down had grandpa's collection of ladies. Weirdly he seemed to be into sunbleached posters of hair models from old salons. He apparently encouraged Jade to look them up. I guess when you’ve conquered all other things you can just collect the obscenely weird. It's also weird since They've displayed these ladies with all the other crap from the other floors.

Jade finally reaches the grand Foyer. The big trophy blocking the ground floor is apparently it's Typheus. The worm thing from John's preferred browser?. I’d find it kind of weird if someone actually found the Firefox, had it killed and stuffed.

Jade is being pestered. It’s not John or any of the kids though it's one of those TrollSlum contacts. carcinoGeneticist [CG]. CG is an asshole. He somehow knows exactly what Jade is doing and is trying to stop her but being a huge dick about it. She apparently had him blocked but that didn't take I guess.

Back to Rose. She stands before a giant grid of glowing boxes. The kiosk is indicating box 0413 is unlocked. She notes that the object in the centre of this Hubgrid looks like some of the items she has deployed in SBURB.

Yesterday we met Jade. the 4th child protagonist of this story (so far). Jade is also the most odd so far. She lives in a home of impossible size. Its equipped with technology which is beyond anything that exists currently. She is also very scatterbrained, frequently blacking out and unable to remember things. But, she also has an uncanny ability to predict future events.

We are with Jade in her room. And she's equipping a rifle she says she is very good at using. She shows off her wardrobifier which grants her the ability to change her shirt design. This was a participation survey in which the atom and spirograph designs won.

The “squiddle” plush around her room are apparently “activated” by electromagnets. This causes them to form into “tangle buddies” She takes one of these. They are pretty cute, I am surprised they are not real toys.

The audience asks her to “Lose interest in fauna and never speak of it again”. Essentially begging Jade to not be a furry. To which she goes on a long speech about how wonderful it is. Though later states she would never wear a fursuit. I mean furry culture isn't exactly my cup of tea. But if you're reading this then you're probably a Homestuck. We certainly cannot judge others for their interest.

The “Magic Chest” that is in her room, and looks like Johns contains crappy fortune telling tools. She points out the magic 8 ball is always wrong because she knows “facts” about the future.

She dumps the flute for a portable refrigerator, a portable “cookalizer”, and a lunchbox. These she uses to “cook”, or irradiate a meal for Bec. We learn that the Memory modus she’s chosen is actually a pretty smart choice for her. She seems to know what is behind every card.

While Jade plays her customised bass we get a view of the island. It’s most definitely the frog temple island where we left the wayward vagabond at the end of Act 2. Her home is a huge tower on a mountaintop next to the volcano. Jade mentioned its inactive but the geothermal power it makes is what powers her home. It also seems a package has arrived. Rose had joked earlier that Jades presents arrive via a plane drop. It seems that is also how she receives them.

Taking the bass and amp into her inventory she decides to finally pester John. It turns out that the lunchbox she grabbed is actually a computer of insane power. Though she only has 3 apps on it, pesterchum, a browser, and “freshJamz”. Her pesterchum is some kind of advanced edition, but she also has way more contacts then the other kids. She organised her contacts, one category is “chumroll” containing the other 3 kids we know. There is also “Trollslum” The mood of all those in Trollslum is ranchorus. There's a few names there we can see that will become important later.

• carcinoGeneticist
• arachnidsGrip
• twinArmageddons
• terminallyCapricious
• caligulasAquarium

I would guess that Jade, unlike the other kids, Jade has social energy. She's extroverted. She is only homestuck in a more physical sense. She's on an island and unable to meet people via normal means.

Anyway turntechGodhead (Dave) is talking. She tries to get a hold of John first but he is busy. Dave has a lot to say including some terrible words I won't repeat here. Hells bells I cannot believe we used to say that kinda thing so casually. But he provides Jade with a new song that she (and we all) listen to on the FreshJamz App.

There’s actually a good chunk of an album in here, it’s even the same play order. I only know because I've listened to it like 5000 times. This sequence with the icons next to each song gives me the feeling that all 4 kids would create music together. Like a band that never actually sees each other in person. It really adds value to imagine who is playing what instruments for each song. Even as with my current Homestuck playlist there's about 60 hours of music (and it's not even the FULL one). It's also cool to know this is likely how these songs were actually made. It's just a bunch of folks on the internet mixing and evolving songs. I'm at all musically gifted myself. But I enjoy listening to it and imagining all the awesome things that inspired every song.

Anyway, Jade decides to check out mspaintadventures.com. Weirdly it's a crude drawing of John in a dunce cap next to a toilet filled with cake and the pogo ride. It’s mentioned this is a tangential intermission that’s not relevant to the plot.

That's an odd thing to say.

We’ve met 3 kids. They like video games. And they’ve stumbled into one that’s brought about the end of the world. But it also seems to have put them into a journey into something even grander. But this isn't a story of 3 heroes. The game demands 4.

We see a girl sleeping in a garden. She has long black hair, like John she has buck teeth and glasses. She wears a dress and has a bunch of colourful strings on her fingers. She’s holding a note. Next to her is a flute, and a familiar looking pumpkin. The very on a Wayward Vagabond would appearify.

The flowers surrounding her are very strange. They are spirographs. Her name is Farmstink Buttlass. The audience wants to wake her up. They attempt to drop a pumpkin onto her but it disappears. Reading the note in her hand revealed she has predicted that the audience would name her Farmstink and she doesn't like that.Her real name is Jade Harley. Given her predictions and that we’ve found her in a Garden. We can assume this is our GardenGnostic[GG].

We get to play the flute with Jade. It turns out she is terrible at it. She mentions that stuff tends to appear and disappear a lot and she has no idea where this flute came from. In attempting to take the flute we learn Jade has many different fetch modi. All themed on common board games. She chooses Memory as it’s the most practical. Her grandfather had given them to her and she mentions he is a little strict. You may also note the icon on Jades shirt changes.

On the audience's advice to do something terribly stupid involving poop she proceeds. Jade spread fertiliser over her plants while squealing like a pig. She then takes the fertiliser into her inventory. She points out the coloured strings on her fingers are reminding her to wish John a happy birthday.

It seems like our introduction to Dave we are meeting Jade in a point which occurred in the past. She needs to go to her room to get supplies for something she needs to do outside. Only Jade will understand the meaning of the reminders on her fingers. But even she's never sure what they mean.

After grabbing a pumpkin, a crab apple, a key lime, a mandarin orange, and eureka lemon, she headed out of the garden. We see the garden is huge. At its centre is a pad of stone that looks like the one under the appearifier that the Wayward vagabond found. This pad is apparently a transporter. I can assume that's a handy accessibility feature for her grandfather, no need for stairs. Also this is technology well beyond the seemingly normal homes the other kids had.

Jade's bedroom is crazy, she has the interest of all the other kids combined. Her own interest seems to be plants, she has many in there. This includes some orchids which are notoriously hard to care for. She has a magic chest that is very much like Johns but blue, She has a Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff poster. But it's vandalised to make them look like animals. She also has a lot of plush puppets, but they’re altered. Like Rose she has squids, but they are cute, she also has Rose’s interest in Beast but uhh different. As Jade puts it she's into “Fauna of an anthropomorphological persuasion”. Jade is a furry, she's a teen girl cut her some slack.

On the other half of her room is a gun collection. Also, there is what appears to be a nuclear reactor and some uranium that she likes to tinker with. Wow! did not see that coming. She says the guns are for sport only and not to harm animals. The weird gizmos are the inventions of her grandfathers.

Jades grandfather is apparently an explorer, naturalist, treasure hunter, archaeologist, scientist, adventurer, big game hunter, and billionaire. He had taught Jade but she finds him strict and his lectures stern. It seems like the others have issues with her guardian. She says he spends all day in the Grand Foyer. That’s a bit odd. If you have a massive mansion the foyer isn't usually the place to hang out all day.

She mentions she will have to encounter her grandfather soon. She needs to go out and feed her pet Becquerel. She had called them Bec before, but the word becquerel is the unit of radioactivity. But First she needs to chat with John.

Is memory loss a symptom of radiation sickness?

We left with our WaywardVagabond (WV) on his butt having failed to get out of the ladder tube. He has a few seconds left though, he can try again.

At this point we get an epic animation to the track “Explore”. There’s a lot to unpack here. A “5x cliffhanger combo” with much more going on.

• WV again climbs out of the hatch.
• Near WV is a statue’s hand holding something orb-like. I think this is a wizard statue in Rose's house Implying that WV and the bunker are near her. Just years in the future.
• The entire bunker under him rockets him far into the air and westward. It looks like a can.
• We see him pass what was John's Suburb, It’s now a sand filled creator with a giant white tree growing from it. The tree has grown a “fruit” being a large metal capsule with some SBURB branding on it. -The Peregrine Mendicant is next to this. The thing we saw in the sky was WV riding a bunker can rocket thing.
• Still blasting westward WV goes to an area where a volcano very many years prior had erupted. This may be prehistoric.
• A meteor seemingly summoned by a spirographic portal left a huge crater next to it.
• A frog temple is later built in the crater.
• And then everything got flooded. This makes the frog temple ruins, and volcano into an island. The island is flush with life including dinosaurs?
• And now the frog temple ruins lay in the middle of more desert. This is where VW lands.
• Some fans discovered that there are real latitude and longitudinal coordinates. These show you where some of the characters lived on Earth. For examples:
• Rose’s home was near the Victory Basin wildlife management area in Vermont USA. It makes sense as she's surrounded by forested areas.
• John's house was located in Maple valley Washington near Seattle. You can even see the lakes in the animation. Not sure who lives at that exact address but they must get plenty of very weird visitors.
• The Frog Shrine is in the middle of the pacific ocean. This is actually also very close to the anti-prime meridian. In this place you can travel “backwards in time”. Though that’s more to do with our wacky time zones and politics.
• Dave's home isn't shown in this segment
• We also see Rose battling her generator trying to get it to work using only violence. It is not working out and she's surrounded by fire. Her mother looks on from the house, unlocking a hidden passage in the Cat Mausoleum. Proof she really does care about Rose. Maybe?
• We see John's father. He is in the dark castle. The imps have foolishly handcuffed him with his own trick handcuffs. It seems John's father got captured purposely. He’s decided now is a good time to break and unleash creamy hell upon his captors.
• We also see Dave on his rooftop. We also see Big Bro for the first time, not as a shadow. He has really cool anime triangle shades, and a katana.

This is the end of Act 2. Ending each act with mind blowing animation sequences really worked for me.

I’ll give you the epilogue this time. Because there’s a lot to unpack in that as well. We see a note written to John. It’s in John’s first edition copy of Colonels Sassacre’s Daunting Text of Magical Frivolity and Practical Japery. It’s another Nana lore dump!

She’s saying she wishes she could give this to John “in the flesh”. She mentions John will be “thrust into another world” which has definitely happened.

“A realm of Warring Royalty in a Timeless Expanse.” We have that as well though we haven't seen much of it yet.

“A realm of Agents and Exiles and Consorts and Kernelsprites. Of toiling Underlings and slumbering Denizens” We’ve only seen Kernelsprites so far.

“A realm where four will gather, the Heir of Breath and Seer of Light, the Knight of Time and Witch of Space, and together they will Ascend.” We have seen a few “==> Ascend” moments, but these roles sound cool as hell.

Nanna ends the note suggesting they may someday meet. And that’s also true, they have.Note her heart in the signature has a ghostly tale, and the PS. Hoo Hoo Hoo!.

You could make a few theories here. John found the book with some articles about meteors and a fire at Croker labs. One theory is that this has all happened before. Nanna experienced a similar grand adventure. Somehow she knows her grandson's destined to do the same. It’s also possible Nanna has whatever weird ability GardenGnostic [GG] has. They both can predict the future.