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Act 5 Act 2, Part 30 of 32
Doc Scratch Intermission, Part 5 of 6
Pages 4002-4035 (MSPA: 5902-5935) (in order this time)
Another ominous Gamzee eye title picture because why the hell not.
NOTE: SBES stands for Scrapbook Examination Station.
The fifth scrapbook selection screen has only one option so I guess I’ll go ahead and do that one.
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Act 5 Act 2, Part 29 of 32
Doc Scratch Intermission, Part 4 of 6
Pages 3936-4001 (MSPA: 5836-5901) (not in order)
NOTE: SBES stands for Scrapbook Examination Station.
Welcome back to my Homestuck post series. After nearly three weeks without any such posts, I guess it’s time for more scrapbook pages. I will do this selection screen left to right (boring order, I know), so I’ll start with Nannasprite.
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Act 5 Act 2, Part 28 of 32
Doc Scratch Intermission, Part 3 of 6
Pages 3874-3935 (MSPA: 5774-5835) (not in order)
NOTE: Remember, no new posts until after the 23rd because of vacation.
Here’s how this whole 250-ish-page scrapbook section is going to work. I said a while back that I will always avoid doing the selection screens in the normal order. The scrapbook pages, which are in fact the first selection screens, are an exception, not because I will do them in the normal order, but because there is no normal order; from what I can tell, readers do them in various orders. To spice it up regardless, for each of those selection screens, I will go by a different rule for which order to read the scenes.
There are six such selection screens total, each directly following the previous. This post and the next two will each go through two of those selection screens. I was originally going to do something different so that I’d be sure it’s all split evenly since some selection screens take up more pages total than others, but I figured it’s easiest to just split it like that.
For the first selection of scrapbook scenes, shown above, I will do them in order of smallest to biggest picture. This means I’ll start with the one on the bottom left, the Dersite battleship.
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Act 5 Act 2, Part 24 of 32
Pages 3695-3716 (MSPA: 5595-5616)
Before we begin, here’s a fact that probably no one who isn’t me cares about: when moving these blog posts to WordPress in 2019, I edited this post far more heavily than I did prior posts, some edits regarding the painfully basic John/Rose ship, and others just smoothing out faltering wording (which there’s plenty of up until about post 70-some). I’m not sure why I went so much heavier editing this post than any before, but looking back, most of the edits are just clearer wording, so I’m leaving them as is while I go through these posts in order in 2021 after having finished writing (but not yet publishing) the final post.
It’s time for [S] Seer: Descend, a walkaround game that tops all others in chilling mood and rivals Alterniabound in scale while completely dominating it in plot relevance. Like some others, it opens with a flash sequence with, as the title suggests, Rose descending into the castle. I can’t help but notice the giant black squidmonster aura surrounding her, which just utterly dwarfs anything she did before going dark, and that includes glowing three different colors to my recollection.
Another part of the flash opening sequence that is pretty much impossible to screenshot: we very briefly glimpse both the green sun and a color-inverted pink sun. I’ve heard of theories that there’s a pink sun to complement the green sun, just like Alternia’s green and pink moons, though those are dismissed by many as a ridiculous crack theory that makes no sense. Only through catching the glimpse after rewatching that sequence did I notice that glimpsed pink sun. It’s really probably just a color-inverted green sun though.
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Act 5 Act 2, Part 20 of 32
Pages 3479-3545 (MSPA: 5379-5445)
Terezi just went missing after having caught up with Sollux when all of a sudden, we’re back to a flashback of Dave fooling around on his bro’s Xbox gaming system. One hell of a mood whiplash alright.
The puppets are all like, haha did you miss me?
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Act 5 Act 2, Part 13 of 32
Pages 3192-3249 (MSPA: 5096-5149)
Jade tries out her Christmas presents, continuing the Christmas special theme, I guess like the episode following the Christmas special.
First off, Jade shows us what John and Rose are up to. I really like how both pictures above show some future knowledge device showing Jade with her spectagoggles, signifying that pretty much everyone now has some way of knowing future stuff. The narration says “You wonder why…” or “You wonder what…” a lot of times, which I think signifies that knowledge of the future does not equate with omniscience.
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Act 5 Act 2, Part 11 of 32
Pages 3075-3132 (MSPA: 4975-5032)
I haven’t had title images with John in them lately, so here’s one with him I guess. We aren’t going to see him for a while anyway.
John levels to the top of his echeladder and the air returns to being cloudy, and I guess this is kind of meant to indicate that the echeladder is not at the end of the line. We’re about to get introduced to the concept of god tiers.
Up next is another walkaround game featuring John. It’s similar to the Act 4 game (with very similar music) but I guess it switched to the Earthbound style. John answers Vriska in the game, and I have a few things to say about that.
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Act 5 Act 2, Part 9 of 32
Pages 2997-3047 (MSPA: 4897-4947)
From where we left off, Jade gets out of bed and it does appear that maybe it is indeed a sprite magic bed.
In a callback to Bec’s debut flash. Jade sees a Bec-prototyped imp and strifes it in an interactive page.
The music in this minigame, titled Sunslammer, is one of the best songs in the whole comic. It’s the kind of music that only when you listen to it on loop do you realize how awesome it is. Seriously I’ve listened to that song (and many others from Homestuck) on extended loop. As for the flash itself, it’s a lot of fun seeing a Bec imp teleport Jade around the whole incipisphere—yet another ramification of Bec prototyping himself, in action. It also has the same “review of what’s going on everywhere” feel that walkarounds have: the windy thing on LOWAS, Bec imps thrashing John’s bedroom, Rose no longer in the study room, three instances of Dave seeing Jade, how huge the kids’ houses are, and a bit of a tour of LOFAF.
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Act 5 Act 2, Part 5 of 32
Pages 2793-2840 (MSPA: 4693-4740)
I am debating with myself whether it’s clichéd to start putting in “Where I…” between the title pictures of my posts and the first pictures. Because I want to have something between those pictures or it just looks awkward. Then again I have nothing between the title and following pictures in many of the posts where I retroactively added title pictures.
John connects to Jade and gets ready to do some important stuff until…
Nanna makes her classic pranking entrance and summons a bed to catch John and his stuff.
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Act 5 Act 2, Part 4 of 32
Pages 2784-2792 (MSPA: 4684-4692)
Pictured above: why this post covers only nine pages.
Welcome to post 31 of this whole big project. Honestly this is just filler text to make the gap between the title picture and the following picture less weird.
I wonder if this picture was deliberately meant to give an M.C. Escher vibe or if it’s just weirdness arising from visual callbacks (in this case calling back to the view up from Terezi’s hive).
Also, we can infer from John’s lack of panic sitting up here that he doesn’t have any fear of heights. Come to think of it, pretty much nobody in Homestuck seems to have fear of heights.
— ectoBiologist [EB] began pestering arachnidsGrip [AG] —
EB: hey vriska!
EB: ok, i still cannot find my nanna up here, so now i am just installing this game.
EB: what are you up to?
AG: John! What the hell. There are so many things wrong with what you just said.
AG: First of all, who told you you could just hassle me without warning like this? That’s not how this works!
EB: why not? you guys do it all the time.
AG: Yes, 8ecause we are trolling you! Those are the rules. We get to 8ug you any time we feel like, and you have to sit there and t8ke it like a chump.
EB: bluh…
AG: I am too 8usy to 8e fielding your nonsense at the drop of one of your a8surd human hats. I have a ridiculous num8er of irons in the fire. You will speak to me only when I am ready to contact you, is that clear????????
EB: that’s dumb. i’m going to talk to you whenever i want!
Here, John is giving Vriska a status update out of his own will. I thought up some reasons last post as to why John feels the need to keep in touch with Vriska, and it’s still pretty interesting, especially because John is contacting Vriska rather than the other way around.
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