Homestuck: Act 5 Act 2

Act 5 Act 2 is the second half of Act 5 of Homestuck. It is the current act.

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The major events of Act 5 Act 2 are:


 * HS 4526Karkat Vantas views scenes from John Egbert's life, beginning with his arrival on Earth. Baby John sits atop the volume of Sassacre's that crushes his Nanna. Later in life, a young John rides his Pogo Ride until tumbling off and scraping his knee. Dad comes to his aid. Later, Dad teaches John to play the piano. John wears a shirt with a black spade on it. Dad throws a pie in John's face while wearing a familiar disguise. Later, John first introduces himself to Jade Harley through Pesterchum. He shoots cards out of his sleeve, baffling Karkat. Scenes of John from earlier in Homestuck are shown: preparing Jade's birthday present, looking up at his Meteor, battling Crude Ogres, wielding the Wrinklefucker, being praised by Salamanders, and flying while asleep on Bro's Rocket Board. Karkat seems to see John as his one true Kismesis.
 * HS 4527Karkat makes his first attempt to troll John (who has obtained a new outfit and newly alchemized gear). Karkat is surprised to find out that John knows all about him due to his friendship with Karkat's future self. John reveals that the trolls have assisted the Kids in making a plan to cause The Scratch. Karkat hints at his feelings of kismesissitude. Even though John is open-minded, he turns Karkat down, though his reasons for doing so - not being homosexual and complications arising from Karkat's relationship with Terezi - are hard for Karkat to comprehend, since they are not issues in Troll Romance. As the conversation has taken an awkward turn, they agree not to speak of it again. Karkat decides to troll John's past self.
 * HS 4528Terezi Pyrope opens up a memo to discuss Karkat's plan to troll the Homestuck Kids as Karkat attempts to make a rousing speech to encourage them to get revenge. Numerous Past Karkats crash the memo in protest and eventually get banned. Terezi and Karkat start arguing using the same computer and keyboard. Finally, a future Terezi tells her past self to join in and troll the kids, which she was planning to do anyway.
 * HS 4530John crash-lands on the Land of Wind and Shade but remains asleep. Vriska Serket, viewing John via Trollian, tries to manipulate him in his sleep but fails.
 * HS 4538Dream John and the Uber Bunny meet his Dad and Rose Lalonde's Mom on the remains of The Battlefield. They have a short exchange and John tries to reunite with his loving father and the scarf lady, leaping off a cliff, Tavros-fashion, to do so. Vriska tries harder to manipulate John and succeeds in waking him, causing his dreamself to blink out of existence seconds before a heartwarming reunion. John, now awake on LOWAS, gets trolled by Vriska. On Skaia the White Queen's Ring falls into a stream after John disappears. A disappointed Dad is offered a tipple from Mom's flask. Above them a cloud shows the explosion of Rose's first gate.
 * HS 4553Vriska and John have a short exchange. She persuades him to focus on helping Jade enter The Medium rather than go back to sleep and reunite with his father. John’s long-lost server copy of the Sburb beta springs from a Parcel Pyxis to him. Nice!
 * HS 4556On Jade's Island, Jade finally completes her descent and is saved by Bec, who warps her bed underneath her at the last possible minute. Jade instantly falls asleep, just missing a Pesterchum message from John.
 * HS 4559On Skaia, the Warweary Villein stands in a river running red with the blood of the recently fallen. He mourns their deaths, believing it was foolish for him to have lead them into battle. He discovers something shiny in the river...
 * HS 4561John and Vriska chat as John heads for a return node. Vriska discusses troll culture, including their Lusus. She also discloses the point of Sburb: the creation of a new universe. The two continue to have a rather civil conversation as John heads back to his house to run the Sburb server beta.
 * HS 4565Upon arriving home, John discovers Imps running amok through his house. Thoroughly displeased, he swiftly dismisses the ruffians by utilizing extreme seriousness. His bedroom is messy. Well, messier than usual. The imps have defiled his movie posters, leaving him on the verge of tears. They have thrown his computer out of the window, as well.
 * HS 4572Vriska pesters John about his sweet movies and insists he is wasting time. She is then embarrassed by a bucket lying on the floor of John's room. John explains it's used for cleaning and not procreation. As he tosses the bucket out of his room, Vriska reveals that "Spinneret" isn't her real name, which is a "sekret"...
 * HS 4576John walks onto the balcony, finding both imps and salamanders around his Alchemiter. Nanna is nowhere to be found. Looking up at his house, John is surprised at how much it has grown and how busy his server player has been.
 * HS 4582John pesters Rose. She is already aware of the shocking revelations John had in store for her, such as the creation of the paradox babies. Rose states that rather than continue to play and inevitably lose, she intends to break the game. Her plan now is "(t)o do as much damage to the game as possible. To rip its stitches and pry answers from the seams."
 * HS 4583Rose, wearing a new ensemble, walks along a beach in the Land of Light and Rain. Turtles, the Consorts of the LOLAR, cower in fear as she passes. Rose comes upon a Turtle temple or fortress. Asking Viceroy Bubbles von Salamancer, who also sports sharp new duds, for one of her Thorns, she uses it to uproot the fortress, sending stones and turtles flying into the air. Rose is contacted by Kanaya Maryam, who reveals to her that she has been reading Rose's Walkthrough.
 * HS 4593Shortly after Karkat's speech about trolling the Kids, Kanaya asks him if he knows anything about Rose. Karkat says that he will steer clear of her, so Kanaya then agrees to troll Rose.
 * HS 4595Kanaya has her HS 3614 (first conversation) with Rose – actually with John on her computer. Unable to open her viewport in Trollian, Kanaya is unaware that she is talking to him, not Rose. After Sollux helps Kanaya open her viewport, she sees Rose spring the trap John had left for her. Seeing the bucket on Rose’s head, Kanaya becomes filled with embarrassment and shields her screen from view.
 * HS 4601Trying to put that embarrassment behind her, Kanaya goes further back to when Rose is first HS 2115 (introduced). She tries to name Rose “Flighty Broad”. Kanaya then trolls John, earlier in his timeline when he still wore his Spade shirt. After conversing with John, and later with Dave and Jade as well, she deems that the conversations did not go well because of their inferior human intellect. However, her curiosity remains piqued.
 * HS 4609Kanaya switches the viewport to Rose's house in the winter, where Rose is outside making a snowman with the head of a cat. Kanaya goes on to say how bright and pretty the Earth is, and how nice Rose is dressed. Rose once again gains a slight upper hand for her fashion sense and "loyal snowlusus".
 * HS 4612Kanaya has her HS 2993 (second conversation) with Rose, and, although satisfied with her trolling effort, it is obvious to Kanaya that this Rose is different than before. She believes that her first conversation had simply been Rose toying with her. She has her HS 3838 (third) conversation with Rose, which does not go well.
 * HS 4614Her fourth through sixth conversations continue the trend, leaving Kanaya in a rather bad state as Rose continually out-snarks her. After she asks Dave for HS 3489 (advice), she pulls out her trump card in the HS 3492 (seventh conversation) with a (slightly modified) of their first conversation. Moving on to the eighth conversation, Kanaya views Rose destroying her first gate. Shocked at what Rose has done, she quickly questions Rose, who has some questions of her own.
 * HS 4623Having just remade his Cosbytop Computer, John is trolled by Vriska. He starts to blast off with his Rocket Pack to search for Nannasprite, but Vriska stops him so that he can make a replacement for his Junior Ectobiologist’s Lab Suit, since she has seen him do so in his future.
 * HS 4626Rose chats with Kanaya while disassembling the Turtle fortress she has levitated. They discuss the information Rose has gathered in her dreams from the Gods of the Furthest Ring. Kanaya informs Rose that her Viewport goes black several hours from that point, well before The Rift occurs. Rose discovers within the Turtle fortress what appears to be a Captchalogue card for the Green Sun, with which Kanaya is unfamiliar.
 * HS 4632Vriska prepares an outfit for John that is almost exactly the same as her own, with a different color scheme and a Green Slime Ghost in place of her Scorpio symbol. John promptly blasts off after Vriska tells him that they will not speak for a couple hours. Jokingly, John tells Vriska that his last name is Anderson, obviously a reference to the Matrix.
 * HS 4637On the way to the top of his house, John is pestered by Dave, who promptly requests that John give him his Boonbuck so he can work the Land of Heat and Clockwork Stock Exchange. Dave tells John he has time-travelled through at least three times the 24-hour period they have until the Rift. After some convincing, John agrees to transfer his money to him.
 * HS 4638At the LOHAC Stock Exchange, three different time-travelling versions of Dave are surrounded by his consorts, Crocodiles. Dave loads John's Boonbuck into his virtual porkhollow and utilizes his scams to multiply the Boonbuck, adding to his already large fortune of over 216 septillion Boondollars. (For comparison, a Boonbuck is only a million.)
 * HS 4642Dave chats with Terezi about his Boon-wrangling. They share a of  and Dave sends 413 Boonbonds to Terezi 6 hours and 12 minutes prior to their conversation.
 * HS 4643Terezi views Skaia from The Veil in the trolls' session through her Smelloscope. She sees the destruction of Prospit and, after seeing Kanaya slice off Tavros's legs with her chainsaw, starts a memo to inform the others of Prospit's destruction. Nepeta mentions that Derse is also destroyed 3 hours and 14 minutes in the future.
 * HS 4655Terezi receives Dave's monetary transfer from the future. Sollux traces the transfer back to him. Terezi, Sollux, and Feferi then view Dave's past. Bro finds him atop a deceased Maplehoof in a Meteor crater and, with the help of Lil Cal, raises him, training him in combat even as an infant.
 * HS 4672Terezi contacts Dave for the first time in accordance with the timeline. The view switches back to the present Dave, who seems to be in hot water (literally). Terezi reveals that she made the scheme to befriend the crocs.
 * HS 4675Dave gets out of the pool and changes into his Four Aces Suited. Terezi asks for his trust. Dave's future self comes out from hiding behind a column and gives him a thumbs up as a sign that she can be trusted.
 * HS 4679Dave and Terezi talk about busting some sweet moves, while Dave heads down an elevator. Terezi sends Dave some animated GIFs of two kids dancing, with Terezi's signature editing over it. She tells Dave that he must start accumulating Boondollars. Dave is messaged by Karkat while standing next to a huge gold clock-tower shaped like a crocodile.
 * HS 4684Meanwhile, John pesters Vriska while high atop his house, much to Vriska's dislike. John apparently figures out Vriska's real name, also much to her dislike. He sends a video of the ending scene of Con Air. As John is messaged by Karkat, Vriska falls head over heels for Nic Cage, even going far enough as to kiss the monitor.
 * HS 4690Karkat trolls John and Dave about them getting too close to some of the trolls - Terezi for Dave and Vriska for John. Karkat suggests Vriska and Terezi might be romantically interested in the humans. He tells them to stop and literally orders them to with the other two Sburb players: John to Rose and Dave to Jade.
 * HS 4692In the flash game "[S] Past Karkat: Wake up" (AKA Alterniabound), the player can control three trolls (Karkat, Vriska, and Terezi) in their lab in The Veil shortly after the trolls come into contact with the humans. See the Alterniabound page for more details.
 * HS 4693John tries to connect with Jade but is surprised by Nannasprite throwing a pie. Thankfully, she saves him from falling off of his house by generating a sprite-powered bed to Sweet Catch him.
 * HS 4698John discusses with her his experience in the game so far. Nannasprite gives John a necklace so that he can contact her at any point. She offers to prepare a meal for him, which, unsurprisingly, turns out to be a huge prank. John's Prankster's Gambit sinks to an all-time low.
 * HS 4704Rose is messaged by Eridan, Aradia, and Nepeta. She talks to Eridan first, and after some witty banter, she destroys his computer (as seen in Alterniabound).
 * HS 4708She then answers Aradia, who warns her about the consequences of using the Green Sun, stating that "[Rose] cant p0ssibly wield its energy 0r put it t0 c0nstructive use," before pretending to go berserk out of sheer desperation. Aradia does not explode...yet.
 * HS 4712Finally, Rose answers Nepeta, who wants to talk to Jaspersprite because he reminds her of Pounce de Leon. Rose summons Jaspersprite with a necklace similar to that given to John by Nannasprite, then gives him her laptop as she has no more need for it. Rose releases Jaspersprite to do as he pleases. They discuss her new objectives in Sburb.
 * HS 4717Meanwhile, Gamzee, Equius, and Terezi message Dave in the Crocodile Statue. Dave answers Gamzee first, and during their conversation he sends him the music video for "Miracles" by ICP. Unfortunately, the actual Insane Clown Posse does not live up to Gamzee's expectations, causing him to caliginously dismiss the video as blasphemy, as well as go into a distinctly non-fuzzy Hero Mode.
 * HS 4725Dave then talks with Equius, and they share some dope rhymes while Dave tries to pull a legendary sword out of a stone. Eventually, Dave decides to deliberately break it so that he can use it with his strife specibus. Equius sweats profusely at this, and takes a Con Air poster to dry himself off.
 * HS 4733Dave finally talks with Terezi once again, and with Nepeta's drawing tablet she draws him a prophetic comic, while encouraging him to not rely too much on his friends, family, or time-displaced selves to get him out of trouble.
 * HS 4735Davesprite is summoned, and he talks about how breaking Caledfwlch had angered Hephaestus, but not as much as the loss of the forge in the alternate timeline. Davesprite then promises to defend Dave when he goes to sleep, which just happens to be when Vriska forces him to do so.
 * HS 4741At the Beat Mesa, Jack absconds with Bro's katana.
 * HS 4748We return to the slumbering Jade, as she has a dream about the Squiddles. The dream, although initially somewhat bizarre, proceeds to get more insidious. Feferi, who is also asleep without a corresponding dream self, makes an appearance as well. As Dream Dave looks into the Furthest Ring and removes his shades as suggested, he witnesses their dream turn into a nightmare. Eventually, Jade finds herself in the Furthest Ring, whereupon she wakes up out of pure horror.
 * HS 4749Jade, having been visibly affected by the nightmare, talks with Feferi, who hints that despite the former's protests she will fall back asleep and join the latter again in the Furthest Ring.
 * HS 4751Jade then talks with Karkat, since she was instructed to talk to him after her Dreambot exploded. Karkat opens a memo and tries to get his future self involved. When he does show up, however, they start arguing with each other, much to Jade's torment. It appears that Future Karkat harbors something for Jade. Jade goes off on them, visibly very frustrated. Dave butts in at some point to call Future Karkat out on his hypocrisy. Finally, Jade gives up and stops replying to the memo.
 * HS 4753Jade throws away all of her reminders but one, that one being about John's safety. Fortunately, John is safe and connected as Jade's server player. John sets up the Cruxtruder in the Grand Foyer, and dumps out two of her garden tables in the Atrium to make room for the Totem Lathe and Alchemiter, to her consternation.
 * HS 4768John and Jade catch up on things. John names his Bunny Liv Tyler. Jade tells him to retrieve the White Queen's ring when he goes to sleep next, and John prepares to open the Cruxtruder.
 * HS 4769Jack is seen flying towards the Land of Wind and Shade, still holding Bro's sword. He meets Bro there, throws him his sword, and the two appear to be resuming their duel.
 * HS 4777John then opens the cruxtruder with a globe. However, it then bounces and almost hits Jade on the head. Fortunately Bec wakes up and redirects the globe into outer space, while warping outside.
 * HS 4780With the cruxtruder open, Jade finds herself with 10 minutes and 25 seconds left to enter the medium. John and Jade discuss what to prototype her Kernelsprite with.
 * HS 4781As Bro and Jack get ready for their duel, they notice Davesprite coming in for a surprise visit.
 * HS 4787John proceeds to remove the stuffed Typheus Minion from the transportalizer. However, when he sets it down in the Grand Foyer, he ends up making a mess. After that, Jade has about 6 minutes to get in. John mentions that Grandpa is their paradox father, which Jade is apparently still unaware of.
 * HS 4791While John helps Jade get into the Medium, Jack, Bro, Davesprite, and a repaired Lil Cal continue their fight. Jack activates his ring and sets the nearby oil rivers on fire, but Davesprite and Bro are unharmed. A bolt appears to head for a large oil lake or ocean. As LOWAS burns, Rose observes through a crystal orb.
 * HS 4804John asks Rose for advice on Jade's prototyping. Rose refuses to tell him out of fear of creating an alternate timeline. She also says that evolving skaia to its final form will create a special treasure in the center of skaia, which Dream John must retrieve. She also appears to own a crystal ball of some sort, which allows her to observe different parts of the incipisphere.
 * HS 4805Using a punched card, Jade carves her Totem, and asks Dave for help creating her Cruxite Artifact. However, one of the crocodiles has found Dave's IShades and is talking in his stead.
 * HS 4809Dream Dave flies over to Dream Rose's tower to find her sleeping dream self glowing with a strange black energy.
 * HS 4814Rose stops observing Dave's original self with her crystal ball and switches to John. John is inexplicibly sleeping in the middle of a lake of oil on top of a copy of his bed conjured by Nanna. His Cosbytop and the pendant Nanna gave him sink into the oil. After failing to get a response from Jade, he idiotically throws his PDA into the oil as well.
 * HS 4820John uses his remaining Serious Business Goggles to contact Rose, who warns him about the planet being set on fire, whereupon he finds a solitary rock to escape to. Rose, as is becoming the trend, is becoming grimmer with her conversations. By John's request, she reveals that the treasure in the center of Skaia is The Tumor. However, before he can get any more info, he is interrupted by Karkat and Vriska.
 * HS 4825Karkat has, from his perspective, his second conversation with John. He claims that whatever John did was a serious screw-up, and finally agrees to tell John what it was. To no one's surprise, the narrator doesn't let the readers see what he says. The ground beneath John begins to shake.
 * HS 4827Jade receives her "item", which is revealed to be a piñata, however she is unable to destroy it by hitting it directly. John is also about to prototype Jade's Kernelsprite, but is put to sleep by Vriska before he can finish. Becquerel then prototypes himself (it should be noted that he would have done this anyway had Vriska not prevented John from prototyping). Becsprite then destroys the meteor heading towards Jade's home, causing some kind of atomic explosion over Earth, and also redirects Jade's bullet to hit the piñata, allowing Jade to enter the Medium and the final prototyping to occur. Because of this, the kids' Jack Noir, who is still in the process of fighting Bro, Lil Cal, and Davesprite, gains the powers of Becquerel through the properties of the Queen's Ring. A narrative timeskip shows that Jack uses the dimension-bending abilities of Becquerel to destroy the Trolls' end-game door, revealing himself to be what the Trolls call the 'demon' that attacked Prospit and Derse.
 * HS 4828It is revealed that Jack killed Bro and Davesprite upon his prototyping. He steals Bro's shades and Lil' Cal. Karkat explains Bec's prototyping to John, blaming Jade for prototyping and John for allowing this to happen by falling asleep.
 * HS 4834While Karkat and John banter with each other, the Windswept Questant finds a terminal for repairing the Bec Head Base. Using her Spirograph Key, she turns it on, allowing the base to re-form and drop onto the shoulders of the Frog Temple, surprising the rest of the Exiles.
 * HS 4842The Wayward Vagabond, in a fit of memory, recognizes the "boy on the screen" as John. In the flashback to current events, Dream John witnesses Skaia morph into its final form. The Villein defends his treasure from John, believing him at the time to be a thief.
 * HS 4854The Wayward Vagabond then communicates with John, who had just woken up several pages ago. However, he has trouble communicating with him, what with John's current engagement with Karkat. Flustered, he presses the Caps Lock key on his terminal's keyboard again, getting him trapped within the Skyship Base.
 * HS 4869John then talks with Vriska, who reveals that she intentionally put John to sleep so as to create Bec Noir, and thus get him involved with the troll's session. She insists that through these machinations, the Trolls and the Kids will be able to take Jack down together.
 * HS 4877WV commands John to "DO THE WINDY THING", which after enough pressure he does do, creating a massive hurricane of blue wind and dousing the green flames in the process. Vriska congratulates him on his efforts.
 * HS 4885Dream Dave begins reading up on the New York Times bestseller Dream Bubbles by renowned actor-director/prophet Charles S. Dutton. His first entry is an accurate description of Jade's Planet, the Land of Frost and Frogs.
 * HS 4889Jade begins sleeping again, and flashes back to when she was creating Liv Tyler as a present to John. Feferi immediately chats with her, and Jade is hit with deja vu about the conversation. Suddenly, Feferi comes out of seemingly nowhere and hugs Liv, before "revealing" that she died. Jade wakes up, again in a panic.
 * HS 4897Jade then heads home for her Lunchtop. However, she is then accosted by an Uranium Imp prototyped with Bec's powers and a harlequin costume. No matter what she does, the Imp simply warps reality to escape getting shot. During the strife, Jade passes through the LOHACSE; through LOWAS and LOLAR; onto Rose and John's houses (on the latter, several copies of the imp appear); past Dave, who wakes up from his sleep on the Suitarang pile, somehow putting his shades on as he sits up; and in front of one of Dave's future selves in front of a temple apparently dedicated to Echidna on LOFAF, as well as various other places on the planet. Eventually, Becsprite steps in and nukes the imp, allowing Jade to become a KIDDO ECLIPSE.
 * HS 4906Jade tries to thank Becsprite, but he can only respond in blocks of nuclear glow, much to her shock. It is at this point that the Peregrine Mendicant tries to talk with Jade, and has her interface destroyed for her troubles.
 * HS 4914PM initially has trouble being the Queen of Exile Town, so the Windswept Questant offers her help in dealing with her position. PM then appoints WQ as her royal advisor.
 * HS 4920Jade and Becsprite return home, whereupon Jade finds that all of her equipment had been broken. The only thing left intact is her lunchtop. Future Dave messages her, from a point on his own timeline near his chat with John near the beginning of the act, and she tells him how all of the equipment for sburb has gone. Dave says he will be able to build new equipment, and tells her to deploy the Intellibeam Laserstation, which she does.
 * HS 4926Dave then reveals the purpose of aforementioned device, with the intent to duplicate his server disc. Upon doing so, he becomes Jade's server in the future, while maintaining connections with Rose in the past. Thus, he is able to give Jade a fully upgraded Alchemiter to replace the broken equipment. In reaction to this, the Readers attempted (very excitedly) to make Jade start alchemizing, causing her to nearly Flip The Fuck Out as she was still getting adjusted to Sburb proper.
 * HS 4934Dave, now awake, retrieves his iShades from the Crocodile, and talks with Rose. He tells her that he did remove his shades to see the nightmare bubble belonging to Jade, and that The Noble Circle of Horrorterrors were pleading for help, not that he wanted to do so. Rose expalins that they are getting massacred, and the Dersite dreamers (them) were their last hope. Further, she explains the plan in which she, with Dave's help, finds the Green Sun with a complex chart created with assistance with the Circle, while John gets The Tumor (which is revealed to be a bomb to destroy the Sun (and de-power Bec Noir) with) from the middle of Skaia. She has been in contact with, who said that his purpose was fulfilled and he had nothing left to live for, hence the destruction. She also says that she is not coming back afterwards, suggesting that the mission will be of the kamikaze kind.
 * HS 4944Later, she reveals that it is not herself that would die, but rather, her dream self. They begin discussing how to find the map of the furthest ring. Dave and Rose decides that Dave should fall asleep to find the map. While talking about their patron trolls, Rose also suggests him to ask Vriska if he has diffculty doing so. They end their conversation as Kanaya pesters Rose.
 * HS 4945Kanaya talks with Rose, expressing her dissatisfaction with the latter's plan, and even suggests (although jokingly) that she'd send the Prince of Hope to stop her, though in reality she only made him a magic wand so that he would stop bugging her about Rose's secrets.
 * HS 4948Tavros then contacts Jade and he reveals that he spent a lot of time on Prospit as his dream self during the troll's session due to an event which he claims upset him quite a bit, and which he would rather not talk about. He then tells Jade that the reason he contacted her was because he wanted her permission to commune with Becsprite.
 * HS 4950As it turns out, he had done this once already for Bec to save Jade from getting shot when she was playing with Grandpa Harley's pistols as a child. Unfortunately, the Tavros-controlled Bec inadvertently redirected the bullet into Grandpa Harley, resulting in his death, something which Tavros thought of as a happy coincidence due to him misunderstanding the human concept of guardianship, mistaking Grandpa as an intruder on Jade's property. This ironically lead Grandpa Harley to die in the same method as his would-be guardian, Colonel Sassacre.
 * HS 4955Despite the bad news, Jade does forgive Tavros. They also form a bond over the fact that they both lost a guardian figure in their lives. Jade confesses that she's not interested in a Matespritship, but that nonetheless they should work on their new friendship.
 * HS 4957As soon as Jade ends her conversation with Tavros, however, Vriska begins hers, tearing into Tavros and revealing that she was behind an unknown number of Jade's narcoleptic attacks, as well as the reason the Draconian Dignitary created Bec in the first place (via a mind-controlled Courtyard Droll). It is becoming increasingly clearer that Vriska is "manipul8ing" the events of the Kids' session so that she will be the one to kill Bec Noir, thus multiplying her glory. Tavros takes up his lance and goes to stop Vriska, but ends up falling down some stairs.
 * HS 4968Meanwhile, Vriska manipulates Andrew Hussie into achieving his dream of riding a long magic dog through the sky and fucking up some bullies' shit.
 * HS 4975John skyrockets to the top of his Echeladder for doing The Windy Thing. However, he still has not undone the curse of Typheus.
 * HS 4979John then finds his Serious Business Goggles, and talks to Vriska, who tells him that he should find his Quest Bed to the north of where he started. More information can be found at John Enter Village.
 * HS 4982John finds and sleeps on the bed, whereupon Bec Noir finds and stabs him, thus clearing the way for his Dream Self to take over.
 * HS 4987Fireflies gather on the corpse of John's original self, and his Quest Bed lights up. John's Dream Self transforms into the outfit he is seen in at the beginning of the act, replacing the Green Slime Ghost with the Wind logo in a very symbolic manner. Rose, Dave, and Jade seem to notice this happening from their planets. Warweary Villein watches from Skaia, as his future self catches a glimpse of the fourth-prototyped Jack Noir standing over John's corpse, before John's screen shuts off. It is the 612th day of Homestuck.
 * HS 4990Dave sleeps on his Quest Bed in the Land of Heat and Clockwork, and Future Dave approaches the bed with the Broken Caledscratch in his hand. Just before he goes to kill the Felt Duds Dave, he pesters Terezi about his doubts about killing the Felt Duds Dave. Terezi also implies that Vriska was the only troll who could bear dying on her Quest Bed. After a discussion involving his time loops, he deduces that the Dave on the bed is a past Dave from an offshoot time line.
 * HS 4994Terezi then reminds Dave of a past conversation where she offers him a choice with the flip of a coin: If the coin lands on "good heads", she would show him how to reach the god tiers in their now, and if it landed on "bad heads" she would show him later. Dave remarks that the coin landed on the bad heads, which meant that she was now showing him how to do it, but still does not know where the doomed Dave comes from. Terezi tells him that by agreeing to the flip of the coin he created an offshoot time line where bad heads meant she would show him in that now. In this time line she tells that Dave to find his Quest Bed and go to sleep, and that Future Dave would kill him, thus allowing the alternate Dave to reach the god tiers. Dave remarks that the plan would be useless, since the alternate Dave is doomed. He proves his point by referencing Davesprite and his death. As they continue their conversation, Terezi asks Dave, "NOW WH4T?"
 * HS 4996Terezi then reveals that Dave will not make the God Tier after all, but it shouldn't matter, since the Trolls (except Vriska) beat the game without needing to take the Legendary Nap. Furthermore, Terezi did not look at the result of the flipped coin, leaving Dave's fate up in the air, a result that leaves him nonplussed (though the coin landing "bad heads" up offers something foreboding).
 * HS 4999In a flashback to Hivebent, Vriska is lying on the ground after Aradia's attack. Tavros crawls up to her, and Hearts Boxcars commands him to kiss her. As he leans forward to do so, Vriska forces him to choke himself, disappointing Boxcars, who seems to think that his terminal is some sort of game and leaves it. Vriska begins mind controlling Tavros from Prospit. She makes him write on the ground with her own blood to give a message, asking him to bring her to her Quest Recuperacoon. Tavros gets her into his rocket car and they depart.
 * HS 5013At the Quest Recuperacoon, Tavros is almost ready to stab Vriska with his lance and begin her God Tier ascension, when intervenes and tells her to take complete control of Tavros, which she refuses. Vriska becomes more and more desperate to have her original body killed, as her Dream Self becomes covered in blood. Soon, Diamonds Droog finds Tavros and also reprimands him for not completing the task at hand. He still fails to kill her and flees. As Tavros leaves, the Quest Recuperacoon disappears in a blast of light and Dream Vriska disappears from Prospit. Vriska then appears on Skaia as a fully realized Thief of Light. Upon reaching this status, Vriska's monitor shuts off, like John's when he reached the God Tiers. With no more reason to stay in the monitor station,  leaves.
 * HS 5033Meanwhile, WV laments what he assumes is John's death. He tries to leave the Skyship Base by pressing the Escape key, but the door jams since the station had run out of power. When he tries to search for a power source, he reminds himself about the HS 2589 (piece of uranium he ate many pages back).
 * HS 5039On the Land of Frost and Frogs, Jade draws a Christmas tree to get ready for the holidays. Except, she notices, it's April, far from the holiday season- and she doesn't know why she's attributing snow to the holiday season when she never did that before. Nevertheless, she still feels she deserves a "white Christmas". All the while, Karkat is trolling her, and she is ignoring him, causing him much ire. With Dave's guidance, Jade makes a Christmas tree and stocking of a Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff quality.
 * HS 5044She then really gets down to business with alchemizing:
 * HS 5045Jade starts by trying to make earmuffs by alchemizing Rose's headband with a fluffy ball she drew. That doesn't turn out right, so she just draws and alchemizes a pair of earmuffs. Then she combines the earmuffs and her lunchtop to create the Lunchmuffs. Then for no other reason than because she had it, she combines her lunchtop card and a ghost image of Johnny 5 to create the useless Johnnytop.
 * HS 5051She then decides to do something both useful and awesome, and combines her outfit with the Iron Man armor to create the Iron Lass suit.
 * HS 5053She decides to alchemize comfier clothing (and avoid breaking copyright laws), and combines her outfit with one of Grandpa's beauties to create the Dress of Eclectica.
 * HS 5054Jade then attempts to duplicate the Magic Cue Ball, only to get a regular Magic 8 Ball. Undeterred, she combines that with Rose's crystal ball to get an even more useless Transparent Magic 8 Ball. The crystal ball then becomes a component to making the Sooth Specs and (with the Lunchtop) the Junior CompuSooth Spectagoggles.
 * HS 5059She also makes a Warm Fuzzy Squiddlejacket and Squiddlesneaks, which are also computers, just to be safe.
 * HS 5060She then makes the Girl's Best Friend from her rifle and the Midnight Crew Poster, and a scary-looking Duttle from the ghost image of Charles Dutton and a Squiddle.
 * HS 5063Jade makes a Proton Cannon from the Iron Lass Suit, the rifle, and the Particle Accelerator that she sketched up. Unfortunately, it is too expensive, even with Dave's grist contributions.
 * HS 5066Next come the Dead Shuffle Dress, the Green Sun Streetsweeper (an upgrade of the Girl's Best Friend), and the Three in the Morning Dress.
 * HS 5069Jade then tries to combine the Mecha, the Streetsweeper, and the Iron Suit. However, the result is an underwhelming (but working) Johnny 5.
 * HS 5071Finally, she combines the Dutton image and the Sooth Specs to create the Dutton Bubble Goggles. Overall, she had an alchemizing session almost as fun as Christmas April 13, 2009.
 * HS 5074Eridan, armed with his Empiricist's Wand, trolls Jade, making all of her computers light up. All of them. Eridan presumes that Jade has a rivalry of sorts with Rose, due to Jade being the Witch and Rose being a witch, but obviously, he is wrong. Nevertheless, he continues rambling about "truest sciences" and about him being bored with his rivalry with Rose. Jade becomes impatient with him, but Eridan then gives her the code for his rifle, which is revealed to be FFFFFFWW.
 * HS 5075After alchemizing the rifle, Jade notes that she is familiar with it. When Eridan tells her that it is one-of-a-kind, she tells him that the rifle was with John's present. Eridan says that the rifle is an imitation of the original, and Jade says that the rifle came from her penpal, who she thinks is from the future. When Eridan asks why she thinks this, she reveals that her penpal told her he is her grandson, before freaking out about telling him. Eridan then hypotheses that Jade's version of Ahab's Crosshairs is a Harley family heirloom. Jade refuses to use the weapon, and in response, Eridan uses his wand to destroy her Johnnytop, after which she tosses out Ahab's Crosshairs along with it.
 * HS 5078A flashback of the events beginning with Jack Noir's rampage on the Troll session shows that he destroyed the end-of-game door with 10 hours and 25 minutes remaining to some CRITICAL MOMENT, and Prospit at 6 hours and 12 minutes. Karkat woke up afterwards at precisely 5:12:24.
 * HS 5081At 4 hours and 13 minutes, Aradia trolls Sollux to say goodbye to him, though she isn't sure if it is for good or not. She then ceases trolling him, and gives him a hug, before promptly exploding in front of him, Equius, and Nepeta. Sollux then mourns her death... again.
 * HS 5088At 3 hours and 14 minutes, Terezi watches Felt Dave wake up from his bed, just to get his neck slashed by Jack Noir. Terezi begins tearing up while Karkat tries to poke her (presumably because he has never seen Terezi cry before) unsuccessfully. Terezi pushes him away with a doof, and Transportalizes away to her room in tears.
 * HS 5096Meanwhile on LOFAF, Jade is trying out her new Junior Compu-Sooth Spectagoggles, and because one of it's parent components are the Sooth Specs, she is now able to see everything: Skaia, LOFAF, Derse, LOWAS, and last but not least, John on The Battlefield. She compliments John in his Heir outfit, mistakenly believing it was Alchemized. Behind John is a Skaian dream cloud, with Jade viewing him inside it (and becoming more meta in the process), and the Warweary Villein. She then finds Rose in the Land of Heat and Clockwork, not far from the Beat Mesa, about to talk with.
 * HS 5100Jade then finds all 13 of the Daves created via time shenanigans, and decides to focus on Davesprite, only to find him dead along with Bro. She is more shocked on seeing Felt Dave with his neck slashed, accounting for the sudden decrement in Dave count. She then contacts one of the Daves, who reassures her that the dead Dave is one from a doomed timeline, and then reveals to her the Kids' Ectobiological origins. Jade urges him to stop Jack Noir, though Dave can't because he is trapped in all of his time shenanigans, or as he describes it, his "fucking one-man ballet", and also reveals her of the plan to cause The Scratch and Rose's plan to destroy the Green Sun with The Tumor. He also informs her about the thing that she is going to do.
 * HS 5105Jade then does the thing that she is going to do, but she doesn't know about it yet. She remembered Tavros's plan to commune with Becsprite, but Tavros is still at the bottom of the stairs, struggling to get up on his own to feet, after it stops happening. She then does something else as a last resort: she goes up to her lab where one of Jack Noir's Fenestrated Walls and her stuffed Dream Self's and Halley's corpse are held. She briefly catches a glimpse of Andrew still on the long magic dog and still mind-controlled by Vriska right after fucking some bullies' shit up. She lures out Becsprite with an irradiated steak she drew, and Tier 2 prototypes her Dream Self, turning Becsprite into Jadesprite, allowing him to talk and complimenting her love for fauna of an anthropomorphical persuasion.
 * HS 5113Unfortunately, Jadesprite, upon realizing what happened, begins to Flip the Fuck Out, screaming "WHAT DID YOU DO?" in an increasingly volatile manner. Meanwhile, at 0:00:10, a bloodied Gamzee is fondly regarding a miracle: the complete annihilation of the upper levels of Jade's House.
 * HS 5121The laboratory top bounces off the house and goes snowballing down the hill, with Jade, Jadesprite, and everything else rolling along with it. Eventually it comes across a tree stump.
 * HS 5125 Jadesprite cries while Jade is stuck upside down in a now messy laboratory. The Fourth Wall turns on to show Andrew Hussie's house painted mostly in green to look like The Felt's mansion. Hussie himself appears, wearing 's CAIRO OVERCOAT (though he admits that it's too big for him), which he promptly takes off and hangs on the Fenestrated Wall, giving Jade and Jadesprite their privacy.
 * HS 5131 Hussie then retires to his study and compliments Ms. Paint for a paint job well done, for a given definition thereof. He then checks on Cal, scolding him for not wearing his Felt-themed Cal-sized outfit, let alone swap his eyes for a set of billiard balls and make them alternate rapidly. It's bad enough that he had to take Falcor out behind the woodshed and blow his brains out because he caught the rabies (R.I.P. Falcor). He forgets about him and pulls up to the old Underwood, which he is replacing his computer with in keeping with the theme. He then busts out a shitty drawing of himself for maximum time efficiency, because it is time for the third recap of Homestuck from Act 5 Act 1 to now. He then applies Felt Duds to the drawing, also shittily drawn for maximum time efficiency.
 * HS 5137AH then begins typing, already having supplied an animated .GIF for it. He then complains that it is not nearly as fast and jittery as the HS 3888 (last recap), which is true, as the animation only has 2 frames, each lasting 0.5 seconds. He then adds four more frames and makes each span for 0.05 seconds. He then now begins to really start typing, and frustratingly, in white ink to keep with the theme. Nearing the end, the ink fortunately runs out and we can start to read it normally, because the white ink is such a pain in the ass to read. The Player tells Andrew that highlighting the white text crashed their browser, and so Andrew apologizes and continues on with the story, through the broken fourth wall.
 * HS 5141Jadesprite is still crying and asking Jade what she did, with Jade asking the same question. Jade asks Jadesprite why she's sad, and if she shouldn't have prototyped her. Jadesprite tells her no, because it is too overwhelming. She also says that she cannot stop seeing the Green Sun. She says she was happy with her friends, and asks if it can be undone, to which Jade says no. This causes Jadesprite to burst into another bout of tears, followed by an uncontrolled "woof".
 * HS 5142Jadesprite considers leaving Jade and going somewhere else, possibly to try to return to wherever she was consciously, but Jade pleads for her to stay, because she, Dave, Rose, and John need her help. Upon hearing John's name, Jadesprite cries again, saying that she forgot that John had died. She mentions searching for him after she died, and couldn't find him, but got over it because she found her "friends". Jade tries to cheer her up, saying that she saved John by pushing him out the way of Prospit's moon in time, but this causes Jadesprite to burst into tears yet again, over the loss of Prospit. Jadesprite asks Jade why she's forcing her to remember the bad things that happened, and asks what happened to the White Queen and her ring. She then says that she just wanted to show Dream John around Prospit because he was her best friend. This causes both Jade and Jadesprite to start crying, but when Jadesprite lets out another "woof", Jade can barely hold in her laughter.
 * HS 5144Jade tries to convince Jadesprite to fight Jack Noir, but she refuses since she is too afraid to find him, let alone fight him. Jadesprite also begins to become more depressed and whiny, believing every prophecy was a lie and that there's nothing to live for, which causes Jade to lose her patience with her sprite. Eventually, it gets to the point where Jade Flips the Fuck Out on her.
 * HS 5149At this point, Karkat interferes, causing all of Jade's computers to intone loudly. Jade answers, for once relieved to be talking with him, while Karkat himself is also being civil with her. Jade then relays Jadesprite's major flaws to him, and he finds a striking similarity between the futility of Jade's efforts to mollify her and his own arguments with his past and future selves. After thinking about it, Jade starts to see the hypocrisy of calling out Karkat on the latter when she herself is subject to the former.
 * HS 5152After accepting the fact that she is a hypocrite, Karkat tells Jade that what she did with Jadesprite makes her sane, as thinking that her flaws are disgusting means that she's more together than she thinks. Karkat then apologizes to Jade for always being angry at her, and Jade also apologizes to Karkat for calling him crazy in his references to his past and future selves. They then begin talking about the plan Jade is supposed to come up with, and Karkat tells her to first shut the fourth wall off. After a short conversation about the fourth wall, and how it could create an outcome worse than the destruction of existence, Karkat tells her that he is acting as a messenger between Current and Future Jade, while Future Jade is keeping things vague purposely so as to not affect their outcome. Karkat then tells Jade of the countdown, about which no one knows (save Aradia, who exploded), but is about something conceivably bad. Apparently Future Jade knows what it is, but hasn't told Karkat because he isn't supposed to know yet. After instructing her to turn off the fourth wall, Karkat tells Jade to draw it.
 * HS 5154Standing close to the fourth wall, Jade has a moment where her thoughts mix with someone's narration. She turns off the fourth wall, which turns off our view of her as well.
 * HS 5156Back in the Skyship Base, Wayward Vagabond has taken off pieces of the wall paneling to build a fort, in order to wait for the Uranium to come out. Serenity decides to leave for help by slipping under the closed door. Meanwhile, the Prospitian Monarch asks the Windswept Questant what she should do for the itinerary she inherits. WQ tells her that she must wait for her fourth subject to appear, who is inside the Lotus Time Capsule, and will be released in 4 hours and 13 minutes. The White King, now titled Writ Keeper, is then shown with Rose's Journals at the Time Capsule.
 * HS 5163WQ tells PM that her job as the new queen will be to bring Jack Noir down, and "rebuilding her kingdom in a new land". PM asks how this can be done. WQ tells her to appoint a Wastelandic Vindicator to help in the fight, using the ring. She also tells her that she will need to "tidy up", and that explosives are necessary to do this. For this she can appoint an Armaments Regent for the explosives necessary. She must then use the spirograph key for something and, with the explosives, blow up the exile bases.
 * HS 5168Serenity then tries to signal both WQ and PM to help WV out of his predicament, but she is ignored. Meanwhile, AR sets up the explosives around the Skyship Base, while within it WV nods off.
 * "HELP! MY FRIEND IS STUCK INSIDE THE BIG CAN, INSIDE A SMALL HOUSE HE BUILT! YOU MUST HURRY, HE IS NOT VERY BRIGHT, AND HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND IT WHEN I BLINK!  ARE YOU WATCHING ME?  OH NO, DON'T BLINK ME YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND BLINKING EITHER!!!  HOW DO YOU PEOPLE EVEN EXCHANGE IDEAS WITHOUT LUMINOUS REAR ENDS!!!!!!"
 * HS 5172WV dreams of being mayor in a "tower" on Skaia, with the falling moon of Prospit overlooking it. He sleeps under John's blanket, with Serenity watching over him. A creature resembling a black Becquerel, representing either Jack Noir or the ring's prototypings, flies towards the tower and stalks his way up the stairs. The creature growls lowly, waking WV up and he sees the creature at the window, as it sticks its tongue out at him. WV then begins a transformation of sorts into a prototyped form. Each of the morse code segments that Serenity creates can be translated as follows:
 * "WHAT A DARING DREAM"
 * "TO COMBINE THE FINEST QUALITIES OF HUMANITY WITH THE ELEGANCE AND NOBILITY OF THE ANIMAL KINGDOM"
 * "HOW YOU WISH YOU COULD KNOW THEIR WORLD"
 * "TO HEAR ONE NIGHT THOSE MUTED PAWPADS TRAIPSE UP YOUR STAIRS"
 * "A LOW BUT FRIENDLY GROWL UNSETTLES YOUR SLUMBER"
 * "AND AS THE SOPOR SEEPS FROM YOUR EYES"
 * "THEY DETECT A SHARP PAIR OF EARS CUTTING MOONLIGHT"
 * "A MYSTERIOUS WOLVEN TONGUE INVITES"
 * "WOULDN'T THESE EARS SUIT YOU?"
 * "WOULD NOT THIS PROUD LONG SNOUT ASSIST YOU IN THE HUNT?"
 * HS 5182WV loses his left (or right, depending on whether his HS 3200 (sprite is flipped or not)) arm, startling him. He then grows wings, and is harmlessly skewered through the chest with a sword, right in the center of the O in his mayoral sash, which is also a sun. The uranium in his stomach glows bright, activating the powers he carried over from Bec's Prototyping, burning off his clothes and completely destroying his Skaian dream tower. He also gains an emblem on his chest: a sun, left over from his sash, though it has turned green.
 * HS 5185His dream soon turns into a nightmare, as blood appears on his hand, mirroring Jack Noir when he destroyed the Troll's version of Prospit. Before him are his citizens and the mayoral guard, composed of Prospitian and Dersite Pawns. The blood on his hand causes an attack identical to what 3x prototyped Jack Noir used on the Battlefield, called "Red Miles". The Red Miles slaughter his citizens as the remains of Prospit's moon begins to enter Skaia's atmosphere, forcing WV to relive his memories of the tragedy that happened on The Battlefield, his subconscious envisioning himself as Jack Noir.
 * HS 5192A weird bug approaches WV, the weird bug being Vriska in her God Tier outfit, who is psionically messaging him not to kill Jack, as she is the one who wants to do it. She then orders WV to wake up, while it is revealed that she herself is dreaming in her God Tier outfit. The translation for her text is as follows:
 * "Hey you!!!!!!!!"
 * "Just what do you think you're planning on doing with that ring?"
 * "Whatever it is, forget it!"
 * "The Slayer is miiiiiiiine. ::::)"
 * "Now w8ke up!"
 * "I said W88888888KE!"
 * HS 51974:13:49 before the CRITICAL MOMENT, Jack Noir bisects Feferi's Dream Self with his sword, while she is communicating with the gods of the Furthest Ring. He then stabs Nepeta's Dream Self three times through the chest, before using his powers to destroy the troll's version of Derse. Meanwhile, far beneath the Prototyping Towers, wrapped in the purple fractal depths of the main planet, lies Aradia's Dream Self sleeping on her Quest Bed/Quest Cocoon/Whatever it is. When her dream self is killed, her robot explodes, and she ascends to the God Tiers as the fully realized Maid of Time. Jack catches sight of her, and swoops in for the kill, when Aradia stops time relative to Jack at the last minute, buying her some time.
 * The flash then fast-forwards 58 minutes 59 seconds later, to 03:14:01 before the CRITICAL MOMENT, when Vriska has just woken up to fight Tavros. Another 33 minutes pass, when Vriska appears right in front of him, starting the fight. She taunts him with his detached legs. Tavros charges full speed ahead and misses with his free shot. Vriska grabs Tavros' lance, turns it around, and stabs Tavros in the chest with it, right in the "O" in "♉". She then throws his body into the abyss, smiling like a maniac.
 * HS 5198Tavros lands dead on the same platform that a crying Terezi is sitting on.
 * HS 5201Kanaya views the point in Rose's timeline where she fades from Trollian's view for the 101st time, with the Matriorb by her side, and decides to contact Jade in the future, as she was talking with Rose when the blackout happens and might know what it means. When she speaks to Future Jade, she demands a password from Kanaya, who doesn't know what it is. Jade tells her that she does this in order to keep her conversations with both her and Karkat linear, and so that their past selves can't get any information on the future. She then stops talking with Kanaya, telling her that she will speak to her later.
 * HS 5205Trying a different approach, Kanaya trolls Past Jade, with whom she has been having many conversations. She tells Jade to let her know what happens when Rose blacks out from Trollian's view, and Jade thanks her for her help with her title. Kanaya tells Jade that one of the jobs of a "___ of Space" is the stoker of the forge, as well as breeding duties, the latter of which surprises Jade.
 * HS 5206Kanaya alleviates Jade's worries, telling her that the equipment that they are setting up will be what helps her with "breeding duties". She then tells Jade about her job as the keeper of the Matriorb. Kanaya had feared that she would not be able to complete her job, as the Earth was also chosen as a planet to host Sburb. But then she realized, from finding a key in one of the lower areas of the meteor the Trolls are on, that she would be able to hatch the Mother Grub inside the matriorb inside the meteor, but she has some worries about it. Jade tells her that she would be great at it, since her lusus was once a mother grub, she also has the capability to raise one.
 * HS 5211When Dave deploys the cloning apparatus at the top of Jade's house, she comments on the fact that it is very small, and cannot fit babies on there. Kanaya is initially confused, but realizes that Jade thinks that she will be cloning humans with the machine. Kanaya corrects her on this and tells her that what she will be cloning is Frogs.
 * HS 5215Dave finishes deploying the rest of the equipment, and Jade tries to appearify a frog. She succeeds, but the frog is still frozen. Kanaya tells Jade, since she is not familiar with the rules of paradox clones, that she needs to create a slime imprint for the frog in order to clone it. Jade searches for a new frog and finds one in the forest, promising to catch it later. The result creates the slime imprint for the frog, which then becomes a tadpole. Kanaya tells Jade more about paradox clones- how they are destined to become themselves- and tells her that that is not the goal. The goal is to create as many diverse species of frogs possible. When Jade jokingly asks if she is creating the "ultimate frog", Kanaya tells her that she is right. The reason she is doing this is to create the Genesis Frog, a frog with a specific genetic code.
 * HS 5219Kanaya tells Jade more about the Genesis Frog, starting with the fact that it is a male. The Consorts all praise and await the creation of the Frog, as do the Prospitians. The Dersites, however, hate his existence, and wish to stop his creation. They even go so far as to call him names such as "Speaker of the Vast Joke" or Bilious Slick, the latter of which the Trolls ultimately start calling him, and Jade as well. When Jade asks if the frog has anything to do with the universe they are supposed to create, Kanaya affirms this, but Jade incorrectly assumes that the universe would be created and he would create the planets for it. Kanaya corrects her, telling her that the Genesis Frog is their created universe.
 * HS 5220Kanaya then tells Jade about how she, much like Jade herself, had been awake on Prospit long before the Trolls played their session of Sgrub. She then tells her how she wound up waking up on Prospit. At a young age Kanaya often had trouble sleeping, and would go out into the desert. One day a stranger who dressed and spoke in white found her and put her to sleep, which allowed her to awaken on Prospit. She tells Jade that her guardian is the person that Rose has been speaking to, and that anything that he has planned with her cannot be good. Jade assures Kanaya that she will tell her what happens to Rose when she blacks out of view. Jade then decides to implement the password system, and is annoyed when Kanaya suggests the idea came from her future self, preferring to come up with it on her own rather than through stable time loops; which demonstrates why she wants the password system. She tells Kanaya that the first password is "CROOOOOOOOOOOAK". Kanaya then leaves to go hatch the Matriorb.
 * HS 5221During the 3:14 mark of the CRITICAL MOMENT countdown, just after Terezi pushes Karkat away and transportalizes out of the room, Kanaya takes the Matriorb to go and hatch it in the center of the meteor. Before that she speaks with Feferi and Sollux, who are laying in the horn pile. Feferi tells Kanaya that Sollux is upset over losing Aradia, but she tells him that she is just fine. Kanaya then goes to speak to Karkat, and she asks what happened with Terezi. Karkat tells her that he doesn't know, and he wonders where everyone is at, as Gamzee, Nepeta, Equius, Tavros, Vriska and Eridan are all missing. Kanaya then tells Karkat that she is going into the center of the meteor to hatch the Matriorb, who wishes her good luck.
 * Karkat then speaks to Feferi and Sollux about Gamzee, as he is worried about him. Neither of them know where he is, so Karkat tells them to stay in the lab. Karkat then speaks to Kanaya about Jade and her password system, but he realizes that even though Future Jade is annoying him with the password system, he really sees her as a friend. Kanaya asks Karkat if Terezi is aware of his contact with Jade. He tells her that she probably isn't, but even if she did she has no right to be upset, since she is speaking with Dave. He even goes so far as to say that she wasn't actually crying over Felt Duds Dave's death, but rather doing that for him. Kanaya tells him not to be so insensitive to people's feelings.
 * As Kanaya is about to transportalize from the lab, Eridan transportalizes in, knocking her away. He talks to Kanaya, and thanks her for making his wand. He asks her where she's going, and she tells him about hatching the Matriorb. Eridan, thinking that there was no more hope left, decides to become involved in this process, and asks Kanaya to wait for him. When he talks with Karkat he recalls his time in the Land of Wrath and Angels, and asks Karkat why no one wanted to travel with him there. Karkat tells him that no one wanted to hang out with him because he is a jerk to everyone, and because he was attacking the angels in his land constantly, who weren't supposed to be attacked and were attacking him in the process. Karkat then tells him to stay in the lab. Eridan goes up to Feferi and Sollux and asks to speak to Feferi. She tells him that she knows that he is trying to force the two out of their Matespritship quadrant into an Auspistice one by constantly dueling Sollux. Eridan denies this outright and asks Feferi to go with him to find Jack Noir. Feferi and Sollux think that he is going to try to fight Noir, and she tries to get him to stop. Eridan tells her that he would be insane to try to fight Noir, and is instead going to join him. Feferi thinks he is a coward to want to go and surrender, and Eridan tells her that as the Prince of Hope, he can see that there is no more hope for them, and he wants to go to Jack to see if he could spare him, and wants Feferi to come along. Feferi and Sollux decide that they have to stop him, as trying to find Noir could lead him to the Troll's hideout. Eridan and Sollux then begin Round Two of their duel.
 * HS 5222As Eridan and Sollux clash their energy beams together, Eridan overpowers Sollux and blasts him into the wall, knocking him out. Feferi, enraged at Eridan for doing this, brandishes her 2x3dent to attack him. Eridan, in his anger, blasts a hole through Feferi, killing her on the horn pile. Kanaya, watching nearby, takes out her lipstick, while Eridan faces her with his wand ready. Eridan destroys the Matriorb (ruining any hope the trolls have of repopulation) and kills Kanaya in short order. Eridan then absconds, leaving Karkat to gawp in utter disbelief at the situation.
 * HS 5250Karkat is horrified to find Kanaya dead, relieved to find Sollux merely knocked out, and mostly apathetic at Feferi's fate. Using Kanaya's trollian account open on her computer, messages Karkat, and gives him some rather cryptic advice: "Don't turn your back on the body."
 * HS 5258Karkat turns around and finds that all the bodies are still where they were before, but sees that Gamzee is trolling him. He goes and answers Gamzee, who is fluctuating between all lowercase and all caps, and who laughs at the fact that Kanaya and Feferi are dead. Gamzee, who is finally coming off of the Sopor Slime effects, tells Karkat that he knows who he finally is now: part of a group called the High Subjugglators, who he claims is higher than everyone. Gamzee then says that he is going to kill everyone, before signing off.
 * HS 5260Karkat opens a memo for when the Trolls were still playing Sgrub, and warns them that Gamzee, the Bard of Rage, has snapped, and reminds those further along on the time line of what he did to the Black King, and warns everyone to stay away from him. When Past Gamzee responds to the memo, Karkat tells him it doesn't concern him, and bans him from responding. He says that he is going to try to revive Feferi and Kanaya, but can't bring himself to approach the horn pile, afraid that Gamzee will be there. When Past Feferi answers the memo he says that he is sorry and bans her too. He also warns the others that Eridan is also killing people, and to stay away from him as well, but says that if he sees him he's going to kill him. Past Eridan then responds to the memo, chiding Karkat for believing in the use of wands. Karkat tells Eridan to forget about their "pact", something that Eridan does not know about. Karkat does not care, however, and says that he hates all forms of Eridan- past, present, and future- for what he did to Kanaya. Eridan thinks that Karkat is hitting on him, and Karkat has to keep telling him that he isn't. Before he bans Eridan, Karkat tells him that he is going to kill him. Future Gamzee then responds to the memo, telling Karkat that he knows where he is and what he's going to do, and suggests that they all sit down and talk. Karkat freaks out and closes the memo.
 * HS 5262Meanwhile, Terezi finds Tavros's corpse and begins a crime scene investigation roleplay to determine the killer, even though she has no doubt that Vriska is to blame. During the roleplay, she hears Gamzee honking in the distance, but believes that he's simply fooling around in the abyss and chuckles. She then prepares to revive Tavros by kissing him, looking very much disgusted in the process. Meanwhile (which is to say, in the past) Karkat does the same with Kanaya. He and Terezi accomplish a rather messy 2x CORPSESMOOCH combo. Alas, neither of them could be revived since their dream selves have already been slain.
 * HS 5286The scene transitions to Rufio being mortally wounded by his nemesis, Captain Hook. Hussie flies in, wearing Tavros's Pupa Pan clothes and an expression of sorrow, delivering an eulogy to his fallen mentor and friend before attempting to revive him in the same way as Karkat and Terezi did. THIS IS STUPID, indeed.
 * HS 5293Meanwhile, John watches Hussie through the prophetic clouds, mesmerized by what he is seeing, with who he calls the Wizardly Vassal accompanying him. He then snaps out of it and spots a wallet on the floor. When he opens it he finds that it is his Dad's wallet, and a note inside reveals to John that by having the wallet his father deems him old enough to use it. He obtains several captchalogue cards, the first of which contains one ton of shaving cream. WV? notices these and decides to eat the shaving cream, spitting it out, then eating it some more. In an effort to save time, John ejects all the contents from the captchalogue cards and views their contents, which include a pile of pipes, a pile of razor blades, a spare car, shoes, hats, ties, issues of The Serious Jester, ticket stubs from a Cirque Du Soleil show (a memory John does not want to recall), a briefcase, pictures, a laptop, ten tons of pipe tobacco, and a lighter. He looks briefly at the photographs, then at the laptop, celebrating for finally having a way to contact his friends again. He cleans everything up, and just as he is about to leave, WV?, behind the wheel of the car, honks the horn loudly at him. Rolling his eyes, John decides to get in.
 * HS 5309John buckles in, with WV? doing the same. He notices that the sash part of the seat belt looks good on him, but forgets it since it buckles him into the car. He then tries to move, but his feet cannot reach the pedals, and John points out that he doesn't even have the keys. John does the "windy thing" instead, and the car floats away, with Gamzee's eye appearing in one of the clouds, as he is watching Jade's house get destroyed.
 * HS 5315John then uses the Crosbytop to pester Jade, who fills him in on Dave's new position as her server player as well as her own cloning pad shenanigans. As the car begins flying along the checkered spires surrounding the fully-prototyped Skaia, John informs Jade about images he saw in the prophetic clouds, including one of her surrounded by a great amount of frogs (the involvement of which with her repopulating mission she's still unaware of at this moment); the conversation then switches to Jade's much lamented Dream Self prototyping and John's ascent to the God Tier, then to WV? being in possess of the Queen's ring (John deciding to trust him with it, believing he and the ring share a common fate), and then finally to Dad's whereabouts. Jade finds out where Dad is located using her Spectagoggles, and informs John he's currently in a castle somewhere on the planet's surface, having "some sort of tea party" with Rose's Mom. John is obviously (ironically) upset by the potential effects of such a development on Karkat's shipping diagram (by now an object of cult in its own right) decreeing his future romantic involvement with Rose. He asks Jade for proper directions, but Jade is unable to give him coordinates as she's not even sure about how the Spectagoggles work, and tells him to keep looking for clues in the clouds. John thanks her, ending the conversation.
 * HS 5320Karkat trolls John, telling him that this might be the last time he gets to speak to him. He complains about the honking sounds and apologizes to a worried John, telling him that he hopes he will be a better leader then he was. Very concerned now, John pesters Karkat, who is fine and is very irate with him. John realizes that this is a past Karkat and says that he wants to talk to Future Karkat.
 * HS 5324Future Karkat flees deeper into the lab with an unconscious Sollux in tow, but he's so distressed from the relentless honking echoing around him that they both fall down stairs. They both land at the bottom of the stairs, with Sollux missing some teeth, and Karkat realized Terezi has been trolling him. Her messages inform Karkat that Tavros is dead, and that she is conducting an analysis to find out who did it (though she knows it's Vriska). She then tells him that she's going to try to revive Tavros, before signing off. Karkat tries to contact Terezi to warn her that Vriska is the least of their problems; gallowsCalibrator trolls Karkat back with a honk, prompting him to freak out and block Terezi's account from messaging him. Karkat checks on Sollux and notices his teeth fell out during the fall, so he tries to put them back into his mouth to hide the fact that he dropped him, with really poor results. He then decides to troll Equius and ask for his help against all the murderous comrades. Equius is really uncomfortable about both the implications of killing someone higher than he is in the caste system (Gamzee) and Eridan's constant advances, but assures Karkat he'll do what it takes to protect the others. Reflected in Equius's glasses, Nepeta watches the conversation.
 * HS 5332Terezi goes back to the computer lab in order to find another way to communicate with the other trolls after having accidentally kicked her glasses into the pit along with part of her forensics team. She finds the huge pool of Kanaya's blood, samples it, then finds Feferi's corpse lying in the horn pile. Upon closer inspection, she finds out Feferi's body sports two additional wounds on her neck, surrounded by a halo of jade green blood. She then proceeds to theorize Vriska's involvement in all these murders under the effects of literal bloodthirstiness, but she immediately dismisses the notion as nonsensical. Meanwhile, Kanaya's body and a certain Knight of Blood are nowhere to be seen.
 * HS 5338Inside of Equius's room, he and Nepeta talk about him finding Gamzee. Equius tells Nepeta to go hide in a nearby room so that she will be safe. Before leaving, Nepeta talks with him about Aradia's death, which he is still hurt over. She tells him of her dream on Derse, shortly before she died, where she saw a newly risen Aradia, who says that she will see Equius soon. They then have another talk in the robot pile, and then do a short roleplay. Nepeta leaves and enters the ducts. There, from looking into the grates, she sees the word "Honk" written in Tavros's blood, along with his spear, and Terezi's stuffed animals, torn to shreds. Through another grate, she sees the message Are you next?, followed by :o). Leaving the grates, she enters another room with two transportalizers, one of which is broken in half and the other shut down. Along the floor is a trail of jade green blood, leading to the shut down transportalizer. Entering another grate, Nepeta goes down to the end and looks through, and witnesses something that shocks her.
 * Meanwhile, after barricading Nepeta's room with some crates, Equius goes through the lab looking for Gamzee. He comes across a slain Inquisiclops, killed from arrows shot through the eyes. He sees a familiar pair of red glasses and thinks that it is Terezi, but when "Terezi" calls him a peasantblood and tells him to kneel, he realizes that it is Gamzee. He tells Gamzee that they should talk, and Gamzee says that he should kneel. When Equius asks him to repeat what he says, because his voice is fluctuating, Gamzee screams it and fires an arrow through Equius's leg, forcing him into a kneel. Gamzee walks towards him to begin the subjugglation, breaking the bow he was carrying in half and wrapping the string around Equius's throat. Gamzee then enters Murder Mode, choking Equius to death. At first, Equius is terrified, but the idea of being subjugated by one higher on the caste system than he causes him to start sweating and smiling. As he falls dead on the floor, he is still smiling. Nepeta watches this entire scene from the ventilation duct.
 * HS 5350Nepeta pounces from the ventilation duct towards Gamzee, who slowly turns towards her. He takes his clubs out from his Jokerkind Specibus, ready for her attack. She swipes at Gamzee, but he catches her hand in mid-air and stops it with a snap sound effect, likely breaking it. He then proceeds to slowly scrape his own insanely grinning face with her claws. He drops her arm and she falls onto the floor, looking on as the smile disappears from his face. He begins to honk/HONK, with the "camera" zooming in on the word. The scene then transitions back to John and WV?.
 * HS 5364The car crashes into a tree with a loud "BEEP". John and WV? are unharmed though, because of their seat belts. John recaptchalogues the car, even though it is broken down. He crashes near the castle where he believes his Dad and Rose's Mom are. As he's walking through the castle though, Vriska trolls him, telling him that the two are in another castle. She asks John if he is mad at her, with John honestly confused as to why he would be. Vriska explains to him that she deceived him, and wound up getting him killed, even though it was for a good cause. John tells her that he should be thanking her for what she did, and reminds her that she gave him a choice in the matter, and that he chose to ascend. Vriska tells him that she is relieved to hear that he isn't angry, but when John asks if that is what she wanted to talk about, she tells him no.
 * HS 5367She tells him that she killed someone, and when John asks her why she did, she tells him that she felt like she had to. She explains to him how they adventured together, with her trying to make him strong, but he never got it, and when he finally decided to be strong, it was both too late and when he decided to kill her, so she killed him in anger. She tells him that he's the only person she can speak to about how she feels, since speaking to any of the other trolls about it might make them think she's weak. John asks her how she feels about killing Tavros, and she says that she feels horrible for it, but she doesn't know why, since on her planet she would be congratulated for it. John thinks that this is the first time Vriska has killed anyone, but she corrects him, telling him that it's the first person she killed someone she cared about. She tells him about her life before Sgrub, where she killed thousands of other trolls in order to feed her lusus, and then she remembers that it wasn't only Tavros she killed, but Aradia as well. Then they talk about the difference between their cultures, before talking about the game. Vriska thinks that the game knows that children are going to be playing, and gives them challenges that would make them grow up, and she says that that's the reason why their game split them up into two teams, because it knew that their culture was a violent one, and that they would start killing each other, and theorizes that they probably would have all made the God Tiers, instead of just her. She then blames Karkat for their success and why they didn't kill each other, saying that he was too good of a leader, and that his constant need to be one and to keep everyone working together was why they won. She says that Karkat isn't even a good troll, that he'd be better suited to being a human- something that John promises not to tell him.
 * HS 5370Back in The Veil, Terezi trolls Karkat, but because he blocked her account he doesn't receive the message. She tells him about the developments she discovered in the lab, and warns Karkat to stay away from Vriska. She also mentions that she now has to deal with her, since only she knows how. She also tells him not to let Vriska drink his blood, as it belongs to her. Meanwhile, Karkat stares at the empty ectobiology equipment, and bemoans his fate while wishing he never created them all in the first place. He remembers another 12 grubs that he had created during the session, and wonders if they are the true heroes, and if he and his friends were just superfluous. He then wonders if "she" was right about the trolls. From behind him, Sollux begins to stir, and awakens, with eyes completely blacked out, spitting out his teeth.
 * HS 5372John continues his talk with Vriska, asking her if she is still going to fight Noir. She tells him that she is unsure, because she's put so many feelings into killing one person that she doesn't know if she's strong enough to fight him. John says that he isn't sure that he wants Vriska fighting Noir by herself, and reminds her that they have a plan. Vriska wonders if she truly does have all the luck, and says that knowing that there's no risk to something means that there's no bravery behind it. She brings up something from earlier in their conversation, where she said that she did not relate to John's attachment to his father, and says that she lied. She has no attachment to her custodian, as John does, but she does have an attachment to another troll, one who lived long before she did, named Marquise Spinneret Mindfang. Before she became of age to start feeding her lusus, Vriska was afraid of the responsibility that came with doing that job. One day, a shooting star fell across the planet, and Vriska found a chest where it landed. On the chest was her sign, unique because the sign is an insignia specific to her class. Inside of the chest were Mindfang's journals, which documented her time leading a group known as the Gamblignants. Vriska became how she is by reading these journals, and also found her Fluorite Octet during her RP days because of the notes Mindfang left behind. Vriska also tells John that in addition to the twelve trolls, Karkat also created an additional twelve grubs, who all became their ancestors. John relates to her story by telling her that his Nanna was someone he never actually met, but based his life off of her, who based her life off of Colonel Sassacre. Vriska tells John that his life on Earth was easy compared to hers, and John tells her that he recommends being human.
 * HS 5376After waking up, Sollux trolls Terezi, who is glad to know that some others besides her were alright. She asks him why he's typing strangely, and he tells her it might be because he's blind, and that he speaks strangely because Karkat knocked out all of his teeth. He says that Karkat wants to talk to her, but he wants to talk to her first, about being blind. When Terezi asks how it happened, Sollux tells her about Eridan's attack. When she asks him if he knows about Feferi, he tells her he does, and that he's okay with it. He says that he's happy because the voices he heard in his head, the voices of the soon-to-be dead, which were getting louder, had finally fallen silent. He guesses that the voices he heard were them, and that since he no longer hears them it means they don't have to die anymore. He asks if Terezi has any tips for being blind, but she is unsure of her ability as a teacher. When Sollux assures her that she'll be fine, she decides to do it, and asks where they are. As Sollux is about to ask Karkat, Terezi mentions smelling something brighter in the lab, and stops answering Sollux.
 * HS 5379Meanwhile, in what at first appears to be the past, Dave begins playing Mad Snacks Yo but is forced to restart the game for the third time in an hour after his player character gets stuck in a pole. Before he can do so, however, Aradia begins trolling him. At first he doesn't believe that she is what and where she says she is, and tries to turn off his phone. However, he finds himself unable to stop talking to her, just as she predicted. Dave at this point believes he is in a dream of some sort. Aradia then gets him to look out the window, and when he can't find her has him turn around to find her standing in his room. As Dave starts to recollect his memories and change his appearance accordingly, his room begins to melt away into the LOHACSE, then his Quest Bed, whereupon blood from his neck splatters onto his clothes and glasses as he recalls getting neck-slashed by Bec Noir. At this point, he realizes that he is in the afterlife as the doomed Dave (though as Aradia notes, one that is accessible via dream bubbles), while reverting to the clothes he had on before Sburb.
 * HS 5389Dave and Aradia then warp to the area in LOWAS where Bro fought his final duel and find Alpha Dave standing over Bro's corpse while talking to Terezi. Dave and Aradia discuss how "[they] have to be prepared to die a thousand deaths before [their] quest is complete," because "the master [they] serve demands it." She also says that he cannot do anything to prevent the events that transpired since it's no longer within his control. Arriving at her hive pre-destruction, they discuss what happens in the afterlife, which amounts to learning about the nature of existence and meeting up with old friends and new friends-to-be, among other things. Aradia herself compares time to a game in reality's cupboard, one that one would not realize how much fun it was until it was put back in said cupboard. She invites Dave to come into her hive, but he gets homesickness and wishes to go back to his place, which they do. There, he meets Tavros, who proceeds to give him fires sick enough to need a doctor. Aradia then confirms Dave's suspicion that he too is dead, then confesses that she is very much glad to be alive once again.
 * HS 5393John and Vriska finish up their conversation, with Vriska about to leave to fight Jack Noir, and John to find his father. Vriska reminds him of his job to find The Tumor, and John asks how he should go about finding it- if he should find a cave to the center of Skaia. Vriska says he could do that, or he could cheat: use his newfound wind powers to find it. She tells John that she won't tell him how to use them, but tells him to "8e cre8tive". Before she leaves, John asks her to not let this be the last time he hears from her, and makes her promise to message him before she leaves to fight Noir. Vriska agrees, and stops trolling John. John then gets "cre8tive", creating a cyclone out of wind powers, spinning it rapidly like a drill. John increases the size and the power of the cyclone, with WV? flying around in the air, and sends the cyclone tunneling into the ground. The Battlefield quakes, and in a castle somewhere on Skaia, with the clouds showing John drilling into the ground, Dad and Mom continue their date. Through Bro's shades, Bec Noir watches the two lovers.
 * HS 5407Vriska opens up Mindfang's journal to read it one more time. Inside, the journalog depicts her kismesissitude with Orphaner Dualscar, Eridan's Ancestor. Dualscar becomes upset whenever Mindfang begins to experiment in more flushed relationships. She thinks he feels feels this way because she does not care about the caste system in regards to her choices for matesprits, and that this disturbs him. While he is watching, she summons a slave up from the hold of their ship. Using her mind control powers, she forces the girl to undress her, while Dualscar watches, and she inattentively talks to him. She wonders if this girl will become her true matesprit, and during her thoughts Dualscar slips away. She hopes that the experience serves to blacken their kismesissitude, because if he is feeling jealous of her choices, then she will have to end their relationship.
 * HS 5408The next page in the journal reveals that Dualscar, in his jealousy, had Mindfang's potential Matesprit assassinated, and used his own money to place a larger bounty on her head. As such, Mindfang breaks off their kismesissitude. In a reflection of this, their descendants, Vriska and Eridan, face each other down as Eridan is attempting to leave the lab to join Jack. Before they can fight Gamzee appears with one of his juggling sticks covered in Nepeta's blood, wearing Equius's shades and Nepeta's cat cap. Meanwhile, in the past, Dualscar tries to report Mindfang's activites to the Grand Highblood, Gamzee's ancestor, but as she later writes, he was subjugglated instead.
 * HS 5417The perspective switches to Terezi, who is asleep, and has bite marks on her chin with a bandage covering them. In the journal, Mindfang was put on trial by an up-and-coming legislacerator known as Redglare (Terezi's ancestor), but she considers herself above the law and in a fit of hubris refuses to consult her oracle for advice.
 * HS 5420Vriska, Gamzee, and Eridan face each other down a la The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, but before any fighting can ensue Kanaya approaches, her wound covered by Eridan's cape and a bright light coming from her body. She immediately kicks Gamzee so hard in the bone bulge that he falls off the platform they were standing on, honking all the way. Vriska is left nonplussed at this turn of events. Kanaya then proceeds to punch Vriska so hard she knocks one of her pupils out of place.
 * HS 5430Kanaya then proceeds to nab Eridan's science wand, and promptly snaps debunks it in half. Exacting some tasty revenge, she retrieves her Chainsaw and saws Eridan in half, raining immense amounts of blood on the floor.
 * HS 5438As Kanaya finishes sawing Eridan in half, Equius's shades, still floating in the air from when she kicked Gamzee, descend on her face as her chainsaw turns back into lipstick. She then proceeds to apply the lipstick with Eridan's blood still all over it and lick her lips. Meanwhile, Vriska is lying on the ground looking at her dumbfounded and lovestruck with a <33333333 above her head.
 * HS 5446Meanwhile, in the Kid's session, Jack has just finished slaughtering Mom and Dad. He tries to accessorize himself with Lil' Cal's shirt and hat, Dad's pipe, hat and shoes, Mom's scarf, Bro's glasses and a Cake (in various permutations), before he realizes that he is becoming vain and forgetting his own hatred of ludicrous attire. From then on, he swears off taking trophies from his kills, keeping only Lil' Cal inside his body.
 * HS 5453Then out of boredom he sniffs out new prey for his onslaught, finding the scent of John. But before he can work up the murderous thoughts to restart his killing spree, his mind wanders into canine interests. He represses those thoughts, but then finds himself thinking of love and loyalty to Jade, due to influence from Becquerel's prototyping. It is revealed that these feelings kept him from murdering her back at LOFAF.
 * HS 5458Noir decides to speak to the Draconian Dignitary, and tells him to find and kill Jade, since he can't do it. DD? tells him that he will make the Courtyard Droll do the job, as he has to run the Sovereign Slayer's kingdom while he's off on murderous destructive rampages. He also tells SS to cut back on the murderous destructive rampages, as he isn't much of a king without any subjects. DD? speaks to CD?, who is still on the battlefield looking for the Queen's Ring with a friend. DD? tells him that he has failed that mission, and that he wants him to find and kill Jade. CD? says that he will do it, but first he wants to investigate the tornado that is blowing around Skaia. DD? tells him that he can, but to prepare for his mission and departure to LOFAF. Noir wonders if he will always be bored because of his new-found powers and insatiable rage.
 * HS 5463Meanwhile, in the future, Jack Noir is still time stuck by Aradia, and again he feels the boredom and rage creeping up on him. It has been hours since his attack on the Trolls' session, where he destroyed all twelve planets, along with Prospit and Derse. He decides to wait until Aradia drops the time lock, ready to strike her when she does. He fails, and decides to try to teleport out. Aradia, knowing that he is going to break out soon anyway and kill her, decides to release him, not planning to die. As soon as she releases the time lock, Noir lunges for Aradia, who inexplicably disappears into his warping after-image. She travels to the Green Sun, and basks in its warm glow, preparing to help her "friends" who are coming.
 * HS 5470Aradia flies to a dream bubble which happens to have her memories of when Jack Noir first entered the Troll's session. Entering it, she realizes that it is not just her memories, but also those of a certain doomed-timeline Aradia who was restrained by Lil' Cal (when Jack threw him at her). That Aradia warps to somewhere in paradox space and promptly collides with a meteor heading to a defense portal. The meteor travels to a point in time when Aradia was alive, excavating a dig site with her lusus. The meteor lands close to Aradia, who goes and investigates the crash. The meteor lands into a cave, where, upon investigating, Aradia finds the Frog Temple ruins. Inside the impact crater, she finds the remains of Lil' Cal, along with one of the Aradiabot's horns. Inside of Lil' Cal's pocket is Dad's Wallet, whereupon Aradia obtains the Crosbytop Computer, along with one of Dad's fedoras.
 * HS 5490Aradia then reports her discoveries to Sollux, who almost recalls remembering their conversation as a memory but quickly dismisses it. Dissatisfied with the way the conversation is going, God Tier Aradia intervenes just as they are about to end it. The second AA remembers her end and that she is now dead, turning into the Aradiabot (and changing her text color to reflect this), while Sollux wonders why he is talking like Aradia. He believes that he is also dead, but Aradia, traveling with the Aradiabot to his hive, tells him that he is just sleeping, and that he is blind. She also tells him that the reason he has changed his typing quirk to hers is because he realizes that he is now doomed. When he hears a noise in his hive, Aradia tells him that it is just Jade, who is also sleeping and came to talk with them.
 * HS 5493Aradia then explains the mechanics of space-time in the Furthest Ring to everyone, while also revealing that the very first bubble she visited would be important. While everyone is teleported outside, Aradia enacts a plan to understand their existence and overall purpose in Sburb, using memories to gain insight therein.
 * HS 5495Aradia attempts to re-enact a conversation she had with Kanaya regading Lil' Cal, but she catches on quickly to being in a dream bubble. Kanaya reveals that she repaired the puppet and gave him a new outfit, although unsurprisingly it began to make her feel uneasy as well so she put it away safely in her respiteblock. At this point, Sollux leaves, about to wake up from a white-science-induced nap.
 * HS 5499The party finds Tavros lying on his back, recalling the incident where he was forced to jump off a cliff by Vriska. Aradia gets him to get up and join the group, then everyone heads to his hive, where on the walls he had scrawled various permutations of the characters of the word "t1CK" in white host plush blood. The same also applies to Aradia with the word "t0ck" in black soot, Vriska with "8r8k" (three distinct characters) in her own blue blood, and Terezi with "H34DS" in red chalk (At this point, Terezi and Vriska realize they are in a memory and join the party). Aradia shows that these four codes were the key to the genetic super-code that would eventually create a certain individual, and that they would be transcribed in their respective Flarp rulebooks. Aradiabot, however, sees something else. She directs everyone to Gamzee's Hive from her doomed timeline, where on its walls he wrote permutations of "honk HONK" in green sopor slime.
 * HS 5508The party then travels to Karkat's hive in the same doomed timeline. The alternate Karkat and Terezi were murdered by a rampaging Gamzee, and Aradiabot reveals that in Karkat's ~ATH manual he wrote a code using the very same characters as before, but now with the blood of all of his friends. At this, Terezi, Kanaya, Vriska, and Jade wake up. However, Aradiabot had lost the blood-stained book shortly after maintaining the correctness of the alpha timeline, while the four former FLARPers lost their rulebooks.
 * HS 5511The Black Queen of the Troll's session ectobiologically creates Doc Scratch from ghost imprints of Lil' Cal and Vriska's Magic Cue Ball, using reference from the four rulebooks and the manual.
 * HS 5514The Readers once again try to be Scratch, and fail yet again. Thus, Scratch himself decides to narrate his portion of the tale. He is currently expecting a guest who he knows has already arrived. Said guest turns out to be Spades Slick (with an eyepatch and robotic arm), who immediately tries to break Scratch's unbreakable head. Scratch (who claims that Spades only knows his nickname) puts up with the abuse for a few minutes before taking the horse hitcher Slick was wielding and twisting it into something utterly useless. He mentions to Slick that he is soon going to beat him severely until he does what Scratch is going to ask him to do, but first he has to talk to someone.
 * HS 5527Rose starts 'pestering her informant' Doc Scratch and they converse about casual matters such as being patient, Doc Scratch's charisma and bad jokes, and Spades Slick setting things on fire. They proceed to talk about the Scratch because he begins to creep Rose out by telling her to see him as an uncle who has candy for her.
 * HS 5528Scratch reveals that for the Scratch to occur, the Beat Mesa must be completely destroyed by bisecting it with the Quills of Echidna. Even more importantly, the Scratch itself will function as a hard reset, completely changing the circumstances of the players' lives and permanently obliterating their previous incarnations, unless those incarnations find a way to preserve themselves. Scratch leaves it up to Rose and her friends on how to accomplish the preservation; he himself says that everything after the Scratch is none of his business.
 * HS 5530Scratch also tells Rose about the result of reaching God Tier, namely immortality unless the player is slain as a hero or corrupted and slain by a hero. The discussion turns to, who Scratch says is a "very evil man", more powerful than even Jack Noir. He then offers Rose the use of the Magic Cue Ball, knowing her title and her use of prognostication tools.
 * HS 5532When Rose asks how to use the ball, Scratch begins guiding her to the answer through many questions, the first being, "How does a Seer see?". She first thinks to use the crystal ball, but it can't zoom in on the ball's answers, so she asks him if she should use other magic. Scratch asks her if she has been using magic this whole time, and when she reminds him of her needles, asks her if she really thinks that the needles are what gave her her powers. He then tells her that she was taught to become the dark user she is, much like a "dutiful girl raised in the daylight [who] was protected by a bulb-headed guardian, and learned to glow in the dark after death", and a "vengeful boy on a path of nihilism [who] was taken under the wings of fearsome angels, and learned to destroy hope with their light". He then reminds her that her friends are worried about the path she is taking, and that she is slowly distancing herself from them, not even bothering to answer when they pester her. Scratch then tells her to simply ask a question and look at the ball.
 * HS 5536Rose activates her Light powers to ask the ball what she should do. The ball responds, "Answer Jade". When she speaks to Jade, she apologizes for not answering, but Jade tells her it is alright because she must be busy. When she asks Rose if she is alright, Rose is confused, until Jade tells her about what happened to John's Dad and her Mom. Rose stops answering Jade and immediately looks into her crystal ball, where she sees, with a look of shock and horror, her mother and John's father dead, with Jack Noir simply sitting between them.
 * HS 5538Rose laments the loss of her mother, and against Jade's advice, decides to kill Jack herself. Midway through the conversation, interrupts, and has Rose ask the cue ball for another answer. However, when she does, the cue ball replies with various mixed messages, filling her with a dreadful new resolve.
 * HS 5540Kanaya views the ensuing blackout on Equius's shades, while Vriska laments losing her own glasses. Rose begins to black out in front of her familiars who are failing to not be alarmed as she goes completely grimdark. She tries to resist the urge to get revenge, but fails, climbing atop the Beat Mesa and jumping off to Skaia.
 * HS 5548In the style of Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, Andrew Hussie intervenes when the Big (Wo)Man wants a time out. He gets the Wayward Vagabond to give him a yardstick, but it's actually a meter-stick, sending AH into a fit of frenzy. AH snaps the ruler to make it into a yardstick, then directly addresses the viewers, saying he'll end up involved in the story somehow, before deciding to refocus on John.
 * HS 5559With the tunnel into the heart of Skaia complete, John travels down to the core and finds The Tumor. As he looks around, he sees the symbols for his and his friends' respective titles, with Dave's symbol even having a cut through it. He looks into the window of The Tumor, and finds a blue pyramid counting down from 10 hours and 25 minutes until its explosion. Then he captchalogues the Tumor using the wallet modus. After doing that he flies out of the hole and away from inner Skaia, showing the giant hole in the planet.
 * HS 5568The Courtyard Droll and Liv Tyler find John and WV. In a fit of excitement, CD? forgets his main objective. John happily reunites with the bunny, but wonders where the weapons went. In pantomime, Liv answers that she doesn't know, but guesses that they blew away in the wind. As she says this, the Warhammer Of Zillyhoo appears and bonks John on the head.
 * HS 5573John takes the Warhammer, noting how silly it must look for him to wield it at its current size. Then Liv hands John a note from the Penpal, whose initial is J. The penpal reveals that the bunny (who he calls Terry Kiser) also came with the ability to manipulate the size of the weapons she came with. J. also talks a bit about his grandmother, who knew a lot about space and was a witch with it. John immediately figures that it is Jade, with all the time shenanigans. Liv Tyler/Terry Kiser then hugens the hammer. John celebrates, giving CD? a high five while raising the hammer. As everyone basks in its technicolor glory, however, Gamzee approaches a completely fearful Karkat with the same hammer.
 * HS 5582After celebrating getting the hammer, John notices that Liv Tyler (the name he decides on for her) is missing her green eye, and that she is gesticulating in the direction of WV?. Noticing the chaos, John dons his hood and begins to give everyone orders a highly authoritative series of FRIENDLY REQUESTS. First, CD? uses his clubs symbol to patch up Liv's eye, then John uses his wind powers to raise a Derse battleship, and asks Liv to pilot it, promoting her to Captain Tyler.
 * HS 5582After celebrating getting the hammer, John notices that Liv Tyler (the name he decides on for her) is missing her green eye, and that she is gesticulating in the direction of WV?. Noticing the chaos, John dons his hood and begins to give everyone orders a highly authoritative series of FRIENDLY REQUESTS. First, CD? uses his clubs symbol to patch up Liv's eye, then John uses his wind powers to raise a Derse battleship, and asks Liv to pilot it, promoting her to Captain Tyler.