Homestuck: Act 1

The first act of Homestuck is more of an introduction toward the characters and setting of the game. It introduces us to John Egbert, his Dad, Rose Lalonde, GardenGnostic, and TurntechGodHead.

John Egbert has just reached his thirteenth birthday, and goes about his house in a mild attempt to get Sburb, a hot new game that came out three days prior, onto his computer to play. He is instructed by TG on how to use his Sylladex and how to Captchalogue, and then chooses Hammers for his Strife Specibus. After getting the basics down in his room, he leaves to go search for the game. He mostly causes a mess in his house at first, finding his Dad had given him a giant Harlequin for his birthday, leaving the box right in the middle of the living room. After struggling to find anything outside, he checks various other rooms of the house before running into the kitchen and meeting his Dad, who is busy making more Cake. They enter Strife, and John is easily defeated by his Dad's pranks. Fortunately, John accidentally contrives an escape maneuver and manages to run off with the Client version of Sburb and his Dad's PDA. After fidgeting around with his Sylladex trying to get to his game, he manages to rocket the PDA out of the yard, and eventually succeeds in installing the game. He connects to Rose's server and the game begins. At first, nothing particularly special happens until Rose starts expanding his room and adding various items inside the house. John starts to fidget with some of the items, and sets off one of them with a Sledgehammer, freeing a Kernelsprite. He merges the now mangled Harlequin with the Kernelsprite, and a timer appears, ticking down. Having no clue what any of it means and assuming it is bad, Rose looks to GameFAQS for help, finding that the walk-throughs are terribly written. Rose loses her connection to John due to a local thunderstorm and heads to the observatory to steal a signal from the nearby laboratory. She connects and lets John out of his room to see if he can put a stop to the timer. However, due to the two of them mostly goofing off during the total alloted time, the meteor that was apparently summoned crashes into John's home, creating a huge explosion.