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[Rolan7]

So I'm up to page 868 of this thread.  Really impatient for the reactions to Jade: Enter.  (Though a few of you did call the Beq-prototyping beforehand).

Vriska does a really good job explaining to John why she caused Bec Noir.  The first time through I understood "Oh, she wants to be the cause of the big bad because she's massively insecure/egotistical.  Cool enough, no harm done, Tavros why you gotta be an idiot".  This time I got what she was really saying though: by helping things go the way they had to, she was reducing the amount of doomed alternate timelines.  From her perspective Bec would get prototyped without her input, but it'd probably be incredibly contrived and unlikely.

What she did was the opposite of Terezi getting John killed off.  That aspect of weird time shit (trying to stay in the alpha timeline or suddenly finding yourself doomed and troll-less) always struck me as particularly creepy.  It's not clear how far the players can stray from Skaia's blueprint before they splinter off.  Based on the amount of Aradia clones they have *some* freedom, but most or all of what we would consider important events must go a certain way.  Sucks.

Anyway, Vriska was doing a good thing there, and she knew it.  (while also being massively egotistical)

I don't know why I wrote that when I'm only a few dozen pages from seeing the existing discussion on it.  Oh well, have some awesome alternate Alternians from all those pages ago:  http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?32713-IMAGE-MANIPULATION-3-An-Itch-to-Scratch&p=4279794&viewfull=1#post4279794

[Cerol Lenslens]

Oh... god. What kind of horrible, horrible place is the uU session taking place in?

And uu is really starting to freak me right the fuck out with all his Karkat parallels. I mean, he had them before, but it's just spiraling into freaky broken mirror reflections now.

Calling it here. uu is killed (or has hid death arranged) by past uu. Or future uu from a doomed timeline or something.

[Diablous]

Update! Meenah really needs to work on her social skills.

[penguinofhonor]

Oh man I really want to meet the Sufferer.

[CJ1145]

I want to see his name. I sincerely hope it's some strange word meaning roughly "his face" or something.

[Meansdarling]

Yay it's Dave! I am so happy that we get to see some familiar faces! And Dave! lol
I guess they are all in the dream bubble right now, perhaps led there by Terezi?
I feel like I'm forgetting part of the story.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Aranea led them all to the bubble.

Also did anyone else notice Red Miles a couple updates back? I can't be bothered to read back that far - there have been a hell of a lot of posts between then and now.

[Rolan7]

Yeeeeeeeeeee! 
Go on Karkat you've almost got her!  Keep it up!
(I really want to see notSummoner. I bet he's less of an opposite than notMindfang and notCondesce.  In this kinder Altalternia I wonder if he was a shepherd, or maybe a ceremonial knight)

[Blade Master Model 42]

Wait a second, why is Karkat wielding Homes Smell Ya Later? Shouldn't he have significantly better weapons? Or is he only trying to subdue Meena, and is thus using a less deudly weapon?

[penguinofhonor]

(I really want to see notSummoner. I bet he's less of an opposite than notMindfang and notCondesce.  In this kinder Altalternia I wonder if he was a shepherd, or maybe a ceremonial knight)

Well he should be a ____ of blood, so not a knight.

[applesauce machine]

Wait a second, why is Karkat wielding Homes Smell Ya Later? Shouldn't he have significantly better weapons? Or is he only trying to subdue Meena, and is thus using a less deudly weapon?

I think I remember Karkat thinking Troll Will Smith was awesome, so the HOMES SMELL YA LATER was something he basically thought was the most awesome possible sickle ever, and used from then on in the comic. Also, I'm even more sure of this based on the panel and the "Plus some other cool stuff" in this page.

[Shinziril]

Weapon use seems slightly random as the story goes along.  Karkat's been seen using and/or having the HOMES SMELL YA LATER, the Clawsickle, and the Regisickle if I remember correctly.  Plus his original one. 

[Qmarx]

It's because they keep stealing items from each other and stashing them in chests.


And vice versa.

[applesauce machine]

I swear to God Meenah is the sassiest black woman in this whole comic. And she's not even human.
Um.
*cough* Update.

[jc6036]

I love how Jake is just dazed out in the background like 'I've seen some shit'.