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[Liber celi]

Grimdark is a thing that kind of bothers me.

Rose's system crash was carefully prepared, but we never got any specifics about its effects or mechanics, except for some ominous quotes by Doc Scratch. It felt metaphoric for Rose's main character problems- an overbearing sense of responsibility, coupled with an superiority complex, resulting in her chaperoning her friends and bossing them around without sharing more than the most crucial information. But then, the grimdark state was resolved without any character development, which itself might be symbolic, yet doesn't justify this whole ordeal. I know the author didn't want to [spoiler] the Horror-Terrors, but come on. How much is there left he can still do with them?

Which leads to a related problem. Information gathering and processing is crucial for SBURB, which is cool.
The kids of course have the trolls, which sometimes basically burst in and scream:"!!SPOILER!! VOLDEMORT IS ERIDAN'S MAN-LUSUS!!", which is cool too, even if I had preferred if they had had some agenda's on their own, agendas more complex than: "MAH HUMAN HAS TO BE DA STRÖNGEST HUMAN" and "I CHUCKLEVOODUDED YOUR HEAD LOL U SUK".
Anyway, cool so far. But Rose is the main gatherer of information. Information from 4 sources:

• Her doomed beta-self's dream memories

        We never saw, or will see, any of this. (Except that Beta-Rose was a drunk.)

• SBURB's NPCs and artifacts

        We saw some turtles and a slab.

• Pesterlogs(mainly Kanaya and Mr Vanilla Milkshake)

        We saw the important ones, but Kanaya is notoriously clueless and Scratch had to appear as an extremely dubious and unreliable source.

• The Horror-Terrors

        We saw exactly nothing. We heard about as much, and again, why is keeping the Babby-Cthulhus secretive and mysterious so important?

So, yeah. We know that these are things that happened. What do we know from all the info Rose gathered?
Very little.

You may say that we know everything important Rose knew with certainty. That we just skipped the 413 useless books in this one turtle library and a complex and an illusively symbolic Dreamscape provided by 612 tentacled forefathers... yet this would mean Rose did act smarter than she was. A lot. Like, she is actually a completely loose cannon which hit the right target because a random earthquake pushed it over and a simultaneous lightning storm ignited the powder.

I don't believe that. After all, she had Seer powers and a Magic Cue-Ball to verify and filter information.
So, either Rose is pathologically paranoid about sharing knowledge, even if needed to ensure her own survival, or Hussie did simply fuck up the pacing and focusing of the story. For a main character. Over three to five acts.


I kinda hoped getting to a more positive conclusioon when I started writing.

[Darvi]

Big news, KS stretch goal get!

[Dermonster]

We have eight days to rack up three quarters of a million dollars. Plus the two three weeks of paypal.

[Slayerhero90]

I think we might get there with the paypal.

[Darvi]

Yeah, I guess Hussie's the sort of guy to add paypal payments to the total.

Of course, if the upgrades are good enough we might not even need those.

[Diablous]

Or it's Rose. Or even John. Who knows?

My money's on this being John's bubble. We did just see him rage himself to sleep, so it seems likely that this bubble is his. Plus, John is currently angry and upset about a lot of things, including Jack killing his dad, and would not be happy to see Jack again. I smell a rematch, and it was mentioned in the first intermission that First Guardian powers don't work in the furthest ring, so I doubt it will be as short as their first battle. Poor Jack, trying to avoid one person angry about his killing spree, only to find another.

[Darvi]

Hello.

My name is John Egbert.

You killed my father.

Prepare to die.

[GlyphGryph]

I figured it was the dreambubble the Meenah adventure was in, and now it will go back to that, and as soon as we finish it Jack bursts through the walls and kills all the new characters we just met.

[FuzzyZergling]

I figured it was the dreambubble the Meenah adventure was in, and now it will go back to that, and as soon as we finish it Jack bursts through the walls and kills all the new characters we just met.

He's going to kill them all, it's just a matter of time.

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[Putnam]

Pffhaha I didn't realize English was in this song until I listened to it just now

[ed boy]

Based on the recent update, I'm going to hypothesize that we're going be be seeing dad/mom soon.

[Diablous]

Hello.

My name is John Egbert.

You killed my father.

Prepare to die.

This has to happen.

In other news, I've found this ...thing. It is going to show something in an hour. I'm not sure what. But it might be cool. Or nightmare inducing. Only one way to find out!

[OREOSOME]

Maybe Jack might actually be feeling... Sorry, for what he's done? This is a long shot, but then again, John being ragey and stuff was a longshot too.

[Diablous]

UPDATE! Not much happening, so not much to say about it.

[OREOSOME]

Already noticed.