Homestuck Re-read Part 46: A6I3 PART 2.
Sorry. Nothing today. There are 90 pages of intermission but I'm just not feeling up to anything personal right now.
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We're starting out with more of Meenah Quest We seem to be in a dream bubble showing a rural alternian lawn ring, which is then refered to as 'the burbs' so I'm not sure which it is. We quickly stumble onto Cronus, Eridan's ancestor. He also doesn't want in on Meenah's army so we move on quick. Gotta find 4 gems representing the quadrants to get into Karkat's hive.
We cross a bridge and a yellowblood does a rad skateboard trick before absolutely eating shit right infront of us. Hi Mituna and oh god he talks in greentexts? I don't remember that. I also do not remember his quirk at all and it is not obvious. Ok I checked the wiki and it's just like, 1337 speak. I got so use to there being different flavours of it as quirks that just seeing intense 31173 threw me off. Seems he's as abrasive as the 4chan stereotype he's based on. Reading this is making me feel like I'm loosing braincells and OH GOD KANKIRI IS HERE AGAIN.
We have the option to be Mituna but we'll leave it for now and keep being Meenah. Club key is nearby and so is the spade. And Kurloz, Gamzee's ancestor. He's covered in skeletal bodypaint and doesn't seem to speak. We stumble across Meulin and a chest with the heart key! Meulin, much like her descendent Nepeta, is an adorable adorable cat girl. She fucking loves Meenah. Although she didn't seem too when they were alive, at least according to Meenah. Meenah also said she repeatedly tried to kill Meulin, so that would explain it.
She somehow emotes a gif from, I want to say thats adventure time? while doing ASL for...
Well according to the wiki it doesn't actually mean anything in ASL even though I remember reading that it means "I LOVE YOU" somewhere. We can be Meulin and check on a dream bubble to find, Gamzee's codpiece? We can also actually have a conversation with Kurloz in the form of gifspam. We get the opportunity to give him the codpiece and then. Suddenly his eyes start flickering and hes talking in a weird font. We seem to be placed under his spell as Meulin's eyes are also flickering and we're hailing the mirthful messiah, the angel of double death.
MEULIN: (=o.o=) MAY THE BARD'S RIOTOUS CHUCKLEBOODOOS INSPIRE NIGHTMARES IN ALL WHO WOULD OPPAWS CALICORN, AND MAY THE JOCULARKITTY OF HIS VAST HONK RING LOUD AND MOTHER FUCKIN TRUE ALL THE WAY TO SHANGRI LOL.
AY MOTHER FUCKIN MEN, MY WICKED KITTYBITCH.
We activate the memory bubble thingy and walk down the corridor to be greeted by Gamzee himself.
GAMZEE: shut your mother fucking mouth and give me the cod piece.
Anyway we be Meenah again and backtrack to the door with the lock. Inside is a memory of Karkat's hive before his computer exploded. We finally get to talk more to Karkat and hear about how he's having a hard time with the ancestors, mainly Kankiri. He didn't believe in ancestors at all before this and he just clocked the BEFORUS joke (Before Us) and ALTERNIA being ALTERNATIVE. Karkat still seems to think Alternia was kick ass and he seemed to respect the Empress for her devotion to the genocide against mutant bloods like him, apparently. Karkat asks about the plan to whack lord English and when he finds out Meenah has zero recruits he offers to join next time the meteor passes by a meetup point.
We then start being Karkat. Step outside and we're at Terezi's hive. Terezi is here, standing alone. She seems upset but it's not clear why or if she is. Karkat agrees to leave her alone before not leaving her alone and asking if Dave upset her and going off on one. She starts to explain the problem is her ancestor Latula. She's too radical... and Terezi doesn't think she can live up to it.
SH3 1S SO S4SSY 4ND FUN TH3 B3ST 4T G4M3S, 4ND 4LL H3R STUNTS 4R3 1NCR3D1BL3.
Karkat tries to reassure her that Terezi isn't in Latula's shadow. In his opinion, Latula puts on an act to be cool for attention while Terezi is cool. Karkat leaves and then we're Terezi! We go inside and it's Terezi's hive now. Meenah is there again! We ask Meenah if she's seen Karkat and say we're also looking for him. Meenah seemingly interpreted something Karkat said as an invitation for a date. We're Meenah again and go outside and it's still outside Terezi's hive. But Aranea is here with her exposition booth! The sylph is in, baby!
Thats the end of Meenah quest for now! Instead we're going too....
Bec Noir
Noir is tired of running, and the momentary peace between him and PM was over as quick as it started. He's on the lookout for a break, and pierces a dream bubble.
It looks like the memory is of him crushing Wayward Vagabond's coalition forces. He and PM play a high stakes game of hide and seek around a castle. Seemingly the same one he fought John and Rose atop. But on the roof, both lay dead.
John suddenly wakes and does the windy thing. This duel doesn't go any better for John to start with until he almost gets some revenge.
They're both suddenly distracted by Rose. One for longer then the other.
John meets the Parcel Mistress for the second time. Except this time she isn't an aggrieved mailwoman, she looks like an angel chasing a demon to the edges of existence itself. Bec Noir and PM fly off, leaving John alone in the dream. He wanders and eventually he comes across a familiar looking desert.
He wanders far enough to come across the strange statue where Vriska met Hussie, but instead meets Tavros. He picks up a ring from the sand while some kind of pattern emerges in the sky behind him. He puts the ring on as Tavros wakes up. He wants the ring back, and he seems a lot more aggressive and confident to stand up for himself then last we saw him. Tavros says his matesprite (or girlfriend, you ignorami) is working him to the bone hunting for loot. Tavros wants the ring to propose to his girlfriend and John the awful human is being such a dick.
We then see, in the tiniest of fonts, some light blue text.
VRISKA: Taaaaaaaavros!
It's their first time meeting for real, ish. I think. John is really confused by the fact she's dead. It's sort of bizarre, Vriska has simultaniously matured a bit but also gone backwards. She's already had her meetup with John, just the one who didn't remember. She dated him and now she's meeting a version of John who she's over but who never even knew she was dead. We also learn what happened to that John, he was in the bubble Lord English killed. This is also the first time John actually hears about Lord English.
There's a three pronged approach to taking on Lord English.
- Find Calliope's ghost (Aranea's plan)
- Raise a militia (Meenah's plan)
- Find mythical ancient treasure (Vriska's plan)
Vriska seems to think all three parts need to come together as part of some legend. She explains a bunch more that we don't get to hear because John and Tavros are fighting about the ring. She pulls out a treasure map of the furthest ring and like the previous map we see, it's pitch black. Making progress was basically impossible until Lord English started destroying paradox space. Now the maps have features and are somewhat more navigable. Vriska needs to build up her legend to try and bait Lord English, but when she says it it just conjures images of Big Boss in my mind for some reason.
John gets ready to say goodbye to Vriska and Tavros as the update draws to a close. Farewell for today.