01. homestuck

[Jade Harley]

What's Homestuck anyway?

Son, you better sit down because you're about to get schooled. Homestuck is an awesome webcomic by the God, Andrew Hussie.

( Taken from here )
Homestuck is ‘a tale about A BOY AND HIS FRIENDS and a game they play together’. On his 13th birthday, JOHN EGBERT receives the latest computer game, an immersive simulation game called SBURB BETA. Working with his friend ROSE LALONDE, they discover it is a game that allows the players to manipulate their reality.

A startling revelation comes, however - an apocalyptic METEOR shower is beginning to destroy the world before their very eyes. However, the game gives them tools to escape their fate. John, Rose, and their friends DAVE STRIDER and JADE HARLEY work together to flee the apocalypse and enter a new dimension called the INCIPISPHERE. The Incipisphere is a world of ‘warring royalty in a timeless expanse’, where the forces of PROSPIT and DERSE struggle for dominion over the realm of SKAIA in the chess-patterned BATTLEFIELD at its center. Their primary guides are the spirits known as KERNELSPRITES. They must fight against the monsters of the dark kingdom, controlled by the DENIZENS, and free the CONSORTS of the four planets circling Skaia. They must master the inventory system called the SYLLADEX, and master the ALCHEMY SYSTEM the game provides

John, Rose, Dave, and Jade slowly learn of their roles as the Heir of Breath, the Seer of Light, the Knight of Time, and the Witch of Space respectively. They must all undertake personal journeys and come to terms with their relationships with their GUARDIANS. They learn they must pass the SEVEN GATES, reach Skaia, and stop the BLACK KING and BLACK QUEEN from destroying Skaia in an event called THE RECKONING. However, it’s said that Skaia would buy the kids time by creating defense portals that would redirect the meteors to another place in paradox space – Earth. Some of these meteors are to ‘seed’ laboratories like the SKYSHIP BASE on Earth, and carry EXILES – former members of the two kingdoms – to the year 2422, long after the apocalypse, for them to repopulate the Earth. Others spawn anomalies like the FROG TEMPLE, and others become the meteors that hit the kids’ houses in the first place. However, another revelation happens as John eventually reaches a laboratory in the Incipisphere’s outer meteor belt called THE VEIL, where he uncovers a mysterious ectobiology machine. John accidentally facilitates the kids’ and their guardians’ own existences. They are sent back to the past on meteors during the Reckoning as well, to set in motion the entire chain of events.

However, things begin to go wrong, as a weapon Jade tries to give to John accidentally ends up in the hands of JACK NOIR, the nefarious archagent of Derse. He commits double regicide against the monarchs of Derse, and becomes the Sovereign Slayer, wreaking destruction wherever he goes – something never intended to happen in the game.

Meanwhile, time wears on and the kids learn to wake their DREAM SELVES up. However, on their quest to grow up and fill into their hero roles, they also stumble upon signs that their mission will end in disastrous failure if they continue on their path. They also learn that they are not the only group of people playing the game. Countless other sessions of players, on other planets in other dimensions, also exist. They begin to be contacted by the twelve TROLLS – players from ANOTHER PLANET and another dimension, who played a session of Sburb (or, as they called it, Sgrub) long ago in the past. Many aspects of their session were similar, with their own twelve-planet Incipisphere, their own EXILES and more. These twelve managed to win their game, and discovered the ultimate purpose of Sburb – to create new universes. And, they did – it turns out that the kids’ home universe was created by none other than the trolls.

However, something went wrong, and an indestructible, omnipotent demon was unleashed into their game, which is said to have dire consequences for both the kids and the trolls. Before the trolls could gain access to the new universe, they were stopped by a RIFT in the space-time continuum called the Scratch. It was later revealed that this demon was actually Jack Noir who under unknown circumstances got into the session of the trolls and prevented them from winning the game. The trolls soon got in touch with the kids, and now they are begrudgingly attempting to help the kids in learning of things like the FIRST GUARDIANS of Earth and Alternia, and the GREEN SUN. It is said they will work together to create the Scratch in the future to escape their fate, but what happens beyond the Scratch is anyone’s guess.

If you were too lazy to read all of that, it's basically about a boy and his group of friends who discover a game that has the ability to shape the world around them. And they need to make their own universe, and basically level themselves up to escape a horrible fate that would befall upon them if they don't achieve everything that they have to get before the end of their session.

But, well, you should know this by now, anyway!

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