They should have sent a poet...

So in this update, Dirk made out with every other post-scratch kid. And in each sloppy make-out session, one of the involved parties was dead.

Can't wait for EoA6A3 and all the session-entering action.

>>66993
Also, what?

What my eyes have witnessed today. God it's beautiful!
I can't even imagine how the EoA6A3 will go.

That was absolutely magnificent.

I only see one update

>>66998
The other updates are hidden. It's a fakeout, kind of like how when DD: Ascend and DD:ascend more casually were released, we could only see the first flash listed.

What the heck is the pink thing, some sort of planet or something 'cause I can't seem to figure out what it is or why all the trolls-kids are in it.

>>67001
it's the pink moon orbiting Alternia, or more accurately, a dream-bubble projection of that place

>>67001
It's Meenah's dream bubble projection of Alternia's original, pink moon. I think it was mentioned that she lived there when she was, well, alive.

That.

Was.

Amazing.

>oh god another hiatus nooooooo

What a good update.

http://tubedubber.com/#zGgZk3yF8b4:iQru7oCdYXA:0:100:0:0:1
huh

>>67002
But then how are all the kids there, I thought they were on a meteor. I think I'm confused with the geography of the furthest ring.

>>67008
The meteor is passing through the bubble containing the moon. So is Roxy's dream self. Meaning it all gets kind of mixed up.
The thing about the Furthest Ring and its "geography" is that it's fucked up, in constant motion and almost impossible to predict.

Why the hell did Meenah Hi5 with Dirk? Just because he was passing through? Also who wants to bet that Serenity is really Calliope's soul or something

>>67011
>Why the hell did Meenah Hi5 with Dirk? Just because he was passing through?
That, and because he's a coolkid on a rocket board and she's still in half-catatonic glee from being told about the Condesce.

>>67011
>Why the hell did Meenah Hi5 with Dirk?

When you see an awesome dude riding a rocket board through your death-dream void bubble, YOU HIGH-FIVE THAT AWESOME DUDE. It's just what you do.

>>67007
it's scary how well it fits

Jesus christ DIRK IS ON FUCKING POINT

So I just realized that Dirk used his Sylladex extensively during Synchronize.
Meaning that he was rapping the entire time.

>>67011
That whole sequence war supposed to be over-the-top unnecessary cool bullshit. Hi-fives fit right in there.

>>67016

And all of this thanks to a donut.

>>67016
PETER! GET ME LYRICS! LYRICS OF DIRKS RAP!

>>67008
>I think I'm confused with the geography of the furthest ring.
The whole point of the place is that it's total chaos in terms of spatial and temporal layout. If you're just walking around, it's entirely possible you could walk right into your own back, and then when you turn around to punch your past self for cramping your style, you instead find yourself punching Hitler.

The dreambubbles grant a little bit of stability to this madness but people can still pop in and out of them from any other time or place in the entire void.

>>67007
How do people find these things?

Anyway, I'm still a little confused on what happened with the lotus. Can anyone enlighten me?

Okay so now all four Nobles are together and each has only one life. Jake is his real self and everyone else are there dream selves. This means that all four of them are together on Earth before the red miles show up, as that happens hundreds of years in the future from their present point on the timeline. Also, Dirk left Squarewave and Sawtooth in place of his and Roxy's normal timeline real selves. The robots are going to coordinate with the Nobles to get all the necessary SBURB entry work done in both timelines.

Heh.

>>67022
Dirk set the time to an appropriate time and flew the hoverboard into it. The meteor reached a defense portal by unknown means, crashed on B2 Earth far in the past and constructed the Frog Temple. Shortly after Jake got knocked out, the lotus opened and released them. Dirk grabbed the bucket he had transportalized next to Jake and woke him up with it.

The strange thing about this is that Jake got Liv Tyler's weapons out of it earlier, so they had to enter the lotus before Dirk did. Possibilities include the kids being already here, Dave or Gamzee using time travel to deposit them before they arrive, or someone somehow figuring out how to change the lotus from first-in-first-out to first-in-last-out.

>>67022
Dirk jumped into it because he needed to wake Jake up.

I'm a bit confused about Jane, though. Is she going to start bleeding soon and then revive? After all, Dirk was being revived just a few seconds ago right in front of her, so he couldn't have revived her earlier than that.

This is so convoluted it's awesome.

>>67026
We saw him revive her. Her realself died on Derse, and he kissed it with his dreamself just after having it woken up by Jake kissing his realself's head. Her dreamself was still tuckered out on Prospit after having survived the Slick's assassination attempt, woke up when Dirk kissed her dead realself, wandered into a transportalizer to the Frog Temple and got picked up by Dirk there.

>>67028
But she couldn't have revived already when she wandered onto that transportalizer, since Dirk snatched her on his way to Jake, who was knocked out at the moment and has not revived Dirk yet.

>>67027
Dirk rode a rocketboard through 2 different universes and across 200 years so that he could make out with every one of his dead friends and bring them back to life, all while freestyle rapping, and following established methods for all of these things. It didn't even feel like an asspull.

>>67030
The incipisphere and the universe are temporally independent. That mechanism has been used to create stable time loops a couple times already, and it's exactly what's happening here. Jake woke up Dirk so he could wake up Jake so he could wake up Dirk.

Just watch Unite again. At the beginning, you'll see Dirk's dreamself waking up. That's because Jake kissed his head. You'll then see Dirk's dreamself kiss Jane's realself, reviving her. Then Jane and Dirk both take different routes to the Frog Temple in 2011, where Dirk snatches her and flies her to Jake, in order to wake him up and watch him make out with his head, which is the event that woke Dirk's dreamself up in the Incipisphere.

>>67032
Ah, I believe I found where I made a mistake - I assumed Jake kissing Dirk happened in parallel. Dirk must've sent his head back whatever the time difference between him and Jake, when he really must've sent it a few minutes later than that to give himself time to wake Jake up.

Come to think of it, would Dirk kissing himself work?

>>67035
>would Dirk kissing himself work?

I don't think we have any information on this. It's a pretty specific scenario, isn't it? Maybe there's a restriction in place to stop a time player from reviving themselves. Maybe not. Who the hell knows.

remember back when dirk was being introduced and we used to complain about him not being awesome enough and that he was a disgrace to bro
and how hussie had thrown away his undiluted coolness in favour of being able to make more gay jokes and innuendos

yeah

AND THUS DIRK WAS THE BEST

>>67042

More of everything!

is it just me or the last updates aren't appearing in the page list?

So many decapitations in Act 6...

>>67051
Nope, not just you. >>66999

I love how happy Roxy seems about this whole thing.

>>67042
Nobody ever said that. Dirk was clearly superior from the start. The guy synchros two separate bodies like it's no big fucking deal for most of his life for gods sake. With that extra head space freed up, this was probably child's play for him.

Hussie is seriously teasing us with the absurdly timed time loops now. The bucket timing makes it seem even more like AR's doing, because there's no way even Dirk could pull that off without him. Innuendo!

So this probably isn't the thread for this, but anybody else get the feeling Dirk isn't as serious about the whole Jake thing as Lil Hal is? Like, I think Lil Hal is the one that wants Jake more, not Dirk. Or at least to a lesser degree on his part. Just something I thought of.

>>67070
Yeah, I concur. Dirk has actually been really cagey about his true feelings.

They might have a disagreement over it, actually.

One that comes to blows.

Or Dirk crushing his shades.

>>67070
>>67073
It makes sense, except for one thing. AR repeatedly gave Roxy and Jake himself heads up about Dirk trying something with him in the first place. It's like shades doesn't know what he wants either, or it's more robomanipulation bullshit.

>>67075
I think the minute we discovered his name is Lil Hal, we should have prepared for the long haul of manipulation to his own ends to an extent. Wish I could find that old edit with Dave and Lil Cal as David and Hal.

>>67076
Would that make Bro's shades Hal?

>>67076
I still think that Little Hal is going to be Lord English. I don't know how, but he just gives that fucked up vibe.

oh man, the facial expressions in this flash are hilarious. I love how Roxy looks like she's just having the most fun ever.

I thought MSPA could not get any more awesome. At least not significantly.

I was soooo wrong. Dirk on a flying skateboard makes everything better.

>>67081
That's the nice thing about MSPA. It's on a steady rise of awesome, even if it seems like there are temporary downs.

>>67053
>>67079
The facial expressions are probably the thing that got me most. I've been rewatching the flashes just to see them!

>>67011
>LOCAH lantern SHATTERS when Jake kiss-revives Dirk, but not when anyone else comes back.
What does this MEEEEAAAAN?

>>67082
>but not when anyone else comes back.
Um
We didn't exactly see their lanterns at that point now did we?
I'm more curious about what that firefly is doing in there.

>>67083
Well we've seen Jane lifey thing reviving herself didn't break it.

And I think it was symbolic of how as of this moment all of Dirk's other bodies (minus lil' hal, who is his own person now) have collapsed into one single Dirk. Also anyone noticing it's using the heart symbol for his loading screens? Not his orange hat? Maybe it means he'll go god tier?

I'm starting to think Hussie should just do all the art himself. These two flashes managed to be far better than EoA5.

>stop reading homestuck right after cascade
>come back to it 8 months later or whatever just now.
jesus christ what the fuck am i watching, i think i forgot half of the story. who are these people and why do they look like OCs based off the original ones

>>67088
They essentially are.

>>67088
Remember Grandpa, Grandma, Bro, and Mom? It's them.

>>67089
well god damn. im guessing nomuscles-glasses is daves brother but a child, drunky mclikemymother is roses mom, and the other two dorks are...shit, i dunno.

>>67090
aww shit, its all coming back to me now. they did a hard reset of the game and essentially rolled new characters or something, right?

...so, are the original four dead or whatever.

>>67092
Nope
John scratched the game, Jade went god tier and shrunk all the lands + Skaia and crashed a battleship through the fourth wall.
They are currently travelling through Hussie's dimension together with Davesprite, all of the denizens, salamanders, iguanas, turtles, crocodiles and carapaces, on their way to the new session.

Rose set out on her quest to destroy the Green Sun, but was ambushed by DD. Dave showed up to save her. They both found crypt beds (like Aradia's) and went god tier. The twist was that rather than destroying the Green Sun, they ended up creating it. Then they met up with the surviving trolls (Karkat, Kanaya, Terezi and Gamzee) and are currently flying through the Furthest Ring on their way to the new session.

But since several new characters have been introduced, you should just go back and read everything you've missed rather than have us tell you what's going on. It's spoiler-heavy and we wouldn't want to ruin it for you.

>>67094
Oh yeah and the meteor people (Rose Dave and trolls) also brought WV and Serenity with them (Serenity, due to dreambubble shenanigans, is currently with Roxy). Jack is chasing the meteor, but he is in turn chased by PM, who is royally pissed off and has the same powers as him.

>>67070
Remember, Lil' Hal is Dirk's 13 year old mind.
When he had boners for Jake and was 13 and puberty stuff.

By now, perhaps Dirk's feelings have subsided a bit, or taken on a subtler route or whatever happens to crushes after nearly 3 years.

>>67078
Ditto...more than anything this really creeps me out. Like AR is going to take Dirk's head over, attach it to a robot body and do...something.

>>67086
I think it means he's doin' what heart players do the best

>>67099
Somehow I'm getting a feeling Dirk's head might get prototyped.

>>67102
No prototypings this session remember? Or well, at least no preentry ones...

>>67103
Postentry ones are still definately a thing, though. Jane's was wasted on a self-hating trolbomination, but I expect at least one of the kernels to be put to good use.

...what's up with the chess board?

>>67107
some other mod giving bea beef

>>67104
Hopefully AR/Lil' Hal will be prototyped into Jake's kernel. Not only would it be yet another parallel to Dave(sprite), but it would also make the weird love triangle Dave, Dirk and Hal have going even worse.

>>67104
I still hold hope for Roxy to make a Zazzersprite. It just needs to happen. Hell, look at all that wizard memorabilia. Plus reasons.

http://tubedubber.com/#zGgZk3yF8b4:iQru7oCdYXA:0:100:0:0:1
This made me laugh. (Sorry, no regular audio overlay on Youtube yet.)

>>67107
It just appeared yesterday around the same time the whole board was inexplicably locked. Obviously we can post now though. Don't stress about it.

Check the chessboard image name. Are the mods playing a chess game? How cute :3

>>67123
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecPeSmF_ikc

Does anyone know Dirk got his rocket board from his real self to his dream self?

>>67128
He didn't. His dreamself had a rocket board, too. You can see it here.
http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006439

All that stuff probably came with the dream room, like Dave's turntables.

>>67086
> anyone noticing it's using the heart symbol for his loading screens? Not his orange hat? Maybe it means he'll go god tier?

Actually, from what we've seen a last-life dream self dying on a moon-bed is still a way to go God Tier, so Dirk, Roxy, and Jane still have a chance as far as we know.

What we don't know is the specifics of how Quest Beds work. Everyone we've seen ascend so far has ultimately ended up in their dreamself's body, though that could be coincidence. We don't know if a dreamself dying on a planet's quest bed would work, if a realself who still has a dreamself dying on a moon-bed would work, or most importantly, if it's possible to ascend without a live dreamself on either Quest Bed.

Through story hax we still know that if Jake post-entry prototypes his dead dreamself, he can ascend/merge with it via his planet's Quest Bed. Think it will happen?

>>67142
I have my doubts, what with Gamzee roaming free in their session.

>>67142
it'd be a nice paralell to Jade doing it. prehaps he'll get a second prototyping addition too?

>Like a skull or something

What I would like to see is someone prototyping their realself and then having that die on a quest bed.

>>67097
Hal thinks Dirk wants Jake to be his boyfriend.

Dirk actually wants Jake to be his moirail.

THINK ABOUT IT

Okay, so i finally found a YouTube upload of the two updates. Holy shit that was great. Dirk living up to uu's expected shit being done (i think, right?), and the way the characters interacting just did more for me than the logs did, if that makes sense. Also that music. Goodness, that music. It was just perfect for Dirk being so awesome so suddenly. What was that? Does anyone have the names?

>>67148
They both want to kiss Jake on the lips, Dirk is just a lot more sane and less pushy. And also more physically capable of kissing people.

>>67149
it's one track, called unite synchronization

>>67150
>TT: The responder doesn't much distort my position on things usually.
>TT: Its demeanor leaves something desired though. I'd prefer it didn't make such aggressive and repeated claims of fidelity to my persona.
>TT: Be misrepresentin' hells of key subtleties, yo.

>TT: And anyway, it's too late for you to play "damage control" with me. My shit is in motion, and now we're beyond the pail.
>TT: Pretty sure it's pale.
>TT: Is it, now?

Also I just want a pale-proposition anticlimax because it would be hilarious and awful. It's the kind of fan-trolling Hussie'd indulge in, anyway.

>>67152
I just think it would be stupid and a really lame copout.

>there will be no Dirk <3 Jake
And today just keeps getting better!

It doesn't seem he's shooting for pale. I mean, he did try to get Jake specifically to kiss his head, despite bringing Roxy and Jane there.

>prototyping
I still hope that there are more dead troll mix-ups. I really want to see a Feridan sprite. That would be silly and amazing.

>Dirk/Jake
Pale and nothing more.

>>67163
>>67161
omfg gise whats with the homophobobia

I'm not saying the pale theory is impossible.

But if it is true, wouldn't it be mad weird that Roxy, who grew up with Alternian concepts of romance, construed Dirk's palecrush as something that would get in the way of Jane winning Jake's hand?

(This is putting aside the whole issue with making a male human character, revealing him to have a romantic attraction to another guy, and then going "lol nope he's not really gay", which would be an okay twist in a white room but with the world as it is would be kind of a shitty move.)

>>67164
well it IS the homestuck fandom

If things don't work out between Dirk and Jake it would probably be because Dirk felt the need to be cagey and calculating and circuitously manipulate Jake into a romantic entanglement with him instead of just being upfront about his feelings, which is weird and potentially off-putting, especially since it wasn't even really him, it was his severed head. "His feelings were pale all along!" would be stupid. Really stupid.