Homestuck

As mentioned yesterday, Rose is running out of time. The fire is approaching the mausoleum and she’s just gotten to it. She Fires up the generator and takes shelter inside. It’s a small space, Rose kicks the coffin to the ground to make a table for the laptop. The cat is inside apparently taxidermied and put into a tuxedo. I can only assume a drunken choice made by her mom.

Dave is also pestering her and she is ignoring him. She needs to connect to John.

John meanwhile survived his first real fight. But he noticed something odd. Something fixed his bedroom door during the fight, and left slightly ajar. And when he opened.

Granny Pranked! Seems his ghost grandma sprite thing pulled a classic move on him.

Meanwhile, since John is clearly not in danger. Rose chats with Dave. Dave admits he is beginning to get creeped out by his brother's puppets. But he is still working on obtaining the beta so he can save her.

Back to John. It turns out since the sprite is fully prototyped he can just talk to it. It really is his grandma and she’s going to guide him though the medium. John had never actually met his grandma so he is just assuming this is all true. If this was my grandma she'd be about as bad as John's father in that she’d be making me eat till I explode.

Speaking of John's fathers NanaSprite explains that imps kidnapped him. She also explains that SBURB is just a thing that transports people to an instance of the medium. The medium is where John is currently. It is in something called The Incipisphere, but not in its centre.

Above John is the seven gates. These are the rings left by the sprite when it split apart. above them in the centre of the The Incipisphere is Skaia. Skaia a “crucible of unlimited creative potential”

Also there are 2 kingdoms one dark and one light which each have 4 orbs that need to be filled with sprites.

As she explains all this Skies of Skaia is playing and it's a damn good song.

Anyway by coming to this land John has triggered a war between light and darkness. One which darkness will win. But to figure out the point to all this John needs to progress in the game. She suggests John needs to build a path up to the first gate.

John's excited to start this adventure, to save the earth from doom. But granny shoots down that goal. Earth is just screwed, and not relevant to his journey. By playing the game he's triggered the end times and there's nothing he can do about it. Well that is a bummer but we’d have destroyed it anyway. Nanasprite then leaves to make cookies.

Rose meanwhile is smacking John with a box to get his attention.