Today I’m reading.
03/04/10- "Rose, I must leave now.” (/homestuck/1538) to 03/06/10 - "Jack: Open it.” (/homestuck/1556)"
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Rose had been chatting with a troll who’d dumped a tonne of lore onto us. One thing they had mentioned was that the voices in the heads of players are those of exiled agents. They are living on ruined earth in the future. We’ve met A Wayward Vagabond (WV), a Peregrine Mendicant (PM) and an Aimless Renegade (AR). But who’s voice Rose has been hearing? All we know is they seem polite and have an elegant font.
They repeat she needs to find her sprite, and her purpose. Then says they will never hear from them again. Rose felt very free and liberated as she didn't need any guide. She was the guide, or at least the writer of one on GameFaqs.
In the future, on earth, WV, PM, and AR had gotten along and set up camp. WV and AR just had a giant egg land near them. From this egg a Windswept Questant (WQ, Questant meaning one who goes on quest). She is a white caprician like PM, but much taller than the others. Her robes are even cleaner than the others. PM was providing John with instructions to help her past self. But the sound of the egg crashing caught her immediate attention.
In the present a past version of PM is a mail carrier. They’ve been on a quest to retrieve a package that was taken by an agent. She’s now deep in agent territory and even encountered the black queen (possibly). She's reached the office of the archagent. Shockingly the package she is after is just there on a desk. But Jack Noir has shown up. PM’s cover of just being there to pay for a parking ticket is being tested. She failed pretty quickly but Jack has other ideas. He says he will let her go, with the parcel, but she needs to go on a mission in exchange. He provides her with the same black sword her future self still carries. Her mission is to kill the king and the queen. With little other choice she takes the sword and leaves.
Peeking inside the package to see what is worth regicide, even Jack's shocked. But we don't get to see what it is. We do know this is a gift from Jade to John. So it's either something otherworldly and chaotic or something very mundane. PM doesn't need to know what's in it. She is working on duty alone.
Till tomorrow, remember to not open other people's mail, that's illegal. also keep riding the pumpkin tide.