Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[Specterbane]

Originally Posted by "Half Assed" Karesh

They don't strictly need to prototype since Jade is bringing along a lovely Skaia for them all to share anyway.

I don't think the original kid's Skaia can become a new universe because it only had The Tumor inside it.

[Locke cole]

Maybe their bringing along Skaia will do... something... to the Alpha Kids' Skaia. Who knows, with this game?

[POS Industries]

It can't become a new universe if the tumor explodes inside it. The tumor was removed, so it's good to go.

[Karrrrrrrrrrrresche]

I thought the frog was the new universe?

[Loyal]

The frog becomes a new universe. Not Skaia. Prototyped Skaia is only required for the creation of the frog which becomes the universe. We don't yet know if Skaias can be shared between sessions, though, and in any case the Kids' Skaia got significantly damaged already (most notably, a massive hole leading to its empty core, courtesy of John). It's possible that the use of the old Skaia will result in the creation of the very same Genesis Frog that Jade created, minus Red Miles cancer.

We don't know what, if anything, is to be contained in a typical Skaia's core since by all accounts the kids were a unique case.

[Revising Ocelot]

Skaia /=/ the Battlefield, remember. As far as I see it, the Battlefield has to be sufficiently un-destroyed by meteors and such to fight the Black King, which then enables Skaia itself to become Bilious Slick's pond to squat in and become a universe. If the Battlefield has been completely destroyed by the meteors, Black King, omnipoterriers or what have you, then somehow the process is FUBAR'd. The Beta kids were already out of the running when Jack got his Regicide on. Perhaps the scepters (which have the representation of Skaia atop them) plays a part? The White scepter causes the Reckoning (which Jack used), while the Black scepter does something else (which Jack cut in half to depower the Black King).

Basically, we require more exposition minerals. Spawn more Overlords.

[Locke cole]

I thought that Skaia contained the Pond, and the Beta universe had the Tumor instead of a pond.

[Revising Ocelot]

Skaia /=/ Battlefield. The Battlefield is the chessboard planet thing which had the Tumour at the center, formed somehow by the faults of the session, either from Jack's actions or Karkat messing up BS's genetic code. Skaia is the general area around the Battlefield - which is what Prospit floats through - and is pretty much abstract clouds and blueness at our current perspective of the Alpha 'verse timeline. If there's no Battlefield, there's no means of using... whatever happens that causes Skaia to become Slick's pond, hence it may be some function of the Black Scepter while the Battlefield itself is probably some kind of catalyst that's powered up by prototypings. While the White Scepter invites destruction in the form of the Reckoning, the Black may cause the opposite. Pages like this show the whole of Skaia becomes the pond, so I doubt it's just some stationary construct kept where the Tumour plopped itself.

EDIT: Meh, screw the Scepter stuff. The trolls beat the BK by smashing his.

[Ecks]

Can anyone appreciate the irony there? As Prospit encourages creation and the birth of Bilious Slick and Derse desires destruction and hurls blasphemies at him... the white scepter is the one that causes the Reckoning and the black holds .

[Flarecobra]

SO MUCH CATS.

Can I adopt one?