Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[POS Industries]

I'll try to help you out, Mauve:

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

There's now a giant seizure-inducing Terminator-faced sarcophagus that Lord English flies around in?

He actually jumped into that at the end of this flash. It's apparently his means of time travel.

Everyone everywhere is dead... except not Dave for some reason? Except maybe he is? It's the future? It's the past? It's another universe?

Those were all dead characters, most of whom came from alternate timelines. They were re-killed by Lord English after he entered their dream bubble.

Jack and PM are back because we've all forgotten they exist?

They were always around, but have been spending the time since the end of Act 5 fighting their way through the Furthest Ring, with Jack chasing after the meteor that Rose, Dave, and the trolls are on while PM chases him in order to kill him.

There's photoshopped solar flare in a spiral shape that we've seen somewhere before but it's been so long I can't remember where?

It's a callback to Calliope's drawing here, which as it turns out was a vision of the events that just transpired afforded to her by the clouds on Skaia.

[Arcanum]

edit -- and ninja'd by POS

Originally Posted by Mauve Mage

Well. That was.... something.

Seriously. I have no words.

Basically because I have no idea what the fuck just happened.

There's now a giant seizure-inducing Terminator-faced sarcophagus that Lord English flies around in?

His Cairo Overcoat transforms into the sarcophagus, and it's how he travels through time and space and stuff.

Everyone everywhere is dead... except not Dave for some reason? Except maybe he is?

All the ghosts that were already dead are now dead again. The horror terrors might be dead, or just wounded. Dave, and everyone else on the meteor, is/are fine. For now at least.

It's the future? It's the past? It's another universe? Jack and PM are back because we've all forgotten they exist?

It's that place where time acts ridiculous based on how far you travel. It seems like as they (the meteor with Dave and folks) travel away from the Green Sun, they jump to a point in time wayyyyy in the future and Dave witnesses Caliborn's entering. Meanwhile Jack was always chasing the meteor and PM was always chasing him. There wasn't much to show there since Jack doesn't want to fight her and loose his prey (also because she mad him swoon), and they're evenly matched so it's not like PM can catch him.

There's photoshopped solar flare in a spiral shape that we've seen somewhere before but it's been so long I can't remember where?

It was a drawing/picture/painting Cali made.

I know I should have some sort of emotional reaction to this, but... All I feel is mild bewilderment and disappointment that everyone just got vaporized for no apparent reason, with no explanation, in the middle of a flash animation, and it'll likely be three weeks before any of this is addressed. Possibly longer.

Don't worry, they were already dead.

[Art of Hilt]

Further clarificationsMauve Mage, that was a dreambubble. They have ghosts of dead characters, a lot of whom are from beta timelines.

That whole segment with Lord English took place in the Furthest Ring, where the Horrorterrors are, and subsequently the dreambubbles they produce. The sarcophagus is Lord English's Dr Who-esque time machine, which doubles as his rainbow coat (like the Problem Sleuth gun/key glitch).

Lord English entered one of the many dreambubbles that exist throughout the Furthest Ring, and destroyed it. In doing so, he annihilated the ghosts that were inside that one particular dreambubble. Most, if not all, of those ghosts were the dead versions of characters who have died in beta timelines. There are other dreambubbles which he has not touched, so ghosts like alpha Vriska and alpha Tavros are still safe. He also fatally hurt the Horrorterrors that surrounded the destroyed dreambubble.

Dave was on the meteor that is currently traveling through the Furthest Ring towards the new session at faster than light speed. They passed through the dreambubble. He is looking back on the dreambubble they left, and watched it get destroyed by Lord English.

PM and Noir were behind them. They stopped when they saw the dying Horrorterrors, and realized what that meant about Lord English's absurd, tremendous power.

The segment with uu/Caliborn takes place on a version of Earth, in an incarnation of the human's universe that is separate from B1 (pre-Scratch) and B2 (post-Scratch). There are many incarnations of the human universe contained within the frog; it is not just limited to pre-Scratch and post-Scratch. Since it takes place within a universe, it is therefore separate from the events in the dreambubble and Furthest Ring, which exists outside all universes.

Caliborn wakes up and takes over his body entirely. He bites through his own leg to escape Calliope's shackles. He goes outside. The cruxtruder releases two kernalsprites, one for Calliope, one for Caliborn. The two kernalsprites prototype each other, creating an infinite loop that causes a black hole. The black hole begins to suck in the supergiant star as Caliborn enters his session.

The image of the black hole sucking in the sun is reminiscent of Calliope's drawing. The drawing was red and green, with a big white sphere with a curling swirling tail. The big white sphere ended up being the star, and the swirling tail ended up being the part of the sun that got sucked into the black hole.

It is widely believed that Caliborn is a young version of Lord English.

One popular theory for why Lord English destroyed the dreambubble is this: he is hunting down Calliope's ghost. Caliborn hates Calliope, and declared his intent to kill her completely, utterly, and multiple times. When Calliope's dreamself died, it would become a ghost in a dreambubble, just like everyone else. So there is a piece of her that still exists out there in the Furthest Ring. The theory is that by destroying every dreambubble he comes across, Lord English- an adult Caliborn- hopes to eradicate Calliope's final self once and for all. In doing so, he would satisfy both his hatred for her, as well as assure his own safety, since there is still a chance that saying Calliope's name in his presence will cause him to fall asleep and wake up as her.

[Bard The 5th LW]

There's now a giant seizure-inducing Terminator-faced sarcophagus that Lord English flies around in? Everyone everywhere is dead... except not Dave for some reason? Except maybe he is? It's the future? It's the past? It's another universe? Jack and PM are back because we've all forgotten they exist? There's photoshopped solar flare in a spiral shape that we've seen somewhere before but it's been so long I can't remember where?

We've known about the sarcophagus since LE's introduction. He uses it to travel through time and in this instance used it to traverse the furthest ring and the dreambubbles, where all the dead players from other timelines go. Lord English destroyed that Dream Bubble and the dead players inside it, but not those on the meteor. Dave was merely watching from the meteor in the veil. The others on the meteor are presumably still alive and just inside the lab somewhere. Jack and PM have been chasing after the meteor where Dave, Rose, Terezi, Kanaya, and Karkat are located, but were suddenly halted at the sight of LE destroying the Dreambubble.

e: POS explained it better.

[Ecks]

wow im actually scared now

[Art of Hilt]

August is apparently a month of new albums, so here is Clark "Plazmataz" Powell's new solo album, Symphony Impossible to Play.

[Locke cole]

Isn't there already a song called "Sarabande"?

[Art of Hilt]

All of the songs are symphonic versions of older songs, mostly from Volume 5. So how much you enjoy this album will vary. I think there's going to be another solo album again in August, so I'm fine with it.

I think the advantage is that this makes Hussie more likely to use them in a flash, since he seems to have "moved on" from regular video-gamey sounding music.

[Aldurin]

Newest album, One Year Older, is actually pretty good. I hope we get more coming.

[Revising Ocelot]

Originally Posted by Aldurin

Newest album, One Year Older, is actually pretty good. I hope we get more coming.

Personally, it's been 3 weeks and I'd like an update.