Homesuck: Vriska Rising

[rpgdemon]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Man it's going to be absolutely crazy once I actually go way back and read Homestuck from the beginning

Crazy booooring maybe.

You spend so much time boggling vacantly at the shenanigans in the beginning. Like, I went back and was like, "Come on, John, just hurry up and be interesting."

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

Crazy booooring maybe.

You spend so much time boggling vacantly at the shenanigans in the beginning. Like, I went back and was like, "Come on, John, just hurry up and be interesting."

You have to appreciate the narrative value of the slow buildup, I think.

[rpgdemon]

I get that he was introducing things, but some of it was just mind numbingly vapid.

Which, I think, was a consequence of using submitted requests. He had to do these long tedious chains of stuff, to get the smallest task done.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by rpgdemon

I get that he was introducing things, but some of it was just mind numbingly vapid.

Which, I think, was a consequence of using submitted requests. He had to do these long tedious chains of stuff, to get the smallest task done.

I've since rationalized the introductory tangents as a part of John's canon characterization -- it fits him too perfectly, to be quite honest.

[Bard The 5th LW]

It was also to help people come down off the wild high that was Problem Sleuth.

[PCD]

I remember my last reread was right at the end of Act 4, I think. Because of that, I decided I'd do my next reread at the end of Act 5.

And I kept figuring it wouldn't be too much longer.

Any time now...

...oh wait, I stopped caring.

[Amake]

Oh lawd Dave haranguing about gold sports prizes is the most adoracool thing yet. He's like completely committed to the sports metaphor while denying all suggestion that he wants to even look like he has any idea what he's talking about.

And then.

I don't want you to die

[Loyal]

I think it's interesting that the denizens aren't necessarily climax bosses like we thought.

[Kerensky287]

Yeah, I think my favorite part of the recent revelations is the idea that denizens are relatively peaceful NPCs that all the trolls just murdered for no reason.

[Locke cole]

Tavros might not have murdered his version of Typheus.

But I am completely unsurprised that Vriska did so.

And you just know that Eridan wasted no time in killing his Denizen.

Once again, we're shown further evidence that the Trolls were top-notch at killing things and leveling up and "winning", but that they utterly failed at the puzzle-solving, lore-discovering, coming-of-age portion of the whole thing.