Let's Play Homestuck
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Act 1: The Note Desolation Plays
Part 3: Welcome to Sburb
Link back to comic: Page 138
Sburb has begun!
TT's running the server, and you're running the client. This fancy new HUD is what TT sees!
It appears that, as your server player, she can interact with your environment!
Hey look, it's the card for your Stack Modus. You were wondering where that was.
EB: whoa, what are you doing??
TT: Sorry. I'm just getting a feel for the controls.
EB: is my magic chest on the roof now??
TT: Yes.
EB: :(
TT: I will try to be more careful next time.
With the new card, you can switch between STACK and QUEUE at will.
This is much more convenient!
Dad's leaving to get more baking supplies.
What a perfect opportunity to screw around with this new beta madness!
Starting to get the hang of the new system!
It looks like TT can only select things within a certain distance of you.
Selecting the client player or anything he's touching is right out.
Even more interestingly, moving the player is not the extent of her powers!
She can also upgrade your house.
She also has a variety of strange objects she can deploy into your house!
You are now the proud owner of a brand new Totem Lathe.
You have no idea whatsoever what this thing does, but it sure looks neat.
TT: It seems expanding the dimensions of your room cost us some "Build Grist".
TT: But deploying the lathe did not appear to incur any expense.
TT: It looks like certain objects are freebies, probably to help you set up the game.
EB: wow, ok.
EB: what do they do?
TT: I think it's up to you to find out.
TT: All I can do is drop stuff in your house, and move it around, apparently.
EB: how do i move stuff around? it sounds fun!
TT: I don't think you can as the client. You will need to install the server application.
TT: Did you get another envelope in the mail?
TT: Once you install the server and establish a connection, I'm sure you will be able to manipulate my environment in the same manner.
EB: oh man.
EB: i think i might know where it is.
TT: What have you been doing in here all afternoon, anyway?
EB: ugh, i was fussing with my retarded sylladex.
EB: but i think i have it under control now.
EB: what modus do you use?
TT: I like to use trees.
EB: oh no, that sounds so awkward.
TT: It's not exceptionally practical.
TT: But I think they are elegant.
Time for more mysterious devices!
Next up is a Cruxtruder and an Alchemiter. You have no idea what these things do, either.
EB: hey, i'm out on the balcony now.
EB: i am messaging from my dad's pda.
TT: The one you threw into the yard?
EB: no, i am telling you.
EB: it jumped out of my sylladex like a frightened weasel.
TT: What were you doing with it in the first place?
TT: I am not sensing a lot of regard for the personal property of others.
TT: Is this how your pent-up frustration with your father manifests itself?
EB: what? no.
EB: those were all accidents.
EB: please take your psycho-babblery elsewhere, miss!
TT: Your bathroom is a mess.
TT: There's a cake in the toilet.
TT: I'm tempted to clean it up for you.
EB: ok, if that will satisfy your weird ocd complex then go ahead.
TT: My Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder complex?
TT: Can a disorder also be a complex?
EB: in your case, probably!
TT: Sounds complicated.
EB: anyway...
EB: i am going to have a look at this enormous platformy thing you put on the balcony.
Continuing with the established pattern, you have no idea what this thing does.
TT: Whoops.
EB: what was that noise?
EB: is this something i should go investigate?
TT: No, I have it under control.
TT: You can keep playing with your telescope.
DAMMIT TT.
A new card for your Strife Specibus, and a new hammer to put in it!
You are now marginally more armed.
Hey look! Another chum is pestering you via your dad's serious business PDA.
-- gardenGnostic [GG] began pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 17:25 --
GG: john did you get my package??
EB: oh hey!
EB: no, not yet.
GG: darn! are you sure? it was in a green box.....
EB: oh!
EB: yes, but it is in my dad's car and he is still out at the store.
EB: he should be back soon.
GG: great!!! so what are you up to today?
EB: i am up to my neck in this sburb stuff.
EB: TT is making a royal mess of my house.
GG: whoa what was that?????
EB: what was what?
GG: there was a loud noise outside my house!!
GG: it sounded like an explosion!!!!
EB: wow, really?
GG: i will go outside and look....
EB: oh man, alright but be careful, ok?
GG: i will! :)
-- gardenGnostic [gg] ceased pestering ectoBiologist [EB] at 17:28 --
Oh fuck.
There seems to be something under the lid, pushing up against it.
You aren't strong enough to force it open! Maybe TT can help?
Oh dear.
EB: you can see me, right.
EB: tell me what is wrong with this picture.
TT: Sorry. I keep losing the wireless signal.
TT: I would look for a stronger signal in another part of the house, but I'd rather not risk an encounter with my mother.
TT: I battled through her cloud of gin and derision once already this evening.
EB: haha, yeah I hear you.
EB: what about going outside?
EB: maybe you could catch a neighbor's signal.
TT: That presents the same problem.
TT: Also, it's raining, remember?
TT: And dark.
EB: It's dark already?
TT: Yes, the sun has already had its way with us here on the east coast.
TT: Its lurid glare has moved on to younger timezones.
EB: haha, um, ok.
With a bit of help from TT, you manage to hit the Cruxtruder lid with the sledgehammer.
Some kind of mysterious thing came out!
Also a timer started. It reads 4:13.
Some conferring with TT reveals that, according to GameFAQs, the clock is some kind of countdown timer. You may need to act quickly now.
Turning the wheel with the lid off produces a Cruxite Dowel. This must be related to the other machines!
You might also need this!
TT provides you a pre-punched card of some sort. It looks like there's an apple on it?
EB: this thing keeps following me around.
EB: i think it's trying to talk to me or something.
TT: That is probably the "Kernelsprite".
TT: It apparently needs to be "prototyped".
TT: Twice, actually.
TT: Whatever the hell that means.
TT: These walkthroughs are horrendously written.
EB: hmm, ok.
EB: well, you are the one with the cursor so just do whatever you think is the right thing to do!
EB: also, fix my bathroom.
TT drops the harlequin doll into the Kernelsprite! Apparently this is what prototyping means.
Having now been prototyped, this thing is... still incoherent.
TT's walkthrough DID say it had to be prototyped twice.
Back to screwing around with the other machines!
There's no spot on this thing for the pre-punched card...
...but there IS a spot for the dowel!
Something is happening now.
The Alchemiter scanned the Dowel and used it to produce some of these totally useless objects. Another piece of the puzzle.
Incidentally, something is going on in the sky. Your Kernelsprite seems very worried about it.
NEXT CHAPTER: Game time!
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