Today I’m reading.

07/29/10 - "Karkat: Be in cahoots with Jack.” (/homestuck/2306) to 07/31/10 - “======>” (/homestuck/2321)”

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Jack presents Operation Regisurp, a plan that will need Karkat’s whole team to put in place. This includes mind control powers. Unlike the queen of the kids’ world, the queens for the trolls have rings of 12 fold power. All the lusus they’ve prototypes are now part of the dark queen’s powers. She can take on all these weird freaky augments. but one thing addition she cant handle, frogs, she despises them. This is why frogs are contraband across the kingdom. The frogs hail a god of a few different names. We’ll stick with “Bilious Slick”. Since Aradia has prototyped the frog ruins, the queen now refuses to wear the ring of power. She’s sealed it in the royal vault.

We’re told this operation will succeed. The black queen will become the Banished Quasiroyal living in the wastelands. This is very much like the Windswept Questant. Yet, once in the wastelands she’ll encounter Doc Scratch and get a new purpose. The assumption the trolls had is that the red and blue teams would have a queen to defeat. Each team would be able to help each other to jointly achieve victory in these separate tasks. But this wasn’t the case. The prototypes of the red team affected the underlings that the blue team would fight as vice versa. Each team also appeared to have its own set of mystical frog ruins. But in reality there was only one session. All 12 trolls were on the same team from the beginning. They just didn’t know it. In this case the players were allowed to create 2 separate chains. 2 players entered the game separately and formed chains of 6 players, the red and blue teams. But the 2 chains would be connected in something called the “Mobius Double Reach Around”. This would link Sollux to Karkat and Equis to grimAuxiliatrix [GA], one of 3 trolls we’ve yet to meet.

This log is a little short. A lot of this was explained with diagrams that are tricky to explain. The very TLDR version of this is. Jack has presented himself to Karkat. Much like in the session with the kids Jack wants to murder the monarchy. But in this session he is a little less ambitious and power hungry. He presents Karkat with a lengthy plan to kill the black queen. Both teams need to work together to accomplish this goal, they are both on the same side in the same game. This means, as Aradia had been telling everyone, the teams do not matter. There’s no “leaders”. All the bickering, betrayals, and fighting had been pointless.


Till tomorrow, get along, we’re all in this mess together. and keep riding the pumpkin tide.