We’ve been following Kanaya. She’s been “meddling” with the last 2 trolls we’ve yet to meet cuttlefishCuller [CC] and caligulasAquarium [CA]. Also her lusus had died, and she removed the Matriorb from its corpse.

Kanaya returns to her hive. She doesn’t want to be a Meddler. With this game she wishes to use her knowledge to become a real helper. She has the clouds providing her with some visions. But she has another source, the game FAQ micro server that Rose sent to the realm beyond the medium. It seems time there is not linear. She believes that the server is written by an ancient alien race. But, we know this would not be put into the realm of the old gods until much later. Kanaya is confident the writer and their co-players will have succeeded. She Imagines their leader is Rose, but as a troll, doing awesome magic.

Travos entered the game with Vriska as his host. One role of the host is to build their player base up so that they can reach the gates. Vriska has done this with stairs. Obviously this is useless to Travos for obvious reasons. Vriska had apparently “saved” Travos by logging in and getting him into the medium. She now feels justified in demanding Travos get over his disability (that she created). She seems to believe that Travos’s spine can just be fixed if he somehow muscles through it. She then demands he apologize to her for being disabled.

He refuses. His spine is broken but he still has one. Though Vriska doesn’t understand what ‘no’ means and proceeds to try and force him out of his chair. Fortunately, Vriska’s own host is Kanaya. Upon hearing of the bullying threatens Vriska with her own toilet. She strongly suggest Travos will need ramps. Also she may accidentally dump the contents of the toilet onto Vriska’s head. Vriska decides to comply.

As Kanaya cleans Vriska’s room (I’d have done the same) Vriska retrieves a pair of rocket boots she happened to keep in her vault of plundered goods. Using some alchemy she gives the code to Travos, who combines the boots with his chair. This gives Travos a sick rocket chair he uses to easily get to the first gate.