Locate fourth wall.If I'm not mistaken, this is the first "prompt" we've gotten without a character to receive it (i.e. John: Get trolled by CG). It's no surprise that this is the beginning of the section where Hussie (the character) speaks to us directly for a while, one meta-layer removed from what we've seen so far. We start to get warned up to ( Read more... )

State name and rank.

Jack Noir is seen here in his "CUBICLE OF VIGILANCE" which is made out of "FENESTRATED WALLS." It's no coincidence the "FOURTH WALL" was stolen--the idea of a "fourth wall" is a concept from fictional works, which represents the space between the characters and the audience. Homestuck plays with the idea of the fourth wall, ( Read more... )

Enter name.The hands seen typing on a keyboard in the first picture belong to Hussie the character. This seems obvious now, but this may be the first time he appears. He "names" the Beta kids' Jack Noir "Spades Slick," the name that the trolls' iteration of him took on after his exile ( Read more... )

Jade: Open Echidna and go to mspaintadventures.com

It is surprising to nobody when I point out that this is a picture that Caliborn drew from later in the narrative.

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After seeing Caliborn use a different version of the same type of machine, I realize that the Mayor was in fact talking to John through the narrative prompt machine. He was taking over part of the story's narration, but only had access to what MSPA readers had in the beginning: the suggestion box. Of course, all of the Mayor's suggestions did ( Read more... )

John: Quickly retrieve arms from MAGIC CHEST.

Hussie establishes from the beginning that we are going to have a whole lot of alien terminology (and game constructs) thrown at us with "you have no idea what this actually means though." Acknowledging this makes it meta.