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>Karkat: Attempt Rare and Highly Dangerous 5x Showdown Combo

You cannot attempt the 5x SHOWDOWN COMBO because you have never been a part of a x4 SHOWDOWN COMBO, which can itself only be achieved by interrupting a successful x3 SHOWDOWN COMBO.

Someone else will have to initiate this.

>Kanaya: Attempt Rare and Highly Dangerous 5x Showdown Combo ( Read more... )

>Karkat:Return to the Inn

You are back in the Gift Shoppe.

Something has changed.

>Examine Gift ShoppeThere is a locked code vault from your discarded fetch modus here, and a note. Well, not a note. More like a business card, if trolls had business cards, which they don't. A business card is like ( Read more... )

Karkat sits numbly by the lake, freezing his bulge off. He could move a few yards up the beach and be in the permanently warm section, but he feels like he deserves this. Overhead, the doubly unfamiliar stars are out, and a tiny sliver of sickle moon ( Read more... )

CG: HEY
CG: I'M BACK
CG: NOT DEAD
CG: YET
CG: WOW I FUCKED THIS UP REALLY FAST
CG: LOOK, MESSAGE ME WHEN YOU'RE AWAKE AND WE WILL MEET OKAY?

"get up."

Karkat stumbles onto his stuffed husk, tripping over the turtle lying in the center of his floor. He falls heavily into the soft embrace and decides to just... lie there for a minute.

"get up goddamn you, we won. i killed the denizen."

"SKREEEE! THE HEARTS ARE STOPPING, ONE BY ONE." His sprite, the ghostly figure of his lusus, hovers nearby ( Read more... )

Karkat lands on his face in a brightly lit room. Between the impact and the dazzling light and the disorientation of suddenly slamming back into his own timeline, which has been paused and waiting for him with months, he's not sure if he blacks out or not; if the flickering images of Terezi and Jade are real fragments from the dreambubbles or just ( Read more... )

NEPETA ( Read more... )

2:16:00The sky is getting light around the lake. 92 hours without sleep and counting. But hell, after six hundred hours without during the game, a little more won't make him any crazier. Birgus is sensibly headed back under the sand--crabs are nocturnal too--but Karkat stays leaning against the harlequin crab's favorite tree, his mind following the ( Read more... )

Door works fine! You peek out cautiously, careful not to cross the threshhold. You'll go back soon. But not yet. Just... not yet. There's the ectobiology lab you expected to find when you staggered through this door; there's Sollux still passed out on the floor. Everything is as you left it ( Read more... )