AH: Recap first year of Homestuck.
|RECAP LOG| Homestuck began on April 13th, 2009, the 13th birthday of our chief protagonist and future boy-skylark , John Egbert . Three days prior was supposed to be the day he received the Sburb Beta in the mail, but it was running late. It showed up later that afternoon , and after overcoming a variety of domestic adversities , he retrieved the game , along with a birthday package from his internet friend, Dave Strider . John soon established a game connection with another friend, Rose Lalonde , who'd spent the day badgering him about playing with her, after unsuccessfully attempting to convince Dave to play. Upon connecting , Rose was able to manipulate John's environment , move his furniture around via cursor , and restructure the shape of his room . John was unable to do this to Rose's environment however. He'd installed the client copy of the beta, and required the server copy for that. The server copy was trapped in his dad's car, along with a birthday package from another friend, Jade Harley . Jade messaged John inquiring about the package. As of this moment, neither her package nor the server copy has been recovered by John . Rose had also prepared a package for John, but had not mailed it yet. It still sits in her room. Dave's package contained the authentic stuffed bunny from Con Air . In addition to allowing Rose to control John's environment, Sburb provided an array of devices Rose deployed throughout John's house. These devices used together provided a system by which the players could manufacture any item using the code on the back of that item's captchalogue card, if they gathered enough grist to pay for it. Later, they would learn to combine item codes to master the art of punch card alchemy, whereby items could be fused together in purpose and design . One device on being activated began a countdown , and released an entity called a kernelsprite. The countdown ticked down to the moment John's house would be struck by a meteor , destroying his neighborhood. To escape this demise, John had to use the devices to manufacture a special item that looked like a blue apple , and take a bite of it, in order to transport his entire house just before impact to the safety of a mysterious dark realm, where his house would situate itself atop a tall rock column high above a blanket of clouds. This realm is called the Medium. Before he entered the Medium though, John and Rose prototyped his kernelsprite with the large harlequin doll his dad got him for his birthday, transforming the sprite to bear its likeness, including the ways the doll was disfigured via earlier hijinks. It had a slashed eye and one arm, and so too did the sprite. When John entered the Medium, the sprite's kernel hatched , thus imbuing all the enemies John and his friends would face with properties of the sprite. The lesser adversaries John faced first, Shale Imps , all wore harlequin garbs. They became more powerful and more radically mutated with each successive pre-Medium prototyping. After entering the Medium , John's dad was kidnapped by imps . While John was looking for him, he accidentally prototyped the sprite with his grandmother's ashes, transforming it again. This prototyping had no effect on the enemies , since he was already in the Medium, and the kernel had already hatched. Instead, only the sprite was affected, and it took on the appearance, personality, and memories of his grandmother, becoming Nannasprite , a game-supplied albeit customized guide for John. She explained aspects of the game , about Skaia residing at the center of the Medium, beyond seven gates floating directly above his house, and about an eternal/timeless war fought there between dark and light, one that light was always destined to lose . Rose, who'd been having frequent internet connection issues , lost her connection as she tried to lift John's car to retrieve the game and the package. The car fell into the abyss below . A storm caused her house to lose power along with its wireless internet connection. Her laptop was able to run on battery power for a time, while she tapped into the wireless signal from the laboratory next door . When her laptop ran out of power , she had to overcome more family strife (and endure a gift pony in the process), go outside in the rain , and plug it into the small generator outside the mausoleum of her dead cat, Jaspers . She continued her session with John inside the mausoleum, while the meteor-sparked forest fire surrounding her house grew more intense. From the house, Rose's mom opened a secret passage in the mausoleum to help her escape. The passage lead to the lab next door, where Rose found a stable, portable source of power and internet for her computer. She also found a terminal projecting the impact times and locations for the millions of meteors presently bombarding the planet, along with all the other live sessions of other players around the world. She also found a little girl's room, a mutant kitten sh…
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