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The post scratch version of the game consists of the "Ancestors" of the kids--Jane Crocker, Jake English, Dirk Strider, and Roxy Lalonde. They also have a pair of mysterious friends--"UU" and "uu". As it gets close to entering their game, UU reveals her Name is Calliope. The kids muck about in their nigh unwinnable game for a while, wondering what their fate is, and getting up to ridiculous shenanigans.
John and company visit the dream bubbles, finds Vriska and the troll's ancestors as kids from the ancestors' session while going to the new game on the opposite end of paradox space. While the three years it'll take pass, a lot of shit happens, but towards the end is where the most events happen.
John's Heir of Breath powers get boosted off the charts by a mysterious artifact that was supposedly used by Lord English himself to become all powerful. His powers, however, seem to remove him from the realm of time, allowing him to go back and Retcon things. (He's a RETCON HEIR, gettit?! *Is shot with guns*)
John then ended up dooming the timeline by gaining, and then seemingly immediately losing, a ring that can bring dead characters back to life--and keep them alive for as long as it's on their finger.
Vriska's ancestor from their session's pre-scratch version, Aranea Serket, actually stole the ring by manipul8ing Gamzee's weaker-minded sober state into doing whatever the hell she wanted.
She brings herself back to life and wrecks shit for everyone in the worst way possible, as a fully-realized Sylph of Light who literally cannot die, and attempts to make the now doomed timeline the alpha timeline using her powers--Manipulation of Fortune. She is eventually bested by Her Imperial Condescension who has escaped into the session, who removes the ring from her finger and snaps her neck. JUST.
John and Roxy are literally the only players left intact after that fiasco, and John, at the bequest of a dying Terezi, goes to his Denizen to learn how to control the full breadth (Puns!) of his powers. He succeeds in this task, but only by making a deal that his Alpha timeline self would die without ever gaining the powers--to prevent instability, or something.
Regardless, Roxy goes to her Denizen as well and learns that their alpha timeline selves need to die in order for their current selves to be saved, though she doesn't fully comprehend that.
John goes back to Terezi at the point in time before he left, and she gives him mental anchors that she remembers at key intervals of the trolls' session, though she refuses to tell him why. Terezi dies of Blood loss, saying "We make our own luck"(Minus quirk here because it's kind of obnoxious). He follows her instructions anyways.
He follows a long list of instructions that indicate with increasing clarity of what exactly he's doing. At the very end of the list, he finds himself at the scene where vriska's about to be killed by Terezi...and saves Vriska's life by punching her lights out, preventing her from going on her suicidal plot, without leaving it Terezi to kill her.
Meanwhile, Caliborn (uu) is messing around with his own session and actually manages to beat it entirely, God tiering in the process, and probably well on his way to becoming...Lord English!
Finally, John's escapades have all affected the alpha timeline in what seems to be predictable ways, though the exposition in the comic proper is confusing in how it is shown, as it's more or less word of mouth from Jade and Jane to Calliope, who is now a ghost in a very well hidden Dream Bubble.
The post scratch version of the game consists of the "Ancestors" of the kids--Jane Crocker, Jake English, Dirk Strider, and Roxy Lalonde. They also have a pair of mysterious friends--"UU" and "uu". As it gets close to entering their game, UU reveals her Name is Calliope. The kids muck about in their nigh unwinnable game for a while, wondering what their fate is, and getting up to ridiculous shenanigans.
John and company visit the dream bubbles, finds Vriska and the troll's ancestors as kids from the ancestors' session while going to the new game on the opposite end of paradox space. While the three years it'll take pass, a lot of shit happens, but towards the end is where the most events happen.
John's Heir of Breath powers get boosted off the charts by a mysterious artifact that was supposedly used by Lord English himself to become all powerful. His powers, however, seem to remove him from the realm of time, allowing him to go back and Retcon things. (He's a RETCON HEIR, gettit?! *Is shot with guns*)
John then ended up dooming the timeline by gaining, and then seemingly immediately losing, a ring that can bring dead characters back to life--and keep them alive for as long as it's on their finger.
Vriska's ancestor from their session's pre-scratch version, Aranea Serket, actually stole the ring by manipul8ing Gamzee's weaker-minded sober state into doing whatever the hell she wanted.
She brings herself back to life and wrecks shit for everyone in the worst way possible, as a fully-realized Sylph of Light who literally cannot die, and attempts to make the now doomed timeline the alpha timeline using her powers--Manipulation of Fortune. She is eventually bested by Her Imperial Condescension who has escaped into the session, who removes the ring from her finger and snaps her neck. JUST.
John and Roxy are literally the only players left intact after that fiasco, and John, at the bequest of a dying Terezi, goes to his Denizen to learn how to control the full breadth (Puns!) of his powers. He succeeds in this task, but only by making a deal that his Alpha timeline self would die without ever gaining the powers--to prevent instability, or something.
Regardless, Roxy goes to her Denizen as well and learns that their alpha timeline selves need to die in order for their current selves to be saved, though she doesn't fully comprehend that.
John goes back to Terezi at the point in time before he left, and she gives him mental anchors that she remembers at key intervals of the trolls' session, though she refuses to tell him why. Terezi dies of Blood loss, saying "We make our own luck"(Minus quirk here because it's kind of obnoxious). He follows her instructions anyways.
He follows a long list of instructions that indicate with increasing clarity of what exactly he's doing. At the very end of the list, he finds himself at the scene where vriska's about to be killed by Terezi...and saves Vriska's life by punching her lights out, preventing her from going on her suicidal plot, without leaving it Terezi to kill her.
Meanwhile, Caliborn (uu) is messing around with his own session and actually manages to beat it entirely, God tiering in the process, and probably well on his way to becoming...Lord English!
Finally, John's escapades have all affected the alpha timeline in what seems to be predictable ways, though the exposition in the comic proper is confusing in how it is shown, as it's more or less word of mouth from Jade and Jane to Calliope, who is now a ghost in a very well hidden Dream Bubble.
[sub]...but whatever happened to the mouse?[/sub]
