Homestuck intro pages, anyone?

[ShadesofGrey18]

===> ROCK THIS JOINT!

...Where did that come from? Anyway, you install your Client disc into your Dashtop and what is quite possibly the coolest Install tune you have ever heard starts playing.

SG: Dude, this Installation tune is quite possibly the coolest thing I've ever heard. This is giving me some ideas with my composition projects... But enough about lame-ass schoolwork.
SG: LET'S ROCK THIS JOINT!

The installation has finished. It's the moment you've been waiting for.

Pieter: Begin playing SBURB.

[B. Marquis]

===>

PC: B:/ echo I know, right?
PC: B:/ echo I've actually have the song extracted from the disc for later use!
PC: B:/ echo You should totally have it, now!
PC: goo.gl/s80FH
PC: B:/ echo I never understood how urls don't have that bug...
PC: B:/ echo Anyway, LET'S ROCK THIS... Ooh, a Wii!
PC: B:/ echo Must play Wii!

[ShadesofGrey18]

...Oh, this song is going into your iPhone's music storage right the fuck now.

... ==> Realize something.

SG: Wait, Brandon... you can actually see my dorm room? ...What about the rest of my dorm?
SG: Also, be careful with my Wii! You know that Nintendo's been using less Nintendium in their gaming systems lately!
SG: Anyway, what's our status for... materials and junk? The guide I read said we have this stuff called "Build Grist" or something like that.
SG: Give me a full sitrep, Military Man.

You salute, not sure exactly where he's looking from.

[B. Marquis]

B: Abstain from playing with the Wii and give him a full sitrep

Yes sir! Wait, what? You salute back, even though you are sure he cannot see you.


PC: B:/echo Mr. Majestic sir, can see your room, sir. It might need a little bit of cleaning, but I see it, sir.
PC: B:/echo Looks like a dorm or a barracks room. Are you sure you haven't been or are not in boot camp now?
PC: B:/echo Belay my last, I see guitars and an amp. Nice!
PC: B:/echo Well, my friend, build grist are game abstractions.
PC: B:/echo It allows me, the server player, to do very wonky things within a certain radius of your place.
PC: B:/echo As the name suggests, I can build on the very walls by which you stand on.
PC: B:/echo Cool, right?!
PC: B:/echo It also looks like we can use it to build various other things, but I can't really see what we can build other than revising your building

B: Openin' that Phernalia Registry

PC: B:/echo Well, there's these machines I can deploy. Does it look like you got any room for one of them?

[kisashika]

==> Inspect posters on your wall.

Yup, that is one SEXY robot right there. No matter what all your friends say, OPTIMUS PRIME is forever the HOTTEST ALIEN ROBOT to ever have been created. The other TRANSFORMERS aren't half bad either, but you've always had a WEIRD ATTRACTION to ROBOTS, and you just kind of roll with it.

==> Look at your dresser.

Oh, look, more TRANSFORMERS. Seriously, your obsession with these things should be considered unhealthy, but you don't really give a rats ass.

==> Inquire clutter on computer desk.

Clutter? What clutter? You can find EVERYTHING on this desk, this is organized. Absolutely organized. Rude, assuming that this was a mess. God. Go buy some manners, douche bag.

On your desk, though, sits your ever trusty Sentrytop. No, he's not an actual Sentry, you just named him that out of one of your bouts of randomness. Which happen quite often. Next to Sentry sits your phone, Nappa; who was also named at random, there is not a single outside reference here. Not one bit. And then.... Huh? Where did it go?

==>

Shit, looks like your annoying nephew got into your room and took your copies of the raving new RPG. You don't have the energy to deal with him right now, maybe after chilling out by chatting with one of your ONLINE friends will help.

==> Log on Pesterchum.

OH! Looks like one of your closest buddies is on.

kisaShika began Pestering shiftyPotentate

KS: \\heeeeey, steven~//
KS: \\steven//
KS: \\steeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeeeen//
KS: \\whats up my main man?//
KS: \\steven?//

[gantzgun74]

GG: Feeling? What feeling?
GG: Something the matter, man?
GG: Don't tell me Nora got to ya. I swear that woman just irks me somethin' FIERCE sometimes...
SG: I dunno, Aaron. Just a hunch... that kinda chill you get at the back of your neck...
SG: Wait, what about Nora?
SG: Anyway... I'm gonna head to the Campus Post Office in a bit; I just decided to stop for a bit...
shadesofGrey [SG] has ceased pester gantzGun [GG]

==>

Well... That was certainly a short little chat... Oh well, you suppose you understood PIETER'S urgency, if his game was coming in the mail soon. You being the major geek that you were, managed to get the game a whole day earlier thanks, to the mail showing up early. You figure there's not a lot of meaning to it. You sometimes managed to get issues of NINTENDO POWER MAGAZINE a few days before the month it was supposed to come in.

But enough blabbering. It's about time you got yourself a STRIFE SPECIBUS!

And you know just where you can find the perfect one.

==> Go through house

You feel vaguely like a ninja as you sneak down a hallway that connects your room to your YOUNGER SISTER'S room, and make your way out into the living room. The living room beyond was a modest little space with a TV sitting against one wall, and a CHRISTMAS TREE sat up at the opposite end of the room. What? Of course it's a real one this year! And you honestly think that's pretty cool.

==> Check ahead rooms

Yep. The Parental figure and the younger sister was still having their arguement. Ah to be a pre-teen and in love...

Too bad her love was a jerk to begin with, and the poor girl simply refuses to get a clue about that factor. Well not a lot you can do about it. The only thing you ever got when you tried to contribute to these conversations was little more then a chewing out for not MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
Well whatever. This WASN'T any of your business. You had a game to play!

==> Sneak to front door

It's relatively easy to do since the two women of the house (No men unfortunately since your OLDER BROTHER moved out and your mom is currently divorced) are too busy with each other to notice you and the front door is just right there. Just a few more inches to it... Almost got it-

OW!! GODDAMMIT!

==> See what you tripped over

You look to find that you had tripped over a laundry basket that had quite suddenly appeared before your feet.
Oh of course mom! I'll do the laundry while I'm outside, no problem! Right I getcha, set it on cold for the dark load, I know, I'm not that stupid, I've been doing this stuff for almost 4 years now.

Thanksgottagobye!

==>

With the basket full of laundry in hand, you make your way outside and find the door to the laundry room immediately to your left. The entire front porch looked to be the car port where a couple of vehicles could be seen. You look around a second, but don't find any sign of your cats... Well, their not really YOUR cats per-sei. They were more like strays your sister adopted off the street. But along with the cats, you don't see any sign of the family dog either.

Hmmm, Likely she was in the backyard, nothing to worry about.

==> Go into Laundry Room

The Laundry Room is a cramped little space with a washing machine and a washer sitting right next to each other. Both were in good condition thankfully.
You quickly dispose of the laundry into the washing machine and look to said machine's left to find an old familiar item; an old boe-staff that you and your brother used to mess around with when you were much younger.

Bingo! Perfect!

With that, you quickly captchalogue it and set it to your STRIFE SPECIBUS... Though it calls itself STAVEKIND for whatever reason. Good! Now your ready for the game!

==> Head back inside

As you leave the Laundry Room, and begin to head inside however, something... Odd catches your attention...

The weather of late has been quite dreary, to be sure; snowing lightly a few days, and not a few days after that. Throughout all of that time, it's been very cloudy weather, nice and chilly with no real sign of the sun...

And yet...

When you look past the car port you see sunlight... And the weather was just a bit warmer then it used to be. Not by much, but just a little bit.

==>

You walk out from under the carport and look up into the sky. It looked like the clouds had let up a bit to allow the sun in. Really, that didn't surprise you too much. Weather was always crazy in your home state...

But looking up at the source of the light, even if just briefly...

You can't help but have some odd sense of dread from the light...

[ShadesofGrey18]

Alright, here's a brief OOC moment: I came up with this concept for my God Tier design. When I did a God Tier meme, I got "Prince of Space" so that's what I'm going with here.

Appearance: Instead of a "Hood" I have a black tiara like Marth's with the Space symbol at the center. Black Robes with the Space symbol at the chest, and a cape like Eridan's... only with the hero of Space color.

Now then... OOC Moment over, back to posting.
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You look around your dorm room. ...Not a whole lot of space.

SG: I don't think any of those things will fit in here... even if you moved all my stuff.
SG: I have an idea, though. There are three things, right? There are three study lounges here in my dorm; the closest one is on the seventh floor. There's one at the Main Lobby and there's one in the Basement as well. There should be enough room in each for one of these things.
SG: You might have to move some desks and stuff, but it should work.

[shiftyPotentate]

Steven: Pester chum.

shiftyPotentate began pestering gantzGun at 10:20

SP: hey gantz
SP: i just got an insane killstreak in mw2
SP: 8 kills best ive ever gotten
SP: anyway what's up with you?
SP: ... gantz?[/color][/size][/b]

==>

He must be out doing something else. That or your internet's acting up again and not sending the messages through. That happens sometimes. Oh well.

You decide to play a little more Modern Warfare 2. You've been getting really good lately.

Steven: Play Team Deathmatch on Rust.

Hell yes. One of your favorite maps. You take the opportunity to customize your lightweight loadout. P90 Rapid Fire and .44 Magnum w/ Tactical Knife, Marathon/Lightweight/Commando? Hell yes. You are officially a Knife Nut, though the 12-year-olds online would insist you are a "cocksucking whorebiscuit" in whiny prepubescent voices.

That's what Mute player is for.

You proceed to play the game, finishing with a final score of 20-12. K/D ratio of 1.67. Not bad. You're particularly proud of that jump off the central structure in which you landed behind a guy and knifed him in the back.

==>

You glance at your computer once more. gantzGun hasn't responded, but one more friend, shadesofGrey, has started pestering you. Looks like he went away as well. Oh well, screw it, he can wait some more if the dude doesn't bother waiting for a reply. Though you do feel guilty for not noticing his pesters during your game.

You decide to kill a little more time by researching crap online. One more friend decides to pester you, and it's her lucky day! You're actually there this time.

Steven: Answer chum.

kisaShika began pestering shiftyPotentate

KS: \\heeeeey, steven~//
KS: \\steven//
KS: \\steeeeeeeeeeeeeveeeeeeeeen//
KS: \\whats up my main man?//
KS: \\steven?//
SP: oh hey kisa!
SP: what's going on? sorry i took a moment to reply
SP: people been bothering me all day and i've been wasting my life on this game too much to reply
SP: you caught me at a good time so what's up?[/b][/size]

[gantzgun74]

==> Proceed back inside

Deciding to ignore the odd weather patterns for now, though you bemoan the fact that you may be losing all of this snow soon, you proceed back inside... Oddly enough things were a bit more quiet now. You was willing to guess that the argument between your mother and sister was over... Sure enough, there was her phone on the kitchen table. Likely confiscated for a few weeks.

Well whatever, not any of your business.

==> Go to your Room

You decide to head back to your room, likely willing to guess that everyone at least has their copies of the game by now-

Oh hey sis, whatcha doing there? Yeah I know, it's a sad sad thing isn't it? But hey, it was your own fault for not seeing the signs-

Wait what're you-? No I'm not in the mood- Okay fine then!

> [S?] STRIFE!

You stand your ground against your sister, grieving her 'relationship' gone, probably blaming you for the whole debacle with mom. Well if she wanted a fight she had one! She charges forward with what looks like a baseball bat in hand. Oh yeah, you forgot that she was a member of the Jr. High softball team.

> Abjure

Since your no fan of getting hit, you quickly dodge backwards, the baseball bat intended for your gut hitting a couch. Your sister looks really pissed now, but what could you do? You could never hit a girl.

> Aggrieve

No. Not happening. She's still your sister. No way was you going to hit her... But still, you had to do something, or otherwise be a target.

> Aggress

You charge forward, weapon drawn.... Before you pull out a 'book on relationships' from a nearby bookcase, and shove it in the girl's face, trying to calmly talk to her, but she'll have none of it, pushing the book back in your direction. Something tells you if you tried that again, it would just have the exact same result- Uh-oh!!

> Abjure

Jesus this is getting out of hand! The girl's gone wild! Well, as they say, 'Those who fight and run away-'

> Abscond

(AARON runs off, his SISTER right behind him.)

BYE! See you la- OH SHIT!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

==> Duck inside room

You quickly run into your room, closing and locking the door behind you. You can hear your sister having a hissy fit just beyond the door but just like that you hear your mom's voice and everything calms down....

Phew. That was a close call.

==> Check messages

With this disaster being handled, you sit on the bed and grab your laptop, deciding to check your messages. Upon turning it on, you take notice of the Sburb games sitting next to where the computer used to sit.........

==> Pick up games

You decide to pick up the games, making sure to not captchalogue them, and take a close look at em... Man was you looking forward to this.... OH! You have some buddies calling ya!

==> Answer chums

[B. Marquis]

B: Deployin' the Totem Lathe

You deployed the Totem Lathe on the seventh floor lobby. That was easy.

B: Deployin' the Cruxtruder

You deployed the Cruxtruder in the main lobby. You have to move a few things. You just wished you had a better surface for your mouse, because sudden movements with a mouse with any object is a no no no.

Most people call them no no's, but that's a double negative. Then again, no "no no" means that a bad thing didn't happen.

You fight to keep the senseless thought from your focus.

B: Deployin the Alchemeter

You deployed the Alchemeter in the basement. Living in Louisiana, You have never been in a basement, the water level and all.

Wait, what have you done?

==>

You really wasn't thinking when you did that, did you?

==>

PC: B:/echo So...
PC: B:/echo Funny thing happened.
PC: B:/echo I kinda...
PC: B:/echo I made it hard for you.
PC: B:/echo Sorry for that.
PC: B:/echo I need to check on...
PC: B:/echo This green-eyed beauty!
programmaticComposer ceased pestering shadesofGrey

==>

You finally noticed that one of your CHUMS are online. The reason being is you have a deep infatuation with the color GREEN, but that's not the point.

The point is you have a strange urge to pester the shit out of her.

Well, make it so, captain!

B: Start Pestering Kelsey

programmaticComposer began pestering nuttyDonutcake

PC: B:/echo Kels!
PC: B:/echo Kels!
PC: B:/echo You know doughnuts sound awesome!
PC: B:/echo God, I can go for a baker's dosen.
PC: B:/echo dossen.
PC: B:/echo dosser.
PC: B:/echo dossier.
PC: B:/echo dozen!
PC: B:/echo I'm pretty sure that last one was the right spelling.
PC: B:/echo Anyway, whoo!
PC: B:/echo I'm in the game!
PC: B:/echo Well, not really, Pieter is, but I'm his server player!
PC: B:/echo Isn't that cool?

[ShadesofGrey18]

Pieter: Check out the new gear.

You look at the Totem Lathe on the seventh floor lounge. How curious... but you can't do anything with this yet, if the guide is correct.

==> check out the other two things.

You slide down the banister, quickly reaching the Main Lobby, where the Cruxtrader is. If memory serves, you need to break this thing open... you turn the wheel, which starts to open it... but it's not quite enough.

SG: Brandon, I need your help. I need something heavy to open this thing.
SG: There's a Baby Grand Piano a few rooms over; try using that, okay?

You head down a few more stairs to the Alchemiter. You have no idea what this thing does. You decide to wait for Brandon to open your Cruxtrader before you do anything else.

[kisashika]

SP: oh hey kisa!
SP: what's going on? sorry i took a moment to reply
SP: people been bothering me all day and i've been wasting my life on this game too much to reply
SP: you caught me at a good time so what's up?
KS: \\nothing much//
KS: \\trying to chill before an inevitable bout with the kid//
KS: \\also waiting for everyone to get their games//
KS: \\do we still have that list?//
KS: \\you know, of whose gonna be whose servers and clients?//
KS: \\cus were all supposed to get the game today//

( >>>Mark-Shades
Shades-Gantz
Gantz-Edge
Edge-Nut
Nut-Tsi
Tsi-FF
FF-Toxee
Toxee-Kisa
Kisa-CC
CC-Mark>>>

This is the cycle, for future reference! It goes Server-Client)

[sleepZombie]

==> HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Today is not your birthday. That was a while ago when you turned 25, a distinction that marks you firmly as THE OLDEST of your little ragtag group of pals.

That doesn't make TODAY any less special. TODAY is the day you're expecting that COMPUTER GAME you reserved online to come in. You've been waiting a while for it now, and it doesn't help that your SHITTY POSTMAN never drops by until after 3 PM.

That same group of friends have been talking about this shit since forever. You have to admit, you're REALLY EXCITED as well to be able to all have a game you can PLAY TOGETHER. You all went the extra mile to try and get it at the same time. Some people forwent future birthday/Christmas presents for this shit, that is just how AWESOME this is all going to be.

==> DO SOMETHING INTERESTING

There's not much to do right now. Your girlfriend is at work so you can't strike up an EXCITING CONVERSATION. You suppose you could hunt down one of your FELINE COMPANIONS but the ANTISOCIAL GREY ONE is hiding under the bed and you're not sure where the NOISY ORANGE ONE is.

You might as well turn on your computer and see if anyone is online to talk with. You power up and log onto pesterchum. It seems a LOT of the others are on already, probably all excited for the game.

What's that? It seems that someone is messaging you...

[nintendonut1]

Kelsey: Be Alone Again.

Welp. TSI and Shades went to go retrieve their copies, leaving you high and dry. Forever alone.

You COULD go bug your little brother, but his recent birthday gift of a series of PLASTIC SWORDS has left you weary. You would rather not engage in his imaginary RPG-system strifing, which mainly consisted of him whacking you upside the head until he collected imaginary EXP and absconded.

You perk up when one of your VERY good friends logged on. Perfect timing!!

nuttyDonutcake began pestering sleepZombie

ND: fjdsfhudsgyufd!!!
ND: cc!
ND: man i am so glad to see your bright orange text!
ND: everyone else is out getting their copies of sburb and leaving me all alone sob
ND: i'm not getting mine til next week. : (

[ShadesofGrey18]

Pieter: Pester Kelsey.

While you wait for Brandon to open your Cruxtrader, you chill in the Basement Lounge and fire up Pesterchum again on your Dashtop.

shadesofGrey began Pestering nuttyDonutcake

SG:Kels, sorry to run off like that all of a sudden.
SG: I got my game and am starting right now; if what that guide says is true, I'll be the first one into the next stage of the game.
SG: Brandon is my Server player; I'm waiting for him to open up that Cruxtrader thingy right now.
SG: I have the Alchemiter right here next to me in the basement... and the Totem Lathe is in the 7th floor Study Lounge.
SG:... I think I still need that pre-punched card. Can you check the guide and confirm that for me, Kels?