The MSPA Simple Questions Thread

[Doom Zero]

What are the colours normally associated with Lord English? I think he has colours that cycle in pairs. What are they?

[Mazerunner]

^^^ pool ball colours- I think the pairs are the same as Quarters coins, so

1-11, 2-12, 3-13, 4-14, 5-15, 6-10, 7-9, 8-8 I'm pretty sure?

Look up the colours yourself

A simple spriteflip doesn't solve it because it would still be on the opposite hand to what it would be if he was facing that direction. :/

Did you not look at Kwinse's handy demonstration?

[Blaperile]

Where exactly do people get the impression that Aradia was killed by Jack offscreen?

Aradia and Sollux said they'd stay behind so the others could escape, and they could hold back Jack.

We didn't see them since, though we have seen Jack and PM being right behind the meteor, so they have gone past Aradia and Sollux. We don't know what happened to them.

[LMLYP]

What are the colours normally associated with Lord English? I think he has colours that cycle in pairs. What are they?

his name is written in 2ed73a with a instead of the O. he mostly speaks in 0aff48

his flashing eyes are paired up like the felt's coins:
1 11 = ffea00 df0000
2 12 = 4040fd a357ff
3 13 = df0000 ff6000
4 14 = a357ff 008140
5 15 = ff6000 950015
6 9 = 008140 ffea00
7 10 = 950015 4040fd
8 8 = 000000 000000
his cairo overcoat uses the same colours, but i dont think it uses the same cycle

(i sampled those from the "I AM ALREADY HERE" text, which only has like 16 colours, so theyre probably not ruined by gif compression.)

[Captain Combusken]

I need to know a couple of fonts used in the comic please.
1. The one used for planet names. I know I've seen the answer somewhere, but I can't remember.
2. The font and font size used in the alterniabound flash(es) in the speech bubbles. It's probably Courier or Courier New, but so far with my experimentation I haven't been able to place it.

[Solaris]

1. The one used for planet names. I know I've seen the answer somewhere, but I can't remember.

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[Solaris]

I need to know a couple of fonts used in the comic please.
1. The one used for planet names. I know I've seen the answer somewhere, but I can't remember.
2. The font and font size used in the alterniabound flash(es) in the speech bubbles. It's probably Courier or Courier New, but so far with my experimentation I haven't been able to place it.

1: Carima
2: Pretty sure that it is Courier like the rest of the comic, maybe resized. This thread might have more info?

[temporalPeregrine]

Is there an explanation as to why Dirk's cal is 'dead' while Dave's isn't?

[The_Codfish]

Is there an explanation as to why Dirk's cal is 'dead' while Dave's isn't?

We don't have any concrete answers for this.

But obviously it has something to do with Dirk. Like, say, the fact that he is the Hero of Hearts (Souls).

[Mazerunner]

We don't have any concrete answers for this.

But obviously it has something to do with Dirk. Like, say, the fact that he is the Hero of Hearts (Souls).

I figured it had to do with the eventual creations of Doc Scratch/Lord English or something. B1 Cal has always seemed kind of... alive and malevolent for a puppet, and then it's revealed that he's the basis for two of villains, so in a way their evil retroactively rubbed off on Cal I guess? Dirk's Cal however, is just a puppet.

But yeah, no concrete answer, speculation at this point, blah blah blah

[The_Codfish]

uu talked about Cal appearing in sessions, Mazerunner, as a bad omen. Which means there are other universes where Cal has sprung up. It's just that when it's with Dirk, all the 'bad juju' it has disappears.

Which explains why I liked Cal a lot more when he was hanging out by Bro's side.

[Mazerunner]

uu talked about Cal appearing in sessions, Mazerunner, as a bad omen. Which means there are other universes where Cal has sprung up. It's just that when it's with Dirk, all the 'bad juju' it has disappears.

Which explains why I liked Cal a lot more when he was hanging out by Bro's side.

Which doesn't rule out what I was talking about- if Cal is a/the basis for DS/LE, then any universe* that has him will have them, and will be pretty shitty and Cal has bad juju. Dirk's Cal is dead because Lord English does not/can not enter the B universe(s), supported here when Scratch says that the Condesce** will carry out LE's will in "the places he cannot reach".

It's still speculation but I just feel like Cal lacking bad juju fits better with B2's lack of Doc Scratch/possibly Lord English than Dirk having yet another ill-defined power.

*though this isn't quite 100% true- B1 Cal had bad juju but B1 universe didn't actually contain DS/LE- though it did travel to the Troll universe where there was, and the B1 session communicated with and was heavily influenced by Doc Scratch.
**well, I just noticed that it's condesce not condense like I've been calling her oops

[Cervos]

Was it explained yet why the Condensce was shown with her tiara flashing with Taurus and Scorpio symbols?

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and then later, you can see Aries and Gemini flashing there too when she's about to fight Dave and Rose:

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She's also quite explicitely using Tavros' power to command fauna, and Aradia/Sollux's psychic abilities to, like, throw really fucking heavy things with your mind.

Does she 'gain' prototyped powers from this session or something, despite no prototyping towers?

[Mazerunner]

Was it explained yet why the Condensce was shown with her tiara flashing with Taurus and Scorpio symbols?

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and then later, you can see Aries and Gemini flashing there too when she's about to fight Dave and Rose:

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Does she 'gain' prototyped powers from this session or something, despite no prototyping towers?

She was doing experiments and what not to 'unlock' all the psychic powers available to Trolls for herself(ie. Aradia and Sollux's telekinesis, Tavros' animal communication, Vriska's mind control, maybe even Gamzee's chucklevoodoo but that's pure speculation). Also Lord English apparently gave her a power boost. Dirk explains this on both the pages you linked.

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TT: There are other urban legends that she did a lot of experiments on animals and people. Mostly to do with mind control.
TT: Like figuring out ways to unlock all of her psychic alien potential, to increase her power.

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TT: But even if they did manage to confront her, there was no way they could win. She had too many crazy alien powers.
TT: Her boss supposedly had jacked her power level through the roof. I even heard, and don't quote me on this, that she may have been over 9000.

[Conspicuous]

Was it explained yet why the Condensce was shown with her tiara flashing with Taurus and Scorpio symbols?

Only that she gained access to Mind Control and Animal Communion powers.

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and then later, you can see Aries and Gemini flashing there too when she's about to fight Dave and Rose:

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She's also quite explicitely using Tavros' power to command fauna, and Aradia/Sollux's psychic abilities to, like, throw really fucking heavy things with your mind.

Does she 'gain' prototyped powers from this session or something, despite no prototyping towers?

We have no conclusive answer as of yet, although Dirk states that urban legends tell of her unlocking her hidden potential.

[Blaperile]

Were the red and blue psychic light thingies coming from her eyes already there from the moment Andrew posted that update?

When I first saw the update, I didn't see those lights at all.

A couple of hours later, I saw the red light.

Only now I saw the blue light.

I'd swear that I looked closely every time.

[Mazerunner]

Yes they were there from the beginning. She's using Sollux's powers and that's why the Gemini symbol is also flashing on her head (I think she's using it to power up her 2x3dent since it's flashing the same colours)

[Grand Mal]

Bit of a meta question here, not sure if it belongs, but...

Does anyone know where the biggest playlist of homestuck music on youtube is.

[nsinned]

Bit of a meta question here, not sure if it belongs, but...

Does anyone know where the biggest playlist of homestuck music on youtube is.

From the first post in the thread (which is an excellent resource that people should look at!):
"Questions that aren't MSPA or MSPAF-related go in the GENERAL Simple Questions thread over in The Advice Column!"

Also, that's not what "meta" means. If it had been a question about the nature of questions and answers, for instance, that would be a meta question. The adjective you were looking for was "tangential".

[*Sigh*]

Meta has grown to mean a lot more than what it used to, kind of like irony except not as much.

[InnerRayg]

Yes they were there from the beginning. She's using Sollux's powers and that's why the Gemini symbol is also flashing on her head (I think she's using it to power up her 2x3dent since it's flashing the same colours)

No way dude, the Gemini powers are the glowy eye lasers. The stuff on her staff is classic clockwork magykks that is the trademark of lord english's slaves.

[nsinned]

Meta has grown to mean a lot more than what it used to, kind of like irony except not as much.

Ironically, that's very meta.

*rimshot*

But this is not the place for bad jokes or me ranting about grammar. *ollies outy*

[Blaperile]

Yes they were there from the beginning. She's using Sollux's powers and that's why the Gemini symbol is also flashing on her head (I think she's using it to power up her 2x3dent since it's flashing the same colours)

Yeah, I know she's using Sollux's powers, but I just didn't see the psychic lights coming from her eyes at first. Weird.

Thanks anyway!

[kd7sov]

No way dude, the Gemini powers are the glowy eye lasers. The stuff on her staff is classic clockwork magykks that is the trademark of lord english's slaves.

Sollux's powers include glowy eye lasers, yes, but they also include telekinesis (including effective flight) and possibly other things I'm forgetting.

Which is not to say you're wrong about the fork.

[silverlurker]

Just a few minor things I want to ask -

Why are Jade's and Jane's dreamselves's shoes purple - Why not green and cyan? And why are Vriska's dreamself's shoes red - shouldn't they be cerulean? I can understand Terezi because she is all about red and loves everything red, but I can't understand the others.