The MSPA Simple Questions and Simple Ansrews (*Answers) thread

[Blaperile]

So really, playing hooky only applies to Jane, maybe. And it's a pretty minor thing.

And even then. It was 11/11/11, so there's a chance she had a day off in case she went to a normal school.

[The_Codfish]

And even then. It was 11/11/11, so there's a chance she had a day off in case she went to a normal school.

Also, Crocker Corp pretty much had its sticky fingers in every aspect of the world. Guy Fieri was on the Supreme Court already, you know, so having someone infiltrate the educational system and set a holiday for 11/11/11 would be no problem for the Condesce.

And, also, the assassination attempts on Jane; I think Dad kept her home to keep her safe from them as they started to occur more often?

[Maltor Drey]

I just realized something guys. John and the other 7 are skipping school.
And Hussie never references it.
Would it be bad if he did?

They're too cool for school. And also, too fictional.

So he's acknowledged it, at least.

[tastySalamanders]

On this topic - my most popular tumblr post: http://tasty-salamanders.tumblr.com/post/29901496124

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RÉSUMÉ:

• Dropped out of school to play video games.
• Unwed teen father.
• God.

[Stroiker]

What's the point of the exiles?
I never understood why they exist..... and still don't.

[phoenix713]

What's the point of the exiles?
I never understood why they exist..... and still don't.

The exiles are there mostly to complete time loops that exist (according to something I read once I think).

Remember how WV and PM sent the package from John (that Jade got in the present, but then got appearified in the future) back to the past so that young!Jade would start communicating with the others in the first place. If the exiles weren't there, that would not have been able to happen.

[Maltor Drey]

Also to restore civilization on the dead planets.

[tastySalamanders]

Also to guide the players, though I guess that falls under their fulfil time loops thing, though I guess most of them don't realise their role in the loops?

[The Ghost of Starscream]

Also to guide the players, though I guess that falls under their fulfil time loops thing, though I guess most of them don't realise their role in the loops?

Not that we're aware. I think only Snowman and PM were shown to be cognizant of the fact that their actions were influencing events they already experienced. I'd go so far as to say that Slick, Droog, and the White Queen were smart enough to realize their roles, too, but WV is explicitly shown to be rather dim about the whole thing.

[Phenom1250]

Anyone know where I can find a timeline list of each of the troll's conversations with the kids? I remember seeing a good one a while back, but I seemed to lost it.

[Tenebrais]

My thread in Fan Projects contains a timeline listing Homestuck's events chronologically, including pesterlogs.

[*Sigh*]

Also to restore civilization on the dead planets.

Well, USUALLY they do. The kids and trolls are different in that they pretty much just destroyed everything.

[kd7sov]

Well, USUALLY they do. The kids and trolls are different in that they pretty much just destroyed everything.

Though the Midnight Crew appears to have at least formed some manner of city.

[Phenom1250]

My thread in Fan Projects contains a timeline listing Homestuck's events chronologically, including pesterlogs.

Im talking about the trollslum thing, like when Karkat and Kanaya was jumping through timeframes with John's and Rose's life.

[LMLYP]

Im talking about the trollslum thing, like when Karkat and Kanaya was jumping through timeframes with John's and Rose's life.

i made a timeline like a year ago

kids' universe: http://pastebin.com/yrRHfhSK
kids' session: http://pastebin.com/8hV7M3VS
trolls' universe: http://pastebin.com/aKyWYiLa
trolls' session: http://pastebin.com/XTaZS6SS

all the pesterlogs are listed in chronological order on both timelines (e.g. the john/karkat conversations appear from john's perspective on the kids' timeline and karkat's perspective on the trolls' timeline)

[Majora787]

I never understood the idea of exiles re-seeding the planet. Doesn't that mean that any future games played on the planets in question would in theory be played by... you know. Prospitians and Dersites? Or at least descendants of them? That just seems a little strange.

[LMLYP]

I never understood the idea of exiles re-seeding the planet. Doesn't that mean that any future games played on the planets in question would in theory be played by... you know. Prospitians and Dersites? Or at least descendants of them? That just seems a little strange.

presumably they'd resurrect the indigenous species, or genetically engineer a new one, using the equipment in the ectobiology lab.

GC: BUT P4RT OF TH31R JOB 1S TO R3BU1LD L1F3 4ND C1V1L1Z4T1ON TH3R3
GC: 4ND 1F TH3YR3 SUCC3SSFUL 1N THOUS4NDS OR M1LL1ONS OF Y34RS TH3 T3CHNOLOGY 1S UN34RTH3D 4ND TH3 PL4N3T 1S R1P3 FOR S33D1NG 4LL OV3R 4G41N

edit: the midnight crew built a city populated entirely by refugees from the trolls' session ("a city of slain exiles"), but i dunno if they even had an ectobiology lab.

[cardiacAtrophy]

I always assumed that the Prospitans and Dersites become the new inhabitants of the planet, but it would make sense that they could use the Ectobiology labs to recreate the life that previously existed on the planet.

Though I think the new sentient race would be spared the horrors of Sburb, and left to live the rest of their civilization's life until their star grows too big, and they either jump ship, or burn up with it.

[Blaperile]

Though I think the new sentient race would be spared the horrors of Sburb, and left to live the rest of their civilization's life until their star grows too big, and they either jump ship, or burn up with it.

But Terezi's quote LMLYP posted suggests otherwise. It's possible she was wrong of course, but she could be right.

"GC: BUT P4RT OF TH31R JOB 1S TO R3BU1LD L1F3 4ND C1V1L1Z4T1ON TH3R3
GC: 4ND 1F TH3YR3 SUCC3SSFUL 1N THOUS4NDS OR M1LL1ONS OF Y34RS TH3 T3CHNOLOGY 1S UN34RTH3D 4ND TH3 PL4N3T 1S R1P3 FOR S33D1NG 4LL OV3R 4G41N"

[FFWF]

Just because we haven't seen such a session doesn't mean it couldn't exist. The unusual circumstances of A and B (and probably C) prevent it.

[SkaianRedeemer]

Since her term is "ripe for seeding", I'm not entirely sure the carapacians themselves make any life at all. Seems like... *mysterious musical sting* Someone ELSE... is responsible for that.

We don't really know, in the end. This is all part of that pile of stuff that's going to be relevant later that Andrew's quietly swept until a bulging rug while we're not looking.

[whatpumpkiin]

Can anyone tell me where I can find that thesis someone made for John/Rose?

[whitehelm]

Since her term is "ripe for seeding", I'm not entirely sure the carapacians themselves make any life at all. Seems like... *mysterious musical sting* Someone ELSE... is responsible for that.

We don't really know, in the end. This is all part of that pile of stuff that's going to be relevant later that Andrew's quietly swept until a bulging rug while we're not looking.

The term "ripe for seeding" means seeding universes i.e. the new population uncovers the frog temples and starts a new batch of sessions. This happens "thousands if not millions of years" after the exiles "rebuild life and civilization".

[SkaianRedeemer]

I disagree: she says "the planet" is ripe for seeding. You don't seed the universe in the planet, you seed the universe in the session. You seed players and and (even more literally) the frog temple and such on the planet. I can see how you're reading it, as it is ultimately the beginning of the process that seeds the next frog, but that really doesn't quite seem to be what Terezi/Andrew is saying, imho.

EDIT: But you ARE right in me being wrong about the term referring to the species, I'm not sure where I was getting that from. Faulty memory.

[LMLYP]

Can anyone tell me where I can find that thesis someone made for John/Rose?

shotl ftw