https://beyondcanon.com/story/820
grand rising.
re: elegantSpinstress
Breaking the rules? You gotta be kidding. Surely they'd never do that.
I do think they'll end up playing the game, though. If not, how else does the Troll universe get created? (Yeah, I'm all in on that one. I should make a post about that.)
And that's about it.
Man everything in the CHA.OS logs is gold. Love the use of the gif to give it that manic genchat feel
My brain is interpreting this book as JJBA Part 2 but with Joseph and Caesar drawn as DirkJake... I can't find a close match to the art though, and there's maybe someone at the bottom left with their hand in their pocket? Not sure about the bottom right, maybe a train?
I might be getting "guy who has only read Jojo"'d but this has like, gotta be a manga cover at least
Here's the best perspective correction I could get, this is probably going to jump out to someone who knows exactly what it is lol:
Ly’lac of the Final Applause certainly has an interesting denizen, looking at her choice of browser.
Seth is the god of chaos, of storms, and the desert — most will know him as the guy who killed his brother Osiris to become ruler of Egypt, and who had to contend with Osiris’ son Horus making his own bid for the throne. All in all a seemingly antagonistic figure, as numerous myths about him would attest.
But there’s also a positive side to
Seth as well — he is the loyal defender of the sun god Ra. Day in and day out he protects the solar barge in its journey, driving back the all-devouring chaos serpent Apep and preventing it from devouring Ra (which would have apocalyptic ramifications; imagine what would happen if the sun went out permanently).
And will we let the fire go out?
Is this the end for them now?
Sunken ship that has long gone down
Will we let the fire go.. out?
—DirkJake in memoriam
I LOVE HER. I NEED HER.
I HAVE BEEN MISSING HER EVERY SINGLE DAY OF MY LIFE.
I love Ly’lac forced into the role of moderator, that sounds like hell. My condolence, mods. I am so excited the more we learn about everything! THERE’S SO MANY PEOPLE PARTICIPATING IN THIS GAME. Fun to think about, like imagine the sessions we saw but now there’s an unruly audience they have to wrangle on top of everything. FUCKING NIGHTMARE, IT’S PERFECT. Also AA kinda gay, she is very fun. We are so deep in the ocean theming it’s great. I can’t wait for things to become extremely Horseshit >:]
I made a transcript in case anyone is curious:
<AP:> how do
<AP:> how do i jump in this game
<GJ:> just jump with your legs dude
<AP:> and if i don't have legs
<VF:> hey first time Chatter long time Fan
<GJ:> i guess you just can't sorry
<AP:> that's bad game degisn
<UD:> imagine if you got mugged by a dude holding poop like if you got held up at poop point
<JQ:> can someone PLEASE ban UD PLEASE???
<VF:> is this Game ftp orrrr ?
<DC:> first time stupid question from VF
<DC:> are you poor?
<VF:> im a Multimillionaire
<DC:> well you act poor.
<RW:> lmfao are people seriously being banned for saying honey is bee vomit?
<RW:> it literally is?
agamemmonsTheory [AT] has banished roidedWrinkler <RW>
<HC:> What OS is optimal for this game?
<SW:> do u have mac or pc
<DL:> no one here has pc
<RP:> ... I do.
<DL:> you're no one
<UD:> @JQ so im the bad guy for asking questiongs?
<HL:> @tacobelldeltritus SO UR GONNA BRING BACK 5 DISCONTINUED ITEMS FROM UR PREVIOUS MENUS AND NOT ONE OF THEM IS THE FRUITISTA. REALLY. REALLY.
<ZA:> @VF can you spoiler text your messages broke people trigger me /srs
<DF:> do u think i'd get banned for posting the bee movie script lol
aggamemmonsTheory [AT] has banished duckingFunce <DF>
<NG:> is @TC on? i have some questions
<JQ:> brah don't @ him that one mod gets so mad
aggamemmonsTheory [AT] has banished normalGuy <NG>
<LK:> okay but where is he though?
<XM:> he's literally vibing dude did you not check is status?
<LK:> oh i'm sorry
<IS:> hello all. are the itmes in The Phernalia Registry waterproof?
<IS:> would they work fully submerged in water?
and if so do they have a pressure limit?
<SC:> are you playing this underwater???
<IS:> that's private.
<SZ:> random but just now everyone in my class just fell asleep
<GR:> me asf lol
<SZ:> lol
And that's about it.
There's a mindboggling amount of worldbuilding and theorybait here and it's fantastic stuff, I'm having a really fun time observing it. I'm CAPTIVATED by AA though, she immediately feels like a category dave level event for impacting the way people talk online for years to come. I am watching thee from my orb now. shfkngkngg shes so so funny, and i can't wait to see her jaunty little wizardwitch hat in full sprite/design form.
The shape language going into her feels fascinating, too. This is just the vibe I'm getting of course, but the way the hat mixes into her nymph head--I get the impression the hat might have holes cut into it for those big black eyes they have??--ends up making her whole silhouette look drastically sharp and triangular, and what it ends up reminding me of very distinctly is Dirk.
That makes sense immediately because she's positioning herself as a very sharp character in conflict with both the world--with confidence of overcoming what it throws at her--and relative to Ly'lac. She seems to imagine herself so much sharper than Ly'lac that she very clearly thinks of their relationship in terms of Teacher/Pupil to some extent, echoing Dirk's relationship to Dave. There's a lot of resonances there just in general.
It paints a really dynamic and interesting portrait of their relationship, and it's quite evocative. I'm not totally sure I parse the way Nymph aging works yet either, so it's also a little funny because I'm wondering if AA is even actually that much older than Ly'ly or if that presentation of herself as her elder is all just posturing? The idea that she IS and we're getting a session with players of varying ages is interesting on its face, though.
God this is so exciting. Great job all around.
'"I thought this was a love story," you say.
Your Lola's insistence has remained with you since the beginning, and you say these words in a quiet manner, with a shrug, as if to let these performers know it is fine, it does not matter that much, this thought—that maybe the definition of what a love story is could be stretched to include all that has up till now taken place. You say it like an apology. Like it is a thing to be apologized for.
A runaway child, charging through the porcelain shelves:
I thought this was a love story. I had hoped this was a love story.
You say it with shame, embarrassed at having said it, wishing you could take it back.
You say it, worried that you have betrayed some secret part of yourself that does not wish to be exposed—
an old gremlin in you, sick and yearning. You say it with hope.
Timid, and without conviction.
The hope of someone who knows they are about to wake from a dream to a reality they do not understand. The pub awaits, as does your empty bed.
I thought this was a love story.
You regret having said it; as if you know it will lessen the quality of the tale. Rob it of its smoke and shadow. But still, you say it.
And this moonlit body smiles. And from the wings the patting of the drums slowly builds, and the curtains behind the dancers rise. Because you are right, this moonlit body tells you;
This is indeed a love story. Down to the blade-dented bone.'
-You, in the Inverted Theater - The Spear Cuts Through Water
"I don't care if the best I can hope for is half of what I want. I'm not here for a realistic outcome. I'm just going to fight! Forever! With perfect greed! Until I get everything!"
-Saturn, Heaven will be Mine
Oh i forgot to mention i LOVED the cha.OS kermit gif too, i don't know if the muppet joker is still alive after strange aeons got through with him but if he is i hope someone points him to HSBC because i think he'd go nuts about this.
'"I thought this was a love story," you say.
Your Lola's insistence has remained with you since the beginning, and you say these words in a quiet manner, with a shrug, as if to let these performers know it is fine, it does not matter that much, this thought—that maybe the definition of what a love story is could be stretched to include all that has up till now taken place. You say it like an apology. Like it is a thing to be apologized for.
A runaway child, charging through the porcelain shelves:
I thought this was a love story. I had hoped this was a love story.
You say it with shame, embarrassed at having said it, wishing you could take it back.
You say it, worried that you have betrayed some secret part of yourself that does not wish to be exposed—
an old gremlin in you, sick and yearning. You say it with hope.
Timid, and without conviction.
The hope of someone who knows they are about to wake from a dream to a reality they do not understand. The pub awaits, as does your empty bed.
I thought this was a love story.
You regret having said it; as if you know it will lessen the quality of the tale. Rob it of its smoke and shadow. But still, you say it.
And this moonlit body smiles. And from the wings the patting of the drums slowly builds, and the curtains behind the dancers rise. Because you are right, this moonlit body tells you;
This is indeed a love story. Down to the blade-dented bone.'
-You, in the Inverted Theater - The Spear Cuts Through Water
"I don't care if the best I can hope for is half of what I want. I'm not here for a realistic outcome. I'm just going to fight! Forever! With perfect greed! Until I get everything!"
-Saturn, Heaven will be Mine
page 820:
these buttery smooth cursor animations are impressive
page 821:
the generic scratch explosion KLFDJASLKF OKAY ONLY SCRATCH.MIT.EDU KIDS CALL IT THE "SCRATCH" EXPLOSION BUT ITS JUST FUNNY TO ME.
page 824:
im obsessed with ly'ly..................................so cute...........................
page 827:
i love AA's silhouette. also <8{<:) cute how her emoji is like a squid and a wizard hat at the same time. its giving legend of grimrock goromorg and whatever else has those
whats going on with AA having the same color as the original AA aradia
i need to point out all her hotep dialogue: "Grand rising, queen." "Today, my dear dark sister,"
"AA: Oh, to be young again..." "AA: Tangentially speaking, Isn't it odd how our age is measured in tidal turns despite it being a smaller unit of sublunary mensuration than syzygic recitals?" is she like an age progressor
"AA: Our master and friend relationship has always been dear to me." me and haven
page 828:
"Now she's mad at you again." lylac need to block her abuser
page 829: THE PANELS OF DELTRITUS ARE GORGEOUS NOW. LIKE THE COLOR SCHEME IS STRAIGHT UP BEAUTIFUL AND THE WATER LOOKS GREAT???? KAL;SGDSKF;SKFDSLKSA I USED TO SCREAM ABUSES AT HAVEN OVER CALL HOW UGLY I THOUGHT DELTRITUS WAS. ITS SUPER CUTE NOW.
page 831: rose made mommy issues planet nah take me off this shit bro. but the caretaker is super cute fjdklsafjasdlfsdl is that what lylac and her friends are supposed to turn into??????? either way i really like how rose's visual motifs are coming back
page 834: again i like rose's visual language coming back with this throwback to grimdark goo. Nice!
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It's like Homestuck but during Antebellum slavery.
AA is already incredible lmao. Read the first couple lines from her and immediately thought of this meme from a while ago.
i'm guessing "do what you want shall be the whole of my law!" is a reference to aleister crowley's "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"? (or at least pop-culture-osmose'd from it?) that combined with the channel name '#palehorse-darkgeniuses' is pretty interesting
i love that we're doing standard intro mspfa stuff here but with the added twist of it being administered/observed/manipulated by dirk, rose, and terezi. there's exactly enough dramatic tension at play here to inject the setup with a spark of life that keeps me on edge even though so far our time spent here has been fairly formulaic. i'm so excited to see where this goes!
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what if the grand metamorphosis is some heinousstuck shit? we know nymphs have alchemy and magic and might literally be precursors to the horroterrirs so like its believable to me that the caretaker is a slight red herring where thats not actually like a generalizable case of what adult nymphs look like bc they all turn out totally different in their squiddley ways
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Okay so I am really hyped for AA! She's just like me fr.... I need to learn how to use thee but i already toss a lot of thous and thys into regular convos heh so I like her. I hope she'll be a little less intense in groupchat convos....
Speaking of groupchats, thanks Palm Heart for transcribing!!! Awesome, dude! thank you!!! Great to see that Dirk and Rose brought taco bell and the bee movie to Deltritus. Truly, earth's greatest cultural exports... Also, AT crumbs! Neato.
Re:lyrichartwell I LOVE the idea of the older nymphs getting more teen proportioned sprites! It'd be really cool if the Satyrs and Omega Kids did too... I like when Beyond Canon does its own cool stuff, heh!
Currently, my theory is that Ly'lac's metamorphisis will not make her look like the caretaker. I think that's either a seperate species/homunculus/robot???? thing (probably magic, not mechanical) that cares for elderly Nymphs, or the nymphs can just. Metamorphis in multiple ways. Like some of them turn into caretakers AND SOME OF THEM TURN INTO SUPER COOL BADASS LIKE!!! UHHHHH. MINI CTHULUS!!!! Heheh, but like, it'd be cool if some of them were more horror inspired. Especially with all those arms Ly'lac has!
That line about her not enjoying her title.... bard of life ly'lac ftw X3
I can't wait to see more! Deltritus is just really fun to learn more about.
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So many people... there's not 48 of them, by any chance?
So, satyrs are "ungulates." Cool.
I kind of assumed that nymphs were the larval form of something else, but it sounds like they grow old and die. (Unless "dying" is metamorphosis. YOu never know.)
Ly'lac's ability to accidentally blow stuff up knows no bounds.
"This is StuckUnderHell, nor am I out of it." - Mephistopheles
dude AA is so fucking funny she might already be one of my favourite characters
i also like how it seems like her head is kinda designed to be squid shaped, very neat
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I still think there's no way Ly'lac's design will change, at least for a while longer. Would be weird if she just changed right after her introduction. Not to mention that AA is older than her, and her design seems to be like Ly'lacs. So that's odd.
And that's about it.
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