Upd8 Thread 8/15/25

@rosebot

For reference, this is the all the commentary I could find about that:

"I spent some time joking about how there would be a huge Squiddles intermission, with like a forty-eight-player Squiddle Sburb session, and we would get to know each one in great detail. I threatened this more than once, I think. But in the end, this three-second clip of nonsense was probably the closest we ever got to that. Sorry, buddies, you will be fondly remembered for the useless and utterly unwanted subplot you could have starred in." (Andrew Hussie, Book 3, Pg. 454)

"A twelve-player session is a big session, by any standard. Since I just make this shit up, I get to say what's true or not, but it does seem unlikely that they would get much bigger than that. (Sorry, the forty-eight-player Squiddle session was some bullshit joke and was never real.) It just doesn't seem logistically viable for many more players to play this game than that. But a twelve-player session would still ordinarily just have one set of ruins: a single frog temple with twelve surrounding planet-towers. This one is a special bifurcated session, though, as it says there. That means it has one usual set of ruins, which always end up next to the Forge. (The volcano there. All sessions start with one of those, except void sessions.) And also that the future site for one of the player's homes is nearby, like Jade, Kanaya, or Jake. But the underground Rogue Ruins site is quite anomalous to a session's starting planet. It makes sense that it's underground, hidden from view, and associated with Aradia. A planet is only supposed to have one set of ruins, so these are like the Shadow Ruins, which only conspiracy theorists whisper about. It's a fitting location for Aradia to begin her cloak-and-dagger campaign, assuming the role of Shadow Leader." (Andrew Hussie, Book 4, Pg. 268)

"Quick off-topic note: Karkat's reference to the forty-eight signs is based on the (fake) forty-eight-player Squiddle session that apocryphally created their universe." (Andrew Hussie, Book 4, Pg. 411)

update where rose made cloth mother real. i lost my shit. really good.

anyway, here's my stitch-together of the chatlogs:

full transcript below! thanks to @mightyoctopus on tumblr for doing ocr that i cleaned up.

<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

<GJ:> 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

<IQ:> 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 well you act poor.

<RW:> lmfao are people seriously being banned for saying honey is bee vomit?

<RW:> It literally is?

agamemnonsTheory [AT] has banished roided winkler <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 BACKS 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

agamemnonsTheory [AT] has banished duckingFunce <DF>

<NG:> is @TC on? i have some questions

<IQ:> brah don't @ him that one mod gets so mad

agamemnonsTheory LAT] has banished normalGuy <NG>

<LK:> okay but where is he though?

<XM:> he's literally vibing dude did you not check his status?

<LK:> oh i'm sorry

<IS:> hello all, are the items 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

serves me right for not reading the thread, someone already did a better transcript lol. anyway doing this DID make me notice that the mods use [XX] type usernames and everyone else uses <XX> type usernames... interesting. i wonder if theyre a different species or if its just a software quirk in universe

@bodertz thank you for finding that, I wish I had a digital copy of those books for pdf copy and pasting. I guess we'll have to wait for the HSBC patreon commentary to see if it was an intentional reference or not sometime in the future. 🤔

@rosebot

I suppose the mods will delete this if they think it inappropriate to link it, but this spreadsheet has the commentary for the books for easy copy and pasting. It's just the commentary, though, so you don't get the context of what's on the page without having your own copy of the books.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eHBQGeEm_-5ZfTj0smTKVbu8hDcHkWjAMQcrQhatdRc/

or

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eHBQGeEm_-5ZfTj0smTKVbu8hDcHkWjAMQcrQhatdRc/htmlview

Does anyone else get the feeling that some of the people in cha.os are humans? The quirkless dialog, the straight up mention of the bee movie instead of a weird fish version of it? It could just be because they're background characters, so I'm not sure.

Also, I think they're building up Ly'lac being a satyr-like nymph and TC being a nymph-like satyr. Magic is a nymph thing and he drops that Crowley quote in the rules channel. Could tie into Ly'lac being the only nymph with an xy username, but then you would expect CT to have an xx user.

AA seems like a nymph's nymph, very wizard, Ly'Lac is a satyr's nymph with her bombs, I wonder if CC is going to be a failed nymph in some way? And then the same structure is ported over to the satyrs (nymph's satyr, satyr's satyr and failed satyr?)

Ahhh idk how much sense this makes. All this is baseless speculation lol.

AA already means the world to me. Please, guys, have pity! We can't have two iconic red AA's! That's just too many!

My baseless speculation cap is in the wash, so I don't have any theories at the moment, but I find all the ideas about just how fucking many players there are pretty interesting!

Oh and, poor squidmom >:'( At least maybe we'll get Caretakersprite...?

I don't think that Caretaker is dead, is she? Just highly embarassed by her sudden release of bodily fluids

@dzcool I'm kind of sensing that nymphs in general don't really have "quirks" in the way we're familiar with them. Ly'lac likes to use bomb emoticons, but there are no rules about how they're used, and she seems to use them so sparingly that they don't even get a mention on her intro page. AA has an interesting way of speaking, but it's not strictly a replacement cypher either.

really do quite like
lovely seaside vista

works well to strike

cornea like fiesta

squid girl need psych

Big fan of Maroon colored text, it pleases me

OH WAIT- it's low tide, does ly'lac's room go (partially) underwater at high tide? i wonder if this is why her computer is hung up on a rope....

Alright, I've looked into it. There are 27 people in the CHA.OS general chat. Anyone who doesn't have GCAT somewhere in their username aren't going to be important.

The Full release kids are AG, GG, and TG.

Ly'lac is GC. Ly'lac's friend who has dialog is TC. Ly'lac's other friend is AA. AT is currently banning everyone. CC and CT are listed in the CHA.OS member list.

GA, GT, CG, CA, AC, TA, and TT have yet to be mentioned, but at least one of them is going to be Yiffy.

Theory time. The missing links share usernames with Kanaya, John/Jake, Karkat, Eridan, Nepeta, Sollux, and Dirk/Rose. Yiffy will most likely be GT, since Rose is TT and Jade is GG. Four humans. 6 Dirk/Rose creations. 6 empty slots. They could be more Rose/Dirk creations. They could be members of the returning cast. Non-canon Nepeta and ghost Eridan. I can't imagine any other feasible options.

Also.

TC mentions that CT found "ur-tech." Which means that CT is more than just a name on the list.

The Ly'lac commands use three equal signs, which indicates a six player session.

The cha.OS icon correlates to the four humans and six Dirk/Rose creations.

I have, in fact, imagined more feasible options regarding the six unfulfilled roles of the GCAT code. They could be citizens from the Candy and Meat timelines. They could not exist, their absence a sign that the Dirk/Rose session is doomed. They could be cherubs. New freaking characters from out of nowhere. They could be people from the next universe.

just more and more curious as to how the session or sessions will turn out. will there by 6 nymphs and satyrs in a session, and then the omega kids have their own session? will there only be one session, with ly'lac, a satyr, and the omega kids? will one/multiple of the omega kids not enter the session????????? i need to know!!!!!!!!!!!