Author: Krixwell Jace

A doofus.

Infestation 11.4

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TATTLE TIME

Howdy! Krixwell here, back for another liveblog session!

Today, I’m pretty sure we’re going out with Tattle to either attend or spy on a Merchant meeting (possibly in Tattle’s territory). That sounds like a good time for several reasons, not least of them being that we’ll be spending some time with Tattle. Other reasons include that we’ll be learning more about the Merchants, maybe see how Skidmark is acting these days, that kind of thing. But mostly the Tattle thing.

We’ll probably be hearing crap from the mouths of some piece of shit people in the process. I guess that’s just the price to pay.

There’s obviously the chance of the two Undersiders getting caught, which could result in a neat fight and/or Tattletale manipulation scene, though I don’t think that’s super likely. If something’s going to cause Taylor to need to use her power, I find it somewhat more likely that Bryce turns out to be around in some capacity and Taylor decides she needs to take the opportunity. Not sure that’s super likely either, though.

If we’re not doing this today, though… I guess maybe we’ll get more Sierra? I highly doubt we’re postponing the outing, though.

Whatever happens, though, I have a good feeling about this chapter. Let’s dive in and see whether that’s justified!

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I’m excited for the Tattle time and the expedition we’ll presumably be doing with Tattle next chapter, but for some reason I don’t really feel up to starting that right now. Maybe it’s because I spent a bunch of time today answering asks, I don’t know.

Whatever the reason, I’m going to postpone it to tomorrow (Tuesday). Sorry, and see you then!

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Really cool art by SeeYou_Blue, submitted by @seeyouintheblue (hmmm)! This is a very interesting artstyle! I love the simple yet effective use of only one non-black color per character to make them recognizable by the outlines of their costume’s most distinct design elements. 🙂 I also like how Coil’s costume design makes it look like […]

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Taylor is like ‘BOW TO THE MIGHTY LADY OF THE NIGHT PEASANTS’ 

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Ahaha!

I guess it was too much to hope that you guys wouldn’t end up finding Com’c, huh? Fair enough… Just know that these days I relate a lot more to Block than to my supposed author avatar. 😛

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“Let’s not underestimate the bug power.” Congratulations, you have just summarized Worm in six words.

Hah, yeah!

And to think, one of the first thing I did on this blog was underestimate the bug power. In Gestation 1.3, I was pretty damn certain she didn’t stand a chance against Lung without her plot armor.

I guess I was kind of right about that. If not for *PLOT*, she would’ve been in a lot of trouble at the end, but she did hold up a lot better than I expected at the start of the fight.

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How do you think Taylor would react if her father will be injured (or even worse…) by someone? Try to imagine what would happen.

Oh, I’ve been imagining that for about four or five Arcs now.

She would not take that well. Maybe that’s what would make her boil over – we’ve been repeatedly reminded of the potential for her to lose control over her power if too upset, especially in the form of rage, and I imagine anyone killing Danny would really set her raging side off.

Sheesh, maybe that’s how the Undersiders end up fighting the Slaughterhouse, even. I sure hope not, but I can’t rule it out.

At least with Taylor and Danny’s run-in in 11.1, some of the angst is alleviated – if he got killed now, at least his and Taylor’s last interaction wouldn’t have been, well, 6.9.

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How much you want to bet that stabbing was bad enough to hurt some of Skitter’s internal organs, piercing her costume or not? She doesn’t think about these things sometimes. (also I assume it’s a matter of time before you find an excuse to reference the penis ouija, if you haven’t already)

Hm, that’s a good point. It was still a pointy thing pushing her costume in towards her body.

I don’t really know what the chances of it causing internal damage are. Anatomy isn’t my strong suit. But it does sound more likely than Taylor thought.

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I read Homestuck… well part of it. On an old computer that didn’t have flash so I missed all the interactive parts. And then I stopped reading for a while and I lost my place. And now that I have a new computer I’m really not feeling like rereading the whole thing to get where I was and see everything that I missed. It was entertaining on the first read but I have my doubt on the second one… I’ve been considering Hiveswap though, can one enjoy it even if one didn’t finish the story?

Absolutely!

I do personally think it’s better to read Homestuck before playing Hiveswap if you’re going to do both (Homestuck knowledge does put a few details and jokes in Hiveswap into perspective, and Hiveswap introduces some concepts from the second quarter and middle of Homestuck which one might consider spoilers), but Hiveswap is still very much designed to be enjoyable and understandable even if you don’t know a damn thing about Homestuck. Anything you really need to know, the game will introduce for itself.

I don’t have that perspective myself, but as far as I can tell from playing it myself and watching Jacksepticeye (who did have that perspective) play it, it does a very good job at being accessible and fun to people on both sides of the divide. It’s a slightly different experience depending on whether you know what Xefros is talking about from the start or you’re as clueless as Joey, but a good one either way.