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“Happy now?” She asked Grue.

I doubt it, but he can’t throw the rules at her anymore. There wasn’t a rule about the turns going in Jack’s predetermined order.

“Not so much.”

Burnscar’s voice was flat, without humor, like an actor reading the lines from a script without actually emoting them.  “I am following the rules, now.  Let’s see.  Trying to remember how this is supposed to go. Test you, you pass or fail, and then I kill you.”

Um. I’m not sure that’s entirely correct?

I mean, a) isn’t that supposed to be specifically for the candidates (though one of them is here), and b) isn’t she only supposed to try to kill the candidates if they fail her test?

“You only kill Bitch if she fails,” I said.  Opening my mouth was more automatic than intentional.

Exactly.

The majority of my focus was on our current situation.  Options.  What avenues of attack did we have?  What about self-defense or escape?

At least Taylor has her priorities in order.

Attack-wise, I guess the only good option is the doggos again. They might not be entirely fireproof, but the OG doggos did decently against Lung. However, Burnscar can easily evade the doggos by teleporting. Bugs would be able to spread out more, but would be less likely to deal enough damage to get past Bonesaw’s protective measures.

Self defense… Well, the darkness ought to help make them harder to hit, but Taylor may have a limited time to really sense anything in it, as Burnscar is likely to continually burn her bugs. If Burnscar pulls a Lung and surrounds her whole body in fire, it will be hard for Taylor to track her movements in the darkness without sacrificing bugs, unless she can place one in a spot on Burnscar somehow untouched by the fire. Another relevant question is whether Burnscar, like Oni Lee, would bring the bugs with her when teleporting.

I really do think the best solution here would be to tattletale it, but Tattletale’s not here, so Taylor would have to fill in for her, and she doesn’t have the same sort of knowledge about the exact cause of Burnscar’s emptiness and dead eyes that Tattletale has. Maybe using the “phone a friend” cheat could be worthwhile, but doing so without taking a fireball to the phone might be difficult.

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Bad, bad, bad, bad.

Taylor is very concerned about bathrooms all of a sudden. Wait, what do you mean this story isn’t written in Norwegian?

Jokes aside, Burnscar doing this really is terrible news.

Burnscar stood with Mannequin just behind her, sporting a red shirt and black jeans, cigarette burns running down her cheeks, and a dead look in her eyes. 

Hm. Looks like Taylor is noticing more of Burnscar’s lack of true happiness among the Nine. If she can put things together, she might be able to tattletale this situation.

Bitch, Grue, Sirius, Bastard and I stood a dozen feet away, walls of flame like bonfires barring our escape routes to the rear or sides.

The arena has been defined.

Droplets of rain fell all around us, making ripples on the inch-high water that flooded the street.  The air was thick with the smell of smoke.

Man, even when they’re up against a fire-based enemy, there’s just no avoiding the water. Although maybe that’s a good thing here.

We’d at least had time to mentally prepare for the idea of facing Mannequin.  My strategy had been last-minute, but I’d been in the right frame of mind to fight a tinker, to anticipate ambush and tackle someone with decent offensive abilities, strong defenses and a crapton of tricks up his sleeve.

But now, she’s in the frame of mind to fight a tinker but up against a blaster/mover, all while hurt from the fight against Mannequin.

Burnscar had flipped things on us; she was in a totally different ballpark from Mannequin.

A ballpark is also known as a court, and

If I had to guess, her offensive capabilities were top-notch, even if they didn’t break the scales like some other members of the Nine.

Sounds about right based on what we saw in her introduction.

I couldn’t even guess where she fit on the spectrum of defensive ability, but she’d been with the Nine for a little while and she was still alive, so that was some indication.

Imp might have something to say about that. Her own power doesn’t seem to defend her much except against fire, but Bonesaw’s can.

And utility?  She had every trick a pyrokinetic like Lung had at his disposal and she could teleport through flames as well, opening up a mess of tricks and avenues of attack.

I really liked the fireball teleport she did in Jack’s Interlude, that was a cool trick.

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A little bit of context: Homestuck has at least four main arc numbers, but 4/13 is by far the most important one. So 11.1 (111) and 12.6 (a variant on 6/12) both count as Homestucky numbers, but 13.4 (a variant on 4/13) is a much bigger deal.

Snare 13.4

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A young man sits in his living room. It just so happens that today, the 24th of June, 2018, is the day this young man intends to begin reading the chapter or Worm with the most Homestucky chapter number so far. Though it was 17 months ago he started reading Worm, it is only today he will be given a chapter with this distinction. Well, unless you count 11.1 and 12.6.

What will the chapter of this young man’s day be about?

> Young man: Speculate.

Your name is KRIXWELL JACE. You are a LIVEBLOGGER, and for almost a year and a half now, you have been slowly reading through the work of SUPERHERO FICTION known as WORM, all the while RECORDING YOUR THOUGHTS FOR ALL TO SEE.

Today, you don’t have many SPECULATIONS to talk about before you begin. When you last left off, the PROTAGONISTS were already BADLY HURT before BURNSCAR showed up to challenge them, and you find it FAIRLY OBVIOUS that the conflict with BURNSCAR is going to be the main focus of the chapter.

Exactly how the PROTAGONISTS are going to get out of this situation alive is HARD TO FATHOM. Perhaps it would’ve been easier if only TATTLETALE had been present to exploit BURNSCAR’S BACKGROUND and LACK OF DESIRE to remain part of her team when lucid from her ADDICTIVE POWER. At least SKITTER appears to have noticed the EMPTINESS IN BURNSCAR’S VOICE, which might eventually tip her off to it.

SKITTER’S POWER OF BUG CONTROL may be of limited assistance, due to BURNSCAR’S ability to BURN NEARBY BUGS WITH EASE. However, it did work out against LUNG in the past, as SKITTER IS QUITE CREATIVE.

> Krixwell: Shut up and liveblog.