[S] Jade: Retrieve package.

GUYS GUYS WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING

I THOUGHT BEC WAS A DOG BUT APPARENTLY HE’S A NUCLEAR THINGIE MADE OF FUCKING LIGHTNING??? AND JADE IS ABOUT TO SHOOT HIM OH MY GOD THIS CAN’T END WELL

>ARRAIGN

Ok I… I guess I get to aim? I DON’T WANT TO SHOOT BEC HE’LL PROBABLY EXPLODE

There’s nothing else to do though

LET’S GOAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHAT

HE’S BULLETPROOF HOLY SHIT

>ARSENALIZE

WE WERE JUST TINYFIED AND TELEPORTED… ON TOP OF… THE FUCKING BULLET

HE’S

A

GODDAMN

REALITY

WARPER

JADE LIVES ON A DESERTED ISLAND NEXT TO A VOLCANO AND A MYSTERIOUS FROGGY TEMPLE THAT GREW THERE, ALONG WITH THE STUFFED CORPSE OF HER GRANDPA AND SOME GODLIKE ABOMINATION THAT COULD PROBABLY END HER LIFE WITH A TWITCH OF ITS NOSE

!!!!!!!

>ALLITERATE, WAIT NO, ARTILLERATE

I CAN SEE INFINITY

JADE PROCEEDS TO NOT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT ANY OF THIS

>ARMAMENTIFY

WE JUST….. TELEPORTED TO EVERYONE’S HOUSE…. WHY THE HELL DOES JADE BOTHER WITH SENDING PRESENTS????

THE PACKAGE IS HERE BUT WE’RE PROBABLY GONNA VISIT THE FUCKING SUN BEFORE WE ACTUALLY GET IT

>ARF

SHE JIST TOLD HIM TO FEZCH THE FUCKING BULLET AND HE DIDD

G… GOOD DOG…….. BES FRIEND…… I………..

JADE…… JADE BBY YOu….. WHAT EVEN ARE YOU…..

I’M GONNA FUCKING SCREAM SHE JUST PASSED OUT AGAIN THIS IS A REGULAR THING FOR HER

YOU ARE…. COMPLETELY INDESCRIBABLE….

Dear lord Jade’s home life turned out even weirder than I predicted??? And a whole lot more disturbing, somehow

Hussie just keeps one-upping himself

I can’t even begin to think about all the ways this could potentially change EVERYTHING



Are Bec’s powers limited to this universe, or could he just send Jade straight to Skaia whenever he feels like it???

Where did he even get them? Where did he even come from??? Experiment gone wrong/right????? Eurgghhh

What are you…

OOOOOOOOOOOOH NOOOOOOOOO HE’S CUTE TOO

AND LOOK AT JADE OH MY GOSH (/ω＼)

Rose: Check self for any mixed atoms with cat.

Nope, no mixed atoms. Looks like you and the kitty kept your genes to yourselves.



Your new kitty whose name is…



You’ll think of one later.

Oh man I really really hope she names him “Menes”

Or maybe “Istasha” though that was a female entity ┗(・－・)┛

Oh, you’re back home. The well-stocked bar and the vantage from the window tells you this is your MOM’S room. Or at least what you thought was her room.



You decide not to be especially melodramatic about this revelation.

Holy shit that stuff is probably worth a small fortune

She looks like a classy lady so I’m gonna assume she wouldn’t stock her shelves with ordinary booze

WAIT, does that mean she *still* sleeps in the lab?

She’s at least thirty does she have drunk tea parties with her mutant paradox cat

Where *is* Mom, anyway? The lab hasn’t yet blown itself up for some reason, but the smaller meteors have stopped, meaning there’s probably a big one coming

SHIT SHIT FUCK I DIDN’T MEAN *RIGHT NOW* OHMYGOD THERE’S NO WAY THE HOUSE IS STILL STANDING ROOOOOOOOSE

JESUS CARTWHEELING CHRIST RUN RUN RUN GO GO GO

Oh you have got to be kidding me

I’ve been looking forward to more alchemizing but

NOW?

Urrrrghhh I guess Rose is protected by her main-character-ness but I’m still worried (´Д｀)

Wait, no, we’re back to Jade

The last time we saw Dave, he was tumbling down an endless staircase if I’m not mistaken, he still doesn’t have the disc!!!!

And now these things on Jade’s bed are blinking? They kinda look like the four spires I guess

HAHA.

WHAT.

She… she has a robot version of herself I guess? Probably there to… sort of take her place and do her chores while she sleeps?

…Who just dreams about being in their room?

That outfit tho. Cute as hell. Reminds me of the golden kingdom a bit. I kind of want it (･ω･)

So, I guess the dreambot mirrors her actions while she’s dreaming? What’s even the point of that??? If anything, it seems potentially harmful to her original self

Jade: Obliquely foreshadow future through interpretive dance

That’s totally something she would do, isn’t it

That’s not even a dance, that’s you being stuck in an invisible box and feeling rather sheepish about it

What’s that blue circle thing down there

Some kind of pole attached to the bed? It’s not there in normal-vision

OK I UH. IF I TILT MY SCREEN WAY BACK IT ACTUALLY SEEMS LIKE

THAT’S AN ARM.

JUST.

A RANDOM FUCKING ARM STICKING OUT OF JADE’S BED.

OK I GUESS IT’S STARTING TO SEEM MORE LIKE A DREAM NOW.

This is freaky as hell though, where is it coming from??? Is Jade really just dreaming it up? It looks like it’s reaching through some kind of portal INTO HER DREAM and that unsettles me greatly (・_・ )

You climb into bed and try to get comfortable. But some sort of invisible force is pressing down on you, a strange feeling of cold heavy metal.



This happens every time you try to get into bed! No wonder you can never get any sleep.

Oh god dammit, this is exactly what I meant

Thing is downright hazardous to her health

Aw yeah now we’re getting somewhere

Dream mechanics have the potential to be really interesting

The dreambot too I guess, but I’m still not sure what its purpose is supposed to be

You stop all this flying around nonsense and examine John’s birthday package.

In your DREAM? That’s… probably not a good idea… She probably won’t see what’s ACTUALLY inside it…

Good thing you already know what’s inside. Otherwise you would surely be consumed by curiosity and suspense. You sincerely pity anyone who might be forced to endure such a fate.

YES HUSSIE I GET IT ALREADY

MY SUFFERING AMUSES YOU I KNOOOOOOW

What the hell is even going on with John’s chumhandle, now it suddenly says GT! We only get to see it in dream-vision… This is probably significant…

Months in the past…

Months in the past, John drew imps all over his walls??? Shit is this more “DESTINED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING” stuff…Wait, why would he scribble all over his posters, he loves those! And, as far as he’s aware, he’s drawing clowns, which he hates!

Wait, I’ll check whether that’s the same poster that’s hanging there now…

YEAH. THAT’S MAC AND ME. HOW DID HE CLEAN THIS OFF. I MEAN I GUESS HE COULD HAVE GOTTEN A NEW ONE? BUT HE DOESN’T EVEN LIKE MAC AND ME THAT MUCH IF HE FELT LIKE DESTROYING IT FOR WHATEVER REASON I DON’T THINK HE’D REPLACE IT

DAD *DEFINITELY* WOULDN’T DO THIS AND JOHN DOESN’T SEEM TO HAVE ANY OTHER FRIENDS???

ARGH BY NOW I KNOW ABOUT SO MUCH SUSPICIOUS STUFF THAT OBVIOUSLY MEANS SOMETHING BUT I CAN’T FIGURE OUT WHATTTTT ヽ(≧Д≦)ノ