Act 4 Overview

So I have come to the end of Act 4. Starting from Session 53 to Session 82. It took me 30 reads to get through this entire thing, and since we still haven’t reached post 2000 it is going to take even longer next time.

Overall, wow did we get to know more about the lore. Rose and Dave are in the Medium on their own planets, and we finally get hints and secrets about what the adults are doing/what happened.

The Trolls got to show off their beautiful faces, and yeah they are now endearing to me than just strictly trash. I now get why people like the Trolls, it just takes a while to get use to them. Of course, we only met 6 of them, so the other six might just be assholes, who knows. But I will give them a chance now.

So there were many, many reveals over the course of Act 4, but 4 of them really strike out in my mind.

1st: The Exiles

The fact that they are actual game pieces that got kicked off of the board definitely surprised me. I mean I figured they weren’t human, but I didn’t expect that. Each with their own lives/past as they try to thrive on the new planet. The fact that Mayor led a revolt to save his farm just kills me. He is such a sweet guy.

Of course when I saw the Midnight Crew in The Kid’s Server I thought there was something screwy afoot. Like multideminsional brainwash time deal. But nope! The Crew was the Exiles for the Trolls! And the people we saw was their previous life before being exiled. What a twist!

But now here I am thinking, there are 4 exiles in John’s Session, and 5 in the Trolls. So if it is 1 Exile per Player, that means there are still 7 more to find in the Trolls session, if they still matter.

2nd: Future Dave.

So I get that Time Travel is a big thing with the Trolls and Chat logs. Hussie must have had a hard time trying to come up with all of that to be honest. But seeing a world where Dave and Rose are just by themselves for almost a year, that just tears me up. It shows how deadly and serious this game is, they could actually die. (hell Hussie showed Dave’s dead body on screen to after this). But seeing him going back in time to save his friend and help them all, it is just so uplifting.

3rd: The Parents

So I had a feeling that the adults knew more than they let on, but this is something else. John making their existence plus his friends and his own really throws you in for a loop. They were probably individually researching the meteors that have lead them to this moment, whether by science, investigation, exploration, or whatever the fuck Bro does. I also wish we would get more interactions between the kids and their guardians, but that might happen later. There is still more to come, but this was a good set up for eventual answers

4th: Jack Noir

Listen, I had this guy pegged as a salty 2-bit side villain before meeting with the queen. And honestly? He’s great as that! A salty, jaded person who you know is a dick and an ass, but will 100% be ruthless with paperwork when needed. I thought Hussie was going to keep him in that role for a while, but what a twist when he rose to power! Now he is in control and things get bad. And I know that the imagery had set the mood for how much of a “big bad” he was, but now I have a better explanation for why I fear this guy.

We know now that Spade Slick was the Exile for the Troll’s Session, and Homestuck got it’s first introduction to him through that Intermission. I’m not sure if the intermission has a bigger part to play by pulling characters later on into here, but it definitely gives us an idea of who Slick was. He is ruthless, cunning, violent, hell we saw him bash someone’s head in with a pipe! And though I like him, I know well enough he is not a man to mess around with.

So since Slick is a copy of Noir, while not exact, I know that the same cunning, ambition, and ruthlessness still remains. And he is in control. Oh man, what a great villain!

There are probably other moments of Act 4 that I could touch up on, like the kids reactions to the game, the overall planet feeling, etc etc, but there was just so much to remember! I started Act 4 in November, that was 3 months ago!

But overall, Act 4 is like the the 3rd quest people do. You now know enough of the basics to get to the really good stuff, but there is still so much more to learn for the overarching story line