#thorns of oglogoth

[land-of-polls-and-brackets]

Round 3: Trusty Knife vs. Thorns of Oglogoth

[k-arb]

I really wanna make the thorns of oglogoth, and i tried to with some success, but i cant make the dumb little mustache thingy it has. Sob.

[whoslaurapalmer]

hello darkness my old friend

I've come to honk with you again

[meraki-sunset]

🌻Meraki's arsenal🌻

This started as an excercise for dinamic poses using some references and giving my trollsona diferent hairstyles, but i ended up using it as a way to show a bunch of axes she has.

Some are based of canon weapons, like Ahab's crosshairs (Eridan's gun), caledfwlch (Dave's sword), Ancestral Awakening Sword (Vriska's sword), Thorns of oglogoth (Rose's horroterror wands) and The legendary Zilly Weapons.

If the names are stupid you already know it's because i speak spanish👍 (tho names of things in homestuck are kinda stupid anyways)

[thewertsearch]

What makes you convinced the wands are responsible for your abilities? TT: Because I did not have the abilities before I made them.

Rose does have powers independent of her gear, but if the wands were channeling her Aspect, her spells would be Light-themed. The Thorns of Oglogoth are clearly drawing power from the opposite side of the board.

What did you combine to make those wands? […] Knitting needles? An inexpensive figurine of some fictional fellow with long whiskers? A simple textbook on the zoologically dubious? Why would this mundane combination of objects grant a child such an alarming mastery over dark forces all at once?

Why would a skateboard and a comic make an antigravity device? It's long been established that alchemy can make supernatural items out of mundane ingredients.

That's probably not what's happening with the Thorns, though, since Rose's spellcasting is obviously being enhanced by the Horrorterrors. They're both fully aware of this, so I don't understand why he keeps going on about alchemy.

Would it be so difficult to believe the power you've found to devastate your planet and create shortcuts through your session is not entirely by your own device?

... surely Rose knows she's Horrorterror-enhanced, right?

Like - Rose. You're following Horrorterror orders. You've been throwing around unholy magic that's far beyond your weight class. You're literally wielding a weapon named after a Horrorterror. You come from a family of wizard enthusiasts, and I know you know what a warlock is.

Rose, your spells look like this!

[artisticaperture]

that time of the year again….

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Start ID. A digital illustration of the beta kids. John wears his green lab outfit and is bent over the console in the ectobiology lab. Rose, wearing a purple and black dress with gold accents, and Dave , wearing a red suit, stand behind him. Rose wields the thorns of oglogoth, Dave the timetables. Jade’ dream self is behind them all, floating, she’s wearing WQ’s prototyped ring on her finger and is looking at it. The homestuck logo is behind her head. Surrounding text reads: “Happy 14th year of 413!” End ID.

[dzcool3]

they're called the thorns of oglogoth becuase her name is rose... how did i not notice this......

[homestuck-iconz]

)(ey! W)(at are some cool weapons t)(at you can t)(ink off - to use in sburb (or your favourites)? Also I really )(ope t)(e moving process goes well and t)(at mould goes away, best of wishes and keep up t)(e good work!

((Hey! What are some cool weapons that you can think of - to use in sburb (or your favourites)? Also really hope the morning process goes well and that mould goes away, best of wishes and keep up the good work!))

thank you very much!! I do have some answers surprisingly, im gonna go with my favorite weapon that each of the beta kids used because their weapons are just my favorites in general

John: Pop-a-matic Vrillyhoo Hammer

I mean can you even blame me? look at this thing. i love it. Im jot a huge johnvris guy but their strifekinds kinda merging here slays

Rose: Thorns of Oglogoth

Once again, can you even blame me? roses ascetic around this era absolutely FUCKS and her needles are NOT an exception. Roses really powerful, so these in her hands??? fucked up in the best way.

Dave: Caledscratch

Not the coolest looking weapon used by the kids but i think this is one of daves better weapons!!! i do really wish his stuff was alchemized more but whatever

Jade: Green Sun Streetsweeper

big fan of green guns. you cant even blame me. look at that gun.

Tbh alot of whats cool with sburb weapons comes from alchemy???? have fun w that and make op weapons for shits and giggles

[29pageshomestuckeveryday]

Homestuck, page 1,812

Rose: Combine needlewands and grimoire.

You make the THORNS OF OGLOGOTH. The needles seem to shiver with the dark desires of THE DEEP ONE. Any sane adventurer would cast these instruments of the occult into the FURTHEST RING and forget they ever existed.

Author commentary: Rose is not an especially sane adventurer. So she doesn't do that. She hangs on to these bad boys and does some not especially sane things with them.

[vexwerewolf]

Currently, it's set out like this:

John "TRICKSTER" Egbert pilots an IPS-N Tortuga called Prankster's Gambit. It has the ISP-N Raleigh's Kinetic Hammer. I chose this mech largely because John has absurd levels of MANGRIT and is very protective of his friends.

Rose "THERAPIST" Lalonde pilots a HORUS Pegasus called Thorn of Oglogoth. It is the only one currently installed with an NHP, a SISYPHUS-class named Jasper. I chose this mech for largely the same reasons you did.

Dave "GODHEAD" Strider pilots a HA Tokugawa called Ill Beats To Study To. This is my least favourite choice, but it was basically the default choice after all the others I'd chosen. I'll go into more detail down the page.

Jade "GNOSTIC" Harley pilots an SSC Death's Head called Dreaming Dark. I chose this largely because Jade's Strife Specibus for the vast majority of Homestuck is RIFLEKIND and it makes sense as a pure sniper build.

So Homestuck is very heavy on 2-fold and 4-fold fold numeric categorization of sburb session players.

There's 2-fold numeric categorizations - male/female, Prospit/Derse, red/blue (troll session), red/green (Cherub session), active class/passive class etc. and also dualisms such as Time/Space, Light/Void, Heart/Mind etc.

There's additionally what I would pretentiously describe as dualistic parallelism between scratched timelines: John (GT) and Jade (GG) become Jane (GG) and Jake (GT), exchanging both abbreviations and genders, while Rose (TT) and Dave (TG) become Roxy (TG) and Dirk (TT), exchanging abbreviations but not genders. We can speculate a similar thing may have happened with the pre-Scratch trolls but Hussie never bothered to tell us what their trollhandles were.

There's 4-fold numeric categorizations, such as classical element (Earth/Air/Fire/Water), noble gas (Helium/Neon/Xenon/Krypton), exile (WV/AR/PM/WQ and CD/HB/SS/DD), consort type (turtle, salamander, crocodile, iguana, etc.)

(The trolls also had 12-fold numeric categorizations but fuck that it's too complicated to categorize and not relevant right now)

Lancer conveniently has a couple of very useful 4-fold numeric categorizations: manufacturer and HASE (and it's nested, because the manufacturers themselves divided by HASE). It follows that I should divide the four original Homestuck kids one-per-manufacturer.

I had to give John the giant hammer and a big strong mech. If we're assuming that he's LL6, I reckon he has two levels in Tortuga, three in the Raleigh and a single LL-splash in Blackbeard for Synthetic Muscle Netting, to make his Tortuga e%tra STRONG. For core bonuses, I'm pretty sure he has Gyges Frame (more Threat with his hammer!) and Improved Armament.

Rose has all three levels of Pegasus, a level of Swallowtail for Lotus Projector and I'm not sure where her other two levels are. Her Core Bonuses are Lesson of the Held Image and Universal Compatibility, which she uses SISYPHUS dice-manipulation to rig so she always gets her Core Power back.

Jade has all three levels of Death's Head, two levels of Mourning Cloak for Singularity Motivator and one level in the Sunzi for obvious reasons. Her core bonuses are Auto-Stabilizing Hardpoints (on her Railgun) and Overpower Caliber (also on her Railgun).

Dave got stuck with a Harrison Armory mech mostly to maintain Homestuck's numerology. While the Blackbeard, the Atlas and the Metalmark all fit him, it would not be in keeping with Homestuckian numerology to give him a mech from a manufacturer that someone else had. Also, giving him the Tokugawa and making Engineering his highest stat at least let me keep his fire motif intact.

I reckon Dave has all three ranks in Tokugawa and three ranks in the Sherman for Redundant Systems Upgrade and potentially ASURA. His core bonuses are Superior by Design and Heatfall Coolant System because he stays chill 24/7.

TG: yeah dont worry i fully acknowledge superior by design is a hella fashy name TG: but ill burn in the fires of unironic double hell before i spend a single turn impaired

Homestuck and Lancer fans bout to go wild when I hit em with the

[land-of-polls-and-brackets]

Round 4: Thorns of Oglogoth vs. Warhammer of Zillyhoo

[clockworkslick]

rose: wreak havoc

[radwolf76]

So my wife has been getting creative in her Love Nikki mobile Dress-Up game.

[k-arb]

Bro this cosplay is phenominal but i NEED to know how she made the thorns of oglogoth

Homestuck cosplayers continue to disappoint? The Squiddleknit dress is actually a fairly popular outfit to cosplay. I have cosplayed it myself even! i(.)imgur(.)com/qMY1zkk(.)jpg

Ooh wow thank you! 

Homestuck cosplayers have disappointed me by not appearing in front of me at the conventions I attended, and announcing themselves as Homestuck cosplayers whose amazing talents I would recognize if I’d stop futzing around with Dresen Files ebooks and just finish reading Homestuck so I could get all the jokes. I am aware that this would require them to be telepathic; the whole damn universe continues to disappoint me with its lack of telepathy and time control.

Amazing lovely picture!

(AAARRGH I have switched from Firefox to Opera and there is no XKit for Opera, so I can’t add tags to asks except by editing them after publishing.)

(Re edit: There is XKit for Opera; it’s not all reliable, but I’ll see if it works enough.) (Yay.)

[agent37]

it’s that one panel with grimdork rose and jackal noir except without jackie because,,,,,, uh,,,,,,,,,,,,, why not,,,,

(this is the page if you didn’t know which one, which, fair enough)

[thewertsearch]

CA: anywway a lot of us believve wwere meant to trace the footsteps of those ancestors evven though wwe can nevver knoww em CA: and on that journey wwe can come across belongings they once had cause wwe wwere hatched to find em and finish their wwork

The human Guardians seemed fully aware of their offspring's special role in their planet's fate. Doubtless the same was true of the troll ancestors - especially if they landed with heirlooms from the Veil.

If any of our trolls had sought out the story of their predecessors, I'm sure they would have discovered some very interesting things indeed.

For no particular reason, I'm suddenly reminded of the fact that Terezi lived next to an ancient Sgrub construct - one which bore the symbol of her family.

And nothing of value was lost.

That being said, I'm a little concerned about Eridan's ability to do this. This is a move we've seen Rose use on him, and it feels like an ominous hint that his powers are a lot stronger than we thought.

If his science wand is at all comparable to the Thorns of Oglogoth, we should all be very nervous.

Looks like we’re getting a timeline refresher.

At the end of their game, Jack attacked the trolls. This event occurred about ten hours before some critical point, which is probably the moment the trolls' session dissolves.

Four hours later, he destroyed Prospit.

Frankly, I'm surprised it took him that long. Maybe he was just fucking around in the session until then.

After an hour dreaming in the Furthest Ring, Karkat woke up, and finally learned about the humans.

And an hour after that, we enter a scene I don’t think we’ve seen before. Judging by Nepeta's dream, we at least know it's prior to the destruction of Derse.

Also….

Is that Tinkerbull's body, somehow removed from its Sprite? Is it a plushie of Tinkerbull? What's going on here?

AA: hi TA: hii? AA: i guess i sh0uld say s0mething AA: bef0re i g0

Aradia appears to have foreseen her own destruction. I used to think that Rose might be responsible - but now Eridan, too, has gained the ability to destroy technology with magic, and he's significantly more likely to use it maliciously.