#fetch modus: backpack

[homestuckreplay]

🎵 a little can of gravy in my life, a little can of mustard by my side 🎶

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9/21/2009 Wheel Spin: Long Pesterlog Verdict: waywardVagabond Is A Great Chumhandle

9/22/2009 Wheel Spin: Captchalogue Lore Verdict: Captchalogue Technology Is So Years In The Past But Not Many

I love this funky little vagabond. Love how wayward he is. The adrenaline rush of getting a new character has really kicked in, and the new track Upward Movement (Dave Owns) is a perfect soundtrack for it.

Earlier in the act I felt like Dave was positioned as comic relief, but with their rooftop battles, they've totally swapped roles. Now John is cowering behind the bed, having his magic chest plundered, and looking over the wrong side of the roof for his giant foes - while Dave is skillfully gathering his items, acrobatically fucking pirouetting up to the roof, and being framed in the doorway in dramatic red silhouette. Either this is on several complex layers of irony or Dave is suddenly being portrayed as Cool For Real.

Dave's definitely in more danger than just from his bro. A building in the city straight up melts in the heat. Rose isn't even in the game yet and now I'm worried for Dave too.

A week ago I predicted that GG was about to get introduced in the comic, and since then we've had a silhouette reveal, a pesterlog with John where she only got more mysterious, and the honestly incredible and frustrating moment where it seems like she's about to be introduced with a psycheout - the way Dave was - before we get double psyched out with the Wayward Vagabond. I wonder if people on the MSPA forums had theories similar to mine. If they were submitting commands directed at GG or openly talking about expecting to see her soon, I can imagine a creator reacting to that with a twist for the audience, even if introducing GG was the original plan.

The Wayward Vagabond is such a fun character to introduce, and mess up all the patterns of character introductions. They've already got arms, don't get a list of interests, aren't in their bedroom, and most shockingly, don't have a fetch modus but instead pick things up with their hands. I guess that technology died along with the Earth, if that's where we are. WV is wrapped up in bandages that almost look like newspaper, perhaps having cast off a brighter and more colorful outfit earlier.

The nuclear symbol on GG's shirt is the same as the one on WV's fuel cell, which is apparently 'fueled by some type of nuclear reaction.' Absolutely calling it now that GG got her psychic powers through radiation poisoning somehow.

WV seems like the peaceful herbivore counterpart to the imps' violent carnivore. They're made of the same shiny carapace stuff and pointy fingers, but WV is slightly squished and has blunt teeth to the imps' pointy ones. This + the bar code that could differentiate between identical NPCs + their name reinforces to me that they're an escaped Sburb NPC. Their teeth are 'blunt like that of livestock' (p.672), with livestock being any animal raised for its labor and/or useful products, so these could be worker NPCs with jobs like shopkeeps, drivers or doctors.

But what exactly is this underground bunker fueling? Is this where the Sburb servers are hosted - as the screens can see players - and do they finally power down when the battery runs out? Would that lead to John reappearing on earth, or being trapped in the Medium forever? What does that even mean if the Medium isn't synced in time with earth?

[hsoppositezodiac]

More info about the trolls (part 3)

Aradia Megido | Tealblood - Derse - Seer of Time

An enthusiast of the law; After her death, she convinced all of her friends to start a trial and decide the fate of her murderer. His Honorable Tyranny's fangirl. She also seems to enjoy playing the harmonica.

Fetch Modus: Backpack | Planet: Land of Policy and Clockwork | Strife Specibus, screen name & quirk stays the same

Matesprit: Terezi Pyrope | Auspitice of: Feferi Peixes & Nepeta Leijon | Moirail: Sollux Captor

Godtier? Yes

Tavros Nitram | Ceruleanblood - Prospit - Thief of Breath

A blueblood who, despite appearance, is very chill. He, however, doesn't take kindly to those who mistreat lusii or animals in general. Despite being confident, he still likes playing "games for girls" and watching shows for wrigglers, he hides this fact from everybody except Gamzee.

Fetch Modus: Wings | Planet: Land of Birds and Zephyr | Quirk: is the same, except he also replaces 'i' with '1' (like Rufioh) | Strife Specibus and screen name is the same

Flush-crush: Gamzee Makara

Godtier? Yes

Sollux Captor | Indigoblood - Dual Dreamer - Heir of Doom

Your average gamer. If he gets pissed (happens often), he tends to destroy the first thing he sees. An amateur programmer who mostly codes for websites. He holds an interest for card games too.

Fetch Modus: Computer | Planet: Land of Rays and Disease | Strife Specibus: Mousekind | Quirk: now types three 'iii's; replaces 's' with 'sh' instead of 2s. | Screen name is the same

Moirail: Aradia Megido | Is aware of Eridan's pale-black crush, but doesn't reciprocate it

Godtier? No

[adventures-in-alternia]

Trollcall: Taeyan Attuka

Too good for this world, too pure

Unbridled Optimism

hey, dont cry! 10,000,000 incects on Alternia okay?

?¿ Did you know my lu§u§ glow§ in the dark?? I§n't that cool?? =:D

bubbly, innocent and naive. He is very curious about the world around him and wishes to explore the outside for real one day. Has a slight lisp when speaking. Can come across as nosey. He loves to collect things and stash them in his stretch of the caves. Will sometimes sneak into the central brooding caverns for supplies and to speak to younger jades there.

Specibus and examples: Rockkind - now introducing SHARP STONE spearkind - a sharpened stick he made!! Fetch modus: backpack modus

Quirk:

Prefix/Suffix: starts each sentence with ?¿ , ends each sentence with =:D

Replacements: s = §

Emotes: =:D =:) =:( etc

has a bit of a red/black vacilitation going on with Valiko Iungat, they're both young though so its like the kind of crush youd expect at primary school.

5 sweeps

likes insects and rocks, dislikes the unknown and slimy things

[alchemized-strifespecibi]

Hello me again, if you do fetch modus? Can I have a fetch modus with a unicorn plush backpack and Grimoire for Summoning the Zoologically Dubious and cupcakes if it is okay

Unfortunately, as my URL suggests, I only alchemize strife specibi and not fetch modi.

I can try to imagine how that would work - it might need to be opened like a zip file, require you to sort through a variety of pages, or maybe export the object chosen in the shape of a cupcake, or some combination of these elements - but I'm afraid I don't have any other ideas.

[davekat-sucks]

If we were to accept that Sylladex/fetch_modi arent simply game abstractions and are at least in part physical (as seen in the changing of the settings on a fetch modus) how do you think it interacts with the world/paradox space and do you have any theories on how a technology developed? (considering as far as I can tell it was also present on Beforus where doc scratch didn't have any real influence and presumably couldn't introduce the tech to the trolls.)

It does seem like it can be physically bought, as we seen Dad Egbert get the captchalogue cards and with the control deck he got for John's birthday.

To them, I would say it is similar kind to someone's bag/backpack/purse. You carry around with you to hold your inventory. Though it is not physically there once you are in contact and chosen. You probably have to think of the item you want in question to get it. Techonology could have advanced in some areas like we see in the fetch modus and Skaianet Systems. But probably exclusive for ones like Betty Crocker, because of big bad having the influence over it. Same for Skaianet under Grandpa English.

[its-not-a-pen]

DOG

Name: Glacel Krynic

Characteristics: Loyalty, friendliness

G.O.T character: Bran Stark, Jon Snow

Interests: Friendly Larp Games

Power: Mind control of animals

strife: Lancekind

Aspect and title:  

Lusus: Two-headed cerberus

Sign: K9 (the dog kind)

Typing quirk:

Fetch Modus: Throw and Fetch

Troll Handle: GuardingCynic

Named by GeekyCalligrapher geekycalligrapher.deviantart.c…

GOAT

Name: Hircus Gervick

Characteristics: nurturing, keeps people together

G.O.T character: Catlyn Stark

Interests: Film making and high fantasy. (Peter Jackson)

Power:  Cheesy pick up lines

Strife: PickaxeKind

Aspect and Title:  

Lusus: GoatMom

Sign: 羊（sheep)

Typing quirk:  -) Braa, this sheela talks like yer local, I reckon it’s 'cause NZ’s got more sheep than people. (- Plus, the first bloke to climb Mt Everest was a Kiwi -) Just remember (-Yeah, nah-) means (-no-) and (-Nah, yeah-) means (-yes-) and she’ll be right.  (- ^_^ -)

Fetch Modus: Backpack, last in last out

Troll Handle: CheesyAlpineist

Named by GeekyCalligrapher geekycalligrapher.deviantart.c…

[keyboardsinmyface]

Speaking of shitty fan troll from past, here’s another:

Asedef Qwerty would probably be the most shittiest troll name I could ever create in my life. Everything about him screams that the creator didn’t give slightest care upon spawning him to the world. also this one has a theme song

Here are some facts that nobody would give a fuck:

Asedef’s symbol is just a giant letter A.

Asedef’s name is derived from “asdf”. I believe his last name “Qwerty” needs no further explanation.

Yes, Asedef is a mutant sea troll, who suffers from abnormally tiny gills hindering free underwater activity. I don’t know if this is stretching the canon too much, but there is a reason for this!

This troll is from an already scratched universe, which means he was created through Ectobiology. The problem was that his dancestor, Wasaad Qwerty, messed something up while creating ecto-wrigglers. Wasaad tried to cull Asedef because he was a genetic mutant, but things happened so he had to let the wriggler live.

Aaand since the Troll Planet of Hivebuster universe had become uninhabited ages ago when wriggler Asedef arrived, there were no other trolls left on the planet to cull him for his genetic inferiority (well technically there is one left but we’ll get to that soon).

Yes, Asedef is a telekinetic. However, his telekinesis comes nowhere close to that of Sollux’s. Asedef can barely lift a ~.ATH coding book without profound effort.

His strife specibus is Stringkind.

Asedef’s god tier title is Knight of Void.

He had the most annoying fetch modus among all trolls: the “Amnesiac” system. In order to captchalogue an item, he has to forget that the item existed (like the time when you left your umbrella in a bus/taxi). To retrieve it, he has to remember (realizing that your umbrella is not with you). In other words, as long as he knows he has something in tgs posession he cannot use his sylladex.

He carries a backpack to solve his storage issue, but he forgets this backpack so often that it always end up inside the sylladex along with other items.

He doesn’t know what or how many items currently stored inside his sylladex. He doesn’t even want to know. Heck, his entire hive could be captchalogued in there for all he knows.

Asedef is a Derse dreamer.

Asedef’s trollhandle is dolorsitAmet