#caledscratch

[land-of-polls-and-brackets]

Round 1: Caledscratch vs. Unbreakable Katana

[land-of-glass-and-spires]

Inktober : Day 13 : Kind

[clockworkslick]

alt future dave: rewind

[strawberrymilk-boba]

the knight of time

[roseraded]

[thewertsearch]

GC: 4ND ON3 D4Y GC: YOU W1LL T4K3 OFF THOS3 DUMB GL4SS3S 4ND L3T M3 G3T 4NOTH3R SN1FF 4T YOUR 3Y3S [...] GC: 1T 1S SO S3LF1SH OF YOU TO K33P TH3M COV3R3D UP GC: 4ND TH3 L4M3 S3CR3CY SURROUND1NG 1T 1S ONC3 4G41N R3M1ND1NG M3 OF 4 C3RT41N YOU KNOW WHO >:|

I feel like it's a little unfair to characterize Karkat's anxiety about his blood color as 'lame'. He was literally hiding it to stay alive.

TG: can you see in my dreams GC: NO >:[ TG: too bad TG: last time i promised rose id take off my shades and look in the sky for some reason

Oh, right. I'd actually forgotten about this - and I hoped that Dave had, too. Hopefully his psychic resistance will be a little better than Rose's.

TG: so i guess i have to summon davesprite too GC: Y3S [...] GC: TO B41L YOUR STUBBORN SP3CT4CL3D BUTT OUT OF TROUBL3 4G41N [...] GC: WH3N YOU 4R3 4SL33P, SOON 4 HORD3 OF V3RY POW3RFUL MONST3RS W1LL 3M3RG3 FROM TH3 RU1NS GC: TO D3F3ND TH3 TR34SUR3 YOU H4V3 STOL3N

Can't he just time travel away, though?

I guess if Davesprite can handle them, there's no reason not to kill them here. We could always use more Grist.

DAVESPRITE: oh looks like you got caledfwlch [...] DAVESPRITE: i think its welsh DAVE: what are welsh things doing in this game

My best guess is that Sburb integrates its seed world's culture into its mythology. After all, we also seem to have Greek gods floating around, and this sword quest is obviously a homage to Arthurian legend.

DAVE: is this thing as pointless as i think it is or do i need it for something DAVESPRITE: tactically yeah its a downgrade since its what i used to make caledscratch which is obviously way better

Wait, seriously? That's a bit of a bummer.

I do wonder, though - is Caledscratch really a strict upgrade to Caledfwlch, in every respect? More broadly, is alchemy exclusively additive, or does it occasionally erase a useful trait from the original item?

I mean, the Hammerhead Pogo Ride is a worse pogo ride and a worse hammer than its ingredients. Maybe Caledfwlch has properties that its descendant lacks.

DAVESPRITE: and your snoop snowcone swords probably even better than that so yeah you got options DAVE: fuck it ill just power through the rest of the game with the SORD…..

I can't even begin to describe how much I'm here for this.

[visguard]

Caledscratch Build from a couple of months ago.

[onezee]

DAVE: damn theres robots down here too? DAVE: siiick DAVE: so anyway where the hell am i DAVE: ive been wandering around looking for something interesting to do DAVE: these puzzles are super boring DAVE: i mean its better than the caledscratch fetchquest i had to go through that shit was absolutely vile DAVE: also cool outfit DAVE: my friend jade would dig it i think -@striderunderground

[cyvonix]

Going to Tekko in Pittsburgh this weekend; Just finished making a DIY Caledscratch for my Dave cosplay, and as the first prop I've literally ever made, I'm very proud of how it turned out!

[lesbianmichelmishina]

more gijinka team arts! x, white2 and white.

x: byakuya the meowstic, antonio the hawlucha, jay the chesnaught, nala the pyroar, caledscratch the aegislash, and aang the lucario

white2: xanadu the zebstrika, gullsworth the pelipper, danta the emboar, athos the cobalion, lavender the roserade, and zorro the zoroark (n's)

white: giselle the samurott, ella the lilligant, greenie the shiny stoutland, lolly the galvantula, kazuaki the unfezant, and winston the victini

[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

[land-of-polls-and-brackets]

Round 2: Warhammer of Zillyhoo vs. Caledscratch

[researchhpurposes]

Huh that's an interesting thing the Caledscratch can do...does is it affect just the holograms or can it do it to other things?

Either way it's probably a good to focus on what you can make now...

[29pageshomestuckeveryday]

Homestuck, page 1,641

[S] Dave: Accelerate.

Song used: Atomyk Ebonpyre by Toby Fox

Storyboards: http://readmspa.org/storyboards/01641.swf.html

Author commentary:

As you watch this animation load, the "GATE 5" up there is really ominous. The Fifth Gate? What happened to…the first four?

You wouldn't guess it just going by the scenery, but LOHAC is the bustling financial capital of the Medium. There is a thriving stock exchange here, run by energetic, greedy lizards.

This animation was pretty slick at the time. Lots of action, cool music. Neat time tricks by Dave. It's an absolutely massive time skip that left everyone overwhelmed by its implications. Dave has already been here for months, battling monsters, hopping around gears. He's made a stylish new suit too, I guess to foster a certain Secret Time Agent chic. He's like the James Bond of horsing around with weaponized time travel, is the message being conveyed here.

Just as the monsters on LOWAS and LOLAR have oil and chalk themes, these ones on LOHAC are amber-themed and yield grist accordingly. I touched on this a while back, but the "planetary pollutant" in a world full of clockwork would be a substance that could gum up the clockwork and make it tick slowly or grind to a halt. That would be a sticky, hardening substance like amber. The quest here on this planet, if done by the book, would involve clearing the land of its sticky pollutants so the gears could tick freely, which probably would wake up the denizen, and so on and so on…

But here's the first glimpse of why so often in this story the by-the-book quest falls into the background as something trivial, like a sidebar of mythos-color that's mainly of academic interest and not plot importance. It's because there's always bigger fish to fry. Something more imminently concerning or threatening, like having to survive for months in this hellhole while two of your friends are dead.

He did it. He prototyped the crowsprite with Cal. He knew it was a bad idea. But he did it anyway. The cursed journey of Davesprite begins with one unspeakable folly. So tragic.

Say what you will about Calsprite. He's a formidable combatant. That huge puppet-ass attack? Absolutely devastating.

This sword concept is pretty cool. Caledscratch, as the weapon is named, is a broken sword, which Dave can wield thanks to his ½bladekind specibus. But it has a built-in time travel mechanism that allows it to cycle through previous states in its history, including back to a period of time when it was not yet broken. So it can extend and contract at Dave's will. A bit like a lightsaber, maybe? If you could turn on a lightsaber only halfway, I guess.

Dave is doing all these cool time-attack tricks. Hopping forward and backward in time, but only by a little to keep the maneuvers simple. Each time he does, he's creating a little stable time loop he has to account for. Good practice for a Knight of Time.

Starting now, Dave gets into the habit of casually encountering himself a lot. It's kind of his thing. Some kind of charactery thing about his character that he has to deal with, think about, and learn from. What? Referring to it as a charactery thing about him isn't highbrow enough for you? Why don't you go back to book school for lame nerds, you dork.

He made some TURNTABLES offscreen over the last few months. They let him time travel. I'm not sure what he used to make them, other than his record players from home. Looks like some sort of mystical gear component he probably plundered from the local industrial ruins. He probably went on a lot of exciting but lonely adventures on this planet we'll never get to see or hear about.

Those block-type grists are sulphur. I wonder how many huge sulphur cubes have fallen into the lava over the course of his Knight of Time berserker fits? They're kind of like giant, stinky bouillon cubes falling into a huge vat of boiling broth. It probably absolutely reeks on LOHAC when Dave goes on a rampage.

Right about now, the Ruby Giclops is wondering where it all went wrong in his life. It was probably when he, for some inexplicable reason, decided to swim through an ocean of lava to go mess with this boy in a suit going nuts with a sword.

You can tell Dave is probably overloaded with grist he doesn't particularly need by now. He carves up that giclops, and it starts raining huge rubies everywhere. But he doesn't seem to care at all about harvesting them. Instead, he takes a moment to yell at his puppet.

[steampunkedparm]

wuhbuhbuhbuhbuh i need to start designing a fnaf tattoo lmao, how dare i consider getting caledscratch before designing one for fnaf </3

(it definitely probably isnt going to be in relation to springtrap, no way /j (im lying it is, ir maybe I'll get two different ones who knows ;P)

[nibblyjimbles]

I'm never fucking drawing caledscratch again.