Homestuck RPG

Reading Resources

• sportsanime's dreamwidth basics
• sockymcsockerson's html basics
• forum roleplaying basics
• let's DWRP by stardunes
• a guide to DWRP for tumblr users
• Vast&Starlit

Guidelines for this Community's Style

1. Make it readable.
2. Use good judgment.
3. Communicate with your fellow players about problem-solving and storytelling.

Other than that: each roleplay post should have the subject line "Act 1: Part 1: Scene 1", et cetera according to the number that it happens to be. The job of a roleplay post should be to set the scene: time, place, and mood should be indicated. Threads should have the subject line "Thread 1", et cetera, unless there's a better thematic distinguishing practice specific to that post. Ideally, there should be no more than four people in a thread in order to avoid confusion. If playing a NPC, this should be clearly marked in the text of your comment to avoid confusion.

All dialogue should be in the format of chatspeak, i.e.

GA: Your Dark Spectacled Friend Has Advised Me On A More Effective Method For Trolling You 
GA: I Think His Contention Is That This Strategy Will Have The Opposite Of The Intended Effect And Precipitate A Sort Of Bond Between Us That Is Established In Mutual Antagonism 
GA: What Do You Think About This 

Colors are for the moment optional. Actions, thoughts, and additional text should be in roundabout paragraph form, or whatever it takes for you to express what's necessary for your character.

So okay! We have most of the things necessary to start, so let's start! Part of this game is going to be just figuring out how everything works and what needs to be adjusted for better game play, so any suggestions, input and feedback would be very much appreciated. I'll keep this post open until we have enough people to start or we have twelve players, either or. When we get enough people involved, I'll randomize the classpects and other information and send them back to you, and then set up a Get to Know Each Other's Characters post.

To submit your application, please fill out the following form in one of the comments below!

Player Name:
Player Pronouns:
Player Age:
Class Preferences (3):
Aspect Preferences (3):
Character Race Preference: 
Prospit or Derse Preference:
Discord or Slack Preference: 
Anything Else: 

Ideas for quests! This post is explicitly open to suggestions.


Consort Quests:

Planetary Quest: this only requires three things. It must be tied to the aesthetic of your planet, it must be inflicted by your denizen, and it must be something solvable only by use of your classpect.

Ectobiology Quest

This quest is given only to the first character to enter Sburb. They are responsible for paradoxifying their fellow players and ensuring that everybody exists.

Exile Commands

• ever felt the strange desire to shake your bootie like an aardvark and squat on your desk? you can thank an exile for that, probably.
• sometimes these are useful and sometimes these are...entirely not....
• if you hear a strange voice in your head telling you to "kiss the girl" you are entirely within reason to invoke an abjure

Aspect Quests:

• Space: find the Genesis Frog and make the new universe; learn when to fall back and when to assert yourself

• Time: keep everyone from dying; accept what you cannot change

• Blood: keep your community functioning and sane

• Light: find the best direction

• Hope: believe in something

• Breath: find freedom

• Rage: use your anger

• Doom: accept necessary sacrifices

• Heart: be in tune with your own emotions

• Mind: make the right choices

• Life: grow

• Void: accept inner emptiness

 

Class Quests

• Heir: attain inheritance of aspect

• Page: work to attain aspect

• Rogue: displace with aspect for others

• Thief: displace aspect for self

• Knight: serve with aspect for others

• Maid: serve with aspect for self

• Seer: understand with aspect

• Mage: understand through aspect

• Sylph: influence aspect

• Witch: influence with aspect

• Bard: end with aspect

• Prince: end through aspect

Angel Corruption

• this is most easily recognizable by the appearance of lumintense, a state in which the character begins to glow, refuses to compromise, and gets rather stabby.
• there should be a rather Angel of the Lord aesthetic going on.

Horrorterror Corruption

• this is most easily recognizable by the appearance of grimdark, a state in which the character begins to gray, compromises endlessly, and gets reckless.
• there should be a Lovecraftian aesthetic going on.

Prospitian Intrigue

• help the Parcelmistress deliver her packages!
• look in the clouds for the future
• the knowledge of imminent failure

Dersian Intrigue

• Jack Noir and his entire wildcard deal.
• The Black Queen's vanity.
• the Authority Regulators.
• the Warweary Villein, who starts a revolution.
• the Horrorterrors watching.

The conceit of Homestuck is simple at its core and complicated in output: your home planet is being destroyed by meteors and its destruction is inevitable, but you and your friends are the ones chosen to make a new universe and start the world over again. It's an invitation to personal development, teamwork, and evolution. lbr should be pretty fun all things considered

Anyways: the Basics.

Your goal is to escape Earth with your friends to Sburb and create a new universe that you can enter as the Ultimate Reward. There is a basic outline of events. However, Skaia will respond to events as if they had already occurred with the assumption of their always occurring. This means that a void session was always going to be a void session; therefore, events are already occurring in response. This is, essentially, a way to justify any bullshit you want to throw at your fellow players; but remember, everyone has to work to solve their problems together.
On Earth:

• Arrival of First Sburb Discs (staggered out two by two throughout the first day.)
• Client/Server Setup
• Kernelsprite Prototyping
• Sburb Entry for Player 1
• Player 1 explores planet while Player 2 builds their house up to the next level; then Player 3 becomes the server and Player 2 becomes the client, et cetera, until the circle of stupidity is complete.

In the Incipisphere: 

• The Space player finds and incubates the Genesis Frog.
• The first player completes the ectobiology quest.
• All other quests are optional but productive.

Potential Quests:

• Consort Quests: the consorts of your planet are always in need of things to be done.
• Ectobiology Quest: given to the first player to enter Sburb, they must ensure the existence of themselves and their fellow players.
• Echeladder Quest: how many rungs can you scale?
• Godtier Quest: can you face your own death in order to become a god?
• Planet Quest: the denizen of your planet has issued a challenge. can you fulfill it?
• Aspect Quest: can you master your aspect? or will it master you?
• Class Quest: is it who you are, or what you do?
• Exile Commands: you feel a peculiar urge to do something, but it wasn't from you.
• Fulfilled Aesthetic: how many things can you prototype that fit your aesthetic? 

Potential Conflicts:

• Prospitian/Derse Intrigue
• Angel/Horrorterror Corruption

Endgame

• Endgame starts when the Black King wins on the Battlefield and enacts the Reckoning, when meteors start falling from the Veil and hitting your homeplanet.
• Players must unite to defeat the threat that emerges from the Battlefield before they can enter the new universe they've created.

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Gameplay is modeled off of the Vast & Starlit system. Taking turns, each player sets up a scene: describes the location, says who's there and explains what's happening. They pick two-three heroes for the scene. Everyone not playing one of the focused heroes can play a background character or their own hero. The scene is then an active part of the story.

When you attempt something Dangerous, Difficult, or Both, any other player may call it out as such.

• For non-focus characters, if the thing attempted is Dangerous, a third player will tell you how you got hurt or endangered by doing it. If the thing attempted is Difficult, the third player will tell you what is needed before it can be done. If it is Both, the third player will tell you how you failed and endangered everyone.
• For focus characters, the scene ends on a cliffhanger. It then becomes the starting point of their character's next scene. Then you may take the Difficult, Dangerous or Both challenge but only from hearing from other players what the consequences of each will be.

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Prototyping Items

One of the hallmarks of Homestuck is the bizarre and nifty items its characters can prototype. The Vast & Starlit alien tech concept fits this very nicely. In order to prototype objects, you must start with one of three steps, and have one or more players complete the other two.

• describe the underlying principles the tech is based on: science, bullshittium, tropes, et cetera.
• describe the aesthetics of the technology: what were the contributing items? what does this item look like? broad is fine.
• describe the functions of the technology: what does it do?

When you make the prototyped tech part of your personal gear, have the other players ask you 3 to 5 questions about it. At least one of the questions must be from this list.

• how is it unique?
• how is it quirky or temperamental?
• what does it need to work?