Act 2: Part 7


[OS-87]

- DipperSisterkitten [DS] Began Pestering PinesDecipher [PD] -

DS: Dipper!

DS: Dipper!

DS: Dipper!

DS: Dipper!

DS: Dipper!

PD: What is it, Mabel?

PD: Look!

DS: (a link that goes to an image of Mabel's selfie with the Salamander)

PD: what in the world?

DS: I know right

DS: turns out, when I put in MABELAND on a punchthingy and make those round whatsits, it creates this little fella

DS: I already named him Mabeland since that's where the code comes from

PD: So you're saying you used the punch cards to create life?

DS: I guess so

PD: this game is getting weirder and weirder

PD: what's next? Giant monsters appearing out of nowhere?

DS: maybe, would be cool to fight one of those things

PD: need to remind you that you could get hurt if you fight a monster, remember the past monsters we fought, we had to run most of the time

DS: yeah, but we're now experienced, and who knows, maybe we could get some cool stuff out of this thing

PD: well don't put random stuff and waste your inventory and grist.

PD: This reminds me, if you enter nothing but 1s on the keyboard and punch an empty card, you can replicate a captchalogue card.

DS: thanks bro

DS: certainly be useful since we're on a ship adventure!

PD: I already had enough crazy for the last few minutes, probably have to read more Homestuck before I go insane.

DS: you do that, I'm going to do the same and figure out where I need toahuiofhiap

- DipperSisterkitten [DS] Began Pestering PinesDecipher [PD] –

[OS-88]

Mabel: Land Ahoy!

Mabel was moved from the large-stop of the boat, causing her to get up from her seat and go outside, seeing an island with a nearby village.

"oh my gosh, this is so cool," Mabel was excited.

She returns to the shack and captchalogue her laptop, at the same time, Wendy appears.

"Wendy, can you keep our boat steady while I go exploring."

"sure," Wendy was up for it, "I'll find an anchor somewhere around here…"

[553 - 554]

Everyone who saw the pages facepalm at John irrational decisions.

Mabel was too busy running towards the village with Mabeland catching up behind her.

[555 - 558]

Dipper:

"Even items have echeladders?" Dipper raises a brow, looking at both Soos and Pacifica, who had their work slaying imps "guys, do either of you have an echeladder?"

"How should I know?" the blonde asked, "aren't you the player."

"Yeah, but apparently in SBURB every object has an echeladder, but I guess since I'm a player, I can access my ladder"

He looked into his ladder, managed to get through a fair few rungs since the last he checked.

But saying that, he needs a better weapon, he can kill imps with just the journal.

Webby:

"Level up for Sassicure, and the bathtub and rest in peace safe, hope you enjoy your new life in Vaulthalla." Webby cheered and put her condolences towards the fallen safe.

Cartman:

"Wow, this game seems lame." Craig wasn't impressed, "next you'll be telling me weapons has echeladders or whatever they're called.

"It sounds very funny," Jimmy said, chuckling from the good pun from the current page.

[OS-89]

Stan enters Cartman's room to see the entire place as a complete mess.

What the hell was he doing?

Stan approaches Cartman, who was smiling.

"Hey Eric," Stan started, "what are you doing here."

"Oh hey, Stan!" Cartman said, "I was just doing some captchaloging,"

"captcha-what?"

"Captchalogue" Cartman corrected, "and it was a bit of a bitch at first, but I think I got the hang of it."

"so what's in your captchalogue?" Stan asked

[OS-90]

Cartman: Explain what he has

He has

1. Stick of Truth

2. Flowers

3. [Empty]

4. Telescope

5. Coon Outfit

6. KFC Bucket

7. Xbox

8. Baseball Bat

9. Wizard Staff

0. Awesomo

In addition, he install his Coon Claws in his Strife Specibus, making his weapon of choice Clawkind, he tried to add more claws, but he already got enough stuff and he doesn't want them thrown around when he fired tried to use something that goes into the same inventory slot.

He hates this system, but at least he doesn't need to carry all this stuff by hand.

"Alright, just one more I want to Captchalogue before we're done here"

He captchalogue the Mr.T Poster, which conveniently fits within the last remaining third slot.

Now he has a full set of stuff that might come in handy later

[559 - 560]

Dipper:

"Again, those stairs don't seem safe," Dipper said, watching John unable to climb the stairs.

"Yeah, they seem too thin to climb on, especially when there are no rails." Soos, the mechanic pointed out.

Webby:

"didn't Hella Jeff tell you about those stairs bro?" Webby asked.

Cartman:

By the time Cartman arrived in the living room, he saw the page with John holding on some stairs.

He laughs towards this image, "oh boy, can't even climb some stairs! So lame!"

[561]

Dipper:

"that's a big one," Dipper said, a little afraid of the idea of a bigger imp. And feared one will appear sooner or later.

Webby:

"The imps are getting bigger," webby said, while Huey noted down imps and their size.

Cartman:

"oh boy, trouble…" Jimmy commented.

[OS-91]

Mabel has arrived at the village, she was quickly amazed by the huts and campfires around, while the inhabitants, local villages in the appearance of turtles.

Mabeland quickly walked up to one of the turtles and start opening its mouth, while the turtles did the same.

Other turtles notice the human girl and many of them gather around, opening their mouths and closing them constantly.

Mabel doesn't know what they're trying to say, but she suddenly gets an idea

She pulled out her laptop and opened it, seeing the next page.

Which wasn't fair because she didn't see the previous pages, hopefully, she didn't miss anything serious

[562]

Dipper:

"Seems like a decent setup for being a DJ," Dipper comments, a little impressed by the setup from Dave's brother and curious if the brother was more of a musician than an owner of a 'smuppet' website.

Webby:

"That looks rad," Dewey loves the DJ setup. "now I want to hear Bro's music."

"Me too," Webby said, curious about DJ music as much as the boys loved the idea.

Cartman:

"Got to admit, the setup kick some ass!" Kenny muffled.

"Yeah." Clyde comments

"Would be interesting what he plays," Cartman added.

Mabel:

"now that's a huge improvement for DJing," Mabel said, pleased to see Dave just when she opened the laptop,

Which reminded her.

[OS-92]

Mabel: Communicate with locals.

Mabel put out a word processing software and start trying

'Hi, I'm Mabel'

She then passed it to one of the turtles.

Though on second thought, this might be a dumb move since there's a chance the turtles don't know how to use a computer.

But luck as she has, the turtle starts typing before giving the laptop back to her.

'we can understand you, Witch.'

First the voice in her head and now these turtles.

At this point, Mabel accepts the fact that she is a witch.

[563- 564]

Dipper:

"that's a little unsettling," Dipper said, seeing something moving so fast that things disappear and the puppet was moved, clearing to how Cal I changing places, and curious as to who or what was moving the puppet.

Webby:

"Woah, did you see that?" Webby pointed out.

"yeah," Huey said, "either it's something with superspeed or someone that is incredibly fast.

Cartman:

"Woah." Jimmy was impressed by the quickness of the sword and puppet, "that was f…f…fahh… that was f…f…that was f…fast…"

Mabel:

"Hi Cal, again," Mabel waved, not noticing the fast figure that appeared and disappeared.

[565]

Dipper:

Dipper reads the comic, made by Bro, mentioned on the previous page.

And to him, it was weird yet horrifying, with a strange and dark puppet at the end.

"Woah…" Soos said, "that is pretty scary…"

Webby:

Webby and the rest read the comic, since the comic had a dog for a person, they can see it more real than the other readers.

The fear of finding someone not breathing, thinking about what the dog person had done, the dark thoughts of getting rid of the body.

It terrified them.

"Okay, never mind." Webby said, unsettled from the page, "maybe Bro is a psychopath.

Cartman:

The boys read the comic, and while they found it a little scary, the end part was what killed the mood.

Cartman sighs, "damn, it's just Jigsaw."

"What!?" Tweek jumped, "sh*t, I saw one of them, it's really scary."

"No it's not, Tweek," Cartman said, "it's just torture porn."

Mabel:

Mabel looked at the page and she couldn't help but want to quickly forget what she saw.

She quickly changes the subject by quickly going to the next page.

[566]

Dipper:

"Yeah, better rip that thing to shreds," Dipper said

Webby:

"How is any of that Ironic?" Huey said, "that's a potential accidental murder with some scary puppet or something"

"It's too dark, even for me," Lena added.

Cartman:

"Yeah, ironic," Cartman couldn't care less, "all it just say about your pro is that he likes the Saw films."

Mabel:

"thank you, Dave," Mabel smiled before turning her attention to the turtles.

[OS-93]

Mabel: ask questions

"so, what is this place?" Mabel first asked before giving the laptop to the turtle, which is typed and gave it back to her.

She reads what they say

'this, Witch, is our home, residents in the land of Sails and Clay, separate from the Land of Bark and Summer, after the grand Wall was formed to keep us apart

"the grand wall?" Mabel asked, proceeding to once again, give the turtle the computer for them to type.

'once the world was peaceful, the land of Bark, Summer, Sails and Clay, ruled by two powerful deities, Cetus and Home, who were in perfect harmony.

That is until they had a falling out with one another.

The two went from friends and enemies and seal each other away from seeing each other.'

Mabel remembers a wall in the far distance, surprised that it was visible upon the horizon.

"So, why am I here?" Mabel asked

'There is a prophecy about the Witch of Heart,'

"Prophecy?" Mabel said, curious about the concept, "like I'm destined to save our world?"

There was a pause from the turtle as Mabel give the laptop back to them, it took a while before it could type anything, and when it did, the group of turtles starts to shake and snap their mouths.

When the laptop was given back to Mabel, she read the answer.

'The Witch will be our doom.'

[567 - 568]

Dipper:

"About time he put his sword in his strife deck," Dipper said, "make more space when you need it."

Webby:

"Good, we got a swordmaster in this story," Webby said, seeing Dave as someone who likes using swords."

Cartman:

"Like my claws, put in the free space for weapons," Cartman said with a smile, "when the time is right, I'll become the Coon again."

[569]

Nearly everyone agrees that it was pretty gross.

[570 – 571]

Dipper:

Dipper was a little unsettled when he saw a creepy puppet turning his head with a camera in his eye.

"Well, certainly going to get nightmares tonight," Dipper said

Webby:

"Not that game playing puppet again," Huey shiver at the thought of the puppet...

"We don't know what games he wants to play, maybe they're fun games," Webby suggested

"Not sure about that," Webby's granny pointed out.

"Well, at least Dave chop his head off,"

Cartman:

"Again, I feel like Bro loves the Saw films," Stan said after seeing the puppet.

"You think the other players saw the movie?" Kenny asked.

"Doubt it," Cartman quickly answered, "they sound like pussies"

[572]

Dipper:

"that big sword is a piece of… poop?" Dipper avoid cursing in front of Pacifica and Soos, certainly know Soos wouldn't like swear words

Webby:

"that's like an incredibly big sword, how is it garbage?" Webby questions.

"Well, it seems too big to be used as a weapon, I don't imagine anyone using it… unless they're in a video game," Huey explained.

"Which is what SBURB is," Louie pointed out.

Cartman:

"Yeah, better to take that piece of sh*t sword back where it was," Cartman said

[573 - 574]

Dipper:

"what the heck!?" Dipper jumped seeing puppet with butts popping out of the microwave, "why did his brother put him there."

Webby:

"Are you serious!?" Webby jumped along with the triplets, "Dave can't escape from puppets!"

"Just be glad he didn't turn it on with all those puppets inside," Huey said, "it an extreme fire hazard."

Cartman:

"Holy sh*t dude!" Kenny shouted, "that's a lot of puppets!"

"I know, right," Cartman said, getting himself a bag of chips.

[575 - 582]

There wasn't much to say about what was happening on the webcomic, as it was a series of sorting inventory for Dave, some facepalm for when he makes a mistake, others were a little worried, especially when Dave had to avoid star attack.

Overall, they find Dave's inventory a little difficult.

Cartman meanwhile, knows Dave's pain as he had a hard time with his captchalogue.

[583 - 586]

Dipper:

"A little annoying if it took a lot of work putting stuff in when changing the options would reset everything," Dipper said.

"This makes me wonder why he didn't use a much easy system," Pacifica pondered, "I doubt there wouldn't be a modus much harder than this."

"Rich dude, it's not about having it easy," Soos said, "it's about the challenge, and when you need space and stuff inside your pockets, you need to figure things out for yourself."

"I have people figure things out for me, thank you very much." Pacifica ignores the suggestion.

"And where are those people now?" Dipper asked, making Pacifica speechless.

Webby:

"Really should have thought about doing this before cataloguing some items," Huey suggested, putting an interesting note of the modus in his guidebook.

Cartman:

"are you serious?" Cartman shouted in anger before looking at his Captchalogue modus.

It includes the same setting as Dave originally had, with the stuff he has, he doesn't want to risk puking them out by making his inventory easier.

Instead, he did what Dave did and check for collisions.

[587 - 589]

Dipper:

"At least the collisions solve one problem," Dipper said.

Webby:

"Okay, so if it turns out the item will replace another, the collision prevents that, that way, there wouldn't be much of a mess, that's a good safeguard," Huey said, "a little surprised he didn't turn it on earlier, feels like something that should be on the entire time."

Cartman:

"And being a cool dude, of course, Dave has a skateboard," Cartman smiled, still seeing Dave as cool. "And all that ninja sh*t, I'm surprised his bro let him have them."

"Remember our ninja weapons?" Stan remembered a good memory.

"Don't, I lost mine when Kyle got me in trouble."

"You was trying to sneak past a public viewing auction naked" Stan pointed out,

"Yeah, you kind of done that to yourself" Craig added.

"f**k off Craig," Cartman was angered.

[OS-94]

Meanwhile, in the land of Sails and Clay, a girl and a salamander returned back to their ship, suddenly changed after hearing out the prophecy from the turtle villagers.

"Hey man," a welcoming teenage face appeared at the entrance, "what did you find out there?"

"Problems…" Mabel answered a little down which Wendy notice.

"You want to talk about it?"

"I don't think you can be the right person to talk about it," Mabel said, "it's not just deep stuff, but something that worries me for my quest. I was told that I'm going to bring doom to this world, there was a whole prophecy and everything."

"you know, we're not in those dumb stories where a hero becomes a hero because of some prophecy," Wendy said, "and even if it does happen, you really shouldn't be worried about it till then, just be yourself."

"I guess so," Mabel said.

"then tell me, Mabel, we're in this brand new world, what do you want to do?"

Mabel had already thought about it, and it's something she wanted since she arrived in this new world, something she had missed for quite a while.

"I want to see Dipper."

Wendy smiled, "Then let's set sail and figure out how to get over that wall."

[590 - 593]

Dipper:

After getting a battery pack, the suspension of the fast being was revealed, yet in a shadow form.

"Dude, who's that?" Soos pointed out.

"Must be Dave's bro," Dipper answered, having a clear feeling that it was bro.

Webby:

"Woah, that was so fast!" Webby was impressed by the speed, "do humans have the superhuman speed or something?"

"Don't seem like it from what we saw from Dipper's place," Dewey said, "maybe Bro is just good at being quick."

Cartman:

"Okay, his brother seems a little too fast to do stuff like this," Stan said.

"More like too weird," Kenny added.

"He's not weird, Kenny, he's cool!" Cartman complain

Mabel:

Mabel goes back to her seat to read more Homestuck and notice that the other players went ahead of the story, but it doesn't seem she missed anything important.

So far, it showed a very fast person with the Cal Puppet.

Quickly Mabel knew who it was.

"That must be the bro," Mabel said, giggling after Dave was jumped from Cal's appearance.

[594]

Dipper:

"Speaking of which, probably have something," Dipper said, feeling a little hungry. "probably get something at the snack machine."

Webby:

"Wonder what human food they have?" Huey was curious."

"More than likely, it's the same as ours." Louie pointed out.

"Well… maybe, but I want to know what makes them different to us, so far there are only similarities."

Cartman:

"Probably need something if I'm reading this sh*t," Craig said, "you said there are snacks right?"

"Yep, in the kitchen," Cartman said.

"Okay," Craig left his seat and proceed to the kitchen.

Mabel:

"Time to see what Bro has as snacks and beverages," Mabel said, somewhat wanting to have her refreshment,

She'll probably get some Mabel Juice in a little later.

[595 - 596]

Dipper:

He got a packet of chips from the vending machine and capchalogued it for safekeeping.

He looked at his phone to see Dave getting a whole bunch of swords, another addition of seeing Bro as a complete psychopath.

Webby:

"Puppets in microwave and swords in refrigerators?" Beakley raises a brow, "Bro doesn't seem unstable, don't even think he can fit well as Dave's guardian."

Cartman:

Craig came back with a drink in hand and return to his seat, seeing Dave taking swords from a fridge.

"What the f**k?" he questions.

"Yeah, I don't know cartman, but it seems Bro is more of a psychopath than anything else." Stan pointed out.

Mabel:

"Always good to keep swords cold and refreshing," Mabel snickered, though finding it a little strange to why Dave's bro kept swords in the fridge.

[597]

Dipper:

"And Cherry bombs in the ice dispenser" Dipper throw his hands.

Webby:

"And in addition to using too many dangerous stuff around such a precious mind."

"Didn't you train Webby to fight and be around dangerous stuff?" Lena pointed out.

"Not right away, she had training and learn to adapt." Beakley defended her teachings.

"And I'm all happy for it," Webby added

Cartman:

"Man, wish I had a brother like Dave's bro." Cartman said, "he seems too cool."

"true me, you would regret saying that," Stan pointed out with a sigh.

Mabel:

"Cherry bombs!" Mabel shouted before going to the next page.

[598 - 599]

Dipper:

"Is his brother playing Dave around by putting Cal in places that would scare him?" Dipper questions, a little unsure about Bro.

"Best sibling of the year everyone," Pacifica said in sarcasm.

Webby:

"I know Bro is taking the puppet from one place to another at top speed, but it's still a little creepy," Webby pointed out, with the rest agreeing with the girl duck.

Cartman:

"Now mentioning it, it would be scary, and annoying if I find Cal everywhere," Cartman admitted, "Kitty is already bad enough wanting my food."

Mabel:

"Okay, now the puppet is getting creepy," Mabel admitted.

"You think?" Wendy pointed out.

[600 - 601]

The two pages weren't much to talk about, since it's Dave adding more stuff to his captchalogue deck.

[602 - 203]

Dipper:

"Yeah, better to get rid of one puppet before more puppets show up," Dipper said, having somewhat a bad feeling towards what would happen next.

Webby:

"Then look up," Webby suggested, now curious what the puppet was looking up for.

Cartman:

Craig sighs, "I swear if it's something Jigsaw…"

Mabel:

"look up then," Mabel was also curious about what's above Dave.

[604]

Dipper:

"Is that a puzzle piece?" Dipper notices something reflecting on the sink.

Webby:

"A mystery," Webby notice the reflection, hoping for the next page to reveal the clue.

Cartman:

"Oh it's most certainly something Saw related," Kenny pointed out. Causing the blue-clothed kid to facepalm.

Mabel:

"I don't like the look of this," Wendy said, "reminds me of a horror film or something like that."

"what horror film has puzzle pieces?" Mabel asked before clicking onto the next page.

[605]

Dipper:

"that's not suspicious or potentially dangerous at all!" Dipper said in sarcasm, seeing the puzzle with words, it gave him a sense of creepy vibes too much.

Webby:

"Yeah, clearly that's a trap of some sort," Louie pointed out, "like that just screams, I am going to put you in a dangerous game that will kill you in the most brutal way possible."

"Have to agree with green here," Lena said.

"guessing this is Bro's doing," Beakley pointed out.

Mabel:

"okay, certain nopes here," Mabel said, a little frightened to see the image puzzle, "I was hoping it would be fun to have puzzles, but now I can see this being somewhat scary."

Cartman:

"Seriously? Is his bro John Kramer or something?" Clyde questions this.

Right when the doorbell rang, causing a few jumps from a few in the living room.

"Alright, I'll get it," Cartman sighs, getting up and going to his door.

He opens it to find an interesting surprise.

Kyle and his little brother Ike.


END OF ACT 2 PART 7