Tenth Transmutation | [video/action for Shark House] These are not the Rockets you're looking for...

[armoredsoul]

[When Al flips the feed on, he looks rather perturbed. He opens and closes his mouth several times, trying to find a way to start this whole thing a few times before silent ly shaking his head and turning the Gear around.]

[On the lawn of a certain rowdy house in Goldenrod sands a lone Golurk of unusual coloring. It is waiting patiently, and from behind the screen Al gives a signal. For a moment, everything is still...and then something starts rumbling. The Golurk shakes as if something is rattling around inside until--]

[Lifdoff.]

[The camera tracks it's slow progression up and over the house, rising like some ridiculous mecha out of an 80's anime, before Al whips the Gear back around to his incredibly distressed face.]

Why can it learn Fly?!

[It's been two weeks and he is still not over this.]

Comments

[Video]

[callbacks]

[Dave opens his mouth to respond, but then closes it and thinks for a second.]

Kind of, actually. Though I don't think any Aspects were particularly effective or ineffective against each other. They were just kind of there.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

Huh. What did they do, then? Were there powers attached, or was it just a title?

[Video]

[callbacks]

Yeah, powers were attached. My best friend was the Heir of Breath, which sounds pretty stupid but he could cause hurricanes and turn into wind and junk.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

Wind? Wow, that's really awesome! What could you do?

[Video]

[callbacks]

[Ohhhhhh, does he have to do this.]

I had some time powers, I guess.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

[Sorry, man, you got him curious!]

You're a time traveler? Or did you make it go slower or faster?

[Video]

[callbacks]

Time traveler's the closest thing. Mostly I'd go back in time in order to get things done within the unreasonable parameters we had to work with. I could do some other stuff, too, but I didn't really explore it that much.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

[Wait, does that mean he had multiples of himself running around at the same time? Wow.] That sounds both incredibly useful and incredibly confusing to actually keep track of.

[Video]

[callbacks]

Eh, it was all right. It helped to have someone on the outside keeping tabs on the timeline for me. Otherwise I just kind of went with shit intuitively.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

Oh. Well...I can't even begin to imagine how that worked, but I'm glad you had help! Doesn't sound like you miss it all that much, though.

[Not that Al is terribly surprised. Any story he's read that involved time travel inevitably had something go horribly wrong.]

[Video]

[callbacks]

It got pretty annoying after a while, seeing my future selves and having to make a note like, "Yeah, all right, gotta pencil in a trip to the crocodile pit at 3:57, better plan on a fourth loop once I'm done shredding imps for build grist." Like, it wasn't that hard, just got hella tedious after, like, the fifth time consecutively I lived out the same day.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

Yikes, I'd imagine! Anyone would get tired of that.

So, what other stuff could your friends do? That Mind hero, could they use telekinesis or anything like that?

[Video]

[callbacks]

Uhh, to tell you the truth, I don't actually. Know? What Terezi's powers do? She wasn't god tier so she sort of had to go the long way to unlock all her shit, and I don't know how far she got. I think some other trolls had telekinesis, though, like, naturally.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

Really? I didn't know trolls could do anything like that...

[All Al knows about any kind of troll is to never accept a pie from one, really.]

[Video]

[callbacks]

Depends on their blood caste or something. Or something to do with mutations. I usually tune Karkat out when he starts dribbling on about all the troll stuff, since I don't really care.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

...blood caste?

[Is he going to have a 'biology doesn't work that way' moment?]

[Video]

[callbacks]

[Nothing works the Homestuck way, brosephus.]

Yeah, trolls have different blood colors and they organize their society hierarchically based on that shit. Like, rainbow-wise. Red's on the bottom, purple's at the top, mutant colors get culled on sight, et cetera.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

[...there is so much wrong here, he doesn't even know where to begin.]

Wh...how can the color of their blood be different, aren't they all the same species? The compounds in your blood don't just change like that between individuals!

[Video]

[callbacks]

I find that if I think about the science in my universe at all I just end up with a massive migraine and like negative three answers.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

[Al groans and drags his hand over his face.]

There's gotta be some sort of sense to be made somehow...

[SIGH.]

Maybe that's the link between all the...'video game' worlds. Everything is held together by spit and twine.

[Video]

[callbacks]

If that's your polite term for "complete bullshit" then yeah, I'm with you.

[Video]

[armoredsoul]

[He snorts out a laugh and grins.]

Something like that! Be glad my brother isn't here, he'd be ranting your ears off about how none of this should work.

[Video]

[callbacks]

Older or younger?