Homestuck "Double Jeopardy" AU

Surely even within the harsh realities of Sburb, a planet and a civilization can rest assured that it is under no further threat once it has been besieged once. Right? Watch this space.

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Just to clarify: We ask you to open your ask or submit box if you want us to respond to your input. We can't respond in fan-mail if we just met you through our inbox (one of us would need to have been following you for two weeks); also, we have more than one mod running this blog, so more than one of us might want to chime in.

Apologies for not saying this earlier.

- Mod A

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Now taking input on the development of this AU! In demand:

Development of eleven additional session players. These should be six humans and five trolls, all with a canon aspect and class, with no repeats. This is not the same as an application to an RP, but if you can RP consistently as the character you bring to the AU, that's a major bonus!

Writers / RPers to manage a handful of canon Homestuck characters. Each of the canon characters is now at least in their twenties or thirties, and they have won their game session.

Background development on a future Earth setting where trolls were reintroduced four hundred or so years ago.

People willing to manage continuity on a setting involving time travel.

Please have a look at the AU page if you are interested, and send an ask if you want to contribute.

EDIT: Your ask and submit boxes must be open if you want us to respond more than "we'll think about that"!

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A more solid idea about how the session goes:

There are two halves to the session, similarly to how the canon troll session has Red Team and Blue Team. Instead, the teams are the Past Team and the Future Team, each with six players.

The game starts with the Future Team. The Future Team is made entirely (or at least, mostly) out of OCs that aren't related to canon characters at all. By that point in time, troll society has been re-established; the major danger is something that would threaten to kill off all trolls.

The Future Team only has a Time player and no Space player, so they realize very early that they cannot win. Rather than scratching the session entirely, they realize that their session was meant for twelve players rather than six. They then have to go back in time and manipulate events so that the six players from the past all join in. These six Past Team players don't even necessarily need to come from the same point in time, they just (probably) shouldn't have naturally been alive at the time the same time the Future Team was alive.

The first Past Team player is contacted and asked to work as the last Future Team member's server player. They then go and contact all of them in sequence, until everyone is in.

Lilian is a Space player and would belong to the Past Team. However, I want to make sure that Lilian's absence isn't the ONLY reason that the Future Team would have failed on their own - otherwise, that comes off as Sue-ish.

The final player split is 6:6 humans/trolls, in any case.

Any glaring flaws here?

- Mod A

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Is the name of this thing too bathetic? (warning, TV Tropes pothole)

If so, we should probably change it before it gets too deeply used.

- Mod A

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Interim avatar for the page: Doomsday Scale, taken from Page 004025.

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Random suggestion: The First Guardian in this session is somehow responsible for keeping the canon Homestuck characters out of the session.

(Alternate ideas: there is no First Guardian, or the Mother Grub created by Kanaya is somehow involved in the creation of the First Guardian.)

- admiraldefiant

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A few basic propositions to work from:

By the time the game is finished, the Sburb players have managed to restore the Earth, though the population is greatly reduced - between one and three billion. This has been explained in the history books as the result of a plague.

All of the human players, and all of the trolls currently alive in Homestuck, survived. The currently dead trolls are all negotiable.

The restored US government knows about the existence of the trolls, but there are initially no more trolls being born. Kanaya is working to spawn a Mother Grub somewhere.

Until this happens, Rose and Kanaya (with Jade's assistance) can use ectobiology to hatch a very small number of trolls.

The name of the AU is "Double Jeopardy". This comes from the fact that the Earth will be taken as the opening stakes of a second Sburb game, played (at least in part) by the descendants of the players of the first.

Some specific suggestions:

The game should be played by two sets of players - the first born before the resurgence of the trolls, the second after.

There should be either six players or twelve in each set (12 or 24 in total). This will depend on interest. I'm leaning toward six each.

Across the entire group, it will be split 50/50 male/female and 50/50 human/troll.

Neither group will be able to complete the game on their own, but will need to join forces in order to win, much like the post-scratch trolls' Red Team and Blue Team, though with a greater degree of initial isolation.

To keep things from getting too redundant, I'm going to suggest that every pairing only have one human and one troll ectochild involved in the game at most, and that the session players are no more than 50% ship-kids.

Another consideration: There has to be a way to keep the canon players from taking over control of the session. We can work this out however we want. However, in any case, it's likely we'll need people to RP as a small handful of canon characters, in addition to OCs.

All of these are flexible at the moment. I'll make some of these early brainstorming posts private once we get the ball rolling.

- admiraldefiant (Mod A)

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Lilian Maryam's intro page is now up!

- admiraldefiant