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I think it's important that Jane didn't make the decision of starting to be less skeptical of what she's told after the incident with Roxy

She started the day having made that choice already, I think it's important that it wasn't a heat of the moment thing and that she did her best to follow through even if it didn't come to her naturally

GG: But there was one thing about the dream that was very troubling. GG: I'm becoming nervous to consider what it might mean. UU: Understandable. bUt it will be important to practice patience today. UU: yoU have a long road ahead of yoU, and many qUestions will be answered in time. UU: bUt we can talk it over later. now, we both have games to prepare for! UU: i know yoU coUld never fUlly appreciate what this actUally meant, bUt i took mUch care to sync Up these conversations with yoU on the same day that i begin playing as well. UU: that way, we can joUrney throUgh oUr sessions together and compare notes! :u GG: Hrm. I'm still not sure I appreciate what that means, but I appreciate that a nice gesture has been made if you say so! GG: I guess I should just start believing all of this now, huh? Rather than learning it to be true later and feeling the fool for all my curmudgeonly skepticism? UU: ~_u GG: For starters, I guess I could drop my reservations about your story? UU: will yoU :U!!! GG: I can write off much to tomfoolery as I'm no stranger to a good prank myself. But quite honestly you seem too kind for this charade. Not the type I'd expect to trot out such persistent falsehoods beyond their humorous welcome. GG: So what do I know! Consarn it, maybe you are an alien girl from Uranus, and together we are about to play a game which determines the fate of existence. Sign me up!

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Thinking about how much the guardians knew and how they might have found out about it...

They witness the destruction of the facility. Collateral damage to a corporation owned by a renowned billionaire explorer. A mystery begins.

A renowned billionaire explorer approaches on his yacht. An old factory lost two days prior, but a new shipmate gained. Together they settle the island and plunder its secrets.

An outrageously awesome dude stands before a crater where his favorite record shop stood one day prior.

He is prepared for the occasion with a small pair of outrageously awesome shades. A meteor overhead races unnoticed, headed to a lake near a laboratory on the east coast of the United States. No aquatic life would survive.

A professional lady and new mother has traveled from the opposite coast at the behest of a famous and wealthy scientist to study one of numerous recent celestial anomalies while he is on expedition. She notices a meteor overhead, on collision course with a quaint family joke shop. A distinguished gentleman notices the lady and comes outside to greet her, oblivious to the threat above. The gentleman's mother remains inside, busying herself with a tall bookshelf, a ladder, and a rather hefty unabridged joke book.

It seems he has been collecting scraps from the news over the years. These articles go back decades.

It appears to be Skaianet's primary SESSION TERMINAL, monitoring a great number of SBURB SESSIONS in the northeastern United States and parts of Canada. Upon further investigation you draw some logical conclusions. It looks like each SESSION consists of an IP address and a physical location. The colored dots on the map appear to be METEOR IMPACT SITES. It seems each session corresponds with a meteor, but not all meteors have sessions. The color of the dot appears to indicate the status of the meteor's descent. The red dots indicate meteors that have already landed. Yellow dots are imminent collisions. Green will impact later, and blue will take the longest to touch down.

You use the panel to center on your present location and zoom in. Surrounding the lab are of course the hundreds of smaller meteors that have been raining down steadily throughout the evening. Most of these meteor(ite)s have either landed already, or will shortly. Centered over the lab is a significantly larger imminent collision. You can't say precisely how imminent, but you could certainly take an educated stab at it. Just southwest of the lab, centered suspiciously near the location of your house, is an even larger looming collision. Though this one appears slightly less imminent. The terminal looks like it can monitor any meteor or session around the world. Search filters can be applied as well, restricting results based on size, time of impact, location, and so on.

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What are the odds Caliborns was actually treated fairly decently in the Derse prison and that's exactly what he considers torture

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We rightfully give Karkat shit for saying that Rose's alcoholism wasn't a problem, but Dave should also get shit for it (just less cause he didn't keep talking)

KARKAT: I THINK IT'S TIME WE HAD A... KARKAT: WHAT DID YOU CALL IT? KARKAT: AN INTERVENTION? DAVE: for rose? KARKAT: NO, NOT ROSE. KARKAT: WHY WOULD I BE TALKING ABOUT ROSE? KARKAT: SHE DOESN'T HAVE A MAJOR PROBLEM THAT SHE NEEDS TO BE CONFRONTED ABOUT BY HER FRIENDS BEFORE SHE FLUSHES HER WHOLE LIFE DOWN THE GAPER, DOES SHE?? DAVE: uh yeah kind of KARKAT: WHY? BECAUSE SHE LIKES TO DRINK THAT GOOFY HUMAN SOPORIFIC THAT MAKES HER A LOT FUNNIER AND MORE CHARMING THAN USUAL? KARKAT: HOW IS THAT A PROBLEM? KARKAT: I WAS TALKING ABOUT TEREZI. DAVE: man terezi doesnt need an intervention DAVE: she just drinks a lot of soda KARKAT: HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE HOW THAT IS A *HUGE* FUCKING PROBLEM. DAVE: its red fizzy shitwater dude who cares KARKAT: OK, CAN WE JUST ONCE ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE ARE MUTUAL ALIENS TO EACH OTHER AND AS SUCH POSSIBLY HAVE DIFFERENT VALUES AND STANDARDS ABOUT THINGS??? KARKAT: JUST THIS ONE TIME DAVE? THANKS! DAVE: terezi has made her choices DAVE: among them was to begin guzzling untold liters of that putrid circus cola DAVE: think of it as like a rite of passage DAVE: like something that just goes with the territory when someone you know almost imperceptibly begins turning into a juggalo DAVE: wait fuck DAVE: maybe she does need an intervention

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Do Carapaces talk? I never totally get if they talk verbally or they communicate other way because Karkat seems to talk to the Mayor with his hands? according to John but maybe i am remembering it wrong

The Mayor doesn't talk, it's unclear if that was always the case but it's been pointed out explicitly about him instead of as a statement about carapacians

On the other hand the Derse agents have some kind of walkie talkie to communicate with each other

and Karkat mentions that Slick told him about operation regisurp and promised not to tell people about his blood color. He mentions this right after getting stabbed so he can't possibly have learned sign language in that short of a time

And mentions the possibility of Jack not keeping that promise later on

So it looks like most carapacians have the ability to speak, the comic just doesn't give them dialoguelogs for some reason