Upd8 thread 9/2/25

Ly'lac drugging herself because she doesn't want to be influenced by evil psychic monsters but really it's just the voices of old ladies who want a little bit of company in their dying days is the most Rose Lalonde shit ever. kill this entire fucking chud family

I posted my own thoughts here: https://www.fruityrumpus.com/forums/t/aim-thoughts-on-the-new-upd8. but I'll say them again. Good update I enjoy :]

i love meemaw i hope we one day get a plush of her. also. meemawsprite, perhaps?

i do love myself a orb shaped character

meemaw <3

that's just the reddit wholesome seal award

Reply box for that thread seems to have crashed. Possibly for the best, seein' as there's already 21 pages of suggestions!

Short and sweet, I think the next update will be bigger hopefully since they're letting us participate again!

im really looking forward to how exactly the suggestions will be implemented again :33

How is the orange prince okay with letting the suggestion box be reopened like this?

My immediate assumption was some specific ones will be used to tender a point and click style "Look at this" exploration of the items in the room and/or put them in the inventory for a bit of backstory and utility followed by the pre-arranged progression of the story at large.

But as in so much, one can never be totally sure where something is going with twists in the plan.

Certainly The Voice and the whole Terezi Quirk Exile Prompt might indicate external voices and suggestions or compulsions are something of a problem for the Nymphs given their cultural associations.

@nobleradi8ion oooh good catch! Seemingly the slime can resist his narrative influence... Rose programmed in a way to resist it into her species??? Subtle way to resist Dirk maybe, but then hmmm what about Terezi/our prompts?

EXTREEEEMMEELLLY EXCITED FOR THE NEW uPD8. I JuST GOT CAuGHT uP ON HSBC TODAY AND SCRAMBLED TO SuBMIT A COMMAND. A SHAME THEY HAVE SEEMED TO HAVE CLOSED THEM FOR NOW. SO CLOSE YET SO FAR! IM SuRE THE uSERCOMMANDS THAT *DO* GET PICKED WILL MAKE THOSE HOMESTuCKS FEEL LIKE A MILLION BuCKS. HOPEFuLLY THIS A CONSISTANT THING WITH LY'LAC AND ALL HER FRIENDS. LOOKING FORWARD TO IT AND HOPEFuLLY I CAN MAKE IT TO THE NEXT OPPuRTuNITY. I THINK ITS FuN WE ARE ACTING AS THE "AuTOMATED COMMANDS" TEREZI SET uP!

TLDR: EXCITED. AS. FuCK.

Same as it ever was, rolling some that cover similar ground into eachother, and picking out the best/silliest/narritively fitting among them to be ratified into canon events that definitely happen or are rebuked.

i reread all of hsbc over yesterday and today to catch up. im surprised at how much earlier this was foreshadowed through the 'automated commands' thing, i wonder if FRAF was in the works by then? (it probably was, i imagine a whole forum takes quite a bit of planning to set up.) interested in seeing where this goes, i doubt well be able to influence the story to quite the same degree as hs proper, and especially not to the degree of something like problem sleuth, but its still really fucking cool to be sending in command submissions for real!

hoping its not just another fakeout, heh. im hyped see where this is headed.

Certainly further confirmation of the lovecraftian elements baked into the Nymphs is also interesting. Not least to suggest the quasi-sopor. How much is Rose, how much is "These things just sorta happen" and how much is Terezi's machinations remain to be seen of course but it's interesting the influences are already lifting their heads.

Certainly the biggest mote of info we have, the chumhandles already promises some pretty particular overtures of the Rose/Dirk personal mores. If that's intentional or more like how all art is in some way a self portrait of the artist remains to be seen of course.

Meemaw is also prooobably a "Rorb" reference given Rose's technical grandmother would be alpha rose in a way wouldn't she?

The notion Ly'lac suggests we won't be returning to the room promising a further spin up of Part 2, probably with the other delta players being encountered is similarly encouraging. If we meet all the Nymphs, then the satyrs, or a mixed bag with or without the omega kinds in the middle is a datum point I'm frankly eager to see play out, even if KISS probably suggests we'll be meeting AA, CC, TC, CT and AT given their reveal order. Formal or informal.

Also brings the question up of we'll be meeting the nymphs, getting to the zero hour of the omega kids' arrival and ly'lac's unplanned traumatic renovation of an open concept room, then the satyrs, or it all comes together with Ly'lac's horizontal ejection simulation that handily brings us back 1:1 with the indicated moment of The Helltier Express touching down.

Both make more than a little sense depending on how the frame story elements play out. This update in particular doesn't really service that, but elements like TC being confirmed to be "chilling out" and on the semi-official back burner as Ly'lac proceeds to retrieve what is obviously an important package, with us daisy chaining to AA either by Ly'lac confirming her reception of the item or AA detecting the anti-piracy software going off feels like the kind of arranged lead in we'd expect from Act 1 / Hivebent type character intro parades.

If indeed the "I have a feeling we won't be back in the room" foreshadow is more than literal for the audience but not her directly it does hint that we'll be doing the full circle and then outcross to the omegas, who might have their own moving time line.

Which handily would diagram as an infinity symbol of sorts. Fun that.

Of course getting a package and things going off the rails from there with your house never being the same is something we have seen before. Even if we do know Ly'lac gets claymore'd in front of her established computer in what we can assume is that specific room we've been introduced to but that just reinforces the notion we get through at least all the nymphs before returning to Ly'lac's brief errand of descending her tower, picking the red glowing item of importance up, remounting it and then what have you. What happens in between then is up to the writers of course.

And on the subject I do assume CC is the one sending her flowers/plants given the obvious connotations of her being The Kanaya Nymph but it's certainly possible that others have as well. TC's mechanical one being extant as it is. In ways. But then the dude-bro satyrs don't strike me as the garden sort. Unless one is a manly landscaper/lumberjack/bonsai/ikebana type that insists, in the samurai way that it's the hobby of the martially zen.

CT with his green text would certainly fit that. And Eq was one of the more productive and creative beta troll males. In that he actually built and made things.