Act 6 Act 6 Intermission 4.

Only Lowas and Lopan are intact. John flies around, examining the wreckage of the other six planets.

John meets Dirk, who has returned from the edge of the session. Dirk becomes incoherent amid the glitch noise. John sees Roxy airlifting Rose.

Roxy takes Rose to Lopan. Rose laments losing Kanaya and then dies. Rose’s death is judged heroic.

John and Roxy grieve and contemplate giving up the game.

Terezi flies in on her dragon rocket, crash lands in front of John, and headbutts him for asking a stupid question.

Jade and Callie talk about their childhood. Jade recalls that she met a god tier ghost Calliope who told her some stories in an earlier dream.

Terezi reports that everyone is dead and tells John to change what happened.

Roxy suggests John should go to his denizen. John agrees on the condition that Roxy goes to hers. Roxy leaves to see Nix.

Terezi tries a mindy thing and then sends John on his way.

Jade tells Callie two stories she remembers while Callie illustrates them in a book.

The first story is about how Jade’s past differs from the one we saw. During the trip through the Yellow Yard, Typheus made Lowas explode with John and Davesprite on it, leaving Jade dismayed and alone for the rest of the journey. Then she dreamed and met the Calliope who predominated.

The second story is about John resuming his personal quest in the Special Stardust timeline after everything went wrong.

Ambient 10: Audience with Typheus.

John’s denizen, Typheus, challenged him to master his canon-zapping power or die. But instead of removing himself, John zapped away the oil he was drowning in. All the oil on Lowas was dispersed throughout canon. The planet was finally clean.

Cinematic 102: The Music of Breath.

John plays his song through the clean pipes of Lowas, blowing away all the clouds.

A puff of air ejects the Act 6 Act 6 Supercartridge, knocking out all the Special Stardust.

Lil Seb sticks the Supercartridge back in.

John’s land has been relocated from the Medium to nowhere. The fireflies are freed.

Pseudogames 29 and 30: Sup.

John encounters Roxy, whose denizen Nix told her to go to Lowas or be left behind in a dead end. They discuss being nowhere.

John talks about how he fought Caliborn. Roxy takes Bro’s sword.

Silent film 39: John Flies Again.

John first zaps to his own entry item creation, then to Hearts Boxcars eating Eggs, where Clover spots him, and then to himself about to derail Dave’s argument with Jade. As seen before, he zaps himself away before he is noticed.

John decides to go to Terezi for advice. He concentrates on when Terezi did the mindy thing and zaps back to that very moment.

The password is HOME.

Meenah and Vriska tour a carnival in their dream bubble. Vriska decides to get a tattoo.

John sends his past self away and then asks Terezi what he should do with the power to change canon. Terezi writes a list of instructions in her own blood on the scarf she used as a blindfold, gives John the scarf, and dies.

By following the instructions, John will fix Terezi’s mistakes and change the outcome of the new session. But this time, John’s retroactively preemptive continuity adjustment will not be a true retcon, because the text of Homestuck will still contain the version of events where he was absent.

Jane enters the sanctuary bubble where Calliope has been drawing Jade’s stories. They give her a warm greeting.

The instructions on the scarf are preceded by key thoughts that send John to moments in Terezi’s past just like the mindy thing did. The first thought sends him back to his reunion with the meteor crew when they were dumped at the Slab of the Jaded Fool’s Ennui.

The password is R3UN1ON.

After babbling and hugging his friends, John flies off to the battleship and takes the ring he left on his couch.

Meenah and a tattooed Vriska watch Lrd English smash two neighbouring dream bubbles.

The second key thought sends John to Terezi playing Courtblock Drama in her hive. The scarf instructs him to steal a scalemate while her back is turned.

The password is FR4M3D.

The third key thought sends John to Terezi’s hive again after it has been built up in Sgrub. The scarf instructs him to write “you don’t need him” on her wall.

The password is MOM3NT.

Having joined the trollsona club, Jane tells Jade and Calliope what she remembers of the alpha session. Calliope illustrates Jane’s story.

The session proceeded as previously seen, including Jade and Jane’s corruption, until Jade went to the meteor, at which point Jane and the Condesce lost track of her. The meteor crew stayed together and attacked Derse’s prison. Roxy took a culling fork through the chest for Rose.

On LOWAS, Roxy and the salamanders hold a funeral for Rose with Bro’s sword for a headstone. Jaspersprite shows up.

The fourth key thought sends John to Terezi investigating Tavros’s murder. The scarf instructs him to return the scalemate while her back is turned.

The password is MURD3R.

The fifth key thought sends John to where Gamzee left Nepeta’s corpse to frame Vriska. John leaves a note for Terezi.

The password is JUST1C3.

The sixth key thought sends John to the Drop Inn while Gamzee is flashstepping around Terezi. The scarf instructs him to honk one of Gamzee’s horns. Terezi discovers Gamzee and, a moment later, busts down the door in her Redglare outfit carrying his tied-up ass.

The password is HONK.

Meenah and Vriska roll down Horse Mountain and kiss.

Jane continues her account of the prison break. Jane tried to do the lifey thing to resurrect Roxy—and that is the last thing she remembers. She thinks she was struck down by the surprise leader of the attack, who was not expected to be alive or present in the session.

The seventh key thought sends John to the rooftop trial. The scarf instructs him to knock Vriska unconscious before Terezi kills her.

The password is FL1P.

After clocking Vriska, John greets Terezi and discovers there is one last instruction he can’t fulfill. He doesn’t have a wallet to give her.

Karkat, Kanaya, and Sollux arrive on the roof. John greets Karkat warmly, gives him the scarf, and zaps off. Sollux chalks it up to shenanigans.

On Lowas, the funeral is over and the salamanders have gone home. John returns to Roxy and gives her the Ring of Life. They hold hands and zap away with the entire planet and comic frame.