Act 2.

A Wayward Vagabond records a stuttering step in the sun-bleached dust.

Rose writes a GameFAQs walkthrough.

Cinematic 8: The Medium.

Silent film 3: The Kernel Hatches.

Minigame 1: The House.

Rose pesters John about the meteor strike.

They retrieve the PDA.

Who is this voice in John’s head?

It’s the Vagabond. He has found a station with a console monitoring John’s progress.

Rose explains punch card alchemy in her walkthrough.

Rose considers her next move.

The harlequin sprite thwarts Rose and John’s attempts at tier 2 prototyping, absorbing Nanna’s ashes instead.

Dave pesters John about Armageddon.

Rose drops the car mid-lift when her laptop loses power. It plummets into the abyss, parking illegally somewhere under the clouds.

Jade’s dreambot pesters John about meteors.

John sends Dave to get a copy of Sburb.

Rose selects the Needlekind Specibus.

Rose consults the Grimoire.

Cinematic 9: Symphony Impossible to Play.

Who is this cool kid?

Dave Strider examines his room.

Dave finds apple juice in his closet.

Dave pesters John about loot and apple juice.

Dave browses the web. Rose pesters him about hero worship and Sburb.

Later that day: John investigates a trail of crude.

Minigame 2: Dave’s Mixer.

Dave spills the apple juice on his turntables and Sburb copies.

Dave finds a towel.

Dave mops up the juice and hangs the betas to dry.

A rambunctious crow nabs the Sburb packages. Dave launches a sword, impaling the bird. It goes crashing out the window, still clutching the betas.

Later that day: Rose detests Zazzerpan the Learned.

Rose examines the living room.

Rose examines the kitchen.

Rose considers her next move. Mom surprises her.

Youth Roll!

Earlier: Jade pesters Dave about birthday presents.

Later: Dave pesters John about monsters.

Pseudogame 3: Strife with Mom.

Rose pats the stupid pony.

John reads the Data Structures book.

Pseudogame 4: Strife with the Shale Imp, Round One.

Rose leaves the house.

Pseudogame 5: Strife with the Shale Imp, Round Two.

Rose braves the elements.

Pseudogame 6: Strife with the Shale Imp, Final Round.

John exults with the bunny.

John levels up and adds Bunnykind to his strife portfolio.

John repairs his Hammerkind abstratus.

Rose makes a mess in the tomb.

Nannasprite pranks John.

Ambient 1: Prankster’s Gambit.

Dave pesters Rose about his bro’s unnerving puppets.

Nannasprite explains to John where he is now.

Cinematic 10: Skaia.

Silent film 4: Stalemate.

Silent film 5: The Game is Afoot.

Nannasprite poses “The Ultimate Riddle” and drifts away to bake cookies.

The Vagabond’s tactless harangue gives John a fit.

Rose takes no sass from dead cats.

The Vagabond unlocks a pantry in his station, releasing canned food and a book of etiquette.

Rose writes about prototyping.

Months prior: Jade pesters Rose about necromancy.

Cinematic 11: This Sick Heat.

Dave ventures into Bro’s domain.

Dave gets on Bro’s computer.

Dave checks Complete Bullshit.

Bro’s puppets and smuppets unsettle Dave.

Rose deploys the Punch Designix for John.

John assesses the imp situation.

Minigame 3: Pogo Ride.

Rose builds John’s house upwards.

John charges into glorious battle.

John falls and absconds to the study. Rose buys him time with a well-placed refrigerator.

The Vagabond, having gorged on the wisdom of Human Etiquette, returns with a polite request for John.

Rose drops the safe through the roof.

Rose adds screenshots to her walkthrough.

Rose babysits John through another exile-induced fit.

Dave pesters Rose about fluffy muppet buttock.

John examines the Punch Designix.

John learns how to turn captcha codes into punched cards.

Rose learns how to turn heavy objects into punched houses.

John pesters Rose about shitty stairs and his father’s bedroom.

John examines the safe, finding an old Sassacre’s. He punches the code for a captchalogue card onto a captchalogued captchalogue card.

John flails about with his newly diminished sylladex and levels up after crushing a hapless imp.

John tackles the precarious stairs.

Dave knows the drill with Bro.

Dave reads the Muppet Babies comic and loses patience with Bro’s ironies.

Dave examines the kitchen. It is littered with awesome dangerous stuff.

Dave unwittingly stars in Bro’s grisly puppet snuff film.

Dave recklessly weaponizes his sylladex.

Dave examines his hash function fetch modus.

Dave gives his objects ridiculous names to shoehorn them into his sylladex.

Dave wraps up his kitchen activities.

Dave falls for the smuppet trap.

Bro summons Dave to the roof.

Rose puts the kibosh on John’s self-indulgent tent-making nonsense.

John and Rose alchemize items from their punch cards.

Reading “Wise Guy” inspires John to carve a totem from overlapping punch cards. He makes the Pogo Hammer.

John tries out his new weapon.

John bounces up to the roof. Rose moves his bed up there to break his fall.

Cinematic 12: John Sleeps.

Rose thinks of sending John the captcha for Sburb Server, but it is indecipherable.

Also, her laptop dies again.

Cinematic 13: John Wakes.

Jade pesters John about another kind of waking.

A pair of Crude Ogres climb the house.

John prepares for a boss battle.

Cinematic 14: Dave Ascends.

The Vagabond makes a moldy pumpkin disappear.

The Vagabond cannot open the canned food and does not have a sylladex. He does have a bar code, however.

The Vagabond reviews Human Etiquette.

The Vagabond presides over Can Town and eats various inedible substances including a chunk of uranium fuel.

The Vagabond draws a chess board on the floor.

The Vagabond completes his mayoral sash.

The Vagabond draws the Incipisphere on the walls.

The Vagabond discovers the station’s other pantry. It is full of TAB sugar-free cola.

The Vagabond slakes his thirst, welcomes the pop cans to Can Town, and returns to the terminal.

The Vagabond locks himself out of the terminal and returns to his chess recreation.

Cinematic 15: To Victory!

A Peregrine Mendicant trundles precious cargo.

The station locks the Vagabond out of the Client Room.

The Server Room is also locked. The Vagabond enters the Appearifier Room instead and appearifies the Bec-head pumpkin.

After deciphering the machine’s coordinate system, the Vagabond appearifies his belongings from the Client Room.

The Vagabond releases Serenity from the amber and tests the Appearifier on a paradox subject.

Cinematic 16: Hasten to the Exit!

Cinematic 17: Five Times Cliffhanger Combo.

The Vagabond’s command station takes off and flies around the world. A continent westward, the Mendicant discovers the apple station. An ocean westward still, the Mystic Ruins arise on paleozoic Earth.

A forest fire threatens Rose’s refuge. Mom activates a secret passage.

Dad escapes from the imps. Dave and Bro face off.

The Vagabond’s station lands at the Mystic Ruins.

Curtains.