Last time we met Terezi, the troll behind the handle gallowsCalibrator [GC]. She’s still in her room. She decides to equip her walking cane as her strife specibus. This counts as a canekind. She mentions she will need it for the Medium. This is very interesting as she somehow knows the Medium exists. Her current goal is to recruit her team members. She chooses arsenicCatnip [AC] as she frequently role plays with her. What follows is pretty much the kind of roleplay I saw many teen girls do in the early 2000’s. It’s weird and cringy with a lot of asterix. AC is some sort of lion with many mouths and baby cubs. While Terezi is a dragon of some sort. The scenario is that AC is preparing a meal out of something called a choler bear. She offers it to Terezi in exchange for not eating her cubs. After whatever the heck that was, Terezi asked AC to join her team for the game. But AC needs permission from someone named Blar.

She then contacted Gamzee in the conversion we saw earlier. Gamzee suggested she recruit Karkat instead. He told her he’d join whenever he’s done spacing out on the beach. She assumes that will be an eternity and moves on.

Reluctantly she answers Karkat who’d just begun to pester her. He informs her he’s the leader now whether she likes it or not. He’s decided this is best. Terezi has decided she doesn’t give a darn. She just lets him have it stating she didn’t think he’d actually want to be leader and she really doesn’t care. Karkat seems disappointed by the lack of a fight and let her be second in command. She instructs him that she will start a server and he will join it and “lead the adventure”. She also mentions she had no “Lusus”. It’s not mentioned if we can assume this is the troll word for “guardian” though they had mentioned “Custodians” . She can hear her Lusus in her dream but believes that if she ever meets then the world will end. This inspires Karkat to deal with the crabby neighbour downstairs before entering the game. But we don’t see this.

The story skips ahead. Karkat’s home is now covered in bad drawings and has some odd modifications to make it taller. It’s now located in a land with black islands and red water called The Land of Pulse and Haze (LOPAH) . There’s also a giant hole in the side of his house, and a sprite near it. He sees Karkat calling himself the Knight of Blood. He is wielding a sickle called the “Homes Smell Ya Later”. The hero stands before his own toilet which is on an island and not in his home. Karkat complains to Terezi about who reminds him that she is blind. She tells him he’ll need to host the next player so the chain will start. She also knows about the meteors that will soon crash into her. Karkat doesn’t know anything. He’s apparently not contacted any of the other players. But she reminds him that if they fail to get her into the game he’s screwed. “A while” prior to this. We see the frog ruins. The same ones from Jades island and a meteor floating in the veil. They are now in a cave. Floating near them is a troll with solid white eyes and a tattered dress. She has the mark of Aries on her shirt. Seemingly with only the power of her mind she removes the head of the main frog statue. As this statue has a head in Jades time, this may be either a copy of the ruins or somehow a distant future version of them.

In a different place we see a trollian hand with many rings picking up a 2L bottle of Faygo from a beach. They complain of “land dweller rubbish”. One of the rings has the sign of aquarius on it.