==> (1819): Do you see her there? With the paint pail? That's Ms. Paint. She was made in response to this tweet by Ryan North: https://twitter.com/ryanqnorth/status/13765568605

Dave: Combine shitty sword and Hella Jeff drawing.: The shitty sword the SORD..... Is alchemized from is the Caladbolg from Final Fantasy X. It even causes the name of the item in the alchemy menu to be rendered in Comic Sans. This page references SBaHJ #16.

Dave: Combine Snoop Dogg photo and mini A/C and Caledscratch: I find it interesting, conceptually, how the alchemy process knows how to invoke Snoopy imagery in order to make a joke about Snoop Dogg.

Dave: Combine skateboard and Hella Jeff drawing.: Unreal Air actually doesn't originate from any specific SBaHJ comic, but rather the incredibly shitty picture of a skateboarder adorning the bottom of the SBaHJ site. The name and references used, however, are all from SBaHJ #10.

Dave: Combine camera and captchalogue card.: We actually do hear about it again. Doomed Dave used it to get the captcha for Fear No Anvil.

Dave: Combine brain and SBaHJ drawing and captcharoid camera: The SBAHJIFIER not only is also in Comic Sans lettering, it costs negative one thousand artifact grist. That means you're given grist for alchemizing them. It's utterly unknown what purpose this kind of grist serves, since all other jpegged items give you artifact grist, but nothing seems to require it. Perhaps it's actually a burden, like a sort of curse set upon those foolish enough to save jpeg images on the lowest quality available.

Dave: Read Complacency of the Learned.: Here's a question: if the character Zazzerpan in this story is named after the statue Mom purchased, and in the post-scratch universe there is no Zazzerpan statue, then why is Zazzerpan's name still present in the post-scratch version of the story?

Of course, Roxy names Jaspers "Frigglish" after the Complacency member seen here. While the post-scratch version of the story is supposed to be a deliberate reference to Lord English's personal mythology, this version was written with a different meaning in mind:

"If you sift through that dense excerpt, you find it's about 12 evil kids who played a role in influencing every dark event in history. My intent was that this was her subconsciously echoing the creation story of her own universe."

Dave: Go get a bookmark.: SBaHJ drawings now appear on the walls of Dave's bedroom.

Dave: Pester.: An introduction to what would be known as the Horrorterrors. The dream selves are also sometimes referred to as the princes/princesses of the moons, especially in regards to dream resurrection.

Davesprite: Also pester.: Subtle 'acrobatic fucking pirouette' joke here.

Dave: Throw yourself out the window.: If you look closely, not only can you see Dave using the same 'look out window' pose again, but also DD hiding underneath the apartment.

John: Examine monitor.: The date is Jade's birthday. The site of the factory is a small lake in the present (probably due to the impact crater), and the strip mall where Nanna's joke shop stood is now simply more suburban houses.

==> (1868): This page provides the image for the map of Act 4. Unlike other acts, the title 'Flight of the Paradox Clones' is not a quote from the story.

John: Zoom in.: I'd like to point out that Hiveswap takes place (the Earth side, at least) in November 1994, a year before this.

RETCON WATCH: Oil on the ship in the middle panel.

John: Zoom in.: The sun in Dave's city seems to be permanently set to 'flame swirl causing unseasonably warm weather'.

==> (1879): That's Rose's meteor overhead. We never see it land.

John: Zoom in.: Nanna's joke shop is named Prankster's Gambit, like the stat, and uses the same icons as the Prankster's Gambit stat bar.

RETCON WATCH: Arm tucked away in the upper-left corner of the last panel.

==> (1889): The way the tubes are set up, each pair of paradox slime samples are dropped into the chamber below, where the DNA mixing takes place. When you think about it, this means the original kids aren't actually paradox clones, only their guardians/post-scratch counterparts are.

John: Scale echeladder.: Do you see baby Dave hanging onto John, there? For some reason, that visual sparked a meme of printing out baby Daves and placing them on real-world objects.

Among the other echeladder rungs are 'Unreal Heir', referencing Unreal Air, and 'You Are The Star' + 'Its You', referencing SBaHJ #8.

==> (1889): Introduces the wallet modus.

CG: Troll John.: Slips a tiny SBaHJ #7 reference in there.

John: Tend to little pink monkeys.: All of these babies will fall to Earth accompanied by an object. Due to the way the Scratch works, these objects are one of the very few things to remain intact across both universe instances. The degree to which they impact the story varies by character and by universe, list is:

John: Sassacre book (inscribed by Nanna)
Rose: Con Air bunny (original)
Dave: Maplehoof (dies on impact)
Jade: Con Air bunny (restored by Rose)
Jane: Dad's hat
Roxy: Vodka Mutini/Meowgon Spengler (dies on impact)
Dirk: Lil' Cal (in Derse pajamas)
Jake: Dual flintstock pistols"

John: Get trolled by CG again.: Karkat's symbol being shown in red against John's grey PDA screen...

John's comment about Nic Cage playing Superman is true. Look up "Superman Lives".

==> (1910): Some lines for AR to reuse later.

==> (1915): 'Eight days prior' to April 21 = 413. Oh, and guess what? That's the date when the real-life Mark Twain died.

==> (1916): "Land sakes alive, we are cooking with petrol now!" is directly lifted from the text of Sassacre's book.

==> (1927): 413-million-year timer. But we aleady knew that.

==> (1930): Interesting note on the playing card analogy: a lot of the Derse characters can be linked to a playing card of roughly equivalent 'power'. Deuce = 2, Boxcars = 6 (boxcars means rolling a 6 in dice), Jack, BQ, BK = jack, queen, king, obviously. And now Jack has become an ace. Droog is the only one that doesn't fit in this pattern. But it doesn't matter, because this idea is totally abandoned anyways.

[S] John: Reunite with your loving wife and daughter.: Really just watch Con Air if you haven't already.

RETCON WATCH: Rare flash arm showing up when the plane is flying into the Vegas Strip, as pointed out by Hussie.

How Do I Live (Bunny Back in the Box Version)" by Michael Guy Bowman, guitar solo by Nick Smalley in Homestuck Vol. 5
Remix of "How Do I Live" by Trisha Yearwood, written by Dianne Warren

Dave: Get trolled by GC.: Quick SBaHJ #8 ref there.

Dave: Keep getting trolled by GC.: This conversation and the previous one with Tavros do some narrative work. First, they both mention 'the rift' offhandedly, an idea that would be later made more relevant. Secondly, they both mention specific plot threads that would get brought up in Descend: Jade's dreambot exploding and Dave entering the Medium.

This animation wasn't actually released on Day 413, as intended! It was actually three days late. To cheat the system and 'keep the date' on the archives, Hussie uploaded a placeholder page that would be swapped out three days later (noting the similarities to the Homestuck Beta). The page was titles 'Check mail.' with a picture of John's mailbox, and bore the text:

"You go downstairs to check the mail for the END OF ACT. In spite of the fact that the red arm-swingy-dealy thing is flipped up, the mailbox is empty! You are going to have to conclude that the position of the red flippy-lever thing is an unreliable gauge for the presence of mail. You really don't know what the point of it is.

The parcel you are waiting for is obviously going to be [URL=http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=001922]late[/URL]. You will have to keep checking the mail over the next several days. Hopefully it will not arrive too late, or it may start to become a sore subject with you."

The flash was actually named after the song used, Descend. It uses an absurd amount of musical references (have fun catching them all, I know I can't). Many were matched to a specific visual: Dave's strife theme to his entry, John and Rose's strife themes to Dad and Mom, Midnight Crew/Jack themes to Jack's appearances, Skaia's theme to the peaceful shots of Prospit, and LOHAC's theme to the duel on LOHAC. The little bit in the middle with Squiddles was removed in the album release of the song (see if you can catch the cat meteor in the static when it shifts back to the main animation). And of course this represented the first large-scale effort by the art team. On its production:

"Working with a bigger pool of people for a change was a lot of fun, and I am quite sure improved the final product. I'm still not sure exactly how much time the collaboration saved. Between orchestrating it all, prepping a million graphics and finagling with Flash for days straight, it's still a ton of work. I think the primary benefit here is it adds a lot of visual richness. Where before I would cut a lot of corners and recycle a lot more graphics, or just never even bother implementing certain scenes, this time I had quite a diversity of nice art assets to grab, and build the action around, and I think it paid off nicely. So thanks guys! Looking forward to next time.

Also, more about the song. Toby made this months ago in anticipation of some epic pandemonium going down on 4/13. Obviously that whole thing got delayed, and plans changed. But I always held on to it for EOA purposes and now here it is. What may be interesting for people to realize is how especially formative the song was to the action and story events in this page. It wasn't like I said "Hey Toby make this ridiculously awesome long ass song that switches up themes every 30 seconds or so, and also put a silly Squiddles interlude in there ok?" Nope, he just made it out of the blue, and I had months to think about how I'd adapt something to it. He didn't have the slightest idea what I'd do with it of course. But the result is this kind of odd musical storyboarding process. By composing the song he was sort of storyboarding the thing for me, or at least forcing my hand to address the musical themes at each step of the piece. The challenge was to pull everything together into a narrative that made sense, match the music switches, and cap off the act logically and compellingly within that prearranged structure. Constraints are a good thing. They invite creativity. I wouldn't want to be an absolute dictator on every facet of this project. I've never said, "Listen up guys I need a song and I need it to go EXACTLY like this." I tried to keep it pretty loose with the artists too. I just gave them some broad concepts to work with, and let them get creative with it. Some environments, some characters, etc. Practically no descriptions of specific events. They were as surprised as anyone else to see the outcome of the animation. They were probably surprised to see exactly to what extent I scribbled all over their nice drawings, setting them on fire and blasting holes in things."

Music: "Descend" by Toby "Radiation" Fox in Homestuck Vol. 5
Remixes "Upward Movement (Dave Owns)" by Robert "Kali" Blaker
Remixes "Sburban Jungle" by Michael Guy Bowman
Remixes "Beatdown (Strider Style)" by Curt Blakeslee
References "Mutiny" by Bill Bolin
References "Skies of Skaia" by Mark Hadley
References "Showtime (Original Mix)" by Malcolm Brown
References "Aggrieve" by Mark Hadley
References "Liquid Negrocity" by Toby "Radiation" Fox
References "Guardian" by Bill Bolin
References "Harlequin" by Mark Hadley
References "Explore" by George Buzinkai
References "Chorale for Jaspers" by Michael Guy Bowman
References "Underworld" by Steve Everson
References "Three in the Morning" by
References "Non Compos Mentis" by Bill Bolin
References "Pumpkin Cravings" by Seth "Beatfox" Peelle
References "Vagabounce" by David Ko
References "Skaian Skuffle" by Andrew Huo
Samples "Squiddles!" by Alexander Rosetti
Samples "Bonus Track: Friendship Aneurysm" by Robert J! Lake
References "Doctor" by George Buzinkai, Clark "Plazmataz" Powell and Michael Vallejo
Remixes "Penumbra Phantasm" by Toby "Radiation " Fox
References "Endless Climb" by George Buzinkai
References "Jackknive" by Erik "Jit" Scheele
References "Atomyk Ebonpyre" by Toby "Radiation" Fox
References "Lotus" by Seth "Beatfox" Peelle
References "Problem Sleuth Theme" by Mark Hadley
References "Dirgeish" by Nick Smalley

Art contributions from Brett Muller, Eyes5, Jessica Allison, Lexxy, M Thomas Harding, Nic Carey, Paige Turner, Richard Gung, SaffronScarf, Vivus

the recent past is recalled...: The chucklevoodoo doll, and the bedsheets, are all stuff from John's bedroom on Prospit.

==> (1946): RETCON WATCH: Oil, as pointed out, to the right of John."

Hours in the future...: We never get to see how PM gets exiled to Earth, as opposed to all the others.

John!: Jake's usage of 'boonbuck' implies that he knows about Sburb. The list of the bunny's weapons stops short of listing the Warhammer of Zillyhoo (although savvy readers surely recognized it) and Ahab's Crosshairs' name is cut off. Not that it ended up mattering.

Hours in the future...: You can see Ms. Paint amongst the Prospitian survivors.

==> (1976): The famous key for all of the other switches on the exile terminals. We're never told where it originates from. Perhaps it's a royal artifact?

==> (1981): Serenity: OH MY