Alabaster: The Doomed Session - Renart: Realize the error of your ways.

[Cauchemar]

ALABASTER UPDATE: THE FALL OF LORD KHTHONIOS

MSPFA VERSION



Meanwhile.






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- Captain Thang reporting, sir. The Territory of Rainforest and Sepultures is thriving.




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- The fall of Lord Khthonios has been confirmed.




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- Its body is reduced to dessicated clay.
- Understood. Take samples for analysis. Then return to base immediately.
- Thank you, sir.




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- And... Tang. It was nice working with you. Know that I've designated you for promotion.
- ... Thank you, sir! I'll make you proud, sir!
- I am sure you will.




Vice-marshal: Hang up.



You are happy for Tang. You think she will make a good replacement.

Alas, she still has some lessons to learn. She did not understand why she was going to be promoted.

Well. She will learn the news soon enough.




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As for you, you have to give your warlord the bad news.

[angst]

Vice-Marshal: Betray the fucking evil teddy bear

[Cauchemar]

ALABASTER UPDATE: SOME EVIL PARAMECIUM

MSPFA VERSION




Milady and Proudhon: Rendezvous with the Concomitant.






Weywot: Talk to the elephant.



- Why are you upset?
- Two mammoths just disappeared. They were amongst the most vocal opponents to the Benefactor.
- So? It's obvious RENART did it!
- Things are not this simple.
- You have a serial killer on the run. Seems pretty SIMPLE to me.
- ...




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- What's the matter?
- If only I knew if...
- Hey, I don't know what's keeping you. You seem hindered by some social rules I don't UNDERSTAND. It's enraging but...




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- I will trust you. I will choose to trust you.
- Thanks, I GUESS?
- I will entrust you with a truth of my people, jump on my back and be careful on the way.




Wey: Use protection.



You use a blanket made of mammoth fur in order to hide yourself. According to Via and Hem, Renart can now fly. He also split in two like some evil paramecium, and he has eight arms.

Yeah. You don't know what the girls have been smoking.

But you're gonna be cautious. Just in case. The entire situation is impossible, so maybe Renart has access to some unknown powers. With this fur, from the sky, you'll be invisible.




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While the mammoth adopts a steady trot, you take the time to consult your Murderous Silent Notificator in detail.

Vamuin has left you a lot of messages.

You take a deep inhalation before reading them : being the titanic asshole's auspistice has been a living hell. Particularly when Sallie was involved.




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But he doesn't talk about his urges to hatefuck all of Alternia here.

Rather, he's telling you to get on the move. To move to another hive, if possible.

Three hives are apparently scheduled to teleport away from Alternia in some fashion, in the close future.




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The addresses are Crossover's hive, Renart's hive and some random greenblood's hive.

Wait. Renart's hive?




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You quickly copy/paste all of the data to Hem and Mnevia. This could explain everything.

You keep scrolling up... and you explode with the rage of a thousand suns.




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SOMEONE USED YOUR COMPUTER!




Mnevia: Let's see what your doing.



You are looking for an exit which does not involve surreal acrobatics.

You’ve managed to reach the basement.

[Cauchemar]

Mnevia: Try the lever.



Great game.

This should prevent some easy backstabbing.




Try the trapdoor.






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Your weapon is not enough. Maybe somewhere in this room...

[Cauchemar]

ALABASTER UPDATE: THE SPECIAL FRIDGES

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Mnevia: Open fridge.











































They say you feel pain when your first love ends.






But your first hate, too, can be hard to say goodbye to.






After some time, you don’t know how long, your survival instincts kick in. They are not enough to bring warmth back to the universe, or to get you to move your body.






Still, when weaved with the thirst for revenge, you find a way.




Mnevia: Open another fridge.








Another fridge, another corpse.






This one is not your failed spades story. Not a friend either.

However, you think you recognize her. She may be hornless now, without makeup, wearing a serene expression, eyes closed on her final fight... but the hair, the face, the clothes are unmistakable.

You know this girl. Always in the background during crazy parties.






You remember seeing her at Tozy's hive again, last week.






Tozy's last week.

Tozy's last party.






It is up to you to ensure it does not become everybody's last party.

[Cauchemar]

ALABASTER UPDATE: PUPPETS AND PROPHECIES

MSPFA VERSION







Weywot: Notice martialPuppeteer.



The person who took your computer also unblocked martialPuppeteer, aka magicalPaws, aka GINNEO ADARNA, a scourge you would not unleash upon the account of your worst enemy. And to add insult to injury, they started messaging him.

Shades of black sparkle in the fire of your ignited cardio-vascular pump.




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However, when you start reading the conversation, you see familiar terminology.




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A game. Manipulating your environment. Not only does it echo Vamuin's explanations, it also fits with what you saw in Renart's hive.

You make the difficult decision to message both Vamuin and Ginneo.




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Before you can read their answers, the mammoth reaches his destination.




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"The prophecies announce the arrival of the two Heraldos del Caos. They are meant to destroy everything, to ravage this world, to swim and feast in blood and misery.
This is the traditional representation of one of them."




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"While he bears our likeness, he will be merciless."

[Cauchemar]

Special announcement!

The old Alabaster cover art has been replaced with an all-new animated cover art doubling as an option menu, the TITLE SCREEN!



2011 COVER ART:




2023 TITLE SCREEN:





This screen gives access to the adventure map (Chapters), to various bonus content, and also to the Alabaster Discord:

https://discord.gg/FFBHG7nPDC

On the Alabaster Discord (18+, but NO NSFW material), people can keep in touch with the latest development of the adventure as well as my numerous other works! :) Join us now!

[Cauchemar]

ALABASTER UPDATE

HEMSUT: FIGHT

MIRROR VERSION




Hemsut: Fight.































-- melancholicRuin [MR] began trolling parallelPromqueen [PP] --

MR: }{em!
PP: Via! Y⦻u will n⦻t believe what I just killed!

[Cauchemar]

ALABASTER UPDATE: A LITTLE PHONE CALL

MSPFA VERSION






PP: Just wait for the selfie
MR: Some incredible monsters wit}{ more appendages t}{an a centipede lusus, rig}{t?





PP: Damn, Via, you take the fun out of everything
PP: How did you guess?
MR: C}{eck Wey's texts, }{e sent us a lot of data.
MR: We're finally starting to piece t}{is t}{ing toget}{er.
MR: We're contacting Adarna, too, and -
PP: Adar-what?
PP: How is this buffoon supposed to help us with anything?





MR: }{e is tied to t}{is entire mess.
PP: Really
PP: So what's the trick here? What's the explanation for all of this nonsense?
MR: Long story s}{ort…
MR: It's all Vamuin's fault.
PP: HAHAHAHAHAHA
PP: I KNEW I landed the best kismesis!
PP: Go Vamuin go!





MR: Our common quadrant found and launc}{ed a forbidden game w}{ich tears down t}{e very fabric of reality.
MR: It t}{rew us rig}{t into a parallel plane of existence w}{ere the players }{ave to... distort t}{eir }{ives in order to reach god}{ood?
MR: T}{e game also appears to be responsible for t}{e apocalypse consuming Alternia.
PP: Okay Via, time to slow down on the caterpillar juice
PP: We have more pressing matters than your discovery of psychotropics

[Cauchemar]

PP: Renart is on the run. The mammoths told us he participated in some kind of assembly
MR: Must be Classic Renart. Because Yellow Spider Renart is still in t}{e }{ive.
PP: What is he doing?
MR: }{e removed all of t}{e cadavers... }{e can apparently move t}{ings by telekinesis w}{en wearing a green mask.
MR: Doesn't seem to }{ave a lot of reach, t}{oug}{. So far I've managed to stay outside of }{is sp}{ere of influence.
MR: Limited power to }{is psionics, too. }{e didn't yet manage to remove t}{is freak cadaver I anchored to block }{s way.
PP: Oh, so you found Tozy?






MR: }{a. }{a.
MR: Do not antagonize me on t}{is.







MR: No, it's not Tozy.
MR: I used anot}{er of Renart's victims.
MR: Not one of ours. A weird moustac}{e guy in a Batman suit wit}{ green teet}{ and a clock key.
PP: You definitely had enough psychedelics
MR: Wait until I tell you about t}{e }{orns.
PP: Business first. Juice later
MR: Rig}{t.
MR: Now I'm }{earing t}{ese weird mac}{ines Renart has everyw}{ere.
MR: T}{ey are carving, rotating, scanning, s}{ooting... stuff.
MR: }{e's preparing some new trick.
PP: Oh yeah, the white machines, I noticed them too
PP: Looks like foreign technology. It's all metal! There isn't even honest-to-Gl'bgolyb slime piping in them
MR: Does it really shock you more than the panorama?
PP: Damn our dear planet looks like a paradise compared to this place
PP: This is madness
PP: This is a mess
PP: This is insane dangers, impossible monsters






PP: I love this shit

[Cauchemar]

ALABASTER UPDATE: DOUBLE TREAT

MSPFA VERSION





You cannot believe you are finally massacring Subaltern Conscripts made of pure horn.
You're not sure how you feel about this.
On one hand, you will not lack carving material for the centuries to come.
On another hand, it makes all of your hive's decorations, all of your artistic approach even, terribly lessened.

You cannot believe you are finished prototyping surprises made of pure cruelty.
You're not sure how you feel about this.
On one hand, you will not lack screams of terror for the centuries to come.
On another hand, it makes all of your kill count, all of your sadistic violence even, terribly lessened.





You will need to up your game, to compose an ode to ignominious terror, if you want to get some meaning back in your life.

[Cauchemar]

ALABASTER UPDATE: DEPARTURE IN THE FROZEN WASTELANDS

MSPFA VERSION




Batori: Leave Ginneo's Territory.



- Ґime ╙or you Ґo deparҐ. You sҐill have Ґhis business in your ҐerriҐory…
- Could you cast some yllumynatyon on thys last enygma?
- I have no idea. Ґhe RevoluҐion of PerpeҐuaҐion... Our ConcomiҐanҐs are obsessed wiҐh iҐ.
- From my memoryes of your past pyxelemental, Y can unearth a thematyc lynk v-vyth a reoccurryng sayyng.






- "The flesh must grov-v."







- Can you hazard some extrapolatyons?
- I... No. I heard iҐ someҐimes in our ҐerriҐories, buҐ -
- Maybe yt ys lynked to the Progeny lore?
- Maybe.






- My dyamond, Y do not v-vysh to leave. Your company warms my mynd and body. Y must confess, I feel the compulsyon to talk more about my sentyments…
- I can'Ґ do Ґhis righҐ now, BaҐs.
- Uncertaynty deploys yts greyv-vysh v-vyngs. Y fear of my mystakes yf Y'm not balanced...
- I wish I could help. BuҐ righҐ now, moirail duҐies are Ґoo much ╙or me.






- I WILL help, o pale gem. We are bound and ╙aҐed Ґo equilibrium. BuҐ I need Ґime. I jusҐ need Ґime.






- Then recess you shall have. Up to the stars Y go, bryngyng your soul v-vyth me.
- And I'll have you wiҐh me. We will always be Ґhere Ґo balance each oҐher.

[classpectanon]

god im so glad this mspfa is back

[Cauchemar]

god im so glad this mspfa is back

Thanks! :) A lot of people communicated their happiness, I'm so glad to be able to give you this continuation. I've received nothing but love since I came back to the fandom and to the adventure!

THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE AMAZING SUPPORT!

[Cauchemar]

ALABASTER UPDATE: TREASURE IN THE BASEMENT

MSPFA VERSION



Via: Open more fridges.



This is getting sickening, but you will manage.

These fridges can only contain strangers or half-familiar faces, for a very good reason.

All of your trusted friends were part of the attack on the hive.



Mnevia: Open the fridge with a chain on the top



Corpse.
You examine it. Your usual Alternian troll corpse with the horns sawed off. Nothing of value on the body.



Via: Open the fridge with green and purple blood on the handle.



This one still has their horns, maybe it was too much work to saw all of it and Renart kept it for later.
Unlike the rest of the body.



Via: Open the fridge with a cross symbol.



What the hell did Renart do to this one?


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So he carved a giant screw in previous loot just in order to fasten it through someone's skull? This is beyond unhinged.



Mnevia Quaoar: Use wench on nail.



But it may be your way out.

[Cauchemar]

Great news everyone! THE ALABASTER FLASH GAMES HAVE BEEN RESTORED!

Thanks to the hard work of three amazing friends, Cerulean Snake, Skye and Steelo... SKYTROLL and SILENT HIVE are now resurrected.
These 2011 games were lost media for a very long time, and the death of Flash had rendered the few files left unusable... But twelve years after their creation, the games are now SALVAGED and even get a few upgrades!

- Complete port of the previous features via Ruffle
- The games are now displayed directly in the normal pages of the adventure
- Credits have been updated, removing my deadname, out-of-date gendering, and adding credits for the porting team
- All-new gamepad support, along with added visual indications of the gamepad controls





SKYTROLL
https://mspfa.com/?s=236&p=94





SILENT HIVE
https://mspfa.com/?s=236&p=294


'
Thanks again to the porting team for such incredible patience, generosity and efficiency!
See you soon for more amazing news!


Oasis

[Cauchemar]

ALABASTER UPDATE: NAILED IT

MSPFA VERSION








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Jailbreak.









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No stairs. No ladder. A straight well.

And it stinks.



Via: Throw body in the hole.



You first drop the cadaver in there. It will cushion your fall and allows you to measure the height.






Yeah. Quick noise.



Via: Jump.

[Cauchemar]

Approaching page 666 of the fan adventure Homeward Bound by Sova, the HATCHING event is happening! Two special giant panels drawn by yours truly, and featuring the new design of the main antagonist.

It is not often that I work for other webcomics than Alabaster, especially not for more than pure creature design, but here Sova's great and horrific concepts ignited my pen.

Check Homeward Bound immediately!

[Cauchemar]

ALABASTER SPECIAL UPDATE: THE CERULEAN MOTLEY CREW JOINS THE SCENE!

MSPFA VERSION




UR: s-o this vanny guy di≠d.
UR: just lik≠ that.
UP: Not sure!
UP: He w♠s supposed to get surgery... He ne♥er got out of the block, and we got no news from his white c♠r♠p♠ce friends...
UP: Gin didn't monitor the surgery, he h♠d ♠ f♠llout with ♥♠nny right before it h♠ppened, he didn't feel good enough to w♠tch it.
UP: He took us ♠ screenc♠p of the hi♥e ♠fterw♠rds.

[ unkemptParamour has sent surgery.jpg ]






UP: No ♥♠nny in sight.
UP: Gin didn't say a word.
UR: y≠ah, vanny's toast.
UR: and th≠ kid i-s out.
UP: It's the hypothesis, I think; if it w♠sn't out, we would be in ♠ doomed timeline.
UR: why do≠sn't it wr≠ck all of our shit, now?
UP: ♠ccording to Cross, the Lieuten♠nts st♠y on their L♠nd...
UR: you'r≠ full o-f shit. i'll g≠t i-n th≠re and th≠n i'll g≠t parasit≠d. i can s≠≠ that coming.
UP: Well you're not m♠king it e♠sy now!
UP: Tell me good news, S♠llie! ♠re you inst♠lling?






UR: it's still n≠t h≠re. this gam≠ i-s h≠avy.
UR: h≠avier than your ass mayb≠.
UP: ...
UR: o-h com≠ o-n now, this was a good on≠.
UP: You're e♥en cr♠sser th♠n ♥♠nny.
UR: i'm not th≠ on≠ with "i wanna bon≠" writt≠n i-n all of m-y letters. dirty.
UP: It's not like th♠t! It's just...
UP: I've ♠lw♠ys w♠nted to find lo♥e ♠nd h♠te.
UP: It's ♠ rom♠ntic thing, not ♠ sexu♠l thing.
UR: ar≠ you ac≠, girl?
UP: No! But I focus on other p♠rts of the rel♠tionship. Sex is ♠ nice strong p♠rt of intense soul meeting, not the me♠t of it!
UP: Don't you think these things ♠re better with your f♠ted love ♠nd h♠te fore♥er?
UR: sur≠ if th≠y fuck you tog≠th≠r.
UP: Urgh.






UP: Wh♠t I c♠re ♠bout: The me♠ning of life. The sur♥i♥♠l of our species. The be♠uty of the sky. My g♠ze di♥ing into Renny's.
UP: Wh♠t I don't c♠re ♠bout: your ♠bsurd f♠nt♠sies.
UR: i hate t-o br≠ak th≠ n≠ws to you, shith≠ad, but didn't you ≠njoy a walk long ≠nough t-o g≠t tonight's pr≠dicam≠nt?
UR: our sp≠cies i-s don≠ for.
UP: We should ne♥er gi♥e up hope...
UP: M♠ybe Th♠umification c♠n m♠ke us ♠ m♠triorb.
UR: matriwhat?






UP: The centrolecith♠l egg of the mothergrub lusii. Symbiotic♠lly linked to our own genome through p♠r♠-synthesis.
UR: n≠rd.
UP: You should know this inform♠tion! Troll reproduction is not just ♠bout p♠ils and nooks!
UP: Do you even use ♠ lid?
UR: d-o i look lik≠ som≠on≠ who'd car≠ about doing i-t saf≠?
UP: Congr♠ts! Time for ♠ second urgh.
UP: M♠triorbs m♠ke mothergrubs, whose proto-s♠lpinge♠l tr♠ct rel♠ys and restructure...
UP: Oh well, the gist of it is, we need a m♠triorb for proper troll reproduction.
UP: E♠rlier in the night I looked for one, but things went b♠dly...
UP: I c♠me to K♠ndiz♠ City to t♠lk to ♠ scientist, but sh♠ w♠s ♠lready killed.






UP: ♠nd th♠t's when the nightm♠re beg♠n. For re♠l.






UP: There were killers ♠nd monsters everywhere.
UR: it's alt≠rnia, girl, wh≠r≠'s th≠ diff≠r≠nc≠ with daily ≠xp≠ri≠nc≠?
UP: I only m♠n♠ged th♠nks to the help of some strong sur♥i♥ors.
UP: It's ♠ good thing we're ♠ w♠rrior species...






UP: We fought ♠nd b♠rric♠ded ♠nd fought some more ♠nd sur♥i♥ed for hours, I c♠n't belie♥e we sur♥i♥ed this one.
UP: In the end we were sep♠r♠ted by ♠ bunch of d♠yw♠lkers.






UP: I h♠d to run ♠w♠y, to climb in the higher le♥els of the ♠p♠rtment building...






UP: The monsters were still r♠ging, I had to take refuge on the roof.
UP: Th♠t's where Cross picked me up.




UP: ♠nd then it all collapsed. The building w♠s... sh♠ttered.
UR: so ≠v≠ryon≠ in th≠r≠ i-s d≠ad too.
UP: How m♠ny good trolls died?
UP: How m♠ny will die?
UP: We're ♠ll going to die.
UR: wow slow down girl.
UR: you'r≠ st≠pping o-n my brand.

[Cauchemar]

Okay, we're preparing this since AGES, so it's time to unveil it:

SPECIAL THE CERULEAN MOTLEY CREW + ALABASTER THE DOOMED SESSION CROSSOVER!







I admire the work of Cerulean Snake (The Cerulean Motley Crew, the amazing adventure of troll pirates! https://mspfa.com/?s=38151&p=1 ) and it was such a great surprise, this Spring, when they accepted to cooperate with me for a CROSSOVER. And not a simple cameo or funny two-panels crossover, but a serious intersection of events in BOTH our adventures with impact on the characters' trajectories and our respective endgames.

To be clear: this is not an alternate universe where our casts meet. This is an unification of our worldbuildings and chronologies, our two interpretations of the Homestuck universe, most specifically of the Alternian lore, harmonized to each other.
Alabaster characters will appear in The Cerulean Motley Crew and its sequel. Cerulean Motley Crew characters will appear in Alabaster. They will meet, oppose and cooperate, and to read one story will give additional insight on the other.
Furthermore, we're developing all-new character design and creature design for the intersection.

If you just like one adventure and are not interested to read the other, don't worry! Snake and me still keep autonomy in our respective projects. Both The Cerulean Motley Crew and Alabaster were conceived separately and the larger plans will remain, and we will keep our adventures satisfying reads by themselves.
But if you read both, you'll have more fun. A lot more fun!

Long life to Alternia and to troll fuckery!




Future Chever & Govani designs (Hivebent/Alabaster era)
by Cerulean Snake





Future Chever & Govani adult sprites (Hivebent/Alabaster era)
by Oasis Nadrama





Daybreaker Strain stages 3, 4, 5
by Oasis Nadrama