diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter2.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter2.html | 84 |
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 42 deletions
diff --git a/chapter2.html b/chapter2.html index 2160dcd..3a653fd 100644 --- a/chapter2.html +++ b/chapter2.html @@ -14,14 +14,14 @@ </nav> <article> <h1>CHAPTER 2. Clown Logistics</h1> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/57.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/57.gif"> <p>Minutes in the past, but not many, (Vriska) pockets John’s phone before she can worry too much about waiting for a reply from Terezi.</p> <p>Wait, not John’s phone, she thinks. Her phone. Yeah. If she’s gonna hack it here on this piece of shit planet, she’s gonna need every break she can catch. It’s time to start staking some claims.</p> <p>In the spirit of that, she looks back at Vriska, still politely leaning against the clown’s corpse, ignoring her. (Vriska) swallows, thankful to not have to verbalize her appreciation for the distance she was just granted.</p> <div class="chat"> <p class="vriska">(VRISKA): So, a8out there 8eing two of us.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/58.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/58.gif"> <p>Vriska grins up at her, shielding her eyes from the sun. She is a poised, lipstick’d reflection of the unkempt original. (Vriska) is suddenly acutely aware of the dirt ground into her clothes and face. She flexes her hand and the dried purple blood cracks and flakes.</p> <div class="chat"> <p class="vrissy">VRISKA: What a8out it?</p> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ </div> <p>(Vriska) considers her options. She needs something good, but not TOO good.</p> <p>What will her nickname be?</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/59.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/59.gif"> <p>In her final act before shredding the parentheses like old skin, she extends her hand down to pull up her double.</p> <div class="chat"> <p class="vriska">VRISKA: Nice to meet you, Vrissy.</p> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Heh. Yeah.</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Anyway, I have some People I can call. Hold on.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/60.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/60.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Hey, it’s Vrissy.</p> <p class="tavros">TAVROS: w,, who,</p> @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ <div class="chat"> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: That was Tavros. He’s on his way.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/61.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/61.gif"> <p>Vriska flinches instinctively. She’s still working on processing her most recent blast from the past. She’s not prepared for another.</p> <div class="chat"> <p class="vriska">VRISKA: Who?</p> @@ -90,11 +90,11 @@ <p class="vriska">VRISKA: Unless he’ll rat us out to his mom????????</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Nah. He’ll get too much of a Kick out of seeing this dead Piece of Shit, don’t Worry.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/62.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/62.gif"> <p>Vriska doesn’t worry, but she does pace. She has only done a few laps around the perimeter by the time the hovercar glides up silently.</p> <p>Vrissy hates that ostentatious prick-mobile, mostly because it is not her ostentatious prick-mobile. But you do get what you pay for, and a rich kid’s mom’s attempt to buy his love may actually come in handy for something other than very quietly chauffeuring his friends around, now that actual spy shit seems like it is about to go down.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/63.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/64.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/63.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/64.gif"> <p>He barely has time to shut the door before he spots Gamzee and yelps, flinging himself dramatically back against it.</p> <p>Both Vriskas speak at once:</p> <div class="chat"> @@ -114,10 +114,10 @@ </div> <p>Tavros says nothing. His eyes flit from Vrissy to Vriska to Gamzee, and then shut. Everyone is still. Tavros’s thin chest rises and falls.</p> <p>After a few beats, he propels himself off the car like a swimmer at the sound of a gun, his body plunging in a graceful arc toward his goal.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/65.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/65.gif"> <p>His fists don’t do more than thunk a brief, ineffectual staccato against Gamzee’s ribcage, but the sound that rips from him is like years of suppressed screams, all unleashed in one reverberating howl of anguish. It nearly smothers the one small noise made by Tavros’ single kick to his dead stepclown’s head:</p> <p>h o n k</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/66.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/66.gif"> <p>Vrissy and Vriska don’t know fully what it is he is feeling, but they stay back and let him feel it. They don’t intervene until he stands up on his own, wiping his palms against the tears on his cheeks. Vrissy pats him solidly on the back.</p> <div class="chat"> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Fuck that guy, am I right?</p> @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ <p class="tavros">TAVROS: the both of you</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Soooooooo, the trunk?</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/67.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/67.gif"> <p>Vrissy and Vriska get under each arm, with Tavros piloting his legs. He fumbles a bit, trying to lift his chin to make eye contact with his companions.</p> <div class="chat"> <p class="tavros">TAVROS: Pleasure to meet you,, Vriska,</p> @@ -140,14 +140,14 @@ <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Yeah.</p> <p class="tavros">TAVROS: Yes,</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/68.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/69.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/68.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/69.gif"> <p>Tavros sighs. Sometimes, he thinks, you might have had different things in mind for your day, or your life. You may have wanted something else for your ol’ uncle clown, even if what that could even have even been is buried under too many faygo-sticky years to begin unearthing it. You may, he decides as he steps toward where Gamzee’s head has lolled backward against the bumper, just simply wake up one morning and have to play the final clown hand you have been dealt. And mayhap that clown hand is dead and in your trunk, and though you are not responsible for it being there, nor are you completely ready to deal with the emotional repercussions of its presence, you still have to figure out what to do with the physical and legal reality of it. And all that, with what feels like the eyes of the world on you, even if it is just the 9 eyes of your girlfriend and her alt-self.</p> <p>He feels a sudden rush of hot, stifling...something. He refuses, this time, to call it fear. He’s got to cool down. Stay steady. He pulls his sweater over his head and tosses it into the trunk too.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/70.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/71.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/70.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/71.gif"> <p>Not far away, another human kid is attending human school in the heart of the human kingdom. He is walking through the halls toward his final class of the day like he owns the place, which he does not. He answers his phone without checking to see who is calling.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/72.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/72.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="harry">HARRY ANDERSON: yo.</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Hey</p> @@ -170,17 +170,17 @@ <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: I thought it might take more convincing to get you on 8oard. I’m glad to see you finally getting into the revolutionary spir8.</p> <p class="harry">HARRY ANDERSON: anything for you, vris.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/73.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/73.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: We’re here, what now????????</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/74.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/74.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="vriska">VRISKA: ...</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: ...</p> <p class="tavros">TAVROS: ,,,</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/75.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/75.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: UGH what is taking him so long?</p> <p class="tavros">TAVROS: I find him slow to respond,,, typically,</p> @@ -221,15 +221,15 @@ <p class="vriska">VRISKA: Come on Tavros, let’s do this thing, she’ll come if she wants.</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Tavros, don’t listen to her.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/76.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/76.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="tavros">TAVROS: Righto,</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/77.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/77.gif"> <p>The two of them struggle to manage the body between them. It was a lot easier with three.</p> <p>Vrissy watches them from the passenger seat until it slides from their grip with 10 feet left to the fabled back door.</p> <p>The back parking lot is empty, for now, but she knows it won’t stay that way. This is not going to end well, she can feel it. She can't tell if Tavros left because he was weak enough to be swayed by Vriska, or if it's because he's getting ballsy enough to enjoy telling Vrissy no. It pisses her off either way, and she can't lose that. Can’t lose him. And Vriska… her being around is something so new she doesn't know what to think about it yet, but if they die, she won't get a chance to figure it out. She sighs, pockets the keys, and opens the door.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/78.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/78.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="vriska">VRISKA: Welcome 8ack, 8a8e.</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: I can’t stand watching you two fuck up this fucking 8ad.</p> @@ -237,15 +237,15 @@ <p class="vriska">VRISKA: Gra8 his middle and let’s get moving.</p> </div> <p>They heave him up, stumbling only a little as they make it the rest of the way into the building.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/79.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/79.gif"> <p>The halls are empty and heavy with anticipatory silence. There is only about an hour left in the school day, and the bored, restless energy shivers through the quiet in indiscernible whispers from behind closed classroom doors.</p> <p>None of them know where they are going, but Vriska is leading the way, hunched and purposeful, Gamzee’s head against her shoulder, an arm around each horn like a yoke.</p> <p>There is something incredibly reassuring, Tavros thinks, about someone who has absolute outward confidence in themselves. The soothing lull of following a simple direction is so overpowering it blots out the logical part of him that knows this is, perhaps, the most outlandishly stupid succession of decisions he has ever made. It also leaves a comforting buffer of reality between himself and Gamzee’s ugly pointy elf feet resting on his shoulder. But shucks, who knows, maybe there IS an incinerator. He’s homeschooled, so what does he know? And if anyone could be lucky enough to stumble upon one, it might as well be this Vriska.</p> <p>Tavros is considering this when he hears something. It sounds like the creak of an underfunded public school door, but it could also have been a honk, or the beating of his own heart. He stops in his tracks.</p> <p>Vriska and Vrissy do not.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/80.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/80.gif"> <p>The aforementioned pointy shoe hooks Tavros by the neck on its way past him, pulling him to the floor. Vriska and Vrissy follow like bowling pins.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/81.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/81.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="vriska">VRISKA: Shit!!!!!!!!</p> <p class="tavros">TAVROS: I’m ever so sorry,, the shoe,,,,,</p> @@ -266,9 +266,9 @@ <p class="vriska">VRISKA: Yeah, a8out as much time as this dum8shit conversation, so,</p> <p class="vriska">VRISKA: NOW.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/82.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/82.gif"> <p>They heave the body upward above their heads and keep walking, invigorated with fresh direction. Emotionally, anyway. They still do not have a physical direction in mind, which doesn’t stop them from marching onward.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/83.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/83.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="vriska">VRISKA: SHHHHHHHH</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: SHHHHHHHH</p> @@ -282,9 +282,9 @@ <p class="tavros">TAVROS: Oh no,,, I thought you knew?</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Keep looking for Harry Anderson. He’s In The Shit with us now, whether he likes it or not.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/84.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/85_1.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/85_2.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/84.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/85_1.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/85_2.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="vriska">VRISKA: What now????????</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: It’s stuck. Pull, you 8astards!</p> @@ -292,9 +292,9 @@ <p class="vriska">VRISKA: I hear movement, pull FASTER.</p> </div> <p>The body was already heavy and slippery enough. With the added fire safety deluge bearing down on them from every sprinkler in the hall, they have no chance. They scramble to hold on to him, but he is as slick as a greased pig and twice as unwieldy.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/86.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/86.gif"> <p>The human students, trained to respond to a fire drill with speed and enthusiasm for missed class time, are out in the hall in a matter of seconds.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/87.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/87.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="imode">IMODE: Is it a real 🔥??</p> <p class="silas">SILAS: I do declare, it’s trolls!</p> @@ -305,11 +305,11 @@ <p class="tavros">TAVROS: Wh,</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Ditch it, Tavros, we gotta move.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/88.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/88.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/89.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/89.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit Shit.</p> <p class="tavros">TAVROS: We were fortunate this hall was, uh,,, empty,</p> @@ -322,8 +322,8 @@ <p class="vriska">VRISKA: We just wait til they all go home and sneak out! We’re nowhere near 8eat, yet.</p> <p class="vrissy">VRISSY: If those assholes have a lot of Followers, we might as well 8e.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/90_1.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/90_2.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/90_1.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/90_2.gif"> <p>Jane Crocker doesn’t have a lot of time to waste on social media. Big society-altering business decisions don’t get made on a lax schedule. After a few dozen honk alerts, though, she allows herself a break to see what the hullabaloo is.</p> <p>She sees it, and she can’t breathe. Her lover, her confidante, her clown of many years, being desecrated by a bunch of treasonous monsters.</p> <p>Jane barely has time to register one gutting blow before another follows it. A sob chokes itself out of her.</p> @@ -334,13 +334,13 @@ <p class="jane">JANE: My family! My entire family!</p> <p class="jane">JANE: This cannot go unavenged.</p> </div> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/91_1.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/91_2.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/91_1.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/91_2.gif"> <p>Jane then proceeds to have the rest of <a href="chapter1.html">this conversation we already read</a>.</p> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/92.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/93.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/94.gif"> - <img class="panel" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/95.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/92.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/93.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/94.gif"> + <img class="panel" width="650" height="450" src="https://cdn.beyondcanon.com/assets/story/homestuck-beyond-canon/panels/95.gif"> <div class="chat"> <p class="harry">HARRY ANDERSON: oh fuck</p> </div> |