[ACT 1]

    [ACT 2]

    [ACT 3]

    - [S: YOU THERE. BOY.]

    - [S: Enter.]

    [ACT 4]

    The first gate teleports John to LOWAS. He explores, completing a variety
    of tasks that PM addresses to him, leaving items - a shoe and hat, both
    eventually finding their ways to John's dad - in parcel pyxii as their
    minitablets request. He speaks to many salamanders, learning about LOWAS,
    the planet's denizen, the revered Heir of Breath, and illegal contraband.
    He also confers with Nannasprite, who is able to remain in contact with him
    but can't yet actually leave her station at John's house. John finds a
    vantage point where he spots the rock spire his house sits atop.

    John continues exploring LOWAS, stumbling upon a salamander village. It's
    under attack of underlings, and John struggles to fight them off. A giant
    basilisk chomps him into its mouth, but is shot at and defeated by Jade's
    grandpa before it can totally devour him. John spots the strange man
    carrying his book, but doesn't have a chance to follow right now because
    he has to figure out how to set out the fire engulfing the village, set by
    the underlings. He tries a Barbasol bomb, known for its incredibly cooling
    properties, but it just makes the situation much worse. Then, suddenly,
    a huge breeze blows by, totally extinguishing the village. The salamanders
    tout John as their savior.

    PM contacts John again, while all the salamanders are bouncing him around
    on top of them, and she asks him to engrave a minitablet he picked up
    earlier with a picture of a pair of Sburb betas. He obliges (though the
    drawing is crappy, sorry), and drops the minitablet in a parcel pyxis.
    (Later, PM? receives the tablet, prompting her to seek out the betas.)

    Terezi gets in contact with John, offering him a shortcut to beating Sburb
    sooner. Nannasprite already told John that he should aim to reach the gates
    further above his house, but that's rather out of reach right now. Since he
    doesn't have any particular direction he's headed at the moment, he accepts
    the troll's guidance. She sends him a map file, which he follows to a gate
    at ground level. It's a return node; he hops in, and it teleports him back
    to his house.

    In order to actually reach the seventh gate, Terezi assists John with
    repairing the rocket pack he created from a random keysmash captcha code
    earlier in the day. John blasts off, entering the final gate and arriving
    within his denizen's palace. He ventures deeper, prepared to sneak past
    the sleeping Typheus and steal the guarded treasure hoard as Terezi had
    guided him, but when he reaches the lair, he finds his denizen is already
    awake. The specifics are unclear and not shown, but it surmises that John
    has died, killed by his denizen after being misled by a troll.

    John entering the seventh gate is the defining moment when the timeline he
    occupies becomes marked as doomed; as a result, Jade has nobody to act as
    her server player and bring her into the session. From that day on, Dave
    and Rose lose contact with Jade, presuming her crushed by a meteor, along
    with the rest of Earth. They continue through the game, gathering intel,
    but unable to actually proceed, since without Jade - without a Space-aspect
    player - they have no one to 'stoke the forge' (nor the forge, Jade's
    volcano, itself). After several months of this, Dave gets fed up with being
    stuck in a doomed timeline and dealing with Calsprite (whose prototyping
    could be considered a simultaneously timeline-dooming event). Armed with
    knowledge of the game, loads of useful equipment, and a plan to lead the
    timeline in a better direction, he time travels back to just before John
    blasts off.

    In this new timeline, future-Dave pesters John from his rooftop (talking
    by proxy through present-Dave), urging him not to enter the gate. John is
    wary, figuring his friend is just pranking him, and blasts off anyway.
    But, at the last moment, he recalls the letter he received along with the
    bunny from Dave's package for his birthday, and he reconsiders, turning
    to avoid entering any of the gates. Instead, he decides to fly around the
    sky, not wanting to miss out on the opportunity. Future-Dave, now having
    self-prototyped to become Davesprite, pesters John. Davesprite had gotten
    seriously frustrated with John earlier, who had inadvertently called him
    less than the "real Dave", so there's a bit of tension here. He gives John
    a captcha code without clarifying its significance (it's for the hammer
    Fear No Anvil); John thanks him for saving his life.

    Terezi also messages airborne-John, and she half-apologizes for leading
    a doomed timeline version of him to his death.

    - [S: Dave: Accelerate.]

    - [S: Descend.]

    [ACT 5]

    [ACT 6]

    [ACT 7]