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''Homestuck'' is a webcomic written, illustrated and animated by Andrew Hussie, and is the fourth overall webcomic published on MS Paint Adventures.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://mspaintadventures.com/?viewpage=new )〕 The series centers on a group of teenagers who unwittingly bring about the beginning of the end of the world through the installation of a beta copy of an upcoming computer game. The comic uses a combination of static images, animated GIFs, instant message logs, and animations and games made with Adobe Flash. It has been noted for its considerable length—over 7,000 pages and 800,000 words —and complex plot. ==Plot== ''Homestuck'' begins when thirteen-year-old John Egbert receives a beta copy of an upcoming computer game, called ''Sburb'', in the mail. Installing and running the game on his computer triggers a meteor shower to fall on his house in real-life, which he survives only by being transported to a planet in another dimension, thus immersing him completely within the world of Sburb. As John's friends Rose Lalonde, Dave Strider and Jade Harley join the game with him, they learn that they have unwittingly triggered the end of the world, and that it is their duty to play the game and thereby see the story through to its completion. As they begin to explore the world of ''Sburb'', John and his friends are harassed by a group of twelve internet trolls who have played a version of the game before. Further contact with the trolls reveals that they are not human at all, but an alien species actually called "trolls". As the trolls gradually become more important to the story, the narrative shifts to side story arc exploring the nature of troll society and the specific sequence of events that led to these particular trolls entering ''Sgrub'', the trolls version of ''Sburb''. The trolls' arc concludes with the revelation that winning a game session causes the creation of a new universe, and that it was the trolls who originally created the humans' universe. The story returns to focus on the humans. Increased contact between the humans and the trolls leads to an uneasy friendship between the two groups, as well as the discovery that they must cooperate to try to salvage the kids' doomed game session. They learn that the game has a mechanism for restarting, called a "scratch", and they begin working toward the ability to activate it. Fighting against them is a rogue non-player character within ''Sburb'', called Jack Noir, who becomes nearly invincible in their session and is unique because of it, as the trolls had formed an alliance with their version of Jack Noir. Despite this obstacle, the kids narrowly manage to trigger the scratch, which results in the destruction and subsequent recreation of the kids' universe — though the players themselves survive by traveling through pocket dimensions that will lead them to the new session. The scratch causes the humans' universe to restart, with the condition that adolescent versions of the kids' ancestors are playing through ''Sburb'', rather than kids themselves. John's grandmother, Jane Crocker, who had died before the story began, is a fifteen-year-old girl and the protagonist of the new arc. She leads her three friends, Roxy Lalonde, Dirk Strider and Jake English, through their own session of alpha copies of the game. Meanwhile, the original humans and surviving trolls must journey to the new universe over the course of three years, in order to aid the new session and bring it to completion. Threatening their plan is a villainous creature called Lord English, a purportedly invincible time-controlling demon, as well as the still-dangerous Jack Noir who also escaped from the original doomed session. Meanwhile, in a future Earth transported to another universe, a member of a species known as cherubs grows up. Cherubs, from birth, have two different personalities of good and evil, and one eventually prevails. these two are called Calliope and Caliborn (female and male respectively). They contact the humans, and talk about the upcoming fate of their universe. At first the humans are confused at the changes of personalities, but Calliope explains it to them. Eventually, Caliborn becomes the dominant personality and begins a path of conquest to eventually become Lord English. He begins a game of Sburb alone, and a special type of unwinnable session begins, because the game is supposed to be played by multiple players. Unlike other sessions, the game in a "dead" session is similar to a game of pool rather than chess. The player's planet is transported into the game, orbiting a black hole. The player must bring 16 planets orbiting the black hole into the black hole, by conquering the planet and detonating a bomb that knocks the planet into the black hole. Each planet must be forced into the black hole (except for the 8th, which the player must knock in last) in increasingly short times. Victory wins the player omnipotence and immortality. Caliborn eventually achieves this, becoming Lord English and wreaking havoc through the humans' and trolls' universe alike. The kids and the trolls eventually meet up in the new universe, although they are scattered throughout it by the troll empress, known as the Condesce, who is a servant of Lord English. She proceeds to imprison or enslave several of the kids, including Jane Crocker, Jade Harley, Jake English and Roxy Lalonde. The trolls and remaining kids set out to find each other, each with their own plans. They are all fighting on Jade's planet when the Condesce arrives. This ends up causing a massacre where only a handful of characters survive (John, Roxy, and a troll called Terezi) and John, with the help of Terezi (who later succumbs to her injuries), uses retconning powers he acquired during a treasure hunt with some of the trolls a while ago to create a new timeline, while putting his planet and Roxy into an area outside of the story itself (which is not affected by changes to the timeline). The end result is a timeline with a number of changes that prevent the massacre described before from ever happening, and John arrives in the timeline with Roxy and his planet, replacing the versions of them who died in the new timeline. Soon after, most of the major characters, all gathered in one place, devise a plan to tackle the major threats in the session. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Homestuck」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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