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"I wish all of you the very best of luck."

— Quietus Qualifier, threatening the party with neurotoxin.

Auxiliorum Res Septem is a Homestuck RPG using the RPGStuck ruleset. The session is played on Discord; an observer link may be obtained by contacting the host using the link above.

On New Years' Eve, 1999, Hana Kurosawa, Eira Lenin, Ryan Mathers, and Emilia Martax are minding their own business, practicing mathematics, taking the law into their own hands, and running household errands, when each is accosted by mysterious assailants in grey robes and gas masks. They awaken sometime later on a decommissioned Royal Navy ship and given an ultimatum: Find a way off the ship in the next seven hours, or be executed. The way off is eventually revealed to be none other than SBURB, and after completing the most convoluted entry sequence in RPGStuck history, the cast are on their way.

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Characters

Nobles

The Player Characters.

Ryan Mathers

Race: Male human

Player:

Chumhandle: palatineHearth

Mythological Role: Heir of Space

Planet: Land of Bismuth and Frogs

Moon: Prospit

Associated Tropes:

• Childhood Friends: Pen Pals with Hana.
• Childhood Friend Romance: His exile sure hopes so.
• Fangirl: CT, a Dersite researcher he meets in Prospit's library, seems to have a bit of a crush going on.
• Improbable Weapon User: In melee combat, he switches to guitarkind.
• Nice Guy: Of the protagonists, Hana has empathy issues, Eira kills people in the name of vigilante justice, and Emilia is shy and geeky. Ryan is the only completely nice one. It makes him popular on Prospit.
• Shrinking Violet: Ryan is just shy and socially awkward enough to make him cute.
• Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Ryan starts in LOBAF's tundra region. The rest of the Land is quite pleasant, however.
• The One Guy
• Token Religious Teammate: Downplayed; Ryan is Catholic, but it's not a huge part of his life, and doesn't seem to interfere with his interactions with the Medium's Churches.

Hana Kurosawa

Race: Female human

Player:

Chumhandle: aromaticBelladona

Mythological Role: Maid of Time

Planet: Land of Silicon and Policy

Moon: Derse

Associated Tropes:

• Animal Motifs: Cats seem to show up when Hana's around.
• Asian and Nerdy: Downplayed and deconstructed. Hana's mother put her under ridiculous pressure to excel academically, though there are hints she had other motives as well.
• Captain Obvious: Points out ridiculous things in an amusingly deadpan manner.
• Childhood Friends: With Ryan, by way of writing letters.
  • Childhood Friend Romance: If Naomi has her way.
• Cold Sniper: Hana did not have a normal childhood, let's put it that way. And she wields a rifle.
• Flash Step: By punching through into another timeline, no less.
• Friendless Background: Aside from exchanging letters with Ryan, she was kept isolated by an academically-obsessed mother.
• Friendly Sniper: On a good day, if it suits her purposes.
• Sky Pirates: Between the Beagle and the Dauntless, that's Pirate Commodore Hana Kurosawa.
• Stable Time Loop: Future!Hana has interfered in the present a few times. At first she just sent herself cryptic hints via monkey, but she dramatically showed up in person to stop Eira accepting a surrender offer that apparently would cause issues.
• * As a player character, Hana realized she could just call up her mother and talk to her... leading to the discovery that, somehow, the session is six years in the future. By Homestuck's logic, this conversation must *somehow* be a stable time loop.
• * Way back in her introduction, she read a book that in real life wouldn't be published until three years later.
• Sociopathic Hero: Borderline case. Hana can be extremely cold when it suits her, and it's safe to say she's fighting her own upbringing as much as the monsters. Her exile even directly asks her if she's a Villain Protagonist.

Emilia Martax

Race: Female human

Player:

Chumhandle: mechanicalTurk

Mythological Role: Page of Rage

Planet: Land of Uranium and Industry

Moon: Prospit

Associated Tropes:

• Lovecraftian Superpower: Her Rage abilities manifest as extremely painful lightning bolts.
• Out of Focus: As a replacement for a character whose player dropped, Emilia hasn't had as much fleshing out as the others.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: For Kara, whose player dropped. Emilia's player and Naomi designed the new character to fit into her role as neatly as possible.

Eira Lenin

Race: Female human

Player:

Chumhandle: crimsonWolf

Mythological Role: Prince of Blood

Planet: Land of Gold and Logistics

Moon: Derse

Associated Tropes:

• A Father to His Men: Eira really does care about the rebel troops under her command.
• Badass Driver: When she's not smacking people with crowbars, Eira's running over them with her motorcycle.
• Crowbar Combatant: When she's not running people over with her motorcycle, Eira's smacking them with crowbars.
  • Which are sometimes on fire.
• Gender-Blender Name: Well, gender blender title, at any rate.
• The Heart: Eira can certainly hold her own in a fight, but her second-best ability score is Charisma. Her mythological title roughly translates to "one who destroys [through] society".
• La Résistance: Eira has been an important figurehead for the rebellion against Famine on LOGAL even before actually arriving.
• Vigilante Man: Well, woman. She founded the Crimson Wolves biker gang to deal with matters the police wouldn't, and apparently did a damn good job of it.

Consorts, carapacians, and denizens

The various inhabitants of the players' void session.

The White Pope

Race: Male Prospitian

Associated Tropes:

The White Empress

Race: Female Prospitian

Associated Tropes:

The Black Pope

Race: Female Dersite

Associated Tropes:

• The Sacred Darkness: She leads the Church of the God of Faded Places.

The Black Empress

Race: Female Dersite

Associated Tropes:

Death

Race: Denizen

Associated Tropes:

• Shout-Out: Speaks much like another character called Death.

War

Race: Denizen

Associated Tropes:

• Friendly Enemy: Possibly. War gave Hana the PHP<~ATH code that let her speedrun her housebuilding.

Pestilence

Race: Denizen

Associated Tropes:

Famine

Race: Denizen

Associated Tropes:

• My Horse Is a Motorbike: The better to compete with Eira, naturally.
• Motorcycle Jousting: Famine's preferred means of execution.
• Starfish Alien: If Famine's depiction in the book about denizens is anything to go by, it wouldn't look out of place in a Lovecraft novel. This may apply to all the Denizens.

Xenic Qabalahist

Race: Carapacian (presumed, subspecies unknown)

Exile of: Ryan Mathers

Associated Tropes:

• Nightmare Fetishist: He sure is intrigued by the [[Eldritch Abomination Horrorterrors]].
• No Indoor Voice: HE TALKS LIKE THIS, RYAN.
• Shipper on Deck: For Hana/Ryan.
• The Smart Guy: For all his personality quirks, XQ is an actual scientist who researches The Noble Circle of Horrorterrors.

Xenial Xylographer

Race: Carapacian (presumed, subspecies unknown)

Exile of: Hana Kurosawa

Associated Tropes:

• all lowercase letters: XX's dialogue is like this, contrasting XQ's capitals.

Quizzical Xenoseeker

Race: Carapacian (presumed, subspecies unknown)

Exile of: Emilia Martax

Associated Tropes:

Quirky Quartermaster

Race: Carapacian (presumed, subspecies unknown)

Exile of: Eira Lenin

Associated Tropes:

Guardians/Heroes

The players of the pre-scratch session, and the Noble's guardians after the scratch.

Juno Martax

Race: Female human

Chumhandle: Unknown

Mythological Role: Seer of Doom

Planet: Unknown

Moon: Prospit (presumed)

Associated Tropes:

• Action Girl: She's a professional wrestler when not caring for Emilia.
• All There in the Manual: Her first name only came up in passing once in the OOC chat; she's usually referred to as "Sis".
• Blind Seer: A result of an allergic reaction to the knockout gas used on her and Emilia in the post-scratch universe. Possibly temporary.
• Ms. Exposition: She remembers her scratched session, possibly as a result of her Seer class, and brings Emilia up to speed when she comes to Earth.

Yuko Kurosawa

Race: Female human

Chumhandle: Unknown

Mythological Role: Lord of Light

Planet: Unknown

Moon: Derse (presumed)

Associated Tropes:

• Cold Sniper: A role she shares with her daughter. Emilia found Yuko's rifle, along with some other alchemical gear, hidden on LOUAI.
• Hero of Another Story: Literally. Alongside Ivan, she went god tier and helped scratch the session.

Ivan Mathers

Race: Male human

Chumhandle: Unknown

Mythological Role: Muse of Void

Planet: Unknown

Moon: Prospit (presumed)

Associated Tropes:

• Hero of Another Story: Literally. Alongside Yuko, he went god tier and helped scratch the session.
• The One Guy: A role he shares with his son.

Pat Warden

Race: Female human

Chumhandle: Unknown

Mythological Role: Witch of Breath

Planet: Unknown

Moon: Derse (presumed)

Associated Tropes:

Others

Kara Autumn^note Retconned from the story when her player dropped.

Race: Female human

Player:

Chumhandle: biomimeticMachinist

Mythological Role: Page of Rage

Planet: Land of Uranium and Industry

Moon: Prospit

Associated Tropes:

• Dude, Where's My Respect?: She build a self-aware android and has so far been able to convince exactly no one.
• Improbable Weapon User: Her android doubles as a weapon (implemented as reskinned puppetkind).
• Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: Downplayed in that it took several years, but ''still'.
• Lovecraftian Superpower: Her Rage abilities manifest as extremely painful lightning bolts.
• Robosexual: Kara build a Fembot for the specific purpose of romancing her, though she objects to this very designation in the prologue.
• Shrinking Violet

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ARS provides examples of:

• Action Girl: All over the place, both among the players and the NPCs.
• Arc Number: Downplayed. Seven (septem) tends to show up when Quietus is involved.
• Boss Subtitles: Courtesy of Naomi's narration.
• Captain Obvious: Hana on occasion, such as reminding an imp a doorknob is not a beverage, though it's more endearing than anything.
• Close-Range Combatant: Eira again, though her crowbars double as thrown weapons.
• Cold Sniper: Hana, whose Friendless Background borders on child abuse. She doesn't have any real friends aside from Ryan.
• Cool Ship: The Requiem, flagship of Derse's navy, and the Prospitian explorer ship Spirit of Saint Louis, which took Emilia to Earth through a Skaian portal.
• Cosmic Retcon: Emilia's sister Juno^note the Seer of Doom, Hana's mother^note the Lord of Light, Ryan's father^note the Muse of Void, and Eira's girlfriend Pat^note the Witch of Breath had their own session, which they were forced to scratch. Only Juno remembers this, presumably due to her title, and hoped Emilia could avoid getting embroiled in it. Their session is notable for lacking a Space player and containing both master classes; additionally, without a Time player, they lacked a scratch artifact of their own, and had to somehow import one from another session.
• Cult: The Heterodoxy, active on Earth and in the Medium, if one believes the official Churches. They're probably responsible for the kidnappings.
• Everyone Can See It: Ryan and Hana.
• Fling a Light into the Future: Yuko Kurosawa somehow arranged to send a letter from her scratched session to Hana in the new session. Among other things, it describes the process of god tiering. It also confirms that Yuko's session wasn't void.
• Friendly Sniper: Hana on a good day. She's not as outgoing as most, but she's a crack shot with a rifle and had her dreamself sent to Ryan's land. Unfortunately, her friendliness lasts only as long as your usefulness.
• Floating Continent: LoBaF has "skislands", strange floating landmasses reachable by flying crabs.
• Gender-Blender Name: Eira's title is the Prince of Blood. Emilia's Page of Rage arguably qualifies as well.
• Gratuitous Latin: The session's more commonly called "ARS" or "Latinstuck".
• Hero of Another Story: quotidianQualia, mysteriously present on the player character's chumrolls, seems to be playing through their own SBURB session.
• Improbable Weapon User: Eira has crowbarkind and, naturally, motorcyclekind.
• My Horse Is a Motorbike: The Land's denizens are all inspired by the Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and at least one rides a motorcycle instead of a horse. And employs Motorcycle Jousting as a means of execution.
• Odd Name Out: Three of the planets are named after an element and a governmental function. Then there's the Land of Bismuth and... Frogs.
• Off the Rails: Something is very odd about this session. Prospit and Derse are allies, for one, and their complementary state religions believe they share a higher purpose.
• One-Steve Limit: Averted. Between Quietus Qualifier (in the intro), quotidianQualia, and the Quirky Quartermaster, the acronym "QQ" is becoming pretty overloaded.
• Pun-Based Creature: A whole species of rabbit-based consorts make extensive use of rabbit puns. They're called punnies.
• Retcon: In addition to the cosmic variety, the roleplay experienced a regular retcon when Kara Autumn's player dropped from the session. She was replaced by the Emilia Martax we all know and love.
• Shipper on Deck: Naomi and Ryan's exile both ship Ryan and Hana.
• Shrinking Violet: Downplayed with both Ryan and Hana.
• Shock and Awe: Emilia's Rage abilities are represented as the Electrokinesis psionic power, turned purple and nastier.
• Shout-Out: Several. It's safe to say Naomi likes these.
  • The entire prologue takes heavy inspiration from Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, including some direct quotations.
  • Ryan's Denizen speaks in all caps before being properly introduced as Death.
  • The island of cat pirates is named Torcatuga^note Tortuga + cat.
  • An assassin on Prospit claims "the tyranny of your regime is finished!" shortly before being fried by a directed energy weapon.
  • Eira named a tame imp on HMS Maidstone David Bowie.
  • "youre up north, Ryan" doubles as a Stealth Pun.
• Psychopomp: The Churches of the Bright Goddess and the God of Faded Places, centered respectively on Prospit and Derse, depict themselves as acting like Psychopomps for doomed timelines.
• Stable Time Loop: Hana's a Time player, so this naturally comes up. So far, she's sent herself a message via monkey to ensure she works with the right pirates; in the prologue, her player narrated her reading a copy of Ilium, which wasn't published until 2003. invokedNaomi later said she allowed the latter as an excuse for a time loop.
• Sky Pirates: The Land of Silicon and Policy has them, in addition to normal pirates. Hana's assumed command of the pirate airship Beagle beyond her first gate.
• Underground Level: Emilia found a complex network of caves hidden beyond her first gate. Their purpose is unknown, but they contain strange relics, skeletons (animate and otherwise), and seem related to the players' aspects somehow.
• Unwinnable by Design: The alchemy equipment on the Maidstone was configured such that Quietus could steal the party's kernelsprites, voiding the session.^note The cruxtruders were stuck through the ceilings and the kernelsprites spirited away by unknown means while they players were on the floor below.
• Whole-Plot Reference: For the introduction, at least: The party is brought together by a gas-mask-wearing kidnapper who knocks them out with white smoke and forces them to solve death traps on a mysterious ship. They even use a variant of Zero's Catchphrase.