Line #54 Fanfic/Betastuck


1	Betastuck is a Homestuck {{Alternate Universe}} fanfic where everyone is human and the events of Homestuck all took place in an immersive virtual reality game. Sixteen players are chosen to betatest it and are assigned a character at random. But while playing the game, they believed that they were the players and now they have to deal with the consequences of what they experienced. [[spoiler:It's just a game]]
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3	The original Tumblr has since gone down. However, parts remain on Wayback Machine [[https://web.archive.org/web/20160621193029/http://betastuck.tumblr.com:80/ here]].
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5	Another part of the AU was located at the Tumblr URL areyounext, under the password "betatesters". Unfortunately, that blog was deleted (presumably at the same time as the betastuck blog proper), and Wayback Machine never captured it. [[note]]The username has since been taken up by a spambot dedicated to various recipes.[[/note]]
6	* >Menu
7	** >New Game
8	*** >Start
9	!Homestuck
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11	%%* AllJustADream
12	* AllThereInTheManual: Some things aren't present in the story proper but are answered in the question and answer portions.
13	%%* AlternateUniverseFic
14	* AntiMutiny: Despite not acting the way his programmers expected him to, Doc Scratch was merely fulfilling his purpose to make the necessary preparations for Lord English's arrival.
15	%%* ApocalypticLog: [[spoiler: Written by a previous betatester.]]
16	* ArtificialIntelligence: One of the main reasons for the creation of Homestuck was to show off how far they've come in AI technology.
17	%%* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: They wanted to play an exciting game with their friends.
18	%%* BlatantLies: It's just a game.
19	%%* CassandraTruth
20	%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: There's more to the game than [[spoiler:Steve Vantas]] is telling us.
21	%%* {{Fan\|Girl}} Vriska and Tavros for Gamzee's band.
22	* FakeMemories: While playing the game, many of the betatesters did not remember that they were playing a game at all.
23	%%* FlawedPrototype: What the game shaped up to be.
24	%%* {{Gaslighting}}: [[spoiler:What happened with Aaral Vantas]]
25	%%* GoneHorriblyRight: The Homestuck game is very realistic.
26	%%* {{Hikikomori}} Karkat's a bit of a shut-in.
27	%%* ItWasThereISwear
28	%%* LaserGuidedAmnesia: What happened to [[spoiler:Karkat]]
29	%%* LotusEaterMachine
30	%%* MakeUpOrBreakUp: Aradia and Equius
31	%%* MindRape
32	%%* {{MMORPG}}
33	%%* MostFanficWritersAreGirls: Rose and her Squiddles/Lord of the Rings crossover
34	%%* {{NPC}}
35	%%* OrWasItADream
36	%%* SeriousBusiness: It's just a game, no need to take it so seriously.
37	%%* SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence
38	%%* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture
39	%%* UnusualUserInterface: The pods used to play the game.
40	* VariablePlayerGoals: A number of players would go off and do their own thing rather than complete the goals of the game.
41	%%* VideoGameCrueltyPotential
42	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: InUniverse with the Horrorterrors, a group of bosses that would have been fought throughout the game. [[spoiler:They were sealed off in the far edges of the game so you shouldn't have been able to interact with them]]
43	%%* WideOpenSandbox: The game is meant to be a combination of this and an MMORPG.
44	* WinToExit: Play the game and try not to die. It's just a game so it's not like dying will have any deep psychological effect on you.
45	* YourMindMakesItReal: The basis for the problems the betatesters have after playing the game.
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47	!End Game

Context Fanfic / Betastuck