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The coolest and newest webcomic has updated once again, and this time with Rose producing her own walkthrough on events.

This update mostly serves as a recap, which o indicates above. Rose recounts the details of her adventure so far and we get to see a bit more of her perspective on the situation.

This mostly gives us some of the smaller details, quite a few of which I am happy to have predicted.

Firstly, the Corruption is now officially called... the Corruption. So that’s nice.

Secondly, two hours have apparently passed since the comic began.

Thirdly, the “slow transition” idea I argued is correct. Enhanced characters only slowly come to realize the state of the world around them.

Act 4 is here, and it’s our first Walkabout! Lots of new information here. Spoilers to follow, so make sure you play through it first!

Here’s the information I’m picking up from my first few playthroughs.

Jhon's planet is the Land of Dollers and Danger (LODAD).

Obana is now president and ruining the economy. LODAD society centers around small businesses, which Obana is ruining. Jhon's quest is to save the economy.

Jhon's current goal is to expand the size of his theme park. He has 23 hours to complete his current goal.

Jhon can hear Waynerd Vagibong.

Jhon has "croccadile" consorts.

Jhon is the “Boss of Wheels”.

White Wordes Guy (Doc Scratch) is just as omniscient as ever.

LODAD has a purple bug (same one from LODAR?) as well as a page from Rose's grimoire.

Obana is the planet's denizen, holding a grist hoard in the Federal Grist Depository.

Four planetary grist hoards are needed for the Ultimate Alchemy.

Jhon's third and final theme park will encompass an entire universe which he and his co-players will rule.

CTRL + Alt + T gives smooches on command from Bg'ogubmom'ibulsprite.

CTRL + C gives a secret music room.

Glitch: If you bribe the guard and leave the area from the bottom, he will reappear, but you will not be able to get the items needed to bribe him again.

There are background images on all pages now. From the looks of things, one per act.

I can’t believe I’m about to write all this this Also volume warning for the track above

Cool and new Volume V is now on sale for the very reasonable price of $420.00 USD. I recommend you all pick it up immediately. The track above, unfortunately, is my contribution to the album (Art by Mira, Totino’d by me.)

What is Cool And New? Why obviously, it’s the “music” record for the hip new comic, Cool And New Web Comic! Cool And New Web Comic is a fun new comic which is like Homestuck, but twice as good, featuring an original cast of unique characters such as Jhon Egbret, Dabe Stidrer, Jaed Hardly and... Rose Lalonde? It made such a big splash with the Omegapause and the Reddit fandom that a music album was soon created. Naturally, I wanted insider info on future albums so I applied to join the team:

It worked. I got to learn the plot twist behind volume  2, listen to various tracks early, and even vote on the direction future albums would take. But it wasn’t enough. Volume 5 was a month away, and I wanted to contribute.

Now, confession time. I have always loved Youtube Poops. You know, those strange videos full of Hotel Mario cutscenes, weird distortion effects, clips being repeated over and over and video editing designed to turn things pure and child-friendly into something horrifying. I figured that as my contribution to Volume V, I would use my complete lack of skill and experience to make a tribute to the classic YTP, This Video Contains Win. I stumbled around with FL Studio’s demo, hitting buttons at random until the first part of the melody was complete, this video being my guide since I had not realised the fact that the CANWC music team had a publicly available midi version of Doctor I could have edited. 

I got stuck after that point though, being unsure where to go from there. to make matters worse, the Sonic 25th Anniversary Stream was starting, meaning continuing the track would have to wait.

The Anniversary Stream. That thing was the fucking event of the year. I’ve wrote extensively about the spiritual experience that was the stream on my other blog. I won’t repeat myself here, but for those who are tired of reading this and don’t want to open another tab, let’s just say that it was the most surreal livestream in mankind’s history.

Inspiration hit me. I had no idea how to translate more of Doctor into the Pingas sound effect without things sounding so empty, but I could use that loud constant buzzing as a second instrument. The second half of the melody got made.

Unknown from me, the buzzing noise occurred mostly in the left side of my broken headphones, meaning that the right ear doesn’t get to hear much of it in the original album version. I had planned to make a “left earphone” song at some point as a joke, but it turns out I wasted this opportunity by accidentally doing it here instead. Whoops.

So, I had something representing classic Sonic (The cartoon soundclip) and something representing the modern Sonic (The livestream technical difficulties). I decided I needed to round things out by including something from the Dreamcast era. I decided to have the song be a message from Robotnik to the world, since the idea of a mad scientist broadcasting the word “penis” at various speeds worldwide amuses me. I still needed an ending though, so found that famous You Mean The Chaos Emeralds soundclip and made a short conversation between Robotnik and Obama, with Robotnik trying to extort the Chaos Emerald from Obama and failing. 

I capped it off with an really fucking loud audio glitch from the livestream (quieted awkwardly in the album version, less awkwardly in the remaster), added Robotnik screaming and called it a day. For some reason, the album version had 17 seconds of silence on the end due to a glitch in Audacity. This went unnoticed by everyone, so now those 17 seconds are part of CANWC history.

To George Buzinkai: I know you have heard this abomination. I am sorry for putting you through this. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Hopefully, the rest of the album more than made up for it.