History Webcomic / ABeginnersGuideToTheEndOfTheUniverse

It can be read [[http://mspfanventures.com/?s=132 here]]. (The original two forum threads are [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?30153 here]] and [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?32409 here]].)

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In-universe, the "works of art" created by the Everyman are bizarre abstract pieces.

It can be read [[http://mspfanventures.com/?s=132 here.]] (The original two forum threads are [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?30153 here]] and [[http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?32409 here]].)

* SpiderTank: While attacking the base of [[spoilers:the Followers of the Icosahedron]], the Everyman discovers that the tank that he had created earlier in the comic has come into their possession and augmented with a set of jointed legs.

* SwissArmyWeapon: The EVERYSWORD is by default just a hilt, but in combat manifests whatever blade is must suited to the blow it's parrying or foe it's striking.

* LightningGun: When the Everyman battles [[spoilers:the priests of the Icosahedron]] in the climax, one of them arms itself with a gun that shoots electric bolts. The Everyman turns this against him by transforming his helmet into silver, which attracts the lightning bolts to itself and electrocutes him.

* DayHurtsDarkAdjustedEyes: Since the giant wolf spider that the Everyman encounters in the caverns is used to living in a lightless environment, it's intimated by the light of the firefly lance and left stunned and helpless in the bright light of the outside world.

* PsychicLink: The Everyman has this with his pets -- the more useful the stronger his RAPPORT with them is. Initially he is just able to sense vaguely when they are in danger, but later this changes into full-blown telepathy.

* SinisterGeometry: Things like Cubes and Tetrahedrons pop up out of some enemies, with invariably malefic results. And then there's the Stone Icosahedron. Over the course of the story the Everyman fights all [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid five platonic solids]] and a sphere.

* RealityWarper: CREATIVITY, in addition to ThePowerOfCreation, also grants the Everyman the ability to modify existing objects in any way he wishes.

* SwordBeams: When fully charged, the Blazing Hot Betty can shoot laser beams by focusing its stored energy into a single target point.

* ItemCrafting: The Everyman can use his CREATIVITY powers [[ShapedLikeItself creatively]] for that.

* RPGMechanicsVerse: A not very complicated system of numerical stats governs how the Everyman heals and is hurt, as well as how his Creativity is used up and replenished. [[spoiler:This does not apply to any other human in the setting.]]
* SealedEvilInACan: Hinted at about the chinese food... but then you [[spoiler:eat it and you do get sick... but nothing sinister happens.]]

* SwordBeams: When fully charged, the Blazing Hot Betty can shoot laser beams by focusing its stored energg into a single target point.

* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The buildings complexes that the Everyman and his allies explore are less so actual buildings and more convoluted series of various types of rooms and passages that only tangentially relate to their immediate neighbors, all hanging in the infinite void. In his early explorations, for instance, the Everyman begins in a hallway connecting a number of apartments, finds a door leading into a palatial mansion, passes through its swimming pool to find a long stone tunnel with a single pantry at its far end, goes down a hatch into another tunnel further down, and follows the train tracks there to another agglomeration of office buildings and seaside docks. This is eventually explained as being a result of [[spoiler:the story taking place in a PocketDimension created by the Everyman after the universe's heat death; the rooms were created as a manifestation of jumbled and disconnected memories of human civilization]].

* AbnormalAmmo: An upgraded AUTOFLINTLOCK can shoot anything that fits even halfway into one of its barrels.
* AbsurdlySharpBlade: The Everysword can apparently cut anything.

* BlankBook: All the books in the mansion library are blank, though there are some images.

* ClockworkCreature: A number of these are among the enemies encountered.
* CoolAirship: The Flying Brick.
* CreativeSterility: [[spoiler: The SINGULARITY seeks to destroy rather than create. It can only make dark mirrors of ideas the Everyman already had -- for example, it only started making monsters after Snuffy was created.]]
* {{Cyborg}}: Snuffy and Chairman Jack gradually become more and more of {{Cyborg}}s as their COMPLEXITY increases.
* DeliberatelyMonochrome: Played straight for the most part; [[SplashOfColor Snuffy]] is the exception that proves the rule.
* DreamingTheTruth: The signs are there for all to read and understand, [[FlashbackNightmare especially in hindsight]].
* DiskOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler: The Personified Singularity.]]
* TheEnd: [[http://mspfanventures.com/?adv=132&id=780 Done rather cleverly by using the comic title]].

* [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]]: The BLAZING HOT BETTY can do this when fully charged, although it eventually breaks from the stress this puts on it.

* GiantFlyer: While most of the flying void beasts are about the size you'd expect the real deal to be, Chairman Jack is a sparrow as tall as a dog, while the void pigeons and void bat have the wingspans of hang gliders.

* GrowsOnTrees: The miscellanopod trees have random artifacts growing on them.

* HyperspaceArsenal: The Everyman's inventory.

* LivingStatue: [[spoiler:Played very straight with Chairman Jack who, being a cyborg, ran out of power.]]

* MoreDakka: Snuffy gains a built-in minigun once she's [[{{Cyborg}} upgraded to COMPLEXITY 3.]]

* NonHumanSidekick: Snuffy the Pooch and the sparrow Chairman Jack.

* ThePowerOfCreation: Spending CREATIVITY points allows the Everyman to create objects out of thin air. [[spoiler:Near the end he regains his full abilities, giving him infinite CREATIVITY.]]
** [[spoiler:The high priests of the cult of the Icosahedron can do so as well, thanks to having drunk from the fountain underground.]]
* PresentTenseNarrative: As is frequent in {{Interactive Comic}}s.
* PsychicLink: The Everyman has this with his pets - the more useful the stronger his RAPPORT with them is. Initially he is just able to sense vaguely when they are in danger, but later this changes into full-blown telepathy.

* SecondPersonNarration: Another standard for {{Interactive Comic}}s.

* StickFigureComic: All people look like stick figures.
* SwissArmyWeapon: The EVERYSWORD.

** Also near the end, [[spoiler:Chairman Jack is caught in a time-dilatation bubble.]]

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In-universe, the "works of art" created by the Everyman.

* FrickinLaserBeams: The BLAZING HOT BETTY can do this when fully charged, although it eventually breaks from the stress this puts on it.

* YouWakeUpInARoom: The story starts with the Eeveryman waking up in a room, alone, within a complex of increasingly more lavish rooms, with no memory of how he got there or what "there" is, and most of the first half of the story is spent answering these questions.

* NaturalEndOfTime: [[spoiler:The setting turns out to be this, set after heat death where only the PocketUniverse is left]].

An archive of the comic can be found [[https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/5rverv/an_archive_of_a_beginners_guide_to_the_end_of_the/ here]]. It should be noted that this archive was, coincidentally, made ''just'' before an issue with the author's Photobucket account (the MSPA forum doesn't host its own images) had rendered much of the original webcomic lost to the depths of the Internet. Hurray for archiving!

* HyperactiveMetabolism: The Everyman can recover HitPoints and remove TOXICITY by spending NUTRITION.
** Food's healing power is dependent on how healthy it is. Potato Chips are so unhealthy they actually hurt him.

An archive of the comic can be found [[https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/5rverv/an_archive_of_a_beginners_guide_to_the_end_of_the/ here]]. It should be noted that this archive was, coincidentally, made ''just'' before an issue with the author's Photobucket account (the MSPA forum doesn't host its own images) had rendered much of the original webcomic lost to the depths of the Internet.

An archive of the comic can be found [[https://www.reddit.com/r/homestuck/comments/5rverv/an_archive_of_a_beginners_guide_to_the_end_of_the/ here]]. It should be noted that this archive was, coincidentally, made ''just'' before an issue with the images linked from Photobucket had rendered much of the original webcomic lost to the depths of the Internet.

Unfortunately, an issue with the images linked from Photobucket has rendered much of the webcomic lost to the depths of the Internet. The mirror does still have the text, though the images are missing.