Betastuck

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. It's just a game.

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Tropes used in Betastuck include:

Adult Child Steve Vantas
All Just a Dream
All There in the Manual Some things aren't present in the story proper but are answered in the question and answer portions.
Alternate Universe Fic
Anti-Mutiny 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.
Apocalyptic Log Written by a previous betatester.
Artificial Intelligence One of the main reasons for the creation of Homestuck was to show off how far they've come in AI technology.
Be Careful What You Wish For They wanted to play an exciting game with their friends.
Blatant Lies It's just a game.
Cassandra Truth
Corrupt Corporate Executive There's more to the game than Steve Vantas is telling us.
Fan Girl Vriska and Tavros for Gamzee's band
Fake Memories While playing the game, many of the betatesters did not remember that they were playing a game at all.
Flawed Prototype What the game shaped up to be.
Gaslighting What happened with Aaral Vantas
Gone Horribly Right The Homestuck game is very realistic.
Hikikomori Karkat's a bit of a shut-in.
It Was There I Swear
Kill Them All Eridan's method for winning the game.
Laser-Guided Amnesia What happened to Karkat
Lonely Rich Kid Arguably, Karkat
Lotus Eater Machine
Make Up or Break Up Aradia and Equius
Mind Rape
MMORPG
Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls Rose and her Squiddles/Lord of the Rings crossover
Most Gamers Are Male Averted, a good proportion of the gamers are female.
NPC
Official Couple John/Vriska, Gamzee/Karkat, Aradia/Equius?
Or Was It a Dream?
Serious Business It's just a game, no need to take it so seriously.
Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence
Super OCD Sollux and his resulting obsession with twos.
Twenty Minutes Into the Future
Unusual User Interface The pods used to play the game.
Variable Player Goals A number of players would go off and do their own thing rather than complete the goals of the game.
Video Game Cruelty Potential
What Could Have Been What the Horrorterrors essentially were, a group of bosses that would have been fought throughout the game. They were sealed off in the far edges of the game so you shouldn't have been able to interact with them
Wide Open Sandbox The game is meant to be a combination of this and an MMORPG.
Win to Exit 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.
Your Mind Makes It Real The basis for the problems the betatesters have after playing the game.

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