Question

hellobeau:

hellobeau:

whats the significance of Act 1 being called Kansas City Shuffle? I know the term is already relevant to Homestuck but I can’t decide how it actually applies to Hiveswap.

and for those who don’t know a Kansas City Shuffle is, quote: “

a con game that depends on the mark believing (correctly) that the conman is trying to con him, but being incorrect about how it’s going to be done.

@becnoir thats a good take! But we still don’t have an explanation for the serpents or the “snake people” you can see outside Jude’s tree house, so I don’t know if Jude has correctly guessed that the serpents are a distraction for a snake people to get to the portal, or if there is some other plot we aren’t aware of yet. That part is still firmly shrouded in mystery, and could be until Hauntswitch? idk

other thoughts are it could be very literal, Kansas City Shuffle being literal “its two people shuffling from one city to another”

or it could be Meta, with us guessing things right away with Act 1 and having the rug pulled out from under us

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