2017-10-08 15:36:40 ¶ ●

## hmm, i noticed a possible error in the troll session diagram you made? :o the planet order, clockwise, should be: LOPAH(Karkat)-LOTAF(Terezi)-LOTAM(Gamzee)-LOSAZ(Tavros)-LOMAT(Vriska)-LORAF(Kanaya)-LOBAF(Sollux)-LODAG(Feferi)-LOWAA(Eridan)-LOLCAT(Nepeta)-LOQAM(Aradia)-LOCAS(Equius)-LOPAH(Karkat)

I’m so glad you asked! Let me break this down, because this is something I had to make a choice on.

This is the session map you are likely thinking of. It’s from page 4219 (P2, A5A1), and it’s pretty memorable for how clearly it sets things out. But there’s a catch– it’s changed something for the sake of making a point. Let me show you the previous page, 4218.

In case it’s hard to see, for the initial frames the planets are arranged in an order alternating by team– blue troll, red troll, blue troll, red troll. This order is closest to how the final B session is laid out, with the two “teams” interlaced between each other. But then the planets shift to better illustrate the order of player entry in each specific team.

The language of the page’s text is just vague enough, furthermore, to leave me uncertain whether Skaia literally bifurcated the trolls’ planets and physically moved them around once everyone was in (thus making 4219 the more accurate layout for “Final A”) or whether this was a device designed to illustrate the way the trolls had been in separate teams of the same session all along.

The judgement I made in basing my map off of the initial frames of 4218 was from the rationale that Skaia physically moving the planets around doesn’t serve any immediately obvious purpose, and that stylistic consistency between session layouts is sort of a universal constant. I may be wrong, though!

I hope this makes sense