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Released 9/13/2021.
Duration: ~1:25:28.

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1. (2:54) Friendvangelion: Rebuild
2. (4:34) sometimes i call andrew hussie 'andy' and so far he hasn't corrected me
3. (3:19) please support The Trevor Project
4. (4:50) ill probably just name this one something normal oh no wait oh jeez aw beans
5. (2:51) 24/7 lo fi anime beats to question your sexuality to
6. (6:02) Carefree Victory (REMIX) ft. Spell-n-Speak
7. (2:03) Darling Kanaya by Toby Fox
8. (5:28) CRUSTacean
9. (2:31) mIrAcLeS by Toby Fox
10. (1:50) Midnight Calliope by Mark J. Hadley
11. (4:19) CH3CK TH3 M3T4D4T4
12. (5:00) Indigo Heir by Paul Tuttle Starr
13. (5:41) yeah it is
14. (4:53) KWCOM DOT WAV
15. (4:38) Requiem by Clark Powell
16. (3:58) THIS TIME ITS ERIDAN
17. (1:58) Love You by Toby Fox
18. (1:38) i guess
19. (2:21) Riches to Ruins Movements, pt. II by Toby Fox
20. (2:24) Would you believe this was for something else
21. (4:08) Even in Death (T'Morra's Belly Mix) by Clark Powell and Tavia Morra
22. (2:54) Unite Synchronization by Malcolm Brown
23. (5:14) Beatup by Clark Powell and Riki Tsuji

Added to wiki 4/13/2024.

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Homestuck: (Steam, excerpt)

Enjoy the fine-grooving tunes of Pesterquest, the grimsical episodic visual novel adventure set in the darkly funny Homestuck universe.

Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor)

This soundtrack released exclusively on Steam as paid DLC for Pesterquest; it's got some quirks, discussed below, but is probably the best and only official release of Pesterquest's we'll ever see.

Most tracks were originally composed by James Roach for Pesterquest; almost all of his tracks were included on this soundtrack release, though six were not:

• 2chords ("Dave Route Prelude")
• the drone rhythmic motif which can be found in act 1 and act 2 (not credited)
• it's a cover of 'made of time' (not credited)
• IT'S NOTHING (not credited)
• this is like... what was it... > [S] MSPAR: Remember ("Chaos Audio")
• normal song name ("Afterw@rd Theme")

Various tracks from prior releases were featured throughout Pesterquest. Some of these were released again on this soundtrack, while others weren't. Featured in Pesterquest from earlier Homestuck releases, and not on this soundtrack:

• WORST END, by James Roach ("Prologue Theme")
• END OF FRIENDVANGELION, by James Roach (not credited)
• Superego, by Yan Rodriguez ("Vriska's Theme")
• Bronze Rebel, by Yan Rodriguez ("Tavros' Theme")
• The La2t Frontiier, by Toby Fox ("Eridan & Sollux battle")
• Stress, by Buzinkai and Toby Fox ("Dirk's Theme")
• Embittered Shore, by Max Wright ("Reader's Theme")

Pesterquest features several tracks by artists who weren't formally part of the Homestuck music team. Across the lists above and the main track list, these are tracks featured from the Homestuck fan community:

• Superego, from coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A
• Indigo Heir, from coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A
• Bronze Rebel, from coloUrs and mayhem: Universe A
• Embittered Shore, from Land of Fans and Music 2

In Roachian fashion, most track names have slight (to significant) differences between their soundtrack release on Steam, individual track releases on SoundCloud, and the in-game credits list. All of these are noted on each track; on the wiki, the album's track list extracts the "main" part of the name of each track as part of the Steam release.

The album cover artwork is from the Steam library; track artworks for select James Roach tracks are from their releases on SoundCloud.

Quasar Nebula: (wiki editor)

During the timeframe where this album hadn't yet been released on Steam, tempest2k and other fans compiled the new tracks featured in Pesterquest into an album ready for anyone's music library, including full metadata and track artworks. This lacks the tracks featured elsewhere on Homestuck's discography, so it compliments the rest of a Homestuck library quite well. Visit this compilation on Google Drive.

(Reach out through tempest2k's carrd if you want your own tracks removed from this compilation, or to the wiki if you require the download link removed from HSMusic outright.)