♉ in the veil

[clapifyoubullieve]

Who: Tavros, Azula
What: Hanging out!
Where: In the Veil.
When: Some time after the trolls have settled there but before Tavros gets his robolegs.
Warnings: None!

[There's Tavros, just chillin' in his four wheel device near one of the computers. It looks like he'd been trolling someone earlier but has since given up in favor of shuffling his Fiduspawn cards. A small, white stuffed bull is set on the floor across from him, and there is a pile of host plushes nearby.

Surely he's not pitiful enough to pretend to play fiduspawn with the likeness of his dead lusus, right? Surely.

But wow, does it look like that's what he's about to do.]

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[emberandash.livejournal.com]

[oh hey there's Tavros! Azula hasn't talked to him in a while; she's been busy brooding and also sometimes hanging around with Aradia and being clung to by Vriska]

[walking over now]

What's that?

[clapifyoubullieve]

[starts at the unexpected interruption but is pleasantly surprised when he looks up and sees Azula]

Oh, uh, these? Well... [looks down at his cards, unsure of whether to be embarrassed or excited about the prospect of explaining; he opts for the latter and grins] It's a strategy RPG! You get to raise and train beasts to, you know, uh, battle for dominance, and other such things!

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Is it FLARP?

[that is literally the only RPG she has ever heard of]

[clapifyoubullieve]

Oh no, FLARP is live action roleplaying and much more involved, character-wise. Fiduspawn--which, uh, is the name, by the way, sorry--it's where you strive to be the best trainer by raising and breeding an army of powerful beasts and pitting them against others.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

So you're an animal trainer?

[clapifyoubullieve]

Essentially, yes. [hopeful grin] ...Did you maybe want to, uh, play with me?

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I don't know how.

[clapifyoubullieve]

Oh, but that's okay. [he's shuffling the cards again, still grinning] I could teach you! It's not very difficult in terms of, you know, strategy and such.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

What do the cards have to do with it?

[clapifyoubullieve]

Oh, uh, these are the moves your fiduspawn knows, among other things, such as you could cause me to lose a turn, if you used a lose a turn card, or you could give your beast a power boost, like this. [he holds up a card that shows a lightning bolt imbuing a monster with some sort of power, it is amazing]

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

... So they're not real animals? Just cards?

[clapifyoubullieve]

Oh no, they're real! [he puts the card back] But you have to spawn them first.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Does this have to do with captchaloguing?

[clapifyoubullieve]

No...? That is, you could captchalogue them, if you wanted, but it doesn't really have anything to do with the game.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Then how do you keep real animals in cards?

[clapifyoubullieve]

Uhhh, well, you don't. You have to hatch a fidusucker from an oogonibomb first, and then, uh... Well, maybe I should just show you?

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

If you want.

[clapifyoubullieve]

[oh, he's more than happy to do so; he produces a glowing red and yellow ball, pausing to allow Azula to examine it, and then lobs it on the ground. It cracks, and out crawls a blue scorpion-looking thing.]

Okay, so... That's a fidusucker.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

[just... watching]

All right.

[clapifyoubullieve]

[and there the little creature goes, scuttling over to the host plush pile; it climbs onto one of the plushies' faces and then... well, it appears to be doing something inappropriate to its face]

And, uh, now it's going to lay an egg inside the host plush!

[he's way too excited about this]

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

[................ uh]

So the game is just... watching this?

[clapifyoubullieve]

Oh no, there's a lot more to it than--oh! See, like right now!

[the host plush shivers and then explodes in a glorious mess of green goop; from the mess crawls a large, blue scorpion-like creature that has wings and a grotesque, fly-like face]

It's Scorplague!

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

What does it do?

[clapifyoubullieve]

Well, I haven't drawn its power cards, yet, but, uh... [here he grins, looking rather pleased with himself] I sort of have a strategic advantage, in a sense, being that I can commune with any beast and have them tap into any of their powers.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I've heard that. It's part of how Vriska was able to kill Aradia.