♉ 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.]

Comments

[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.

[clapifyoubullieve]

[his expression loses some of that lustre]

Um, yeah...

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

Should that not have been brought up?

[clapifyoubullieve]

No, uh, it's okay...

[meanwhile, Scorplague shuffles over to the stuffed Tinkerbull and curls around it]

[Tavros turns back to Azula] Um... So did you want to play?

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I can just watch. I'm not really in a gaming mood.

[moping forever is apparently a much more appealing idea]

What's that white one there?

[clapifyoubullieve]

Oh. [trying and failing not to sound disappointed] Okay.

[he wheels over to the plush and picks it up, while the Scorplague simply watches him]

This is a doll that Kanaya made for me. It's of my lusus, Tinkerbull.

[emberandash.livejournal.com]

I remember you talking about him.

[clapifyoubullieve]

Yeah, he, uh, he used to play Fiduspawn with me. Well, as best as he could, anyway. He couldn't do some things, like, you know, picking up and throwing an oogonibomb and such, so it was kind of a little one-sided. But it was okay.