Terezi fans out the character sheets like they're a hand of cards. "Pick one."
"All of them!" Vriska says instantly. She's papped in the face by the sheets. "What! If we wanna take out the bad guys we should get them all and the best way to do that is to do them all at once!" She smacks her fist into her palm. "Bam! Justice!"
Terezi rolls her eyes and waves the sheets threateningly. "These are higher level players than we've gone after before. There's a time to push your luck and a time for caution."
"We can take them! Come ooooon, we're unbeatable! Redglare and Mindfang, scourge of Flarp players. They'll tremble in fear of us once they know what they're up against!"
"If we get a reputation, more people will refuse to play against us. That means we'll be leveling slower and there won't be any stable supply of evildoers for your lusus." Vriska sighs dramatically and flops down on the floor. Terezi gives her a sly look. "If you can't decide, go with the green."
"Fiiiiiiine," Vriska whines, sitting up again and crossing her legs under her. The cards are a high yellow, a green, orange-red, and a blue that's too close to her own for comfort. She grabs for the green and flips it to see a picture of a rangy, muscular boy. "So, Legislacerator , what's his crime?"
"Cannibalism." Vriska gives a start. "Seems like eating culled wigglers just isn't good enough for him. He's been stalking kids his age or even older and butchering them. He's only fooling around with FLARP as a hobby, the killings he does with his lusus." Terezi gives a grin full of fangs. "He's used to relying on the pouncebeast for the killings, it's the one doing the lion's share of the work. Without it he won't be so dangerous. The hard part will be distracting the clouder."
"What makes you so sure he won't have his lusus? He sounds like a cheater."
Terezi keeps grinning. "Remember how you kept complaining about how we never do any water-based games?"
Vriska tackles her in a hug. "Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!"
"It's not on the ocean, it's just a lake, and it won't be -"
"I get distraction duty then?"
"There's no one better than the Marquise," Terezi says.
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It's not a very complex campaign. This is supposed to be an informal tussle, just the four of them, and neither clouder is experienced in even nominally water-related campaigns. It's not a safe road to go down in this game for people who don't have gills.
Things are simple - a wrecked ship, half-beached on the shore and half underwater in the lake, some enemies to scattered all over to deal with as the players try to make their way through the maze of wrecked hallways. It's supposed to be a matter of running around the upper levels with the boat mostly there for the creepy atmosphere, but evidently Terezi's noose is tightening fast and his clouder's getting mad.
Although Vriska would like to believe part of that's her own natural talent in the area.
Another lucky roll clears out this corridor's enemies, even though they should have been too tough for her to get by so quickly.
IR: you can't rely on luck 4ever!!
AG: w8tch me!!!!!!!!
Vriska is the best at this. Terezi may be good at planning and she may be good at predicting what people are going to do and she may be good at tricking people into doing what she wants, but no one, no one, is better at getting and monopolizing attention than Vriska is.
