so come on and give me your worst

[luckout]

Character: Vriska and you
Setting: Room 3-01 and then all around the tower
Format: I'll match you!
Summary: Vriska's just arrived and she's Upset. So she's going to go exploring to see what this place is all about.
Warnings: Language, Vriska is her own warning

[She didn't remember falling asleep. She'd been talking to John and Tavros, catching the alpha John up on what was going down with Lord English. Someone had been approaching, the Peixes look a like, she was pretty sure. So how had she ended up in this stark room unable to move? Nothing about it felt like a dream bubble, and she'd seen her fair share of people's memories and none had ever looked like this. It was no sooner that the paralysis wore off that she had scrambled off the human sleeping square and began looking around the room. Four beds. A communal respiteblock? She hadn't signed up for this crap. The notes caught her attention next, and she sat down to read them. Wow, if that wasn't the most useless information she'd ever read. How far behind were they? Alternia being gone was old news. This was stupid.]

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[There was no point in wasting time, so Vriska had left her room as quickly as she could to go exploring. It was a new place, and nothing she was familiar with which didn't sit well with her. She was usually the one with all the knowledge and information. All of it. And all she knew about this place was that it apparently ran on bullshit if the letters were anything to go by. She was apparently supposed to go to the cafeteria and eat oatmeal, but that was the last thing she had in mind to do. Judging from the amount of stairs she'd already climbed she had a lot of ground to cover before she needed to worry about eating something. She's alert and on the lookout for anything suspicious, or even other people. If the placards on the rooms were anything to go by, this place was full of other people, like a hivestem? She'd hit up one of the terminals she'd seen later once she'd done some reconnaissance and gotten a proper feel for this place. Vriska Serket didn't do unprepared.]

Comments

[puppy_lancer]

[Oh, hey, it's another one of those troll kids. This one had interesting horns, though. Lancer has to stop for a second and take a better look.]

[luckout]

[Vriska pauses when he does, turning to stare back at him, eyes white and narrowed.]

The hell are you looking at?

[puppy_lancer]

Nothing much.

[He smirks.]

Just a cute girl passing by. Nice horns, by the way.

[thereisnopie]

[This must be a human cold. Were human colds different from troll colds? Because this is starting to feel like death, and he's pretty sure he's never had this sort of illness before.

Gamzee sniffles, heading down to the cafeteria despite knowing he won't find anything good there. It might have been a good idea to try and stay away from people just in case whatever he has is contagious, but he doesn't care enough to hole up in his room for their sake.

At the sight of a familiar figure in the hall, he stops for just a moment and debates greeting her... but ultimately decides not to. He's not sure it's worth it at this point.]

[luckout]

[Just because he doesn't try engaging her doesn't mean she's got the same idea. She's looking for information, and she'll take it from anyone at this point. Not to mention she won't just accept someone stopping and then ignoring her after they do.]

Hey! Human. Do you live here?

[thereisnopie]

[Figures.]

I take up fuckin' forced residence here, same as every other motherfucker, if that's what all meaning you're aimed at.

[One of these days he'll have to attempt to sound less like himself.]

[cullscuttlefish]

[It's the familiar set of horns that catch Feferi's attention. And hey, at least there's not much of a chance she'll give Vriska the rather nasty flu that she's been sick with for the past week.

Feferi's still sporting her Derse pajamas because hey, they're warmer, but she is very much alive and all right.]

I don't know if it's betta to say whalecome to the Tower or whalecome to hell, so I'll say both.

[luckout]

[At least that's a familiar face to her. Vriska's just in her standard clothes - jeans, shirt, and overshirt - but she'd spent long enough in John's winter wonderland that cold doesn't really get to her much anymore.]

Hey Peixes. What's with the pjs?

[cullscuttlefish]

You aren't freezing? I've got two layers on under them and it's still too cold for my taste. They - and by that, I mean the bassholes that run the plaice - decided it would be fun to randomly cut the heat this month.

[pushedaround]

[ Oh man, he's not sure whether he should be happy or upset once he spotted Vriska across the hall. He hoped that she had gathered enough information about this place because he definitely wouldn't want to be the one taking in all her rage.

Regardless, his smile is genuine when he approached his old friend. ]

Hey, you're back! Not sure if that's a good thing, but ... welcome back?

[luckout]

[Oh, good. Tavros is here too. She means to smile, but stops when he implies she's been here before. She frowns instead.]

What the hell are you going on about, Tavros?

[pushedaround]

[ Okay, how to explain this? He figured the best approach is to keep everything so simple. Yup. ]

So, uh, this tower is an awful place and we're kind of trapped in here. Sometimes we have games or experiments, they are awful as well and we end up dead most of the time. You've been here before, but then you disappeared for a couple of months and now ... you're back. Unfortunately.

[heartfeltfancy]

[ Doop doop walking on by like usual, wrapped in a blanket from the cold, and

Oh, look. ]

V-Vriska-san?

[luckout]

[She turns to look for the source of the voice, expecting someone she knows by the fact they know here name, but it's no one she recognizes.]

Yeah? Who are you?

Floor 4

[knightime]

[Dave was lounging in one of the chairs, his body wrapped in his god tier cape as he kind of just stared out aimlessly. He kept his feet slightly propped up, and he was still shivering a bit. He sneezed every so often, but he was ignoring everything around him. The only thing he sometimes glanced at was Missy, who was running about the room, sometimes coming back to Dave to curl up against him, before going back to wandering the room.

Dave had glanced slightly at Vriska, but made no attempt to even say anything to her.]

fancy seeing you here

[luckout]

[What the hell was that thing? It looked like some shitty excuse for a Fiduspawn creature. Whatever, that was less interesting than the other person in the room. Not someone she'd ever bothered with in the game or even dream bubbles aside from occasionally seeing a dead Dave around. But let's be real, who in the dream bubbles hadn't seen one of those? They were every fucking where. She approaches him.]

Hey. Pyrope's human. You're a sight for sore eyes. If you looked any more pathetic I might actually pity you.

Hi Im late. WOOPS

[knightime]

[He kind of tugged his cape closer to himself, although it was to try and stay warmer and not to somehow put more distance between Vriska and himself. His initial reaction was to leave, recognizing who it was that was speaking to him. It's not exactly like they were too friendly, but it sounded like she didn't recall anything.]

You actually still calling me that? Jesus Christ. [It was weird. He hadn't seen Terezi in so long, it was odd to be referred to her human.] You here just to make fun of me?

media room

[wweh]

[Eridan's curled up on one of the couches in the media room, constantly wiping his face off due to the flu, as if he's tryin' to get something off of it that clearly isn't there. The sound of someone entering the room makes his head turn slightly, only to see... oh, great?]

Figures you haven't gotten hit with this bullshit human sickness.

[luckout]

[That's a face she hasn't seen in a while. She approaches, smirking.]

I haven't been here long enough to get sick, Ampora. Didn't you hear? I've only just arrived. You're looking deplorable as usual.

stairs because why not

[hystericull]

[Everyone and their damn mothers were getting sick in this fucking Tower, and Gamzee was no exception. He was hacking and snotting and generally being more of a disgusting mess than usual, wiping his nose on the bottom hem of his t-shirt that poked out from underneath his winter jacket. It was a miracle he didn't trip over himself coming down the stairs, which he was in absolutely no hurry to descend.]

[Someone, however, seemed to be in a great hurry, and he looked up a little too late from wiping his nose to avoid barreling his bony self into them. Fortunately, he managed to claw at anything readily available to keep his balance.]

Fuckin' tits!!! Would you motherfuckin' look out all where the fuck you be placin' them--

[His voice cut out.]

[She was back.]

[Despite feeling under the weather, he reacted immediately. There was no time to waste when dealing with this bitch. He stiffened, placing a foot on the step behind him for better leverage, and narrowing his eyes. He took note of her posture, her expression. If he failed to notice a single move she made, it could mean life or death.]

good she can shove him down them ;o

[luckout]

[Literally the last person she wants to see. She hasn't run into him since that whole Tavrisprite bullshit and she still isn't all that happy about it. Sure, she's mostly gotten over it, but now that he's right there in front of her, she's more than ready to dig up that particular grudge. Her posture doesn't change, but her frown turns into a nasty grin.]

Well, if it isn't everyone's favorite clown. You didn't get enough of me with your stupid sprite hijinks?

[caliginous]

You're back.

[If Vriska were to look to her other side, she would find a somewhat familiar face. Familiar in the fact that it was Karkat, but very clearly not Karkat. Karkat if he were also somehow Vriska. His arms are folded a little lazily, hip cocked to one side and a soft stare of exhaustion mixed with a hint of pity.]

Not that you'd remember.

[He doesn't appear to be in a hurry to approach her. He's clearly cold, as his limbs shake a little in the crisp air of the tower every now and then, but unlike everyone else, it seems he's managed to avoid the plague floating around.]

[luckout]

[Vriska spins on her foot to look at him as soon as he speaks. For a minute she thought it was Karkat, and she was going to go off on a rant about the fact that no she hasn't actually been here before, but then the vision eightfold registers and the air about him that is distinctly not all Karkat and she's immediately tense.]

First of all, Vantas, your pan must be rotting because I've never seen this place before so I can't be "back". [In enclosure talons and everything.] Second, what's with the eye? Did you envy me so much that you wanted to be me? No offense, but it really doesn't suit you.

[heirterosexual]

[John's been pretty lucky in the scheme of things, so he's pretty open to exploration and generally poking his nose where it doesn't belong because he's not really learned he shouldn't, yet. So he's doing just that when he comes upon Vriska, and squints at the particular color of her wings for a long time.]

[He grins, then, because he knows that color, but he doesn't know that troll, so there's really only one explanation. If Vriska had the chance to see him, he'd promptly disperse like a cloud, and she would find herself rustled by a slight breeze before he appears right the fuck behind her.]

Boo.

[luckout]

[Wow ok John, way to abuse your God Tier powers. She spins on her foot to look at him once he speaks, because she knows that voice. It's a voice she heard a lot of the year prior when she was in his dream bubble and the fact that she'd recently heard it. Judging from the clothes, she's got a pretty good idea that this is the alpha John she'd been talking to before she woke up here. She rolls her eyes, though the gesture is mostly lost by the fact that her eyes are whited out entirely, and smiles.]

John, is this really any time for you to be screwing around with the windy thing? There's shenanigans afoot and there's reconnaissance to be done. Tell me you've at least done some exploring in a place that trollnapped you.