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[dicey]

No shitty, fake dreams today! I guess all you night-sleepers are going to be off the hook, too. And even better, after it got dark I went looking for more supplies, and I'm coming back with aaaaaaaall the loot!

[all the loot, in this case, appears to be a very large tub-like container filled with green slime that she's pushing in front of her, and... a big plastic bag overflowing with about fifty Magic 8-Balls that she's dragging behind her]

Look at all these oracles! I found a couple lying around, and so I spent a few hours digging around for more and came up with the rest. Getting this stuff back without being able to captchalogue it is going to suck, but it's worth it. Isn't it?

[Vriska reaches into the bag and pulls out one of the 8-Balls, shaking it and then peering at the answer window]

... "Signs point to no". Well, fuck you too, then!

[and she smashes it on the ground and continues on her way]

Comments

[Video]

[capuletnomore]

No - no dreams?

[Vriska, you have made her day.]

Truly, it was an event in the end? Oh, never would I have thought to be so glad of such a thing. To be able to sleep without fear of finding myself in that horrible little cell....

[She shakes her head, grinning, then peers through the screen at the "loot".]

Oracles? Those spheres, they are like to crystal balls? How extraordinary!

[Video]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

It wasn't that bad.

[lies; she kind of freaked out about it too]

And yeah! They tell the future. But that one--

[gestures to the one broken on the ground]

-- was obviously defective.

[Video]

[capuletnomore]

You are fortunate that your dreams were not so bad. Had I been forced to spend more time walled up in that little cell, I fear I would have gone mad in truth.

[Her eyes widen at that.]

Given the number of magic spheres, it is unsurprising that one was not created properly. The amount of magic required to make them all tell the future must be incredible.

[Video]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Sure, I guess. I'll have to test the rest to see if they work any better.

[...]

My dreams kind of sucked, too. But I knew they weren't real!

[Video]

[capuletnomore]

How does one test a magic sphere?

Trolls are truly more perceptive than humans. I could not tell the difference when I dreamed. The horrible nun had nearly convinced me that this place was the dream, and not my cell.

Still, I am glad it is done.

[Video]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

[Vriska doesn't say any more on the dream topic-- she's mostly convinced that it was all fake, but there's a tiny niggling part of her saying that the Animus (or something else) could just be making them imagine Adstringendum instead]

You ask it a question that you know the answer to! If it gives the wrong answer, it's broken.

[she takes another one out]

Are events the worst thing about this shithole?

[aaaand shakes it]

"It is certain". ... See, this one might be worth something!

[Video]

[capuletnomore]

[She watches with interest, and grins in delight at the answer.]

Most clever! What do you intend to do with such powerful magic?

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

What's the point of collecting those things?

[Video]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

What do you mean, what's the point? They're useful!

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

Useful for what?

[Especially that green slime.]

[Video]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Seeing the future!

[Video]

[feel-nevermore.livejournal.com]

[A soft snort.] Those are just mere toys.

[Video]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

That's what you think!

[Video]

[equinerotica.livejournal.com]

Would you... Like some help?

[Video]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Nope! And anyway, I don't want you stealing any of my stash.

[Video]

[equinerotica.livejournal.com]

You still don't trust me?

[Video]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Like you trust me any more. We backstab each other all the time; it's kind of a thing!

[Video]

[equinerotica.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Ordinarily we do this... Coy dance where you pretend to trust me, as a cover. To lure me into your own double-crossing.

[Video]

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, I'm not in the mood! We just got done with an event and now I have my oracles to deal with and this recuperacoon to set up. I'm busy!

[bestestfurrend]

:33 < i didnt know there was any sopor here!!!
:33 < where did you find it??

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

[bestestfurrend]

:33 < ive nefur s33n any of it there befur!
:33 < is there any left?

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]

[bestestfurrend]

:33 < could you put a little bit of it aside purrhaps??
:33 < in case gamz33 shows up

[eightshoutpoles.livejournal.com]