We’d seen a lot of a character who’s under the sign of scorpio. arachnidsGrip [AG]. She’s the one who broke Travos’s spine. She has an ability to control or place strong suggestions in the minds of others. This ability seems to have no limited range as she had controlled Karkat while he was in the medium. With this seemingly overpowered ability she’s completely psychotic.

So we start with “Being the huge bitch”. This phase being a reference to Sn0wball back in the intermission. Her name is Vriska Serket, somehow a fan favorite. Also an artist favorite as we’ll see later. I truly do not understand this.

As we’ve seen she is into extreme roleplay, the game that got Travos injured. It seems to also have caused her own injuries. As we’d seen in previous pages her arm is robotic. This was not the case during her encounter with Travos.

Vriska mentions her lusus needs to feed on the flesh of young trolls. She uses the “Flarping” to take advantage of the impressionable and get spider food. As a hobby Vriska thinks heavily about the Apocalypse and builds potential doomsday devices. She also likes to develop prophecies. It seems she used to have the ability “Vision eightfold” that gave her the ability to see the future. She now uses “Black Oracles” (magic 8-balls) which she often destroys in frustration. Her room is littered with broken 8-ball and the d-20 dies that they contained. She is apparently addicted to destroying them, despite the bad luck it brings her.

Her room also has spider webs, “devices”, game manuals, and character sheets on the wall. She also has a drawing of her Flarping character Marquise Spinneret Mindfang. Which given this is larping, is just a picture she drew of herself in a costume.

She steps on a d4 dice (the pointy one). She blames this on bad luck that she’s been having since her accident. She seems like the sort to blame her misfortunes on anything but herself, her floor is covered with these damn dice so luck had nothing to do with it. She’s just a brat who needs to clean her damn room. Her weapon is also dice. 8 enchanted d8’s called the Fluorite Octet. The weapon has a wide range of effects that can help or hinder the wielder. With her bad luck she is afraid to use them.

She starts off a long night of bugging, fussing and meddling. But she receives a message from a meddler she hasn’t heard from in awhile. Against the rules of pester clients this user is unnamed, just blank. The also chat with all #FFFFFF white text which is annoying as hell to read. They are well spoken and don’t seem to have quirks either.

The blank one mentions this is their last communication with Vriska. They seem to know what events will soon take place in Vriska’s future. They blatantly tell her that they’ve been exploiting her. Vriska doesn’t believe she’s being exploited in any way. Given she usually is the one exploiting others this is not acceptable. The blank one states they will no longer hold Vriska accountable for her actions. This is because of the “incident”. Also they feel she was a complete waste of their talents. He suspects she won’t survive to see the destructive results of her own actions. They then end the conversation.

This conversion seems to get to her a bit. There’s a lot of vagueness and unexplained history here. Vriska is unable to even smash one of her magic 8-balls. grimAuxiliatrix [GA] had also been trying to get ahold of Vriska. GA let Vriska know that her lusus had died. GA’s lusus was the A Virgin Mother Grub, it had decided to stop producing offspring and died shortly after. She is telling Vriska that her own lusus will die as well as many others have already. Aware of Karkats curse, she doesn’t believe that is the case. GA believes the death of the lusus is an inevitable result of the game. This is much like the destruction of their planet. Vriska relates her bad luck to the curse. Though GA points out her bad luck is just a messy floor. Vriska‘s problem is that she is dangerous. GA feels that despite this she is important and it’s her job to try and keep Vriska in line.

Vriska is obviously not cool with this but is too concerned about her lusus to really care.