[Fic] "Trollstuck," part 5 -- Homestuck
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edenfallingback to part 4
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Trollstuck, part 5
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====>Be the other girl
I'm sorry, you'll have to be more specific.
====>Be the Seer
I already told you, Sgrub does not exist in this universe! Game titles are therefore meaningless. (Also, you will have to be more specific.)
====>Be the girl who would have been a Seer in a different universe
You will still have to be more specific!
====>Be the troll girl who would have been a Seer in a different universe
Oh come on. Am I going to have to turn this adventure around?
====>Be the brilliant, manipulative troll girl who would have been a Seer in a different universe
Fine. You asked for it. You are now the shipper cat girl!
Your name is NEPETA LEIJON, and you are currently playing tag with your lusus, Pounce de Leon. You can afford to fool around like this because you already caught a hopbeast for lunch and you also have a bunch of fruits and vegetables (bluh, but Equius says they're good for you) from the garden your best friend Jarlia planted for you three sweeps ago.
You climb a tree using your trusty claws and lurk in wait for your unsuspecting prey to pass underneath on the tempting forest trail.
Except what is this? A strangle rustle in the leaves behind you catches your sensitive ears. Quietly, carefully, you tilt your head to peer upward...
Aha! Pounce is clever, but so are you. Before she can get into place to leap downward at your unguarded back, you turn and leap upward, grabbing hold of the branch she's on and shaking her loose!
But oh no! She snags your coat with her claws and you tumble out of the tree together.
"Ooof!"
Cats are pretty heavy when they land on top of you, it turns out. Pounce licks your face with both her tongues in apology, and you practice purring while she pins you to the ground and grooms you back into a semblance of order. You still don't have the vibrations quite right, but you're getting closer every sweep, and Pounce likes that you bother to try.
You suddenly wonder if Equius has ever practiced whinnying. You doubt it -- he can be awfully stuck up, which is one reason he needs you! -- but he does make horse puns sometimes, so maybe you can talk him into trying.
You decide to hurry home to your cave and troll him.
====>Please be the other girl
Well now! A spontaneous development of etiquette! Does this mean you're ready to play nicely?
====>Please be the terrifying seadweller girl
All right. I concede that Feferi doesn't qualify as actively terrifying, though a glimpse at her Ancestor clearly shows that she has potential in that direction. Let's get this story back on the road.
====>Hours in the past, but not many
You are ALONDE HEKATA, and you are debating whether to troll your hatefriend Aradia Megido. You have never met in person, but her interest in archaeology and your interest in summoning creatures from the Dark Beyond dovetail neatly in your joint pursuit of the true history of your planet and species. You have new information she will be interested in hearing, and you would like to know what she's found on her latest excavation.
On the other tentacle, your co-auspistices are both trying to troll you right now, which suggests either Eridan or Feferi did something stupid. Again. You should probably sort that out before they both show up at your hive and start breaking the delicate and important equipment you use to record your conversations with Those Unknowable.
On the third tentacle, it might be easier to resolve their problem in person, and you probably have a narrow window of time to reach Aradia before she finishes her lunch and heads back to her dig site.
What will you do?
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Troll Aradia or deal with Eridan and Feferi? If the latter, which one first? (Or shall I get fancy and try a memo?)
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continue to part 6
On a related note! I have chapter one ready to post on AO3 (complete with two shitty pictures -- look, I told you it wanted to be illustrated, even though I am not an artist), but I cannot get the <3< character to display properly. It keeps borking my html and/or turning in a <3 character, which is completely and utterly wrong in context.
Does anyone know how to make AO3 show my text AS TEXT instead of deciding it's bad html? I tried using the "pre" code, but that just made everything after it go even more wrong. :-(
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Trollstuck, part 5
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====>Be the other girl
I'm sorry, you'll have to be more specific.
====>Be the Seer
I already told you, Sgrub does not exist in this universe! Game titles are therefore meaningless. (Also, you will have to be more specific.)
====>Be the girl who would have been a Seer in a different universe
You will still have to be more specific!
====>Be the troll girl who would have been a Seer in a different universe
Oh come on. Am I going to have to turn this adventure around?
====>Be the brilliant, manipulative troll girl who would have been a Seer in a different universe
Fine. You asked for it. You are now the shipper cat girl!
Your name is NEPETA LEIJON, and you are currently playing tag with your lusus, Pounce de Leon. You can afford to fool around like this because you already caught a hopbeast for lunch and you also have a bunch of fruits and vegetables (bluh, but Equius says they're good for you) from the garden your best friend Jarlia planted for you three sweeps ago.
You climb a tree using your trusty claws and lurk in wait for your unsuspecting prey to pass underneath on the tempting forest trail.
Except what is this? A strangle rustle in the leaves behind you catches your sensitive ears. Quietly, carefully, you tilt your head to peer upward...
Aha! Pounce is clever, but so are you. Before she can get into place to leap downward at your unguarded back, you turn and leap upward, grabbing hold of the branch she's on and shaking her loose!
But oh no! She snags your coat with her claws and you tumble out of the tree together.
"Ooof!"
Cats are pretty heavy when they land on top of you, it turns out. Pounce licks your face with both her tongues in apology, and you practice purring while she pins you to the ground and grooms you back into a semblance of order. You still don't have the vibrations quite right, but you're getting closer every sweep, and Pounce likes that you bother to try.
You suddenly wonder if Equius has ever practiced whinnying. You doubt it -- he can be awfully stuck up, which is one reason he needs you! -- but he does make horse puns sometimes, so maybe you can talk him into trying.
You decide to hurry home to your cave and troll him.
====>Please be the other girl
Well now! A spontaneous development of etiquette! Does this mean you're ready to play nicely?
====>Please be the terrifying seadweller girl
All right. I concede that Feferi doesn't qualify as actively terrifying, though a glimpse at her Ancestor clearly shows that she has potential in that direction. Let's get this story back on the road.
====>Hours in the past, but not many
You are ALONDE HEKATA, and you are debating whether to troll your hatefriend Aradia Megido. You have never met in person, but her interest in archaeology and your interest in summoning creatures from the Dark Beyond dovetail neatly in your joint pursuit of the true history of your planet and species. You have new information she will be interested in hearing, and you would like to know what she's found on her latest excavation.
On the other tentacle, your co-auspistices are both trying to troll you right now, which suggests either Eridan or Feferi did something stupid. Again. You should probably sort that out before they both show up at your hive and start breaking the delicate and important equipment you use to record your conversations with Those Unknowable.
On the third tentacle, it might be easier to resolve their problem in person, and you probably have a narrow window of time to reach Aradia before she finishes her lunch and heads back to her dig site.
What will you do?
---------------
---------------
---------------
Troll Aradia or deal with Eridan and Feferi? If the latter, which one first? (Or shall I get fancy and try a memo?)
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continue to part 6
On a related note! I have chapter one ready to post on AO3 (complete with two shitty pictures -- look, I told you it wanted to be illustrated, even though I am not an artist), but I cannot get the <3< character to display properly. It keeps borking my html and/or turning in a <3 character, which is completely and utterly wrong in context.
Does anyone know how to make AO3 show my text AS TEXT instead of deciding it's bad html? I tried using the "pre" code, but that just made everything after it go even more wrong. :-(
