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I thought they were normal weird looking geese.

[Turns out that's a definite lie.]

Do you think they all have different powers?

As if anything is normal in this godforsaken fucking shithole town!

[ IRRITATED, DEFINITELY. what if that fireball had singed her hair. WHAT ABOUT THAT, HUH? ]

God. Who knows. Maybe we should just start taking precautions, like knocking all of them unconscious before we get too close? Or whatever. Just incapacitating them somehow!

She has a point. [Still relatively calm about this and yet.] I really hope they don't have different powers, but how do we knock them out and incapacitate them without killing them on accident? Any bright ideas?

I mean I have my hammer, but that might be a little much.

I don't know about knocking them out, but I could freeze them all to the ground. At least they wouldn't be moving around like that.

[ presses her fingers to her forehead, sighing as she thinks. then, businesslike: ]

Let's go with Shouto's idea. Once they're pinned down I can distract them, and John, you can grab them once their attention is off you. Sound good?

Sounds good. As long as they don't all breathe fire that should work. [And as long as the geese don't try to melt the ice they'll be fine.] I think I have enough slots in my 'dex to keep them there until we get back to town, too. Let's keep going.

Maybe some of them breathe lightening.

[It would be nice if he could find a charger. Ah well, too bad Kaminari isn't around for that.]

The next time I hear honking I'll freeze everything down.

[ Taking a moment to dig around in her pocket, Vriska pulls out a set of what looks like ... eight eight-sided die? John will recognize them, at least. They clack gently in her palm. ]

Shouto, if you jinx us saying shit like that, I am giving you bad luck for a week.

[ dryly. She'll start them walking again, her head cocked to one side as she listens for honking. ]

[He looks at his hammer and at Vriska's die but he just shuts up and floats along to keep an ear out for honking. It seems to be coming further up ahead so they're on the right track, at least.]

The thing is that wouldn't even surprise me. Have you noticed that the quests lately keep involving messed-up birds? Like the harpies.

I'd probably deserve it.

[But now that he can hear the honking, he just ices everything ahead of them down. Good thing John and Vriska float.

The honking gets much angrier.]

I never saw the harpies.

[ The angry honking. Oh god. Vriska tries, she really does, but in the end she cracks up laughing, more like a cackle than anything. It is a delighted sound. With an indelicate snort she reins herself in enough to say: ]

Harpies? Someone want to explain?

[There's a disgusted noise as they approach the geese from behind. The ice was enough to trap at least three of them, mutated and honking as they struggle. He slows his approach to figure out how to sneak up on them.]

Yeah, like. Half bird half person? We had to kill a bunch of them on the cliffside but when that was taken care of we got a bunch of knives as a reward. Why am I the only person who knows about this?

I could freeze them solid, but that's very dangerous. They'd probably die.

[He didn't want to murder things that might have consciousness. It just doesn't feel that heroic.]

... Is that why a bunch of people had knives around?

Because every single thing about your life is ridiculous, John. Anyway shut up, both of you.

[ Vriska is still smiling when she tosses her dice in the air. The pips glow bright blue.

and then a bunch of like

... weird looking things?

appear.

Eight of them.

They run out, twitching and generally being small, strange assholes, pretty successfully distracting all the geese if the angry honking is any indication. ]

[What the fuck are these? He recognizes Vriska's dice and his eyes widen a bit as they roll before the weasels appear and begin running amok. The geese honk and flap, distracted by the creatures and chasing after them. John watches for a few brief moment before he vaults into action, immediately tackling and throwing the three geese one by one into his sylladex. One, two, three.

The weasels continue running back and forth and he floats high enough to avoid them.]

Four down, eight to go. What are we supposed to do with these things? [A gesture to the new creatures.]

[Shouto just squints at the weird creatures. He's never seen anything like them before, but they seem like they're distracting the geese well enough.]

We need to bring them back to the town. I don't know if we need to do anything else with them.

[Shouto approaches one of the angry geese and just. Picks it up.

It's incredibly unhappy and squirms in his hands.]

It's a finite attack. It'll go away on its own.

[ casually gathering up her dice.

she's not gonna help the boys, you two can catch geese on your own. hasn't she already done enough to help? they should put in at least SOME effort.

so she'll just float here like a useless asshole. ]

Cool, can we get them to follow us? Shouto's right, we just have to bring the geese to town and if the attack goes away eventually we will not have to worry. Also I can take that, it looks kind of pissed. [He'll hold out his hand for the fifth geese, waiting for Shouto to hand it over.]

Which direction should we go next?

[He'll very happily hand this goose over to John. The goose however is mad enough at being picked up and now it's suffering the indignity of being passed off.

It tries very hard to bite John.]

... Maybe further forward? There could be a hoard of them somewhere.

[ The two of them may or may not see Vriska's hand wave, but John will, very fortunately, not end up getting bitten at all. How lucky!

Vriska will set her feet on the ground. ]

Sure. Let's keep going. We're doing pretty well so far, after all. Just follow the honking until something tries to kill John again.

[ a smile. ]

[He worries about the geese, but he doesn't get bit. Wow!! That is lucky!! The goose disappears into his sylladex with a final, annoyed honk.]

We're already halfway there! Between me and Shouto catching them and Vriska distracting them we are getting them faster than I thought. [There's a bright grin and he floas forward to lead the way.] Forward's a good start.

[They only get about fifteen feet ahead before he pauses.] Honking. That way. [And he moves forward brushing past a thicket of bushes where there's another cluster of geese.]

[Ah. Maybe it was Vriska? He thinks he saw her wave out of the corner of his eyes.

He walks forward as John makes his way and again he can hear more of the honking. Once again he'll ice over the ground.]

Best get off the ground.

[Because once again it's totally covered in ice. One of the geese breathes a fireball directly at it and manages to get free.]

Damn.

[ She's off the ground before Shouto can spread his ice, kind of hanging back with him so John can be the sacrificial windy boy.

But when one of the geese escapes she heaves a sigh. ]

God. What did I bring you two for? [ with that sweet comment she'll drift over to the escaped goose,

which,

because she wasn't 100% taking this specific goose seriously,

fucking bites the shit out of her fingers.

immediately there is a lot of shrieking from both girl and goose. ]

[...yeah unfortunately John's response is to kind of be an asshole and start laughing since maybe Vriska deserved that for being rude? He glances back at Shouto with a thumbs up.]

For the most part the icing method's working really well! [With that he's swooping down to use the wind and break off a few pieces of the ice, irritated honking from the geese as John picks up two of them with ice still attached to their feet and shoves them in his sylladex. Eight. The goose that Vriska has is nine and he approaches while she continues shrieking and flailing, sneaking up before grabbing the goose's body and immediately shoving it in his sylladex as it snaps at his fingers, too.]

You okay? [Because even as an asshole, he's a little concerned about her.] We've got nine out of twelve now.

[Shouto's first instinct is grabbing one of the canisters of disinfectant on his waist and gesturing for Vriska's hand.]

We should disinfect it and wrap it up.

Three more geese and we'll be done.