Flarp



Flarp is the name of a game within the Troll universe under the genre of Extreme Role Playing.

The game appears to begin with a grub laying eggs. These eggs hatch Gaming Flapstractions. These are programmed to provide an adventure for the user, reacting to preprogrammed data, as well as live commands. It is played in two teams, with each team having a Clouder (the Flarp equivalent of a DM), a member who controls the other teams experience.

In the story-relevant game of Flarp, the Trolls played the game in two teams: Team Charge (Ram & Bull) and Team Scourge (Balance & Scorpion). Vriska played Flarp many other times with other trolls, whereas the two other survivors of this fateful games have renounced extreme roleplaying. Vriska continues because it is for her the best way to HS 4095 (feed her lusus). It is very HS 4062 (unlikely) that CentaursTesticle played this game, and very HS 4064 (likely) that he also forbid Nepeta from joining.

Team Charge Debacle
The Team Charge Debacle is what Vriska calls an event of some sort of that happened during a game of Flarp. Whilst it was initially thought of as one accident, it seems that to be a string of related incidents.

During one session, Tavros found himself stuck between a cliff and some enemies. Realizing that there was no possible way to win the session his clouder, Vriska, had set up for him, he tried asking Aradia and Terezi for help. Neither responded, as they were distracted by an unknown entity that Terezi believed to be a friend of Vriska's. Helpless, Tavros refused to perform an action (like rolling or attacking), instead opting to surrender. In response, Vriska intervened and used her powers to HS 4076 (force Tavros to jump off the cliff). Tavros survived, but permanently lost the use of his legs.

Aradia and Terezi severed ties with Vriska. Aradia was racked with guilt over her inability to help Tavros. Terezi advised her to not take action, and volunteered to handle it herself. Despite Terezi's warnings, Aradia decided to take revenge, with the encouragement of the voices of the dead. She summoned the ghosts of Vriska's previous victims, and unleashed them on her.

As Vriska was overwhelmed by the ghosts, she received a message from the stranger who speaks in white text. The stranger suggested that Vriska kill Aradia. After arguing with him briefly, Vriska controlled Sollux Captor, using him to attack and kill Aradia. In response to this, Terezi, with Sollux's help, contacted the mysterious man and told him that Vriska was using one of his valued objects, a Magic Cue Ball, to cheat in the game that they were playing together. In anger, he blew up the Cue Ball in Vriska's face, causing her to lose her left eye and arm, as well as her special lens.

It is still yet unknown how Terezi loses her eyesight, but it is known that it was due to some action of Vriska's. After this, Vriska and Terezi agree to a truce in order to cease the endless cycle of revenge.