Critical Miss
was the sixth Paradox Space story.
Continuity[]
Set on Alternia, Critical Miss presumably takes place prior to Vriska Serket and Eridan Ampora playing SGURB.
Story[]
Vriska and Eridan engage in a game of Flarp aboard their respective sea vessels. To board Eridan's ship, Vriska rolls a very lucky number 20 on her dice roll. Eridan is not as fortunate and rolls a 1 in return, summoning a "critical whale." The whale starts putting Eridan down, which distracts him. Vriska uses this opportunity to make a quick move, for which Eridan accuses Vriska of cheating. She denies cheating then demands he hand over his slaves, which are revealed to be real live lowbloods playing the role of slaves on Eridan's ship. Vriska apparently plans to feed them to her lusus.
Eridan misinterprets Vriska's powergaming attitude as caliginous flirting, and offers to play along in exchange for a hatesnog. Vriska is shocked, disgusted and infuriated, attacking Eridan with the Fluorite Octet and destroying his ship. This leaves Eridan floating on a wooden chunk of the hull, while the whale continues to chastize him.