Noctisardor Bypass Every performance

did my own dice rolls here. i probably set him up for certain failure but vex doesn't get the goose. :(

their options are limited to ducks and geese; and though vex is eager to begin he tempers his impatience; stifling it. especially as arbiter offers them a tidbit of helpful information. ducks were likely flee — like rabbits, she said — and geese? they long necked fiends would likely turn on them. he peers at the collection; surveying, weighing his options.

if he could isolate a goose, perhaps he’d have a chance of taking it down even if it turned on him. especially if it turned on him …

vex’s decision made, he charges, chasing after a goose for a few heartbeats before the bird turns on him, as arbiter warned. cocky and entirely unexperienced he blunders again and again and earns himself a punishing nip of it’s beak to his ear. and then his muzzle as he keeps snapping at it.

he draws back as it flaps its wings at him and he lunges for it again, too stubborn to admit his defeat. he finally is forced to admit it when it takes off across a stream and he is left to return to arbiter and his sisters, splices of his flesh sore but dull in comparison to the humiliation and defeat that festers in his pride.