002; elevator of forced honesty

[memefox]

elevator of forced honesty

» POST: a top level for your character(s) » RESPOND: to other characters ICly. your characters are now trapped in an elevator together. » UH OH: neither character can lie. » ADDITIONAL, OPTIONAL COMPLICATIONS: at player discretion characters may also... a. be unable to remain silent when asked questions b. be unable to speak around the truth when answering c. be compelled to reveal truths/secrets unprompted THE POWER OF THE ELEVATOR COMPELS YOU.

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[scholiast]

Is there anything you can't do?

what a good girlfriend

[dancingmd]

Oh, lots of things - I can't paint or draw and I was never very good in my history classes and you know my Klingon is atrocious.

Also I'm really bad with money.

of course!

[scholiast]

You wouldn't know any of that by looking at you. You're always so capable.

(Bad at money!! Lucretia is deeply charmed.) Are you an impulsive spender, or?

[dancingmd]

Not that exactly... It's just we don't use money in the Federation.

[scholiast]

You don't?

(Wait, what!) What do you use instead?

[dancingmd]

Well I mean...with the technology we have and the ways society has shifted in the past few centuries, capitalism has become... Outdated. We have Federation credit accounts if we need to interact with other societies that do use money but other than that... (She shrugs.)

[scholiast]

That's incredible.

(She's deeply impressed.) We've been to a few places where capitalism had all but disappeared, but I had always found the idea deeply... fanciful. Just to be disparaging about it.

[dancingmd]

Trust me, there's nothing fanciful or theoretical about it. It's... (She shrugs.) Normal for me.

(She grins.)

It always amuses me how easily people will believe that I live on a starship and that I've visited hundreds of different planets or that we've cured the common cold or that we have transporter technology, yet they cannot envision a world without capitalism.

[scholiast]

To be fair, I'm a slightly harder pitch in that I also live on a starship and have visited hundreds of different planets too. But I see what you mean.

(She smiles, ruefully.) Just goes to show the true staying power of it, huh.

But– you've really cured the common cold? That's cool.

[dancingmd]

Really!

[She laughs.]

Sneezes actually come as somewhat of a surprise to me, whenever I hear them here!

[scholiast]

Even sneezing? (She can't imagine that.)

Maybe we should be looking for the same cure instead of the light of creation. It sounds far more useful.