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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[spellslots]

I thought maybe it would, but... it wouldn't hurt this fucking much if I didn't still love you.

[scholiast]

Hmm.

(It's hard to pretend she isn't happy about that; the corner of her mouth jerks upward, very slightly.)

It's complicated, huh.

[spellslots]

[Yeah, he sees that and isn't sure how to feel about it.]

Oh, for sure. We don't know how to do simple.

[scholiast]

No, we left simple behind one hundred years ago.

(Huh. Speaking of.)

Do... do you miss home?

[spellslots]

It was just a place, you know?

[He misses things about their world, but... there's not a lot of differences to Fearun, and the only thing Taako loved he took with him.]

Guess I miss the sky, sometimes.

[scholiast]

Yeah.

(It makes sense that he doesn't; after all, Lucretia is sure that was one of the reasons the seven of them were all picked in the first place. None of them seemed to have any real ties to their home planet outside of the odd familial relationship.)

I don't think that I would miss it if it wasn't gone. Is that messed up?

[spellslots]

Nah, that shit makes sense, doesn't it? If there was a chance of going back that'd be something to hold onto, but we know it's gone.

[Lup always hoped that maybe once they defeated the Hunger, things would return to the way they had been, but Taako isn't as much of an optimist.]

[scholiast]

I suppose.

(She's like Taako in that she can't quite bring herself to imagine that their home planet may come back after the Hunger is gone. Even if it did, they would have been gone for over one-hundred years: she'd have nobody to go back to.

Lucretia sighs over-exaggeratedly.)

This is depressing.

[spellslots]

This crap usually is.

[The truth????]

[scholiast]

I know. I'm not all that fond of telling the truth, either.

[spellslots]

[Hey that's funny.

Or at least Taako finds it funny.]

Didn't need a zone of truth to tell me that one.

[scholiast]

Yeah, well.

It's not that I like lying, I just don't like, uh, revealing my hand, as it were.

(Stop it stop it stop it why is she saying this.)

[spellslots]

[Oh look he's enjoying this again.]

Always gotta have one up on everyone, huh?

[scholiast]

Not so much a one-up on everybody as much as knowing I'm better off keeping these things to myself, but sure. There's certainly a bit of that in there.

[spellslots]

Didn't work out for you so well last time.

[scholiast]

No, it famously did not.

But don't worry, I've received a lot of constructive criticism on that venture that I am taking deeply to heart.

[spellslots]

It's really just letting you get away with that sarcasm, huh?

[scholiast]

Apparently. It's all I have, in these trying times.