it shall set you free etc etc

[deathkid]

» 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]

Magnus.

[Easily answered, no fighting against the honesty on that one.]

You've got a couple decades on him but uh, you've met the dude. If he doesn't go out in some blaze of glory he's gonna die of a heart attack cause he doesn't know what a vegetable is and I fucking hate talking about this.

[Hey you know what? He didn't mean to say that last bit.]

[scholiast]

(Yeah, she'd started this off as a morbid thought spoken aloud but it's gone a little too far along to be comfortable any more. When Lucretia thinks of Magnus potentially dying some day, her heart aches.)

Same. Sorry for bringing it up.

[spellslots]

You're not the one that's gonna outlive all you fucks.

[There's Barry and Lup, sure, but they're already dead, no take backs, not when the Raven Queen and Kravitz know what's up. Taako's sure they're not going to be dragged to ghost prison, but he also knows the solution isn't going to be just letting them off the hook without question.

Whatever the compromise is, things will change. Again.]

[scholiast]

(It feels weird to have this conversation so frankly.)

... Things can't stay like this forever, Taako. We've had more than our fair share of time already; everything will have to change eventually.

(Is he scared of being left alone? She glances at him, then offers her hand to him tentatively.)

[spellslots]

[Yeah nah, he's not taking that hand.]

Unfortunately for me, that was enough time to actually make me give a shit.

[Now he's going to be sad when they die, and that's the worst. This is why he does his best not to care about people in the first place.]

[scholiast]

(Okie dokie. She lets it fall awkwardly between them. This rejection, coupled with the little sting that accompanies his sarcasm, makes her brow furrow.)

Right.

(She wants to tell him something snippy like I'm sorry we made you care about us, but it'd be a lie so she just shrugs.)

Well, I'm glad that you do, for the record.

[spellslots]

So am I.

[He hates this, he hates being forced to acknowledge all his dumb feelings.]

[scholiast]

Cool.

(Okay, that made her feel better. She's changing the subject now because this one had been the worst.)

If only Barry or the Ca– uh, Davenport, (not really her captain any more, huh,) could show up here, which would pick?

[spellslots]

Barry, for Lup, that one's easy.

[He'd like Davenport here as well, sure, but Taako knows how much Lup misses Barold, especially when the rest of them here are doing the whole dating thing, even Magnus.]

which would pick...

[scholiast]

Aw. Yeah, me too actually.

(Though she misses both of them very much, of course.) ... Do you like how I forgot about Merle for no reason? I'm a terrible friend.

its ok i read it as a real sentence

[spellslots]

I kinda assumed you just knew I wasn't gonna pick him. We're both terrible friends.

[Merle is just......................................... Merle.]

Anyway, I've spent the last year with Merle. It's been a fucking decade since I've hung out with Barry or Dav.

thank you for your service

[scholiast]

(Merle is a constant; Lucretia misses him very much.)

True. It's been two years since I've hung out with Barry or Davenport, but it feels like longer.

(Everything got pretty stressed toward the end of the cycles, after all.)

im here 4 u

[spellslots]

You're gonna have to excuse me for not giving a shit.

[Because it's her fault.]

[scholiast]

I'm aware, thanks, I'm just sharing.

(For the elevator's sake. You know.)