VIDEO. UN: LOKI

[selfimage]

[ the sound of the wind storm hollows dully against the cave walls. Loki's squidge, Bacon, can half be seen crawling in the confines of his tacky green jacket and over his knee from where he sits, sometimes ducking and squeaking when a particularly large gust hits. to keep it from screaming, Loki offers his fingers absently, which the little squidge pulls on with its pudgy arms before ducking low again. ]

Hello there, it seems like we'll be waiting this out for some time considering the weather-type circumstances. While we're all rotting away, etcetera etcetera, I thought we could amuse ourselves with a game. A little bit of team bonding funtimes, so to say. [ he twists a dark nailed hand in the air, gesturing. ]

Soo—oo ... it's called Two Truths and a Lie. How do you play? Glad you asked, it's simple! Give two true statements about yourself and add a lie to the mix, shake it up then toss it out there and see if your team members know you well enough to spot the lie.

Usually this is done with copious amounts of alcohol, but we're lacking at the moment. [ pause. ] But—ah—you could always enjoy the satisfaction of being right. It's not like we're doing much else.

NOTE | Feel free to threadjack if that's your thing!! :****

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video | un: evan

[evantuality]

Uhhhh.... oh. Well, I guess it's better than Truth or Dare by a pretty long shot.

Let's see... hmm.

[He takes several careful moments concocting his lie.]

If I had been born a girl, my name would have been Lillian. My best friend till I was six was a werewolf. I graduated valedictorian from high school.

[selfimage]

You were not valedictorian.

[evantuality]

You say that with such certainty! Am I getting unfairly, like, brain-picked here?

[selfimage]

Unfairly fair, perhaps.

[ he's standing by that one. ]

[evantuality]

Now, is that because you're the one who started the game, or because of your ostensible divinity?

[headlining]

Let me see, second one is too obviously a truth, so between the first and the last...maybe the last is the lie?

[evantuality]

Lucky guess!

I almost was. I tied average test scores with this other guy, but he got the official title because they asked him to do the speech. Which apparently was the technical definition they were using of 'valedictorian'.

[headlining]

Oh, good! Seems like I haven't lost my touch.

[He smiles.]

That's too bad. Though I guess you saved yourself some stage fright, I suppose.

[evantuality]

Yeah, you bet. I've got no interest in getting up in front of a bunch of bored high schoolers and talking about our vaunted future opportunities now, and I certainly didn't then, either.

Public speaking. Ugh.

voice, @TARANTO

[heavyhitter]

First one's boring, third one's obvious, you fucking nerd, so I'm gonna guess second one. I bet you were besties until you were eight.

[evantuality]

Hah!

You know, I thought about catching people on a technicality like that? But that would be too easy. Sorry, guess again.

[heavyhitter]

Wait, hold up, I gotta ask why the "until". Did you have a tiny adorable falling out?

[evantuality]

Honestly? He ended up going to a different school than I did. He got usurped by one of the kids in my first grade class.

Boring, I know.

voice | un: Sasaki

[ex_adept136]

[Well, Evan's intelligent and seemed pretty familiar with not-quite-human situations...]

Hm...is it the first one?

[evantuality]

Nope! My mom told me that one ages ago. They'd been holding onto the name, expecting they'd probably have another girl.

Try again!

[ex_adept136]

Huh...let's see...

Were you somehow not valedictorian?

[He's rather dubious on this but werewolf seems too weirdly particular still yet]

[evantuality]

[For all that he's been good and proper Guessed, Evan grins even wider.]

Got it in two, then.

I wasn't valedictorian, but only because I tied with another guy and they ended up giving him the valedictorian's speech at the end of the year. I didn't so much mind; I'm not much of a public speaker, although it would have been nice to have on my resume.

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[strictdiscipline]

You don't like Truth or Dare?

[She doesn't either, but she also doesn't like most games meant to idle away the time.]

[evantuality]

Are you kidding? It's such a transparent excuse to hold the thread of mortal embarrassment or like, bodily harm over someone's head so they'll answer a question that's probably equally embarrassing!

[And he can never think of good questions when he's the asker. >____>]

It's like, you don't win either way. It's a game where you lose or you lose. And you might lose by having to, I don't know, streak. Or eat marshmallows till you puke.

[strictdiscipline]

[All of these reasons are 100% true.]

It's entertaining enough to watch, but I agree, it's not a game I enjoy participating in. [Thankfully, she's always been able to aggressively elbow her way out of them upon threat of death.] What types of games do you enjoy then, if any?

[Might be better to focus on positives rather than negatives.]

[evantuality]

Well, I mean, everyone enjoys games of some sort. Isn't that the point?

[With the righteous indignation of Truth or Dare dying down, Evan grins more prosaically, considering the question. Probably video games are ruled out, as he's reasonably sure her world doesn't have that kind of technology... and is she thinking of games that they could theoretically play?]

I used to play logic games with my dad all the time. Riddles, or word puzzles, or a few others that require certain technologies to play. I mean, sometimes things like 20 Questions. Is that one you know?

(Video; UN: courtesy)

[stonebird]

Lillian is a fine name. Would it be Lily for short? (Such a pretty flower.) What is a Werewolf? I'm afraid I do not know what a valedictorian is either.

[evantuality]

You know, I never asked? But probably. I mean, it would make sense

[Rather than appear disappointed by her lack of knowledge, Evan grins brightly at the young woman on the other end of the network.]

You're not from Earth, are you?

A werewolf is a kind of therianthrope -- and therianthropes are people who have been struck with a condition that forces them to transform into another kind of animal for one to two nights a month. Sometimes they're dangerous, but as long as they've got a handle on their condition they are just like anyone else most of the time.

And 'valedictorian' is a very specific kind of title offered to a student who's gained the highest honors of their graduating class. It mostly takes into account academic achievement, but the title comes with an implicit obligation to give a speech during the graduation ceremony, so things like public speaking skill and popularity are often taken into account too.

[stonebird]

(There is much she is confused about, which is not unexpected. She comes from a world where it is difficult to travel from house to house - much less world to world!)

No, I hail from a land called Westeros.

(She listens intently, intrigued by what he has to say.)

Are there any Werewolves amongst those chosen by ALASTAIR? I do not - and will not - judge them, but if they need special consideration, I would rather know before they transform.

(Everyone appreciates a heads up, right?)

The idea of a school is strange to me. I was taught all of my lessons at home with a Septa.

What did you learn specifically?

[evantuality]

I don't think we've got any therians here, no -- though, to be fair, I'm not even sure their cycle would work the same way off of Earth. They're tied to the lunar cycle specifically, which, well -- [He glances up, as if he could even see the night sky of the planet they're on from here] Different planet, different cycle. Same issue when we're back at Oska, too. But I'll let you know if I hear of any later.

[He offers her a grin for her last question. She's such a polite young woman, seeming older than she is from the way she speaks, and it puts him a little more at ease than he usually is around children.]

That's a question with a lot of meat to it. Uhh -- well, I mean, the basics, mathematics and the sciences like biology and chemistry and physics, but also the humanities, history, social studies, English, any number of miscellaneous electives... and then in the higher-level learning institutions like the one I'm at, theoretical and vocational studies specific to certain specialities. At home I'm in university for computer sciences, though that's pretty Earth-specific.

How does that compare to your home lessons?