VIDEO. UN: LOKI

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[ 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!! :****

Comments

[secondnature]

The paranormal ... so, ghosts?

[twinpeak]

Especially ghosts!

[secondnature]

Do you know how ghosts ... happen? Aside from dying, of course. I didn't know they could even be real.

[twinpeak]

One-hundred percent real, pal. That part's pretty typical stuff—they're spirits stuck on Earth because of unfinished business, yadda yadda. You've heard that much before, right?

[secondnature]

Well, yeah, but there's gotta be something that makes it happen, right? [Then again, he got drawn out into a desert for some reason and ended up following his gut for ... some reason ... and now he flies in a sci-fi/supernatural ship.

So, maybe he can't be too picky about what he accepts as fact just based on fact.]

[twinpeak]

Beats me. Pretty sure souls fall under one of those great mysteries of the universe you can't really explain with science, y'know? A lot of the more... [ He circles a free hand. ] Magic stuff is like that.

[secondnature]

Ah, yeah ... I guess I just figured there'd be something that would make it tick. Then again, like I said—aliens. We've also run into some weird stuff while dealing with them.

And that probably was along the lines of paranormal sometimes.

[twinpeak]

I bet! I wish I could see it for myself... [ As, uh, long as they don't try to kill him? ] But you've definitely got me beat there. I've seen the inside of a spaceship, but that's not nearly the same thing.

[secondnature]

Just inside, or—like, were you out to space, too?

[Keith would try to make sure that Hunk brought him to meet Nice Aliens. They exist.]

[twinpeak]

No, no space. It crashed a long time ago and apparently has been abandoned for millions of years, so it's not all that functional.

[ Mostly. Alien security systems sure are sturdy, it seems. ]

[secondnature]

Oh ... yeah, I came across something like that, too. It turned out that only this one idiot could make it work. Maybe you didn't find the right idiot.

[Lance is not here to contradict this point.]

[twinpeak]

[ #friendship ]

Honestly, you'd have to be an idiot to want to get it working in the first place. It's better off where it is now. Really.

[secondnature]

Huh? Why is that?

[Before he piloted a giant lion, he was supposed to be piloting other ships. So, he feels like he missed something.]

[twinpeak]

For starters, it's huge—an entire colony of people could fit inside that thing! Aaaand it's also buried underground below the town. It'd wreck like half the place if you tried to just fly it out of there.

[secondnature]

Well, the first bit isn't a problem. The second bit definitely is.

My team and I fly around in a flying castle most of the time.

[twinpeak]

A flying castle. Castles can fly?

[secondnature]

This one can.

[twinpeak]

That... sounds crazy, but also really awesome. Why a castle? Is there a lot of you doing this alien fighting business?

[secondnature]

I think the Alteans—oh, um. They're the ones with the castle. I think that they used to have a lot of people traveling around with them doing good deeds.

Uh, but now it's just seven of us? Plus some giant lions and a bunch of mice.

[twinpeak]

Sweet. More space for you guys, I'd say. Sounds like you've got it totally made.

[secondnature]

It isn't so bad, but it'd be better if they improved the food. So far, it looks like ... well.

Slime.