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[dorkypantsuit]

Okay! We've got a few more newbies so the mandatory ice breaker game is two truths and two lies! Say two things about yourself that are true and two that are a lie, and then everyone else well try and guess which ones are the lies. Got it?

I'll go first:

My blood is yellow.
I was hatched with four eyes and four horns.
Purple is my favorite color.
I'm a wanted criminal on my home planet.

[OOC: Respond with your own truths and lies and answer each other, or ask Psi about his. Threadjacking is encouraged!]

Comments

[insidescoop]

I have orange blood!
I'm dating someone!
There's a demon in my soul!
And, ummmm...

Oh! At home, my vision is so bad I wear trifocals!

[whattaprick]

[ Gonna zoom right in on that, fellow Nightrunner! ]

You don't sound too worried about that demon.

[fortuneglass]

We're sort of bound together right now.

He can't do anything except talk-if he tries, the Ringmaster is going to kill him!

But he wouldn't do that I don't think.

[If Aslla didn't have at least a hair of sense when it came to self preservation, he'd be hissing right now.]

[whattaprick]

And nobody's ever tried to separate you?

[ Just telling him kind of defeats the point of the game, but hey, he's all curious and stuff. ]

That must make dates awkward.

Unless you're dating the demon, that is.

[fortuneglass]

D-DEFINITELY NOT!!! [Carly has probably Already forgotten the game, to be fair.]

A-And anyway, this was more recent, sort of...we were only bound for a few days before I joined the Carnival! And I think the Ringmaster offered, but that seems mean...

[whattaprick]

Probably for the best. I wouldn't make any bets on your life expectancy where a demon's involved.

"Being mean" isn't usually the first thing someone with a demon bound to their soul would worry about. [ And they don't really readily reveal themselves to their host either! Curiouser and curioser. ]

[insidescoop]

He's sort of the reason I'm alive at all right now... [Whoop there goes the curious aspect, that little tidbit on it's own is rather telling.]

A-And anyway, he's already lost! Once I go home, he has to go back underground, with the rest of the Earthbound! ...At least this way he gets to see more things first! Maybe he'll learn to be a bit nicer...

[Carly

It's a DEMON]

[whattaprick]

You made a contract wth a demon to save your life?

[ WELP. ]

[insidescoop]

Hey!! No judging! There were a lot of other factors involved..!! [She sounds more scared to admit what those factors were, mind, but...ah well.

She's probably not about to spill it on public radio either.] He lost anyway! So nothing bad can come of it any more!

[whattaprick]

I'm not judging. [ He is totally, 100% judging. ] Just trying to get a clearer sense of the picture.

... Especially if we'll be working together.

[insidescoop]

Working....

Oh! Are you a scout then?? ...or a tailor... I didn't get another notice about help in the wardrobe tent though...

A-Anyway I don't think knowing how we got stuck together really changes things!!

[whattaprick]

Neither. I'm a mercenary. [ He heard her voice that time Mari made that pointedly nightrider-directed address, so ... ]

It'll matter if we're out there and something happens to get you unstuck.

[insidescoop]

Not really...I mean, the only way we'd be 'unstuck' is if he DIED...we're really glued together here!

[whattaprick]

You sound pretty sure about that.

[insidescoop]

It's one of those things you sort out right away after all...and I've been here for three years!

[whattaprick]

Three years? [ That's a long damn time. ]
I thought contracts were only supposed to last a year.

[insidescoop]

They do!

I made three contracts though! All of them for very important things!

[Her last one is for a day of fun with the Ringmaster.]

[whattaprick]

[ So you can renew your contract and get something else… Interesting. ]

Still, don't you want to get home sometime?

[fortuneglass]

Of course!

But time won't pass there until I return, you know...so getting better with what I'm learning here, that'll really pay off when I go back for real right!

I'll be able to help with lots more!

[whattaprick]

If time doesn't pass, isn't it going to look a little strange when you come back three years older?

What needs your help so bad you're willing to stay three years in another world for it?

[mylastchance]

Things don't work here like they do where we're from.

If she says it's fine you should believe here. She has more information about the situation than we do.

[whattaprick]

I try not to believe things just because someone tells me so. Saves a lot of disappointment in the long run.

[mylastchance]

Believe it or not it doesn't effect you in the slightest so there's no point holding an interrogation.

WITH LESS JOURNAL FAILURE

[whattaprick]

Are you the one she's dating?

[mylastchance]

You can care about someone's feelings without being involved with them.