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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

[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?

[fortuneglass]

Oh, we don't really age here either! Otherwise that could be weird, you're right!

though i don't know if i CAN age, actually... ['You can't', answers a rather faint, deep voice on Carly's end of the radio.]

And I don't know! It just feels like there could be a lot of trouble later on, even if the last big mess is already fixed!

[whattaprick]

Chalk it up to magic, huh?

[ Is that the demon? It talks?? This just keeps getting better and better. He wants to ask about the "last big mess" and other things too, but... ]

Hm. Didn't actually introduce myself, did I? I'm Lambert.

[fortuneglass]

Yep! [And in her case, being Dead.]

I'm Carly Nagisa!

[There is a pause.] ...The demon's name is Aslla Piscu! It's nice to meet you, Lambert!

[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.

[whattaprick]

My mistake. I didn't realize I was speaking to her dad.

[mylastchance]

[The comment makes him pause, because if that was meant to be an insult, he almost certainly did not get it. Of course he wasn't Carly's father, surely everyone who was listening would know that. But then why say it? Is father slang for some other word? Is it that father's are considered bad on Lambert's world? He's completely mystified by the intent behind the accusation.]

I'm sorry. I only speak from experience.

[whattaprick]

Are you serious? [ Lambert snorts in derision, then seems to realize ... well, yes, he is serious. ]

It was a joke. You don't think she can stand up for herself?

[mylastchance]

No. I know she can.

[It doesn't mean he shouldn't help though, especially when Lambert's attitude has him flashing back to his own when he'd first arrived here.]

She's strong, just a bit weird is all.