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[happydreamed]

If this adventure with chain mail has taught me anything, 'tis that many of us here are having our first exposure to the internet, with all its amusements and pitfalls included. Thus, I thought it might be nice to introduce another 'getting to know each other' game that some of us might not know yet. This one won't involve pictures or ratings of attractiveness, not to worry.

This game is called 'two truths and a lie'. The premise is simple. You list three statements about yourself, two true and one false. Ideally they should all be similar levels of unbelievable. Then, other people respond to you to guess which one is the lie. We all learn a little about each other and have a bit of fun.

Comments

[kingside]

Horses are quite stupid, so I'm not surprised.

[at_heart]

Yeah it's definitely a
Damning with faint praise kinda thing

One sec I can get you a photo

[ you want a photo don't you Lelouch ]

[kingside]

Very well.

[This had better not give him nightmares. Not that it's likely to, but after some of the things he's read on this post, he's not ruling it out.]

[at_heart]

[ Thistle does, indeed, mostly look like a horse. Furrier, as Yuri said. Pointed, rat-or-dog-or-somethinglike face. Front legs bent the same direction as her back.

Otherwise, fine! ]

How's that

NERD

[kingside]

[Less of an eldritch horror than he'd been expecting but also wat.]

Huh.

shut up I'm not a nerd (tsun)

[at_heart]

[ Thistle is kind of JUST Not Horse enough to not be uncanny valley. Especially if you aren't actually looking at her face, which the armor helpfully covers most of the time. ]

You're telling me
How do you think I felt when I first saw one of your horses?

oh silly me yes you're a totally normal individual who likes. normal. things.

[kingside]

Fair point.

[That'll teach him to be so Earth-centric. Anyway.]

Her name?

i like normal things and i like those normal things a normal amount

[at_heart]

[ There's this telling pause. He's still kind of annoyed with himself that he remembered it and was glad to see her. ]

Thistle

yes same

[kingside]

[Uh huh.]

Good name.

[He sees you, Yuri. Not going to call you out though.]

both very normal

[at_heart]

Thanks it's the name she came with

[ :| ]

the most

[kingside]

[Mmhmm.]

And I imagine by then she wouldn't respond to anything else, of course.

<3

[at_heart]

[ ............................... ]

Yes

[kingside]

[Right.]

Nothing else for it. A pity.

[at_heart]

Yep

[ Do regular horses even know their names? ]

[kingside]

[a mystery]

Odd that our worlds both have thistle but not horses, but I'll leave it at that.

[He's done tormenting you, in other words. For now.]

[at_heart]

[ It's too bad playercest prevents him from ever really talking to Suzaku, because he's never going to be able to truly bully you the way you deserve. ]

Don't forget the possibility of ~magical translation~

[kingside]

[Rude.]

For proper nouns?

[at_heart]

It's the name of a plant isn't it?

[kingside]

And that of your horse-adjacent steed.

[at_heart]

Yeah but the horse is named after the plant

Which is something horses like to eat on my planet

[kingside]

People's names in other languages don't translate literally. Why would it be different for a horse?

[at_heart]

I mean some people's names definitely translate literally

[ Just because you haven't met Crow That Heralds the Red Rain yet. ]

[kingside]

[... Hell.]

So it's entirely arbitrary and teaches us nothing. Typical.
I'm going to find a picture of thistle from my world at the library and show it to you. If if matches what you recall, then both our worlds do indeed have thistle.

[at_heart]

Honestly now I'm hoping this place also has a thistle but that it's totally unrecognizable to both of us

[kingside]

I hate the way you think.