[network/open] Set During the Deep Event Prompt

[thedoctorsmate]

Who: Donna Noble
Username: supertemp
Warnings: None

Show of digital hands, who hates this?
I didn't sign up to be stuck in a flat with a psychopath, personally.
Dunno about the rest of you lot.

So, in the interest of not going insane...
Games.
Two truths and a lie.
Rules are like it sounds.
List two true things about yourself, then one lie.
Don't say what's true or not.
People have to guess that.

I'll go first.

1. I've been to a planet made entirely of emeralds.
2. My best friend has two hearts.
3. I've met Agatha Christie.

((ooc: Everyone please feel free to threadjack around, have your characters respond to each other, rather than Donna!))

Comments

un: chosewell

[failedpromise]

1. I've never read a book.
2. I've never drunk coffee.
3. I've never seen the stars.

[thedoctorsmate]

Okay, so... two of those are incredibly depressing.
Sure you're not playing two lies and a truth?

[failedpromise]

(Depressing?

...Oh.)

If it helps, I'm not Human.

(And she may be playing a bit of a trick-plenty of books in her databases, but she's never done the physical act of picking a book up and reading it.)

[thedoctorsmate]

[It only possibly helps.]

Depends, doesn't it?
Not human in the sense of you're some sort of program is one thing, and I'd guess the coffee.
Not human in the sense of you're alien that lives 300-ft below your planet's surface, and I'd guess the stars.
Not human in the sense of you're made of, like... vapor, and I'd guess the books.

[failedpromise]

You know you're supposed to be guessing the lie, right?

(Cortana might be laughing to herself. As depressing as it seems, two of those things really are true.

Not that she's going to drop any more hints.)

[thedoctorsmate]

Fine.
I hope you've seen the stars, so I'm guessing that's the lie.

[failedpromise]

Considering I've functioned as a starship's AI, you would be correct.

[thedoctorsmate]

[Oh! That's... hmm.]

But you've never had anyone read to you?
Or do you not have access to books?
Wait, are you still in a starship?

[failedpromise]

No need for anyone to read to me-I've got plenty of books in my databases.

My avatar couldn't exactly pick up a physical book and read it, though.

...It would be easier if we had a starship, wouldn't it.

(Or, in other words, no she is not.)

text; un: Username

[canofmanji]

it has to be 3 just look up to see them!

[failedpromise]

(She sees the username and snorts. Did this person really...?)

While you are correct in this case, you do know that not everyone can see, right?

[canofmanji]

[Now he feels like shit. He mentally kicks himself as he should know better seeing as he now has a roommate who can't see either.] sorry about that. didnt think about you being blind.

[failedpromise]

(Now she's wondering if he made his password "password".)

Don't worry I'm not actually blind. And I have seen the stars.

(She's laughing to herself now.)

[canofmanji]

[Of course he didn't! It's Password!1 because he needed a capital letter, a special character, and a number!]

see! still found the lie then didnt i? i was on to something.

[failedpromise]

(He's getting his account hacked later.

For now ...okay that does get a laugh, even if he can't see or hear it.)

True enough.

Your turn.

[canofmanji]

[Each options comes slowly typed one after the other. He hasn't figured out line breaks yet and he's typing with just one finger. One slow button press at a time.]

i lost my arm in a war
people call me the 100 man killer back home
i dont know how to drive a car

[failedpromise]

(She considers this.

The first two seem to fit together: both are something she'd expect of a soldier. The third is an outlier, and so she chooses that.)

Hmmmm... I think I'll go with option three.

un: carrots

[whisperedone]

books are expensive and difficult to get a hold of in some parts of the world. maybe not here.

[failedpromise]

Just to clarify: is that your guess?

[whisperedone]

oh. yes. sorry.

[failedpromise]

Unfortunately for you, that one is true.

[whisperedone]

[He thinks a moment. Is he allowed to ask clarifying questions? Are there other rules to this game? Well, no reason not to try.]

Are you a dwarf?

[failedpromise]

(She pauses, blinking at the question.)

No, though I'm not sure what that has to do with anything.

(She's thinking of the medical condition of dwarfism, not the fantasy people who live underground.)

[whisperedone]

["What it has to do with anything?" It has to do with everything, as far as Garner understands.]

oh, then you're lie is that you have never seen the stars. i thought perhaps if you were a dwarf that would one might be true seeing as most live within the earth. though, i admit, not all.

[failedpromise]

I think we're talking about two different kinds of dwarf.

Regardless, you are correct.