001 (text, then video)

[electroburst]

we're playing two truths and a lie. if you've never played, it's a game where you say three things: two that are true, one that isn't, and everyone tries to guess which one's the lie.

if you wanna go hard mode, do it with the camera on.

[ the "camera" comes on a moment later to Reno's grinning face. ]

I'll go first!

One: I've got a license for just about anything that flies, and I'm a certified flight instructor.
Two: I've had the same job since I was twenty-two.
Three: I don't have a favorite color.

[ His poker face is immaculate; there are no tells, just his smirk and his unflinching eye contact with the camera. Good luck with your guess. ]


( this is an open post, so feel free to threadjack and play this silly game amongst yourselves. i only provide drunken party entertainment here apparently. )

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[inemeraldfaith]

Oh, this sounds like fun.

I think the lie in yours might be the colour one. I don't actually know how long you've been working for the Turks. Feels like forever!

Uhm, for me:

- I've never had a job!
- I do errands for an orphanage sometimes!
- I once took part in a coliseum gauntlet!

[electroburst]

nope, not that one. apparently that's weird of me? i just don't care that much about colors.

yours is 3. "never had a job" is a riot, though.

[inemeraldfaith]

Hmmm. So which one is the lie? I thought maybe if you had a favorite colour, it'd be red. Like your hair!

I haven't had a job like yours. I'm tough, though. I could fight in lots of coliseums. I might prove it if we ever find one here!

[electroburst]

i'm not just gonna tell you, you're supposed to guess! free intel like this doesn't come easy, y'know.

you're tough enough, but a coliseum? you don't got any business with coliseums.

[inemeraldfaith]

You said it wasn't the one about the colour, i think. So probably the time you've spent working. I know you can fly things, but I guess you don't have be licensed to do that.

You never know. Sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures. You should never rule out a possibility! After all, you don't really have any BUSINESS in a flower field, but I'm gonna make you go in one.

[electroburst]

yeah, technically you don't. or maybe i'm not an instructor! really makes you think, doesn't it? soooo, which one's your guess?

your business is my business, so that makes flowers my business. easy peasy.

so wait, you're telling me someone seriously dragged you to a coliseum?! don't tell me you went by yourself.

[inemeraldfaith]

Uhm. Every time I ask questions, I feel like I'm even less certain than I was before. So maybe the first one? Let's go with the first one.

Hm. My business is your business, is it? [She can hazard a guess as to why.]

That said, I didn't say someone dragged me to a coliseum. And I could definitely go to one by myself if I had to. I was able to travel between the sectors on my own. Coliseums aren't much worse than that.

[electroburst]

gotta learn to trust that gut! it was the second one.

yep. wouldn't be much of a guardian if it wasn't.

[ not much of a "guardian" anyway, considering... y'know... but he's getting along just fine pretending that's not a thing! so! don't! think about it! ]

they're a little bit worse than that! tell me you didn't go to the one in wall market. like, i mean, it was the gold saucer at least. right?

[inemeraldfaith]

Darn! You made me second guess myself! I'll get you next time! [Gadget.]

I didn't know you knew much about coliseums, but I guess the Turks know all and see all. You wouldn't be doing a good job if you didn't know what the Midgar Underground was up to.

It actually was the Wall Market one, though. Cloud and I had to go for a very important reason. I don't know that I'd go again, but since we were there, winning just seemed like a good goal to have in mind.

[electroburst]

you wanna go another round, just say the word.

cloud? god dammit, i'm gonna kick his ass so bad. i don't know how many times i have to tell you to stay away from wall market.

you BETTER have won though. how many rounds?

voice;

[mercedis]

Am I allowed to guess, or do you want to make it harder for me?

[inemeraldfaith]

[This is unfair because he probably already knows all of the answers.]

I don't know that I could make it harder for you, actually. You don't think this would be a little boring because you know so much about me already?

[mercedis]

There's a lot that I don't know. Give me the hard version.

[inemeraldfaith]

Hmmm. You're not going to make this easy for me, are you.

[She pauses to think about this before continuing.]

I have two mothers and I'm not from Midgar.

I'm an accomplished underground chocobo racer.

I'm the last of my kind.

[mercedis]

All these seem to check out.

( teasing. )

What's your chocobo racing name?

[inemeraldfaith]

[This is a pop quiz she wasn't prepared for. Off the top of her head—]

Fearless Fury!!

[mercedis]

Oh yeah, I've heard of you. Fastest pink chocobo in the business.

[inemeraldfaith]

[Come on, don't make her laugh. She has to stifle and choke down the beginning of a giggle.]

I didn't know you were a fan. Do you know how hard it is to breed a pink chocobo? Any colour that isn't yellow plumage is difficult to get. Requires a lot of work. Once you're in that deep, it's hard to get outof the biz, as it were.

[mercedis]

I've heard it's pretty difficult. Hardest one is a black one, right? Pink must be up there, too.

How'd you keep your chocobos out of all your flowers? Guess you must have a farm somewhere.

Look at all these things you never told me.

[voice] a bit late but I can't resist this

[parasaito]

What kind of coliseum provides chairs as weapons?

[A short pause and a half-chuckle later.]

Assuming that third statement is true.

I LOVE HIM. I'll still be hitting back our other thread, too. ❤️

[inemeraldfaith]

[Oh, that's a voice that she has thought about a great deal, but tried to somewhat avoid. He is trouble and in some ways, makes her more nervous than Sephiroth does.]

Technically those two things are connected, but it wasn't actually the coliseum that I used the chair for. The coliseum definitely happened.

where is my hypecat emoji when I need it?! (ilu chair girl)

[parasaito]

[An uninterested hum can be heard.]

Let me guess, you used your overwhelming verbal prowess to distract your enemies?

miaow miaow miaow miaow

[inemeraldfaith]

Hmmmm. Nope.

There was a bit of a distance issue there. I guess I could have done that if I just yelled out across the field. That seemed somewhat counterproductive to the whole situation, though.

[parasaito]

Have you never considered that your habit of meddling in the affairs of others is just as counterproductive?

[inemeraldfaith]

Sure I've thought about it. But then decided that the ends justified the means. Sometimes I really do believe that my way is the right way to go about it.