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Princess Arianna Caledonia ([personal profile] daughterofthemark) wrote in [community profile] phantasmalrift2018-09-21 09:24 pm

say or do

Who: everyone's invited, everyone
What: Truth or Dare!
When: Evening of August 25
Where: Keystone Rise common room
Warnings: nothing expected? there are children here

[Friday morning a network post appears which reads:]

For the enjoyment of all, and that we may come to know each other more closely, you are cordially invited to the Keystone Rise common room this evening at seven o'clock for refreshments and the classic party game "Truth or Dare." Everyone will be welcome, regardless of age.

[As promised, residents arriving in the common room will find a table with an assortment of food and drink laid out. (Don't worry, Yuuri helped with the food, so it's not just the candy aisle. Be sure to thank Goro for the drinks later.) Arianna's also brought in an assortment of couches (which she apparently carried???) and extra chairs, a few of which are those slightly uncomfortable bank chairs Arianna seems to like for some reason.

The lady herself waits by the entrance, greeting everyone who comes in, until it looks like her guests are done arriving. Then she gets up on a chair to speak.]


Good evening, everyone, and welcome.

I presume many of you are familiar with the game we are to play tonight. For those who are not, it is simple. We'll draw lots to determine the play order, and then each player will ask the next "truth or dare?" If the other player responds with "truth," you may ask them a question which they must answer truthfully. If they instead say "dare," you may instead give them a command they must obey. Once all players have taken a turn, we'll play a second around, and continue for as long as you are interested.

Now, there are of course several rules. While embarrassing other players is arguably an intended goal of the game, making them uncomfortable is not, and if that is the effect of your truth or dare I must ask that you change it. Moreover, please keep in mind your respective ages and those of your audience, and do nothing that the rest of us would find inappropriate in that regard.

If all this is understood, then without further ado, let us begin.

[OOC: So how this actually works is, you post a toplevel and other people respond to it. ICly the assignments are random like Arianna says, but OOCly you can just tag whoever you want, go back and forth, etc. And as she mentioned, there are children here, so try to behave appropriately.

I'll be ripping off Nai's format and posting toplevels for responding to Arianna's network post and for pregame chatter. Non-ToD threads should go under one of those.]
nojohnyouare: Talking. (what i've become)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-09-24 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
A lot of things. But... It's welcoming here. No matter who you are. Or what you want.
dubiouslychthonic: (Smile)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-09-24 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I'll certainly agree with that. [A little sad that that's something that'd take her by surprise, but Jetshard won't say as much. Might as well make some effort to keep the mood positive in here.]
nojohnyouare: Inspecting a piece of sushi. (you are the silence in between)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-09-24 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. ...Truth or dare. If that's okay.
dubiouslychthonic: (Smile)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-09-25 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, I'll go another round. Truth this time.
nojohnyouare: Even her clothes look like Clarith's. (the ship is slowly sinking)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-09-25 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
[She thinks.] Strangest thing about humans. In your opinion.
dubiouslychthonic: (go on)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-09-25 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm. Probably how finely gradated your kinship structures are, and the extent to which your other social connections are mapped onto the genetic kinship relationships. Trolls so rarely encounter a genetic relative of any kind, we don't really think of our relationships in those terms.
nojohnyouare: Dancing. (when it's clear)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-09-25 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. That's true. Family is important. And sometimes you make your own. The relationship just builds itself, and then you decide what it is. ...I think. I'm a bad person to ask about relationships.
dubiouslychthonic: (sorry were you still talking)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-09-25 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose it's similar with us, but since we don't really have parent or sibling relationships with other trolls in the first place, we don't think of things in those terms.
nojohnyouare: Lying on the ground. (save me)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-09-25 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Okay. It's probably strange to see all over, then.
dubiouslychthonic: (Default)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-09-25 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
Strange, but a good sort of strange I think.

You want to do another? Truth or dare?
dubiouslychthonic: (Laugh)

[personal profile] dubiouslychthonic 2018-09-26 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
Here.

[Although the bulk of Jetshard's looting in Incendia had been limited to practical supplies, she'd been... probably a little more amused by some of the festival booths than she'd strictly like to admit. What she pulls from Izunia's Armiger now can only have come from the City Lights booth; a plastic headband with spring-bopper antenna. The ends of the boppers bear small glowing balls, which slowly cycle through the rainbow, not quite in sync with one another.]

Wear that.
nojohnyouare: Processing an existential crisis in bunny ears. (in your bright blue eyes)

[personal profile] nojohnyouare 2018-09-26 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mai stares at the deely bobbers. She turns on the light and sets them on her head, expressionless.]

Festive.