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[strangerpeople]

DO NOT GRIEVE

[It's early morning. It's probably no surprise that the train has left Victoria's Chasm and its instruments of despair behind. They are off to another designation, another port, through fog that even enters the train in swirling waves.

That is when the rats start to squeak in panic, and sadness seems to roll into the hearts of the remaining strangers as they hear the distant sounds of a roaring cry. It is much like the howl that accompanied Beatrice's death.]

Oh no, I knew we shouldn't have passed here-

Blimey, I saw the eye, I did!

What do we do!?

Come on, get the passengers 'ere!

[What is going on?]

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IC RULES

[strangerpeople]

[Once the passengers have been corralled into the lounge car, one of the rats speaks.]

Mmk. Here's the deal. The big fellow's outside-

[There is sobbing somewhere in the walls.]

-and it's a bit liable to cause people to 'asplode with grief. So, uh, we're gonna do something less grief-y, loves.

This one's called two truths and a lie-

[Wailing, and squeaks of "THEY'RE ALL GONE! ALL GONE! BUT I AM STILL HERE!!"]

...I'll put on this here radio and we can, um, drown that out. We're going to play and the person who stumps the most people will, uh, win a prize!

Hmm, shoot, I gotta figure out what I'll give you-anyways, who wants to go first?

OOC RULES

[strangerpeople]

👁️‍🗨️ The rules are simple. Play two truths and a lie! The person who stumps the most people while playing wins!

👁️‍🗨️ No RNG required! This is all about what your character knows or suspects, baby.

👁️‍🗨️ Everyone who participates gets a coin, and the winner gets something special!

👁️‍🗨️ Also, everyone should probably stay in the lounge car and not try and catch a glimpse of whatever is outside. Of course, you can do this in the armaments car weapon windows if you want, since otherwise there's no way to look out the windows, but none of you are going to do that, right?

[technicolourdifficulties]

[Well, this isn't concerning at all.]

...Just to be clear, lies are not liable to manifest as, for want of a better term, living things in this world, correct?

[Listen, it's a valid concern.]

[telecosmetic]

[Eliza seems to hem and haw for a bit, before speaking up.]

Before this, worlds I've visited include a snow-filled abandoned town, an island where children never grow up, and a damaged space station.

[katzenpfote]

Hmm... it seems simple enough. All right.

I have killed an oni, I have helped to kill a fire giant, and I have been a pirate.

[overworker]

[Ah. Hmm...

Oh! Let's try it.]

My best friends are: a guy who gambles with kids for candy playing card games, a prim and proper young lady who wins over the hearts of every man that she meets and an engineering genius who was scouted for one of the most prestigious institutes of technology and turned it down.

Which one's the lie?

[whitemoontiger]

[ This is a bit of a concern, but for now, he figures it would be best to play along. ]

O-Okay, well... Prior to being on this train?

[ Atsushi clears his throat. Time to do this. ]

I could turn myself into a white tiger, I'm best friends with someone in the local mafia and one of my coworkers is obsessed with trying to kill himself.

[otherworldlyking]

[ Okay fine, it's whatever... ]

I've fought a couple of someone's overpowered machine head on before all at the same time, I've woken up early in the morning to get some things done, and I've found someone who can handle me in battle even if I turn up the heat...with my powers intact.

[technicolourdifficulties]

[After quite a lot of debate on whether or not it would be safer to or not to play, RGB finally settles on three.]

...Nothing is stronger than trees, Time will tell, and the sun is in the sky.

[eternaldivide]

[ After careful consideration and deciding that ... he's a kid. He should enjoy these kinds of games, he'll participate. Even if he actually doesn't really feel like it.

And there's one (technically two) who know enough of This Part of his life that he'll... bounce off of it. ]

I've made Pacts with the Maiden of the Mist, the Ruler of Hellfire, and the Hammer of Godly Lightning.

[unwittingking]

[King has been here the whole time even if his player hasn't. He's just been biding his time thinking, and now he's got an idea.]

I've had to handle my own soul while it was in stop watch form, I had a big expensive wedding because I'm technically related to a family of rich ferrets, and the first time I met my wife Bailey, it was in Alabama.

[biddentodance]

[Well, okay....simple enough. The game, that is, not the part where he stops grieving. Thinking up things to say is harder.]

Have seen the ocean turn to blood.

Know a guy who made a time machine.

Have met a man with a nose twelve inches long.

[And he maintains a perfectly straight face and even tone.]

I've totally been paying attention to my phone shhhhh

[charmingheroine]

I've had a steady boyfriend, I'm technically related to Dracula, and ... I don't know how much I want to admit in this game!

[dragonmouth]

Well, alright!

I've never really kissed a girl, my stepfather has tried to kill me every week of my life, and I'd say there's about fifty or so cats back in my home.

CW: talk of violence and eye trauma

[zackthekiller]

[Whelp. Guess shit's gonna happen every week, huh?

Crown the deerling is curled up on one of the couches next to Zack, who is trying to think of something.]

... Okay, how about this. Before I got dragged to Magical Girl Hell, I was working in this priest guy's murder basement with a bunch of other sickos. Now, the way the priest had it set up, we each had our own floor, and they sent what he called "sacrifices" down there to try and escape before someone killed them. And the people I worked with... Well... One guy was a shrink who liked to steal people's eyeballs, a sadistic bitch who treated her victims like they were on death row, and this one girl who kept flirting with the people she killed.

[unwittingking]

…I want to say all of that is a lie, but that's probably not an option, so I'm going to say the first guy doesn't exist.

[He just sounds like the type of psychopath that people come up with off the top of their head, really.]

[overworker]

I... the third maybe?

[Wow Zack’s life is weird.]

[katzenpfote]

... All of those are likely, so I am going to say... the first.

[charmingheroine]

The second. If they're meant to have the impression that escape is possible, why do that?

[It's just logic, after all.]

[biddentodance]

[He does not like this.]

F-First.

[dragonmouth]

Er... second, I suppose?

[telecosmetic]

The third one, right? [Eliza, you have an unfair advantage here.]

WINNER

[strangerpeople]

[There are some squeaks as everyone is finished.]

Ok! You should tell everyone...which was the lie! And we'll give the winner something of theirs from the baggage claim, I guess. I know it's not much, but it's better than nothing, right?

[The mist begins to roll away; the despair does as well. They are leaving this dark place.


OoC: Not to spoil, but the winner who stumped the most people was...Zack! Congrats! Everyone else gets a coin for the baggage claim!]

ARMAMENTS CAR

[strangerpeople]

[...well, you were warned.]

[otherworldlyking]

[ There's always going to be that one person.

So, how about a taking a peek? ]