[ OPEN ] Love me, love me, say that you love me

[ombranera]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Alistair & Zevran
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: The boys broadcast a simple thinking game.
WHEN: Before Leliana’s assassination attempt.
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Adult Content, Alcohol Consumption, Adult Language, Some Sexual Content, Reader Discretion is Advised

You know, we have a game in Antiva, usually one played over drinks or during long hours while awaiting a merchant or a contact for our business- or occasionally played over a meal. Tonight I mean to play it over drinks- [ There is the tell tale sound of brandy being poured not once, but twice over. ] It is a terribly simple thing at the core. It is a game of choices and defending those choices, one of opinions. The choices are not meant to be easy ones- if they are easy to make and easier to defend? The question pitched was done incorrectly. On occasion the choices themselves are to be nigh impossible to make. It is something to agonized over while the game lasts and set aside easily without consequence once it is done.

The game is this: You are given a list of three names. Three marvelous, gorgeous, impressive people that you hold in high regard or admiration.

Or three people who are all completely awful, [ cuts in Alistair, who is Helping, and whose life coping strategies currently include a quantity of alcohol sufficient to induce good cheer but that can't actually be blamed for any bad decisions. ] Three disgusting, terrible people.

And then? The choice.

Of the three you must choose which you would marry, which you would kill, and which you would bed.

And no one takes it personally, ideally.

All in good fun, yes? And this is why the choice must be difficult. One of them dies, hypothetically, one you may have once and never again, depending upon who it is you choose to wed. Simple.

Now say we were to take...Merrill, Dorian, and Leliana. Alistair- what would you choose?

[ A long pause, and then the wounded tone of a man who did not think this through when he agreed to go along with it: ] I don't want to kill any of them.

That is why the choice is difficult and why it is a game.

Ugh. I'm pretty sure all three of them would kill me first. [ BUT FINE. ] Maybe not Merrill. So maybe I'd kill her, for the sake of self-preservation. And I'd marry Dorian. But I think if I say I'd bed Leliana I'm going to die anyway--whatever. That. No one kill me.

Interesting choice. I myself would marry Leliana as it would matter little to either of us, bed Merrill and, alas, kill Dorian. Or... perhaps I ought to bed Dorian, marry Merrill, and kill Leliana- who would likely manage to fake it somehow and the point would be moot.

[ Cheater is mumbled in the background. ]

You are only sad because you did not think of it yourself. [ Soft and singsong. ]

So now I put it to you, my fellow members of the Inquisition. Make suggestions of trios, comment upon them with your choice, debate the decisions made, or simply sit back and laugh at the foolishness. I know I look forward to any dilemma supplied.

Because you're a cheater.

[ OOC: as well as listing your suggestions in the comment, please put them in the subject line if they’re a top level! Threadjacking is encouraged, have fun. ]

Comments

[universal_charm]

<sub>[ Yes, yes he did. He wants to see where you go with this, Sam.

He makes a mock affronted sound on his end before chuckling. ]</sub>

Oh, have a thing for horns, Sam? I never knew.

[el_tybs]

[Sorry Kirk, but you put yourself up against some fierce competition.]

Well I suppose you still don't know, cause I don't know? I don't think I do? It's not like I've slept with anyone who has horns to know.

[universal_charm]

_{[ Sam, you are precious. ]}

Oh, well, that is a pity. But if you ever get the chance, I highly recommend bedding someone with a tail.

[el_tybs]

[Just being honest.]

... A tail...?

[Kirk that's... there are people with tails where you're from?]

[universal_charm]

Oh yes. It's like having a third hand.

_{[ Eyebrow waggle Sam, eyebrow waggle all over the place. ]}

[el_tybs]

That- I don't think I'm going to be looking to try that since the only thing I can think of that has a tail like that is a Desire demon.

[Yeah not going to be doing that.]

[universal_charm]

Demons - it's always demons. Trust me, it wasn't that. Think more like a cat - a half cat-half human kind of thing.

_{[ Seriously, can demons stop ruining the fun things in life. ]}

[el_tybs]

Hey, you're the one that suggested that I sleep with someone with a tail. That's the only thing we got that has anything like that.

So I guess I'm not getting that chance.

[He can't help it if they don't have what you're talking about, Kirk.]

A... half-cat.

[And that makes more sense than magic, huh?]

[universal_charm]

They're not really half-cat, they just look somewhat feline - or what we consider feline, anyways.

[el_tybs]

So then what would they consider themselves?

[universal_charm]

They're called Caitians.

[el_tybs]

That sounds an awful like cat.

[universal_charm]

Maybe, but they're not cats, I promise.

[el_tybs]

Are they covered in fur?

[universal_charm]

No - they have hair on their heads like us and a tuft at the end of their tail.

[el_tybs]

So they look pretty similar to us except for the tail?

[universal_charm]

Yeah, that's pretty accurate.

[el_tybs]

...

It's still a bit weird to picture.

[They had people with horns, but that seemed... more normal?]

[universal_charm]

I'll draw you a picture later.

[el_tybs]

How good are you at drawing?

[universal_charm]

You'll get the general idea.

[el_tybs]

Hm.

[Honestly just picturing Jim drawing stick figures. With a tail. And boobs.]

[universal_charm]

_{[ WOW. RUDE. He's at least a little bit over that level, okay? He's no Michelangelo, but he manages! ]}

Your lack of faith is disturbing.

[el_tybs]

[Never said that was your skill level - who in the world is Michelangelo? - just picturing that's how you'd represent it.]

You always enjoy proving yourself though.

[OoC: Cause I had to.]

[universal_charm]

_{[ ooc: lol, that's what I was going for. ]}

Hmm, that I do. Maybe I'll even draw you like one of my French girls someday.