Crystals | OTA

[aforethought]

FORM: Crystals
SENDER: Melys
RECIPIENT: Everyone!
WHAT: IC Would-you-rather
WHEN: Now-ish
WHERE: ~Everywhere~
NOTES: Threadjack like mad, please.

[ without preamble, ]

So here’s what: You make up two choices. Maybe they’re both shit, or maybe they’re both alright, but you say them — then you gotta say which one you’d pick, if you had to.

And maybe why. And then everyone else’s gotta answer too. Like this, 

Would you rather not be able t'lie, or only be able to? 

— And no one gives a damn for who you’re fucking or who fucked you over, so don’t go dragging that mess in here or I’ll puke on your shoes.

Comments

[lionheartedman]

So this is... supposed to be a game?

[ The confusion in his voice is mild, because he understands the concept, he just doesn't see the entertainment value. ]

[motherfucking_ghost]

Ehhh, much fun as lying can be, I'd rather not be able to. What if you're a shitty liar? Plus, man, you'd probably piss a lot of people off if you lied all the time.

Would you rather lose your hearing or your sight?

[aventuriere]

All truth, certainement! All lies would make scholarship impossible.

[youwonscience]

I'll lose lying if I have to. It's hard to truth by omission.

[...not impossible, maybe, but challenging.]

Would you rather permanently give up your favorite type of food or your favorite type of drink?

[faithlikeaseed]

But if you can only tell lies, can't someone bait you into giving them the truth anyway? If they know you're stuck telling lies.

I'd pick only truth, though. I can always shut up [no you can't myr] if it's something I'd rather lie about.

Would you rather be chased by one dragon-sized nugg or a hundred nugg-sized dragons?

[serannas]

I'd rather not be able to lie. You could get into some bad situations, sure, but if you're always lying, no one's ever going to trust you or want to be around you.

Here's a silly one: would you rather only be able to hop everywhere, or crawl everywhere?

[paladingus]

I already can't lie to save my life. [Omit, mislead and insinuate, sure, but not lie, for a strict definition of 'lie' that includes none of those things.] I may as well stick with what I'm used to.

[He considers his question for a while, trying to remember some of the better ones from when he'd played it with the other templars on guard duty back in the day.] Would you rather know when you're going to die, or how you're going to die?

[rowancrowned]

Is an omission of the truth the same as a lie in your game?

[ HIS FAVORITE LINE TO WALK. ]

[faithlikeaseed]

I've got another one--

Would you rather bathe once in a tub full of spiders or wear a swarm of bees for a week?

[elegiaque]

I'm a dreadful liar, it'd change nothing at all if I couldn't.

( LIES OF OMISSION DEFINITELY DO NOT COUNT, SHE OMITS, OMITTINGLY. )


In a foreign land, would you rather understand what everyone was saying yourself without being able to make your own decisions, or decide for yourself what to do while relying on a translator you might not be able to entirely trust? Assume for the sake of argument no one speaks trade.

[thecookery]

This lot really will answer anything they hear on this, won't they?

[inagutterson]

Lies. All lies, all the time.

[After all he is in fact a collection of sentient lies in a coat and boots.

(The greatest one is the one he told about how he didn't care about things, it's really tripping him now it's unravelling at terminal velocity.)]