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TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE

There have been a lot of riftfarers arriving lately. It seems like there have been more arriving than usual. So many different kinds of people from different kinds of worlds with stories to tell and experiences to give.

A little game has appeared on the shellphone network in hopes of getting to know just a little more about these otherworlders. You might find it on your shellphone as you’re scrolling through one day.

Tell the world two truths and one lie about yourself. And let others try and decipher which of the three is your lie. If they can guess right, perhaps you’ve been able to make a new acquaintance. Or in the least learn more about someone from another walk of life.

Comments

[astudyinviolet]

The least interesting? Truly?

[matermali]

If I am to judge you to hail from Earth, then I would be far more curious with how you found an elephant in your yard. Beginning a tradition in any art is nothing to scoff away, either.

What would 'to this day' entail, however? Do you recall the year before you were brought here?

[astudyinviolet]

I come from Earth, and it was 1882 before I came here.

As for the lie, my first statement is true. The man I helped escape from his cell introduced himself as Napoleon for that is who he believed himself to be.

[ He wasn't actually Napoleon Bonaparte. ]

[matermali]

Well played. I ought to have considered the possibility.

It has been quite a long time since I've spoken with anyone having known the same century as I, and here you are only ten years separated from when I last saw London.

[ Or what was left of it. 1882 was a horrible year, as she recalls, but 1892 was objectively worse. ]

1892, ACD Holmes was "dead" lol

[astudyinviolet]

[ 1880, 1882, both were/are horrible years for Sherlock. He hopes 1892--if he manages to survive until then--is kinder to him. ]

I am from London as well. Even with the short time I've been here, I can tell that the population comes from a vast range of time and location. How interesting that they are those closer together.

[ Sherlock has no idea that there are some even closer to his time and place. ]

But I digress, would you like to try again with my last two statements?

heeey so was she

[matermali]

Yes, that can require some to need time to adjust the necessary steps to take in such a world.

Well enough. Then I will guess at three as the lie. I prefer the idea of art carrying on in such a manner.

[astudyinviolet]

My third sentence was true. I had a decoy elephant in my front yard after having used it to attract a neighbor's elephant after it had run away.

[ Sherlock's elephant may not have been real, but there was still a real elephant involved. ]

The lie in my second sentence is that I helped start a theatrical tradition and not a musical one.

whyyyy did I think I had responded to this!? time is an illusion

[matermali]

Now I have been left twice disappointed.

Which tradition was that, then?

Oh no, maybe the notif got eaten

[astudyinviolet]

When I was a child, children were not allowed in the theater, not even to learn how to act. Some of the local children and I put on a play in the back entrance. We impressed the director so much that he changed his stance.

When I returned as an adult, children were still putting on that play but now on the theater stage.

[matermali]

Is that so? What play did you and your friends so master as to impress the director, then?

text | un: astudyinviolet

[astudyinviolet]

Hamlet. I played the titular character.

[ It's perfectly normal for children around nine and ten years old to perform Hamlet in Cordona now.... ]