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[sos_pilot]

Type: Video
Sender ID: perfpilot (della duck)
To: Public
Subject: SUP OTHER-WORLDER PEOPLE!!!
Warnings: N/A, will update if needed

[ At first, the Shellphone is RIGHT UP CLOSE TO HER FACE. After a few seconds, she pulls back, and makes a peace sign. Though she keeps the phone steady, she herself moves plenty, cheerful and popping! ]

Suh-weeeet! Super glad this place has the tech. Way too many worlds are stuck in the whole fantasy-medieval-ancient times shtick, and that gets old FAST. Not saying this place is perfect, the whole... ocean... vibe majorly sucks... but, gotta look on the bright side.

But that's way too long before I can say - hey! I'm Della Duck! Don't suppose any of you know my uncle Scrooge? Guess that'd make things too easy... but it's all good! Not my first rodeo! We defeat bad guys, get the magical treasure, have some meaningful journeys and discover the true treasure inside us all along, blah blah blah, home we go.

So, let's skip all the doom and gloom and get right to the learning, shall we? From the looks of things, I'm not the first visitor here, so drop that knowledge on me - what did you wish someone had told YOU on your first day here? What took you way too long to learn?

And, uh, let's see, what else... oh, let's play a game! Best way to make new friends! I got the perfect one too - Two Truths And A Lie! Tell me three things about yourself, one's a lie, and I gotta guess which. Play around! I'll go first!

I'm a mother of three!
I'm allergic to gold!
I'm an ace pilot with my own plane!

Okay, go!

((OOC: feel free to threadhop for the 2truths1lie game!))

Comments

[sos_pilot]

[ Honestly, that third thing sounds like a casual McDuck adventure. So she takes a moment to mull, lightly tapping her beak. ]

Hmmm... the first two are the ones giving me trouble. You seem pretty scrawny to swim that far, but porridge hair is just too weird... y'know what? Yeah, I'm going with porridge. What are you, Goldilocks?

[catsgothistongue]

[Scrawny?? Look who's talking with those noodle arms and toothpick legs! Ranma'll let this slight slide, since it's only ensuring his lie remain a secret. Needless to say, that's a big ol' smirk on the teen's face hearing Della's guess.]

BZZZZZZZT!

[Doing his best gameshow buzzer impression, he puts a finger down. Strike one.]

Wrong!~ Though it's more like Rapunzel than Goldilocks. I ate some rice porridge during my travels made out of a magic dragon's whisker. The whisker helps bald men with chrome domes by growing a full head of hair. But if someone who isn't bald eats it, then their hair keeps growing forever 'till it all falls out.

[So you know. A fun time.]

[sos_pilot]

[ ... boy, doesn't that raise ALL the questions? Even for all her adventuring, that's still pretty out there! She's rather impressed! ]

... So, you were that desperate to get the mop-top, huh?

[ She assumes he was a very sad, bald teenager. Why else eat it? ]

[catsgothistongue]

[Perks of being a comedy-orientated shounen protag! You get into some crazy adventures whether you want to or not!

Flattest look he could ever give a duck... not named Mousse.]

No, that's not it! I've always had a full head of hair from the day I started training, also who are you callin' mop-top?

[Sagging his shoulders, grousing that last part under his breath. To even suggest that mere horrific idea is a big ol' nope!]

I was starvin', saw a bunch of bandits stealing food from a guy, kicked their sorry butts, and the guy let me have it as thanks. [... Leaving out the part where he scarfed the bowl almost immediately after stopping them, but his defense, he hadn't eaten for days! Far as he's concerned, it's payment for stopping the thieves. Fair trade in his weary, macerated eyes.] He only told me that it was gonna make my ponytail go all Scyllian on me after my hair filled the entire room!

[Wrong Ancient Greek figure - he's thinking gorgon with the snakes for hair - and greatly exaggerating here since it wasn't like his hair became alive, but potato potahto since his hair growth was still uncontrollable that it felt like trying to rein in snakes.]

The magic on it expired before I could go bald, so fiasco averted!

[Minus the fact his hair's still a lot longer than it should be normally, crammed tight in the braided pigtail he's got on, but he can live with that.]

[sos_pilot]

[ She holds a finger up, ready to correct him on Greek mythology, before deciding the attempt is pointless for the moment. Let's stick to one backstory at a time. ]

All's well that ends well, I guess? Back to the game, that leaves... swimming oceans versus fighting the legendary eight-headed dragon.

Going with the worst case of swimmer's ear ever - which you never got!

[catsgothistongue]

[Whatever poker face he was trying to uphold completely broke when she gave her final answer.]

Hah! Really wish that was the case, but nah. It made trekking through China a major pain in the neck [Or in this case, ear canal] before it cleared up. Fourth- [Pause, to give it more thought.] Fifth worst thing I had to deal with there.

[In order, fourth being the dragon's whisker, third was Pop being his old self, second is getting hunted by a peeved off Amazon, and number one's that literal accursed spring!

Keeping a cheeky smirk on his face, he rests his chin on his palm.]

Looks like I won two for two.

[sos_pilot]

[ She clicks her tongue, upset she lost but glad to have so much new info about her friend. ]

... I gotta say, you play this game really good! Defeating the legendary eight-headed dragon sounded so outrageous that I assumed it had to be true! I'm kinda disappointed it wasn't!

[catsgothistongue]

[Helps that a lot of his life can be described as outlandish and outrageous, that it leaves room for doubt. Ranma shrugs, resting his arms behind his head while sitting back on the sofa in his place, balancing his phone on a knee.]

It isn't fully a lie. We did fight the Orochi, [They even went through the whole rigmarole of following the original tale to the dressing up part.] but that thing's too big to be taken down through brute force. The main plan was to get moss growing on its back to save a sick guy from dying, not defeating it. We only managed to beat it 'cuz of a whistle that put it to sleep, so... I personally still count that as a win.

[sos_pilot]

Well, hey! You gotta take victories where you can! Any crash you can walk away from is successful one!

[ She supposes she ought to thank Launchpad for that advice... ]

So it sounds like it was still a defeat for him and a win for you! Which makes all three of your facts truths!

[catsgothistongue]

Ain't that the truth. Long as you're walking away alive and on top with everything still attached, that's good 'nough for me.

[... Huh, when she puts it like that...]

Does that violate the rules? [And asked more tensely:] ...Do I gotta give up my win streak?

[sos_pilot]

Well, the point of the game was to learn about each other, and we definitely did that! So I'd say we both won!

[ There, it's even stevens! (But Della pointed out the inconsistency so she's the WINNER winner) ]