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[seaboards]

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.

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[empyrean_mirror]

[Kaveh's silent for a long moment, but they're on video. Darin can probably watch him go from stunned to murderously angry live in real time.]

She did what?

[He doesn't raise his voice or anything. But that's the tone of a man who'd like to shove a bloom core right up someone's sphincter.]

[forgeabettertomorrow]

What? Haven't I told you? People with hair like mine are said to have demonkin and beastkin blood. We're considered 'pitiable' by the church. 'Lost Lambs that deserve salvation despite never being allowed it.' All that talk did was make people look down on me like I was a monster or cursed.

Wearing my armor would be a bad omen, she said. My armor would be jeopardizing the lives of everyone she went into battle alongside.

[Despite the somberness in his voice, Darin doesn't appear too upset. He'd made his peace with this years ago.]

My Old Man paid to have her armor commissioned by another Master to settle things up so I wouldn't lose my apprenticeship. It's ancient history now. Almost ten years ago this happened.

[empyrean_mirror]

...Ridiculous. What a vile way to treat people for nothing more than the circumstances of their birth.

[He is practically vibrating with fury.]

You took it to heart at the time, though, didn't you? You were young. You believed what she said about you.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Well, yeah. I believed what everyone said. From the moment I woke up as a child and everyone started calling me 'cursed' because I survived an attack that should have killed me when the rest of my family didn't survive. That kinds sticks with you, you know?

Thing is? Even with all of that? I don't regret it. Because if I changed even a single thing about my past, I wouldn't be where I am now.

[empyrean_mirror]

[...Well that's a sentiment he knows well enough. Doesn't mean he likes it any better.]

...I know better than I'd like to, but that still doesn't mean I like it.

I take it back. She's nothing like the princess, if her ideals were so shallow.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

That's what I said before. Zelda's nothing like her!

Besides, I don't really have a type.

[empyrean_mirror]

You definitely have a type.

[forgeabettertomorrow]

Yeah, it's "Zelda."

How can I have a type? I've never been in love with anyone before.