voice

[rathercommon]

[ Kitty's voice is cheerful, girlish, and energetic. She hasn't been around lately: the effects of getting out the warning about the invasion of Olympus had intense physical effects on her, and a long period of unconsciousness has been followed by a period of working hard to recover from that physical weakness. So this post's chipperness is partially motivated by the fact that Kitty's persona/alias Lizzie is just a chipper person, and it's partially motivated by the fact that Kitty wants to prove to herself that she's recovered and in good health and spirits. So...Honestly, that energy is frankly bordering on manic. ]

Hullo, Zion! Or at least the network-users of Zion. It's Lizzie again.

A few things. The first of these things, I think, is going to make some of you quite happy. I expect a lot of you remember the restaurant I work at - Cafe Modak - it's the one with the best food in the whole city, so you might have heard of it. If you pay attention to those sorts of things. Anyway, Chef and Mrs Dutt - that's our owner - are putting together a little celebration dinner, for the people who helped defend Olympus. And also when I say little celebration dinner, I actually mean that it's going to basically be a feast. Everyone's invited, but people who helped out get to eat free. So if you've got any dishes to request, just request them here, and I'll pass it along to the two of them.

Anyway, the second thing is that we really don't all know each other so well, do we? I mean, we do all use this, but I hardly know any of your names. Or anything about you. So we ought to play one of those silly games like they make you do, to get comfortable with the people around you. So...How about we play a few rounds of two truths and a lie? If you all know that game. Or you could do a little introduction speech. Or just talk about your favorite sims, if you do sims.

[ Translation: let me pick your brains and figure out what sorts of people you are. ]

Comments

voice;

[mightyfallen]

[ The voice that answers is less plucky, more tolerantly amused, but all right, he'll bite. ]

Why don't you start us off? Two truths and a lie, Lizzie.

voice;

[rathercommon]

Oh - me?

[ Her voice slips into something a little more teasing. (She of course has two lies and a lie prepped, so this isn't evasion, it's actually teasing him a little bit.) ]

I don't know. How can I know that you're not just trying to get me to give up my air of mystery without giving anything back yourself?

voice;

[mightyfallen]

Me? Wouldn't dream of it. Politician's honor.

[ So, useless. ]

I swear on the grave of my dearly departed dog to answer you in kind, how about that?

voice;

[rathercommon]

Aw, poor dog.

[ But - Okay. She squares her shoulders and reports: ]

In my home Matrix, I had hair down to my elbows. I'm allergic to peanuts, and...I'm sixteen years old.

voice;

[mightyfallen]

You are not sixteen. Really?

[ He sounds more faux-surprised than skeptical, though, and gives a contemplative hum. [

It has to be the peanuts. That'd be terrible, by the way, I'd be so sad for you.

voice.

[milagros]

( why not.

hang on, she said to that politician that she's sixteen. hold while mila revises her truths and lies for 'things she can say to a teenager'. )

Milagros Gallo wasn't my full name, I speak fluent Spanish, and I've thought about having children.

( nailed it. )

voice.

[rathercommon]

Oh - hmm.

[ She chews a little on her lower lip, thinking about the possibilities. ]

I'm guessing...You haven't considered having kids. You sound young.

voice.

[milagros]

( there's a brief pause, and then a dry, slightly startled laugh from mila's end. )

That's a very flattering guess. I'm afraid I'm starting to push forty fairly hard.

voice.

[rathercommon]

Oh!

[ Honestly a little surprising. But, cheerfully: ]

Well, you've got a beautiful voice, definitely. I bet it's an elegant forty. So - was I wrong?

voice.

[echopraxia]

( anna sounds a little awkward, when she responds; partially because she's english fifteenth language and partially because it's such a studied effort to be sociable that it veers between either endearing or a little sad, depending on your perspective. she doesn't know the game, but she observes long enough to get the gist of it, and then-- )

My surname is Stolsbord. I have scar in shape of rose. I wrote travel book once.

voice.

[rathercommon]

Hm.

[ With a little laugh, she confesses: ]

Oh, I really hope it's the first one, because the other two are just so brilliant I desperately want them to be true.

voice.

[echopraxia]

It was never proper book, ( with a hint of cautious warmth, not quite as ready as kitty's laugh but making the attempt, ) only letters I write to my parents, from places I go.

voice.

[rathercommon]

Oh, but that's good too!

[ There's no manipulation there. No lies. This is the honest, real excitement of a girl who never had the chance to go more than twenty miles from where she was born until she found herself in a new world altogether. ]

Have you traveled many places, then? Many remarkable places?

voice.

[dostoevsky]

What'll be the alcohol situation at this feast of yours?

voice.

[rathercommon]

Oh - I know that some people don't like it when there's alcohol present. Are you worried about that? I can make sure that there's none near you, if that'll make you more comfortable...

[ She knows perfectly well why he's asking. She doesn't even bother to hide the teasing amusement in her voice. ]

voice.

[dostoevsky]

Uh-huh.

[ He already sounds fond. Baby minx. Adorable. ]

Here's two truths and a lie for you: I've been to all seven continents--as they existed in our heads, whatever--I've been in three sword fights, and I have no qualms about killing minors who get between me and a liquor bottle.

voice.

[rathercommon]

[ Cheerily: ]

Number three! You'd feel dreadful.

voice

[alsohawkeye]

This is hard with the whole 'do things from the Matrix even count' thing that nobody agrees on, so I'm just going to make them all from there. In my home matrix I:

Dropped out of college. Got a pony for my sixth birthday. Could do magic.

voice

[rathercommon]

[ Oh - Kate. One of her favorites. Kitty's voice goes from peppy-perky talking-to-people-she-doesn't-know mode into something a little bit quieter, a little bit calmer - the friendly voice you use for talking to someone you already like and don't have to pretend any enthusiasm for. ]

Oh, I'd say the Matrix counts. After all, even if what you did didn't have any real, physical effect, you still decided to do it. So even if the things you did in the Matrix didn't have any effect upon the world, you were changed and shaped by your decisions, right?

[ So: ]

Anyway, I think... [ Hm. ] I think you didn't drop out of college.

[alsohawkeye]

By your decisions, sure, [ Kate agrees easily, the thoughtful note in her tone a little muted, a little indulgent, like this is a conversation she's had before more than once but not one she minds having again, at least with Lizzie, who she likes and who also seems to agree with her which is always nice. ] But like you and Jack were discussing for a second there-- if one of us said we'd eaten shellfish, would it be a lie? That's a slightly different question.

Anyway. [ Does Lizzie's home world have gameshows? Because Kate makes a buzzer noise, errnt! and there's a faint swish of fabric and hair as she shakes her head. ]

I dropped out after a semester. But I'm pleased it seems unlikely.

[rathercommon]

Really?

[ That's really surprising. Kate seems so determined - that she wouldn't follow something through...Maybe college isn't worth much? Kitty has only the vaguest notion of what college actually entails - she's talked with enough people to know that in a lot of Matrixes, people go there to just study more, that it's not like her world where it's just for theoretical magicians and barristers - but it seems like a very large number of extracts that she's talked to have been college-educated.

So, because she's quite curious about what would make Kate change her path: ]

Why'd you leave? If I can ask.

i'm not late i'm right on time

[axeyou]

Hey, if any one of the answers you give is that you have a job? That one will obviously be the lie.



[o hi mark]

you ARE

[rathercommon]

[ Um. ]

I...do have a job. I waitress. I didn't lose the job, which was really good of them.

[axeyou]

Ooh, that is good. Even better--they let you sit around playing question games for hours.

[rathercommon]

Well, you haven't got a job either, then, have you. Since you're answering this post.