✨ two truths and a lie!

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Username/Display Name: summer / 𝖜𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗 🐙✨
Server Channel: #general
Time: idk sometime in the afternoon

Well well, would you look at that? The place didn’t burn itself down while I was gone, though not for lack of trying. Or so I’ve been told.

Anyway, it looks like we’ve acquired some new faces in the last month. In the grand tradition of the hotel forcing us to get to know one another, why don’t we play a little game?

Is everyone familiar with “two truths and a lie”? It’s simple enough. List three things about yourself, one of which is not true. Others must guess which is the lie.

Here, I’ll go first.

[ TL;DR - We’re playing two truths and a lie now! Thread hop around and tag each other! Winter will be hopping around to play too, but if folks just want to chat with him now that he’s back that is also fine! ]

Comments

un: weavewizard | dn: Gale of Waterdeep

[netherese]

Brilliant idea, Winter!

1. I was a model student during my years at Blackstaff Academy.
2. I have an extensive home library.
3. I first summoned Tara because my mother refused to let me have a cat.

[unliminal]

i really hope it's not 3 because lol

[netherese]

'Lol' indeed! I certainly showed her, didn't I!

[unliminal]

bet you did lmao

[ How many of these abbreviations does Gale know, he wonders... ]

somehow i have a hard time picturing you as a model student too

[netherese]

[Literally only 'lol.']

You'd be quite right! Brilliant, of course, but often getting myself into trouble trying to keep myself occupied and push past my boundaries. I spent a great deal of time in detention, perfecting my signature.

[unliminal]

damn so it's the library?
i wouldn've guessed a nerd like you lived in a pile of books back there too

[netherese]

I have an entire tower to call my own! I would be remiss not to dedicate at least one floor to a library. I believe it's in my job description as a wizard— an Archmage, no less.

dn: odette

[cardsharked]

If you messed with your mom by summoning a whole-ass cat, there's no way you behaved in school.

[netherese]

You're quite right. First try! Excellent deductive reasoning, Odette.

[cardsharked]

What can I say? All I needed to do is pay attention. I recognize a troublemaker where I see one.

[She's dismissing the praise casually, but Gale can probably recognize that she does, in fact, have some affinity for reasoning like this.]

[netherese]

Well-spotted! Is that because like recognizes like, I wonder?

[A genuine wondering, rather than a pointed remark.]

[cardsharked]

I was a pretty quiet kid for a while there, believe it or not mdr

Though quiet also ain't exactly the same as good. Not sure I was that, either.

[netherese]

That does come as quite a surprise! That said, there is that saying about it being the quiet ones you ought to look out for. Does that seem to suit?

[warmaid]

I choose number 3.

[netherese]

I'm afraid that one is absolutely true! Had my mother allowed me a cat, I might never have met my beloved partner, and I would be worse off for it.

[warmaid]

[Kokomi had always imagined their meeting to be a bit more dignified, but the fact that he was a child who wanted a pet enough to summon his own is actually quite precious.]

That really would have been a shame. How did your mother react at the time?

[netherese]

[Tara made up for it by being plenty dignified afterwards!]

Oh, she was furious to start, but Tara won her over quite quickly. They have a lot in common, you know. They still have tea together quite regularly.

[warmaid]

I'm glad that they have such a good relationship.

[She's not even a little surprised. Tara is practically another mom to him.]

It all worked out in the end.

[netherese]

[Wow Gale, how come Ao lets you have two moms?]

I should say so! Though the two of them are also quite prone to meddling, but they do have my best interests at heart, I believe.

Tara has taken quite a shine to you, by the by.

[mehrakulous]

this is a little presumptuous of me, but i have a feeling it's the first one that isn't true.

[netherese]

You're quite right, though I'm curious to know what gave it away! Do I strike you as a troublemaker?

[mehrakulous]

it's more that you strike me as someone who has a library and would create a cat out of spite, i guess.

[netherese]

Well, I can hardly deny either claim. I'm afraid I was a bit much for my professors to handle at times, ever seeking greater challenges. My thirst to gain a greater understanding of magic could simply not be sated.

[mehrakulous]

[Kaveh has the distinct feeling that he's walking the path to being part of a joke he doesn't understand.]

i can understand the seeking greater challenges part. i feel the same, except about design.

were you the opposite of model student, then? or just doing enough to get by in class without trouble up front?

[netherese]

Design! I would love to hear more about that, when you have the time and inclination.

[He may not be an architect or designer himself, but he's still quite interested!]

As for your question, my work itself was exemplary. Academically, I considered myself to be unparalleled, but I found other ways to get into trouble. For instance, I wrote lines for hours upon hours when I was discovered opening portals to other planes unsupervised.