Two Truths and a Lie

[thechoiceisyours]

• Make a toplevel for your character
• ICly post two truths and a lie! Or four truths and two lies, or multiple sets of two truths and a lie, or whatever you want. Just make sure to make it clear how many lies there are for others to guess.
• Other characters reply and try to guess the lie
• Learn things/Discuss/Respond to other characters
• Make sure to put in a content warning if any of the truths/lies would warrant one
• Have fun!

Comments

[lifetothefullest]

[Well, he knows some of these, but not enough to eliminate all the terrible ones.]

I'm going to guess the one about chess is a lie.

[Because he thinks he's heard part of this story and it didn't end that way.]

And the priest one?

[Hopefully? Or there better be a good reason there.]

[drabsolutelynot]

Before I answer, may I just ask if you then believe I was the leader of a cult?

[lifetothefullest]

'Cult' is a pretty vague word, and you don't necessarily have to intend to be a leader of one to end up that way.

[He doesn't think Rosen would set out to form a cult, but from what he's heard of how things work with the Alphas and such he could see it accidentally happening somehow.]

[drabsolutelynot]

[Fair]

Well, you are right about the chess story. But I'm afraid the priest story is a truth.

[lifetothefullest]

I assume there was a good reason?

[He really hopes there is.]

[drabsolutelynot]

There was a particularly powerful Alpha, one who could induce a strange vision-like state. As a priest he used it to gather a following, placing them all in a state of what he called 'transcendence'. He claimed his visions were really of heaven. But one by one they were dying. He kidnapped me, ordered me to treat them but when I told them what they needed, that they needed specific medical intervention, he refused to allow it, and more so refused to let anyone leave the premises. The situation got more and more desperate and then a fire broke out in the compound and he refused to let his followers leave. He was determined to believe that death was preferable. So...I felt I had no choice. There were dozens of people who would have--

[He still hates himself for it. Hates the thought that his hands took a life]

--I had been aiming for his legs. I...I clearly have very bad aim with firearms.

[lifetothefullest]

[Oh.

Well, that's definitely a good reason.]

It was self-defense, for yourself and others.

[Sometimes that really is the only choice. Although, about that last part--]

Maybe you should practice shooting a little, though, in case of emergencies. I could teach you.

[drabsolutelynot]

No. I refuse to carry a weapon, Lance.

[not counting syringes cuz those are totes different, k</s.]

[lifetothefullest]

You don't have to, but it might be important to at least be capable of using one in an emergency.

[And yeah he'd be taking that refusal to use weapons more seriously if not for the syringe thing.]

[drabsolutelynot]

Can I ask to what end? If you say 'to protect myself' then I don't feel that is a good enough reason to risk taking a life.

[lifetothefullest]

We can argue about whether protecting yourself is a worthwhile reason later, and instead say that since the most likely weapon you'd have access to is my gun, you'd probably only need to use it if I was for some reason unable to.

[He is not above manipulating Rosen into the idea of learning to shoot straight through the insinuation that there might be a situation where it's necessary to protect him.]

[drabsolutelynot]

[Damn you.]

.....we.....can discuss it....maybe. But wholly on a, um, a tentative basis.