Two Truths and a Lie meme

[singhelpers]

Two Truths + One Lie


— post a toplevel for your character containing two truths and one lie
— respond icly to other toplevels to try to figure out which one's fake
— everybody wins!

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Cornelius Hickey | The Terror

[friendsfordinner]

1: Back home, the bear-God-thing terrorizing the crew, tore two sailors in half and stuck half of one sailor on top of the other sailor like a fucked-up little sandwich.
2: Also back home, the ship's carpenter decided that the best thing to do was to try and set the ship on fire. Thankfully, we've got two, but took out a fair number of the men.
3: Finally back home, we had a funeral for a leg.

Anyway, all this is why it's not too bad here and anyone from my place who complains, doesn't have any right to.

[desperate_times_right]

The fire thing sounds too mundane. I'm saying that one.

[friendsfordinner]

The fire thing happened. But it was the surgeon who set a large tent on fire that we all were using for a party.

[desperate_times_right]

Yikes. No fun allowed, huh?

[friendsfordinner]

Looking back on it, I wonder if there was a root cause. If he knew something the rest of us didn't. Or at least, knew something that the rest of us would soon learn.

He tied the tent shut. He was trying to kill us all at once.

[desperate_times_right]

Shit. No wonder Billy got out of that house so fast.

[friendsfordinner]

That house?

[ wait. ]

Fuck, he was in that burning house with you? Hell.

Yeah, it wouldn't surprise me that he got out of there. It was...bad.

[tinstar]

..a funeral for a leg?

Well shit, I can't decide. Gun to my head, one or three is the lie. I've known a lotta stupid people.

[friendsfordinner]

Two's the lie. It was the surgeon and he tried to burn down a large tent we were having a fete in.

The leg was the only thing left of the estimable Sir John Franklin after the bear-god-thing shoved his body down a hole in the ice.

[goingtobeunwell]

The ship's carpenter had his face bitten off by the bear.

[friendsfordinner]

You know, you responding to this might as well be cheating.

[goingtobeunwell]

You didn’t tell a single story about yourself.

[friendsfordinner]

I'm not an interesting man—at least, not in the way this game wants you to be.

[clothed]

[ hmm. ]

Even bears need to eat, Ser. Perhaps the other parts lack in fat.

[friendsfordinner]

Are you guessing that's the lie? That I surely must be making up something as ridiculous as a bear sticking half of one man on top of the different half of a different man?

[clothed]

Not at all. More likely the bear was minding its territory and tore your men apart as warning. Eating limb or torso is only an added benefit.

Just as likely you'll have starved and ate each other, if you knew little of hunting that a bear found you so easily.

[ just northern life things ]

[friendsfordinner]

You're missing that latter half of the assessment. Bear-god-thing. Regular bears don't have the capability for planning, for being malicious. That thing had both of those and then some.

[clothed]

A bear knows when its children are being taken. A bear knows where its lands begin and end. A bear knows when you are cruel to it. You think poorly of the bear, ser.

[ the mormonts are ever loyal to the starks. bear to direwolf, guarding their own in their shared north. ]

God or not, perhaps you should not traveled so far into its lands. Was there a need for it?

[friendsfordinner]

You're thinking poorly of me. Cause of that, I don't know whether you're a stubborn asshole or a stupid one.

[burying]

... Please tell me the leg funeral's a lie.

[friendsfordinner]

Nope! Gave it a little coffin and everything.

[burying]

Now I really think you're taking the piss.

An actual coffin. For a leg.

[friendsfordinner]

It was the only thing left of the eminent Sir John Franklin. And when the captain of the expedition dies, you hold a funeral by any means necessary.

[burying]

... Well, I guess that makes sense.

Was any part of that whole expedition that wasn't weird?

[friendsfordinner]

The first year wasn't so bad! It's only when the ships froze in the ice that things went from bad to worse.