Two Truths and a Lie meme

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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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Louis de Pointe du Lac | Interview with the Vampire (AMC)

[flambeaux]

1. I was shot by an alderman.
2. I own a cane. I have for a long time.
3. I've eaten a lot of crawdads.

[ He smiles like he's containing an inner joke. ]

[pacificator]

Define 'a lot.'

[flambeaux]

A lot. You really think I'm countin'?

[pacificator]

Well, I know you have a cane, and I would believe an alderman shot you.

[ literally who wouldn't (affectionate) ]

So it's gotta be something about the crawdads.

[flambeaux]

[ Wow, just because she saw a guy stab him! He'd believe an alderman would shoot her as well! ]

If that's your final answer. What could it be though, that's the question... Would you like to know?

[friendsfordinner]

The fuck's a 'crawdad'? Is that some French thing?

[ a pause before, ]

Right, yeah, that one's obviously the lie, [ unless they've got blood? do crawdads have blood? ] but my question still stands.

[flambeaux]

[ He would never call it a giggle, but the way he dips his head and snickers is awfully close. ]

So confident in your answer, Hickey. Are you sure? I won't answer unless you're sure. I was human once, and I did eat and drink like everyone else.

[friendsfordinner]

[ Louis was human? Well that's good to know. Still, Hickey happily and confidently answers, ]

Yeah, I am sure. You're the sort who wants to be seen as posh, so you'll have a cane. And you're an absolute prick, so of course someone shot you.

[flambeaux]

[ He laughs. Hickey is a prick, but never dull. ]

Points for you. 'Crawdad' ain't a word in my vocabulary. The hell is a crawdad, I ask. We call them crawfish. That's our little joke. As for your question, it's from écrivesse.

[friendsfordinner]

You split hairs worthy of a lawyer.

You still haven't answered my question, by the way. It's some sort of fish, but what else? They big, they small? Can you eat them in one bite or does it take a while longer?

[flambeaux]

Thank you.

I suppose you don't know that word either. [ He even sounds a little disappointed. He thought he might. No reason, other than everyone around Louis when he grew up knew it. His eyes go half-lidded as he reaches back into memory. ]

Think of a tiny mud-dwellin' lobster the size of a prawn, buglike and mean-lookin'. Great in boils. Get everyone together in the yard, cover the tables with newspaper, and spice the boil strong enough to look like blood.

You twist off the head and claws like you would a shrimp, pinch along the body to break it, peel the tail out. The tails are sweet and melt in your mouth. Suck the head, and that's it.

I hardly remember what food tastes like.

[friendsfordinner]

[ Hickey is British, urban, and not so well-traveled. The fish that he knew were whatever you could catch from the river—more cod than crawfish. And honestly, the food sounds good enough. Perfectly fine. But it's that last admission that interests Hickey most of all. ]

How old are you anyway?

[flambeaux]

[ He tilts his head and smiles in the way his mother used to at any off-color comment in the parlor. ]

A vampire never reveals his age.

[friendsfordinner]

Then that means you're either ridiculously old or ridiculously young.

[ After all, there's no reason for hiding it if Louis is a normal vampire age, whatever the hell the normal age for a vampire is. And considering a younger age would be a hell of a lot funnier... ]

I'm guessing...what, fifty?

[flambeaux]

Hmm, old enough to be tired, young enough to remember what bein' human was like? That's a good guess. I'll leave you to wonder.

[friendsfordinner]

Young enough to still care about humanity. You wouldn't be playing shopkeep in that store of yours if you didn't give a damn.

[flambeaux]

You make it sound like a bad thing.