FORCED HONESTY MEME

[devoutish]

1) Post your characters, one per comment
2) Go around with your characters and have them ask other characters questions - anything goes!
3) Forced honesty time! Lying is impossible because of reasons
4) IC DISCUSSION AND CONFRONTATION, GO

Comments

[devoutish]

Are you scared that it's magic, House?

[Abrupt topic change go.]

[rubikscomplex]

[Thank you, whiplash.]

Yes. This Prophet bullshit scares me the most.

[devoutish]

Is part of that fear related to Kesara's role in it all?

[rubikscomplex]

No. She's dead. Doesn't matter for her right now.

[devoutish]

If she comes back?

[rubikscomplex]

She's a little kid.

[That should be answer enough, as far as he's concerned. Please don't make him spell it out, Alfie.]

[devoutish]

Yeah.

[LOOK, THEY AGREE ON A THING.]

Easy to forget sometimes, with her.

[rubikscomplex]

No, it's not.

[He is acutely aware of each and every person here he considers a child, even if he doesn't treat them like children sometimes.]

[devoutish]

She's smart. Yeah, extremely intelligent. She talks more like an adult than any other kid I've known.

[rubikscomplex]

You've never met a cancer patient.

[devoutish]

Not a young one.

[rubikscomplex]

Half of them talk like adults, especially the ones who won't live past 15.

[devoutish]

You haven't got the medicine to fix that stuff yet?

[rubikscomplex]

Some of them can get treatment, but there's no silver bullet. And treatment might only extend their life a few years. Some people can't afford it, either.

[devoutish]

You can send a perfect image of your face all the way round the world, but you can't cure a child of a disease. Seems a bit backwards.

[rubikscomplex]

Technology is easier than biology, buddy.

[devoutish]

Still - a bit disheartening, innit.

[rubikscomplex]

Not really. We've seen massive medical advances since your time, improved treatments. You don't get from Earth to Mars in one step.

[There's a pause.]

That sounds way too optimistic. Consider this me just being rational about the human species and our collective ability to waste time.

[devoutish]

We go to Mars? Why? What's on Mars?

[rubikscomplex]

We haven't gotten there, yet. Not with humans. It's the next big mission after the moon. What's on Mars is a history of a planet that might have been like Earth once. Resources we could extract, the next planet we could inhabit. You really have no imagination outside your little tribe, do you?

[devoutish]

We've got a planet already, mate. It suits us fine.

[rubikscomplex]

You realize our planet's going to get swallowed by the sun eventually?

[devoutish]

What are you talking about?

[So that's a no.]

[rubikscomplex]

The sun is a star--a yellow dwarf star, if you wanna get technical. Stars have a limited lifespan. Ours is about 10 billion years. It's used up about 4.3 billion of those years already. After that, it'll start collapsing and expand into a red giant. That's the point when it takes out Earth and a few of the other planets while it's at it.

Long way off, but most people figure we should get started early. Better not let it catch us by surprise.

[devoutish]

If you're really worried about that, you should go further than Mars.