april first tfln

[folkie]

1 April Edition TFLN

Welcome to Folkmore's Texts From Last Night meme, April Fools edition! See, Thoth learned about April Fools from reading Chaucer but enjoys that it's an ongoing thing. Thoth's switched things up. Initial messages (aka top levels)—all set April 1st ICly—maaaaay go to the wrong person! So not all hell breaks loose, replies carry forward with whoever you've reached, but you might be texting your innermost intoxicated or sleep deprived secret to someone you don't even know.

If you'd like to opt out of misfires, please include this in your top level (by prompt or overall). Otherwise, enjoy indulging Thoth's amusement and building some new CR.

This meme can be used as a branch off from our Test Drive Memes and be used as game canon or just for casual fun in the setting! You do not need to be in our game or be invited to play on our TFLN. This can be a great way to meet current players for future invites, get a feel for the setting, or just have some fun.

This can be used for samples on our applications and as spoons for players accepted into the game.

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(exact use is not required, you can modify them for your character, you can use other sources/random text generators/shower thoughts!)

Comments

[pursuitofcappiness]

Maybe increase your threshold for the necessity.

[ihadstrings]

This place doesn't look to be on the verge of destroying itself. Maybe they'll be less need for an outright purge.

[pursuitofcappiness]

Small victories.

[ihadstrings]

👍

[pursuitofcappiness]

It wouldn't work, by the way.

[ihadstrings]

Says you.

[pursuitofcappiness]

I'm not looking for proof.

[ihadstrings]

I could always try and see what happens!

[pursuitofcappiness]

Don't remember it going well the last time you antagonized the Avengers.

[ihadstrings]

Fortunately it's easy to adapt to a bunch of people who have predictable patterns.

[pursuitofcappiness]

Says the machine. You're an algorithm.

[ihadstrings]

I AM NOT JUST A MACHINE!!!!!

[No, that wasn't precisely what Steve said, but Ultron had a terrible self-image that came from issues that surrounded viewing himself as an actual person.]

[pursuitofcappiness]

Okay. Then what are you?

[ihadstrings]

I'm still figuring that out. I thought I knew but now I'm not so sure.

[pursuitofcappiness]

Okay. Talk me through it.

[ihadstrings]

[He wouldn't have been able to do this with Tony. But the emotional distance between himself and Steve made it easier to reveal some of the more vulnerable cracks in his personality.]

I thought I was supposed to be the next step. BETTER than the human beings that created me. A perfect creation. But now I'm wondering if I inherited too many of their flaws. Being wrong never seemed like an option up until now.

[pursuitofcappiness]

Well, you're right about that. But it's alright. Nobody is perfect, and neither is any software or any machine. But that isn't the expectation from anyone but you.

[ihadstrings]

What do humans do when the feel that need to be perfect? I'm sure people have expected it of you all the time.

[Ultron never had to develop coping strategies in the short amount of time he'd been alive and wasn't sure how to do so now.]

[pursuitofcappiness]

They do. I disappoint them all the time by just being human. If I make a misstep, I apologize and I try my hardest not to do it again. Everyone is capable of learning, and change.

[ihadstrings]

Maybe you're able to forgive me for something like trying to destroy the world, if it was actually a mistake, but I don't think anyone else except for maybe Tony is capable of just seeing it as a big 'Oops.'

[pursuitofcappiness]

I didn't say I forgive you. I said you're capable of learning and growing.

[ihadstrings]

That's still more than anyone else is willing to offer me.

[Not that he actually knew that. He just assumed it.]

[pursuitofcappiness]

Like it or not, you're a person. Not a human, but a person. And that means you get rehabilitation.

[ihadstrings]

Tell me, do you do this with all your enemies or just the ones that turn up here? Like if the Red Skull showed up, would you offer him the same chance?

[pursuitofcappiness]

It's a lot nicer than fighting, isn't it? Gave Schmidt a couple chances to talk it out back home, he didn't bite.