Truth Meme

[folkie]

Truth Meme

Somehow, there is kirin on you.

Most likely, it is the fur of the kirin that was caught in the environment of wherever you’ve been; there is a stray hair on you because one was on the seat you sat on upon the train or because it blew onto the brim of your hat in the wind.

Or it may be because you met the kirin—a playful ungulate moose-sized spirit who prefers not to speak—and engaged with him and gave him a pat, or a scratch behind an ear. Maybe the kirin nosed or licked your hand because you made him laugh (it’s an adorable ‘keh keh keh’ sound).

Unfortunately for both you and the kirin (who had not meant to trouble your day like this, truly), this exposure to his dander has only one reaction, and it happens to 100% of Star Children: you are compelled to tell the entire truth. About what is less specific; you are compelled simply to announce things about yourself—your life, experiences, thoughts, opinions, feelings. No matter if it’s something silly and inconsequential, deep or secretive, life-altering or commonplace. Some may choose to do this by employing Foxi and their relic; others by finding people to exchange truth with to face to face.

When you have met the kirin’s subconscious desire for four hours, you will be free from the truth telling and the recipient of 24 hours of good luck. The good luck will be sometime in the next year rather than in the next day, and you may have no idea where it came from, but you’ll know a lucky day when you have it!

• This meme is game canon unless marked otherwise at the start of threads! Threads can be used for spoons and application samples.
• Assume all characters involved on this meme are affected.
• Characters will compulsively state truths about themselves/their feelings on the network or in-person. Top-levels may include either/both options.
• Please include prompts in your top level.
• All questions will be answered with complete and total honesty. No special abilities, half-truths, or omissions can avoid sharing all of the truth.
• Meme is open until the next truth meme!
• After one month, you may use the kirin mechanic generally in game. It can be one-sided! All truth-telling characters must consent.

Comments

[semilethal]

It's not wrong, just uncommon. I prefer it since it un-muddies the conversational waters, so to speak

That's also part of why I'm a different kind of asshole. The fam mostly enjoys each others' company and understanding emotions and whatnot. I don't.

Is your 'fellow Eternal' like that too?

[rememoror]

Since you said it wasn't wrong I'll assume the rest is all positive. I'll try to remember that phrase.

A bit. He was fully dedicated to our mission at the expense of everything else. That included socializing, keeping a distance from us, and in the end choosing the mission over us. I regret that he made those choices, but I understand why he did.

[semilethal]

Uh oh that sounds like me

[semilethal]

I MEAN

[semilethal]

Your asshole friend and teammate sounds smart

[semilethal]

UGH

I give up

[rememoror]

He was very smart. In fact he was our field leader for thousands of years.

If you are like Ikaris then there's no shame in it. He had many good qualities, admirable ones, and I'm certain you do as well.

Plus I can hardly fault him, or you, for not socializing. I was also too dedicated to the mission to do much of that.

[semilethal]

Well then I feel validated! Every team needs the guy who will fix things with his huge magnificent brain no matter the cost, after all

Are you guys scientists?

[rememoror]

And that's you on your team?

No, no. You could say some of us are responsible for where human science has gone, but we're Eternals. A race of immortal synthetic cosmic beings created to protect and evolve sentient life to feed Celestial seeds.

[semilethal]

IMMORTAL! SYNTHETIC! That's very cool!! I don't know what a "Celestial seed" is, I hope it's not a euphemism for some kind of world-killing weapon, because that would be depressing

[rememoror]

...
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I'm terribly sorry to depress you then.

[semilethal]

Darn.

[rememoror]

We prevented it from consuming Earth at least.

[semilethal]

Thanks that's cool

Not that it affects my Earth either way but I suppose that's a boon for you

[rememoror]

You're welcome. Most of us agreed that after seven thousand years on Earth watching it develop, it would be a shame to let it be destroyed.

[semilethal]

It's just

Weapons are fun to make sometimes don't get me wrong
But why do the very extremely cool things ALWAYS turn into weapons
That's not what science should be for

[rememoror]

You would get along wonderfully with a close friend of mine. He helped humanity to discover quite a bit about what they knew about science and technology.

Only to ultimately be disappointed that they used that knowledge to make worse and worse weapons.

[semilethal]

Weapons ARE very fun
Once you give rich people access to them though you might as well throw out the entire petri dish

Or, you know
Take the money. Did your friend ever steal from Super PACs because I highly recommend it

[rememoror]

No. My friend distanced himself from humanity after they became overly involved in weapons manufacturing.