Break the Ice Part 2

[newhire]

Well that was. [Han...] You all did really well yesterday.

[She didn't participate but of course, she was watching! ...probably on her phone. But today she's here to assist! Which means there's probably some other stupid activity ready to be thrown your way.]

Today we have a different kind of bonding activity for you! The name of today's game is--! Two lies and a truth. Today you're going to test how well you know each other-- and maybe learn a lot more!

[And for those who may not know the rules--]

You're going to give someone a list of two things that are not true about you-- and one that is. And based on what they know about you and their impressions of you, they're going to do their best to find the truth. When it's all done, you'll tell them whether they're right or not and if they got it wrong-- you'll tell them the truth!

Comments

[unhalting]

[Hmm...]

The one about exams?

[buriedearth]

Yeah, actually.

I guess you can thank this place for that -- with there being that whole Final Exam and then the actual passing of the entire Entrance Exam for this place.

[ ...Which he counts as two because in his opinion that is two due to the hell they all went through the first time around.

...Technically there was the Mark of Mastery Exam too, but he didn't mention one because, yeah. ]

[unhalting]

To be honest, I thought one of 'em was from this place but I didn't think that both would be.

[This continues to be the worst school.]

Anyway, you wanna keep going? [How does this game even work?? Who knows.]

[buriedearth]

[ The worst.

Sometimes Terra expected to wake up and it'd be a fever dream but he's no longer that hopeful it'd be that easy... ]

Sure, I don't mind.

How about...

I've always been on time for lessons back home, I have three friends I studied with before I came here, and I've flown through the sky before.

[unhalting]

[Hmm... all of them sound equally plausible to him.]

The first one? [You seem like a punctual guy, Terra.]

[buriedearth]

[ He smiles, though it looks a little sheepish. ]

Nope. When I first began lessons under Master Eraqus, there were a couple of times where I slept in because I was just getting used to having routine.

[unhalting]

Didn't used to have routine before, huh. [Hmm.] So is that the guy you and your friends were studying under?

[Let's just let that double as his second guess now.]

[buriedearth]

Yeah, he is. Though, I didn't have three friends that were studying under him with me. Just two--Aqua and Ven.

Which would leave the third as the truth, because I used a glider to fly through the sky a couple of times and when I first began my travel to another world.

[ A Keyblade Glider, to be exact. ]

[unhalting]

[Keyblades will absolutely confuse the shit out of him, but first of all:]

Wait, you already went to other worlds before all this?

[buriedearth]

Just the one so far.

[ That's all he remembers at the moment... ]

[unhalting]

[So casual about it... he's not sure what to feel about this.]

...Is that kinda thing common where you're from?

[buriedearth]

The ability to go through worlds is something everyone has on my world -- The Land of Departure, that is. Outside of my world, though, it's less common or at least as far as I know.

[ Even when he landed here -- but this place has already demonstrated the ability to pull in people from other worlds, so Terra figures if someone else knows about him being able to travel worlds too it can actually help...somewhere down the road, somehow. ]

[unhalting]

Sounds convenient. There any catch to it? [Most things do, in his experience. And travelling across worlds seems like a pretty big deal anyways, if it's not really possible in other places.]

[buriedearth]

Yeah, only a few people can properly do it and not everyone should.

The threat of darkness breaching the worlds is a possibility if too many people do.

[ So you know there is definitely a catch. ]

[unhalting]

Darkness? I'm assumin' you don't just mean the normal kind.

[buriedearth]

No, I don't. It's nothing like harmless shade or something you see during nighttime.

[ He looks at his hand, he wonders if...

You know what, he'll just not think about it, and he'll look right back at Orga. ]

It's kind of like this visible black mass, and even being near it touching it without protection can spell disaster for anyone.

[unhalting]

[Terra looking at his hand would probably be a more ominous gesture if Orga knew more about KH stuff but as it is... it's just kind of weird.]

"Spell disaster" meaning dead, or something else? [He already knows Poe can jam people into books, it's fine.]

[buriedearth]

[ Totally ominous ~ooooOOOOooo~.

Back to serious roleplay, though, he's now rubbing the back of his head. 'Spell disaster'...he supposed that did sound vague. ]

... Something else, but it might as well be if no one's able to reverse it.

People would lose themselves to the darkness and become corrupted, not even as recognizable as what they used to be. At least that's what it's been taught.

[ He hasn't seen a Heartless before so he doesn't know what is yet but rip essentially to anyone who touches the thing without protection. ]

[unhalting]

[You say serious roleplay but I read "without protection" and then chuckle because I am actually thirteen.

But anyways, Orga just tries to wrap his head around the concept of something that sounds like more of the supernatural to him. It's marginally less strange than how it would've seemed the first time he got here, but... hmm.]

...So something along the lines of what we saw when people were hijacked?

[buriedearth]

[ Well you know that's the real reason people need to make sure to use protection before going out at dark. Otherwise the 'darkness' will consume them--okay that was funnier in my head.

Jokes aside, he considers the comparison. He thinks it's a little different, but at the same time...Terra feels as if that's not a wrong assumption that it's similar. ]

Yeah. That's a good comparison.

[ Not that he knows that there are ways to control it safely but blame Master Eraqus for that. ]