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A QUESTION FOR A QUESTION


YOU MAY KNOW EACH OTHER ALREADY - OR YOU MAY NOT. UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES, YOU'RE NOW PASSING THE TIME ASKING EACH OTHER QUESTIONS. IT'S A GAME! A QUESTION FOR A QUESTION. YOU START OFF ASKING YOUR OPPONENT A QUESTION OF CHOICE AND IF THEY ANSWER IT, THEY'RE ALLOWED TO ASK YOU A QUESTION IN TURN. THE RULES ARE SIMPLE, ONLY AS LONG AS YOU ANSWER THE OTHER PERSON'S QUESTIONS ARE YOU ALLOWED TO ASK QUESTIONS YOURSELF, BUT THERE IS NO EXPECTATION OF TRUTHFULNESS HERE, LIE IF YOU MUST OR WANT, JUST KEEP THE MOMENTUM GOING.

How to play -
1. Comment with your character's name, fandom and preference.
2. If you want, leave a question in the comment field that your character is asking their opponent. Or don't. I'm not the cops.
3. Pick other characters to question and have fun!

Comments

[acaseofyou]

Well, 'Prince' is more a title than a royal ranking, and they can get ousted. Usually it makes them behave a lot better than a natural-born royal knowing the Primogen council can bring up no-confidence and send them packing. And you never know, someone in court might want you to steal something one night.

True, you want it to be good to eat and also good for business.

[noreasonneeded]

I’d say one could also cut through all the red tape and just do a good old fashioned assassination. Which I may or may not bring up should they ever ask me to steal anything.

It’s a good kitchen staff at least, a little eccentric but they care about the quality of their work.

[acaseofyou]

Might be best to avoid that. At least until you make friends with a Kindred a lot more capable of physically protecting you than I am.

They are very nice. I feel bad that I never get to try their stuff.

[noreasonneeded]

What, pointing out a way to revise their political system? Don't worry, I don't offer people in power ideas unless I'm getting paid for it.

You can just make the most of our card and game tables, unless all Kindred playing is prohibited and not just high rollers.

[acaseofyou]

Oh, assassination has always been a way to revise things. Sometimes it's done when one Kindred consumes another so entirely they kind of eat their soul? I think? So they get very touchy about the topic.

Kaz, I don't think you understand how terribly I'd do there. I'd be the smallest of rollers, and I can't control my face at poker.

[noreasonneeded]

They probably wouldn't want to hear my thoughts on souls or lack thereof either, then.

You should tell Jesper that, then make a point of blowing on his dice.

[acaseofyou]

Probably not, no. Some might be willing to have some good faith debate about it, but usually talk of Kindred not having souls is a precursor to an excuse to murder us. Even if we're nice and non-royal.

How bad a reaction do you figure that'd get? Or is the goal to just get him off the tables and back to work?

[noreasonneeded]

It's a topic that holds weight with many humans as well, I've just never been one of them. I don't claim to know with any certainty as to their existence, but I've seen the notion of them abused often enough to never have felt the need to believe in them for the sake of it.

The latter, unless the former is especially amusing.

[acaseofyou]

Yeah. The idea tends to be just another thing people use to judge each other.

I'll be sure to do it while you're around, so you can see and judge for yourself.

[noreasonneeded]

Indeed. Or sometimes how they judge themselves.

That I can fit into my schedule. All for the sake of keeping him on task, of course.

Who taught you poker or other casino games?

[acaseofyou]

We don't need any self-judgement here, Kaz.

Just, you know. Some light and gentle mockery of whatever Jesper might do when I risk his game with my terrible gambling vibes.

Let's see... Poker I learned from friends when I first moved to Greenwich Village. Kinda figured out blackjack and slots first when we stayed in Atlantic City for a while, and learned the new machines in Vegas. Still don't actually know how roulette works in too much detail. I just pick stuff and let 'em spin the thing.

[noreasonneeded]

I don't judge myself over it, those I know who believe in such things do.

Anything that keeps him away from the table is good in my book. Though he's been better about it since meeting Wylan.

I learned primarily through watching as well.

[acaseofyou]

Wylan is pretty good at keeping him busy elsewhere. I just worry when that coincides with firework holidays.

Do you play at all? Or do you keep all your gambling to your schemes?

[noreasonneeded]

You and me both.

I played more when I was learning, just to get the experience and figure out how to rig the games where I could. I do sometimes now just to keep sharp. Not often, though.

[acaseofyou]

You think we could, like... Soak all the matches they're near? Give 'em both a pack of duds or an empty lighter to keep that at bay?

I've been told rigging them is a fine art all on its own. Do you know how to play 'Go Fish' though?

[noreasonneeded]

I still don’t trust Wylan not to MacGyver something, but it would at least give them more obstacles to overcome first.

It is indeed, and one that for me at least couldn’t be fully learned just from watching or reading. I do actually know how to play Go Fish. It’s been a really, really long time, though. [There’s a long pause before he admits.] I used to play with someone back in the day. The deck had lost cards but we still made it work.

[acaseofyou]

Sometimes the best we can do is make hurdles. Big ones, real tall.

Can't always have a full deck, but I'm not surprised at all that you managed with missing cards. [ She can guess at what the pause and 'back in the day' translates to. Someone that's not here to play with anymore. But she doesn't push at it. ] Maybe we can play sometime, make sure you remember all the rules in case you want to open a table for it. Might be the only game I do well at.

[noreasonneeded]

Life's not just about getting ahead, it can also matter to ensure others stay behind.

[She's right, it was Jordie.] I'm amenable to that. I'd like to see what you got. Put any matching skills to the test.

[acaseofyou]

Have you ever considered going in the opposite direction for that and just digging a big hole?

Next time you have time, I can bring a deck. You'll probably still win, so don't gloat too much about it.

[noreasonneeded]

Sure. Usually it's followed by then covering them with dirt.

I'm a delightful winner. I've had a lot of practice to perfect the art of it.

My brother taught me how to play.

[acaseofyou]

The old Grave Trap, of course.

Good to know. I trust you'll keep any gloating fully on the delightful end of things.

Yeah? He must've been very good to teach you with missing cards.

[noreasonneeded]

Some things are a classic for a reason.

I'll keep any gloating civilized. Where do you stand on trash talking while the game is commencing?

He was... optimistic, let's call it that. And open to letting me invent rules to compensate for what was lacking.

[acaseofyou]

A lot like music that way.

Fully support it, so long as you don't get too personal about it.

Sounds sweet. What kind of rules did you end up with?

[noreasonneeded]

Indeed. Are the artists you covered on your album the ones you consider classics?

A fair boundary. The trash talk can remain regarding the game only.

He was. If a number card was missing, you could still put down the single card as though you had a pair, but only if you could tell a pair the other person was trying to get. Otherwise you had to still draw from the deck. It was easy for me to count cards and keep track of what he'd asked for, so it usually worked in my favor. There was one brief time where placing down single cards was permitted in exchange for dares, but that didn't last long.

[acaseofyou]

For the most part. Hindsight has me wishing I'd done others, sometimes, but the ones I picked, I picked because I thought they'd be timeless. At least a little.

Thank you for that.

Yeah, I can't imagine the dares would've gone over well for more than a game or two. There's far too much leeway for shenanigans.