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Element check.
How honest are you?
0:I never once told the truth
11:I never once told a lie.
Me:8
How honest are you?
0:I never once told the truth
11:I never once told a lie.
Me:8
Honestly, when I lie they're mostly white lies, but...
I'll say 7.
I'll say 7.
OK, all those NOT being truthful with this question, raise your hand...
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Eh, probably hovering in the 4-6 zone, depending on how you value quality versus quantity.
Really, I'm more living evidence that honesty's good; Lied about a lot of stuff, life started falling apart, and the moment the truth got forced out I got a lot of help to fix it. If I'd never lied, I could have gotten that help much earlier, and wouldn't have such a hard job ahead of me to fix my life.
Really, I'm more living evidence that honesty's good; Lied about a lot of stuff, life started falling apart, and the moment the truth got forced out I got a lot of help to fix it. If I'd never lied, I could have gotten that help much earlier, and wouldn't have such a hard job ahead of me to fix my life.
I'm generally honest, but I do lie because of either necessity, or spite.
Yep, totally. It's the truth, I swear!
...don't look at me like that!
9.5, since it's out of 11. I can lie to save my life, and some stories I've told could technically be considered lies (even when it's disclaimed or otherwise contexted that "this didn't actually happen" - e.g. there are no pegasi IRL), but for the most part I seek truth, and allow the truth to save me when unpleasant realities must be confronted.
2, maybe a 3. Keep in mind that I'm blessed with a super power. Whatever passes through my lips into your ears becomes truth. Did you hear that you aardvark? Yes you, go look in the mirror. You're a cute aardvark.
Ha! I avoided your superpower by reading the words with my eyes, not listening with my ears!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have an anthill to snack on...
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have an anthill to snack on...
I'm as crooked as a politician, but I don't lie. Just because I can leave people with a completely false or mistaken impression of what I said, doesn't mean I lied.
Truth-O-Meter: 0
Truth-O-Meter: 0
5 for me, natural born liar/jackass at times, but I tend to be a nicer person. Still doesn't stop me from bluffing the living hell out of everyone for shits and giggles.
The answer is always 11, lest you be a poor liar.
i, being quite orthogonal, is what I say.
i, being quite orthogonal, is what I say.
3, this is what you get when you raise a kid on Survivor
I tell lies all the time, but they are white lies or in-game. Personality-wise, I am very honest and usually open about things. Just if my parents ask about homework (back when I was at school), I would pretend I wasn't a huge procrastinator. So strictly-lies-wise, 5 or 4. Honest as personality trait, 9? In general, probably 7.
Why I am saying I think my personality is honest: I never try to act like someone else (though I may act more professional/less, I also feel more professional/less). I generally will tell my life story to any who want to listen. I am upfront with perceived faults, both of myself and others (though I am also very good at mediation and making people accept that I perceive these faults). I am bad at backstabbing. I almost can't even keep surprises. I think the main way I can keep surprises and the secrets of acquaintances is that I am EXTREMELY forgetful. Two can keep a secret if the honest one has a memory that will forget it in a day or less. And lastly, another reason I consider myself honest: I feel sick when I think about all the things politicians have done, and never think I could do any of that for myself.
...I tend to rant about myself, too.
Why I am saying I think my personality is honest: I never try to act like someone else (though I may act more professional/less, I also feel more professional/less). I generally will tell my life story to any who want to listen. I am upfront with perceived faults, both of myself and others (though I am also very good at mediation and making people accept that I perceive these faults). I am bad at backstabbing. I almost can't even keep surprises. I think the main way I can keep surprises and the secrets of acquaintances is that I am EXTREMELY forgetful. Two can keep a secret if the honest one has a memory that will forget it in a day or less. And lastly, another reason I consider myself honest: I feel sick when I think about all the things politicians have done, and never think I could do any of that for myself.
...I tend to rant about myself, too.
I do like the word 'ben travata' (characteristic and likely, abut untrue), which is the most believable kind of lie...
On a side note, my dad is about a 2 or 1. And my mom is an 9. ...Even with jokes, unfortunately.
On a side note, my dad is about a 2 or 1. And my mom is an 9. ...Even with jokes, unfortunately.
I'm incapable of lying when put on the spot. My first instinct is to speak the truth. I'm capable of lies, but it requires time for me to actually put a reasonable one together. Also, I prefer deception, misrepresenting the truth, to outright lies. Morally, they're the same, but it feels classier to deceive. I'd put myself down as a 8-9 on your scale.
Exactly the opposite here. I can make up a story on the fly without even thinking about it, and have it logically work with the current situation. It takes a few minutes to figure out what the truth is though.
See, this is a problem GMs like us face when we have to RP a character because their player is absent from the session. We're not perfect so the way we portray the character is a bit different. Juuuuust different enough that the other players use that to their advantage to squeeze out some information the character is holding secret.
Doesn't work well in the middle of a dungeon though. I've learned to time the session end better. ^_~
That said, you always want your cleric to be the person that is always going to be there. The horror stories I heard from the days that I couldn't make it are... actually, they were pretty hilarious in a "sadly shake your head while chuckling" kind of way.
This is rather poor sport, even if I can understand them being reluctant to give up their curiosity.
Yeah, sometimes in the interest of not dragging the story into awkward places you just gotta meta a tiny bit and have characters turn the other way.
My default solution is, "don't have to deal with it in the first place".
The DM here could easily have allowed Pinky's counter-derail on the train, or stopped short of actually having AJ appear even on a nat 20 (Cherry Jubilee would have been good enough, given the circumstances). Or, before that, laid out that while they want to seek AJ they did have responsibility to get that rainwater hurricane going, so in-character they'd be motivated to get that done so they could then seek AJ. Any one of those could have bought time - a whole session, if necessary - for AJ's player to return.
It's like, "What do you do after you have totally and completely lost without having attempted any contingency plans?" "Not get into that situation. You presume something I don't do."
The DM here could easily have allowed Pinky's counter-derail on the train, or stopped short of actually having AJ appear even on a nat 20 (Cherry Jubilee would have been good enough, given the circumstances). Or, before that, laid out that while they want to seek AJ they did have responsibility to get that rainwater hurricane going, so in-character they'd be motivated to get that done so they could then seek AJ. Any one of those could have bought time - a whole session, if necessary - for AJ's player to return.
It's like, "What do you do after you have totally and completely lost without having attempted any contingency plans?" "Not get into that situation. You presume something I don't do."
Of course this could have all been avoid if the GM had just said that the rodeo was just ending and AJ would be back in a day or two. (And then not have her show up.)
It's unintuitive enough I had forgotten how it worked (since other comic systems just relies on you using the right name) and while I'm dense sometimes, other people can be dense too.
More avatars would make it easier to notice the 'regulars', and makes the comment-section generally more colorful.
It's easy to create an account and doesn't cost anything to do so.
Yes, I have a great picture, but I don't know how to use it.
Second, I mostly made an account so I could have access to the edit/delete comment function for those times I make a post that I later deem to be too stupid to live. It doesn't happen that often but the knowledge that I can rectify any mistake I make is a small mercy on my anxiety prone soul.
Having said that, it is nice to have your own OC displaying next to your comment. Though seeing your picture up there makes me want to draw my own pic for Astral. At the moment I'm using a drawing one of the other players in my FO:E game made because he did one for everyone else and, since I'm now part of the group, I needed one too.
Of course, having said that, drawing will have to wait until after I've spend an ungodly amount of time on Fallout 4.
I'll be asleep cause I got work in the morning, and have to take my daughter to school. I'm not really sad that I will miss all the live streams of FO4, because right now my game computer monitor is dead so I can't play FO3/NV at all. That's the real sad.
Will you still be doing a Aurelia run, or will it be a different NPC?
Suggestions:
Swift
Golden Crown
Cuppa Sunshine (with Dinn's permission, naturally)
Nononono! Two Words!: Rawhide BILL!!!
Suggestions:
Swift
Golden Crown
Cuppa Sunshine (with Dinn's permission, naturally)
Nononono! Two Words!: Rawhide BILL!!!
Wow, rarity. Hope you didn't hurt your hand too much dealing out that one.
We're going to need a professional for this one.
Session 48 - Prison in the Sky: Libsyn YouTube
Speaking of Fallout is Dragons, I'll be doing a special livestream over at my hitbox.tv channel sometime between 9PM and midnight Pacific time on Monday night/Tuesday morning. See, Fallout 4 will be launching at that time, and thanks to the generosity of a fan, I already have it as a gift! I've previously done a Fallout is Dragons-themed run of Fallout: New Vegas... So I plan on reprising that theme when Fallout 4 launches. I have no idea who'll be awake to see it live, but it should be fun!