text; @fromTV☂

[spellslots]

What's up, chucklefucks, it's me, Taako, everybody's favorite wizard here to beg, desperately, for you to entertain me for next eight fucking hours while I mess with this spell.

["This spell" being his transmutation stone that he needs to remake, but it takes eight hours to prepare and honestly, he's going to go crazy.]

I'll even help you out here but giving you a starting point or several, cause I'm just amazing like that.

First off, give ch'boy some movies to watch or music to listen to. Don't bother recommending Beyoncé I'm all over that already. I can't imagine any of you being interesting enough to keep me amused for eight hours so like, this is my back up plan.

The main plan is let's play a fucking game, I was gonna go with truth or dare but it's hard to police that shit on the network so we're doing two truths and a lie instead.

Ready?

1. I've been a professor
2. I turned a dude into a cat for cheating on me and never turned him back
3. One time I fucked up a spell and everything I drank tasted like key lime gogurt for six months

[[ooc: feel free to threadjack on this one if it gets interesting]]

Comments

@ciscodelamancha | text ; private

[franciscoramon]

[ He responds on private because he's not going to ruin the game for other folks just because he knows which one is a lie. ]

when were you a PROFESSOR????
i thought you were mr 'i hate school and also institutional learning'?????

[spellslots]

That's Professor 'I hate school and also institutional learning' to you.

It was at the Legato Conservatory, we had to study there to get access to the light but obviously I was so good at my shit they gave me a class.

[ text | un: trickster ]

[dothelokimotion]

I refuse to believe you survived six months tasting only key lime.

[spellslots]

The statement was everything I drank, not everything I put in my mouth.

[So you know, he could still eat things! But he's still leaving it kind of vague.]

text(s) from @ruffboi

[ohhmrburnsides]

[1/3]
Obviously 3 is the lie

[2/3]
I'LL KICK HIS ASS

[3/3]
Wait if he's a cat I should probably not do that. Actually what the fuck Taako

[spellslots]

I'm insulted, Maggie.

[Clearly believing he got cheated on is worse than believing he fucked up a spell really badly.]

text; @crimson.duelist

[verflair]

[ He has so many questions. What sort of spell takes eight hours? What is a movie? What is a Beyoncé???

But he, uh, opts for the least complicated question first: ]

Am I correct in assuming the aim of this game is to guess which of those is the lie?

[spellslots]

that's the trick.

Then you're supposed to give a 2 truths and 1 lie in return.

@d.va

[bunnyhopped]

2 is definitely the lie because i dont think anyone is insane enough to cheat on you

[ she's got you, boo. ]

[spellslots]

Friendship ended with Magnus

Now Hana is my best friend

text; @star.lord

[nostalgiabomb]

[ In lieu of playing the game, enjoy this list: ]

- Back to the Future
- Die Hard
- Footloose
- Top Gun
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off


you can thank me later

[spellslots]

I've watched the future one, pretty inaccurate depiction of time travel t b q h

[Is he just fucking with Peter? Is he legit? We'll never know.

(It's the first option).]

What one should I start with?

@high.queen | text

[ibiza]

I wanted to believe 2 was the truth because it's kind of brilliant, but alas...

[spellslots]

It was actually because he called my sister a bitch 🤷

text; @s.cougar

[radicalspeed]

Definitely one. The other two sound way too cool to pass up.

[spellslots]

Hate to burst your bubble, but nope. Wanna try again?

text; @ilikehorses

[shoplifter]

I've only seen one movie. I liked it, though.

It was a 'western'.

[spellslots]

Hey, darling.

[His little murder buddy.]

I've seen a couple of those, been to a town like one, too. Which one did you see?

[eternalmagic]

Apparently I'm not the first to suggest that I don't believe it was a cat.

[spellslots]

It was a cat, but it was still the lie.

No one's ever cheated on me. Can you fucking imagine?

text; un: feywild

[imperceptus]

[ Lucretia told him that she went to school with Taako, otherwise he might've been lead to #1. But--to his delight, always--he's better informed than that. ]

Hmm. The first one is too simple, and the third one is too specific. So it's got to be #2.

[ Plus he's really good at lying, which helps to spot it in others. ]

I can't imagine who would have the audacity, anyway.

[spellslots]

I hope everyone's aware I'm making a list of who's smart enough to know that it's practically impossible to cheat on me. There'll be rewards at the end.

[And Rin is, obviously, on the list.]

Your turn ;)

video @lightemup

[umbrastaff]

[She's not gonna play the game because she knows pretty much all his secrets - at least up to the cycle she was from and what he has told her after that - and he knew everything about her as well.]

Am I gotta leave the library here and make sure you hydrate during those eight hours?

video

[spellslots]

[All the video is getting is their ceiling, because he's set the phone on his knee while he works.]

I can move around a little, just nothing that'll fuck up my concentration. So you're on dinner tonight, bee-tee-dubs.

@b.potts

[tutee]

[ Bill would think Taako would never be a professor, but then, she knows the Doctor. ]

3 has to be the lie, because if it isn't, I feel downright sorry for you mate.

as for movies, I'm always a fan of classic 80s sci-fi horror. the thing, alien, scanners. all good

[spellslots]

It was a rough six months and it was a truth,

Horror movies I am so fucking down for, I've seen alien, haven't heard of that other one but I'll check it out.

[greatflame]

I'm going to guess that the first one is the lie.

[Since they don't sound like how Max imagines a professor would talk...]

[spellslots]

[Was it the "chucklefucks"?]

Bzzt, wrong! It was a philosophy class, kinda, but like not shitty philosophy 😉

You wanna take a second stab at it?

@sparrow; text

[flowlikewater]

[ Genji is focused on the one most important bit of information from this post. ]

...gogurt? Does that even still exist?

[spellslots]

It does in my reality

text;

[pundemic]

2 is definitely the lie. you can be a jackass but not an asshole, you know? big difference.

[she says it with love, taako.]

[spellslots]

[Oh that's sweet but, no, he's definitely an asshole sometimes.]

You got it half right! It's a lie but not totally, just the motivation for doing it.

text; un: sly blue

[bottombitch]

[ Okay, Aoba's met an alien so... after having been here long enough, he's seen some incredible stuff. Including that magical masquerade. ]

So there really are people who can use magic.

Do you like video games?

[spellslots]

Are you new?

And sure I'm down with video games. I've mostly played like, competitive ones? Whatever they fuck they're called. Not on my own.

["multiplayer" is the word he's looking for.]