2 truths and a lie ( daemon : Happyd )

[ptrprkr]

2 TRUTHS AND A LIE Preferred Alias: Peter Parker

1. I once ate a churro from a random old lady on the street.
2. I was captain of my school's swim team
3. I prevented a historical monument from being completely destroyed.

One Of These Is A Lie

Comments

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[leovaldez]

Three just sounds like you have delusions of grandeur.

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[ptrprkr]

I really wish that was the case instead.
But that one is 100% true.

[leovaldez]

You wish you had delusions of grandeur?????

[ptrprkr]

It would have been a little better to have made it all up than to have actually done it.
it sort of caused a little bit of a mess 💦

text; daemon: chainsawd

[fiachdubh]

what historical monument?

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[ptrprkr]

The Washington monument.

[fiachdubh]

looks sturdy to me. how did you save it?

[ptrprkr]

It looks pretty sturdy lately, yeah. But it ws pretty close to being a bunch of rubble in the middle of DC.

There's an elevator inside of it that takes people all the way up to the top, it ended up hanging on by literally a thread. I held on to it long enough for everyone to make it out before anything too bad happened.

[ Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man saving the day. ]

daemon: quothed

[deathkid]

[ peter parker? as in... no way. it can't be. nico might be fan-boying a little inside. after all, he once quoted the comics to percy who didn't seem to catch the reference. ]

i'm leaning towards #3
but it's so outlandish that it might be true
so i'll go for #2 is the lie

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[ptrprkr]

Outlandish, but number 3 is 100% true.

You would be correct, then. 👍
I'm not the worst swimmer out there, but definitely not swim team material.
Especially not the captain

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[deathkid]

[ yep, definitely has to be that peter parker. nico is in a tizzy he's so excited. ]

cool.
i'm not much of a swimmer either.
which monument did you protect?

[ptrprkr]

I know well enough to tread water, but that's about as good as it gets.
If the world ends in a giant flood, I guess I'm kind of screwed.

Washington.

daemon: anned

[lacquers]

Number three sounds like a fantastic story! And, depending on the outcome, number one could be pretty interesting as well.

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[ptrprkr]

The story for the third one is a lot more interesting than the first.

[ Unless he's stumbled into some universe where giving directions is considered riveting storytelling. ]

They are both true, though

[lacquers]

[ Giving directions while dressed as a masked superhero and then getting a sweet treat for your efforts is a pretty unique tale, to be fair! ]

I see. That begs the question: do you not like to swim?

I'm kidding. The more pressing query would be which monument and how?

[ptrprkr]

I've got nothing against swimming. I'm not particularly good or bad at it. Average, I guess. They wouldn't let me be captain, though.

Washington Monument and...
Well, it's kind of a long story. But to cut to the chase, the elevator inside was ready to plummet some 500 feet to the ground and I swung in and stopped it just in time.

[ Panicked, all the while, but that's just a minor detail. ]

[astralera]

Hello Peter, it is good to meet you.

May I ask what a churro is?

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[ptrprkr]

Hello, it's nice to meet you too 👋

It's delicious. It's a stick of fried dough covered with cinnamon and sugar. Have you never had one before?

[astralera]

I have never encountered such a food before. It sounds delicious.

[ex_stony881]

Random food seems likely to be a truth. Captaincy and the preservation of monuments are slightly more likely, though I don't really know what a school swim team is. Do you just swim in groups?

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[ptrprkr]

Is the point of the game to try and fool everyone else into thinking they could all be true?

[ Really. He doesn't know. His friends didn't ever play this game. ]

Sort of??? That's more like... Synchronized swimming.
The swim team is more like... A race! You swim from one end of the pool and back, the person who does it the fastest is the winner.

[ex_stony881]

I'm not really sure of the point of the game either, so I can't answer. I suppose it's an effective strategy to get people talking. Especially when the cover of the possibility of a lie makes it easier to admit more vulnerable truths.

The explanation helps though. The swim team is a lie.

text; daemon: apollod

[hasitsthorns]

I'm going to say number one is the lie but if if it's not just
why?????

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[ptrprkr]

I guess I kind of lied a little on that one.... She wasn't completely random.
I'd just given her directions and she wanted to pay me back. The only thing she had was a churro.
I couldn't say no to her!

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[hasitsthorns]

okay well
that's a bit more understandable
especially because churros are delicious af