IC DATING SHOW MEME

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THE IC DATING SHOW MEME

It works like this: characters post a comment in the form of a dating game (you know, the 'Hi my name is Cindee and I like long walks on the beach, pina coladas, and getting caught in the rain!' ones) and can be as serious or not as they like. Then others can respond anonymously (but still ICly) or logged in asking questions and being asked questions in return. Fun and spam happens!

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

That's, uh, a lot of exploding things. Seriously. How much do you spend on repairs anyway?

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

Um, nothing? I just have to go exploring in Weapons and Possessions a bit more often than I'd like.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not that bad, I guess.

What's in Weapons and Possessions that you have to go looking for.

....other than the obvious.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

Parts, mostly. For fixing the things that explode. And I'm still trying to find a damn pen that works.

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, you guys don't have pens that work on that ship of yours? Dude, that's kinda lame.

I've got a ton of spares if you wanted?

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

I think they're around somewhere, I just can't find one... and you're telling me.

Um, yes please, anon.

[(Anonymous)]

Couldn't you, I dunno. Make one or something? Some kinda high tech superpen.

...actually that'd be pretty awesome.

Okay, I could-- Uh. Apparently inter-game shipping rates really suck right now. How much do you think your pen is worth?

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

I've got a kohl pencil, but it smudges like you wouldn't believe on paper. (And I'd love to make a superpen, but I'd kind of need other pens to build it from first.)

Well, I think that's what happens when you're constantly travelling through the space between alternate universes. ... what game are you in, anon? [Not being evasive at all. Nope, not her.]

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, at least you get to move around a lot. I'm going nuts in this one place.

I'm in a crazy mental institute. If you want anything more, you've gotta figure it out on your own.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

At least your place is relatively stable, right? The ship just tried to kill us all and the eldritch abomination trapped onboard is about to try to do it again.

Landel's or St. Edelweiss? Either way, I didn't think they actually give you pens in the mental hospital.

[(Anonymous)]

Dude, my friends keep disappearing and I got tortured the other night. Not to mention the monsters trying to kill us every night as well. What's this stable thing you're talking about?

Got it with the first one. But we do get like, a huge roll of pens. I dunno why, unless they think we can turn 'em into weapons or something.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

[winces] Okay, point taken. Mental hospital sucks, transuniversal ship sucks.

You... could, I guess, although I'm not sure it'd be worth it. You'd have to get way too close to whatever you were trying to stab, and plastic's not all that durable for that sort of thing. Maybe that's why they gave you so many?

[(Anonymous)]

At least we're united in suck, right?

I have no idea. One journal, a bunch of pens. Maybe we're supposed to make some kinda bow and arrow thingy, or a blow dart thing. I could maybe get some cardboard tubes from arts and crafts, I guess?

Or just, you know, stick to punching things and/or running away.

[forthewyn.livejournal.com]

[snickers] Something like that, yeah.

... or keep a journal. I mean, you'd think that's what the doctors were saying to do with your notebook and pens, right? And ordinary string's all wrong for a bow-and-arrows, which is probably what they'd have in an arts and crafts room. You could try for some sort of slingshot, if they had rubber bands? [And now she's way overthinking things...]

Yeah, or you could just run. That works.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but you don't need thirty odd pens for one journal, do you?

I dunno. I'm not really a weapons kinda guy. I'm normally good with just punching things a lot.

Hey, I know! How about you make me a weapon or something, and I'll give you my pens? Sound fair?

[forthewyn.livejournal.com]

... that is a lot of pens.

You mean the superhero solution to problems?

I thought you just said you weren't a weapons kind of guy? Sounds all right to me. Do you know what you want, or should I just make something that kills things really well?

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah. Maybe a monster eats them or something? I have no idea.

Pretty much. But it works, right! ...well. Normally.

Yeah, but even I can just hit things with other things. Uh, maybe not so much with the killing part? It's not really my thing. Plus sometimes I'm fighting people who are just brainwashed. It's not their fault what's happening.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

I... avoid the hitting-people part as much as I can? I'm kind of short for it to be actually effective.

Okay, no killing. Got it. Um, how about a linear particle-- [And now that her brain has caught up with her vocal cords...] So do they brainwash people at that asylum of yours or is it just sort of an incidental thing?

[(Anonymous)]

Not so much of a problem for me though.

Linear particle what? ...oh. Uh yeah. Every night as far as I can tell.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

All right, all right, I get it, you're taller than I am. You can join the other 99% of the population somewhere over there.

A handheld linear particle accelerator. Fancy-engineer-speak for a raygun, pretty much. ... and seriously? I thought the point of the insane asylum was to hold the crazy people in and not have them fight each other.