Game 2 - Rose

[crittersheep]

[A rose shaped crystal rises from the ground. You instinctively know to touch it for Death's Eye to receive your answer.

You are bound to your flock by a thin thread, making it impossible to separate, but you may still answer individually.]

Comments

[pleasantmisery]

Objection! My wording's totally fine! It's not my fault that Death's Eye is touchy and rude!

[finalbows]

Sh--she's the one we're trying to impress, though. _{[ sniffle ]} Not you.

[catposting]

Death's Eye doesn't care whose fault it is!

[ congrats Shadow Fiend you actually got him to snap at you. ]

[ deep breath. he's calm TOTALLY CALM ]

No tyrannical power grabs, remember?

[pleasantmisery]

I'm just saying!! But I agree, Floyd Fiend's probably better at saying fancy things with a straight face.

[catposting]

Glad we're on the same page.

[ glances at her, glances at Angel Devil ]

Did you discuss the answer with him?

[ he is not talking to the sobbing monkey directly ]

[finalbows]

I'm s-- still here, you know! Don't talk like I'm some piece of f-- furniture. We did. _Earlier.

[catposting]

[ internally screaming ]

What did you think?

[finalbows]

You know that s... snake is still in control... This is all just... wringing out our feelings... to make us suffer, because, somehow, it couldn't just kill us outright. You think our answer matters?

_{[ that's not the damn question, though, angel devil. ]}

Life's value is because things die. They... they need each other. It'll just starve again.

_{[ the uncontrollable crying does not make him more coherent, no. ]}

[catposting]

... Good.

[ their "truth" lines up. ]

[pleasantmisery]

He seemed to have, uh, a lot of feelings about the topic. But I suggested wording it as "Life is the Everything before the Nothing. Without an Everything, there can be no Nothing." And Angel Devil seemed okay with that.

[catposting]

...

I reckon that's our best answer so far. It captures time while assigning a value.

[ looks at Floyd ]

Unless death comes before life in his world, I'm pretty sure we can all agree on that "truth".

[pleasantmisery]

Yep, I think it hits all the important stuff! Better run it by him first just to be sure, though.

[catposting]

You do it. You're the one that spoke with Angel Devil; I wouldn't want to paraphrase and miss something important.