RATATOSKR

[soulping]

[You can discuss your answers with your team privately around your team's podium! As long as you're there, no one can overhear you. . . and although you can see the other teams conversing, you can't hear their conversations, either]

Comments

ROUND 1

[cosmetician]

[cantando]

....I can already turn into a cat.

[cosmetician]

Same here.

Want to go with the bird option, just for variety?

[cantando]

Might as well. I mean, I don't particularly care either way, so spice it up.

[cosmetician]

You sound like you'd be great at parties.

[cantando]

I'd be fantastic at parties. Every party needs a tall dark stranger with heterochromia, it's scientific fact.

[cosmetician]

Scientific fact, huh? And I bet you've got the data analysis and independent studies to back that up.

[cantando]

Well if I did, I wouldn't remember, but I'm certain they exist.

[cosmetician]

Then next time Kyriakos throws a party, I'll measure your greatness.

[cantando]

Well if it's like that, we'll have to be sure to measure every team. Scientific rigor requires a large sample size.

ROUND 2

[cosmetician]

Re: ROUND 2

[cantando]

...Octopus.

Re: ROUND 2

[cosmetician]

At least an octopus isn't rotting.

[cantando]

Exactly. I don't care how hot they were alive, necrosis isn't sexy.

[cosmetician]

Not in the slightest.

[making a grossed out face]

I think an octopus has like, a tiny beak for a mouth. Much easier to deal with.

[cantando]

I think they're seafood and probably delicious.

[cosmetician]

Oh, for sure. But so is a shark, and I'd still rather kiss an octopus.

[cantando]

Well sharks are sandpapery, yeah? That'd be like kissing a dude who hasn't shaved well enough, but multiplied.

ROUND 3

[cosmetician]

Re: ROUND 3

[cantando]

Give me the pepper.

Re: ROUND 3

[cosmetician]

[thinking]

Yeah, that's the smarter idea. Cinnamon dries out your throat, you know? And salt will cut the burn of the pepper.

Re: ROUND 3

[cantando]

It's too boring to just have cinnamon. Might as well go whole-hog.

Re: ROUND 3

[cosmetician]

That too. You certainly like to up the ante.

[cantando]

I hate being bored.

[cosmetician]

Ah, so reckless.....if only I were older so I could say "it must be nice to be young", this is a great moment for it.

[cantando]

What have I even got to lose? It's not like this is the sort of game we'll die in.

[cosmetician]

You're that sure of it, huh.....

[cantando]

I have no data to work with. Doing nothing until I have it isn't an option. So I'll use myself as a piece and get more information.

But if this were the sort of game to kill us, I think we'd know by now.

[cosmetician]

[a pause, and then a grin

it's a humorless grin]

Well said.

[cantando]

[Shrugging her hands out.]

Ideally, I'd be at the game alone for that kind of thing, but I can't expect that. And you don't sound like you disagree with the course of action.

[cosmetician]

That's because I don't. It's not a bad way to do things.

ROUND 4

[cosmetician]

Re: ROUND 4

[cosmetician]

The only guy I ever had those feelings for isn't even here. Easy answer.

Re: ROUND 4

[cantando]

Fair enough, then. I can't remember anything, so this means nothing to me.