999 CAST MEETING (TNDG DAY 2)

[keybroad]

[Lotus wakes up in the sci-fi set along with some of the others. She goes off on her own to get dressed in a Star Trek teal jumpsuit. She comes back with two cinnamon rolls. She sits on her bed and claps her hands. The bracelets on her arms jangle and should get a decent amount of attention.]

So. We should all talk as a group, I guess.

[She proceeds to begin eating the cinnamon rolls. Both are apparently for herself.]

Comments

[exequte]

True, but that's why I said it didn't have to be everyone. If most of us were part of a club that the others wouldn't necessarily fit into, there's reasonable ties to the group through one of the other members for most of us. That frees up the options a little.

[unexpectedboner]

If you're worried, just say we're neighbors. It makes sense to know the other people in your neighborhood...and their parents, for that matter. Then Lotus and Seven don't have to seem like creepers.

[keybroad]

...

[still doubtful but you know what. Life will go on.]

I guess trying to make Seven not seem like a creeper is already a lost cause.

[unexpectedboner]

Right! He's a bodyguard, and you're a mafia don! ...Donna? Whatever.

[keybroad]

[Warming to it a little]

I hacked into the database of his restaurant business and saw that he was laundering money, but I don't want to turn them in... I want my slice of the pie.

[unexpectedboner]

Right! Though you kinda sound like a villain, now. Maybe you want to use the money to help kids or give to charity or something, a real Robin Hood story.

[keybroad]

Well, yeah, I was just joking around. Of course our cover story shouldn't involve any of us breaking the law. I mean, that's kind of the whole reason we have to omit swathes of the whole truth in the first place.

[unexpectedboner]

Though it's not like all of us broke the law to begin with...

[shrugs]

Either way, I think we should just keep things vague. Harder to notice the holes in a story if it's already like Swiss cheese.

[exequte]

Actually, one of the easiest ways to be caught in a lie is not to have the details you need ready. You don't want to go out of your way to share information you don't need to, but you want to know what your answers will be.

[unexpectedboner]

I guess. Just seems like a better idea to just change the subject before getting asked how good Seven is at crane pose.

[keybroad]

Seven is clearly the one where we're like, that's why he was in the class.

I actually know some of this junk, you know. Maybe I can teach you all a little. We can say we're practicing when we have these big meetings and not entirely be lying.

[exequte]

True, but I never said we should volunteer information, but if someone does decide to ask how good he is with crane pose, it'd be better to have an idea of where we're going with this - especially if we're supposed to make sure the answers are coordinated.

[keybroad]

So, some of us already knew each other, but we fell into this club and became a close knit group of seven friends a little less than a year ago.