meme | #002 -- absolute obedience ( do you do you want to )

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the ABSOLUTE OBEDIENCE MEME 1. Post with your character. 2. That character is compelled to follow the orders of anyone who replies. 3. Any orders. 4. Any orders. Meme Strategy: There's nothing in the rules about whether or not your character knows s/he must obey - as well, the other character might not know that s/he must be obeyed. Play it however you like. Don't like the orders you got? Not willing to have your character follow them, even if you've had a good time up to this point? Talk to the other player, use OOC notes or PMs, try and work it out. Got some stuff you'd never want to play out? Consider making a preferences post and linking to it when you reply here. Wanna give orders that people would love to follow? Give em context. Make it a story. Is this about revenge? Working out some personal issues? Too dumb to realize that the other guy has to do whatever your guy says?

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Comments

[magnetic_magpie]

[That might work.]

[He does rest more when alone, so eventually, he does rest. He even has a couple books in those boxes, but mostly he just tries to stay calm. He does scratch out a very good likeness of Doom on the cave wall, though within hours it's completely defaced]

[eternaliyah]

[Comes back with some cold-brewed iced coffee, a crate of clementines, and several subsequent pages of the notebook filled in with translations, structural models, and speculative notes. Also he is drinking some of the coffee and pretending he didn't bring it for you.]

[magnetic_magpie]

[He eyes the coffee skeptically before taking some, sipping at it and going over the notes.]

This looks like it has a way to undo it then?

[No that he could figure it out, other than it didn't just wear off.]

[eternaliyah]

Yeah. There's - I guess it's easier to build one overly complicated lock than an unbreakable wall.

I may be mixing my metaphors here.

[magnetic_magpie]

You aren't.

[He hands it back over, because otherwise the temptation to destroy the papers in a fit of distemper is high.]

[eternaliyah]

There's - I'm pretty sure this bit is a boundary limit, not a particular task, but the equation is complicated and I'm not sure what of.

[magnetic_magpie]

Anything you are sure of?

OH KEYWORDS

[eternaliyah]

It's not extraneous, it's - the language there is repeated, referential, it's tied into the rest of spell itself.

So. Uh. I think it's - use?

Poor Danny

[magnetic_magpie]

What?

Re: Poor Danny

[eternaliyah]

Hey, I wish we could just kill a couple lizards in a pentagram too, but it looks like it's not that easy.

[magnetic_magpie]

So what, bend over, breath slow, it'll all be over soon?

[He doesn't actually mean to be that cruel. But he doesn't care right now.]

[eternaliyah]

Tempting, but I'm going to go with: Don't get pissy at me when I'm only trying to help.

[magnetic_magpie]

[Oh he just wants to growl. And can't.]

That's cute.

[So not happy about this.]

[eternaliyah]

Be quiet for a minute, I need to savor this.

[magnetic_magpie]

[Just huffs out a breath. And slowly counts to sixty.]

[eternaliyah]

[In the last few seconds, quietly]

If I give any order that is actually intolerable to you, I command you to say so before carrying it out.

[magnetic_magpie]

Enjoying how you are getting to phrase things aren't you?

[Mild but cranky. Seriously. 'Command'?]

[eternaliyah]

[mildly]

I didn't want to take any chances with that one.

[magnetic_magpie]

Really now?

[eternaliyah]

Yes.

And saying 'order' twice in the same sentence felt awkward.

[magnetic_magpie]

Oh of course.

[Shutting up and drinking his coffee then, because he's can't be pissy.]

[eternaliyah]

Tell me why you come back here.

[So softly. Kind of terrified of pissing him off but - he wants to know.]

[magnetic_magpie]

I'm not safe here. But safer than anywhere else.

[Quietly. Because fuck you.]

[eternaliyah]

[And Daniel is just going to smile and wibble and hug you now, because - that's as much as he knows to hope for, for anyone.]

[magnetic_magpie]

[Why do you have to touch him. Ugh fine. It feels too good to shove Daniel off.]