happy anniversary - and a meme!

[groundrules]

Hi everyone! eastbound stirred from undeath as roughly the world's tiniest game a year ago, and it's all down to everyone's enthusiasm, sleuthing and morbid sense of humour that it's still alive, sometimes braying and kicking.

To celebrate...

FORTUNE FAVOURS THE DEAD


A bevy of aggressive, loud and gregarious fortune tellers has inundated Ke-Waihu, seeking to exercise their... gifts for coin before departing by sea. To spread the word, they hand out a few free, unsolicited fortunes to hapless bystanders:

i. List your character(s), one per comment, and one or more funny, outlandish or depressing fortunes they've been told ( 'You will marry a six-headed frog by midnight,' 'A stubborn infant will bring your end with a toothpick'... )

ii. Comment around to help with, sympathise, or... point and laugh at everyone else's (mis)fortune. Spam vigorously.

iii. Up to you & your thread partner, if you want to make these conversations game canon and ice break some CR!

Comments

Xie Lian

[scrapgege]

'You don't have to be faster than the bear, you just have to be faster than the slowest guy running from it.'

[downswing]

Cowardly.

[reparo]

That certainly redefines getting to the top by climbing on the backs of others.

[eternallywandering]

You're not wrong, but also...

Surely there is a better way to handle the situation.

Beitang Moran

[beitangmoran]

'I see money in your future... it is not yours, though.'

[reparo]

Did you see that one coming?

Wen Kexing

[flirtatiousdancer]

'Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.'

[downswing]

You know its face?

[reparo]

Finally, I know why I was sorted into the brave house. My friends have been testing me from the start.

Re: Wen Kexing

[eternallywandering]

A test for what?

Xiao Xingchen

[binghua]

`Love is on the horizon. The stars predict he will be tall, dark, and a centaur.`

[scrapgege]

... A centaur?

[flirtatiousdancer]

You deserve it...aside perhaps the centaur. Unless you're interested in that.

[reparo]

Well, that took a wild ride.

[eternallywandering]

I'm a centaur? Xingchen, why didn't you say something!

Winnie Prismall

[soulsrob]

Three can keep a secret if you get rid of two.

[downswing]

Best honesty above all.

[reparo]

Puts a new spin to taking a secret to your grave - were your fetters predicting, or giving advice?

Wen Qing

[silverneedles]

'Three can keep a secret if you get rid of two.'

[downswing]

Murder ill suits you.

hermione granger

[reparo]

You may be young in years but the heart that beats beneath your bosom is as shriveled as an old maid's, your soul as dry as the pages of the books to which you so desperately cleave.

[flirtatiousdancer]

I think your soul is perfectly bright. And your heart is strong.

Number Five

[somebadnews]

'In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.'

[reparo]

I can't relate.

Xie Yun

[balancedwire]

Your nights will grow colder still, to match the heat of growing fires.

the most helpful

[downswing]

Take candle.

Zhou Zishu

[eternallywandering]

Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.

[binghua]

Let us hope this is strictly metaphorical.

Marcos

[soloritur]

'If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.'

[reparo]

The fetters are perfectionist? Who would've thought.

Cato

[unpurposed]

Metal turns to blood if you try hard enough.

[downswing]

Not as materials work.