( 07 ) video + text ♧ dying to tell you anything you want to hear that's just who i am this week

[became]

[ everything in neal's life right now depends on coming off as better-- healing, masking pain maybe, but better. as such: time to get back on the network socialization horse.

he's in his devore, this time, and a fedora to boot; armor, but whatever. hot armor. ]

You know what I've noticed? Space is actually pretty boring in between it trying to kill us all.

In that vein, here's something I haven't done in a while. Pick a or b and try your best.



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Find the differences.



That's a, here's b.

You're on a road-- let's say to the nearest drycleaners. If you don't understand why we need one of those, you're going somewhere else that's very important and exciting, all right? You come to a point in the road where the path is blocked by three guardians; their names are Knight, Knave and Chaos. Knight always tells the truth, and Knave can always be trusted to lie. Chaos just blows whichever way the wind is strongest, that day.

To get past them, you only have to do one thing: by asking three yes or no questions (one to each guardian, double dipping not allowed) figure out which one is Knight, which one is Knave, and which one is Chaos.

There is, as always, one catch: the guardians understand English but will answer you back in their local language, so 'da' means yes and 'ja' means no. Or maybe it's the other way around-- probably should have read the guidebook closer.

So. How do you do it?

And hey, why not one more for the math geeks living among us. Finish the sequence:

4, 6, 12, 18, 30, 42, 60, 72, 102, 108, ?, ?, ?.

( l o c k e d )

There are a few other players on the board I should fill you in about.

Chess tonight?

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VIDEO UNTIL WE SAY OTHERWISE WHEE

[became]

Yup-- and judging by that grin you're trying to hold back, so do you.

...I could always do an encore.

[ NO SHAME ]

[cons]

[ kind of laughing and saying 'whatever' at the same time there. ] Please don't. That'll only lessen the value of the recording I got of the first one.

I plan on selling it, maybe charging sugar packets or small favors instead of cash. I now hold the monopoly on your talent, I'm afraid. Unless you plan on singing for everyone. [ BWA! HA! HA! an evil mastermind in the making, clearly. ]

[became]

No one's going to pay you anything for a recording of me ripping off the Andrews Sisters, but you're welcome to try.

[ he's vain but come on, no one wants to pay for that. ]

[cons]

I think you underestimate the high demand of some Grade A entertainment, my friend. [ OH SO CONFIDENT IN THIS PLAN can you tell. she's even raising her brows and nodding. sweet deal here. ]

[became]

Hey, if it works? Send me proof, I'll eat my words.

--making someone buy it to get me to eat crow doesn't count.

[cons]

[ HNF. ]

Of course it counts.

[became]

Not even a little.

[cons]

Whatever, I'll win that bet, but I have more important things going on here now. I can still only see five distinct differences. Unless we're looking at like, little tiny marks that are different. I just assumed that was the- like when you try taking pictures of things on this communicator it always comes out a little funky, but-

[ --lol funky butt ]

Look, I'm getting pretty fed up with this can you just tell me where they are now-? [ she's looking at the screen now instead of the camera, no not Neal's face, she's shifted that over just a little bit so she can zoom in on these pictures . ] Like, is the bunny's expression different or something? I can't tell.

[became]

Okay, okay. One hint, but just because I like you.

[ SRS FACE. SO SRS. ]

When you find the hidden spaceship, you can consider yourself done.

[ ...there's no spaceship. ]

[cons]

What!

[ you can literally see Wichita's eyes kind of darting around because there is no space ship she's sure she would have noticed a little spaceship somewhere in this freaking picture of a garden but then oh wow Neal Caffrey you are literally the rudest person that ever lived. and she works for Brian Kinney. ]

Well, that was just mean.

[became]

[ he's all wounded pride, wichita. you doubt him? that hurts. ]

Hand to god, there's a spaceship.

[ says the agnostic. ]

[cons]

[ HUFFFFF. she doesn't reply verbally, she's too busy leaning closer to the screen, scrolling up and down and up and down, trying to find the differences, the fucking spaceship. after a few seconds though, she pulls up the sketchpad JARVIS hooked her up with way back when ]

[ and yes, she's actually already frowning at the screen, because she can't find anything new. if anything both pictures are just starting to blur together. ]

[became]

Not going to work-- find that spaceship.

[ neal you're awful, stop. ]

[cons]

You find it.

[ ... ]

Is it in the bushes back there? Like I don't- I can't tell what any of that is.

[ there's an 80% chance she knows he's just bullshitting her, but the other 20% is fine with playing along, just for the sake of... playing mostly, yeah. ]

[became]

Cheating.

[ he just hums the word under his breath. ]

[cons]

Neal!

[ finally tearing! her eyes away from the pictures to look right into the camera, her bangs all in her eyes ( she needs to trim them ) and a sort of frustrated frown screwing up her mouth ]

We are in a fight. And the only way to fix it is for you! To tell me where the hidden spaceship is.

[ what are their lives ]

[became]

[ CUE MOURNFUL SIGH sad puppies got shit on this amount of tragedy. ]

If you're sure you can't find it... I guess there's only minimal shame in that.

[cons]

[ she's letting her head fall forward, hiding her face against her arm, making her words come out all muffled. ]

This is what being in a fight with me feels like.

[ yes now she's flipping off the camera ]

[became]

And it hurts me, it really does.

[ :D :D :D ]

[cons]

I'm not playing anymore.

Also, if I can't just talk my way past those three, I'm choosing to shoot all of them for being bullies and standing in my way when my womanly pantsuit is in danger of getting a stain. That's what they get.

[became]

Just because you can't find it's no reason to sulk.

[ neal if you get beat down by a teenager after this you deserve it. ]

[cons]

It's invisible. It's the kind of spaceship that has the ability to go invisible and that's why I can't find it. It's-

In the bushes, that's my final answer.

[ she'll even look up to press her finger on the screen, leaving a red dot on the bushes. yes. it's official. found it! ]

[became]

You sure?

[cons]

Yes!

[became]

Absolutely?