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secret barfing meme.

post as your character, revealing a hideous secret or confession. other characters respond icly. your character continues to be compelled to tell the truth.

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[viced]

What the fuck do you mean, you're not surprised?

[deductives]

That you have blood on your hands. Most people in power do; it's how they get there.

[viced]

It's not how I got there. What I did, I did because if I didn't? People were going to die.

I don't know about you, but I'd rather see the person with the superpowers deal with the fuckheads with superpowers, especially so other people don't get hurt.

[deductives]

[Sherlock chuckles a bit. That all sounds rather familiar, even if he doesn't believe it entirely. Does the mayor believe it? Probably.]

That sounds a bit alienating, don't you think?

[viced]

You ever have your apartment infested by cockroaches? Or attacked by a lion because your archenemy is Doctor fucking Doolittle on speed?

It's alienating, sure, but it's fact. Someone like that? You want to take them down before they set every animal in New York City on the residents, and I have no doubt that he could have done it.

[deductives]

[It's safe to say he's been in some horrible apartments, but he's not sharing that today. Besides, it's strange to recognize parallels between them, or at least their enemies. Moriarty couldn't be stopped by anyone but him, and almost not even him. But animals--]

Sounds like your version of the city just had poor pest control.

[viced]

No, it's not that.

It's something bigger. We can handle animals when they're benign, but when you have all of them attacking at once? Even fucking housepets? We would be pretty fucked.

[ Their parallels are pretty striking, but it's a good thing Sherlock can't hear the whole story. ]

[deductives]

[ONE DAY, MITCH]

Like if someone suddenly freed the prison population. I'm aware of such consequences.

[viced]

Worse than that.

[ Hard. He doesn't want to get into it. ]

[deductives]

If the wrong hands claimed to have the key to every unholy door in existence.

[viced]

[ A wry, sarcastic grin. ]

This isn't a fucking comic book. [ A beat. ] Something like that, though.

[deductives]

In my world, it could be. [META META META]

Again, still familiar with the concept. Intimately.

[viced]

Oh yeah? How so?

[deductives]

I already told you, Mr. Mayor.

[viced]

Someone has the key to unlock every evil fucking door? That sounds like a bad Twilight Zone episode.

[deductives]

Or a metaphor. [Sighing so hard.]

[viced]

Think about the kind of fucking people we have here! I don't know your world any more than you know mine, anything we say could be a metaphor, or reality.