Would you rather?

[The Seamstress]

Basil. Though I've never tried watercress so I'm just choosing the familiar one here.

Black tea or green tea?

[Jubal]

Black tea.

Black tea with milk or black tea with lemon?

[The Seamstress]

Lemon. I can drink black tea with lemon and lots of sugar, but am not really a black tea person. Never had tea with milk, actually. I think it's not as common here as it is in the UK? Somehow my brain can't compute the idea of mixing tea with milk, lol.

If you were a game character, would you rather live in a 2D world or in a 3D world?

[Jubal]

3D. I like having enough dimensions for hugs.

Would you rather be held responsible for a trojan (computer virus making backdoors into people's systems) or a Trojan (an ancient Anatolian displaced in time and presumably horribly confused and angry at finding a world totally beyond their comprehension)?

[The Seamstress]

I think with the trojan I could more easily prove that it wasn't really me who's responsible because I know nothing about that stuff and how it works... Whereas a Trojan is history-related, making me a clear suspect. Besides, I'm not sure if I really want to make the acquaintance of Angry Ancient Anatolian.

Would you rather do professional debugging (in the somethingsomething-computer-problem-solving sense) or debugging (in the remove-actual-insects-from-people's-houses sense)?

[Jubal]

I already do a bunch of the former, so I guess I'll keep playing to my strengths.

Would you rather cheese with pickle or cheese with grapes?

[The Seamstress]

Uhm... I don't know. I'm not really keen on pickled things in general, so I think the grapes? Though in my mind grapes are strongly associated with sweet stuff so pairing them with cheese was never something I considered.

Would you rather be surprise-visited by the largest pangolin that ever lived, or by Gary, a Gandalf impersonator who knows a few magic tricks?

[Jubal]

BIG PANGOLIN FRIEND! 

Would you rather be illustrated for a fictional work about your life by a 19th century book illustrator or an ancient roman mosaicist?

[The Seamstress]

BIG PANGOLIN FRIEND! 

Why am I not surprised 


19th century book illustrator, definitely!

Would you rather have your life story written in the style of a 17th century pamphlet or in the style of a very pompous 18th century novel?

[Tusky]

I think I would enjoy the 18th century pompous version.

Have the ability to make it rain marmalade or snow cornflakes

[The Seamstress]

I think the cornflakes, marmalade would likely result in a sticky mess I wouldn't want to find myself in.

Would you rather be a medieval king or medieval pope?

[Jubal]

Instinct says king but I feel like Pope is a marginally safer bet on average?

Would you rather trams were all pulled by small dragons or cars were all replaced by large grumpy tortoises?

[The Seamstress]

For climate's sake I think the tortoises would be the better option. (And yet... small dragons pulling trams - assuming the dragons are friendly and well-behaved and don't burn everything down every two days - is a concept that's kind of appealing.)

Would you rather be cursed by The Glitter Ghoul, resulting in glitter popping up everywhere in your flat, on your things, on yourself - an endless amount of glitter you can never clean away; or cursed by The Goo Ghoul, resulting in strange glow-in-the-dark goo dripping from your ceilings nonstop, which can't be cleaned away either, but once it's dripped down, will disappear within a few hours so the endless goo can continue dripping endlessly?

[Jubal]

I don't like either of these curses. I think I pick the Goo Ghoul and then, given the caveat is that it's my ceilings, simply find ways to never rest in a place I have any ownership of ever again.

Would you rather take a class in pancake-flipping, or a class on how to cook kohlrabi?

[The Seamstress]

The pancakes, probably? I know a few simple ways to cook kohlrabi already, so I think I'll go and learn something new.

Would you rather be a sentient frying pan or a sentient baking tray?