RP for banished_dame: Truth-telling exploits of doom!

[rude_not_ginger]

The planet of Zelmenox.

Lovely place. Streets were lined with rubies, literally. It seemed like the right sort of place to take Rose Tyler for a trip. Land somewhere within the principal city of Vertias, have some lunch and wander around a bit.

Really, though, now that the Doctor thinks about it, he should've taken at least a brief glance at the books he had on Zelmenoxian law before landing there. Not twenty minutes after they started wandering, they were approached by one of the half-horse aliens (a police officer, in fact) and asked if they'd taken the Vertian Supplement, required of all citizens and visitors.

The correct answer was "no" and the Doctor was regretting saying that. Now, they sat in a Vertian cafe, looking over some of the custom guides to figure out exactly what they'd been injected with.

"It's a truth-telling serum," the Doctor announced, looking over the edge of his glasses at his companion. "To try to sort out the 'primary question of the universe'. Whatever that could be."

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[banished_dame]

Leave it to their luck to end up in a place where Rose hadn't gotten all her shots. Now she had her one arm pressed against the pages of the local guidebook holding it open for her to read. Her other hand was currently busy rubbing the spot on her arm where they'd opted to inoculate her with what the Doctor was now telling her was truth-serum. Which really wasn't what she'd wanted in her at all.

Flipping the page carefully so that the book didn't fold up against her hand closing the binding that really needed to be cracked nearly in half just to get it to lie flat on the table, Rose raised her eyebrow.

"Primary question? Like this?" Rose cleared her throat and put on her best Proper Librarian voice and read aloud from Zelmenox Laws and Guides for a Truthful Visit, "Who would win in a fight a..." Rose paused trying to get the pronunciation down right, "a... Causmag'Naught," shaking her head she tried to get the feeling of all her phlegm from staying where it belonged... not in her words, "or a Magnuinus K'Ro?"

Furrowing her brows she stopped rubbing at her arm and picked up the book reading the statement over again, then picking out part of it, "When two sides could not determine who was lying about the success of the superior race everyone within the confines of the planet was deemed a liar, and until one side prevails no one can lie about the other?"

Which sounded crazy.

"I'm sorry but that's crazy."