We played a game today and it turned out to be pretty interesting. I might as well share the fun with everyone else. Read the questions below and think about what you would do--and sorry, no running away, and no "it depends on my outlook on life at the time". 8D (Sorry if these scenarios sound really extreme or dramatic. They're all the little stories I made up in my head over the years. Accept the non-logical parts and have fun with the quiz, okay!) (:

1. Suppose you're 10-year-old kid living a normal, rural life. You only have one friend and you spend every waking moment with her. Then, one day, your parents throw you out of bed and accuse you of a murder. You remember that, the night before, your friend asked to borrow a knife, saying that her mother needed it for the kitchen. But before you can say anything in your own defence, you are knocked out, and by the time you wake up, you are alone in a foreign, uninhabited forest. Your parents--and the entire community--have thrown you out. You live out life on your own. Seven years later, you are reunited with your mother. She is elated to see that you're still alive, and she says she is willing to forgive you. Do you forgive HER?

2. Same scenario, only that your friend isn't a cold, psychotic killer. In fact, she's so nice you're in love with her. The two of you promise each other that you will get married when you grow up, and that you will love each other forever. She gives you your first kiss. The next day, an accident separates the both of you, and you each think the other dead. Nine years later, you find out where she lives, and in all your elation you go to see her. She is equally overjoyed to see you, but upon being invited into her house, you realize, from the photographs on the mantelpiece, that she is engaged with someone else. And happy. Do you fight for her--or do you let her go?

3. (Sharon, you haven't answered this one properly. What do you mean, "according to the way a drama series would typically go..."!) Suppose you are a combat agent conditioned to suppress all emotions, and to use only logic and intelligence to carry out your missions. You are dispatched one day to act as a bodyguard for a girl, but (and this is where your rigorous brainwashing completely fails you) you fall in love with her. Upon realizing that you will kill upon orders without hesitation, your client makes a pact with you: if you are asked to kill, you must go to her and tell her about it. She will then do everything in her power to stop you, and you will go ahead with the assassination only if she fails. You receive an order to kill a target. Do you or do you not tell your client? (I got this idea from Dune. How come everyone is so fascinated with the idea of conditioning the human mind to suppress all emotion? It's so sick!)

4. Suppose you are an innocent man with a wife and two children. You make the wrong connections, and you find yourself caught up in a dreadful conspiracy (don't ask what it is. It's a random scenario). You are asked to kill a certain target. Or rather, you are blackmailed: kill the target, or watch your wife and children die in cold blood in their own home. You ask for details, and you find out that the target is your best friend. Who do you kill--your family, or your friend? (By the way, suicide is not an option. The person blackmailing you would kill your family anyway, to make the entire thing look neater. Too bad, Sharon.) (:

5. Suppose you are a young boy born into a royal family (choose a country that doesn't exist). You are, first off, deaf, and therefore imperfect; secondly, you are the second child, and by custom, only one child can live to ascend the throne. The royal advisors and your parents choose your older brother, rendering you redundant and useless. You spend a large part of your life in prison, kept a secret from the rest of the country (you are not killed because your parents cannot stand the thought of killing you in cold blood--upon which they decide to ruin your life instead. Silly people.). Chance, cunning and desperation somehow help you to escape. You live your life as a renegade, living freely on the outskirts of the country, until one day, you are found and taken back to the palace. Your parents and your brother are dead; the country needs a ruler, and by custom, only one born of royal blood can ascend the throne. Do you save your country by taking its reigns--or do you turn your back on it and walk away to continue living the free life you have settled into?

6. You are a happy child living in a proud, powerful House (that's the Western version of a clan. Can't they just call it a clan? I get confused and think, brick house? Wooden house? Oh, and choose another country that doesn't exist.) until you are wrongly accused of treason against your family. You are exiled without a fair trial. Five years later, you catch sight of the House's doctor (a.k.a your former best friend) on the other side of the street. Do you let him spot you--or do you run away?

7. Same scenario, but put yourself in the doctor's shoes. After talking to the child, you realize that he was never guilty of treason. The child has made friends with a lawyer, who, upon understanding the situation, suggests a trial to clear up the accusations made five years ago (you never had a real trial, so this is it--meaning that if you lose, you go to jail. Again.). Your House takes up this trial as the plaintiff and sets up the prosecution case. You, as one of the more influential figures of the House, are naturally expected to testify FOR the House, AGAINST the child. Do you testify against the child--or do you betray the house and advocate the child's innocence in court?

8. You are taken as a young child and used as a human experiment in a laboratory (sorry--this idea came shortly after we did bio-ethics in LA). After years of torment, you somehow escape, and are taken in by a young couple. Many years later, the laboratory that used you gets found out by the authorities and is publicly sued for crimes against humanity; the scientists in charge of human experiment projects face the gallows if successfully sued. You are asked to testify against the laboratory in court. You are all set to step onto the witness stand...until you realize that the man that took you in after your escape, the man you came to see as your father, was one of the scientists. He had been working on another project at the time, and since he never used you, he never knew about your existence until you escaped and ended up at his doorstep, which is why he took you in, seeing you as a mere street orphan. Do you testify against him?

That's all I can remember from all my years of daydreaming. Tag your answers on the tagboard--it'll be interesting to see how you guys will react to this kind of thing. (: Here are mine:

1. Yes 2. I'll let her go. Sniff. 3. I tell her, and then very gently knock her out and carry on with my mission. Work is important. 4. I haven't decided... 8D 5. Sigh; I'll do it. 6. I'll let him spot me, and then I'll give him a good whack on the head for not being there when I needed him the most. 7. Advocate his innocence, duh. And then, when I get kicked out of the House, I'll set up my own clinic, thanks. 8. I'd testify against the laboratory. But I'd tell the court that one guy took care of me, so could he just spend his life in jail, please?

Have fun! :D