Never have I ever made a fool of myself [video, nebula 17]

[monkeyinthewrench]

What's up, party people?

[ And here's a cheerful wave from a man in orange, seated in his room with a mug of...something. ]

If we haven't met yet, my name's Jake. Jake Peralta, your clues guy. I'm down to poke things with sticks and solve mysteries! Sooner we figure out what the train's entire deal is, where we're going and all that, the better, right? But in the meantime, I thought it'd be fun to get to know my new squad!

Anyways, I was wondering if anyone would be down to play a little Earth game called Never Have I Ever. How it works is you say something totally cool, or weird, or boring that you haven't done. And anybody who has done it has to take a drink. Unfortunately, I'm as broke here as I was back home, so I can't supply the booze. And we should probably be setting a good example, right?

So just drink whatever you have! Be that water, juice, milk, coffee...or if you happen to have a proper adult beverage on you, go ahead and drink responsibly. You ready? Great, I'll start: never have I ever gone skydiving!

((ooc: it's a big mingle format! Go ahead and add new 'never have I ever' statements as new toplevels, and threadhop all you want.))

Comments

[namethattune]

[Why not?]

A sixty-three year perfect record is hardly something to sneeze at.

[irrationally]

People don't fall down stairs that often.

[ .. she thinks? Granted, Alice knows she didn't exactly have the most regular life experience, so what does she know. ]

Surely you have something you are more proud of than that.

[namethattune]

And yet, once is enough to ask someone to drink.

Of course I do, but this game has two goals: to share experiences and to catch as many people as possible. I would like to think I have succeeded on both fronts.

[irrationally]

I think the main thing you have succeeded in is making me lose even more faith in humanity.

[ Of course Alice is going to make that dry joke.

Of course she is.

Though it's not him that she's lost faith in, mind you, because she adds-- ]

I truly can't believe this many people do not have a grasp on basic motor functions while on a set of stairs.

[namethattune]

All of the ills of humanity, and the human propensity to fall down the stairs is what makes you lose faith.

[They can make slightly macabre jokes at each other. It's fine.]

A number of people have mentioned some outside influence contributing to the fall - siblings, pets, and evidently magic. I have had none of the above and have therefore avoided any issues.

[irrationally]

I think it is quite unfair to blame it on a pet. My Dinah was always an enormous troublemaker, and she has not caused me to fall down the stairs even once.

[ There might be some pride in her voice as she says it.

Mostly since Dinah is just the best cat, and clearly all these pets out there can't live up to her beautiful, beautiful standard. ]

[namethattune]

Not everyone is blessed with a pet that exercises proper safety measures on the stairs.

[He's not teasing her, per se, but there's definitely shades of it in his response. Plus, he knows the blind spots people can have about their pets.]

[irrationally]

Perhaps they should educate them then.

[ Look at Alice, pretending like you can actually teach a cat things and they'll listen to you. The fool.

Though part of it might just be the dominant part of her personality..

.. or, you know, the fact that jokes and teasing sometimes seem to fly five miles over Alice's head. Like right now. She has no idea he's half-teasing. ]

After all, we also have a lot of pets on the train. If people don't take proper care of those, it will only be a matter of time before we get unnecessary stairs-related incidents on the train. [ If it's apparently this common! And the train does have a few sets of stairs.. ]