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

[10billionpercent]

I suppose I need to drink to that one.

[ He will enjoy more of his wine, what, it's good. ]

[myninjainfocard]

Was it at least an entertaining war or some absolute boring nonsense?

[LOOK, IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE BLAMED FOR A WAR...]

[10billionpercent]

Depends on your definition of entertaining. It was definitely challenging considering we were doing our best to make it a bloodless conflict and win through intimidation alone.

[ The war is his fault, so he'll take the blame. ]

[myninjainfocard]

[You lost him at bloodless. But also better than him for taking the blame.]

... Bloodless? That does sound like a challenge, how did that end up working out for you? I know it... would go relatively poorly where I'm from. [What with your shounen protags and such.]

[10billionpercent]

I wasn't interested in killing anyone and I know people who are a lot more serious about that than I am.

[ He let out a thoughtful hum. ]

First we convinced some of those on the other side through lies and deceptions, thanks to a well placed cell phone and a recording we happen to have of a pop star from the past. Then we came in appearing to have them severely outgunned to freak them out.

All in all it worked out pretty well, for the most part, considering there were minor wounds with one exception and that exception was backstabbed by an ally.

[myninjainfocard]

Killing in general or in this particular scenario?

[... Cell phone? Pop stars? Good grief.]

I take it a cell phone is some sort of communication device? And what would a star from the past have anything to do with causing a war? I've heard of minor squabbles and the like here and there, but a complete war?

[He pauses for a moment, leaning back in the chair he's sitting in. Where he's at is anyone's guess as he's purposefully picked the most generic backdrop he could find.]

Humans, all in all, tend to be rather easy to make think that. Because, really, while the rational part of their brain would tell them there's no way that could be possible, the more... primitive part would be going "but what if". And most cannot filter such questions.

At least it worked out for you, hm?

[10billionpercent]

Killing in general. Incredibly boring, don't you think? It's much more challenging and thrilling to get around that.

[ He hums, not put out that this person doesn't know. ]

That's right, it allows for conversation over distance, like the SCA on our wrists. She helped us end the war. We had someone throw their voice and played her song to trick people into believing she was still alive.

It did work out, for the most part.

[myninjainfocard]

Killing sometimes is... necessary, as unfortunate as it might be.

[Hey, the fact they have computers and trains but not cell phones is just how stupid the tech level in his world really is.]

Did it have something to do with her or was it just some very odd... thing... to where people all agreed she was amazing or something like that? Otherwise it sounds like a rather odd way to end a war.

[10billionpercent]

I have yet to find a reason to kill someone, but I'll keep that in mind.

[ He hums. ]

The latter. Our adversaries were...well, twenty years old or younger. We used that against them.

[ Nevermind he was the same age. ]