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

[fun_thementalist]

Being tiny has its advantages!

[ When he started to get taller he did lament it'd be more difficult to pull off some of his escape routines. ]

[ Takes a sip, but then corrects the obvious assumption; ]

I used to, my friend. This is my natural color. I used to care more about not looking like a hooligan.

[miseris_socios]

Ah, got it. ... I don't think it makes you look like a hooligan.

But the people I run around with at home would probably count as 'hooligans'.

[fun_thementalist]

Why thank you, you're very kind. Back before I escaped school, I doubt the administrators wouldn't agree - but there's no accounting for taste, hm?

[ Thoughtful hum, considering, still smiling. ] I suppose some of the people I ran around with were, too. But I prefer to judge them by my standards, and not the standards of a bunch of stuffy people.

[ Which didn't mean that Ken hadn't fallen in with a bad crowd, perhaps. Sure, he's just a kid. But Gen was very aware of what kids could get up to ... ]

[miseris_socios]

Yeah, I agree. A lot of standards are just... well. Wrong. Or they don't take the whole picture into account.

[fun_thementalist]

[ Friendly smile. ]

It's very true. And of course it helps create a trap - something everyone can fall into.

If they're in a system of standards - conventional, unconventional - that they later have challenged ... for example! Let's say they find out a child needs to 'steal' to feed themselves, or a soldier finds that the people who 'deserved' to die are still people. [ He kept using silly airquotes there, as he grinned. ]

The human trap is that they'll lie to themselves to keep justifying their own standards, because people are afraid of being wrong.

[miseris_socios]

I never got caught stealing, but if I had... yeah, no one would have cared if it was because I was homeless and had no money. People don't really care... I would've probably gotten in serious trouble and definitely sent to the orphanage.

Which is what I was trying to avoid in the first place.