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

[canyounoct]

I mean. The reasons were stupid, I think is what I mean?

If you're kissing someone because you want to, then I don't think that's dumb.

[jingyeets]

Oh. Were you kissing them but didn't want to?

( his brow furrows at that. )

Was it some kind of ritual or social need or something?

[canyounoct]

No, see ... [ groans ] ... this is what I meant when I said it's dumb.

It's teenaged stuff. There was no good reason for it, I just wanted to make mys- [ cuts himself off ] see if I liked it.

[jingyeets]

( A tilt of his head. )

Make yourself like it?

( since you cut yourself off there buddy. )

Is it something you felt you had to?

[canyounoct]

I mean, don't most people?

[ Why on Eos did he get into this conversation with a stranger in a video maybe a hole will open up under him and swallow him up? ]

[jingyeets]

( it's probably just having spoken up to the absolute wrong person: by which we mean, the guy who bluntly asks after things. he also offers a touch of a shrug, tailtip behind him giving a sort of shivering flopping motion. )

No idea about most, but liking kissing, not liking kissing, only liking kissing when it's a specific person, all those things and more sound normal enough to me. Your truth is yours, whatever anyone else's is.

[canyounoct]

Yeah, I've figured out I'm just basically going to be me, and ... at least on the train, that's pretty much all that matters anyway.

But, I guess that's why I said earlier - kissing shouldn't be for a dumb reason, like doubting yourself.

[jingyeets]

I mean it's not great, but you did end up confirming something for yourself. We don't always learn things the smarter way, right? You're more sure of yourself now than you were then. Sounds like an overall gain to me.