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

[jingyeets]

In Gusu Lan, particularly, and lying as a whole isn't great...

( a long pause. )

Hanguang-jun, have you lied to yourself before?

[weisexual]

[Who taught you to ask such hard questions to your elders...]

Can a lie to oneself, hurt others?

[Because that is where the faults of a lie is...in how it hurts another person. But a lie to himself can only hurt himself. Not really answering the boy's questions but that is a difficult one to simply put into words. ]

[jingyeets]

I... believe that depends on the lie, Hanguang-jun. Most of former Chief Cultivator Jin's self-lies were hurtful to others.

[weisexual]

But he used those lies and extended them to others to deceive. If he had kept those lies to himself and not let them dictate his actions do you believe the outcome would have been different?

[jingyeets]

If he convinced himself he was a victim in everything, that's a lie he told himself. He didn't tell it to anyone else for a long time, did he? He just acted like that was true.

[weisexual]

But he still believe it, acted on it and that is where the problem with the lie is.

Do you believe you have lies that you have acted on or told to yourself?

[jingyeets]

No, Hanguang-jun?

( does he even have it in him to particularly lie beyond "no i totally won't drink in gusu lan" "ahaha okay yes i would" )

[weisexual]

[He does not know this particular Jingyi's story but he figures the teachings are the same and the journey has been similar.]

Learn from the mistakes of others so that you can always walk a path of truth.

[jingyeets]

Yes, Hanguang-jun.

( he's still super curious, but, mm. cannot really ask. so.

maybe he'll ask sizhui... )