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

[goingthroughaphase]

Yeah, that definitely counts. Also, lucky.

[subcircuits]

Not too lucky-- mine goes all the way up to h-bikes, so I have to renew it every year. Gets kind of annoying, but hey, means I can use h-bikes, so it's worth it. [Did. Did he just wink?]

[goingthroughaphase]

[ If he did, she's just going to keep going on this topic. ] Yeah, I'd say so. But what's an h-bike?

[ She knows a few of the different classification of licenses, but not so much bikes. ]

[subcircuits]

Why, a hover-bike, of course. [The guileless way he says it indicates that he's making an assumption that those haven't been developed yet on her world.]

[goingthroughaphase]

[ It's a pretty safe assumption, though by the way her eyes light up she at least knows what one is. ]

A hover-bike? Nice! What are they like?

[subcircuits]

Scary. [He doesn't hesitate to admit that, though he laughs as he does.] In the absolute best way. Riding one in a city is pretty stressful, but out in open air? They're a lot of fun.

[goingthroughaphase]

I bet. And I guess you'd have less things to worry about hitting, huh?

[subcircuits]

Got it in one! They stream all these urban h-bike racing circuits and they're a riot to watch, but I'm sure not interested in trying any of those stunts out myself, thanks.

[goingthroughaphase]

What kind of stunts? [ The bikes are already hovering, how much more dangerous could it get? ]

[subcircuits]

Precision driving, mostly. Piloting through tight corridors, cutting tight around corners at high speeds, free-fall drops, rises that strain lifter capacity-- stuff like that. Like you see the stunt drivers do in fiction streams, only real.

[goingthroughaphase]

Oh wow. So I guess they have courses built for H-bikes in order to perform the stunts?

[subcircuits]

Well, for the official contests, yeah. But plenty of young idiots go out on the streets and find their own obstacles if they think they can get away with it.

[Like young idiots everywhere. Like he probably did when he was a young idiot and had just gotten his license.]

[goingthroughaphase]

Ah...so it's not that much different from people driving cars or regular motorbikes, huh?

[subcircuits]

[He points through the screen at her.] Bingo!