ph_logs | [Mini Player Event] Never Have I Ever

Who: EVERYONE
What: A rousing game of Never Have I Ever, and other entertainments
When: Saturday, May 4th, starting at around noon
Where: Oak & Iron
Warning(s): Intoxication and whatever you bring in with you; the prompts here are ideas for your own TLs

Shortly after the island comes back and rebuilding begins, the esteemed Mister Yorick of the newspaper gets the Erin Peters experience, where she flings his door open and yells, "YOU LIKE GETTING DRUNK MOTHERFUCKER?" Somehow this kills him, and Erin honestly is not sure how, but a much more sedate second visit leads to an announcement in the newspaper:

Never Have I Ever
Saturday the Fourth, Oak & Iron
First Round of Drinks Free
If You Drink, You Play
We're Never Going To Say This Again But Food From Home Encouraged, Our Chefs Aren't Immortal

If You Have Never Heard Of This Game, Start Talking About Large Boats And Ask The First Person Who Has A Flashback How It's Played

Attendance isn't mandatory, but it's about to be hard to miss at least seeing the damn thing...

The Party

Erin's come prepared for this one. It took some cajoling. It took pleading and browbeating to get extra chefs on deck so people could switch out to participate. It took opening extra kegs and casks, and, yes, it took stealing and fixing a whole lot of furniture that had been damaged by the flood, but right now Oak & Iron is not merely the building, but most of the Outside(tm) near the building. The event proper starts at noon but setup started at 8 PM the night before and Erin straight up just did not go to bed until it was done. The Pine Devil can come at her if it thinks it's hard enough.

The end result is a whole lot of mismatched outdoor seating with a variety of chairs, stools, tree stumps carved into "chairs", Frankensteined tables, and an outdoor bar. Staff from the inn collects money from that bar, where Erin Peters is working, every 25 minutes on the dot, and your hostess has a sharp and sly grin on her face whenever she's not actively engaged in a conversation. Food is available but bringing dishes of one's own is strongly permitted. Hell, come bring it and sell it, this may be the only time the inn doesn't care that you're technically competing with them.

She has, after all, been starving for Glamour under the sea. She expects to feed well.

A large sign next to the bar reads: I'm Blind As Fuck And This Game Goes Hard, Drink At Own Risk

Smaller letters immediately beneath say: Anyone Dying Of Alcohol Poisoning Will Be Mocked

The Game

Never Have I Ever is a simple game. Someone makes a truthful statement, such as "Never have I ever had a fist fight with a bear," and anyone who can't truthfully agree with that statement must take a drink. Though there's no actual formal obstacle against lying, people fudging the truth while Erin is walking past with drinks or to see friends might get a nudge with a wing and this blind bitch announcing 'liar' in a sharp tone that might be play or might be bullying and is probably both (feel free to NPC this happening if it's of interest to you!).

Feel free to simply tag in with your question as the header, as seen here. Even the prose is optional! Folks will come to you with whether or not their character drinks and you can thread or not thread from there.

The Long Walk Home

Did you survive your own poor choices? Do you have a plan to make it home safely before, or after, dark? Not like Oak and Iron can bear the entire town within its walls, so...

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Hmmmm. I can see why that would be tempting."

"Literally one of her Valentine's Day presents was just getting to use it. It's highly tempting."

"Is there a reason you don't live together yet?"

"Magne wants independence and her own space. She's working to open her own business and plans to live over it." César is glowing with pride. "And I want her to have the space she needs to achieve her dreams."

"That's very fair. Max keeps a room at the Oak and Iron so that I can have my space when I need it."

"Magne definitely needed her time here while she figured out what to do. Part of that was spending time at my place, familiarizing herself with home maintenance and repair. I could see the gears turning, and I really wanted to see what she'd come up with." César laughs, so very warmly. "I'm a man. My needs are simple when it comes to a home. She's got plans. I'm positively excited to see them reach fruition."

"You're not simple though," Valdis replies. "You have ideas too. So don't sell yourself short."

César opens his mouth and doesn't know what to say. He closes it, then thinks, and rubs the back of his neck.

"I'm just talking about my housing needs, not myself. Really just need things functional and to look decent together, that's all."

"I'm sure Magne would love your help deciding since it is your house."

César jokingly groans and brings a hand to his head. "That's cheating, evoking the Magne clause!" But he laughs. "... honestly, that would make it fun instead of painfully boring. Like I said, she helped me fix up the place, and she enjoyed that...."

"It's not cheating if it's the truth."

"True enough." César drops his hand and looks to Magne with a smile. "You know, my plan to cook for her for Valentine's Day immediately became cooking together after we stepped through my door. And she was right, it was a lot more fun that way. It'll give her ideas for her place, too."

"I love cooking with Max," she replies. "Though it mostly consists of me pretending I don't know how to cook and him pretending he doesn't know that I'm pretending to not know."

César laughs. "Magne and I are from completely different cultures—I've got three I have recipes from—so our cooking is learning each other's food. Fusion dishes in our future, maybe."

"We should do dinner sometime. Max and I can bring some things and you and Magne can cook a few things."

"You mean, a double date at home?" César brightens immediately. "Oh, that would be amazing! You could meet the chickens, too. They're mostly still young, but they're good ladies, as is the young rooster."

"Yes, we still have to go riding as well. That little flood certainly put a stopper in that plan." She raises her glass. "I'll let Max know and you have Magne choose a date that works bets for her."

César suddenly realizes something, holds up a hand, and then pulls out a notecard to hand over. "I. Ah. Can't work right now. But a double date would be nice. Just worried that getting ready for it might count, too."

Valdis takes the card, her face twisted in confusion. Upon reading it, she sighs and hands it back.

"I think cooking with and for friends would be a nice break, but if nothing else, Max and I can bring the food."

César puts the card away in his vest pocket and rubs the back of his neck with his other hand. "... I guess I just don't want to ruin the evening by fainting if it does count, you know?"

He pauses for a moment and then bubbles with laughter. "Oh! It doesn't count. I can breathe. I just... need to not go overboard, I think? And ask Magne. The problem is I can't clean too deeply or I end up face first on the floor."

"We can clean up after dinner," she replies, not sure why he's laughing or had suddenly changed his mind, but he does seem brighter. "You can go lounge and relax."

"I can handle cleaning up as a group. I can't plan to do work or think about doing work I have to do on the farm or I get winded." César still rubs the back of his neck. "... it's honestly been helpful for separating work and home again. You know it's bad when you suffer from divine intervention."

"I wouldn't know."

Except she's been suffering from divine causes her entire existence.

"I'll talk to Max and relay a date for dinner."

"My first double date." César grins from ear to ear. "I'll let Magne know!"

He pulls out his little booklet and writes it down on a page that's. Literally "to tell Magne". Quite a bit has been scratched off, but the top to do of "I love you (recurrent)" is not scratched off because it's always a to do.

"Great. I'll see you soon then."

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