[Mini Player Event] Never Have I Ever

[crushed_pearls]

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...

Comments

Never have I ever lived anywhere besides my hometown and here.

[sunshinesally]

Time to make all these adventurous types drink! Or see how many loopholes they can exploit.

[littlefairytale]

...Ruby starts counting on her fingers. It only goes up to three, but, well, the alcohol. "Beacon, Atlas, the ship..."

And so goes another drink.

[pineapplesalmon]

César. DOWNS. His water. Chugs it. The entire glass is quickly gone.

[astrogator]

Tayrey smiles at Sally. 'And aboard an interstellar starship for me!' she calls out. Sure, plenty of people know this about her already, but not everyone. She takes a long drink - but she's only drinking water now, since she knows she's already intoxicated enough for it to be a hazard.

(She's not counting anywhere she was forced to live, because she's relaxed, cheerful, and not thinking about that.)

[graveling]

Smirk, one he works hard muscle-by-muscle to perform. “Never have I ever lived, sooooo…”

[sunshinesally]

"Oh, that's got to be cheating," Sally teases. "I knew someone would find a loophole!"

[arcanegrasp]

"Oh, this is a mean one," Elias mutters, rubbing his chin in thought. "Surely you don't expect a drink for each town I've lived in, do you? I know I'd be back to tell the tale tomorrow, but I think it'd put a damper on the party!"

[sunshinesally]

"Noooo, just one drink is fine." Sally chuckles. "How many towns have you lived in?"

[takethatnature]

"Even if I only count the Constant as one, that's... what, four? I think it's four. No, wait, five." He takes a swig.

[sunshinesally]

"You got around, did you? Ugh, I'm jealous." Sally drums her fingernails on the table. "I was born and raised in Wellington Wells, and I died on the way out. I've never even been on holiday!"

Remembering what that expression came to mean in Wellington Wells' dying years gives her a shudder, though. By those standards, she very much did.

[inaurate]

Claude shakes his head dramatically at being so obviously targeted and takes a drink.

[tehilim127_1]

"I'm assuming we're not counting things like, say, summer camp? Or other lengthy visits?"

[sunshinesally]

"Well, I never left Wells at all, but I was going for 'places lived.' I don't think visits or holidays count!"

[battlebyballad]

Drink.

"I'm a rambler and a caravaneer, born and bred."

[sunshinesally]

"Oh, that sounds fun, though! I got a little trapped in my home town," Sally confesses. "What's one of your favorite places you've been?"

[cacophonish]

Does it really count if he went from Santa Monica to Silver Lake?

...fuck it, he's going to drink anyway. Which makes this... drink #15.

[hadnoright]

Another drink—even not counting the ship, she moved out and then to London.

[thelatechrisfreeman]

"Just curious," Chris says, after taking a drink, "but does hometown mean where you were born or where you grew up?"

[sunshinesally]

"Which one do you consider your home?" Sally counters, perching her chin on both hands.

Drink

[be_seeing_you]

Number 6 takes a deep breath and then finishes his current drink.

[decohere]

Ava's lived all sorts of places by now, which is a far cry from being raised in some secret government facility. So. She's happy enough to drink.

Drink

[maximumcake]

She got him with that one. Now that he thinks of it, he's lived a lot of different places. Oh, when did his glass run empty? Hm.

He stands to go get a refill and sways a little. Uh oh.

[sunshinesally]

Sally takes her sending stone out of her bag. "Think you might wanna switch to water, Max?"

[closureisformovies]

Another drink. "Only fitting that moving away for uni continues to contribute to my alcohol poisoning all these years later..."

[stonecoldtop]

He drinks.
"Only one other place."