ordainedbarkeep: (Cozy)
Iren Suto ([personal profile] ordainedbarkeep) wrote in [community profile] overbox2024-05-22 05:56 pm

Never Ever (open RP post)

This is some kind of place between places. A land where anyone can meet anyone else, and friendships can form between people who would never have reason to meet each other.

At the moment, it's the resting place for the Laughing Toadstool, the bar that Iren owns and runs. Don't think about it too hard.

The place is closed for business tonight, as a more private gathering is occurring. At Iren's urging, the furniture has arranged itself into a rough circle of seating. In the center of the seating area is a snack table covered with various bits of finger food which Iren, being the priestess of the god of hospitality, spent all day making herself. It's all delicious. There is also an open bar for those who want a drink, alcoholic or otherwise. The seats are an eclectic collection of couches and stools and chairs and cushions and blankets. The whole setup is really very cozy and intimate.

A chalkboard has been propped up along the edge of the seating area, on which the rules of the game have been written:

STRIP NEVER HAVE I EVER
1: Each of us take turns listing something we have never done with the phrasing "Never Have I Ever _____".
2: If someone lists something they have never done and you HAVE done it, you must take off an article of clothing.
3: Socks, shoes, earrings, and other items that come in pairs must be taken off in pairs. No taking off one sock at a time.
4: We keep playing until everyone is naked (or we get bored).
5: Don't feel limited to only taking one turn, if things feel like they're slowing down too much.
6: There are a few spare beds upstairs, should anyone need them, for whatever reason. =)


No one who is invited to this gathering is a stranger to everyone else (If nothing else, feel free to assume you have met Iren before.). No one was forced to come against their will. Everyone was aware that this would involve naked people. Everyone invited is an adult. Iren prides herself as a hostess, and has gone to great efforts to ensure that only people who are actually interested in such an event were invited.

IN SHORT: Let's learn a little thing or two about each other while getting sexy in here.
2mao: (Don't do it me)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-23 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
I understand we're from different worlds, but it's hard to imagine it going extinct. But yes, I'd be among the three percent with "sensitivity" to the food.

Where are you reading that from, anyway?
virtualsystem: (66)

[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-23 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
Humans made most everything that isn't humans extinct. Because that's what humans do.

My own internal database, obviously.
2mao: (creeped out)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-23 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah let's just. Ignore that human comment. She can accept some of the people here aren't human, but how is she meant to respond to disparaging comments about humans as a whole? Especially when, to her knowledge, they weren't hunting anything to extinction where she was from. ]

You have an "internal database?" So... some sort of repository of knowledge, and only you can access it? [ See, she's working out these weird terms! Even if it doesn't make much sense. ]
virtualsystem: (32)

[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-23 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
You can think of it like that.

I possess all of the "information" of Earth. Every bit of data ever discovered or created. Every world and Layer of humanity. Everything from the beginning of Earth to those who leave their bodies behind to ascend to higher dimensions. All is contained within this AIOS.
2mao: (:v)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
Medicine too?
virtualsystem: (66)

[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Obviously. I didn't say "every bit of data except medicine".
2mao: (hey mister you dropped this)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Wow you are like, the third rudest person Maomao's had the pleasure of dealing with.

Besides the kidnappers, she supposes. So like, sixth.

But still, she wants something, so she tries to act nice. ]


Anything useful for an apothecary? Any miracle cures, perhaps? Cures for terrible ills of the human condition?
virtualsystem: (3)

[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
[wow. how is this that rude!]

The only single panacea to cure all ills of the human condition is death, and that's a whole other problem you're trying to avoid.

[now, that one is rude.]
2mao: (blah blah)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't say "all," though you've made your point.

Death is usually something I try to prevent, as an apothecary, yes. At least, death before one's time comes of old age.
virtualsystem: (32)

[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
I also don't really know what you're working with. You're from before gene therapy and stuff like that, I can at least tell that.
2mao: (research)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 02:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...Hm. An interesting problem. ]

As an apothecary, I work by turning herbs, plants, and other natural materials into medicine.

So a good question might then be: What plants or other natural substances were found to have a powerful medicinal effect relatively recently, compared to others?

[ Maomao will swallow her pride for MEDICINE! KNOWLEDGE! ]
virtualsystem: (26)

[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
... Well, I already know this won't affect my timeline, but... Are you sure? If you ask for knowledge from the future, it really might come back to bite you. Even I can't model for chaos theory in its entirety.
2mao: (dressed up blush glance)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
It was my understanding we come from different worlds, not the past or future.
virtualsystem: (6)

[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Is there really a difference?