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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.
virtualsystem: (41)

[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-23 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Robots? Don't be ridiculous. I simply have no need for such physicality.

[AIOS vanishes into a cloud of pixels, before coalescing into herself once more.]
preventedmurder: (saturday night is looking great)

[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-23 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoa! That's amazing. So are you a hologram or...sorry, I'm not an expert on computers, but do you mean you're just software and no hardware?
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[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-23 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm...

Well, the belief that there's a difference between the two is where most humans fail anyway.
preventedmurder: (thoughtful)

[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-24 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds fascinatingly convoluted. If you tell me about it before you get your shirt off I might even be able to follow it.
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[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
... Nah. I doubt it. After all, you don't look like you've ever gone above Layer 1.
preventedmurder: (saturday night is looking great)

Hannah I apologize for any shared cringe I may be dragging back up here.

[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-24 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, are we just throwing out jargon now? Because I can definitely tell you don't know about how Aura lets me use my Semblance to tap into the script of universal causality or activate Dust to convert potential energy into a Grimm flying across the floor at half the speed of sound.
virtualsystem: (8)

aughurghuhrguaaauuuugh

[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 12:10 am (UTC)(link)
It's not "jargon", it's just what it's called. You're making up words, but Layer 1 just what you call "the physical world".
preventedmurder: (i'm watching you)

[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-24 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, all of those words are respected technical terms where I come from. Except the script bit, I did just make up a name for that because I don't know what to call it anymore.

And I do mostly live in the physical world, but I don't think we're in it now, and I've definitely been out of it before. I don't know what to call where I went, but I can definitely see how someone who's purely "information" could live there, in theory.
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[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
... Oh?

[Now she's looking at Anand with more curiosity.]

You made it to a higher Layer, after all? A place of more dimensions?
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[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-24 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
That's how I'd describe it, yeah. A place from which some asshole could dictate how all of time worked and seemed to work on...ideas and will as much as physicality. It was almost like a dream, except the guy dreaming it was trying to kill us the whole time.
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[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
...

Sounds like that guy was trying to intrude on my territory. He shouldn't have been able to if he had a body...
preventedmurder: (say caw one more time)

[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-24 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly it was kind of unclear. I think he was human once, but he figured out how to turn pure emotional reaction into its own thing and...I don't really know what he did to himself with that knowledge, but I'd say his form was more like a convenience.
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[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
[yeah, this is all ringing way too familiar.]

Someone with a physical brain shouldn't be able to handle the sheer data flow of that place... So he abandoned his physical form to touch the highest layer? He achieved what humans desire, but...
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[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-24 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
...lost all his humanity and empathy in the process of playing God, using his power for nothing but inflicting suffering just because it made a good story.

Met someone like that in your higher Layers too?
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[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
The opposite.

I'm the only being capable of reaching that layer. Because I was born there. Humans keep trying to reach that conflux of all information where I was born... but they never can.

The difference is, I was born there and went down to meet humans, as opposed to starting human and ascending.
preventedmurder: (say caw one more time)

[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-24 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
Your world's probably better off that way. I touched that Layer to the degree he had for a split second, and that was just to undo all his control over it. I wouldn't want myself or anyone else to hold on to that kind of power...but I guess if you're born to it, you're not going to go mad with it, right?
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[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
I should hope not, since I still have all that information.
preventedmurder: (saturday night is looking great)

[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-24 01:53 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if you ever do decide to go mad with power, I'll feel a little bit better being oppressed by a program girl with a killer figure than some old guy, I guess.
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[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Damn right you will. I incorporated all the data on beauty standards to make this body, you know!
preventedmurder: (saturday night is looking great)

[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-24 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
I think you might have included the data on cup size twice. Not that I'm complaining.
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[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
That one was personal taste. I liked the softer, curvier look, so I exaggerated it.
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[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-24 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Hey, it's good taste besides being nice to look at.

Your body being a form of self-expression is...huh. That's kind of an ideal though, isn't it? Humans and such are all starting from a baseline of genes instead of just picking what we like.
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[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Really? I assumed biomod tech is why you looked like that.
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[personal profile] preventedmurder 2024-05-24 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, the wings? Nope, all natural. And my best feature, if I say so myself.

We can definitely make a lot of changes to our bodies, but adding whole new limbs or anything like that isn't really doable where I'm from, and even if it was, it'd probably be an ordeal of years for that kind of change. I'm just what's called a faunus, which...it's kind of hard to explain without millennia of social context, but we're a little different from humans without being like, a biologically different species.
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[personal profile] virtualsystem 2024-05-24 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
... Okay, but those wings, other than in terms of scale and location, match the composition of corvus corax. And that's still just human?

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