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: (distrust...)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
Business arrangements.... marriage contracts. I can't say I like the sound of that much. Too transactional.

Though if you don't mind my saying, it does sound like your father saw them as such. [ She's pieced together that this boy doesn't like his father much, but propriety means she has to allow him to save face by coaching it in language like that. ]
curse_of_girl: (Are you serious?)

[personal profile] curse_of_girl 2024-05-24 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
I appreciate you're probably sayin' it nicely for my sake, but he's an awful person. The only good thing he did was teach me martial arts.

[Ranma gives a shrug.]

Either way, that's how he saw it. Yeah. He thought he could swindle a girl and her father and there'd be no consequences.
2mao: (let's do this i guess)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
If he taught you how to fight, and how to fight well, you could certainly make a living for yourself as a member of the military or as a guard of the Palace or somewhere similar.

I wouldn't recommend the Outer Palace, though.
curse_of_girl: (Serious)

[personal profile] curse_of_girl 2024-05-24 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Problem is, I've tried running off, and my dad knocked me out and brought me along anyway.

It's a complicated problem, if there was a good way out, I would've taken it by now.
2mao: (and that's why you're a ho)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
I see what you mean. But if you took shelter under a noble's house, surely they could get rid of him if he came for you?
curse_of_girl: (Sleepy)

[personal profile] curse_of_girl 2024-05-24 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
The only rich people I know, is exactly one of the people trying to get me to marry her. Can't blame that one on my dad, though. I saved her life once, and she just decided I was her knight in shining armor.

She has kidnapped me more than once. Used Blackmail, paralysis powder, all sorts of stuff. I really don't have any options here.
Edited (Fixing a word) 2024-05-24 04:21 (UTC)
2mao: (yeees my poison!)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ She can feel his pain over being kidnapped - she was kidnapped, too. Sold into the service of the Imperial Palace, even. But before she can express her sympathies over a similar situation, he mentions the other stuff. ]

Paralysis powder? What did it look like? How did it paralyze you? Was it ingested or contact?
curse_of_girl: (Bwuh)

[personal profile] curse_of_girl 2024-05-24 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? Oh, um, a fine powder too fine for me to pick up a color before she spread it around. If I had to guess, though, it's probably black to fit in with her other tools.

I think it was from breathing it in? She uses some gases with similar effects too.

Why? You familiar with this kind of stuff?
2mao: (full body shaking)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, you inhaled a paralysis powder? And you're still alive? How?

Inhaling a paralyzing agent is the easiest way to shut down your lungs and suffer a grueling death, unable to breathe, suffocating just because your lungs can't draw in any oxygen.
curse_of_girl: (Shock)

[personal profile] curse_of_girl 2024-05-24 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
I'll take that as a yes to my question.

[Yikes, having that explained was not a relaxing party activity.]

Not sure how it works, but she's used it on me more than once. Seems she made it with not killing people in mind, since she wants me alive and all.
2mao: (hrmmmm)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, yes, but you can't just make it bypass the first major organ it's being introduced to! If it's getting in through the lungs, the lungs would be the first thing paralyzed. A more full-body paralysis would be skin contact or otherwise injected into the bloodstream in order to get spread to the muscles. Ingested tends to affect multiple organs before muscles, and inhaled should affect the lungs first.

Honestly I'm really curious how she managed to get around that.
curse_of_girl: (Are you serious?)

[personal profile] curse_of_girl 2024-05-24 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Ranma considers it for a moment.]

Oh! I remember she slipped it into some tea once. So maybe it's more generalized contact, and gets absorbed before it hits the lungs.

That... doesn't really explain the gas, though.

[Sorry Maomao, this is 1980s manga logic.]
2mao: (Deeply considering)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
Does it make your entire body seize up? Does it trouble your breathing at all? Heart rate? Could you move your eyes? Talk?

[ 1980s manga logic, meet ancient medicine-based Columbo, ]
curse_of_girl: (Surprised)

[personal profile] curse_of_girl 2024-05-24 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I stopped being able to move anything from the neck down.

I don't think I had any seriously trouble breathing. Heart rate... couldn't tell since the situation was tense anyway, but maybe?

I could move my eyes, and still make sounds at least, though my jaw got tense.
2mao: (Default)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
How very odd. Maybe some agent that can only bond with muscle protein? But then it should still affect the diaphragm, especially if it's powerful enough for a complete lockdown below the neck.

[ It really is the oddest sort of juxtaposition, seeing this girl so seriously pondering medical mysteries while almost completely naked. But such is the nature of the game, maybe? ]
curse_of_girl: (Sleepy)

[personal profile] curse_of_girl 2024-05-24 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Honestly, Ranma has experienced weirder. So he takes this woman's odd interest in stride. Especially since she at least seems concerned for his safety.]

I'm not going to go out of my way to look for her, but I'm sure I'm going to have to deal with her again. When I do, I'll see if I can snatch a sample for you.
2mao: (nyaaaah??)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, please! I'd love a chance to study it.

[ ..........Oh, right, she should do something in return then. ] Maybe I could even figure out a neutralizing agent for you?
curse_of_girl: (Happy)

[personal profile] curse_of_girl 2024-05-24 05:44 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, that what I was hoping you would try. I know it isn't a guarantee, but it'd be helpful.