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.
actuallycuring: (Karen is in deep thought)

[personal profile] actuallycuring 2024-05-24 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
It used to be like that in my world, too, but around two hundred years ago the idea started to take hold that it's better for everyone to have knowledge of a variety of subjects, beyond just what they need for their jobs. We have tests along the way to make sure we're learning.

...speaking of jobs, I'm a doctor. Do you want me to take a look at that later?
2mao: (pulling it out)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ A doctor, huh? Hopefully not a quack like the Outer Palace's. He had to take a test for his position, and look how he ended up. ]

No thanks. I'm an apothecary, I look after it well enough. [ ...Also she caused it. ]
actuallycuring: (shocked of not being chosen)

[personal profile] actuallycuring 2024-05-24 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
[The suggestion is that she's a competent doctor, but technically this is never proved onscreen.]

Oh, you're an apothecary.

["...already at your age," she successfully doesn't continue.]
2mao: (and that's why your mom's a ho)

[personal profile] 2mao 2024-05-24 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
My adopted father was the previous Imperial court physician, so I lucked into having a very competent teacher. [ She's picking up what you're putting down, so to speak.

Most people are amazed at her skill because of her gender, rather than her age, though. But she supposes a woman doctor wouldn't find that so odd. ]
actuallycuring: (pic#17062142)

[personal profile] actuallycuring 2024-05-26 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, it's not like Karen can't probably name a dozen historical figures in the medical field off the top of her head who are famous partly because they were women.]

That makes sense. I learned the violin and piano the same way. If I'd decided to just become a musician, I already would have been set.