Never Ever (open RP post)

[ordainedbarkeep]

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.

Comments

Ranma Saotome | Ranma 1/2 | OTA

[curse_of_boy]

Never have I ever... gone a year of life without having an arranged marriage.

Even if I didn't know about it for most of the time.

[Not that it really matters since he lost, but he had his hair tie, top, shoes, sock, bottoms and boxers.]

[ordainedbarkeep]

You have my condolences. That sounds positively ghastly!

[curse_of_boy]

Thanks. It is, I've been at a few shotgun weddings at this point too, but that seemed too specific even for this.

[ordainedbarkeep]

Personally if you told me I had to choose between the shotgun and the wedding, I'd have to think about it.

...Oh right, also:

[Off go her drawers! Iren is now IN THE NUDE!]

[fistsofchange]

[Some people might try not to draw attention to taking off their last piece of clothing. Lin, on the other hand, stood up and unbuttoned her shirt one at a time, trying to make a strip tease out of it. Finally, she whipped it off and threw it over her shoulder so it landed somewhere behind the couch and did a pose. Behold! Naked girl!

THEN she sat down and responded.]

You must have a very complicated love life.

[curse_of_boy]

[Ranma is looking. Maybe not respectfully, but he certainly respects those muscles she's got. The scar on her chest is also interesting, but he's not sure about asking that just yet.]

You can say that again. I'm just glad I don't have to deal with that while I'm here. So... you're a martial artist too, huh?

[fistsofchange]

If anyone tries to marry you here I think the hostess might throw them out.

[He's looking. She likes that. Lin leaned back on the couch and spread her arms along the back, looking pretty pleased with herself.]

That's right. What tipped you off?

[preventedmurder]

Well, congratulations. I think you're the only person in history who's gotten a woman's panties off by saying that. This is what I get for starting early...

[Rules are rules, and she did sign up for it, but she's going to be fairly circumspect about removing her last article of clothing anyway. There's nudity, and then there's vulnerability. And acknowledging that she wore the red ones with lacy trim, even if the rest of her outfit's been aggressively casual.]

[curse_of_boy]

Not that I'm in the situation by choice.

[He's trying not to stare, but she is really pretty.]

[preventedmurder]

[Anand would describe herself as plain, but she's overly modest and has some very odd standards. Dusky skin and a lithe frame make for a beautiful view that she's carefully arranging into a cross-legged sitting position, more interested in putting herself out there than being particularly flirty, particularly with men. She'll take the staring as a compliment even if it's not going anywhere, though.]

Your life seems pretty uniquely complicated.

[2mao]

[ He doesn't strike her like some noble lad, more like a soldier, given his... body. But then again, she supposed a number of nobles went into the military. He still didn't act like any noble she'd met, though.

But she supposed that wasn't the main issue here. The main issue is that she was down to her inner shirt, her underwear, and the bandages on her arm.

The bandages weren't going, though. So instead, she casually took off her inner shirt, trying not to look embarrassed as she bared her entire upper torso to the party. Yeah, breasts were out, not that they were much to look at. ]

Arranged marriages aren't uncommon, for the upper tiers of society. You had me fooled, though, I had no idea I was dealing with one of them at all, sir.

[preventedmurder]

[She gets a sympathetic look from the now-totally-naked bird girl sitting primly with her legs crossed.]

You doing good over there? Need a snack or anything?

[2mao]

I could use a shirt, but clearly you don't have one to lend. [ Said as a... joke? It's a very dry tone though. ] I'm regretting my decision not to wrap today.

But the situation is what it is. [ At least she has underwear on her bottom half, as well as the bandages around her arm still. Unlike the bird girl.

Hm. She kind of wants to go over and see how the wings are connected. Scientific curiosity. ]

[curse_of_boy]

I ain't in the upper tiers of society. I'm just a martial artist.

My dad is old-fashioned and an asshole. He promised me to one of his students of the same master. He also promised me to the father of a childhood friend of mine just to steal her family's food cart.

Didn't hear about any of this until I was a teenager.

[2mao]

[ Blink... blink. ]

That's... not normal. That isn't how things work at all.

[ ...At least he's not staring though. ]

[handsonapproach]

You'll probably get everyone with that one. I'm already all out of clothes, though.

[curse_of_boy]

I noticed

[In fact, he can't take his eyes off of her.]

[hatefuldays]

[This is *Hyun-ae taking her skirt off, leaving her with her underwear and thigh highs, but the mood's a little complicated.]

My marriage didn't get arranged until I was twelve, I guess.

[curse_of_boy]

Sorry you had to deal with that at all. My dad arranged it when I was an infant, pretty annoying all around.

[actuallycuring]

At least tell me it was the same one for at least most of that time.

[Yeah, he got her, too.]

[curse_of_girl]

The first one happened when I was an infant, the second when I was like four or five? He never intended to make good on the second one.

Then I ended up beating someone in a martial arts fight that if they lose a fight like that to someone of the opposite sex they're supposed to marry them.

Those are the only arranged marriages, but I've had a lot of suitors try to get me too...

[axmeowder]

Okay, no, I refuse this one on principle.

[ She has plenty more she could be taking off here - her shirt and pants are both still on, as are her socks - but she crosses her arms and refuses this prompt. ]

[curse_of_girl]

The principle of what?

[Ranma has more than a small cat phobia, but right now he thinks those ears are an accessory, and there's no telling if it'd trigger for someone with just some cat traits anyway.]

[wingdoovers]

I guess I don't know when the elders actually start picking matches behind doors. I'm sure it's a long time before they make things official...

[curse_of_girl]

Probably not as young as infants, though, right? That was pretty rare even in my dad's time I think.