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[unmakes]

[ the camera turns on to reveal sally, up close at first but then she props the communicator up on her nightstand and scoots back to sit cross-legged on her new bed. she lifts a hand to push her hair back behind her ear but seems to think better of it (for bite-scar reasons, not that there's any real way to know that), instead opting to press her palms together with her index fingers to her mouth for a half-second while she thinks of quite what to say. ]

Right, so I know everyone's super busy packing their shit and trying not to live in some weird sci-fi ghost town, but you can totally put that down for a second because I'm seriously bored and we're playing a game.

[ okay? okay. ]

Pretty much everyone has some kind of space booze, right? Good, because there's this game back home - it's called Never Have I Ever. For pretty much the 5% of you who haven't actually heard of it? It's... actually pretty stupid, like for frat guys or thirteen-year-olds who found their dad's stash, but just shh, humor me here. Basically, someone starts off like 'Never have I ever blah blah blah'. Never have I ever ~ridden a bike~, never have I ever... I don't know, jumped off a cliff. Anyway, everyone who has done the Never-Have-I-Ever has to take a shot. Or a sip, or a rain-check for when you do have booze, or even just drink juice or something - it doesn't matter, that's not the point.

The point is, there are apparently way more people on this ship than I realized and I know pretty much nobody, and I know I'm not the only one. Apparently solidarity is a thing, so why not actually get to know each other a little? I mean, beyond that whole A/S/L survey that went around - not that it was bad or anything.

And if you roll in just to, I don't know, shit all over the game or something? Then you're a jerk and a loser and you should suck it up and play anyway. Like, what's the worst that can happen? You forget to be an angry douche for like five seconds?

Anyway, let's tear this shit up.

I can start, this one's easy:

Never have I ever voluntarily left the planet Earth.

[ go ahead and start your own 'never have i ever' top-levels, even if you don't reply to hers. c: ]

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[iceboxed]

[well, this is a welcome change]

I don't think it works the same if you're sticking to juice.

[...not that he'd actually know]

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[warandapiece]

You realize that's cheating, right? Right, so long as you know.

[ Sheppard pauses. ]

Never have I ever-- [ Wanted to sleep with his boss? Nope. Flown on a starship? Nope. Rode a horse? Nope. Been married? Nope. His life is too interesting for this game. ]

Never have I ever been even the tiniest bit interested in shrubberies.

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[starbuckslord]

[ Well this got Peter's interest and he may have snuck a bottle of something strong out from one of the bars. So he had a shot lined up just in case and then- well.

That. ]

You had to start off with that, huh? [ Well, that meant Peter had to down his shot - easy enough, considering he probably had a liver more scarred than the surface of the moon. ]

Alright. Let's see... Never have I ever died and come back.

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[faithlessly]

[ dean should probably be helping folk move since he's part of sec, but... ]

This seriously can't be any fun if people ain't playin' with booze.

[ how dare you encourage juice drinking. ]

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[brassbucket]

Normal playing, between the original option and this one, I'd be well and truly drunk, by now.

[ Look, he'd done that before he even met you, Pete... ]

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[starbuckslord]

Yeah, which is why you're not getting any of this until later. [ He says, holding the bottle up and giving it a little shake.

Assuming anything was left. ]

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[brassbucket]

Remember. I do know where you sleep.

... no, wait, I'm good with your hangovers when you're having them alone, carry on.

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[brassbucket]

... okay, just with that opening, I'd be under the table. And I know at least one more person who'd be joining me, and one on the way, though he shouldn't even think about swapping the juice.

Moving along.

Never have I ever given up something for my family.

video; ( *innocent* )

[starbuckslord]

Don't mind if I do. But I'll try to save you some, or at least grab another bottle later.

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[alsohawkeye]

[ Kate's sat on a bed as well, one knee curled up toward her chest, a sliver of jeans just visible in the bottom of the frame. She waggles a cup into view. ]

That is a seriously weird thing to start with, but I've seen some pretty impressive topiary, so. [ She drinks. ]

video; ( *innocent right back atcha* )

[brassbucket]

Is there a special occasion or something?

[ The question was light, at least on the surface. But, if there was something... ]

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[starbuckslord]

What, I can't be happy that you're around, kid? Not like we spent much time together after I went off with the Guardians.

[ There was something to be missed about those days, fending off galactic conquest by a giant bug army. ]

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[brassbucket]

You're expressing being happy by drinking on your own.

[ Rich just raised an eyebrow at the screen, then he did smile. It was probably more pointed than the words would suggest, but, well. Given the givens. ]

Though I'm happy to be around, too.

Catch you after my shift?

[alsohawkeye]

Wow, Sally, I haven't played this in forever. [ Kate lifts her cup from where she sits on her bed, the comm device and its camera propped on her knee. She drinks, and is smirking when she lowers the cup again. ] This is a little lame, but just to even things out to start: never have I ever spent my whole pre-Tranquility life on Earth.

video.

[peckish4action]

She was trying to be inclusive?

[ Because fourteen years old, and not even the youngest around. ]

audio;

[unmakes]

[ a half-assed faux-announcer voice. ] And here's Partypooper #1, calling the game on a technicality.

[ back to the normal voice, and with a hint of a grin. ] I'd rather have people playing it wrong than not playing at all. So shut up play the game.

voice;

[unmakes]

Excuse you, that was a totally valid Never Have I.

[ but then comes his never have i, and it earns him a slightly confused look he can't actually see. she sounds amused when she says: ] Not drinking, just for the record.

voice forever he's blue okay

[warandapiece]

Hey, I'm an adventurous sort of guy, okay? There's not a whole lot of things I haven't done.

So what was so impressive about these topiary?

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[warandapiece]

A totally valid nail in my coffin, you mean. [ He's grinning through his teeth though, and it's just as audible in his voice. ] You telling me you've never looked at one of those miniature pine trees and thought 'I just got to rub my face against that'?

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[warandapiece]

Oh, me! Me! I should sound less thrilled about that, huh. Does it count if it's less than four minutes?

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[starbuckslord]

I should have probably been more specific, huh? [ He lets off a small laugh. ]

I think that's not all that weird, but hey, from what I hear back on my Earth? Some people have a revolving door on death.

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[unmakes]

...So okay. Like, hypothetically, would you take a shot that you died and came back or would you take a shot for each time you died and came back?

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[starbuckslord]

[ Pete listens, and after a second lets off a whistle. ]

If I were feeling mean or like it was time for a party, I'd say one for each time, but- [ He pours himself a shot and holds it up to the feed. ]

I'll join you in just the one?

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[unmakes]

Right? [ she agrees wholeheartedly. ] But there's always somebody who's ~sober for 15 years~, or - I don't know, underage or something? And I'd totally rather they play it wrong than just not play.

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[unmakes]

Well, I mean. You could just take the one shot for all of them, that works too.

[ as for his own, her head tilts slightly, and she lifts up a full shot glass in gesture. here's to you and your dumb hard-hitting questions - down the shot goes. ]