driftfleet | Video/Action : Open : "I Never" Game!

Who: Mon-El and YOU!
Broadcast: Open to all
Action: Open at the Space Bar
When: Now

I should probably mention I'm awake again since that's what everyone's doing. Who knew so many of us were sleeping together? [Light laughter. Yep. Okay, more serious face now.]

So, I heard what happened, and I don't want to make light of that. I know what losing a planet is like and it's...not great. [Such understatement.] But I also wanted to provide some distraction. [It's what he's best at.] Some fun. Some potential healing? [For himself too. He's still processing what happened to Okita and the others.]

For anyone who is interested—either over the network or by coming into the Space Bar at the Iskaulit—let's play a game I picked up on earth called, I Never. [He may also be correcting what he thought was awkward grammar from someone saying "Never have I ever." Details.]

So, you take turns and say something like, "I never crash landed on Earth." And if you have then you take a drink. [And he does.] Which is usually alcohol, but apparently [apparently, he says] kids don't do that here, so water or whatever is fine too. The objective is to make the other person drink more than you, so you might just get them really hydrated instead of drunk.

It's a good way to get to know someone too, so everyone's welcome even all those people I don't know yet. I'll start.

I never was born on Earth. [He doesn't drink.]

[If you do meet up with him at the Space Bar you'll see he's actually bartending and drinking on the job! But he has superhuman tolerance so there's that. He may even be responsible and switch to club soda if he needs to. He'll offer you a drink even if you're not interested in the game.]

(OOC: Feel free to threadjack if you want in on this concept with someone else too or just to point and laugh. You might want to check with them, but it's cool with me. And if anything goes to a place you don't want it to go just let me know or give me a heads up if there is something to avoid up front. He won't be intentionally hardcore about it.)

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[A man that looks particularly corpse-like has been lingering in a corner of the bar, never ordering a drink (not even water), but watching everyone with a completely unblinking stare.

He cocks his head curiously as he watches Mon-El explain the game. It's posed as a method of healing and getting to know people, but exactly how a game where everyone gets as inebriated as possible does that, he's not sure. But he's not sure of a lot of things having to do with mortal behavior, so he does what he always does when he doesn't get something: he asks questions.] Why is alcohol used in this game?

[Mon-El is used to encountering various species throughout the universe. Just because Daxamites happen to look just like Kryptonians and humans doesn't mean everyone does. He's seen horns, scales, fur, double heads, secreting facial glands—you name it. So, he doesn't look surprised or alarmed by this man's appearance. It doesn't exactly come across as attractive to him, but he's also probably not flirting so that's not really an issue.]

I got the feeling it was created as a drinking game and that's usually a big part of those. But also to get you to relax and open up. Enjoy yourself. Did you want a drink? We have more than alcohol if that's not your thing.

So the alcohol is a means to make it easier to confess parts of yourself in the game? [He doesn't know why anyone would want to lower their inhibitions. Isn't the point of inhibitions that you do not want to do certain things, and therefore you do not do them?

Justice looks up and down at the drinks at the bar and shakes his head.] My kind do not require liquid of any kind. I attempted to drink alcohol once, and it tasted despicable. [To be fair, it was Oghren's, and Oghren's alcohol is universally despised.]

Exactly. [Mon-El might be terrible at explaining those other details if they were asked. There was a looooot of drinking on Daxam.]

Alcohol isn't usually consumed for health and well being, but really? No liquid at all? Do you eat?

I do not have to drink, nor do I have to eat. I do not usually have a physical form. [He's never even tried eating before. It seems like more trouble than it's worth.] But if drinking is required to participate in this game, I can drink water.

[He reaches over and grabs a glass to fill with water.] You could probably also just say if you've done something or not if the water is trouble too. [But he slides the filled glass over so he can make that call himself.]

What's your form usually like? [Because no physical form is a surprise.]

It is hard to explain with words. [Justice catches the glass, absently running his finger along its lip to feel all the memories attached to it. Some are good, some are bad, but most are interesting.] I am from the realm of dreams. If I encountered a dreaming, remembered, or dead mortal, I would simply appear as they would expect me to appear. It was a rare thing to be left without any kind of mortal expectations.

[He's not sure if he actually knows what he looks like when no one expects him to look like anything. He's never thought about it much before, but he's supposed to be playing this game, so he nods to his glass.] I never had a static form.

Wow. That sounds like the stuff of an existential crisis. [He picks up his own glass and takes a drink because he's been pretty static. Someone else could argue aging better than him the changes that a body and mind go through. You're never really the same person twice—not entirely. But Mon-El was stuck in a place without aging or consciousness for 35 years on his incredibly slow journey from Daxam to Earth.]

I guess you would have been right at home when we were going through calibrations on the Marsiva. You weren't here for that, were you?

Oh, and I never intentionally visited people in dreams before.

I know what I am. My appearance does not change that. [Except it does for fiddly reasons, but he doesn't actually know that so the point is that he doesn't consider having an appearance so dependent on others to be existential crisis-producing.

Justice raises his glass to symbolize a drink, though he doesn't actually take one. It's not like physically drinking water is really the point of the game anyway.] I was not here for that. What calibrations?

[He considers for a moment. There are many things he's never done that he expects this mortal has.] I was never a child.

It's when we would go to sleep and other people would be in our heads or dreams or something or we'd be in theirs. It was a confusing, messy time. It's better missed.

Never a... [Okay, drinking at that. He shouldn't be surprised.] You weren't even a young version of...you?

[What kind of magic is that? Some weird magic messing with the Fade, is what it is.] I imagine mortals would find that process unpleasant. I suppose you suddenly becoming aware of other people's minds would be just as disorienting as it would be if I suddenly only became aware of my own. [Justice doesn't want to imagine what it'd be like without any sense of other people's minds and presence. It would make sense that a mortal that's used to only hearing their own thoughts and dreams would be just as crippled if suddenly that changed.]

Time is meaningless in the Fade. I never grew up as you did--I simply am.

This mortal definitely found it surprising. And there were things I hadn't really planned on sharing... And I'm sure I saw things people felt the same way about.

[He takes a drink even though it was hardly a proper question for game play and probably not intended for it but it did start with "I never" and he doesn't mind drinking.]

Must be nice not to worry about being late to things. [He smiles.]

Mm, I never enjoyed being in other people's memories, dreams, whatever?

Was that the difficult part for you? [Justice would have thought it'd be sensory overload, mostly because he has zero understanding of mortal privacy and it doesn't occur to him that mortals may have completely innocuous reasons for not wanting to share every little thing with each other.]

The concept of being too late or too early has definitely required getting used to.

[At the 'I never' statement, Justice frowns in thought, having to actually consider before raising his glass in a I'll give you that gesture.] There have been times when I have enjoyed bearing witness to certain dreams and memories. As I am not a spirit of joy, that is not typically what I am there for.

Sure. Of course. [He says it as if he's saying, "what else?" Though it was a little taxing with the sensory overload, but in comparison it barely registered.]

What are you usually there for?

Why? [Justice has trouble conceiving of a reason why sharing thoughts would be bad, unless people were hiding things from each other. But that wouldn't explain why mortals would be uncomfortable seeing other people's thoughts.]

I am a spirit of justice. I am there to right wrongs. [He says it like it's obvious, which... it would be for other spirits, and for people who are familiar with spirits. For everyone else, it isn't.] I protect the innocent and punish the wicked.

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