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

[spacebro]

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.)

Comments

[the_tailor]

[Confident enough for Lance to believe that it's totally a word. English is his second language, anyway, so he doesn't question it.]

Still, it must come in handy.

[He forgets about the game momentarily as he talks things back home.]

Unfortunately. We're fighting against an empire that's had ten thousand years completely unopposed to take over the universe.

[spacebro]

[It's Mon-El's second too. Well, okay, not second. Somewhere much further down the list, but still. Not his first. He looks more serious at the last part, ignoring any stories he might have of his powers coming in handy.]

Wow... [You could get pretty intractable that way.] Why didn't anyone oppose them in all that time?

[the_tailor]

The only race that had the technology and power to got wiped out by them. All but two people.

[He looks despondent for a moment, but shakes his head.]

Well, their reign is about to come to an end, anyway! Now that we can form Voltron--the giant robot I mentioned--we'll kick their butts to kingdom come.

[spacebro]

Wow. That's a really uneven galaxy with only two planets developing at the same high rate. [He's sure his parents would have dominated so much of their galaxy if they'd had the means.]

Can you do that with one robot?

[the_tailor]

Can't claim to understand it, but hey. Maybe there's more technologically advanced people and they're just hiding really, really well.

[Smile!]

Of course! Well, hopefully. Voltron's the universe's best bet.

[spacebro]

Well, I wouldn't want to put down your best bet. [You need a back up plan and then twenty more back up plans for your back up plan. You can't expect one robot to defend you! Good luck?]

Just curious though, what happens if you can't stop them?

[the_tailor]

[There's a long pause when he asks that. It's a question Lance has thought before plenty of times, but he's forced himself not to linger on that "what if".]

...I don't know. I really don't. To be honest, I kind of got thrown into this war without even knowing it was happening to begin with, so a lot of it's beyond me.

[spacebro]

[He nods, realizing what a downer of a question that was. He was supposed to be in the cheering up and distraction business.] I know how that being thrown into something big thing goes. [Maybe not an intergalactic war, but he was suddenly on track to be a superhero which was not exactly how he ever saw himself.]

You know what? I think you'll do great. [He raises his glass as if to cheer him.]

[the_tailor]

You think so? You just met me! I mean, I know I carry an air of general awesomeness around me, but...

[There he is, back to that routine of his to drag himself out from darker thoughts. Lance raises his glass as well, clinking it against the other's.]

[spacebro]

[He shrugs.] Seems like a jerk move to assume the worst when you have to go to war?

[the_tailor]

True. Very true. You're a cool dude, A+ person to talk to and drink with.

[He smiles.]