AMALTHEA

[soulping]

[The lights dim and you are no longer in a classroom, but a low key bar. An older gentleman from behind the counter is looking at you as if waiting for your next order. La Torre's voice comes from nowhere in particular:]

Let's pick up where we left all, shall we? You are sitting in a bar. Why are you drinking?

Comments

SUBMIT

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1. Please write down and submit a reason for why your team is drinking.
2. Every player on the team must pick a number 1-50 for their self. This will be your alcohol tolerance level. This is an IC pick so characters who are lightweights may pick a heavyweight number and vice versa.

GOAL: Get as close to full on drunk as possible without blacking out. If you surpass your number you'll blackout and suffer alcohol poisoning. But don't worry; the school infirmary is standing by to receive all cases.

[codecmoment]

[ I'm so uncomfortable. ]

1. Because Amalthea never loses.
2. Otacon - 15

SORT OF DISCUSSION?????

[menially]

[Leaning right against the counter and talking straight up to the ceiling.]

I don't know, why doesn't our polite host fill the newcomers in???

[inthenude]

Oh, hm. Were you not here this morning? All you foreigners look alike...

[There's a weary sigh. How unfortunate. And then, the story:]

Today I have a story for you. Have you ever heard of the Human Condition? It's a conceited study of what traits innately make a human being a human being. Some say it can be defined as humanity's capacity for good and for evil. If a person has an infinite capacity for good then, like a mirror image, they must have an infinite capacity for evil, right?

There was a man. He was sitting at a bar. He couldn't accept the reality of his world. It was his lot in life to wish for a different lot; he was a selfish, small man. He drank. He drank to forget. He drank to obfuscate his understanding. He drank so he didn't have to accept.

You are sitting at a bar. Why are you drinking?

[codecmoment]

Don't enough people in Kyriakos have alcoholism? Geez.

[menially]

Probably.

I'm not sure that's the point of the story, though.

[menially]

[Otacon's answer for #1 makes him laugh, so they can stick with that.]

2. Technic - 47

[codecmoment]

Doesn't matter to me. It becomes a form of self-medication and therapy. A poisonous one.

ROUND 1

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[A menu appears:

Coffee Stout
Dark, bitter stout tasting of coffee

Milk Stout
Sweet stout with a creamy texture

Imperial Stout
Stout with a roasted chocolate taste

Oyster Stout
Burnt espresso flavor with an oyster aftertaste]

DISCUSSION

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SUBMIT

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[codecmoment]

... oyst...er...?

[ Cringes. ]

Well, I've eaten a basket of hot peppers before for points. Let's do this, even if I want the coffee a lot more.

[menially]

And you're thinking that whatever this game ends up accomplishing is just going to make others' poisons that much stronger, right?

[codecmoment]

Enabling, more or less.

[menially]

...If you want the coffee, then why not just take the coffee?

[codecmoment]

... okay.

[ THAT WAS EASY. ]

[menially]

Yeah.

Well, it's not like it's a groundless concern. But there's nothing we can do about it other than hope self-control is still a virtue.

[menially]

See? Nothing to it.

[He, on the other hand, has a soft spot for seafood. Oyster it is.]

Re: SUBMIT

[menially]

[Waving the barkeeper over.]

Oyster Stout, if you don't mind.

[codecmoment]

Coffee stout, please.

Re: SUBMIT

[soulping]

[Your oyster stout is served cool, but not too cold. The creamy texture brings forth your inner feelings. And you can't stop crying. Everything's so sad! Why are you holding it in?]

[soulping]

[Your stout is served cool, but not too cold. It's a real pick-me-up. With this kind of taste you just want to belt everything out to the heavens. Which is entirely possible; you've lost the ability to keep a quiet, inside voice. Try not to make anyone deaf.]

ROUND 2

[soulping]

[A second menu appears:

Bloody Mary
Spicy, tomato tasting cocktail

Tequila Sunrise
Sweet mixed drink tasting of orange juice

Highball
Carbonated lemon-lime mixed drink

Salty Dog
Grapefruit tasting drink with a salt-lined rim]

DISCUSSION

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SUBMIT

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