crystals. on the topic of body shots but also board games.

[eviscerates]

FORM: crystal
SENDER: Ruby Lucas
RECIPIENT: everyone with a crystal
WHAT: The Important Questions. (About booze.)
WHEN: NOW.
WHERE: a crystal near you (but Ruby's in Halamshiral.)
NOTES: threadjacking encouraged! we're all terrible people, who knows what might happen

Hey, Inquisition. So I had an important philosophical question, but I figure important philosophical questions are kinda lame, so: who here is familiar with body shots?

Back home there's this... I think "tradition" is giving it a little too much credit. There's uh, this... ritual you can enjoy in the World Without Magic, where you lick some salt, take a shot, and then suck on some lime, or a lemon, many. Or you can enjoy the ritual by licking salt off someone's skin, taking the shot, and you grab the lime wedge from between their teeth. Usually you'd use tequila, some people are down with vodka, but I'm still working on finding out what a good Thedas substitute would be.

Anyway, I guess I was curious about whether body shots were one of those things that translated across worlds, because I know we sure as hell didn't have them back in the Enchanted Forest. I was also curious about whether your world - Thedas or others, for my fellow Rifters - had any fun drinking games to get into. Drinking rituals, drinking games, whatever.

And as a side note, I am also officially starting Scrabble club, at which I don't think there will be any kind of body shots, but we may have wine. I finally managed to figure out an approximate Scrabble boardish so if you like words and are anywhere from mildly to very competitive then you should totally join.

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[eviscerates]

Everyone. Every single person in Orlais is noble.

( detect this peasant's quiet incredulity. )

I'm not so sure encouraging a group of adults to get tipsy and lick each other is noble, exactly. Fun, maybe. But noble?

[degenere]

[Solemnly:] Everyone.

And of course you have phrased it wrong. The nobility of your cause is in its spirit. Drunken carousing? Wonderfully shameful. I am a great proponent of drunken carousing, and nearly have a degree in it. But not all share my thoughts on it, so to them we will say: this is an exercise that will build positivism and forge the bonds of friendship and closeness that are so very necessary.

And how could anyone argue with that?

[eviscerates]

They probably couldn't.

( Unless they tried or wanted to, but shhh. This is Too Great. )

Of course, ( she continues, Very Gravely, ) there are those who might say it's possible for friendship to stand in the way of professionalism.

[degenere]

That is, as we say in Orlais, complete shit. And do we in the Inquisition give credence to such shit? No. After all: the goal of all professionalism is success. And friendship, under the encouragement of this this stronger bond, will guarantee success

So, if we are met with that critique, we will ignore and dismiss it.

[eviscerates]

That sounds like a very noble tactic.

( dry and playful, in a blender. )

[degenere]

One of the noblest. And I would know.

Though we will eschew some of its more traditional expressions, of course. Sneering while ignoring opposition might not convey just how above it we truly are.