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.

Comments

[el_tybs]

Peeking my curiosity about fancy coffee and then completely shattering it.

[He's completely joking. But seriously he's curious now about this fancy coffee.]

How do you make it fancy?

[eviscerates]

That's what I live for.

( So is she, all exaggerated seriousness. )

Uh, there's... so you have this machine, and it pushes hot water through ground up coffee beans, so you get espresso. And then there's another part of the machine that produces steam, and you use that to heat the milk. If you do it right you get beauty, hot, creamy milk. If you do it wrong you just kinda get... burned milk. And there's different ways of pouring it and glasses and other stuff that makes it more complicated, depending what you like.

[el_tybs]

That sounds like a very complicated and elaborate way to have coffee. Does it really make it taste any different?

[eviscerates]

Oh, for sure. I mean, depending how much milk you add, how much foam you give it, syrups, different blends of coffee means, whether you go regular or cold drip...

We're very into coffee.

[el_tybs]

Very into coffee, yes. You make it sound like you're making a healing potion or something with all the fine details. I think here it's just... coffee. Black or with a little cream and sugar.

[eviscerates]

There are people who seem like they need coffee to survive, so— you're not wrong.

[el_tybs]

Sounds like an addiction where you're from.

[They have that here too, but not with coffee.]