To Drown Out

[warriorscribe]

Characters: Enoch never intended it but, everyone who's up for drinking!
Setting: Cafeteria, throughout the day (sorry team indigo)
Format: Party, do what you want!
Summary: With Riki being generous with the food again, Enoch decides to see, first, if he can still get drunk at all, and second, if being drunk will help keep his new headmate quiet. A (not-so-) surprising amount of people are likely to be interested in drinking with him.
Warnings: Drunken shenanigans. Possible angst because he might actually talk about Eleven under the influence. Might also talk about gory details of the meeting with Ruana. Did I say drunken shenanigans? I think I need to say that again.

*Much like just before the glamour failure, Enoch sits with several bottles of red wine from the kitchen stock. Unlike then, he has no extra glasses out to share with. He is not drinking to a plunge into the unknown. He is drinking to drown things. Mostly, the voice screaming in his head.

But nothing really changes the fact that any modern wine is of much higher quality than anything his time could produce, and he's savoring its flavor too, in long sips. It's almost a distraction, itself.

Speaking of distractions, he certainly won't object to any company, and if it turns into a larger gathering he may get so caught up in it he'll forget how much he's had.

And so might you. Care to grab a drink for yourself? He won't mind if you ask for some of the wine he has.*

((ooc: Of course you can approach Enoch like any other log, but due to interest expressed this is actually more of a mingle! Start games and contests if you'd like or just hang out and have your characters get drunk or bodyguard or spectate. Please identify new games and contests in the header to make it clearer to people scrolling through! Naturally there can be several threads of the same game, considering this isn't organized at all.

Have fun, and do keep an eye out for monsters...))

Comments

[tohko_amano]

Guess who was not having any of that right now, Romeo? This girl. When she saw Romeo wandering around holding a bottle, she sighed and..tried to pat him on the head.

"Romeo, you shouldn't be drinking that. It won't taste good, and you'll get drunk. The adults here are drinking quite a bit more than they should too, but it's more dangerous for you if you get drunk and run into a monster later on."

[myblueskies]

He let her pat him but pulled a face at her words. "I know what beer is miss Tohko. I'm not a baby!" He holds the bottle tight in case she tried to take it from him by force.

[tohko_amano]

Right now, Tohko didn't try and take it from him, since that would be rather rude, but she did give him a serious look at his words.

"I didn't say you were. However it's illegal where I live for people under twenty to be drinking like this, and even though there aren't any legal consequences here, if you get too drunk to defend yourself and wander into a monster later, I don't think you'll come out of it alive."

[myblueskies]

"Well it's not illegal where I come from." He told her, he actually wasn't sure. But he had seen older boys drinking before and they hadn't been twenty.

He just grinned and took another mouthful even though it tasted funny. He didn't mind about running into a monster because even if he died it wasn't proper dying.

[tohko_amano]

And Tohko just looked a bit more annoyed when Romeo took another swig of beer. It was like he was trying to annoy her now!

"It may not be, but that still doesn't remove the possibility of you dying if you run into a monster later on and can't fight! We never know when Jason might decide to stop putting us back together, so it's important that we try to limit the number of times we die."

[myblueskies]

"He will put us back together." Romeo told her, "He can't make us cry if we got no bodies."

The bad people might lie but Romeo believed them when they said they weren't in control of people disappearing, so if that happened it would just happen.

[tohko_amano]

While Tohko believed that the Administrators weren't in control of when people returned to their home universes, she wasn't quite sure that Jason would always decide to put them back together.

"He might decide that the risk far outweighs the reward someday. And, even if Ruana forces him to keep doing it, she might get sick of bringing back some people eventually, and tell him that he can stop. It's just better not to risk dying unless it's important, especially when we still have things to do here."

[myblueskies]

"But he likes experimenting on people and putting them back together. And anyways I can fight so I might not even die miss!" He took another gulp of beer, pulling another face. "I'm getting a lot less better, I haven't died since you killed me miss Tohko."

[tohko_amano]

That comment stung a little. Even though they had both apologized to each other, thinking back on when she was a killer maid bent on attacking anything that made a mess caused Tohko to sigh..but she forced herself to smile a little.

"I'm glad to hear that you haven't died since then..but if you get drunk, you might not be able to fight as well. And Jason also wants to stay alive. If he thinks that we're too much of a liability or if Ruana orders him, he may put one priority above another."

[myblueskies]

"I'll stay with Ken, and we will go straight back to our rooms. In the elevator. That way we can just run to our rooms if monsters chase us." He promised, trying to edge away from her.

[tohko_amano]

At that, Tohko sighed. She had run into Ken earlier and gotten into a huge mess, but..hopefully the kid would actually handle himself as well as the girl with red hair said he could.

"Alright then. However, if Ken's drunk too much, then have someone go with you both, alright? I just don't want something bad happening because everyone drunk too much to deal with it."

[myblueskies]

"Okay miss I will." He nodded, "I know you're just worried about everyone."

[tohko_amano]

At that, Tohko nodded and smiled a little.

"I am. I wouldn't want you or anyone else here dying because they drank too much and didn't think about a plan. But if you have one in mind, then I guess there's nothing really stopping you."

[myblueskies]

He grinned at her, "Thank you miss!" And he skipped off, going to find Ken.

[tohko_amano]

Tohko would let him go, but, surprised, she would call out behind him, smiling.

"You're welcome, but you can just call me Tohko!"

It was nice to see someone that could still skip in this place. Hopefully Romeo and Ken wouldn't get into too much trouble though..hopefully. Tohko would just keep smiling and go back to the party and sticking her nose into other people's drinking.