Portal closure preplay

[cocktailwarrior]

"Right," Mona said. "So we're mixing mezcal, bloodwine, ketchup, chocolate milk, and pickle juice. In mason jars."

She did not envy the people volunteering to drink this cocktail. She'd seen a lot of crazy stuff in her years as a bartender -- she'd done a lot of it herself, even -- but this was perhaps the weirdest.

"Good luck to all of you."

[Minor OCD below will be removed in post, I wanted to give you all room to have to talk each other into drinking this sucker as needed]

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Drink and react to the cocktail

[cocktailwarrior]

Since it may take some folks entire threads to get this gunk down. (There are six people on this team, so if one or two end up not being able to convince themselves to do it, that won't be a problem. I suspect this will deeply offend Radchaai sensibilities, if nothing else!)

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[myownface]

Sparkle considered the drink.

Sparkle considered the people around him. And then Sparkle shrugged his shoulders.

"I've drank worse on a dare. Anyone wanna give me five bucks to do this?"

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer, meanwhile, was just wondering if this was revenge for all the jello she'd brought to horrific life, and her face said as much.

"Five bucks?" she said, arching a brow at Sparkle. "To drink something we were all gonna drink anyway?" That was the thing, right? That was what they were all gonna do? She didn't know she could try to get money out of it, too. "Okay, Mr. Extortionist over here."

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[regretiz4suckas]

"I'll bet you ten that you puke?" Kenzi offered, considering her own glass with trepidation.

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[1000yearstoolate]

This was undrinkable. No, that wasn't true, Seivarden had drunk really terrible things in her life, usually on leave, in a bar she couldn't remember afterwards.

No, actually, this was undrinkable. She had just drunk undrinkable things before, but she wasn't sure she was drunk enough to manage it now. Staring at the mason jar in her hand, she tried not to smell the contents.

"Remind me why I'm doing this," she said. "And can I have some whiskey first?"

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[myownface]

"Nah," Sparkle said, waving his empty jar around, "just knock it back! It tastes way better than it looks!"

This was a lie.

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer let out a slow, careful breath, looking down into her mason jar.

It wasn't really that bad. She'd eaten ice cream with flies in it, after all. She'd made jello worse than this before...

...she didn't eat that jello, but some people had. And, hey, at least she knew what jello she would make to commemorate this event in wiggly goodness for posterity.

No, it wasn't that bad, you just couldn't think about it.

"Alright," she said, resolutely, "bottom's up."

Summer tilted her head back, and threw back as much of it as she could at once, like taking medicine, like ripping off a band-aid, as quick and hopefully painless as possible.

And see? It wasn't that ba---

---oh, wait, there was the pickle juice. Followed by the bloodwine, and her body remembering, ah, yes, she'd had bloodwine before...

"Ohgod."

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[heroic_jawline]

"You can do it," Steve said encouragingly. "It's just like a casserole."

It was nothing like a casserole. Nothing.

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[regretiz4suckas]

Kenzi was watching to make sure someone else got this down first. Because heroics were great, but not turning inside-out with revulsion was even better.

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[atreideslioness]

Ghanima examined her mason jar with an almost clinical curiosity.

"This is quite possibly the most foul thing that ever was and ever will be," she said cheerfully, even as her mother-within was shaking her head, trying not to laugh.

"Do I actually have to taste it, or is 'chugging' acceptable?"

She was not above turning off her senses of smell and taste for thirty seconds just to get it down.

Re: Drink and react to the cocktail

[cocktailwarrior]

Mona shrugged. "Just need to ingest it. Doesn't much matter how."

Actually closing the portal

[cocktailwarrior]

This one doesn't need to have more than one ping per person, just focus on the portal and concentrate on it closing, basically.

Re: Actually closing the portal

[myownface]

Okay, Sparkle could ignore the fact that his mouth currently felt like a sewer system had been emptied out into it. Just for a minute, or... however long this took. He could do that. For the island, and all.

Just look at the portal, and think, "Close."

Or focus really hard on the portal and tipsily hum Semisonic's Closing Time, which was more or less the same thing if he did it with intent, right?

Re: Actually closing the portal

[1000yearstoolate]

It was really hard to concentrate on closing the portal with the aftertaste of that... drink in her mouth, but since not closing the portal would mean she would have suffered drinking it in vain - not to mention all the other reasons why this thing should be closed - Seivarden concentrated.

Really hard, her head spinning from the alcohol.

Re: Actually closing the portal

[somethingwithturquoise]

Did it still work if you hurled it back up? Probably not, so Summer, focusing on taking breaths in rather than letting up-chuck out, blinked her eyes a few times, and focused her attention on the portal.

It was at least a pretty portal, or that could just be the bloodwine and mezcal talking. And then she burped a burp that was all chocolate milk and pickle juice.

Nope, she wasn't going to get distracted, she wasn't going to let her head spin, she was going focus until that dumb old portal shut.

Re: Actually closing the portal

[heroic_jawline]

Steve lied a bit as he convinced himself he'd drunk worse during the Great Depression and concentrated on the portal. "Close," he thought. "Close so I can brush my teeth."

Re: Actually closing the portal

[regretiz4suckas]

Okay, payoff time! Time to make the Sludge of Yeeeurgh drinking worth it! Yes!

...Kenzi could not help imagining a Venus Fly-Trap closing, only with extra fangs. Also, the special effects of purple lightning flashes and screams. (She had maybe seen too many SyFy movies lately.) "CLOSE SESAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Re: Actually closing the portal

[atreideslioness]

Ah yes, this was why Ghanima had occasionally allowed herself to be affected by alcohol. It was a strange, though not terrible, sensation, and at the moment she rather missed sipping sake with Shunsui. That would be a far more preferable a situation for intoxication, rather than...this.

She was rather sure she could still taste that sludge, though there was none in her mouth.

"Close," she murmured, taking her Dune Tarot out of her skirts, beginning to flip and shuffle the cards as a concentration aide, letting both the alcohol and all the whispers of prescience flow through her. "It is time to sleep, now. To rest. Close and be gone."

The portal closes

[cocktailwarrior]

The portal pulsed once, twice, three times under the force of the combined magics. Mona took a running leap and dove through back into her own world as it started to spiral shut. The portal collapsed in on itself and vanished in a spectacular flash of blue and white light.

[for any post closure reactions!]

Re: The portal closes

[myownface]

Sparkle threw his arms up into the air with a victorious holler.

"Fuck yeah! Now somebody get me something fruity and rainbow-layered to get this taste out oh my god."

Re: The portal closes

[1000yearstoolate]

As the portal closed, Seivarden let out a sigh of relief.

"Can I have a bottle of whiskey now?" she asked to whomever felt like answering, then noticed her gloves.

"Oh fuck, I'm never going to get these stains off them, am I."

Re: The portal closes

[somethingwithturquoise]

"You know," said Summer, tossing her head a little (carefully), and shrugging a shoulder. "It wasn't really even that bad."

Then why were you green right now, Sum-sum??

Re: The portal closes

[regretiz4suckas]

"BYEEEEE MONA!" Kenzi burped, and sat down hard. "Oh god wow we did it. Woohooo." BLICK.

Re: The portal closes

[heroic_jawline]

"Okay, I'm off to brush my teeth for an hour or so," Steve declared.

OOC

[cocktailwarrior]

I CAN'T BELIEVE I ALMOST ENDED THE WORLD