Cursed Party Game IC

[CondorBoH]

She hadn't expected much from the dare, knowing from the afternoon that Penny was the mousy sort, and this was pretty on point for what she expected. Not that that was bad or anything, Hannah was kind of glad that it wasn't a super crazy dare, hence why she had asked for one from her. But even if it was super simple, she took a moment to think. If she reversed this on Penny, then maybe she could get this two ways, have a nice talk with her. But she also didn't want to push her too hard too early...
Hmmm.
Better stick with the random idea, for now. Though her beginning to count was interrupted by Lena's snarky comment. She bit back a reply, deciding to simply wait until she got the opportunity...

Closing her eyes, Hannah counted everyone in the room mentally and did an 'enee meanie miney mo' in her head and pointing at everyone in turn until she landed on... Baxter. Alright then! She turned to her 'neighbour' on this side of the circle and smile at him.
"Alright then, I guess its you and me. So I'll start. I don't have time for many hobbies, but I like reading a lot. My parents travel a lot for work, so they end up bringing us home books from the airport so I have a decent sized pile of. Actually, my other ya' know big like is also a dislike in a way. See, my family is big, I'm the oldest but I have a lot of little siblings. I love them to bits, but they're also the reason I... uh, you know, don't get out and about much. Full time baby sitters are expensive, so yeah. Also: Dislike salami. It's just kinda bad, ya know? So that's a short example of likes and dislikes. OK, cool. So, Baxter, what about you? I remember before you were talking about how you fixed up your headphones, making them better and everything."

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I rolled a d8 to decide randomly, so you guys know.

[Fantasy Fanatic]

While Hannah initiated a conversation with Baxter, she glared a bit at both Lena and Matt, showing she disapproved of both of them, while making a mental note to have a talk with both of them. She did not enjoy this hostility and back and forth thing going on, but she also didn't wish to interrupt the game. Hopefully, her glare would be enough of a deterrent to keep them from starting anything.

[mrblah]

Baxter was surprised when Hannah had picked him, pointing at himself and looking to his neighbor to confirm—oh, wait, that was Lena. Baxter instead elected to not look over to her and instead accept that, yes, someone wanted to talk to him. He listened intently to Hannah's story. He was an only child so he couldn't relate to her family problem much, but the inventor did get a sense that she must have been the responsible type if she allowed her time to be taken up like that. Baxter didn't know if he could do the same.

"Uh... yeah, my headphones." Guess it was his turn now. "Well... there's not a whole lot to it. I bought some cheap ones, and uh, just fixed them for a lower price than the high-grade stuff. You'd actually be surprised how easy it is to do if you know how... but um, I'm supposed to talk about my likes and dislikes, right? I like music, mecha anime, and robots. I dislike anime with lazy writing, intense sports, loud music, over-expensive items, Apple (the company, not the fruit), formal clothing, rom-coms, oppressive systems, and insects. Uh, and my main hobby is messing with modern technology."

... Was that alright? He kind of felt like he rambled a little too much. Baxter scratched the back of his head. "So... was that enough?"

[MiscChaos]

Despite Lena being an utter bitch, Penny smiles at the result of her dare. Now she knows a bit more about each of them. A bonus is that Violet is now annoyed at Lena. Hopefully that means Lena will actually behave rather than sniping at everyone all the time. It's getting to the point where even she is getting more tired of it than scared. She wonders if Leon would be disappointed she hadn't gone for her enemy's throat yet? Then again, she never had his courage or aura as an alpha so maybe he'd forgive her weakness? She supposes she'll never know.

"T-that was fine by me. T-the more you know someone, the harder it is... to be a jerk to them. T-that was all I w-wanted."

[ChibiKitsune]

The tinge of color on Sylvi's cheeks darkened at Violet's response to her dare. She tries to say something back but only ends up sputtering with no actual words forming. Shocked into silence, she merely watches the game continue. A smile plays on her face as Penny replies to Hammah's choice of a dare. Why hadn't she thought of something so simple? A roll of her eyes is the only response Lena's reaction gains. Couldn't the woman let a simple game be fun? Did she have to be snarky all the time? Though, at least she was ignorable. Besides, listening to the conversation is actually kind of fun.

[CondorBoH]

After Penny's affirmation, Hannah flashed a thumbs up to Baxter.
"Alright the boss says its all good, so I think we passed that dare. It was nice, we should talk more. But for now, lets have some fun with good ol' truth n' dare."

She smiled warmly at the two of them, before focusing back at the table at large. OK, now it was her turn. Her smile turned a bit mischievous as she focused on a certain snarky girl in the circle...
"Yo Lena. Glad you had fun in the peanut gallery. So, truth or dare?"

[exalted]

Lena just looked up at the ceiling and shook her head slightly as Matt tried to comment, ignoring him. It wasn't her fault that these people didn't know how to play the game.

She looked scornfully at Hannah for moment at the informal jive way she had called for her, but quickly replaced it with her usual polite smile.

"Well seeing as we just had two dares, I dare say I must pick truth then," she quipped, taking a chip from a snack bowl and eating it daintily

[Fantasy Fanatic]

Lena's quip actually drew a snort from Violet. "That was terrible cousin." Violet tells her amused, while waiting for Hannah to decide on a question for Lena.

[CondorBoH]

That got a giggle out of Hannah, who leaned back and smiled, continuing on in her cheerful tone from before.
"Well damn, I was going to go for a dare but I get what I get. But hey, where we go. So, I don't know you very well. Half the people here don't, the other half are either your relatives or you got something going on with... maybe?"

She made a 'ehhhhh' vague gesture with her hand and looked at Matt. While Hannah hadn't been privy to... all the things they got up to, it was obvious that Lena responded in a certain way when he made moves.
"So like, Truth: Who are you? Don't get existential with me, I just want to know more about you. Then next time we come around I can dare you to do something you'll regret, promise."

[exalted]

"Jealous much," Lena purred back to her cousin, fanning herself cooly with an chip as she smiled smugly.

Her smiled hardened briefly as Hannah mentioned something between her Matt, a momentary glare that said she SUPER definitely did not have anything going on with that lecherous weasel, before returning again to it's resting position.

"Hmmmmm so who am I?" she mulled over as she daintily nibbled at the chip as she got into pageant mode, "Why I'm Lena Nocturn, 3 times runner up at our grandest Miss <insert city> pageant. I enjoy tennis and teach young children the values of hard work and sportsmanship and the Pleasant Valley Tennis club. I study sociology at University so that when I graduate I can better help the struggling people of the world when graduate and plan to join an NGO to help the 3rd world."

She smiled in full pageantry mode, shoulders back and turned to the side slightly, the veneer of her smile starting to rub thin and crack.

"But then all of that isn't good enough for some people, who cares about the runner up? As my dear mother says, 'the runner up is just the first loser'," her voice hardened, "But that doesn't matter. All that matters to most people Hannah, as you said, is that I'm Violet's cousin."

And that's how you get the guests, Lena thought, reciting the line from one of her favourite plays. She let her words sink in for a second before speaking up again in her bubbly voice before anyone could interject.

"So it's my turn to pick now isn't it? Now who hasn't gone yet?" she smiled while scanning the room, a wicked plan forming in her mind, "Morgan?! You haven't gone, truth or dare?"

[Tes]

Matt was quite interested in Lenas answer and looked as such over to her. While he knew her from seeing her around Violet, since they never got along, he didn't really know anything about her,...besides the obvious. His insterest quickly vanished from his face though, as she got along with her answer. It couldn't really sound any more recorded in advance for a pegeant show.

Then something weird happened. Lena seemed quite down for some reason and Matt never saw her like that before. As she started to explain, how she is never good enough for her mother and strengthens how everybody only knows her for her relation to Violet, Matt started to realise, that it must be quite hard for her to uphold this facade for her mother and others....but that doesn't really excuse how she treats others around her, does it?...On the other hand, how would she learn to treat people right, if not from her own parents...

For the first time Matt felt something like pity for Lena and says "I think, the runner up is the most important position of them all. It's the same in every aspect of life. You never want to be the smartest person in the room. That would only mean you are in the wrong room to grow fruther."

[Fantasy Fanatic]

Violet found herself frowning as Len explained her mother's expectations, and the obvious way of how they seemed to affect her cousin. She didn't like it. "Lena, no matter what your mother says, you're not defined by being my cousin, or the runner up in some competition. You shouldn't concern yourself with what your mother thinks of you, or people you don't know. Instead, you should feel comfortable, knowing your friends will support you regardless, and help you when you need it. We can start here, if you let us. If we're all friends, then that is what you'll be, not just my cousin, but a friend, one we know by name, and enjoy spending time with for who they are, and not for what they do, trying to uphold the standards others have set in place for them." Violet says, trying, hoping that she could help both Lena, and the rest of the group to make friends, and see that one could make some, even in the oddest of places, or in unlikely people. In her eyes, this was exactly what Lena needed, to relax, let some people into her bubble, who she could learn to trust, and who would come to support her, hopefully, teaching her to do the same.

[Mark3000]

Morgan had been eagerly awaiting his turn. It had been a rather tame session of Truth or Dare. For one thing, everyone still had most of their clothing on. But once Morgan heard his name, he began to bounce a bit. To make things even better, it was Lena asking. And the high class girl had a mischievous look in her eyes, which suited the crossdressing cheerleader just fine. Morgan was always up for a bit of trouble.

"Dare of course. Come on Lena, give me your best shot!" Morgan said excitedly.

[exalted]

You see, she wanted to scream, you see how effortlessly she does it?

She let out a slight sigh as her cousin stole the spotlight again, playing the angelic role so earnestly she could have won Miss USA in a heartbeat. Though that was not what irked her, she was used to living in her cousin's shadow, it was the pity party Matt was trying to throw. The perv, who barely an hour ago had been forcing his cock down her throat against her will before trying to hit on her cousin again, was trying to say being second best was okay? WTF?

Morgan choosing dare though snapped her back to her plan. Just as she expected, the flamboyant show-off hadn't been able to resist the dare choice - though she was pained a bit she wouldn't be able to ask him 'WHY DO YOU HAVE BIKINI?' if he had picked truth as her backup plan.

"Who's afraid of Virginia Wolf?" she whispered to herself darkly before perking up again to smile at Morgan.

"Well seeing as Hannah opened the gates to darker dares next round, why don't we get started early," she grinned, "Seeing as how you didn't get to show us your moves out by the pool Morgan, I dare you..."

She paused to eat a chip.

"To give Matt a lap dance"

[Mark3000]

If Lena was looking to embarrass Morgan, she had made an error. Morgan got to his feet and stretched. Morgan had never given a lap dance before, but he was a trained performer with a nimble body. Plus, he had seen enough videos to get a basic idea of what to do. "Alright, I'm all in for this one." He said as he grabbed a proper chair for Matt to sit on. "I'm gonna need some music too. You guys got anything good?"

[Tes]

Matt looked stunned as Lena gave Morgan his dare. Didn't she remember he could have reversed it if he wanted to? But fitting to Morgan, he didn't care it seems and simply accepted it without much thought. "And I have no say in this, I guess?" Matt chuckled nervously. He wouldn't give Lena the satisfaction of any more reaction though and slowly got up from his sleeping bag.

"Well...then let's do this." He says as he walks over to his stuff and got his phone. "I guess, I can atleast choose the song." He thought a bit what he liked and what was fitting as he went through his music collection and over to the chair that Morgan prepared. It didn't come up every day to choose a song for a lap dance, so it took a second. But soon he found one, that was fitting and threw his phone over to Violet "Could you hook this up to some speakers, please?"

Then he sat down and looked up to Morgan, a bit weirded out by the situation. "I guess, I'm ready as I'll ever be..."

[Fantasy Fanatic]

Violet was about to speak up about the somewhat inappropriate request, but seeing as how both of the ones involved decided it was fine, she remained silent. If they wanted to object, they could reverse it on the parson making the request after all, which was the entire point. Shrugging her shoulders, she barely managed to catch Matt's phone. "Woah, you should be more careful." She told him, as she would never risk doing so to her own phone, for fear of it landing on its screen and cracking.

Getting, up with a sigh, she walks over and docks the phone in their surround system speaks. "Alright, here we go." She tells them, before turning the son on for them, and then returns to her spot.

[Mark3000]

Once the music starts, Morgan starts to sway his hips. "Yea I can work with this" Morgan said as he started to dance in the centre of the group. As he danced, he moved ever closer to Matt as he sat in the chair. His body moving with the rhythm of the music. Standing in front of the young man, Morgan slowly undid the top few buttons of his pajama shirt to reveal his yellow bra. As he gets closer, Morgan leans over Matt's body. His body moves within a few inches of his only to retreat back an inches. Morgan does this again and again as his body heat washes over Matt.

Once they were both warmed up, Morgan moved to the main event. In tune with the music, he spread his legs and sat on Matt's lap. His hips ground on the man's legs as the two faced each other. Under pajama pants, Matt would be able to see the yellow thong he came in with. "Matt, let me know when you want me to stop. Or else I might go all night" Morgan said jokingly but the a seductive hint.

[Tes]

When the song began to play, Matt relaxed and couldn't help but to tap his foot a bit. He watched Morgan dance for the group, but also threw intent glances to Lena with a slight smirk. Is this what you wanted He
thought.

As Morgan got closer, the tension in him began to build up a bit again. He had to admit. Morgan was doing a pretty good job. Then came the inevitable and he sat down and ground on him. The only really bad part was, that like this he couldn't really see the others reactions..."You're getting quite into it, aren't you? I guess the end of the song is a pretty good point to stop." He answered Morgan with a smile.

[exalted]

Lena smiled serenely as she watched her plan unfold.

Pride cometh before the fall, she smirked to herself. She highly doubted anything could embarrass Morgan and - oh god, why did he a have a bra on under his pajamas? Didn't he know... wait... WHY DID HE HAVE A BRA ON AT ALL?! - and would take any opportunity to show off, and if Matt wanted to continue his goody-two-shoes routine he wouldn't be able to say no. Ahhhh, it was so good to be cleverer than you enemy.

She had been certain Morgan wouldn't reverse the dare and give up the opportunity and was prepared to argue that if Matt wanted to reverse it should be him dancing for her or Morgan by Violet's rule. She paused to think as the song hit it's chorus and second verse, wondering if Matt had picked the song for a reason to say something.

Lena cheered as Morgan hit his finale, miming making it rain as she genuinely laughed at the spectacle in front of her and booed when it ended.

"Wooohoooo Morgan," she cheered, pausing to smile her best shit eating grin at Matt, "What a... stirring?... performance?"