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** Drink again if he ''literally kills a human being'' and immediately comes up with an excuse for why it technically doesn't count.



* A planet that seemed nice at first turns out to be a dystopian CrapsackWorld.

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* A planet that seemed nice at first turns out to be a dystopian CrapsackWorld.CrapsackWorld.
* Alestra says something horrible to or about one of her children.
* There's a spiel about intergalactic politics that lasts at least three paragraphs uninterrupted.
** Drink again if it somehow involves the Treaty of Eta Carinae.

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!!Take a sip of your drink when:

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!!Take a sip of your drink when:!! The First Iteration:

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** Take two sips if it involves Kate Davis.

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** Take two sips if it involves Kate Davis.Davis.

!! The Reboot

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* Someone mentions something from the 19th-21st centuries, but they get it hilariously wrong or misinterpret it completely.
* Someone, especially Acidalia, references "the Founders."
** Take another drink when she references them by their "Eleutherian" names instead of their ''actual'' names.
* Cressida acts like a spoiled princess for no reason.
* Athena says something that demonstrates a complete lack of common sense.
** Drink again if she precedes this with "I'm a scientist," then says something either unrelated to her field or scientifically inaccurate.
* Somebody gets injured and tries to walk it off instead of dealing with it.
** Drink again if they suffer from said injury for the next few chapters because they refused to deal with it when they got it.
** Drink again if ignoring said injury has dire consequences for them later on.
* Cadé acts patronizing and rude to a colleague or superior, especially Rae.
* Alpha-24 mentions a loophole in the laws of robotics.
* A non-Terran is extremely impressed by ordinary Earth technology.
** Drink again if a Terran character says something along the lines of "you have faster-than-light space travel, and [modern technology] amazes you?"
* Somebody mentions the Precursors.
** Especially when they're referencing Kate.
* There's a place in the Greater Galaxy named after someone from Earth (i.e. Faraday.)
* A planet that seemed nice at first turns out to be a dystopian CrapsackWorld.
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** Take two sips if the author provides YouTube explanation videos, links to news articles, or PDFs of research papers to explain said science.

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** Take two sips if the author provides YouTube Website/YouTube explanation videos, links to news articles, or PDFs [=PDFs=] of research papers to explain said science.



* Someone fangirls excessively over concepts like quantum entanglement, CRISPR-Cas9, et cetera.

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* Someone fangirls excessively over concepts like quantum entanglement, CRISPR-Cas9, CRISPR-[=Cas9=], et cetera.
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**Or Cadé and Rae obviously don't.


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*The author's notes involve a lot of stuff about linguistics.
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** ''Film/Interstellar''

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** ''Film/Interstellar''''Interstellar''



* There's a reference to ''Literature/Enlightenment''.

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* There's a reference to ''Literature/Enlightenment''.''Enlightenment''.
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** Literature/TheMartian
** Film/Interstellar
** VideoGame/BioShock

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** Literature/TheMartian
''Literature/TheMartian''
** Film/Interstellar
''Film/Interstellar''
** VideoGame/BioShock''VideoGame/BioShock''
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!!Take a sip of your drink when:
*Someone says some bullshit pseudoscience which is later confirmed in the author's notes/bonus content to ''not'' be bullshit pseudoscience after all.
**Take two sips if the author provides YouTube explanation videos, links to news articles, or PDFs of research papers to explain said science.
*Athena gives someone a nickname and no one but her ever uses it.
*Cadé says something extremely patronizing and Rae chides him by warningly saying "...love."
*Ace and Lyra have obvious sexual tension.
*Someone fangirls excessively over concepts like quantum entanglement, CRISPR-Cas9, et cetera.
*Lyra or Andromeda offhandedly mentions some horrible thing like it's normal and everyone has to deal with it. See: illegal organ harvesting, child labor, murdering Cantators for fun, gang wars, aderanline compound addictions, et cetera.
**Take two sips if it's so horrible it makes Ace, Atlas, Tee or someone else who's been involved in the military cringe.
*Someone says "Stars" or a random Latin/Greek phrase instead of swearing.
**Take two sips when they use a common English phrase (i.e. "Jesus Christ!) but have no idea what it means or who it's referring to.
*Someone mentions something from the Platinum Age that modern readers recognize but the characters are clueless about. See: Athena's Batman symbol ("ancient relic.")
*There's a future-y version of some modern thing, like Aleskynn watching a show that pretty much amounts to Survivor... in... SPACE!
*There's a reference to:
**Literature/TheMartian
**Film/Interstellar
**VideoGame/BioShock
*Someone is named after a figure from Greek or Roman mythology.
**Take two sips if it doubles as the name of a nebula, consetllation or celestial body.
*Someone is named after a gemstone or rock (i.e. Galena, Ametista, Adamantina, etc.)
*There's a reference to ''Literature/Enlightenment''.
**Take two sips if it involves Kate Davis.

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