[WORLD ONE] SPEED DATING EXTRAVAGANZA

[spellbindmods]

Who: Participating coven members
Where: The Palai marketplace
When: Day 49
Open/Closed: OTA

[ Any and all who are in the marketplace will find that there is suddenly a mysterious barrier around the marketplace (that may be eerily familiar to some) -- specifically one large portion of the marketplace with a large number of tables and chairs, perhaps purposefully set out for nefarious reasons.

A few Palai are ushering coven members to chairs, and everything seems about normal. As normal as the Palai can be when they're putting on a show anyway. It's not until a sizable portion of the coven members are seated (and also supplied with breadsticks and small shrimp), that things get a bit more bizarre.

Thanks to the power of the Eltos, a small band of energy keeps coven members stuck to the chair (magic can interfere, of course), but that's not the end of it. On each table, next to those delicious smelling breadsticks and shrimp, is a bowl of scraps of papers. Every five minutes, a strip of paper will pop out from the bowl.

If you ask the Palai, they'll be inclined to explain speed dating to you. Asking questions, getting to know a person, then being shimmied off to the next potential mate -- this is made possible by Elto magic yet again, through flying chairs that transport their holder to a new table at standard intervals.

The Palai are extremely invested in this exercise? Will you let them down? ]

[ OOC: In the spirit of speed dating, each character will have a top level. All who want to respond to this top level can with questions from this post, but the threads have to end at 10 comments from each character. After this last tag, the characters can be assumed to have been whisked to a different potential match. You're free to have characters make up their own questions, interact with Palai serving food, etc. ]

Comments

[potentite]

[Jake almost jokingly offers to show her but he realizes 1) if she doesn't know what a date is then she might take it seriously and 2) he can't handle romance right now. So. Though she really is pretty, so he goes with a different joke:]

Are you sure you want to know? You might have suitors lining up once you do. [But since it was just a little ice breaker...] Dates are um... to find someone compatible with you. Romantically. Um, though, even once you're going steady with your sweetheart, dates are fun.

[apatheia]

So they're always meant to be romantic in nature then. [FROWNING. She really made a mistake in coming to the market today apparently.] But what are "suitors"?

[Honestly, she's probably never even heard the word be used, much less in this context.]

[potentite]

[He feels that frown in his soul honestly.]

Oh, a suitor is someone who seeks your hand in marriage. They usually try to present themselves as the best option, trying to prove it to you, so that you'll agree.

[apatheia]

[His reply comes so easily while she doesn't even know what "marriage" is. It really highlights to her how little she knows about the Old World and human customs despite being designed and made to protect them. Even if she isn't a Scanner model, and it's not her job to learn about humanity, she feels ignorant not knowing what must be such a simple and normal concept.]

... And what is marriage? [In a way, she feels a little embarrassed at having to ask about something that's probably common knowledge.]