[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

[p_mortem]

Sure. What do friends talk about?

[ Honestly. Minato's used to the eventual "here is my emotional baggage, good luck" talks, but before that... trivial chatter he isn't sure constitutes friendship. ]

[soulcomet]

[Madoka relaxes considerably when she sees Minato sitting across from her — she's perfectly comfortable around him, despite the fact that she's magically stuck to a chair and allegedly supposed to be looking for a mate.]

Well ... anything you want, really. Whatever's on your mind!

[p_mortem]

[ What's on his mind is, well, the bread stick he has in his hands. He tries to keep his mind relatively empty and unconcerned unless he has to be, so... okay, bread.

He raises the stick up, as if in toast. ]

The bread's good. I can't remember the last time I had a fresh loaf... I usually get the packaged buns at the store.

[soulcomet]

[luckily for him, food is one of her favorite subjects.]

I like those, too! They have them for sale at school — what kind's your favorite?

[p_mortem]

Don't really have one.

[ He doesn't have "favorite" anythings, as a general rule. Bread is bread, something easy to hold and eat, and can fill up his stomach for cheap. ]

Whatever's left in stock, I guess. I'm not really picky about food.

[soulcomet]

Well, that's something we definitely have in common ... I'll try anything at least once.

[she's met a lot of people who are the same way — that's probably a good thing, though. maybe the food is plentiful here, but who knows what they might be stuck with in the future.]