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Spellbind Mods ([personal profile] spellbindmods) wrote in [community profile] spellbinders2017-08-25 07:38 pm

[WORLD ONE] SPEED DATING EXTRAVAGANZA

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. ]
soulcomet: (magi ◠ Thou hast it destroyed)

[personal profile] soulcomet 2017-08-26 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Me either ... It seems awfully impersonal, doesn't it?

[not that Madoka has any idea of how romance is supposed to go, but she did at least figure, if she were to go on a date, it would be with someone she already knew.]
decipheringeye: (Did you know that... books)

[personal profile] decipheringeye 2017-08-26 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe it's for people who are so busy that they don't have time for normal courtship. That sounds like a pretty miserable way to live, though.

[Madoka's not alone in having no idea how this is supposed to work normally.]
soulcomet: (human ◡ a demigod shattered)

[personal profile] soulcomet 2017-08-26 09:39 am (UTC)(link)
[whoops that sort of describes Madoka to a T. but she doesn't seem to mind.]

There has to be a better way to go about it than forcing it on people though, right?

Oh — um, my name's Madoka, by the way.
decipheringeye: (boooooo)

[personal profile] decipheringeye 2017-08-26 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm Kosuzu Motoori! And yeah, even if someone wanted to find romance really fast, shouldn't they leave the people who don't out of it...?
soulcomet: (human ◡ Make seven and eight)

[personal profile] soulcomet 2017-08-26 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
It's nice to meet you, Motoori-san!

And, you're right — I know the Palai are really big on pairing up, and I would like to find someone nice one day ... but, there's nothing wrong with being single, either.
decipheringeye: (I fucking love books)

[personal profile] decipheringeye 2017-08-26 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I know what you mean! It would be nice to get a love letter or two some day, but in the meantime I'm totally happy without having any kind of special person in my life.
soulcomet: (human ◡ Cursed be the)

[personal profile] soulcomet 2017-08-26 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, I've always wanted to get a love letter ... That would be so romantic!
decipheringeye: (On a book mission)

[personal profile] decipheringeye 2017-08-26 10:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, exactly! I actually have a collection of famous love letters, but they turned out to be kind of haunted.
soulcomet: (human ◡ Wherewith the)

[personal profile] soulcomet 2017-08-26 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[what.]

... Haunted? What do you mean, exactly?
decipheringeye: (Books can do WHAT)

[personal profile] decipheringeye 2017-08-26 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
It turned out that the woman who wrote them was inhabiting the letters as a ghost. I actually got possessed for a little while.
soulcomet: (human ◡ one-time-one!)

[personal profile] soulcomet 2017-08-27 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
You ... you got possessed?

[THAT IS HER WORST NIGHTMARE.]
decipheringeye: (Time for books)

[personal profile] decipheringeye 2017-08-27 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
The ghost was defeated in the end, so it wasn't a big deal.
soulcomet: (human ◡ it's suffering)

[personal profile] soulcomet 2017-08-27 12:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Madoka can't think of it being anything other than a big deal.]

That's so awful ... I'm glad you got your body back, but I can't even begin to imagine what that must have been like.
decipheringeye: (ok buddy)

[personal profile] decipheringeye 2017-08-27 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
["A big deal" can be measured kind of strangely, when you live in Gensokyo.]

Actually, I don't remember any of it, so I guess I can't imagine what it was like either.
soulcomet: (magi ◠ somewhere out there)

[personal profile] soulcomet 2017-08-28 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[that's ... that's a relief?? at least Kosuzu doesn't have to worry about having nightmares about it.]

Even so, I wish it hadn't happened to you at all...

— Oh. It looks like we have time for one more question! What's your magic like?

decipheringeye: (boooooo)

[personal profile] decipheringeye 2017-08-28 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not really sure. I had a weird dream at that party, where I dreamed about what was going to happen for the next few minutes, and it was pretty accurate. So I guess... is that a prophecy?
soulcomet: (human ◡ Cursed be the)

[personal profile] soulcomet 2017-08-28 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! You can tell the future ...

Are you able to choose what you want to see, or is it random?
decipheringeye: (Goodness gracious do go on)

[personal profile] decipheringeye 2017-08-28 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't really-- ah!

[And off the chair goes.]

It was nice meeting you, Miss Madoka!
soulcomet: (magi ◠ gentle)

[personal profile] soulcomet 2017-08-29 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
You, too, Motoori-san! Let's talk later, okay?

[and she waves as she goes.]