[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]

[At that, Jake visibly relaxes.] Oh thank god. Yes, I'm on board with this plan. I, uh, appreciate their concern but... really, I am better off flying solo for a bit.

[sluggard]

[He laughs.] I dunno if it's really concern or just for giggles...

[A shrug.] I'm not asking you any weird questions though, don't worry.

[potentite]

Oh, good, because these are frankly terrible questions. [And some are way too forward to ask strangers.] But, um, I've been having fun listening to people talk about their homes, if you want a topic while we sit here?

[sluggard]

My home? [Well, that's not something he's heard a lot here.] Oh, you know, coups, dead kings, dead dragons... It's fine.

[Cheerfully,] You gonna tell me about yours?

[potentite]

[Well that sounds gloomy but he doesn't seem too down about it?? Jake feels like he should sum up his the same way.]

Oh, um, just.. the world ending, everyone getting fucked over, battles going poorly... Uh, apparently it will be fine?

[sluggard]

[He tries not to--really, honest!--but he bursts out laughing.]

Aww, kid, things sound worse there than at home. The world wasn't ending there.

[Sort... of...]

Must've been pretty impressive battles if it's all gonna be fine.