[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

[rootbound]

I guess so? Does it make it better or worse if it's just the Palai being rude instead of you and the Palai...? ...no, I guess that's an unfair question.

[huffs]

Don't worry, I don't want to -- date or -- whatever. No offense. I was just in the area when they put the shield up.

[goodlistener]

It doesn't matter if it's better or worse. I can be direct with someone when I have to be.

[jeanne, he never implied you couldn't...]

Shall we just have a conversation, then?

[rootbound]

Yes, that sounds fine and reasonable -- wait, so do you have trouble being direct normally?

[...

actually, rewinds that one in his head

...

wait

uh]

Or we could just talk about something more impersonal and forget I asked that last question, sorry, I think Geir wants me to make more friends but I've kind of forgotten how doing that politely goes.

[goodlistener]

There is no need to apologize. [that's all she'll say about that. her voice isn't especially unkind, though, so it's still pretty obvious he hasn't upset her.

no, if there's anything to be miffed about, it's just the circumstances they've found themselves in.]

What do you want for yourself? Outside of anything Geir wants for you.

[rootbound]

[he's relieved, but also when she asks that question he opens his mouth and nothing initially comes out

way to start with the hard hitters, Jeanne]

That's kind of difficult, since I didn't, um, exactly have any life plans before I met Geir.

[he had death of himself and all the world plans but, well, that didn't work out, he's not actually great villain material in a lot of ways]

. . .

I want to get the chance to travel with him and, and see what places are worth seeing; yes, that answer includes him, but . . . I think I'd want that now too myself, maybe . . .? I'm not sure.

[goodlistener]

[she always does :)

listening to him, jeanne's face actually softens into a reassuring smile. she may be embarrassed and uncomfortable, and her cheeks remain a little flushed, but her happiness is impossible to miss—particularly because of his empathetic powers.]

Geir must be very special to you.

[rootbound]

[he picks up on that; his flush is harder to see, on his darker face, but it's certainly there. he's a little flustered! what did he even do to make her happy]

. . . I was very lucky to summon him, you might say. It was, I was . . . I was having a bad time, before that.

[understatement of the year]

[goodlistener]

[he got happy about good things, too...]

So he is your familiar, of sorts? I know about the techniques behind that.

[it would only make sense, because as a servant, she's also a "familiar", if on a greater scale.

also, it seems tactless to ask about the bad time he went through.]

[rootbound]

I don't know if I'd call him a familiar. Maybe the standards are different where you're from, but those are usually much, um, smaller. And not sentient.

You know about summoning, though?

[he doesn't seem inclined to brood on whatever that bad time was, at least; his interest is caught]