[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

[cadventuretime]

Well, unfortunately, that isn't really a question on this little piece of paper. Sooooo...

Let's talk about something that is on here, hmm?

Let's seeee... [Looks over the list.]

Are you a cat person or a dog person?

[mech_and_mutt]

[He wastes a good few seconds on just... staring.]

...This some kinda joke?

[cadventuretime]

[And her grin widens the entire time.]

I wasn't going to assume~

That would be rude.

1/2

[mech_and_mutt]

[With the answer literally staring back at her in the face, he couldn't help but feel like this was just another prod from a proverbial finger that never grew tired.]

2/2

[mech_and_mutt]

[...But as precious few thoughts slowly mulled over in his head, there might have actually been another side to it. His indignant glare softened, and soon turned almost modest.]

...Wouldja believe I'm actually kind of a cat person?

[cadventuretime]

[She picks up on that pretty quick, actually.]

Ohhh? There's a nice cat lady back home?

[And you were getting mad at her.]

[mech_and_mutt]

[Look, after all the looks he's gotten already can you really blame him for thinking it was just another dumb joke?]

It's-- it's complicated, okay?? We're just really good friends...

[Enough of being on the back leg! Even if his butt was glued to the seat.]

Have you ever dated before? C'mon, that one's on the card.

[cadventuretime]

[It was, but the fun thing about poking is you fish out some interesting results~]

Oooh the foxy boy has a foxy lady and wants to keep it under the hood. How foxy. Hehe....

[And dang, he rolled into a question before she had an opportunity to ambush him further.]

Well, sure, I've been asked out by some zombie guys, but they're only interested in one thing.

[She shrugs.] Most everybody else isn't really into necrophilia.

[mech_and_mutt]

...how--

[NO STOP RIGHT THERE WHATEVER YOU DO DON'T PUT ANY FURTHER THOUGHT TO IT something else do it quickly no stop fumbling the card hurry up and pick a question okay that works.]

What's on your bucket-- er wait no

[Beat. That yielded a more interesting question.]

...but you were alive once, right...?

[cadventuretime]

Yeah, once.

I don't remember it much.

[But he knows the game and if she can't keep it off of her, she will not get a chance to ask another question!!]

What's your secret sexual fantasy?

[BECAUSE IF THERE IS ANY QUESTION TO GET HIM OFF HER TAIL...]

[mech_and_mutt]

Pass. [Swing and a block.]

Dunno why the Palai even wrote that one down. Nobody here's even gonna be ten minutes into their first date.

[Not like he'd press the prior point, though. She said it herself, she didn't remember.]

Ask me somethin' else.

[cadventuretime]

Killjoy!

[But that's fair enough. So, instead she'll go down the list and oh that's a good one.]

What's the most embarrassing thing you've ever done?

[mech_and_mutt]

[Oh no. The worst part is he knows this one off the top of his head.]

Remember that 'cat lady back at home' we were talkin' about? She was livin' with us for a while before things got serious, and I walked in on her gettin' out of the shower one time.

Never really lived that one down, either.

[But at least it can be discussed. Heck, compared to the last question he seems flat-out at ease.]

How 'bout you? Same question.

[cadventuretime]

Pffhahaha... that figures right? Is that why its so complicated?

[But at least she seems to be enjoying herself.]

One time I tried to lure out a boar to eat -- ironic I know. Anyways, as a type of lure I decided to bait it with what I had on hand: my hand. It worked, but the boar was bigger than we expected and ran off with it.

Chased that thing for the rest of the evening.

[mech_and_mutt]

You don't know the half of it. I didn't even know she was... uh. 'She'. 'till that happened.

[But he ends up getting in his laughter once she finishes telling the story. Well, that tops his big stupid boar story.]

Hey, can you keep movin' it even after you take it off? Send it scurrying around to get stuff?

[cadventuretime]

[She grimaces, but is still a bit upbeat.]

I probably could now, but that was back in the days when I was just starting out and I learned that I could reattach stuff.

Its not like this sort of thing comes with a manual.



[Let's move on.]

What kind of magic would you want to have if you didn't have the magic you currently have now?

[mech_and_mutt]

One word, Rotty: Lasers. Or-- no, wait. Maybe missiles! Or booster jets...

[But if he let himself go on about that he'd drown out their entire 'date.']

Don't get me wrong, it's kinda nice having to never worry about runnin' out of steam, but if they're gonna take away my mecha they could've at least given me the works to make up for it.

Been makin' good use of yours, I take it?

[cadventuretime]

[She smiles a little genuinely at how animated he is about lasers. She won't even make fun of him for it or anything. Its genuinely pleasant to see.]

They're sort of hard to get used to, but I think I'm starting to figure them out. The worst part? Finding dirt in places you didn't think could get dirt.

Sooo...

Do you drink? And would you drink with me?

[mech_and_mutt]

Y'know, I actually kinda--

[--Kinda have the tail suddenly shoving up into his backside as he's lifted into the air and quickly ferried away. Dangit, right when he was actually starting to relax a little bit, too!]

--uwah! I'll catch up with you later !

[Whose idea was this, anyway...?]