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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. ]
thatdamnknight: (the best is yet to come)

[personal profile] thatdamnknight 2017-08-27 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
It likely is. I can't harbor any ill-will toward them for this.

[he can't be mad. uncomfortable as hell? yes. but mad? not at all.]

I do hope their future acts of kindness aren't of a similar type.
goodlistener: (8)

[personal profile] goodlistener 2017-08-27 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
[same, honestly]

At a certain point I would have to speak up.
thatdamnknight: (to thine own self be true)

[personal profile] thatdamnknight 2017-08-27 02:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I would, as well. We may be guests in their world, but we can't accept all their customs if they go so fiercely against our own.

[there comes a time when you do have to put your foot down.]
goodlistener: (18)

[personal profile] goodlistener 2017-08-29 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
... Yes, I agree.

[bowing her head and closing her eyes, jeanne nods.]

It's more accurate to say it's my morals that they would be against, but that doesn't change the fact I won't tolerate it. Even this... [the dating, she means.] I have no need for it.
thatdamnknight: (as good luck would have it)

[personal profile] thatdamnknight 2017-08-30 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I have to admit I'm much the same that regard. [he offers her a small smile.] More important matters always took precedence over dating and the like for me. I can't imagine that changing now that I've risen as high as I have as a knight.

[few knight captains have families; commandants even less so. the kids and white-picket fence dream hasn't ever been his thing and likely will never be now. he's fine with that though.]
goodlistener: (22)

[personal profile] goodlistener 2017-09-05 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[it's reassuring for his smile to be the first thing she sees when she glances up again.]

Knights in your world aren't allowed to marry?
thatdamnknight: (words words words)

[personal profile] thatdamnknight 2017-09-05 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
No, they are. It's just that the higher their rank is, the less time they have to devote to family and relationships. At my rank, I doubt I could give another person the love and affection they'd deserve

[it wouldn't be fair to them to go away for potentially months at a time and then barely see them anyway upon returning. few people would be okay with that sort of relationship.]
goodlistener: (8)

[personal profile] goodlistener 2017-09-11 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[it... sounds familiar, though.]

I see. So it's a matter of duty. I can understand that. I'm sure there are those in the world who would say they could subsist on very little love and affection, but your own personal comfort with that is another thing entirely.
thatdamnknight: (to thine own self be true)

[personal profile] thatdamnknight 2017-09-11 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly that. The only one I feel comfortable doing that to is my best friend, but only because I know he honestly doesn't mind extended periods of being apart.

[they can be apart for ages and act as if they never were apart upon meeting up again.]

Finding another person like that and finding out whether or not they'd truly be fine with it in a romantic context is something I don't expect to happen.