[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

[teratias]

[That is NOT easy mode. That is INTENSE PANIC MODE. Waver just looks like he's waiting for the ground to open and swallow him whole at this point. The hell kind of question is that?!

Well, it'd be easy for someone with dating experience. Which Waver lacks entirely.

Sidestep then. Sidestep.]

That's really technical language.

[actus]

They're technical people. [ "people" ] Are you surprised?

[ he shrugs and he can't help but notice the obvious avoidance. true, it's a very evasive question and he hardly cares about the answer on his end. ]

I guess they're trying to pair people up by experience.

[teratias]

A little? You're right though, I don't know why.

[Oh thank God. Waver just sighs, not wanting to admit to lack of experience in front of anyone. Especially not here.]

Wouldn't that be something to ask before throwing people into chairs?

[actus]

Maybe. [ another shrug! ] But that limits the potential matches that could happen.

[ a pure numbers game! ]

Pick one out, if you want. [ he gestures to the bowl, a noncommittal shrug of his shoulders accompanying the statement. ]

[teratias]

[Waver does so, pulling out a question that seems mercifully easier in comparison.]

"Coffee or tea?"

[To show he's really read it, he turns the paper around to show the question.]

Both.

[actus]

[ there is a god after all. ]

...Ah. I prefer coffee. But that's probably because I live above a cafe back home.

[ and he doesn't really know how to make a quality tea. ]

[teratias]

[The god loves the random generator.]

...Yeah, that'd definitely be a good reason. But does that just mean you smell like coffee all the time too?

[actus]

[ rng bless you. ]

Sometimes. I've been told that.

[ by a few people, actually. he doesn't really mind it, though. ]

Usually only happens after I brew it myself, though. [ he reaches for another piece of paper. ]

... Huh. Who could run faster or is stronger between the two of us?

[teratias]

Worse things to smell like.

[Well. Easy answer.]

You. I don't run.

[actus]

[ who doesn't run - ]

Not sure about that. I fell on a treadmill, once.

[ WHY ARE YOU DISCLOSING THAT, AKIRA. ]

Do you fly, instead?

[teratias]

...That's kind of impressive.

[Like. Really.]

Not at all. Is that your ability?

[actus]

[ no kidding. it was just another moment of embarrassment in the life of akira kurusu. ]

No. My hands catch on fire when I tell jokes. [ dead. serious. ]

...What's yours?

[teratias]

Wait. What?!

[actus]

[ ?!?!?

OH A DEMONSTRATION. SURE. he grins and places his hands out in front of him, mindful not to be near the tablecloth or napkins. ]

What do you call a cat that gets everything it wants? [ a beat. he isn't waiting for the punchline- ] Purr-suasive.

[ accordingly, his fingers each catch on fire, tiny little flames rising up. ]

[teratias]

[That is the stupidest way to get a fire power Waver has ever seen. He stares for a minute, then shakes his head.]

How do you extinguish the flames?

[actus]

Usually just blowing.

[ and to demonstrate that, too, he begins swishing his hands back and forth, some digits going out. the more stubborn ones he begins to blow at, the flames dying off like candles. ]

It's not very helpful.

[teratias]

Setting fires is sometimes useful. But the start up is....unique.

[actus]

It must be because of my secret identity: Joker.

[ ... this kid is far too extra and far too monotone. ]

[teratias]

[Waver just squints at that, leaning forward.]

That sounds more like a comic book villain.

[actus]

That's -

[ oops, sorry, his chair is going to zoom away without an explanation on that. now waver thinks he's a lame-ass villain. what a wonderful world. ]

[teratias]

[Truly, the Palai have made the day that much more interesting for all.]