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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. ]
deem: (...)

[personal profile] deem 2017-08-27 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[He's known a machine that took in animals, but this is an entirely different proposition.

Could artificial beings like them really raise a human? Would that be right? He shifts with a given discomfort in his seat, though he can move no further]


Guess I'd never thought about that sort of thing.
sealeted: (in the back of your mind)

[personal profile] sealeted 2017-08-27 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
I've only recently had the chance to think about it too.

[Why not? There's no set laws about parenthood.]
deem: (turn)

[personal profile] deem 2017-08-27 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
You're freer in this organization than before, right?

[That's the impression he got from their first conversation]
sealeted: (will you stop)

[personal profile] sealeted 2017-08-27 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, absolutely.

[Magnitudes more free.]

I'm plenty happy to be here.
deem: (box)

[personal profile] deem 2017-08-27 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
So you're okay with this coven-business?

[It makes him wonder what the place she'd come from was really like, between her tone now and things she'd said to him before]

I haven't been too sure what to think of it.
sealeted: (I'll only want you more)

[personal profile] sealeted 2017-08-27 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
Well, world-hopping exploration was what I'd be doing now anyways.

[And she can now turn into a cute little animal.]

At the very least, I'm optimistic.
deem: (turn)

[personal profile] deem 2017-08-27 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
Really? I guess the concept's pretty familiar then.

[It's like the machines with their ark, isn't it?

Though he doesn't know how that'll turn out for them]
sealeted: (I'll be the earth)

[personal profile] sealeted 2017-08-27 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
It was something I was looking forward, at least.

[So, all things considered, she's not doing too badly for herself.]
deem: (box)

[personal profile] deem 2017-08-27 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
What were you most looking forward to seeing then?

[Seeing other worlds isn't an idea he'd entertained for more than a moment, before all this]
sealeted: (your gentle winding mind)

[personal profile] sealeted 2017-08-27 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, all sorts of things. New foods, new cultures, new stories and histories...

[It's a big universe.]
deem: (lean)

[personal profile] deem 2017-08-27 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Those'd all be pretty interesting.

[A pause to reflect]

I mean, just so long as foods don't always have side-effects.
sealeted: (and I'll be at the front of the line)

[personal profile] sealeted 2017-08-27 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... yeah, that was definitely an unexpected surprise.

[Not the strangest she's ever had to deal with, but...]

So, what are you looking forward to?
deem: (ponder)

[personal profile] deem 2017-08-27 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[What is he looking forward to...?

Despite asking, he hasn't given that much thought]


...I'm not sure. Being here among humans with 2B is already more than I could ask for, so...
Edited 2017-08-27 04:12 (UTC)
sealeted: (Default)

[personal profile] sealeted 2017-08-27 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Well, you're at a new starting point. I think it's fine to start searching for new goals.

[Her chair jerks into motion.]

...oh! That was pretty quick...
deem: (lean)

[personal profile] deem 2017-08-27 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Guess so.

[To both, actually.

There's a pause during which he clearly hesitates before he raises a hand, leaning as best he can to reach over for that hand-slap they couldn't do properly last time]


Good luck.

[This too, applies to more things than one]
sealeted: (trying for years to flee)

[personal profile] sealeted 2017-08-27 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
You too!

[Hand-slap achieved!!]