[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

[nockpoint]

[ of course youre not a furry, eliza... the term is technically "scalie" or something, right?









ANYWAY, the cat is ignoring eliza, in favor of staring daggers at the palai that just put him in this seat... punctuated by a brief glance in her direction. ]

[dragoness]

[ you shut the fuck up !!!!

...

she's gonna just.

reach forward.

and throw a piece of shrimp at him. ]

[nockpoint]

[ are you attacking him? rude!!!! but its fine, he has lightning fast cat reflexes!!!!! he'll just smack that shit outta the air!




it falls to the table with a pathetic flop, archer still half reared up onto his back legs, one paw up in front of him... what has he done. no.... this is bad.

he'll just... childishly bat the shrimp back at elizabeth. you can be the halloween shrimp class servant, okay. ]

[dragoness]

[ ... huh, that was weird. that was an impressive hit even for a cat. usually they just don't care until they smell it and they know it's food.

she's going to fling another piece of shrimp at him. ]

[nockpoint]

[ the good thing about this power is i know nothing about cats, only further highlighting to those that do know about cats, how much of a cat archer actually isn't.

he sees this one coming, and is prepared — eyes alert, ears forward, he bats it out of the air once again, this time actually knocking it back towards her a little bit... its like a video game fight, or starting out to be like one.

archer, of course, doesn't care about that, he's just not going to let the lizard girl throw shrimp at him. ]

[dragoness]

[ ... and now eliza starts giggling to herself, propping her chin up on a hand ]

You'd make a good archer, little kitty.

[nockpoint]

[ offended, archer sits back down and looks away from eliza, refusing to acknowledge that comment.

well, mostly looks away, gotta make sure she doesn't throw something else at him. ]

[dragoness]

[ THROWS TWO SHRIMP AT HIM ]

[nockpoint]

[ matrix dodges that shit!!!!!

and flips her the cat equivalent of the bird... NO, im kidding.

he does actually dodge her shrimp attack and hop up onto the table, though... skirting the side of the food bowl, he sits between her and the shrimp, to prevent any other attacks.

this is laure's best approximation of the sound he makes: mah. ]

[dragoness]

[ but that seems to placate her, and she sparkles, reaching forward and grabbing the cat ]

I'm gonna call you Archer! You make a better one than the red bull, anyway.

[nockpoint]

[ how does she keep??? doing that??? where are the sparkles from? he "tolerates" this manhandling, in the vaguest sense, that he doesn't try to slip out of her grip, but mostly because he can't. she's just that much stronger than him.

also, god, please no.

(cue an emotionless "mah" again.) ]

[dragoness]

[ he can "mah" all he wants, eliza's gonna keep a hold on him and pet him and love him and squeeze him and scratch behind his ears and wait for the time when she goes to visit someone else.

GUESS WHO'S COMING WITH HER. IT'S THIS CAT. ]

[nockpoint]

[ why... is this happening to him. WHY HAS SHE FOUND A WAY TO LOOPHOLE THE TEN COMMENTS!!!

archer tolerates the (honestly actually enjoyable) scratches and petting but in exchange, simply goes limp in elizabeth's arms, hoping that maybe, she'll drop him and he can escape eventually. ]