[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

[actus]

[ his chest is doing all sorts of things. it feels tight, but not in the painful way that it gets after running for awhile. no, this is just a gentle pressure that makes his face simultaneously heat up. ]

I'm ... jealous.

[ he leans his chin down into his hand, trying to play it "cool", because clearly that's what he is. ]

That that person has your attention.

[secrowtary]

Jealous? I thought you weren't looking for anybody.

[ Hibiki straightens his back turning his eyes back to him. He's still flushed, but he's not the only one and that's reassuring enough.

Flushed, but it's not going to stop him from nudging Akira's foot with his own under the table. ]

You have my attention now, though.

[actus]

[ they're stupid. all of this is stupid. they're so dumb. ]

Ah.. you seem to be able to change my mind fairly easily.

[ his face is on fire and he definitely means more than just this "meeting." curiously, he nudges his foot back. ]

It must be your eyes.

[ HOW GAY IS HE? who knows. ]

[secrowtary]

[ 110% gay ]

I wouldn't give up on that person. The way you described them...they're quite a catch.

[ After saying that, Hibiki realizes he's at his limit and just. Hides his face in hands. ]

Forget that I've said that. Please.

[actus]

[ akira is so endlessly amused right now. ]

Treat it as a game and it'll go by faster. This whole, I mean.

[ he reaches out and lets his hand very briefly, just once, brush the back of hibiki's that's hiding his face. ]

We can even practice later if you need to clear your mind.

[ look! he's not being a slacker! ]

[secrowtary]

You're eager to practice this of all things?

[ Hibiki looks at him through his fingers, judging Akira so hard right now. ]

I'm immune to cheesy pick-up lines, anyway.

[ IS HE REALLY ]

[actus]

Ah. I didn't mean that -

[ sorry, hibiki. the magical chairs of destiny are upset. rather, time is up and akira is being whisked away. ]

See you later.

[ whether or not he hears him is another question entirely. ]