[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

[alphonse]

[He... didn't consider that at all.]

Um, maybe. Or because people usually go out somewhere nice together.

[The idea of cooking as a valuable skill for impressing girls has never really occurred to him, but her reaction tells him he might be missing something important. A good scientist has to adapt to new information! He leans forward with the sort of interest usually reserved for someone taking notes.]

You think you'd like it better if someone cooked for you?

[goodlistener]

[it doesn't strike her as weird at all, that he's so attentive? this interaction is much more preferable to their last. ... she's also one of the worst possible people to get dating advice from, but what he doesn't know won't hurt him...? probably?]

Oh, yes! It shows that he's able to satisfy my hunger, if we're in a rough spot... [wait, is she speaking from personal experience? also, why is she sort of excited, now? what is this?!]

That's important. I definitely don't need to be taken anywhere nice. For me, anything would do, really.

[alphonse]

[At least it's strictly hypothetical advice. But really, the fact that he can't date until who knows when is just more motivation to be prepared to be good at it when the time comes. Since she doesn't seem annoyed and there aren't exactly a lot of opportunities to discuss this kind of thing... Well, this is happening, apparently.]

So it's more about being practical?

[Why does he sound like a student. Jeanne doesn't deserve this.]

Wouldn't that get boring all the time?

[goodlistener]

[yes, this is happening.]

I suppose so?

[what does... "practical" mean, in this context? she doesn't really understand, but she's also from medieval era france, so perhaps she could be forgiven for thinking his "practical" is her "normal", or even "extravagant".]

But—no, I don't think it would be boring. After all, you never have the same conversation with someone twice, correct? His company would prevent it from being dull.

[alphonse]

[Ah, and there's the fatal flaw in this plan. Jeanne is just Too Good.]

I'm not sure if most girls see it that way.