[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

[rebells]

It's the principle of the thing!

[hff, don't laugh at him!! But also Geir is being all Logical and reminding him that he would probably find this amusing if it wasn't all under the auspices of Romance.]

. . . I can cook. But I don't usually.

[rootandbranch]

Why not?

I almost never had cooked food till Vern started feeding me all the time...

[rebells]

Other people cooked.

[Other otters, namely. But he really doesn't want to talk about the Oresoren, so--]

When did the two of you meet?

[rootandbranch]

...it's only been a couple of months, really. Since he summoned me.

[that's almost surprising; it feels like it's been longer, as an event and aftermath that's loomed so large in Geir's existence. as the Geir who rejected the name Jormungand, he supposes that he's known Vern most of his "life."]

I've stayed with him since then.

[rebells]

By choice?

[rootandbranch]

Y-yeah, of course! Sort of-- well-- maybe not at first, but I wasn't thinking about it then--

[FLUSTERED]

Why do you ask?!

[rebells]

[That makes him quirk a smile, as he turns over the situation in his head.]

Simple curiosity.

[rootandbranch]

No one's ever asked me that before. What would you have done if I'd said "no?"

[rebells]

Asked more questions, for a start.

[The honest answer, if not a terribly complete one.]

[rootandbranch]

So you're interested in that kind of thing.

[Geir turns that over in his head, eyes narrowing with some thought; it's absolutely impossible to tell from his face exactly where he's going with that]

[rebells]

I'm interested in people. And I'd need to know more about the situation in order to make a decision.

[rootandbranch]

I'm interested in people too.

[Geir grins, and a Palai gets his attention with one more question...]

--oh, right! Do you like Aimintas?

[rebells]

I liked it better before this happened. What did--

[But the chairs are whisking him away before he can finish that thought, Jay rolling his eyes in their wake.]