[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

[lalliho]

[um she's dead, that's pretty malicious by default in his book. it was a good thing the mist was around during their meeting to keep him from trying to kill her on instinct.]

Ew. I'm not cute.

[This girl's not only inappropriate and dead, she's gross...]

If you're asking, you know. [It's not a mystery...! Person + no sex = virgin, very simple equation.]

[cadventuretime]

Mmm, no? I mean sure you're kind of stand-offish, but I would think if you wanted to find somebody you could.

[She shrugs.]

Do you ever cook?

[lalliho]

I don't want to.

[Don't be gross.

Anyway, this other question is much better.]

...No.

[cadventuretime]

[This is going nowhere, and there's so much she can do with a person that was being this standoffish. If it wasn't for the fact that they were doing the speed dating thing she'd probably have left. So, instead, she'll just look down the list to see what could get her anything interesting.

...no...

...good gravy no...

...mmmm....]

Okay, here's one.

What do you like to do when you're not working?

[lalliho]

[Aha, this is a much better question! Lalli will even nudge the breadsticks the slightest bit closer to her while he chews as a reward for not killing him on the inside this time. Though the answer isn't...particularly interesting... He'd odd, but for a lot of people, the entertainment value doesn't go past that.]

Sleep. [Well -- ] Not here. I can't sleep because of Qri, so I don't really like to do anything, I guess.

[cadventuretime]

What, really?

[She'll fold the questions into her arms and leans in, nomming on another bread stick.]

What have you tried?

[Which is really to the question of what you like to do, but on reflection could also be asking about the whole sleeping thing too.]

[lalliho]

[Yeah, he's assuming it's that sleeping thing.]

Everything. Music, tea, medicine, closing my eyes a really long time, running around...

[cadventuretime]

Huh. [That's strange, and a puzzle. So if he's tried everything...]

Does it have something to do with your magic, maybe?

[lalliho]

[Looong sigh through his nose. Because he still needs his mouth for food, which he talks around without any care or maybe even basic understanding that it was disgusting and impolite.]

Qri's "gift" magic. Not my magic.

[cadventuretime]

So the real reason why you can't sleep is because you can't control it.

So her magic is stronger than you.

[That was totally on purpose.]

[lalliho]

[oh

my god???

fuck you, you don't get the breadsticks anymore, these are his.]

Next.

[COME ON ELTOS, DO YOUR WEIRD SHIPPING MAGIC]

[cadventuretime]

[Yup, that was her queue. Still while she's standing up she gives him one final smile and a wink.]

The next time we meet, I expect to see you rested.

I mean.

If you're strong enough.

[lalliho]

[HOLY FUCK

HE'S DUMPING OUT HIS BREADSTICKS SO HE CAN CHUCK THE BASKET AT HER STUPID ROTTING HEAD]

[cadventuretime]

[She's getting dinged on the head and it is WORTH it.]