[WORLD ONE] SPEED DATING EXTRAVAGANZA

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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

[drizzle]

[It was strange to be paired with someone so silent. All of her previously paired table companions enjoyed to talk with her, enjoyed to make jokes to help the mood feel less awkward, or were people she had befriended at some point. And yet her new date was quiet, no attempts of anything. It won't be long until her curiosity will get the better of her, raising her downcasted gaze, a sudden saying will catch her attention upon the moment she realizes: there was a cat in front of her.]

...........H-Hah??? What's....this?

[Not just any cat was in front of her. It was a cute, fluffy one too. A very puffy one. It was enough for Nike to use her magic to lightly summon a breeze to watch his fur dance with the wind. Her expression will slowly begin to change from shock to amusement.]

I-I'd never though I'd say this, but....curiosity won't kill you right now????

[Asked all directly to the cat on account of, you know, only having decided to know it's existence due to feeling curious.]

[nockpoint]

[ its gotten to the point that he's getting tired of the "pretend to really be a cat" phase of the day. being a cat is tiresome in a way that his headaches which normally bother him aren't: he's bored. and he can't just nap here, can he? not because it's rude, but because he's actually tried, and a palai pokes him awake every time anyway. no fair.

the wind ruffles his flur and he has to shake the sensation, then gives nike a direct look, definitely not cat-like at all. ]

Don't be ridiculous.

[ holy shit it talks.

(are. are we doing this? have we reached the point of give no fucks?? i guess?) ]