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Spellbind Mods ([personal profile] spellbindmods) wrote in [community profile] spellbinders2017-08-25 07:38 pm

[WORLD ONE] SPEED DATING EXTRAVAGANZA

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. ]
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[personal profile] songbird_slayer 2017-08-28 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Eloquent. Not quite what she was asking, but she wasn't about to linger on prejudice when she'd helped end a war that was drenched in over a thousand years of it.]

Which would make you one of the rare gems, if you were born where I'm from. But this leaves me curious as to what sort of world you're from. ...And I have to know where you got your eye wear.
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[personal profile] splinten 2017-08-29 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[AT LEAST SHE APPRECIATES GOOD SHADES]

It was part of a legacy left behind to me in my world. My Bro left me some weapons, a lifetime supply of orange soda, and these wicked shades. [Best present ever tbh.] The world I'm from is honestly pretty fucking stupid and mostly dead, so there ain't much to talk about there. [Hers may be more interesting. It probably involves fewer Juggalo Presidents.]
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[personal profile] songbird_slayer 2017-08-31 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
Ah. Well, fair enough. I take it coming here has been something of a relief for you?

[Well, the world may be stupid and dead, but the gentleman was intriguing. Who else would pop up to a date, even involuntarily, while wearing something like those? It was glamorous. Reminded her of some of the aristocrats in Ul'dah with the bravado of a Lominsan pirate.]
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[personal profile] splinten 2017-09-03 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
[He's still a little nervous, to tell the truth. He has very little social experience and this is not at all in his repertoire. Talking about his feelings in this way isn't super familiar either. But he can manage it, he thinks. (He hopes.) He's still trying to understand the person he is talking to.

So far, he has mentally only registered 'huge troll' as probably certain. The rest is up in the air.]


It's definitely been a change of pace. Compared to the base, this place has the relative merit of fishing opportunities.
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[personal profile] songbird_slayer 2017-09-06 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
Absolutely!

I'm sorely tempted to find something akin to sweetfish and grill it the old-fashioned way! Touch of butter, touch of spices, maybe rub a little olive oil on the skin to get it crispy...
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[personal profile] splinten 2017-09-07 08:02 am (UTC)(link)
Holy shit, yes. I've never gotten to have sweetfish, wrong biome. [he Wants]
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[personal profile] songbird_slayer 2017-09-10 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Then it's settled. I've got to get my hands on what swims around here so that I may put it to the flame and see what goes.

I can at least hand it to the palai for being as creative as can be with their meal options. I can't imagine any creature simply being fine with the same sort of sustenance day in and day out... I feel a stomach can get bored!
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[personal profile] splinten 2017-09-13 07:07 am (UTC)(link)
On the plus side, there's slightly more variety than just seafood and stale Doritos.
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[personal profile] songbird_slayer 2017-09-18 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Absolutely! ...I don't know what a dorito is, for the record, but it sounds exotic.