[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

[talim]

[ there's a small smile on his face the whole way through flynn's ramblings, if only because flynn's fondness and affection are practically contagious. as a matter of fact... ]

Judging by the way you talk about him, it sounds like this might be a lot more fun if you were on a date with Yuri.

[ there's a flicker of amusement in his eyes, but is he teasing? flynn does talk about yuri like he might as well be his entire world. no matter what context that is, he can't help but think it's sweet... surely jude can poke a little fun at him, right? ]

[thatdamnknight]

[that takes flynn off guard just a little. the thought hadn't crossed his mind, really. doing a date like this with yuri... that means tons of teasing, probably getting asked the worst questions off that list (probably about his virginity or there lack of at a loud volume) and wanting to strangle him but not be able to courtesy of chair. that also means pleasant company that won't make him feel awkward and out of place. yeah, it WOULD be fun.

a second passes before he laughs and smiles.]

It would be a lot more fun were Yuri here, I must admit. We'd have no shortage of topics to talk about or we could simply arm wrestle to pass the time.

[the implication went right over his head. whoops.]

[talim]

Arm wrestling?

[ jude can't help but laugh. well, he thinks the little suggestion he was hinting at sailed right over flynn's pretty blonde head, but that's alright. what matters is that he seems a lot more relaxed than he did five minutes ago, and that's all jude wanted. for both their sakes. ]

What, is that a hobby of yours? Do you keep score?

[ jude's clear solution to a potentially forced, awkward date: keep flynn distracted by asking him questions about this yuri of his until the clock decides to shove them both at another victim. ]

[thatdamnknight]

[flynn chuckles at that.]

Not really. [in regards to both questions.] We're just rivals in all sorts of ways in addition to being friends. It's always fun testing my own strength against his to see how much we've both improved.

[yuri always pushes flynn's limits in the best way possible. no one else offers as good a challenge as yuri does. they both know the other's strengths and weaknesses, which makes for an amazing battle whenever they spar. the coliseum fight was honestly the most fun flynn's had in a long time.]

[talim]

I guess I can relate to that. My childhood best friend and I used to have sparring matches all the time. She'd always beat me, though. Her mother is a champion martial artist, so more often than not Leia would have my face in the mud by the time we finished.

[ jude laughs into his hand. they're pleasant memories, really, even if they don't sound it. ]

It sounds like you and Yuri are on more equal terms...

[ also, it sounds like he sees yuri in a slightly different light than jude sees leia, but he's zipping his lips. ]

[thatdamnknight]

[having grown up with yuri, flynn can tell those are fond memories as opposed to painful ones. it's always nice to hear about other people's childhood friends. he'll definitely have to ask more about leia in a little bit.]

Well, he and I would both end up covered in mud whenever we sparred.

[as opposed to just one of them.]

I usually manage to come out on top, but it's always a close battle. He never fails to push me to my limits.

apparently this tag got lost in the depths of my inbox

[talim]

He must be really important to you. I've never seen you light up like the way you do when you're talking about him.

[ but again: zipping his lips. ]

inbox like hiding tags like that

[thatdamnknight]

He is. I don't think anyone matters more to me than he does.

[all his friends matter, of course, but yuri is just at the very top of that list.]

i'm so glad you tagged me back when more than a month has passed

[talim]

[ just before they're both whisked off to the next victim: ]

Then it sounds like the Palai really don't have any reason to have tossed you into the dating pool.

[ and with a teasing smile, he's gone! ]

of course! i backtag into forever when i can~

[thatdamnknight]

[all that leaves is a confused flynn sitting there and wondering why jude said that. of course they had no reason to toss him into the dating pool? and why comment on that now??]