[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

[cadventuretime]

Hmm? Oh, I get it. Maybe if I look at you this way, you'd appreciate it more.

[She straightens out to a normal, neutral tone before hunching over, folds her arm, and gives Jay back the look she's getting right now.]

[This has no officially become the grumpy table.]

[rebells]

Don't make fun of me.

[Ugh. He chews on this breadstick grouchily.]

I suppose you're enjoying yourself with this ridiculousness.

[cadventuretime]

Yup!

You're just not seeing the possibilities. What's wrong? Don't like fun?

[She reaches over for one of Jay's bread sticks. Will he intercept?]

[rebells]

[He rolls his eyes and knocks her hand away.]

Yes, I hate it.

[Deadpan.]

[cadventuretime]

So what is something you like to do when you're not working?

[Reaches again! :3 This is starting to get more fun than the face-making game.]

[rebells]

I'm not participating in this farce of an activity.

[He lifts the basket up and out of her reach, more because he can than out of any real urge to keep her from the breadsticks.]

[cadventuretime]

[Disappoint.]

So, do something else?

[rebells]

I don't turn tricks, either.

[Though if he's going to be stuck here, he might as well get useful conversation out of it.]

I suppose asking you to have an intelligent thought is too much, but what did you think of the Uvi?

[cadventuretime]

[Good job, Jay! That's how a conversation starts! Is what Rotty thinks, because by this point she was getting about ready to use a breadstick to hit him.]

The Uvi? Hmm... What's to think?

They're pretty mean what with the whole invading thing. You'd think somebody would have asked them to share.

Or maybe they find the whole sacking and pillaging thing fun?

[She could kind of see the appeal, but it actually reminded her of a certain pirate that she wasn't too fond of...]

[rebells]

[Excuse!!!]

"They're pretty mean." How insightful of you.

[He actually uses the air quotes.]

Anyway, I've no doubt the Palai have tried talking to them. They don't seem capable of communication in the same way we are.

[cadventuretime]

[She'd snark him for the air quotes, but that was actually pretty funny.]

Well, if you're an Uvi I don't think you'd think it was mean. But that's just looking at things from their perspective.

But you know, they're pretty strong too. Makes you wonder why they don't just attack the Palai whenever they want. Its kind of weird that they give the warning at all.

But what do you think? Or are they ridiculous too?

[rebells]

[He ignores that jab.]

I think something necessitates that they attack on a thirty-day schedule. Possibly tied to whatever they want the Eltos for.

[cadventuretime]

So, what, they don't have something that the Palai need? But I thought all they were interested were food and junk.

At least that's what I had heard. Was there something else?

[rebells]

I don't actually know. But the fact that they kidnap the Eltos more often is suggestive.

[cadventuretime]

Hey, yeah. And aren't those the Palai that can make electricity?

Wouldn't it be funny if the reason why they do that is because they are having an energy shortage?

[rebells]

I wouldn't call it funny, no--

[But as he says that, his chair is being carried away by the Eltos' magic; she'll have to find him later if she wants to continue this conversation.]