[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

[deem]

People get set in their ways, huh?

[9S could understand that frustration, to a point.

He's been a stubborn holdout until confronted with so much evidence he could no longer deny the reality he was presented with, but still... People harming their own seems wrong. Until recent events, he was always hesitant when confronted with those who should be on the same side as him, and then he had made one exception]

[teratias]

Mmmhmm! And if you try to make suggestions or anything they just yell at you to shut up and refuse to concede any kind of point! They're so...so....stupid!

[Waver's suddenly much more animated, gesturing widely, looking like he might spring out of the chair if he could.]

Ugh.

[deem]

You know, it was like that sometimes at the Bunker... Except it was more like anytime I tried to make improvements to a Flight Unit, they'd act like I'd caused some irreparable damage when I'd really made it more efficient.

[This is apples and oranges, but at least he can understand people being doggedly determined not to change even when it's a step in the right direction]

[teratias]

That's exactly it! No one ever listens when all you're doing is helping.

[As far as Waver's concerned, this is apples and apples.]

At least stupidity is universal.

[deem]

Maybe it's the whole admitting somebody else might be right thing.

[People seem averse to that in any world]

[teratias]

Maybe. Probably. [Waver shakes his head, feeling miserable about the whole thing.]

Jeez. This entire set up makes for some weird discussions.

[deem]

All things considered, none of this is really normal anyway...

[The circumstances that bring them to this world of lizard-people who think they're helping by confining them to flying chairs and all. Where's the part that isn't weird?]

[teratias]

That's....that's also pretty true.

[Oddly though, this conversation is the best one Waver's had. The understanding wasn't just learning about androids but...having his concerns and frustrations be heard and actually listening in turn to a similar situation? That was something special.]

You think we'll be freed any time soon?

[deem]

[9S casts a glance around. Chairs are still whizzing between tables, and Palai are bustling between them. He sighs heavily]

Doesn't look like it. [A pause, as he considers] But from what I've observed, they'll probably shuffle us along any time now.

[He sounds just as thrilled about that as he absolutely isn't...]

[teratias]

Of course they willDAMNIT!

[Well, it was probably overdue. Waver's chair rises up, and begins to whisk him away.]