[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

[decipheringeye]

It was a party, right? It's only natural to drink at a party.

[drizzle]

Not alcohol and not at your age! You’re way too young for that!

[What is with kids trying to drink before the age of fifteen?? Can’t they wait another four years to?]

No wonder your new powers startle you. I bet the liquor increased its potency! How far ahead were you able to see during those ten minutes?

[decipheringeye]

[Wait what.]

Wait, what does my age have to do with alcohol? Drinking is really easy, anyone can do it!

[drizzle]

It has everything to do with it! Alcohol isn’t something kids should be drinking. It’s an adult’s only drink for a reason! You are simply not ready for it.

[Actually, now that she’s on the topic of it.]

None of us should be drinking until we get used to our new powers! It clearly affected you! What would have happened if you had more destructive abilities? Like creating fire? You could've gotten hurt!

[decipheringeye]

I think it was the sweets, actually. I had barely started drinking when I fell asleep.

[drizzle]

The sweets?

[She’ll remember back to the events of the party]

Oh! Do you mean the pieces of candy? I remember seeing those! They looked kinda odd. I didn’t have any due to it.

[A lot of odd stuff happened when everyone had a piece.]

Thank goodness that it wasn’t the alcohol’s fault. But, still, maybe you shouldn’t have any. This world has edible items that have odd side effects to them after ingesting them.

[decipheringeye]

I mean... I guess... I'll think about it...?

[She won't.]

sorry for late reply, computer broke :(

[drizzle]

Don't lie to someone when you're planning to do otherwise.

[She invented that response, missy! She knows that response and pout.]

[decipheringeye]

[Damn!]

I mean... has there been any evidence that drinking alcohol here can mess with anyone's powers?

[drizzle]

I haven't seen it per say, but someone did mention it to me. You see...

[Just as she was going to repeat the side effects a certain friend went through after trying a certain drink, her chair will begin to levitate off the ground which will startle her. Her eyes will land on the Palai that points out their ten minutes was up.]

H-Huh!? Are you kidding? Just when I was going to warn her of... [And it clicks.] This is all too convenient timing. You're doing this purposely aren't you!?

[She'll begin to move around on her chair to attempt to disturb the magic, but all it'll do is lift her higher than much else. As she is being escorted away, Nike will yell.]

Isn't this proof enough!? They're trying to keep you from knowing the truth! Be careful out there and just avoid their liquor!

[decipheringeye]

[SAFE. She waves cheerfully as Nike flies off.]

It was nice to meet you in person!