[WORLD ONE] SPEED DATING EXTRAVAGANZA

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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

[doublesharp]

[Man, who can blame him.... The breadsticks look amazing, but given what eating food here has done to everyone before, he's just a little nervous. Just barely.]

Yeah, you're right! It's probably a good way to make friends, right? Since I don't think any of us want to do the whole dating thing....

[Just barely hesitant, he furrows his brow and digs through the bowl.]

Most of them are okay, but I've read a bunch for fun and gotten some weird ones. [As proof, he turns around the first one he opens and reads it aloud.] I don't think "Are you going to eat all that?" is a very good icebreaker.

[enflame]

( Food has burned Emil in the past but it's either eating or focusing on "dating" and that's not the preferable option. )

Well, I wouldn't go that far... ( Making friends based on stupid questions sounds...stupid.

And lo and behold that question is also stupid. ) No. But at the very least it establishes whether not there's an open season on the food.

...Are you going to eat all that?

[doublesharp]

[Just take after Riku and do a whole lot of neither. This isn't such a bad deal if he just focuses on meeting people normally.... and trying not to get sick when the chairs fly him around the room.]

Uh, I wasn't really eating any of it, but.... no? [????] Do you want some? I haven't seen anyone get sick, so it's probably okay!

[enflame]

( That's an open invitation if he's ever heard one. He takes a handful of shrimp and eats them out of the cup of his palm. )

I doubt they'd try to make anyone ill when the air is supposed to be...romantic. At least to the lizards, anyway. ( Magic spazzing out would ruin the mood. ) I've got my magic down pat now, so I'm sure it won't be horrendous, even if this food is somehow tainted.

( AKA hope you have a fire extinguisher on hand. )

[doublesharp]

[This realization clearly hasn't occurred to him, so he's just going to.... try not to laugh at Emil's casual shrimp-eating and take a breadstick for himself. Win-win!]

You think so? Then I'm not holding back either! ....But I'm still not going to eat all of it. [Maybe the question did something good after all?!]

What kind of magic do you have? Mine can heal injuries and stuff, but I don't think food poisoning is part of that....

[enflame]

( Good information, it means he has the option of a breadstick if he wants one. )

Oh -- well that's useful, at least! I can start fires, which is equally useful if I do say so. ( Well, it's useful to him. ) But yours is like being a medic without the years of training and heavy supplies to carry around.

[doublesharp]

Fires?! That's super useful! It's like one of those powers you'd see in a superhero show, you know?! You could probably make up an attack name and pretend to be a hero too!

[Listen, superheroes and sentai series are the best, okay. Don't even think about judging him.]

Before this, I'd never done anything more complicated than putting bandages on cuts and stuff.... Hey, but if there are doctors here, wouldn't it be bad if I accidentally put them out of business or something?

[enflame]

( He could reassure this guy about doctors and how that's not something he should worry about (whether or not he actually SHOULD worry is up for debate), but Emil's a little too hyper-focused on all this lingo he suddenly gurgled up that means absolutely nothing to him. )

Superhero show? What are you talking about? ( The rest of it he kind of gets -- "hero" isn't exclusive to sentai shows, after all -- but it's all wrapped up in a package that feels foreign. )