[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

[goodlistener]

[even a suggestion is out of line... but, yeah, don't worry, sorey, she just gets easily startled by this type of stuff.]

It's not that I disagree, but...

[imsorey]

[weirder things have happened to him in his life than a bunch of aliens trying to get him to go on dates with people and he's just decided to roll with it at this point]

Still too much? Guess I can't blame you. They're pretty enthusiastic about all of this. I doubt anyone is going to take it seriously though.

[goodlistener]

[that's not like a bad choice or anything though

you go sorey]

Still, the Palai take it seriously. I suppose just using this time to make new friends isn't really showing disrespect to them, though—

[shaking her head, she sighs.]

All right.

[imsorey]

They're taking it seriously, but we have a different way of getting to know people that we want to spend the rest of our lives with. It's...cultural differences? And nobody can be blamed for that.

[he reaches across the table and offers her his hand.]

We can start with introductions. I'm Sorey. Despite the weird circumstances, it's nice to meet you.

[goodlistener]

[jeanne visibly brightens up a little once she places her hand in his.]

Jeanne. Jeanne d'Arc, but please feel free to call me Jeanne. It's a pleasure to meet you, Sorey.

[imsorey]

[he smiles in return, relieved to see her relaxing a bit]

Jeanne it is. Did you just arrive here recently? I've been seeing a lot of new faces around and I was starting to worry that I was forgetting people.