[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

[apatheia]

[WORSE..... That doesn't really answer her question, but she'll keep it in mind regardless. Right now, the fact that he's eating with such gusto catches her attention more.]

Do you enjoy eating?

[lalliho]

[that's....an interesting way to phrase that question.]

I guess?

[?????]

If it's good food. These are okay.

[apatheia]

What would make it better? [Look she really doesn't know anything about food okay.]

[lalliho]

[unless it's a mackerel]

...I don't know. I don't really know a lot about food. Meat, I guess?

[apatheia]

[She knows it would kill her!! But also that it's a death worth experiencing....]

Is it because of the lack of variety in the food provided, or do you just prefer other forms of protein?

[lalliho]

[slowly shakes head at her life choices]

...Mrrh.

[He wants to tell her how weird she speaks and that it's annoying, but he kind of...got in trouble for saying that to someone already. At least this weird-talking person was being fairly succinct. Just go back and think about the words a little more, it isn't hard... Okay.]

I guess...the first one? Bread's okay, and it's softer than most of it back home, but it's still bread. Meat tastes different.

[apatheia]

[At the very least, she wouldn't be bothered if he told her the way she speaks is weird?? She'd even feel bad that he's annoyed by it... Although she wouldn't know how to change it either oops.]

I see. I've only ever used meat as material for upgrading weapons, but I didn't think it would be that different in taste from fish. [Totally normal statements to make about meat.] It's strange that there don't seem to be other forms of wildlife here.

[lalliho]

[what]

What?

[THIS IS...DEFINITELY NOT NORMAL. HE'S PRETTY SURE.]

How would you...use meat for that? Do you mean bones?

[Bones would be normal! He's done some weird shit with bones in his time.]

[apatheia]

I don't know how the process for it worked, but when they listed what materials were required, it always said "meat" specifically.

[Maybe the bones would be in there too but SHRUGS they asked for meat and they got meat.]

[lalliho]

[yo what the fuck]

...Okay.

[why not...whatever...]

Are you a witch?

[apatheia]

No. I'm an android.

[Given how advanced her tech is though, she might as well be magic tbh.......]

[lalliho]

[uhhh]

What's an android?

[apatheia]

A robot designed to look human. I was built out of metal and other inorganic materials. [Please don't make her describe herself as a machine.]

[lalliho]

[This...doesn't answer his question fully, since he doesn't exactly understand what she just said. So he's gonna stare...a lot...while he simplifies this in his brain. Something that looks human but was built using metal and other stuff.]

...Are you heavy?

[he was never taught manners, not that it proooobably matters much to 2B]

[apatheia]

[It really doesn't. To her, he's just asking a simple fact!]

For humans, I imagine so. I weigh 148.8kg. [350+lbs of machine-fighting beauty.]

[lalliho]

[He has to stop and think, but after he figures out that he essentially weighs 1/3 of her, he looks impressed. That's heavy!!]

You don't look like you do, I think. [But then, he was a bad judge of these things.] Are you strong? You talked about weapons... Ah. But you can't see.

[NONSENSICAL YORHA BLINDFOLD]

[apatheia]

[Will she ever consider the fact that her blindfold is weird to people?? Stay tuned to find out........]

I can see. [Yet she provides no explanation?? Thanks, 2B.] And I would consider myself to be strong.

[lalliho]

Your eyes are covered? Is it magic?

[His chair is starting to rumble to life, which is unfortunate because Lalli is starting to realize he's fascinated by this woman? She's so weird!! And not annoying! Mysterious...]

[apatheia]

[Likewise, so is hers, but even as it begins to whisk her away, she shouts out her reply.]

It's technology! You can ask me more later if you like! [Except they never even exchanged names??? Alas, off she goes into the next round of dates............]