[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

[probablynoteren]

I... I see.

[He sort of sees, and sort of doesn't, because as far as he knows fun doesn't entail asking about how well you'd work with someone (as strange as the question is). And they're almost out of time, and Jumin is only getting more eccentric and mysterious, so all Lenka offers after that is:]

I guess you do seem to be having fun...?

[It's debatable how he can even tell this. But Jumin is one of the only ones who seems remarkably calm in this situation, maybe he's just old enough to be used to it...? Not the magic parts, obviously.]

[yancat]

[Being eccentric and mysterious is part of the fun. But dating?]

Dating isn't fun. I'm only trying to make it so, for once.

[The chairs begin to wobble — a warning signal.]

Not that it is what they call it. Goodbye, Lenka.

[probablynoteren]

[Ah, so Jumin is used to this sort of thing. And that's about all he's learned, but Lenka's pretty okay with that -- at the very least, he's dodged anything too probing concerning both Julius and his own occupation.

His chair is already on the move by the time he thinks to respond, so the words probably get lost in the wind of him flying off:]

Good luck...

[Does he have luck to spare right now. Who knows.]