[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 guess we all got baited.

[Lenka's voice is a little wry, where he was waiting patiently for his partner of the hour to finish his indignant and fruitless struggles and slowly munching on a breadstick with shrimp crammed into the middle of it. At some point, he's ended up with a full set of cutlery at the table, and resigned himself to the fate of their only two sources of sustenance.

Speaking of tables, most of the coven seems to be here, so the food bait is clearly working -- it's actually a little embarrassing on top of the speed date variety of embarrassing that all it takes is some shrimp and breadsticks to gather them like this.]

It is lame, but... I think we just have to sit here.

[As far as he can tell, it's not like they're magically compelled to do anything else but be stuck to a chair. Lenka passes some cutlery and food across the table like he's done this at least a handful of times already... what is his life coming to.]

[shadowsthedawn]

[He notices as well exactly how many of the coven members have been lured in and...yeah, it's a bit pathetic. What if this had been an actual trap that meant them harm? Not that he believes the Palai mean then any harm. But...that's how people get lured in isn't it?

Finally, he stops shifting around, reluctantly giving into his fate. As Lenka passes over the silverware and food his stomach decides to pick that moment to growl. Loudly. He quickly snatches a bread stick up and bites off a piece.]

Any idea how long we'll have to sit here before one of us is dragged to another table?