[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

[deem]

What do you read? [Don't mind 9S as he leans over a little. He's short enough that he can't really bridge the gap between them by any means] And what kinds of plans?

[It's interesting enough to a Scanner, Julius]

[bulletbiter]

I read about how the world was like in the past. There was a lot of it stored in the Archives for us to peruse.

[ Well, he would when he had the time. Time is a precious commodity. ]

There were some flowers and shrubs where I worked. I would water them whenever I could.

[deem]

[It seems like they've got something in common, then... Though 9S liked studying machine battle formations and combat tactics even more than gathering data on the old world. A hobby, as it were]

If you like flowers, then...

[He shrugs his pack off and rifles through it before finding what he was looking for, holding out his closed hand, palm down]

I'll give you some seeds.

[bulletbiter]

[ He'll extend his hand after a moment of clear hesitation: ]

Truly?

[ If it's a gift, he'll have to put much effort into it. ]

[deem]

[9S deposits a handful of seeds in Julius' waiting hand]

These meant a lot to a friend of mine.

[Lunar tears...]

[bulletbiter]

[ Julius slowly closes his fingers over the seeds, almost successful in concealing a drawn-out breath. ]

I will raise them with the utmost care.

[ Such as grafting them into himself. ]

[deem]

[Julius that's not how planting flowers should go...

But oblivious to this, 9S simply nods and draws his hand back]

I think you'll like them when they bloom.

[bulletbiter]

I definitely will.

[ And just in time, it seems - the chairs that they're in suddenly lift up into the air, and he barely has time to wave to 9S before they zoom off on their merry way. ]