spellbindmods: (Default)
Spellbind Mods ([personal profile] spellbindmods) wrote in [community profile] spellbinders2017-08-25 07:38 pm

[WORLD ONE] SPEED DATING EXTRAVAGANZA

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. ]
goodlistener: (22)

[personal profile] goodlistener 2017-09-05 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[it's reassuring for his smile to be the first thing she sees when she glances up again.]

Knights in your world aren't allowed to marry?
thatdamnknight: (words words words)

[personal profile] thatdamnknight 2017-09-05 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
No, they are. It's just that the higher their rank is, the less time they have to devote to family and relationships. At my rank, I doubt I could give another person the love and affection they'd deserve

[it wouldn't be fair to them to go away for potentially months at a time and then barely see them anyway upon returning. few people would be okay with that sort of relationship.]
goodlistener: (8)

[personal profile] goodlistener 2017-09-11 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[it... sounds familiar, though.]

I see. So it's a matter of duty. I can understand that. I'm sure there are those in the world who would say they could subsist on very little love and affection, but your own personal comfort with that is another thing entirely.
thatdamnknight: (to thine own self be true)

[personal profile] thatdamnknight 2017-09-11 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly that. The only one I feel comfortable doing that to is my best friend, but only because I know he honestly doesn't mind extended periods of being apart.

[they can be apart for ages and act as if they never were apart upon meeting up again.]

Finding another person like that and finding out whether or not they'd truly be fine with it in a romantic context is something I don't expect to happen.