[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

[ensorcel]

[ a chuckle. ]

I've been told it is a secret, but since the rules are different here, I suppose there will be no harm in sharing what I know with you.

[ here's to hoping she doesn't disappear in a poof of light or something. valla is as shitty as nohr in its own way. ]

After the loss of his first wife and my oldest brother's mother, my father, the king, fell into depression. He was able to fall in love and marry again, but the then-queen passed as well.

[ her smile grows a little sad. camilla doesn't bother touching on the extra-shitty parts, like the whole murder and betrayal and other sociopathic acts related to the nohrian court. ]

Losing two wives changed him... He's become a despot now, and our country is in a sorry state. Disease, famine, lawlessness...

[ a shake of her head. ]

All us siblings could do was focus on surviving, and protecting our own.

[teratias]

That seems like something hard to keep secret anyway.

[It's a rather blunt observation, but Waver's not going to dance around what to him is just the obvious. But it is also impossible not to notice Camilla's emotional shift, and Waver tries his damnest not to trample over it.]

Still it's...a lot. Wow.

[ensorcel]

It sounds terrible when it's laid out all at once, but I'm very honestly happy with the family I have now. Certainly, things can get better, but I believe wholeheartedly in my big brother.

[ a chuckle. ]

To be honest, for a long while, if I wasn't on the battlefield, then I was either at the fortress Corrin was kept in, or at my family's estate. Socializing among the gentry can be so boring! I'd much rather spend time with my family, or knit, or read a good book.

[teratias]

[Part of Waver does mentally roll his eyes at socializing with other rich people being boring. Of course it is if you're born to it, not if you need it to move up in the world. But at least the knitting thing get said, and that pulls Waver right out of being a jerk land.]

Seriously, you knit?