[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]

That's what it sounded like. That they need to keep Qri's... form? [he's not exactly sure how all these terms work and connect, because how do you shot magic, but let's go with it] And it's connected somehow to the universe. Universes. I don't know what she is, except a witch.

[All of this is still way above his pay grade. He's not even getting paid here, except in like, shrimp and embarrassment. He already had his hands full trying to save, like, one corner of one planet, please.]

But I can help look for crystals. Maybe the Palai know something.

[After all, they're the ones charging and running the city -- it's possible they've overlooked some other medium or resource through which Palai magic could be channeled. It's been one whirlwind week after another.]

[songbird_slayer]

I would appreciate it muchly. Here...

[A bell was jingling overhead. They had just a few seconds left before they all had to switch. She passed him a slip of paper.]

This is the name of the restaurant they're letting me stay in. Should you find any leads, please inform me. Also, come try some of my pie...

[probablynoteren]

[Oh. He'd lost track of time -- Madhuri is a good conversationalist even in a situation like this, apparently, and knowledgeable in her own way. He's learned useful things and also things he'd rather not have known, but it probably balances out in the end... Lenka nods and tucks the piece of paper into a pocket after giving it a quick glance.

He doesn't recognize the name of the restaurant, but he'll just have to ask around or try telepathy next time.]

Okay. I'll do, uh, all of that.

[There's not a growing boy out there who'd say no to pie, after all. It's time for musical chairs again.]

[songbird_slayer]

Thank you, dear.

[She smiled and waved, so accustomed to the chairs moving on their own that she may as well just endure this silliness until the palai seemed it over. Away she went, hopefully with the beginnings of a plan involving the Eltos...]