[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

[pussywhips]

[ She does know what he means, unfortunately. Maybe not exactly in the way he just described, but... or, at least, in a different context. She doesn't have diamonds or fame, but she does have her looks. Her exoticness, for what that's worth. Her vulnerability, as a teenager and a girl.

Ugh. She finds herself scowling at the glass of water in front of her, and makes a conscious effort to exhale and release some of the tension she's holding in—even now, she still can't help the way her skin crawls when she thinks of him. ]

Yeah, I get what you mean. I would probably feel the exact same way if I was being forced to do something like that too.

[yancat]

[That answer is precisely what he wanted to hear. Someone actually understands what he's going through? That's new. His expression doesn't quite match his swirl of emotions, however small, but in his mind he knows what to do.]

Perhaps we share more in common than I thought.

[He offers his hand.]

I'm Jumin Han. And you are?

[pussywhips]

[ Man, he sure has a way of making this feel more like a business dinner than a crappy date set up with breadsticks and shrimp. She finds herself blinking at his proffered hand before smiling (genuinely!) and taking it for a (decently firm) handshake. ]

I'm Ann Takamaki. Nice to meet you.

[ At least she has some manners, unlike her breadstick eating would lead one to believe. ]

[yancat]

[It's an improvement from three minutes ago—her manners, the atmosphere, this situation. He'll take it.]

Ann. A pleasure.

[A small smile, there.]

How long have you been with the coven?

[pussywhips]

Mm, a couple months now, I think?

[ She looks thoughtful for a second, her head tilting to the side. ]

It's actually gone by pretty fast, now that I think about it. [ For better or for worse... ] What about you?