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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. ]
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[personal profile] pussywhips 2017-09-14 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
Really? Lenka does?

[ It might be a little surprising, but it's probably more of a fun fact. She appreciates it anyway, because she likes learning fun little facts about people. ]

I'm not sure what my name means, actually. All I know is that my mom picked it out because she liked the sound of it.

[ She shrugs... it would probably be cooler if there was more involved reason than that, but. ]
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[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-09-14 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. I don't think I've ever seen a lotus, though.

[Pictures are helpful, but that's as far he's gotten on that particular bucket list item; plants are a bit of a vanishing commodity in the land formerly known as Japan, 2071.

He listens thoughtfully in turn to her explanation of her own name, turns it over in his head. Ann: simple and clean, a little elegant.]

--It fits you. [he doesn't elaborate, digging obligingly in the bowl for more paper, since they're doing this the old-fashioned way:] Biggest pet peeve.

[Yes, that counts as asking a question, apparently.]
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[personal profile] pussywhips 2017-09-17 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ Never seen a lotus?? Isn't that... kind of... well, they're moving on now. ]

Hm...

[ She taps a finger against her chin, looking thoughtful. Well, if she's being honest... her expression twists into a frown. ]

I guess it's when people ask where I'm from, or assume I'm a foreigner and can't speak Japanese or something.
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[personal profile] probablynoteren 2017-09-17 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[And this is where we do acrobatic headcanon twists because everybody in his canon apparently can communicate no matter where they're from, so who knows what language they're really speaking, the ten-part exposition confusion series.

Anyway, he had wondered if maybe her parents at least had come from abroad -- the appearance kind of demands it, especially from the point of view of someone who's never been off the island -- but he knows better than to say so. It's not that big a deal; he's worked with and is willing to work with anyone, here or back home. Speaking of here, though...]

I see. I guess that wouldn't be a problem here.

[They kind of have mythological creatures, people turning into all kinds of things and people stranger-looking than an Uvi around here. It's not a bad thing, just. It sure is a thing.]