[WORLD ONE] SPEED DATING EXTRAVAGANZA

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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]

[Lenka crunches on his own breadstick -- it's a bit weird that it comes from a barrier, but eh, you gotta be resourceful when you're stuck between a chair and a speed dating place. Anyway, the barrier is the more important part: he's wary of touching it with his bare hands, but the Elto hasn't left yet, so they should investigate while they can.

His powers aren't the best for investigating something of this size, though, unless they want to run the risk of getting beaned by refrigerators bouncing off the shield.]

It's an idea. I guess it depends on how they're made. How many, how often?

[The last part is directed at the Elto -- there's a brief considering pause, and then a slightly more detailed answer than they were given before: about the need for an Elto to create the barrier, how long a smaller barrier might last... it seems to be new territory for them.]

[teratias]

Huh. So, new experimental magic, in short.

[That meant testing had to be done and all of that. It wasn't bad information to have, not at all, and now--]

Maybe they'd help deflect the Uvi from you guys, you know.