★FIRST EVER WITCH & MONSTER SPEED DATING!

[starseedling]

Who: All the people who signed up for Speed Dating!
When: Aguril 10th, 7PM-11PM
Where: The Little Melody music hall, side room.
What: Steven has organized a speed dating event for witches and monsters to meet each other. This log is closed to helpers and people who have signed up on the OOC event post.
Warnings: Good clean fun. Hopefully.


Finally, the day arrives. Steven will have contacted everyone coming by watch in advance, giving them the venue information and confirming their arrival. It turns out that he has arranged for a side room in the Little Melody music hall to be used for this event - he's made a positive enough impression with some of them that he managed to get it without charge, in exchange for doing chores around the hall. It's a somewhat ornate music room with a piano, chairs along the walls, 10 tables set up for dates, and one larger table set up with a potluck 'buffet' or sorts.

The offerings definitely include at least one quiche and one pie, provided by Papyrus, complete with a little note card thanking him and a description of what each food is. Papyrus's pies are actually pretty okay, even if the crust is a little crispy in places. Alongside that is water, a couple types of juice, and four trays of sandwiches: ham with cheese, chicken salad, egg salad, and veggie. Beyond that, Steven will display anything people bring with them, and write up little note cards to go along with the others.

Each table is set up with a lit candle and a sheet with a series of 'Icebreaking Questions', which read as follows:

1) What would you take with you to a desert island?
2) If you had to be someone else for a day, who would you be and why?
3) If you could invite anyone, dead or alive, to dinner, who would it be?
4) If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
5) What would be your ideal holiday destination?
6) What's the most reckless thing you've ever done?
7) What makes you laugh?
8) Do you have a party trick?
9) If you could be granted three wishes, what would they be?
10) What time in history would you have liked to be born in and why?
11) What is the most adventurous thing you have ever done?
12) What would be the title of your biography?
13) What is your favourite restaurant meal?
14) If you were given 1,000,000 cunes what would you spend it on?

Of course, using these questions is optional. Each date will last FIVE MINUTES, during which Steven and Elliot will be playing music to accompany on piano and violin. Towards the end of the five minute period, they will ramp up the tempo a bit to indicate that you are almost done, and then stop to tell people to change tables. During the whole proceeding, Steven will be projecting a sort of ambient illusion over the room, making the roof look like twinkling stars and leaving impossible to touch sparkles in the air.

OOCLY, I have made top levels below for every participating character, indicating who they have been randomly selected to tag. ICly, all witches will presumably have the chance to talk to all monsters, but since it isn't realistic to expect everyone to do 10 threads, we are starting with two tag outs. Beyond that, you can tag out to any additional people that you like. Find you character's name down below, see who you are assigned to tag (and who you have been tagged by!) and start a thread as soon as you are able. I understand that life happens and not all of these threads will happen, but it would be really cool if they could! I recommend keeping tags short and light to ease the load - and also because that seems suited to Speed Dating, anyway.

After the dating session is over, you can also make general mingle threads of people hanging out afterwards. The dating will only take about an hour, and Steven has the venue booked until 11PM.

NOTE: When you have an idea how your threads are going, please fill out the Google Form to submit your character's grades for each date. This is mostly just so you can have the fun of seeing who would formally approve of and reject your character.

Comments

★MONSTERS

[starseedling]

MARY

[starseedling]

Witches to Tag: Toki, Majima

Re: MARY

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya pulls himself up in the chair across from Mary. He's just a little shorter than Mary, with equally red eyes and a pair of goggles in headband position, that are a little too modern compared to the free clothes he's aquired from a week ago. He realized he shouldn't waste an opportunity, but this is so much red.

He offers a hand to Mary, to shake.] Hi, I'm Yuya Sakaki. It's nice to meet you.

[Practiced, polite, it's still a little hazy to him that he signed up to begin with but it sounds like bonds are pretty important, so it wasn't a bad decision.]

[catasstrophy]

It's you...

[Well, what an enthusiastic welcome! There is some honest relief in those brief words, though, even if it may not be obvious: Konoe is no good at socializing, and being tossed into a room full of people he doesn't know and then being expected to talk to them is a little overwhelming. A familiar face is very welcome indeed.]

... Have you thrown yourself into any more fires lately?

[That's not the question on the card, Konoe.]

JULIAN

[starseedling]

Witches to Tag: Henry, Toki

[gorgeously_unrestrained]

[After the first few dates, Fionn has started to get the hang of this. And enjoy it. It's almost like a game. And so, once names are exchanged, he jumps right in.]

You know I was deciding whether I should ask about the most adventurous thing you've ever done or the most reckless thing you've ever done. But honestly wouldn't those be the same thing for most people?

[Reckless and adventurous clearly go hand in hand.]

[catasstrophy]

[There he goes again... This kind of stuff should really be getting easier the more he does it, but Konoe can't seem to get used to it. He doesn't mind meeting new people at all, but this... is a lot of people. He's having fun, but he also really wants to go home, lock himself in his room, and groom until he falls asleep.

But not yet.]

... Hi.

[What a stellar first impression he must be making.]

SHINSOU

[starseedling]

Witches to Tag: Yuya, Henry

[gorgeously_unrestrained]

[Fionn is mostly here because this seemed like fun, so he's not exactly taking it seriously. He sits down across from Shinsou with a bright smile.]

They have such strange customs here, don't they? Still, this one is very entertaining.

[He picks up the list of questions.]

Would you like to go first, or shall I?

RICH

[starseedling]

Witches to Tag: Konoe, Yuya

[psychotronics]

[ Morgan's expression, what she thinks of this whole event, or of any of the participants? It's incredibly difficult to read. Calm, neutral as hell. She pulls up a chair across from Rich, and leans back in it casually. ]

Alright, so who've I got here?

ENTRAPTA

[starseedling]

Witches to Tag: Fionn, Konoe

[psychotronics]

[ Morgan really isn't much for dating, or relationships? You'd never guess it though. She looks cool as a cucumber as she takes her seat across from the next person she's supposed to chat with, appraising Entrapta with a neutral expression. ]

Wow. That is some purple hair you've got there. [ She flips the question sheet over without looking at it. Not having it with these corny icebreakers, sorry Steven. ] So, what's your deal?

[halfheartedmagician]

[Stuck for what to say and starting to regret agreeing to this, Asra stares for a moment at the card on the table before picking a question in the hopes that it might make it easier to strike up a conversation with a total stranger.]

I suppose... "what makes you laugh"?

[The card is a lie, this isn't any easier.]

BENDY

[starseedling]

Witches to Tag: Allura, Fionn

[overworker]

Good evening. My name is Towa-- it's nice to meet you.

[Right. This whole thing is timed. It's strange, but not unpleasantly so. When she got pulled into this she said she was going to do her best and that's exactly what she's going to do.]

Sorry, I'm not used to things like this. If anything, I'd usually be the one setting something like this up, not taking part in it.

I am so sorry for the delay

[halfheartedmagician]

[Despite how he might seem usually, Asra isn't entirely comfortable with meeting new people and, as he's quickly finding out, it's much more difficult when it's a random stranger allocated to him. At least in other circumstances he'd have an easier time finding a topic to start with.

As it is, he tries not to stare and instead ends up looking elsewhere, desperately searching for something to talk about.]

Have you... ever done anything like this before?

[It's only one of the most obvious starters around but at least he tried, he tells himself.]

SCATHACH

[starseedling]

Witches to Tag: Morgan, Allura

[overworker]

Hello! ...Lancer, is it?

[By now she's a little more at ease with the pattern of this event, but still-- no need to skip the pleasantries, timed or not. Still... "Lancer" is quite a name. But then, her name is a little strange by Erebonian standards anyway.]

It's nice to meet you. My name is Towa Hershel.

PAPYRUS

[starseedling]

Witches to Tag: Asra, Morgan

[yokeye]

[The food is disappointing, as is the lack of alcoholic beverages, but the sparkles in the atmosphere almost make up for. However, he's extremely distracted by them. Toki sits down across from Papyrus and smiles.]

Hello~! What a lovely creature there is before me~! So, what kind of monster are you!?

[He's unsure if a skeleton counts as a monster or if this is something else entirely.]

[justbeingknife]

[ Majima settled into his seat, relaxed in his posture. Casual, even. ]

Hi there. Got any good party tricks? I'll show ya mine if you show me yours.

THANCRED

[starseedling]

Witches to Tag: Towa, Asra

[yokeye]

[Toki sits down, with a plate of random things from the buffet table that he probably won't eat.]

Hello~! Tell me, good sir, do you like the sparkles~!?

[Sparkles are important.]

PERIDOT

[starseedling]

Witches to Tag: Majima, Towa