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Steven Universe ([personal profile] starseedling) wrote in [community profile] middaeg2019-08-08 01:59 pm

★FIRST EVER WITCH & MONSTER SPEED DATING!

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.
firewalled: (Default)

[personal profile] firewalled 2019-08-09 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Duel Monsters?

[Isn't that from an anime he saw once? Maybe he's mixed up though.]

Beaches are fun though! [As much as he hates how crowded they are where he's from.] I guess I like playing the guitar. Playing video games with my friends. I sketch a little too. I'm hoping I can find a guitar around here at least.
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-09 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a card game. [A physically intensive and elaborate one, but he doesn't have any way to show that. This place looks a little... archaic, anyway.]

That's cool! Do you play my yourself? [Or was he in a band, because being in a band is twice as cool.]
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[personal profile] firewalled 2019-08-12 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh! Sounds interesting. Could you play it here? [Rich has a feeling the answer is no, but playing a game sounds like a good way to pass the time.]

Yeah, pretty much. I kinda wished I could start a band, but I don't think any of my friends played instruments.
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-13 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Well, if there was someone else with enough card to play... [There's a hard part. He is fairly confident it doesn't exist here.

That's a shame, though, having a hobby with no one to share it with. Yuya thinks he would find his a lot more isolating if he couldn't share it with the people close to him. Hm.]
But music's the kind of thing you can bring with you, right? Maybe you can start something with some people here, you know, as long as we're stuck.
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[personal profile] firewalled 2019-08-14 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, so you need special cards. Like Magic the Gathering and stuff like that.

[Which Jeremy did try to show him once, but the ruleset was too complicated for Rich to focus on.]

Hey, yeah, maybe! I should see, maybe there's a club set up for that kind of thing. Or I could give lessons, too. That's an idea for some cash. Speaking of, did you get a job here?
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-14 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
No... do I need one? [The housing is free... probably not everything is free, but having to hold down an actual job hasn't exactly occured to him. He didn't have any money traveling dimensions, anyway.

But he also wasn't alone.]
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[personal profile] firewalled 2019-08-15 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Eh, you're young, so you're probably fine. I just wanted one for spending money, really. Plus, I want to move out to a proper house soon enough.

[But he's at the age where he wants independence in any form.]
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-15 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, it's fine... it'll be less fine when he realizes his age doesn't mean he gets a stipend for necessities or anything, but that's a problem for future Yuya.]

Where are you staying right now? Around the... Haven, right?
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[personal profile] firewalled 2019-08-16 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, in the barracks. Makes me feel like I'm in prison or something. It's nice enough when it's temporary, but I hope I can move out soon.

[He should save up money pretty fast if work keeps going well, though.]
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-16 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
Barracks? [Yuya quirks a brow.] Like for military? Can't you ask to move to an apartment or something?

[Sure, it's not the most private living space--it's basically a bedroom with everything else communal to the floor. But that's got to be cozier than, what, stables? Even temporarily.]
firewalled: (Feeling like a hero but I can't fly)

[personal profile] firewalled 2019-08-17 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
I guess I could. I was looking for roommates, though. Kind of wanted to find somewhere with some company. That's part of the reason why it's such a bummer being there.

Are you living with friends right now?
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-17 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuya shakes his head.] No, none of them came with me. But since they said I could stay in one of the apartments for free, I took that. It was kind of dusty, but furnished. So it's not all bad.

[Being alone is awfully quiet, but... he can't admit to his own selfishness when it's better that his friends and family don't also get torn away from home.]
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[personal profile] firewalled 2019-08-17 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, that's not bad! I should have looked into that, I guess. Eh, I'm remodeling my place so it doesn't feel like a prison cell, so I guess I'll hold out.

[Just in case (even though it would suck) any of Rich's friends happen to make it into this strange place. He hopes they won't, but there's still that idea that just maybe, it could happen.]
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-17 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
... Is there anyone here you know? From your home, I mean, like friends. [He wonders how often that happens, if it happens at all. For all he knows, only one person is ever pulled from each place.]
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[personal profile] firewalled 2019-08-18 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Well... not a friend. [Rich grimaces and leans over the table.] If you meet some handsome Japanese dude who calls himself the SQUIP, stay away. It's seriously bad news. I much rather would have had a friend instead.

[Instead of some asshole world-dominating supercomputer that watched him burn.]
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[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-18 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Squip...? [He blinks.] Uh, I'll keep that in mind.

[He wonders what he did, though. Will this warning stop him from having a conversation if they meet? Probably not.]
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[personal profile] firewalled 2019-08-21 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
I hope you do. It's really dangerous. Like... world domination dangerous.

[Is that going to sound crazy? Probably. But the kid is probably close to the age Rich was when he first got a SQUIP.]