starseedling: (but i'm not amateur gay either)
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.
hippocarnival: (✮ 086 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-09 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Uh, that does sound more like the vampires I've heard in stories. [He cuts a piece of his little quiche and pops it in his mouth, chewing slowly before he speaks around it because he has no table manners.]

Does that mean you can't go out in the day?
bloodyuseless: (when you cross a cat with a tree?)

[personal profile] bloodyuseless 2019-08-10 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
[The cat ears on his hoodie flop about as he shakes his head.]

Nope, I can't. Not without my hood up anyway.

Speaking of-

[Mary reaches across the table to poke at poor Yuya's goggles.]

Do you have anything like these but sunglasses?
hippocarnival: (✮ 012 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-10 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
No, just these. [He pulls them down over his eyes briefly.] But they kind of work like sunglasses.

[He smiles before pushing them back up his head.] They're cool, right?
bloodyuseless: (a kitten in the red cross?)

[personal profile] bloodyuseless 2019-08-15 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! I've never seen anyone but pilots wearing things like that! They make you look super important.
hippocarnival: (✮ 026 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-15 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Eh, important, really? [He laughs.] But I can't even drive, let alone fly!
bloodyuseless: (a cat that gets anything it wants?)

[personal profile] bloodyuseless 2019-08-17 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
Huh? [If those goggles aren't for driving or for flying...] Why do you wear them then?
hippocarnival: (✮ 001 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-17 10:35 pm (UTC)(link)
My mom gave them to me. [A hand me down, though she did use them for riding.] And they made me feel safe.
bloodyuseless: (a kitten in the red cross?)

[personal profile] bloodyuseless 2019-08-21 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Mary's eyes grow big and round as he looks at the goggles in a new light. If his mother had ever given him something... He'd have kept it too.]

I like them. You have to keep them!
hippocarnival: (✮ 178 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-08-21 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuya grins.] Yeah, I'll never get rid of them!

[If he hasn't ditched them since he was six he never will, no matter how embarrassing they get.]