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.
scatmaam: (to kiss with a girl who's as ugly as me)

[personal profile] scatmaam 2019-08-14 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Scathach returned the gesture, having picked hers up from the candle, and drinking the warmed, rich amber, letting out a soft hum. ]

So tell me a bit about yourself, Morgan. Besides your appreciation for fine scotch, of course.
psychotronics: (Default)

[personal profile] psychotronics 2019-08-14 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. [ She lowers her glass, swirling it distractedly for a moment. ] Afraid there isn't a ton to tell. Which makes me pretty bad at this whole 'speed dating' thing, really... I'm a scientist by trade. I like to cook. I also like to experiment with modifying pre-existing technology, tweaking robotics... Stuff like that.
scatmaam: (death valley queen where have you been)

[personal profile] scatmaam 2019-08-14 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, Scathach definitely wasn't much for technology, so she focused on the more relatable of the two. ]

I'm sure science comes a bit in handy in the kitchen. What's your specialty dish?
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[personal profile] psychotronics 2019-08-15 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Morgan shakes her head. ] Haven't really got a specific dish... I'm good with a wok though. Can't go wrong with a good stir fry. What about you? What are you into?

[ She pauses, and takes the opportunity to have another sip of scotch while she waits. ]
scatmaam: (wherever I am you'll always be)

[personal profile] scatmaam 2019-08-15 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Oh the usual... [ A sip. ]

Drinking, fighting, dancing and song. I am nothing if not a warrior through and through, so I suppose my interest must seem so trite and typical.
psychotronics: (When do you follow)

[personal profile] psychotronics 2019-08-18 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
Not at all. Honestly, meeting new people who aren't involved in field of science or in managing a multi billion dollar company is an extremely pleasant change of pace for me.

[ That might sound like a weird backhanded brag if it weren't for how exhausted and vaguely disdainful she sounds when speaking of the people from back home. ]
Edited 2019-08-18 05:17 (UTC)
scatmaam: (from the stars that filled our eyes)

[personal profile] scatmaam 2019-08-21 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ She didn't miss that tone at all, chuckling lightly. ]

I see you've had your fill of geniuses and nobles. I can drink to that. I can only hope I'll prove more exciting than all that.
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[personal profile] psychotronics 2019-08-25 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Morgan grins lightly. ] It's not too difficult to accomplish. Trust me.
scatmaam: (so with a wonder and a wild desire)

[personal profile] scatmaam 2019-08-26 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
It's refreshing, I suppose, to see someone preferring this place to where they came from. For me, I suppose before I even settled I had taken to just thinking of it as another battlefield, as I'm rather used to winding up in those.
psychotronics: (The surest old sun)

[personal profile] psychotronics 2019-09-03 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah? Where is it that you're from originally?

[ Someone else from yet another version of Earth? Or a human from a planet she's never even heard of... ]
scatmaam: (but me I took his crown)

[personal profile] scatmaam 2019-09-05 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
A place known in modern times as Scotland. [ She wasn't going to specifically say the Isle of Skye, but she had no trouble with broader designations. ]