★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

[wordsinthesoul]

It's been interesting! I've met some people who were, ah. A little more enthusiastic than I expected. [He's a little puzzled over Henry, still, but it's probably not the worst attitude to have.]. Ah, so I suppose- might I ask if there's something you've found yourself particularly fond of, after coming here?

[overworker]

Eheh... I don't know, a little enthusiasm isn't a bad thing. If you're going to do something, give it your all! ...or something like that.

Something I'm fond of... well... I think, compared to the "magic" I'm used to, there's something really incredible about all the ways people use it here. It has a fairytale mysticism to it.

[More than you know. Being able to cast a simple spell because you have a rock inserted in a machine anyway.]

[wordsinthesoul]

There's undoubtedly a virtue in that. It's easier to encourage people that way, as well.

Fairy-tale like? I hadn't thought of it that way, but… the way things are here is a good thing, if you ask me. Might I ask what the magic in your own world is like, then?

[overworker]

For us, magic doesn't come in the form of something people can just... use.

Stones called quartz are developed that allow people to use special abilities and to enhance their natural strengths. By equipping them into a device though, anyone can use those skills. But the number you can use at one time is limited, and it doesn't really come with the flexibility there is here. It's primarily elemental in nature.

[wordsinthesoul]

So the quartz forms a connection between your body and the aetherial? It's curious- there are stones of a similar nature in my own world, but they are generally used to empower armour or weapons. Most people have some potential for magic, though it's generally something you would have to study.

[overworker]

Correct. Using a battle orbment to connect the quartz, anyone can do it. We don't use them in the same way on weapons, but there are some weapons designed to output magical energy-- similar to the way someone would use a wand here. The gun I use is like that.

It's really interesting, how completely different it is.

[wordsinthesoul]

So that's what it's called? It sounds a little more complicated than affixing materia, then.

That is interesting. I've seen more of a focus being part of the weapon- say, with a stave. I can't say I'm too familiar with the application in firearms- but I take it it works more than well enough.

Are there other things you find interesting about this world?

[overworker]

Weapons like this are still fairly new technology for us, it's true. They implemented staves first about... three or four years ago. My gun came about a year after they started testing those. But it certainly doesn't disappoint.

Well, let's see... witches are something that exist back home too, although I've only known that for a short amount of time. I don't think there are as many, and they're far more secretive. One of the underclassmen I knew was a witch, but I never even knew.

And monsters... well, that's very different. There's certainly nothing human about them. But it still makes me think, you know? It's been normal to kill them. They're a huge threat. But... knowing what I do now... I wonder if maybe they don't think the same kind of things about people, and we just can't understand it.

[wordsinthesoul]

[He nods.]. It does sound impressive.

So it's more of an underground thing? Perhaps that has its roots in history.

That's a possibility. Most of the monsters in my own world seem to operate on instinct, but… there are other races much like the Monsters here. There used to be trade with some of them, and a friend's spoken to me of some groups willing to speak to them. Negotiating with them would be an ideal to work towards- though I couldn't say whether it would work with all of them.