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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.
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-08-17 10:21 am (UTC)(link)
[It is an uncomfortable thought. Konoe is not unhappy with his life here, but the fact that he doesn't think he'll ever be able to go back is still a painful one, even though it long since stopped being something that occupies his every thought. He just misses some people - but that, in itself, remains an oddly shocking realization.

Not something to discuss at a time like this, though. Glancing at the questions, he reads one out loud, a little bit slow and stilted about it: he's gotten a lot more practice with reading in Aefenglom, but he's still not the most practiced, and reading out loud makes him want to pay attention to Doing It Right.]


If you were given 1,000,000 cunes, what would you spend it on?
tinyfood: (enya on full blast..)

[personal profile] tinyfood 2019-08-19 08:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that one's easy! I need so many more supplies for my research than I can afford, I'd definitely spend it all on that.

[ A pause. ]

And maybe on snacks.
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-08-20 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
Research?

[That's not something he's familiar with - in any field. But that just makes him more curious as to what Entrapta does and why.

Wanting snacks, at least, is easy to relate to. His question this time comes out more naturally, his tail lightly swinging behind him in excitement.]


What kind of snacks do you like?
Edited 2019-08-20 07:09 (UTC)
tinyfood: (yt ys syo so easy)

[personal profile] tinyfood 2019-08-22 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, pretty much anything as long as it's tiny. Being real little [ she indicates the size with a finger and thumb ] just makes food better to eat.

[ She pauses a moment, and then, as if this has just occurred to her: ] Oh! I should ask what kind of snacks you like, too, right?
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-08-22 11:43 am (UTC)(link)
If you bite it off, any food becomes tiny, right?

[He's not disagreeing as such, but he's pretty confused-math-lady about that statement. Bigger isn't necessarily better, but neither is tiny, surely?]

... Fruit. I like fruit.
tinyfood: (yt ys syo so easy)

[personal profile] tinyfood 2019-08-22 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Sure, but I don't like to bite into big things, you know? It's just uncomfortable. Oh, fruit is great, though! I like grapes best.
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-08-23 11:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Of course she'd go with grapes.]

Because they're tiny?

[He's mocking her a little, but not maliciously, smiling as his tail swings happily behind him.]
tinyfood: (vyneger contayns so much energy..)

[personal profile] tinyfood 2019-08-23 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ If she notices the teasing, she doesn't seem to mind. ] Well, yeah! And I like the colour. They're just cute, y'know? Food is the best when it's cute.
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-08-24 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess...

[He's never really considered cuteness a factor, but that in itself is a good reason why he can't argue with her, right? A little awkwardly, he tries to explain his point of view... or at least his reasons for it.]

There was never much food, where I'm from.
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[personal profile] tinyfood 2019-08-26 07:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhh, okay. I had my own team of chefs attending to my extremely particular dietary requirements! So I don't know much about what that'd be like.

[ She doesn't sound like she considers this awkward at all? She's very matter-of-fact. ]
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-08-27 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not awkward at all, really. She was clearly luckier than him in the food department; he doesn't begrudge her that.

Doesn't mean he doesn't still have some questions, though.]


A team of chefs? For just you?
tinyfood: (vyneger contayns so much energy..)

[personal profile] tinyfood 2019-08-27 11:42 am (UTC)(link)
Sure! Back home I had robots to take care of everything else, but I could never quite get cooking robots right, so I had some people for that instead.

[ She taps the fingers of two of her hands together. ]

I'm curious though! Is there anything you won't eat? There's tons of things I can't imagine ever eating but I don't know if the fact that I've always gotten to choose -- ahhh, well, mostly anyway -- has affected that limitation!
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-08-28 12:32 pm (UTC)(link)
No, nothing.

[He has things he likes better than others, sure, but there's nothing he won't eat. The food situation in his world was so bad that some cats were literally eating each other; he just never had the luxury of being picky.]

... But medicinal herbs and grasses are hard to swallow.

[Dry and bitter, ick. No matter how sick he was, it was a real chore, trying to get those down. Fortunately even Konoe had had one friend to sit on him and make him do it.]
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[personal profile] tinyfood 2019-08-31 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh, okay! So you'd still eat those, it's just real difficult? That makes sense... I don't know if I could do that.
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-09-01 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
It's not like you eat them for fun...

If you're sick, you want to get better, right?
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[personal profile] tinyfood 2019-09-03 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, sure, but I'd probably try and figure out another way to ingest it, y'know?