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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 10:33 am (UTC)(link)
[After only the briefest moment of hesitation, Konoe reaches out to take Mary's hand, and... he really is cold. There are monsters like that, no doubt, but it still feels weirder to Konoe than the purely aesthetic changes that a lot of people seem to go through.

He lets go again, but an uncomfortable feeling lingers, somehow. He has to say something. He can't not say something.]


... That's all the more reason to look for a fire to heat you up.

[KONOE?!]
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[personal profile] bloodyuseless 2019-08-17 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Konoe lets go, and Mary slides his hand back, scratching underneath his hood as he considers the cat boy's change of heart.]

You think? Like a lizard or a snake?
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-08-18 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Konoe is the one to suggest it, but hearing the comparisons that Mary makes still causes him to shudder. Ick...]

Y-Yes... Like a lizard... or something.
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[personal profile] bloodyuseless 2019-08-21 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I can't lay down in the sun until I feel warmer, so I guess a fire really will have to do.

[Oh, wait-]

But don't worry. I'll do it while you're not around so you don't have to watch.
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-08-21 10:24 am (UTC)(link)
That's not very reassuring.

[That's a lie. It's totally reassuring: just watching a fire would be terrible, nevermind anything else. But that doesn't mean Konoe will admit as much.

He will at least make an effort to (very belatedly) avoid a mess, though.]


Don't jump into it. You can just warm yourself on it.
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[personal profile] bloodyuseless 2019-08-21 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmmm, yeah. [He acquiesces with a reluctant sigh.] I don't actually want to be cooked.
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-08-22 11:39 am (UTC)(link)
Good.

[It's just barely that one syllable, but Konoe means it wholeheartedly. Not wanting to be cooked is a definite improvement for Mary, he thinks!]

... Why are you so cold, anyway?
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[personal profile] bloodyuseless 2019-08-22 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Um...

[Mary ducks his head like he's embarrassed. His answer is half-whispered. Nobody else at the event need hear.]

Well, you know how the vampires in the stories are undead? I'm one of those vampires now.
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[personal profile] catasstrophy 2019-08-23 11:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Actually, Konoe hasn't exactly heard those stories back in his own world, but he's heard at least a little about monsters in general. That doesn't mean he understands the term "undead", however.]

Undead?

[By that reasoning, isn't he undead as well? Because he's not dead.]
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[personal profile] bloodyuseless 2019-09-08 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, this is new. For once, someone is asking Mary what something means! He sits up a little straighter.]

It means you're not alive, but you're not dead either. Like monsters who die and then come back to life.