[closed-ish] Signs of love overshadowed by dreams

[pseudonyms]

Who: Everyone who signed up for speed-dating/speed-friending! (and maybe some people who just wander in?)
When: IC Date: 6/9
Where: A large booth at the CERES Academy cultural festival
What: Rise's holding a special event to help bring people together at the cultural festival! This may be chaotic
Rating/Warning: N/A thus far! Rise with a megaphone might be a warning though...


[The cultural festival at the school has been in full-on planning mode for a few weeks. Rise is no exception to the planning and included in the flyers that have gone up is a notice printed on bright pink paper and bold lettering for a very special event.

The booth itself has been set up with a small cluster of tables to accommodate for the amount of people who have been signed up and even for a few last-minute sign-ups. The tables themselves have been decorated with special candles and a tray containing two bowls, two spoons, and a a tray with all the ingredients needed for an ice cream sundae.

At the front of the booth is a collection of heart-shaped name tags with all of the names of each individual whose signed up, along with a number attached. Rise will smile at each person, handing both the name tag and a small envelope to them with instructions not to open it until she says so.

It’s only when everyone has arrived and is crowded inside the booth that she pulls out a megaphone (and really, who gave her that?) and she turns it on.]

Hello ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Cerealia School Speed-Matching event! Meeting people can be really hard here, but don’t worry, we’re making it easy! You’ll see that the tables all have numbers assigned to them. On my count, open your envelopes and see who you’re starting with. When the bell rings, switch partners! Seems pretty simple, huh?

[Nobody gets to get a say in this apparently, but they may see one Yu Narukami who’s sitting on the table behind Rise just watching everyone casual as can be. Why is he wearing glasses? Who knows.]

Okie dokie! Let’s get this show on the road! On your mark…get set…open!

[Hope you’re ready, colonists. Inside each envelope is a starter number for the first match, and also a list of starter questions for asking people about themselves. Some people have lists corresponding with the speed dating route, while others are for the “friends only” route. But wait…what’s that? Some of those lists are crosswired? Your character would try to mingle with everybody and flirt anyway? Well hey. At least people will be talking and mingling.

Oh, and don’t mind the people who may wander in and out of the event. Rise will try to moderator the event to her best ability but hey, she’s pretty social herself. Some people are bound to slip in and out under her watch. Have fun! And remember, beware of the bell! (Or Rise announcing "SWITCH" in a loud voice via megaphone, same thing.)]

[ooc: Hello everyone, welcome to the speed-friending/dating event! Thank you to everyone who signed up; above you’ll see a list of people and numbers for you to pick from! Pick your number and your friend/date by visiting the number generator to randomly pick a number to match your character with! Feel free to post top-levels inviting others to just tag in or tag around, too, without using the RNG. Any questions, please hit me via PM or on plurk at alternatively]

Comments

[notsolomon]

Hopefully so.

[It is a big deal, but there's only so much that can be achieved by complaining beyond feeling good.]

So what else do you do here, other than what we all suffer through?

[good_ideas]

[She recognizes that steady stare if only because she's seen it so often in other espers who have gone through discrimination their entire lives and who out themselves with the knowledge that someone who accepts them for what they are is the exception and not the norm.]

Oh.

[Her next words are slower, more careful than before:]

I guess that makes it hard to sleep on your side then, huh?

[saudadist]

[ Despite the disarming comment, she doesn't physically relax for a good few seconds. Even then, it's only her jaw loosening and her leaning back slightly in her chair. ]

Not really. [ They actually kinda point upward and back. It's weird. ]

gmail whyyyy

[good_ideas]

Oh. Um. Fine.

[Damn it...she's made him unhappy, hasn't she? That wasn't what she wanted to do at all and it shows in the way she almost reflexively crosses her arms, trying to hide her hands and be as unobtrusive and harmless-looking as a psychometer can.]

Look, I....I just...can I apologize? About...you know. The thing. [She shouldn't be more specific about it, in case his powers were supposed to be a huge secret. She knows that her own powers are, so...]

[adornmental]

I work at a boutique in the shopping district, design clothes and run a fashion blog! Oh, and I help teach swordsmanship at the dojo my comrades run.

[A busy, busy sword...]

What about you?

[adornmental]

Mm, I get that. Sometimes just having the right people around can fix stuff, yeah?

[Just by virtue of making things a little less lonely, anyway, or a little more familiar. He's never been by himself from the very first moment he arrived, and he's realizing now that it's something of a blessing, even if the constant coming and going of his comrades has begun to wear on him.]

I wonder what their plan is for restoring stuff, though. Like... If they're really trying to save every code from every world, there's no way we'd all fit in this little bubble, yeah?

[tiarae]

[If she had told the whole thing, he'd probably only be more endeared to her romance with Mamoru.....]

Of course it does! I mean. It might be rare, perhaps, but they totally exist!

[Enough that they found each other again in their reincarnated lives too. Where they could actually be together, where it wasn't forbidden, sans some perhaps taking issue with their age gap. No warring kingdoms, no sneaking around behind everyone's backs. No attempts to deny their feelings for each other out of duty for their kingdoms. Just Usagi and Mamoru.

Usagi for her part, is merely happy he seems to have enjoyed the story, even if he's in tears as a result.]

What about you, Lee-san? Anyone special for you here or back home?

[notsolomon]

An all around, huh?

[He looked a little slender for a swordsman though.]

I work at the Library. I am also going to do some accounting for a new place opening up. You might have seen it advertised on the network by Angelo.

[feminine_carnivore]

W-W-What?!

[ Her voice cracks, stunned and angry and embarrassed all at once. I mean, sure, she wouldn't mind being compared to Bruce Lee. But she doesn't want to be called "bowlcut" either! And she'd rather be compared to his ass-kicking abilities not his hairstyle!!

So just. Enjoy the redness spreading across her face, and the impending kick to the shin. ]

I-I'm a girl, you know!! I like looking pretty just as much as anyone!! [ She does it. She kicks him. ] AND IT'S SATONAKA!

[good_ideas]

[The corner of her mouth twitches and she looks hurriedly away because while she's good at being defensive, she's still incredibly susceptible to flattery. Even to something as little as someone telling her that she had a nice name. But she rallies fairly well, squaring her shoulders after a moment.]

It's just a name.

I guess so. Why did he sign you up? Didn't think you had enough friends?

[good_ideas]

I was signed up by someone else. And hey-

[She shrugs, a challenge in her eyes as she looks at him.]

-maybe you should have tried online dating instead. Besides, it's not like you're a good catch either, whether as a date or as a friend.

[good_ideas]

....sorry about the staring. Earlier.

[Minamoto would have been so proud of her for actually managing to apologize for once.]

And the cosplay thing.

[echoistic]

[Somehow, Rhys feels like they've completely missed the point of this, but eh.

He feels the movement more than he sees it, a click of his tongue providing him a snapshot in time. Ducking so as to avoid a concussion via chair, he picks up his own and attempts to throw it at Lee in return.]

Using weapons, huh?

[criticalhip]

Probably, yeah.

[Sans gives a shrug, clearly not offended by any part of this interaction between the initial sign up and Shiho hiding what little bit of a smile he managed to pull from her.]

But he means well, so I figured I may as well go through with it. Besides, he's probably right.

What about you? Did someone sign you up?

[playboyknight]

[His ego feels pierced by her words, however he won't let it get to him.]

Says the snide prude. Stop trying to act mature and adult, it doesn't suit you.

[adornmental]

Gotta enjoy as many things as possible while they're here, right?

[A little of this, a little of that - he's happy to sample pretty much anything that turns up his way.]

Mmm, Angelo? I'm not sure. What's the name of the place? What kinda stuff do you guys sell?

[notsolomon]

I think he had settled on calling it Lady Luck by now. It was supposed to be more of a Tavern.

[Really as long as he can be behind the scenes for something like this, he's fine with being attached to something as plebeian as a bar.]

He's still working on getting staff together though.

[adornmental]

[There's a little "oh!" sound, then. Far be it from Kashuu to find something wrong with a tavern.]

Kinda like that place Zoro picked up from Tenka? Nice, nice. I like taverns! They have a nice feel, sometimes.

[Sometimes they're just seedy and weird, though...]

[saudadist]

[ Thankfully, she's wholly intrigued in what kind of special attack a walking, talking skeleton man could have. It sounds like something she just has to see. ]

Go ahead.

[saudadist]

[ She's fully prepared to fire off something snide, but the apology catches her off guard. What's she supposed to say to that? Nobody's ever actually apologized to her for staring or anything like that before. ]

Just...don't do it again.

[freeinghorror]

We have leadership? I thought it was more like dictatorship or of us being more like ants on an ant farm they are studying.

[He never saw anything around them as qualifying for leadership, though the type of interference he had seen looked almost at the same level as the beasts ruling over the wastelands of the Horror's world. As for the people, well, he could take them or leave them. They weren't important.]

At least there is that. Some people are still trying to figure out lamps.

[niceguypose]

[He nods quickly.]

I am sorry that I doubted you, Usagi-san! I will believe in your love until my dying day! And I will always root for you!!

[He wipes some tears as he contemplates her question, some red coloring his cheeks.]

Ah... Currently, I would be considered to be 'single'! I have felt the bittersweet yearning of one's youth in the past, for someone who is very special from my home. But... she is not hear anymore. [A hand hovers over his chest uncertainly.] And... and now I am unsure of my heart's path!

[theshiningone]

OUCH! What the hell!?

[HIS SEXY SHIN!! Hiro lets out a yelp of pain and he cringes at this crazy chick!! He didn't think that he'd take her that seriously! Why did he sit here again!? He felt like he was going to be hopping on one leg when he left here...

Or crawling away. He could see that as a future possibility too.]

Girls don't go around kicking people randomly! Let alone heroes like me! The Great Hero HIRO!

[He says this like he's important! Okay, well... He was a god and Administrator of the world, so that had to earn him some respect!]

[tiarae]

And I'll root for you too! Maybe your special girl will come here too! Or you'll find someone else, there's a lot of people here! There might be one you find you like, right? That's what this whole dating this is supposed to be for!

[Not that Usagi is exactly an expert, but she probably has more idea than some on the matter, at least. But she does want to reassure him, encourage him. Because Lee deserves to be happy too!]

[adornmental]

Well, yeah, that too.

["Leaders" probably isn't the best descriptor of the CEO or any of her employees...]

Lamps can be pretty confusing if you've never seen electricity before, but with so many tech-savvy people around, there's totally no excuse to learn asap!