[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

adrien agreste

[meouch]

[ adrien's entirely hyped for this of course since. speed friending, trying out absolutely everything, and sure he's a little bit shy about meeting new people in a rush he's... also gotten better at this since finally being able to get out of his Basically House Arrest situation.

again. this means he has to try everything and try to meet as many people as he can. since people here are almost always amazing.

so! hello, speed friending partner, meet the thousand-watt smile. ]

Hey. Nice to meet you!

[ or alternatively, when the envelope opening happens and adrien sees that the questions on this are less friend-y and more date-y than he was expecting (he is a taken not taken boy, thank you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯), he's offering his Hopefully Speed Friending and No Speed Dating Partner the following — ]

Er, okay... I might have to go through this blind. This is a friend thing, righ?

[notsolomon]

[He's still not happy about this whole business, but whatever. William's here now, so he might as well make the most of this. Besides this person seems to be nice at least. So might as well try in return.]

They said it was about becoming better acquainted, so I would assume so. I am certainly not treating it as any sort of courtship.

[Some of these questions are so inane, so he doesn't fault Adrien for worrying..]

[meouch]

[ have you ever seen a teenager go from awkward to relieved this quickly, william?? because that's what's happening. ]

Oh, good, neither am I. No offence, I just... didn't sign up for it in general.

[ who's going to be offended by that adrien

who. moving on. ]

So, you're... [ looking at his nametag. ] William?

[notsolomon]

I would be would be more worried if you were not relieved.

[There are some dodgy people in this world after all. Hell, there are in any world.]



Yes. William Twining. It is good to meet you Adrien. Do you have friends who forcibly sign you up for these sorts of things too then? Or am I the only one?

[echoistic]

[Hello, Adrien. Meet the guy you may or may not have chased across rooftops at some point, though he at least doesn't know that.

He also has no idea what the list says (curse Cerealia and its continued trend of assuming literacy???), so he's just completely winging things.]

Sooo... does that mean I'm not allowed to hit on you?

/2

[meouch]

[ things he doesn't expect: for the other person on the other side of this speed not!dating thing to be someone he kind of knows, especially not someone he kind of knows as chat in the i-mistook-him-for-ladybug-and-then-stalked-for-a-bit-until-we-raced way.

that's ridiculous. why is his life like this.

the only proper response to this is, of course, for him to slightly jolt in surprise because that line in combination with oh it's this person. he's slamming his knee on the bottom of the table by accident. ]

Ouch—

[meouch]

—I mean, ouch, no?

[ why does that sound like a question adrien

why ]

[echoistic]

[Slowly, he blinks, before he fake-winces.]

... Wow, does the idea really offend you that much?

[drinkscola]

Ah, hey. Nice to meet you, too.

[ well, this kid seems friendly— maybe marco doesn't have to worry so much about meeting crazy people... then questions are brought into focus, and that also gives him significant pause. it's that dilemma of being a taken not taken boy, yes. so he didn't... make a mistake, and sign up for a "date younger guys" event, did he... ]

[ well ]

I'd hope so. I'm not really interested in dating you, sorry.

[ that seems mutual, anyway ]

[bloodbiter]

[truth be told, she still isn't completely sure how this event is meant to work. her home certainly didn't have speed friending events, but while the concept confuses her somewhat, it seems appealing to her as well. she's not the type that dislikes meeting new people or making friends.

adelina smiles in return, relieved that he seems friendly.]

It's nice to meet you as well. My name is Adelina.