Trash Squad Day 1 - SPEED DATING

[chinhotta]

Alright, kiddos!! Gather up in the cafeteria for your first event!

[ The cafeteria tables are arranged differently now, long tables pushed to the edges of the room and filled with finger foods and drinks, and the center of the room open except for a bunch of tall, small round tables which are empty except for a stack of cards, but about the right size and height for two people to put drinks on as they stand around.

Vanilla is also standing on one of the tables with a bullhorn. ]

We're starting with a classic! Speed dating! You'll have five minutes each round! When the horn goes off, that's your cue to switch it up and talk to someone else! If you need some conversation starters, try one of the questions on those cards!

...Or don't! You can do whatever you want, I'm not your mom. I'm going with 'uncle' for now!

( The structure here is pretty casual:
- Make a top level
- Tag some people! Optionally, start off with a question from the deck of suggestions!
- Thread! You can ask more questions if you want.
- Try to keep threads around 10 comments from you maximum. This isn’t a hard limit, but assume a bullhorn goes off around there to signal a switch.
- Pace yourself, kids, this runs until Thursday. )

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Comments

[hopegloats]

[ another smile ]

If I understand the game, I think they'll be doing exactly that. But you're right of course, they don't need my help to make their own opinion.

[he draws another card]

"What is something you're passionate about?"

[dismemberthename]

Mm. China's a pretty big one for me. My life changed when I traveled there.

[hopegloats]

Does that mean you have someone in particular back home?

[afailedmurder]

I fondly recall the first time I ever engaged in what the kids today are calling a "fist-bump."

[truthstranger]

They usually do, though that doesn't always mean they won't take an interpretation of them we wouldn't expect.

[plsbully]

"They usually do" ... you've had experience with these creatures?

[counterfaith]

Yet, how morbid. Is there no other question you would like to ask?

[counterfaith]

. . . I suppose it depends on the purpose of it.

[plsbully]

[ his lips curl but in a way that doesn't seem mocking, and he tips his head forward as if giving that point. ]

You would prefer another sort of question, then? How would your friends describe you?

[aria_ardeinae]

That might be for the best.

[truthstranger]

Not the chinchillas specifically, but I was in the killing game that was here before, run by raccoons. And the whole thing seems to be modeled after another game—

[he's cut off by the bullhorn blasting]

Ah, I suppose that's too long a story for now.

[slice_of_life]

...Goodbye.

[futurebullets]

[Hinata shoots her a smile, instantly relieved.] Yeah, that sounds a lot better than answering any of these.

For me... [He tilts his head to the side, trying to think if there's anything he could say that's more interesting... But knows he has to resolve himself to just normal sounding things.] I guess playing games and reading, if it's something interesting to me? And spending time with my friends too. What about you?

[truthstranger]

It's really fine. Those are your feelings about it... it's not like you were telling me I was wrong to like it. People can like things for different reasons. That's part of what makes it so interesting to talk about it.

[truthstranger]

I haven't done a lot of baking myself... maybe we can try a bit of both.

[slice_of_life]

T-That's... that's right... a major part of reading is... discussing it afterward, after all...

...Um.

What is your name? I'm... Yuri.

[plsbully]

-- That's too bad, you have me quite intrigued.

Ah ... I am Avenger.

[truthstranger]

I'm Saihara Shuichi. It's nice to meet you.

[slice_of_life]

I'm pleased to meet you, too.

...

Do you mind if I... check...?

[she glances at her tablet]

Oh... you're a... detective?

[truthstranger]

A-Ah, yes, I am. Though I'm still... just getting started.

[discerp]

[Not pictured: Mikan, internally, staring into the camera like she's on the office.]

Fingerprints, I suppose. I guess it depends on how you k-killed the person too...

[why did she just automatically go with "crime = MURDER" tho]

[slice_of_life]

Aha... no wonder you like detective novels.

[truthstranger]

[ ... ]

I see. Well, I hope you can make some friends here. Actually, I wouldn't mind being friends myself.

[truthstranger]

...That's hard, actually. There are things I care about, but I wouldn't say anything's specifically a passion.

Maybe... helping people.

[discerp]

He's...a little scary... [But it's Mikan so like, everyone's scary, right? That's probably what she means. Probably. Nothing to see here.]

Y-yes! Everyone's been very nice! I had a g-great talk about blood types, and t-talked about crime scenes and kidnapping... [Um.] But, um, what about you, Hinata-san? Have you m-met anyone you might like?