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

[pecker]

Still, I doubt he'd be an ordinary civilian...

[Unless it is easier than she thought to land a boyfriend as an assassin?? Maybe people actually don't mind killers as much as they say?? Nah. She's going to pick up another card then, they shouldn't spend the entire 'date' talking about family they'll probably never meet.]

If you had six months left to live, what would you do first?

[afailedmurder]

Well, it's still fairly new, so it's hard to say if it'll be profitable... but we've been helping people out. That's something.

[motorcycle_noises]

It's still a pretty big move.... that's worthy of admiration. Good luck.

[lacrimose]

Yeah.

What about you?

[lacrimose]

The people who've been here before... They're hurting and afraid.

[cluelesscavewoman]

It is not? [Head tilt.]

[cluelesscavewoman]

My father would not want me to waste time by being sad. He died showing his loyalty to his master, I proved my loyalty to him by following his final orders.

[clocked_out]

Nice. Minimal commute, even though stairs are basically dangerous as highway driving.

[Acknowledging, but letting him continue]

[purrtagonist]

I share the road with my cat. Every morning is an exercise in not tripping over him and breaking my neck.

[HE KIDS. . . but hey, a moment later, all of the sass melts away for something a little more genuine]

Beyond that, my-- guardian, owns the place. [guardian feels too distant for what Sojiro has become, but, eh. it'll do for now] In exchange for me helping him out, he teaches me his secret recipes.

[wags his fingers when he says "secret" just to make it seem more ~mysterious~]

[cluelesscavewoman]

[Can this world handle this amount of genuine.]

I have only seen her again recently. She had to move away a few years ago. It is nice to see here again.

Do you have a friend like that?

[cluelesscavewoman]

Ether, energy for spells!

[Said like you should know it.]

[cluelesscavewoman]

What is the internet?

Also I do not like big books. Like the one used in my execution.

[cluelesscavewoman]

[Oblivious! ...But it is a legit concern. There are special butchers for the human eating creatures back home.]

That room was hidden. Why are you worried?

[cluelesscavewoman]

I do not understand. There is no higher power than one's own master.

[Read- it doesn't matter if they are higher ranked, she only listens to one person.]

[afailedmurder]

[chuckles]

Still, I wonder if I should be helping out the competition like that.

[fightingoverdose]

Heh, that's the plan! See ya at the finish line, then!

[fightingoverdose]

[aww, too bad]

Yep. I ain't into tricks. ...Plus, who wants to have to keep a bunch of different stories straight anyway? Don't tell me you're secretly Mr. Machinations.

[hopegloats]

Amazing. I wasn't the first Lucky Student at Hope's Peak, of course, but I've never heard of anyone with my particular situation.

1/?

[justpure]

Yes, but...

[... He needs to process all that information for a second.]

[fightingoverdose]

Oho! If you ever want a practice partner, just say the word. ...Though I guess it'd be more MMA than anythin', since I don't know kenpo. How long you been studying?

2/?

[justpure]

[Trying to imagine that...]

[Now imagining a literal bear and five literal bear cubs hooked up to machines like that...]

[And then he also saw...]

[...]

3/3

[justpure]

... That just sounds needlessly cruel.

[Princess Nevermind would not want to hear about that.]

I take it, you never found the true mastermind of Nope's Peak?

[motorcycle_noises]

Not really. I'm more the type to not say anything at all rather than lie.

[assent]

I suppose it would be more difficult to organise as a group, no? [ She pauses. ] Would you like to ask another question or shall I?

[ They probably have time for one more. ]

[assent]

Avenger? [ What a cool name!!! ] I understand. [ She thinks it's this edgelord I'm too Cool for real names kind of thing. ]

Though I suppose it would be for most people. I cannot say I have any idea other than what a text book or television show may tell me.