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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[assent]

Is that not what usually happens to someone when they are taken hostage?

[ Here's a less kinky version :( ]

[assent]

Good day.

[ Though the first conversation had been confusing, this activity seems to be almost obligatory if you actually want to... participate (she doesn't want to, but someone brought up being punished for not doing it and she doesn't want that either) ]

Would you like to start, or shall I?

[lacrimose]

[uuuugh do we really have to do this]

My back, or my shoulders.

[assent]

A lot of these cards are quite strange, are they not?

[ She looks sheepish. ]

Perhaps we could start with "What is your favourite food?" instead.

[ She didn't look at a card for this, just as something to make it easier on them both. ]

[slice_of_life]

I suppose if it was something that gave such a specific length of time, it would have to be some form of cancer... or possibly a parasite...? Or Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease...

[lacrimose]

[well, it beats speed dating, so he slams his elbow on the table with more force than necessary and glares.]

Let's do it.

[lacrimose]

[scowling intensifies!!]

We're still here, so what do you think?

[lacrimose]

[He doesn't smile back, just shakes his head.]

Why would I be nervous? This is dumb.

[assent]

Quite... Hopefully it would not be something like Fatal Familial Insomnia or Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva.

[ Which are both horrifying jfc ]

[lacrimose]

[Commence the scowling contest. Just try to win, tiny cute pink thing.]

[slice_of_life]

Ah... that's where you have continually worsening insomnia until you die? [shivers] Regular insomnia is bad enough...

I'm not... familiar with the latter. Is it... involve something with body-fibers hardening...?

[assent]

I have not experienced insomnia to know, but from what I have read it is awful to experience. The latter... yes, it is where your tissue turns to bone instead when it is healing. Therefore you end up paralysed quite early on.

[slice_of_life]

Frightful... in that case, I wouldn't need much inspiration to write a novel... my condition and its effects would possibly be enough by itself to spawn ideas from the experience.

[...]

Uuuum... I wonder...

[redcarnation]

You're very fond of stalling for time, aren't you~?

[redcarnation]

Well, depends. Did you know that she would when you killed her?

[ This is not exactly a romantic line of questioning, but hey, it's interesting? ]

[redcarnation]

Stronger than you look, huh? ♥

[ But hey, that's a positive surprise! ]

You may ask Isuke something in return.

[redcarnation]

Killing? Oh no, not really. But it's nice to know that about someone else.

[ Not that she minds killing as an activity, it's just more of a necessary evil to her. ]

[redcarnation]

Whoa there, nobody asked you to die!

[ Are you gonna be okay Arianna...?? ]

[redcarnation]

[ A moment of silence ensues as Isuke takes that in. Sounds... surprisingly noble? Huh. ]

Oh, not bad.

[ And that's the grand reaction. ]

Your turn with questions ♥

[redcarnation]

[ She grins in return. ]

Absolutely no objections.

[lacrimose]

[sigh] Did you have to pick the dirtiest question...?

[thickandchunky]

Yeah.

I'm a mercenary commander, so cutting down bandits is regular work. And I was the general of an army not long ago.

[thickandchunky]

Yeah.

I'm a mercenary commander, and was twice the general of an army. No small number of enemies.

[helptilistop]

[ Now, if Astolfo were to play fair, then of course he would lose, no question. But Astolfo is not playing fair.

Instead, he reaches out one finger, and pokes the tip of Akira's nose. ]

Boop!

[helptilistop]

What, we're just gonna move on without hearing your answer? That hardly seems fair.

[ You'd think the title would make it obvious, but guess who still hasn't used the tablet yet. ]