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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[aria_ardeinae]

[ WELL let's get this over with, perhaps it will not be awful - ]

If you could travel back through time, what single mistake would you correct?

[ That's... A BIT MUCH for him to contemplate, and he flicks it across the room with an icy scowl. ]

Tasteless, what's the next - [ UH ] Which body part seems tastiest?!

[justpure]

[He hates these questions too.]

That sounds like something you would ask yourself in a dire situation.

[aria_ardeinae]

If such a situation arose, I'd surely starve. I've no stomach for flesh as it is.

[justpure]

I see... Would you eat eggs, though? Some vegetarians don't consider that "flesh."

[aria_ardeinae]

It may not be flesh, but it strikes me as cruel to the mother bird.

[thickandchunky]

Not sooner killing some of the people who caused so much war and suffering.

...And. Uh. Ribs are really good.

[aria_ardeinae]

[ If only he could have personally killed some of those people. It's a cruel question. Worth sighing over. Until Ike follows up with the second question. ]

Really? Do you eat the bones?

[thickandchunky]

No, not the bones. Just the meat on them.

[We're talking about cattle and hunted animals, right?]

[aria_ardeinae]

[ LOOK he lives with hawks who just rip out the fleshy bits and is aware that Nahlia crunches down on the odd bone, he doesn't know where beorc stand on the matter. ]

Right, you don't need to keep your fangs sharp.

[dismemberthename]

That's... one hell of a selection they've got there, huh.

[aria_ardeinae]

I don't know what I expected, but it wasn't this.

[dismemberthename]

Same here, honestly. Here, I'll try one.

"What item are you most likely to leave behind at the scene of the crime?"

[aria_ardeinae]

A feather, I imagine -

Hold on, what's the crime?

[fightingoverdose]

...You sure you wanna remind people about wing night?

[aria_ardeinae]

Do you enjoy testing my patience?

[ What patience... ]

[fightingoverdose]

Hell yeah, it's hilarious. But hey, I'm just tryin' to look out for you here. I prefer the dark meat, myself.

[aria_ardeinae]

[ Ugh, thanks? ]

...So you enjoy eating crow?

[ That idiom's pretty much the same in his world. Albeit with some weird connotations in Kilvas ]

[sunbottles]

I like chicken legs!

[aria_ardeinae]

Ah, chickens.

Those are the fat ones that can't live in the wild and scream at the sun?

[sunbottles]

Ehehe, well... that's one way of describing them! Very creative!

[aria_ardeinae]

I'm not overly familiar with their kind. How would you describe them?

[counterfaith]

[ while reyson is reflecting on the weirder question, ruler smiles - mirthless, eyebrows knitting together as he looks down to his tea. ]

. . . Even if I could return to that time, there's nothing I could have done. No, there is nothing that I would change, even though I hold such great regret.

[aria_ardeinae]

Truly nothing?

Ah - hold on, did you say could or would? Will and ability are two different measures, after all.

[counterfaith]

In this case, they are one and the same.

[aria_ardeinae]

It's a terrible weight, to feel so helpless. You have my sympathy.