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

[slice_of_life]

Ah... you don't have much opportunity to read?

[aria_ardeinae]

I prefer reading letters to books. They're more personal.

[slice_of_life]

W-Well... a book is like a letter from the author to the world... in a way.

[aria_ardeinae]

The more people you intend to write to, the more you need to hold yourself back in both tone and information. I can't imagine that anything intended for the world would still hold meaning.

[slice_of_life]

T-That's not true... if you're writing fiction, you're going to want to try to create your own world to take the readers to... you're free to experiment in style and imagery... That's beyond anything you could accomplish with simple... correspondence.

[aria_ardeinae]

Ah, you mean outright falsehood.

[slice_of_life]

F-Falsehood? It's... fiction. It never purports to be true. It's meant to tell a story...

[aria_ardeinae]

Too many false stories led to the death of my family and destruction of my clan. Experimenting with a power than can bring such ruin is pure folly!

[slice_of_life]

D-Death?!

[aria_ardeinae]

Even infants and elderly were shown no mercy. The mob believed us to be monsters and murderers, and they burned all of Serenes to ash and bone.

[slice_of_life]

...

[aria_ardeinae]

Many of the survivors, taken as trophies, lived only to perish under the weight of their own sorrow.

[slice_of_life]

...

I'm sorry. I don't think this... 'date' is doing either of us any good...

....Can you move on...? Maybe you'll find someone... who doesn't remind you of the worst time of your life...

[aria_ardeinae]

That might be for the best.

[slice_of_life]

...Goodbye.