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... thank you...

...I still feel bad though. I really... that was outright wrong of me to say those things... Everyone's entitled to their own tastes... and I wouldn't like it if someone told me what I liked was bad, either, so...

I'm really sorry...

[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.

[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.

[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.

[slice_of_life]

Aha... no wonder you like detective novels.

[truthstranger]

Mm, actually I didn't like them much until recently. I'm not really that fond of that sort of classic detective image. But, I met another detective who was, ah... pretty deeply into it, and reading things and talking over theories with her was pretty fun, so...

[slice_of_life]

O-Oh. Well, that's good to hear... they brought you both together... so to speak.

...Aha, n-not... sorry I'm not implying anything there...

[truthstranger]

N-No, it wasn't like that. She—

[the bullhorn blasts]

...Ah, I guess that's it for now. It was nice talking to you... maybe we can do it more later.

[slice_of_life]

Ah... just when we were starting to get the conversation going too...

I'm sorry. I'd like to talk with you later, Shuichi. Maybe at the library? That's... probably where I'll be.

[slice_of_life]

[pause, then]

--Oh, if you see another girl in the same uniform as me... will you tell them... h-hi? We're all in the same Literature Club.

[truthstranger]

[he's going to assume the upstairs library, and not the one that's burnt and full of porn]

Ah, sure, I can do that. And I'll talk to you later.