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Hey out there, Luceti. Are we all more or less ourselves again? Pretty sure we are, uh... here's hoping.

Considering how crazy things have been lately, Teddy and I were talking, and we think it'd be a good time to run this. We all need a break. So courtesy of the LGBTQQA Club - um, I'm tentatively calling it "Alliance", for the sake of minimizing all the abbreviations, better name possibly pending - I'm happy to introduce: Luceti's first-ever (I think) Speed Dating.

If you don't know what speed dating is, it's pretty much exactly how it sounds. The idea is we'd all get together, pair up, you'd talk to someone you might not have talked to before for about ten minutes, and then afterwards decide how you liked it and if you want to see them again. First impressions count for a lot, and sometimes that's all it takes to find your true love or your new best friend.

We're going to run it next weekend - Saturday afternoon, we figure is a good time - and sign-ups are starting now so we'll have time to pair everyone up. Anyone can participate, not just club members or people in the LGBT spectrum, and you're not obligated to do anything if you don't like it. So why not give it a shot? ...And we'll have cookies. Teddy's making them and the recipe looks amazing. Anyone else want to bring some food and stuff? We can have a table for contributions...

Um, anyway. I'll be over by the plaza today, and on the journal network, too, if you've got any questions or if you want to sign up.

[The above message is also written out (albeit less informally). And there's a table with posters and some forms in the plaza, near the school, all day. Billy's just hanging out and drawing the passerbys while he waits, if anyone wants to chat him up about it in person.]

((ooc sign-ups here!))

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Not always! It's just one fun option out of many. Dating isn't a concept that has rules attached to it or anything.

I guess you're right. It just seems a bit...not impersonal, but -- automated? To me. But maybe it just sounds that way.

Well, besides who you meet and how long you talk the first time, speed dating isn't limited on what you get to do or talk about. It's really just a way to get people to meet and start talking.

...You have a point. With how much the population changes in the village, it would be pretty easy to miss someone you'd want to meet. I guess it wouldn't be exactly the same situation in most places that would need speed dating, but maybe it's a little similar in a bigger town. I mean, back home, I hear that some of the cities on the mainland have thousands of people.

[It sounded like some of them were even in the tens of thousands, which stretched her imagination a little even when trying to compare it to the army camp formed at the Battle of the Bridge Plain. She thought she might have heard of ones with hundreds of thousands of people, but that just seemed ridiculous.]

[Thousands... wow, that's kind of adorably tiny.]

My hometown back on my world had more than 8 million. With that big of a population, techniques like speed dating really help in getting to know a lot of people in a short amount of time.

Luceti's nowhere near as big, but you're right- the way people rotate in and out really does make a difference.

[WAIT A SECOND.]

Eight million? In one town?

[Her mind sounds entirely blown.]

Yeah. Granted, it's a big town, and it has a lot of different territories and subdivisions that have their own names, but- yeah.

[Territories? She'd be imagining a country-sized city, but her knowledge of countries is pretty limited, too.]

How can a town with that many people even work? The amount of food you'd need to feed that many people -- how big is this town?

Um- well there's lots of farming and shops for food. And we get food brought in from areas of the country more suited for growing it. That's just one small part of my world, and there's people living all over the rest of it. Importing and exporting is a big thing where I come from.

That must take a lot of farms. [She shakes her head.] I can't even begin to imagine living in a place that big. But that kind of dating definitely makes sense in a place like that.

Yeah, probably why it's such a popular concept. I mean, oldschool dating still happens, but like I said, this is an easy way to meet a lot of people really quickly.

So, I guess that, uh, "oldschool" dating would come after meeting people at the speed dating? [~~Otherwise what's the point on the romantic end of things~~]

That's the idea, yeah! If you like your partners for those couple of minutes, you might look them up afterwards and go on a real date.

That's not a lot of time to make a decision. But I guess that's the point if you have so many people to go through.

Yeah, I get the feeling some people are going to have a lot of names on their list. Plus, it wouldn't be called speed dating if you took your time with it.

[She laughs briefly.] You have a point.

Well, you can put me down for it. It sounds like it would be an interesting experience. [And maybe she can get some romance out of it. It's been a long time, gosh darn it!] ...Or, uh, I guess I can put me down for it. Do I just give you my name, or...?

Oh, there's a sign-up form, but I can take the info over the journal if you'd rather not come by yourself. Here-

[And he'll jot down the details, woo.]

[Well, that's certainly more convenient. She'll relay the information (though probably try to pass off her seeking romance as "well, that's the point of this thing, right?" rather than an actual interest). And then when they come to the end of the form,]

So that's all you need?

Yep, that's it! Welcome to Speed Dating, Fenimore.

[...Randomly that is kind of an awesome name.]

[Of course it is an awesome name it means an awesome person. Except she's not psychic, so instead:]

Thanks. I'll be looking forward to it.

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