player event: spring speed-dating festival

[socialize]

Speed-dating Spring Festival

Believe in your flyness, conquer your shyness.

breaking the ice

Lonely and looking for love? Friends, maybe? Well look no further—the ASUNARO-sponsored Spring Speed-dating Festival has begun. Join us in room 3-A, where participants will then be given an assignment of "even" or "odd" and seated at a numbered table. You only have so long to talk to your partner before the bell rings and it's time to move on, but not to worry, if you find someone you like, the two of you can step out together! At the end of each round, "even" players will stay at their tables, and "odd" will move to the next. This is mostly flavour, but there is one important piece to keep in mind: in the interest of nobody being left out, leaving before the end of the event is only allowed in pairs.

Better hope you find someone you click with!

Icebreakers:

1. Do you have a party trick?
2. Exploring or lazing on the beach?
3. If you could be granted three wishes, what would they be?
4. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
5. If your friends compared you to an animal, which animal would it be?
6. A human hand extends out of the toilet! What do you do?
7. What would be the title of your biography?

Or anything else you can think of!

getting to know each other

So you've found someone you vibe with—congratulations! The next step is getting to know each other a little more. Cementing the bond, y'know? But high school is maybe a little young for marriage, so let's stick to the dates.

For the duration of the festival, classroom 3-E has been transformed into a makeshift movie theatre. Stop in with your date to watch one of these heart-racing movies, guaranteed to bring you and your date closer together! For the more romantic of the bunch, classroom 3-B will be home to dance lessons. Find a partner and get to know a Waltz, Argentine Tango, or request another, and try not to step on each other's feet as you get up-close and personal.

Movie showings: (CW: They're all horror)

April 25: Other Side of the Box
April 26: My Best Friend's Wedding
April 27: The Ballerina
April 28: Don't Look Away
April 29: The Mandela Catalogue Part.1

together forever

At the end of the event, two lucky winners will receive a secret grand prize!

Anyone else who finds someone willing to pair up with them can write both of their names for entry into a raffle for a runner-up prize. Winners of the raffle will be given the choice between riches, quality of life, or valuable information as a thanks for participating and a congratulations on their new life together.

Comments

[decrypter]

...Of course. Thank you, Dynamo.

[another knot in the long cord that twists around her core, pressing in the wrong spaces so that it hurts. she's even made Dynamo worry, with this. how she wishes she had woken earlier, to reassure anyone. how she wishes there was something like Lucifer's magic to wrap around herself and pretend everything was fine. so much, taken for granted.

she has to get well, as soon as she can.]

I'm so sorry to have worried you.

[addendums]

[it's much subtler than they're used to... but they recognize the tone, the body language. Helena is still hurting. with three drones to work with, they can keep one in her hand while the other two move to her shoulders... gently pressing in, like a very strange sort of hug. the drones are warm, vibrating slightly as their internals whir to keep them airborne.

this is how Master Add liked to be comforted. they're unsure if Helena would prefer a different method... but they'll try this one to start with. they don't want Helena to be sad.]

Dynamo is not worried. Helena Adams is safe now.

[decrypter]

[it's a wonderfully sweet gesture, and like this, they'll feel and see how she relaxes, recognizing the hug for what it is. the comfort comes through, and Helena breathes a little easier for it.]

Yes. Thanks to you and all the others...and I know certainly nothing bad will happen here. It's an event made for happiness, after all!

[she pauses then.]

Though if something does occur, I'll be headed your direction straight away.

[addendums]

[hugs will continue until morale improves... which is to say, they continue to hug her until she's fully relaxed again, then retract just enough to hover at her shoulders instead.

noting in her file that Helena likes hugs... anyway]

Dynamo will neutralize all threats to the event! [bebeep!! along with some light crackling, and she'll probably feel the faint tingle of electricity from the drones... yes, they will shock anyone who is mean at speed-dating. the arguing couple in the background is on thin fucking ice.]

[decrypter]

Hopefully you don't have to, though. We're supposed to be celebrating love and enjoying ourselves, not causing trouble...

[but does that stop anyone at a meeting? no. they should just have a fistfight every start of the meeting at this point to get it out of the system.]