yogen | player event: spring speed-dating festival

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[ This is one way to extend a welcome to Rantarou Amami upon his return... Thinking on it, with Helena's words in mind, it might in fact be better than suddenly approaching him in class or elsewhere, whether to mention his fish or offer exam techniques or refreshing vending machine beverage choices, if he has no recollection of anything prior to his death — that could be misconstrued as creepy stalker behavior! That applies to giving his fashion sense even a high uninvited score, too.

The icebreaker questions may be effective after all. Setting the current very much "out there" card down on the table between them, Alice looks up from it to regard Amami curiously instead. ]

No, this is the first I've heard of a snail... In that case, I'm prepared to answer your question!

[ But the hand in the toilet has met with amusement, so perhaps that one shouldn't be discarded entirely... ]

However, if you wish to face the other one, I shall listen.

We'll take turns. Once I'm satisfied with your answer, you can ask me. Sound good?

( it'd better, because amami's gonna go ahead and lean forward on the table now, amusement colouring his expression. his arms are folded over one another, and— wait, give him a minute. this question's a bit of a doozy, he'll need a moment to remember the details... let's see... he thinks it went something like this: )

You and a super intelligent snail both get one million dollars, and you both become immortal. However, you die if the snail touches you. It always knows where you are and slowly crawls toward you. What's your plan?

( this guy seems like a more serious type, which is really the best kind of person to ask a question like this. it's a very serious question, after all! )

Very well. I accept your suggestion!

[ Expectantly, Alice settles in his seat to await the snail scenario. It's not long before his own expression grows contemplative, all serious concentration indeed as he pictures the super intelligent immortal millionaire snail, and of course its slow but apparently inexorable approach. Or can it be stopped? Such an intelligent snail might be open to negotiations! ]

Well... Why is the snail crawling closer and closer? And it's important to know whether we're both in the same location, and what kind of place it is!

[ A room they can't escape until one of them dies...? Does the snail have its eye on the second one million dollars, greedy for money after receiving its share? ]

The setting is somewhere in America, yes?

Not sure. An old classmate of mine might've been able to tell us what was on its mind, but I'm not much of a snail whisperer myself.

( gonta we miss you and your gentlemanly capacity for bug–human communication. besides that, they'd need some kind of translator to tell them why the snail is in pursuit anyway. well, nothing he can really do about that now though. instead, amami shrugs, grin spreading across his face as he does. they're good questions! )

We'll say you start somewhere in America, and you can go anywhere you want from there. Just remember that the snail knows where you are.

[ Hmm... The freedom to move around is unexpected! Alice smiles to hear it, as if he truly needs to plan ahead for the day that he experiences a real snail predicament, and it's reassuring to have options. He'd really thought that it would be an enclosed space, a single locked room... America is a vast country, so this snail has huge distances to cross! ]

If I'm free to go anywhere, I could arrange to meet with your former classmate, and request his or her aid! Besides, I'm much faster than a snail, so its knowledge isn't a true advantage. By the time it begins to approach any location, I'll no longer be there!

[ Unless the snail, being super intelligent, has the means to travel more speedily... That might be another important point to clarify! ]

...The snail wouldn't sneak into an airplane or a car, right?

You want to meet with Gonta?

( there's a bit of surprise on his face for a moment, but it disappears quickly. that's thinking outside of the box, huh? )

Ha, well I guess I don't see why not. He's a good guy—a real gentleman. I'm sure you'd get along well.

( this guy's got the spirit, after all—good vibes and a fun attitude. folding his arms over his chest, amami leans back in his chair with a grin. let's see... where should gonta be? he never really got the chance to ask where the guy was from, so it looks like he's just gonna have to throw a dart and give him somewhere random to start with. )

I guess you can head to northern Japan first then. I can't guarantee that it wouldn't be able to hitch a ride, but that'll still put some pretty good distance between the two of you.

[ Here it comes: the mwahaha... ]

It would be foolish to underestimate the snail, so I won't refuse an expert's input. I will seek out this fellow in northern Japan!!

[ It's all hypothetical, but even so, Gonta the gentlemanly snail whisperer sounds like a worthy ally! What allies does the snail have? What good is its intelligence, if it's held back by its silent, slimy existence?

This event really has its merits — even Alice has to admit that. Right now, at least, it's a surprisingly enjoyable activity, now that haunted toilets are set aside. It's easy to get absorbed in using one's imagination!

And it seems to be what Helena hoped would greet Rantarou Amami, simply allowing him to adjust to his circumstances without being cornered into any black-and-white interrogations. ]

And now? I've arrived at my destination. Can my contact there persuade the snail to agree that we'll always stay far away from each other? It has all of America to itself, and I'll remain in Japan, of course.

( oh — this is great. alice's laugh is met with a bright grin on amami's part, and hey, it's true. gonta's a real expert with years of befriending his little bug buddies as far as amami understands, and his understanding is kind of all he's got to go off of right here, so this is probably a pretty good call on alice's part. the kind of simple, outside the box solution that just might work out for him. ah, but it looks like he might be skipping a step, huh? )

Hard to say. Not sure what they might've offered the snail if he catches you, but it'll probably take more than an agreement to leave each other alone if you want to get him off your case.

( maybe the snail will have its snail wife and snail kids returned to it if it catches alice? who knows? amami surely doesn't, but he's clearly entertained with this route all the same. )

I figure Gonta can probably get along with the snail pretty well, but you'll need to come up with some kind of deal if you want to convince it.

A deal, hmm? It's only fair. I suppose the snail can't return to America empty-handed...

[ If this snail is so determined to pursue him from country to country, braving crowded streets where it could get stepped on or run over, as well as facing constant exposure to the risk of drying out, there must be more to the situation! An irresistible reward that would motivate an immortal millionaire snail to go to such lengths, perhaps... It can't be the money alone, so what would make an even better offer?

Brows drawn together, Alice leans his chin against his palm. ]

I would surrender my million dollars, for one. Being on the run all the time is too stressful!

[ That kind of stress negates any enjoyment found in being rich! And if becoming the richest snail in history isn't enough for his adversary, then... ]

But if the snail isn't chasing me to rob me, or to assassinate me, we... could invest in a lettuce garden together. As one of its owners, the snail would never go hungry!

player event: spring speed-dating festival

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