It's For Your Own Good

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Blind Date Meme



Let's face it, sometimes it's difficult finding someone to share your time, and your heart (or maybe just your body), with. Luckily for you, you have well meaning friends. Unfortunately for you, you have well meaning friends who didn't tell you this was coming. That's right. They have taken it upon themselves (and no doubt friends of friends or family members or someone else who clearly doesn't know you) to arrange a date. Without telling you.

That's right. The dreaded blind date. Which means now you've got to get through at least a reasonable amount of time with a total stranger (or maybe not a stranger if you're particularly, well, we can't say if it's lucky or not) before you can reasonably escape. Maybe it will go well. Maybe this will be the start of the rest of your lives. Maybe you'll get laid. Maybe you'll have a horror story for the ages.

No matter what plays out, though, you're here. Might as well see just how your luck is going to play out.

How to Play

1. Post your character and canon below along with any preferences. Then go back and edit your comment with the next number in order (i.e. first TL is 1, second is 2, etc)

2. Tag other TLs. If a character isn't in normal preferences, ask if they might want a date that goes poorly instead!

3. Optionally, get yourself a truly blind experience by going here and randomly generating a number. Then find the matching TL (numbered back in step one) and enjoy your blind date.

4. For more fun, use the list in the first comment for randomized date locations!

Comments

[ask_whydunit]

It’s one of the largest collections of books on magecraft. Although the Atlas Institute is said to be even larger.

[ But no one got in there without an invitation, and those weren’t easy to come by. He smiled, though, leading Nida up a flight of stairs and further down a row of tall shelves with the odd ladder here and there to reach the tops. The further they went, the dustier the old books looked and the fewer students were roaming. Which meant, when they came to a series of study desks, they didn’t have to worry too much about people approaching without it being obvious, given how deserted the area was. ]

We’ll make this our base. People don’t tend to come this far into the library without a good reason.

[seed_pilot]

[It really is a large place. Nida was mostly glad that he wouldn't be lost heading out. He knew what he was doing, how to track locations. Unless magic was at play.]

And what if they end up having a good reason?

[ask_whydunit]

Then they’re probably only focused on grabbing what they need and going.

[ And two teenagers sitting around a table would be easily written off as students studying. As long as said people visiting the section didn’t know him, he supposed, but that was unlikely as far as he knew. ]

[seed_pilot]

Really? That seems like a waste.

[This whole place is so cool, really.]

Alright, I guess sit down and let's talk about what you've thought of.

[ask_whydunit]

If they need stuff from this part of the library, they’re probably pretty focused on their studies is all.

[ He responded with a shrug, and it suited them just fine because it meant they would be left alone. ]

Right! So there aren’t a lot of materials available for para-magic and GFs and how it meshes with traditional magecraft, given it’s newer. But I was thinking it might be possible that some methods of magecraft, specifically different kinds of summonings, might be adaptable and help refine your process for working with one.

[ Waver responded, tilting his head thoughtfully as he started writing down a list of books they’d need to retrieve around the library itself. ]

(ooc: Considering I do not know much about Nida’s canon/how things work, I think we can hand wave technical/detailed explanations here lol. )

handwaving is the most reasonable choice for us both

[seed_pilot]

Summoning faster or more efficiently would be a great help. The damage they take when they are being called forth is a strain on them and us both, so more control would be great.

[He waits for the list to be written and then is happy to start fetching books.]

Is summoning common in your magical forms?

Excellent my brain appreciates that

[ask_whydunit]

[ Waver makes note of that himself, both the need to do so faster and more efficiently. Especially if it was a strain on both the summon and the summoner. Which… wasn’t surprising, there were costs to calling forth any kind of spirit. Frowning lightly, he started making the list and mumbling to himself. He’d give Nida a list of books to grab, and a second list for him to go and grab given he knew where those would be, which would save time.

The question startled him out of his quiet planning, and he nodded. ]

There are a few different methods of summons, some with spirits either the dead or elementals and others are more like projections of their inner self. There’s actually someone in my class researching the second.

[ Except Amleth was kind of an ass, so Waver largely avoided him. ]

[seed_pilot]

I think... I think that GFs are in one way elementals, but in another way reflections of ourselves. Is it possible for one to be both at the same time?

[They definitely had elemental natures, but with how heavily they took from their summoner... Well, it seemed a reasonable way to go.]

[ask_whydunit]

I guess based on how they work that would make sense, we might have pull from a few different kinds of magecraft to find something that works.

[ He jots down the titles of a few books and papers he thinks might help, on elemental summons as well as projection magecraft… It might take some out of the box thinking, but that was something of a specialty on his part given his other pursuits when it came to his studies. ]

You take this list of books, and I’ve got one myself, once we have everything we can meet back here.

[seed_pilot]

[Nida's happy to take the new strip of paper. He's having a hard time with the books themselves, so it's easier just to collect them and hope Waver can distill something for him.]

Alright. Ready to get these. Should I come seeking you out if it takes a while?

[ask_whydunit]

[ The question gets an absentminded tilt of his head as he took his own list to get ready for a search, before nodding in agreement. ]

Yeah, that’s probably a good idea. [ Otherwise he might worry something happened, or that the plan was in danger. ] And don’t worry if you can’t find some of them. I can help with those if it comes to it.

[seed_pilot]

Well see, when you go and be reasonable like that I feel like it's my honorable requirement to ensure that I find them.

[ask_whydunit]

Huh? I mean, uh… [ An awkward little tilt of his head. Most people don’t consider him particularly reasonable, so that’s a new one. Not that he’s incapable of it, it’s just sometimes he digs his heels in on things. ] Just seems better than to leave you wandering around for ages just to find something when you aren’t familiar with the place.

[ Was rude, right? Waver likes wandering and getting lost here, but it’s not for everyone. ]

[seed_pilot]

That's a really good point.

[Nida smiles at him.]

Race for books? If I get half as many as you in the same period of time, I win?

[ask_whydunit]

[ Waver raised a brow at that, ]

You want to make it a contest? [ Well, at least it’s not the kind he could end up in trouble over given his lacking ability… So sure, he decides, why not? ] What do you get if you win?

[seed_pilot]

[Nida smiles, widely. Yeah, that's just how it goes.]

Maybe... holding hands for a moment?

[ask_whydunit]

Huh? [ For a moment, it looks like he’s doing complicated math in his head. Because yeah, he didn’t expect that. There might even be a brief moment where he wondered why Nida would want to hold his hand, but also… maybe it would be cool to just hold his hand… ]

O-oh, yeah. If you, um… think that would be worth winning for.

[seed_pilot]

[Nida smiles, because that was a really cute reaction.]

You're sure it would be okay? Because that's a really big possible prize for me.

[ask_whydunit]

[ Yeah, his face is getting more red. Glancing away hurriedly as he definitely tries to hide that, trying to look like the ever-professional student double checking his list. ]

I mean, I guess, yeah? You have to actually win first though, you um, know?

[ You have him stumbling over his words here. Good job. ]

[seed_pilot]

And what do you get if you win?

[He's smiling because hey, he doesn't mind losing if he can get the guy to want the same thing.]

[ask_whydunit]

[ Yeah, he hadn’t thought of this particular point to the contest. It would be weird to say he wanted the same thing, though, right? Because then it wasn’t really a contest, it just made the challenge pointless. He seems to be mulling this over in his head for a moment or two before he finally flustered a bit as he walked towards the shelves. ]

I-I’ll tell you if I win, yeah? Come on, we’ve got books to find!

[ He has realized, not for the first time, that he’s entirely out of his depth with this whole thing. Not the books or the studying or the theorizing over Nida’s GF summons, of course… Just with Nida in general. ]

[seed_pilot]

Wow, that's a way to approach it.

[He laughs and shakes his head. But he'll definitely manage to push himself for it.]

Alright. Good luck man.

[The smile he offers is warm and genuine, but he's also intending to win, so he rushes off to go about it.]

[ask_whydunit]

Y-yeah, same to you!

[ He’d like to say Nida needed the luck more than him considering Waver knew this space better than most people… But he wasn’t about to write off the other’s chances just because of that. So he fixed his attention on the list and hurried in the direction of the nearest book. ]

yay notifcation failure

[seed_pilot]

[Oh, Waver had an advantage, definitely. Nida had a drive though. Because he wants his reward. Which Waver hadn't seemed too offended by. He hoped. But his attention is definitely on winning this battle. He runs around, trying his best to find the books on his part of the list.]

Aww notifs pls

[ask_whydunit]

[ Waver was internally conflicted over if he wanted to win or not, which definitely did not help his focus. This was just all… very weird for him, if he was being honest. Still, he worked his way around the library efficiently, given he knew what he was looking for and the likely places to find them. At least until he bumped into Melvin and accidentally confessed to the current challenge and sealed his own fate to be pestered and distracted by the teen, who definitely thought Waver losing would be more like winning.

He was going to be such a good helper… for Nida to win. ]