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Jaye was actually at work, and there early for once, which shocked the hell out of Tino. But see, she got to host tonight, and she was actually excited for it. She'd even brought popcorn to watch. Maybe someone could get slapped in three minutes and the slapper would end up in the pond. When people arrived, there was even a sign on the door.

Caritas Presents
THREE MINUTE DATES
Hosted by Jaye Tyler
Reject People! Speedily!

When everyone had gotten there, Jaye took the stage, mic in hand. "Hey there, so you should all know how this goes by now, as we've had way too many for you to be clueless. Unless you're new. In which case, ha ha, suckers. So, dating sucks, so we get you through the process really really quickly. Now you can find out within three minutes that the person you're talking to is not the one you want to spend even four minutes more with.

"Here's how it goes: I call your name, and someone else's. You get together. You talk for three minutes, get to know each other, and then you'll hear this," she said, pulling an airhorn from behind her back to sound it. "Then I'll call your name with someone else's and you switch. You'll hear this sound," she said, blowing the horn again just because she could, "five times total. Any ques- good. Enjoy!"

[Three minutes = ten comments, which means each person gets five comments in a thread. You don't have to do these chronologically, but try not to Joss yourself. Slowplay is totally fine omg.

~~Also wait for OCD becauase if you interrupt me I WILL come over there.~~ Ready! Set! Go kill my inbox!]

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"I drink my tea, I've never totalled it," Alice said. "Someone asked earlier if I'd like any poison, but I declined. Alice Liddell, pleased to make your acquaintance."

"Alcohol isn't poison," Bender argued. "Not unless you drink so much that you choke on your own vomit."

"Yeah, me too."

"I thought we were talking of arsenic," she frowned. "Can you poison someone with alcohol, then? That's terribly useful to remember."

"Arsenic works too," agreed Bender. "Why'd someone want you dead?"

"Sure, if you've got enough of it," Bender told her. "It's just not very efficient and - more importantly - a waste of liquor."

"I'm not certain," Alice said. "Perhaps I was doing poorly on our date. I'm a novice to this, you realize. I've yet to go on one longer than three minutes."

Bender stared at her a moment. "You don't look horribly mangled for a meatbag." Maybe his compliments could do to be less Bender-y. "I thought you lot did the whole dating-thing all the time?"

"Others do," she smiled. "I'm a bit behind schedule, I'm afraid. We can be novices together, perhaps?"

"Sure," said Bender easily. "I didn't know humans came with a manual."

"Not one that I've seen," she confessed. "Should I find one, I'd be more than happy to share."

"It shouldn't be that hard to write one," said Bender, wondering about the easy money. "I mean, you only last for a hundred years or so before you need fixing, right?"

"It shouldn't," she mused. "If you need a consultant, do let me know. I've been human for sixteen years, give or take a century. But my century doesn't count, exactly."

"Were you something else for your other hundred years?" asked Bender, suggesting, "A mutant, maybe?"

"I seem to have moved oddly through time," she explained. "I got on a train in London, and when I left it, I was in Greece, more than a century in the future. It wasn't even a terribly long ride."

"Stray chronitons, maybe? If the train looked different," It was about the extent that Bender had picked up from the professor's gabbling. "Those hover carriages are about as reliable as a Nixon presidency."

Alice considered all of that before leaning in and lowering her voice, somewhat conspiratorially. "I must confess," she said, "that I missed most of that. But it sounded very nice, indeed. Many of those words were particularly flourishing."

Caritas, Saturday- Three Minute Dates

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