fandomtownies | Three Minute Dates - Caritas

A sign was posted at the front door:
G.O.B. Bluth Presents:
The Tenth Anniversary Edition of
Three Minute Dates at Caritas
hosted by A Matchmaker Named G.O.B.

Just before 6:00, the lights went dark and a sole zombie walked out onto the stage and sat down at a piano. The zombie then started playing The Final Countdown, followed by the other zombies, all with violins to join in. And then GOB walked out onto the stage, holding and petting a lovebird. He then released the bird, which flew up toward the ceiling before somehow getting stuck in an air duct.

As GOB went into his spiel about how 3MD was a Fandom institution that he started and how he had brought so much love to Fandom with it and that the tenth annual (he still hadn't figured that part out) edition demanded the respect that a piano and not doing magic ("Unless any of the legal ladies out there want to see me make another lovebird appear," and yes, he was talking about his penis).

Meanwhile, the lovebird was still stuck in the air duct. As air rushed past the bird and into the lounge, some strange pheromones released by the bird were thrown back at the stage, where it reacted with the already strange combination of zombie smell and cologne used to hide the zombie smell on such a classy occasion, somehow generating a powerful love potion that would be making its way into the lounge, affecting people at random for three minutes at a time. Bizarrely, that was exactly how long each of the dates tonight would be.

Sometimes Fandom worked in mysterious ways. Mysteriously sexy ways.

"I call your names, you meet up with each other, talk for three minutes, and then you'll hear the sound of a zombie smashing his hands against a bunch of piano keys. Go ahead and do it," GOB said. The zombie started smashing the keys randomly. One of the other zombies joined in because a band was all about teamwork. "And that's how we start!"

[The Bar Before the Dates | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | OOC]
[Regular post-dates Caritas post]

[OOC: Lots of OCD ~~coming~~ IS UP. RANDOMLY ASSIGNED LOVE POTION IS MARKED IN THREAD TITLES WITH ONE OF THESE "*" AFTER THE AFFECTED PERSON'S NAME! For example: "Nick* / 3MD Participants" means that I will spend the next three minutes loving everyone who signed up. But not in a dirty way because that would be exhausting and I have a sister among the participants and eww.

Remember that you can also choose to be affected by love potion in any round(s) at your discretion. Also, the love potion can only affect people in the lounge during the dates. People at the bar and on the stage will not be affected. People who are affected will just be incredibly drawn to their date, flirt harder, maybe go for some physical contact more quickly, but they shouldn't necessarily go straight for making out. Unless you choose to have them go for it. The upper limit is player's choice.

As I'm going along, if I made an obvious mistake, like skipping a character completely for a round or posting a pairing twice, feel free to grab me on AIM or in the OOC thread and I'll make a quick fix. And remember, attacks on your dates will get you teleported elsewhere on the island.

Also remember that most playing should happen on Saturday, but if you need to finish a thread or two on Sunday, that's fine.

GO FORTH AND PLAY!]

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Jaina was okay with this as a start to the night, greeting him with, "I seem to remember you from the last one of these."

"Ah, yes," John said, shooting her a smile in greeting. "And that wasn't entirely unpleasant, I think. Unless I've been deluding myself."

"I'd say you're delusion-free there," she assured him. "So how'd you end up doing this again this time?"

"I'm not lacking for ah, dating material, this time," he promised her. He was kind of hoping he'd proceed somewhere more serious with Lacey, so this was all for fun, really. "But it's been a dull couple of months."

"Agreed on that point," she said. "And even if this is only for fifteen minutes, at least it's makes things a little more interesting for a while."

"And on this island, it'll be talk of the town for at least the next two months," John joked. "How have you been... in thirty seconds or less?"

He really did need to look her up more often.

"Teaching, working the bar, visiting home, being relatively drama-free," she said, making sure to say so quickly. "Is fifteen seconds enough time to tell me how you've been?"

"Teaching, working the clinic, avoided being turned into anything embarrassing," he ticked off. "Am I still within the bounds?"

Jaina waited for the sound of a... zombie smashing his hand against piano keys, but didn't quite yet. "Apparently so. I feel like we should be congratulated."

"I think we have officially mastered the three-minute-date," John agreed, smiling at her. "Excellent work."

"On the first date of the night, too," she grinned back as the keysmashing sound happened. "I swear I'll track you down sometime so we can catch up in less than a minute."

"I think that would be an excellent plan," John agreed. Then tipped his head forward at her. "Until next time. Have fun."

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