trustfell | it's not unusual to have fun with anyone

[ The ballroom's a little swanky for a simple get-together like this, but...

Well, actually, judging by what you see when you come in at the appointed time (or even before that, but Aligula'll be huffy if you do!?), what was advertised is not exactly what's going on. Continuing her war on paper, Aligula's put up origami hearts (or her attempts at them; she got better as she figured out what she was doing, but they're not the best) pretty much everywhere. There's also sheets taped to every wall with encouraging things in her curly-cute script like GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER! and FIND A PARTNER! and WELCOME TO SPEED-DATING!

...Yeah, welcome to speed-dating.

There's a lot of chairs paired together, presumably for the whole "partnering up" thing, and everyone anywhere near the ballroom will be getting a sheet of questions titled SUGGESTED TALKING POINTS. There at least seems to be food like she promised? At least... there's signs pointing to the dining room across the wall to suggest it, and entering the dining room gets you hot chocolate (and water, if you're boring, as well treating you to the sight of a parfait bar, with various cups and glasses to stand in for actual parfait glasses. There's also things for making sandwiches—she pretty much grabbed whatever she could think of from the fridge and such—and of course, plates and utensils and etc.

And if none of that's appetizing then, like, kitchen's not that far, go make something yourself. She put a lot of work into this whole thing but especially the parfait bar because she loves parfait and everyone can have fun making those.

If you don't think your character would've come without a little help, don't worry; even if Aligula can't bodily drag everyone, she sure can bother them aggressively until they come just to get her to leave them alone. All in all, don't sweat the small stuff and have a good time getting to know each other! Or go sulk and play the piano, whatever. ]

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You and that shorty! Both like parfaits, both don't have elk! It tastes like a tastier cow, basically, do you have those?

[Please say you have cows.]

We definitely have cows - honestly, it's one of the things we have in abundance. We're very rural, for the most part, so farming is fairly important to us. Farming and mining.

I'll have to bear that in mind, however, regarding the elk.

Oh, so you're like the Danes, except you actually have a military.

[... I'm sorry, you are no longer animanga Germany, you are animanga Denmark.]

What's the weirdest thing you've had a bite of before?

[...what is a dane

...what is this question, what the hell kind of barbarian do you think he is]

Nothing inherently strange, I don't think...? Venison is fairly common, where I grew up, but otherwise it's just been more or less what one would expect.

[a dane is someone that talks like he has potatoes in his mouth.]

Guess I win this round, then, I took a bite out of a troll before when it tried to grab me with one of its skeleton arm things. I spit it out of course, it was gross, but it still counts.

[... This is how we get to know people.]

Your turn.