the_newlydead_game | Day 9 - The Dating Game

ICly, this game is played on your tablet, and can only be activated when you're alone in your dressing room. You can play vocally or text-based, but either way they come out on the other end as pure text and/or read by a computerized voice.

~~FIRST DAY (until 7:00PM PST tomorrow; an extra day since I got it up late):~~

ETA NAH LET'S EXTEND IT INTO THE NIGHT. Second half is just reveals anyway! I'll get it around noonish tomorrow.

🍔 Make a toplevel for your character, starting off with some kind of open-ended question. Your tablet provides some example questions, and you are free to steal one or invent your own.

🍔 Everyone else replies to the toplevel anonymously! Lying, kissing ass, or pretending to be someone else are allowed and frankly ENCOURAGED.

🍔 While there are no hard rules against any sort of questions, for the part of the questioner, trying to suss out identities goes against the principle of the thing and will be looked upon harshly by Ronald and the King. This is a dating game, so relax and try to find your perfect romantic match!

🍔 After someone replies, the questioner can ask up to three more questions to each anon. Anons, stay in your threads.

SECOND DAY (until 6:00PM PST Sunday)

🍔 I'll make a new thread, where everybody can announce which of their anons they would most want to date!

🍔 Winning anon, reveal yourself!

🍔 You don't actually have to go on a date (it will not count against you), but if you'd like to, a ~romantic, off-menu dinner~ will be provided

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It was maybe a little too honest really.

Oh, hey. Yeah. I mean... do you know I'm the head of an extremely successful company? Not sure "I'd really love to make you into a figurehead" is the greatest come-on.

[ He says this generally good-naturedly though. ]

--No, I didn't know that. Actually rather than a hypothetical "I would do this", it's what my current job entails. Although the head is my husband so it's not like he's just a figurehead!

Fair enough. But yeah, I've owned the Atlas corporation for a couple of years now. It's already definitely back on people's radar, and with some luck it'll be back to the biggest corporation in the galaxy soon.

There's nothing wrong with a little bit of ambition. Everyone else answering seemed kind of... uh, let's go with modest.

You revived it, then? That's impressive, you definitely don't need a shadowy advisor! I agree, too, I'd rather see drive than meekness, even if I don't quite agree with it.

I did, yeah. It was basically entirely destroyed when I acquired it. One single surviving employee? Still a work in progress, but, you know. That's the fun part. That and the piles of money.

Do you actually want to do a date? Platonically, obviously, since you're married and everything.

Success with nowhere left to go wouldn't be any fun, even with the money to do anything else you could want.

That sounds great really, we might as well see if they're offering any decent food and get to know eachother better right? Sorry it wasn't someone you could have a real dare with.

Yeah, it's fine, I wasn't really expecting a lot of romance out of this or anything. People are trying to get votes, after all. Or, I assume so. I do kind of wonder what exactly people think I'm into.

You got some strange ones, huh? Knowing what I do now, I'm guessing you were the one who didn't know I was married? You were my runner up, I had to flip a coin for it.

That was me, yeah. I was hoping I'd win that one.

Those were good answers, honestly if I wasn't taken you would probably be exactly my type. Chance just wasn't on your side.

I do tend to have pretty spectacularly bad luck. At least I still get a date with you.

It worked out! Is there anything in particular you'd like to do, or should we take them up on the offer of an off-menu meal?

We can start with that, at least. I like hamburgers as much as the next guy, but I'm not going to turn down something else after a week and a half. At this rate I'll ruin my characteristic slender figure.

I'm sure you would still be popular even so, but it is a lot of hamburgers. If whatever they give us is just the same ingredients done differently though, I'm going to riot.

Yeah, I sure hope not. We did a cooking competition with ingredients from the kitchen last time and I'm not sure I'd feed any of it to someone I disliked, let alone a date. I hope it'll be something nice, though. It'd make a better show that way, probably. Romance blossoming amidst adversity and all that.

....That sounds awful, but you have a good point. I'm sure it would be a good boost to ratings, they can appeal to multiple audiences. Shall we give them a good show?

Oh, definitely.

Can I meet you at the bar in about half an hour then? I feel like I might as well get dressed up, make it fun, you know?

Sounds good to me. I can get cleaned up a bit too.

[As she says half an hour later she's sitting at the bar having fixed up her makeup and found a slinky black dress in the costume room. It's more fun to play along, and might be good for her chances at that. And anyway even if it's not a real date, it's still what you're supposed to do right? Get dressed up and try to impress.]

Alcohol won't mess with the hardware, will it?

[Because she's mixing up a rum and coke and there can be another for him if he likes.]

[ For Rhys's part, he has taken off his jacket and vest, putting him down to just his black dress shirt, cuffs rolled up to his elbows baring both his metal wrist and the wrist she tattooed for him.

He has also apparently scavenged a red tie from the costume room, which he has put on. At least it's a normal tie. ]

Nope, it's all fully alcohol and drug-safe. Would be kind of a shame otherwise. You look good.

Thanks, so do you. At least if nothing else they're giving us the supplies to play dressup.

[Subpar food, but a well stocked costume room, great. very important.

And in that case, she goes ahead and makes two.]

Are those sort of parts what your business does?

Among other things, yeah. Atlas is pretty deep into robotics and cybernetics. In the past they made some of the best weapons in the galaxy, too, but I'm trying to diversify more outside of that. I've got some new patents on interesting technology that might help us dominate the travel industry in a few years.

[He takes the drink gratefully.]

These are actually prototypes I put together for myself.

You did these yourself?

I mean - I must be hundreds of years behind your time, so I have no idea how it compares for other products and skills where you come from, but even so, that's really amazing.

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