Day 9 - The Dating Game

[kentucky_mcgiygas]

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

Comments

[glowshine]

The tech people are just as important to the show as the performers. They work as hard-- if not harder --than we do. Don't sell yourself short. I don't know if I'll be getting other dates but I think you were the right pick.

What do you do for fun? When you're not doing... Space things?

[partcompany]

I'm not actually in space most of the time lately, I'm on the planet Pandora. I've got some friends there who are treasure hunters, we hang out sometimes.

Also, er, thank you. I can't tell if you're just being nice or not, though. I sorta got the impression you were expecting me to be someone else. Not that I don't think I'm a great pick.

[glowshine]

[ Shaking her head. ]

No, no. There were a few people I wanted to ask me things but in the end it didn't really matter. Meeting someone new here is a blessing.

... Some people are so close-knit. I'm having a little trouble since I don't know anybody from home.

[partcompany]

Yeeeeah, that seems rough. I'm in the same situation this time, though I at least know a few people from the last time we were here. I probably have more experience doing things on my own than you, though.

[glowshine]

That's true. Well, I can have your back if you have mine?

That's about all that I can really offer right off the bat. I wish I had more to give you.

I'm realizing that I'm just some teenage girl here. Everyone else knows what they're doing and I... Really don't.

[partcompany]

I am very sure that not everyone here knows what they're doing, if that makes you feel any better.

And I'm good having each other's backs. It's always good to have another friend or two in a situation like this.

[glowshine]

As it just so happens, I like working as a team with other people.

[ Peering... ]

Are you gonna finish that? Can I have the lollipop back? It's the best part.

[partcompany]

Hey, I like it too. There was just... a while where I wasn't with anyone else, that's all.

[ He holds out the glass. ]

Knock yourself out. —Uh, I mean, not literally. Please don't actually drink this drink. I will finish it. But you can take the lollipop, I am not really a lollipop guy.

[glowshine]

[ Plucking the lollipop out. ]

The lollipop takes in a good amount of the juice and the tequila. I kinda drank too much the other day and I learned my lesson.

... Really drank too much.

[ She remembers talking to Dennis, crying at somebody, and taking a nap. ]

[partcompany]

[ He brings the cup back to his mouth and gamely takes another large gulp of it, swallowing so he doesn't really have to taste it. ]

You said you were still in school, right? You shouldn't start drinking that heavily until you're at least in college, for sure. I know a lot of people are setting bad examples with their drinking to cope, but.

[glowshine]

[ chase it with water, rhys you can do it. it just tastes like cough syrup. ]

I shouldn't be getting tattoos either but I have two from here--... [ Haha~ ] It's okay! I learned. I actually don't really drink at all except for champagne and wine when I'm at parties or hotel gatherings.

I was on a high from the competition and got carried away. You've done that before, surely!

[partcompany]

What, gotten carried away? Yeah, I guess. Doesn't mean I can't try to be the voice of reason anyway.

[glowshine]

I wanted to be a bartender, so I learned from one.

... I didn't know what tequila tasted like! Now I know not to drink it in large amounts. I'd say that was a learning situation.

[partcompany]

Sure, but that's exactly the sort of learning you should be doing in college, not with people twice your age in a fast-food sponsored murder game.

Though, that probably describes some people's college experiences anyway.

[glowshine]

Which one do you think is more constructive in the end?

[partcompany]

Which one of what?

[glowshine]

Learning in college or learning before you die?

[partcompany]

Uh. Well. Having done plenty of both, I'd say they both teach a different kind of skill. Life or death experiences are definitely... instructive.

[glowshine]

[ INHALE... ]

I don't want to die, Rhys...

I know you don't either. I just... [ Setting her forehead on the bar counter. ]

I can't do this.

[partcompany]

[ Oh crap. Rhys is drastically unprepared for this. ]

Hey. Hey hey hey hey.

[ He leans over the bar to pat her shoulder in an awkward attempt to be comforting—and after one pat reconsiders and switches arms so he's patting her with the flesh one instead of the metal one. ]

Hey. Er... I know it's hard. But you're doing great. I mean, I mean that in like, the literal practical way, not the shallow "everything will be fine" way. You're doing the challenges, you're getting yourself some votes, you're making friends. You're not going to die.

[glowshine]

[ EMOTIONAL TEENAGE GIRL. ]

But what if time is running out for me? I don't have cliques like everyone else. I have friends, but...

[partcompany]

[ Rhys has not dealt with an emotional teenage girl ever before in his life. That's okay though, He's got this. He can figure it out.

He coughs as he collects his thoughts. ]

T-Time is not running out. There are still a lot of people left in this game. There's no telling how things are going to fall out before the end. Don't worry like that, okay? Just keep yourself safe for now.

[glowshine]

[ Blindly palming for the bottle of tequila but missing it every time. It's literally next to her. ]

I don't like not knowing. I was asked if I wanted the hotel pass but I couldn't do it. I'm going to go as far as I can... I hope.

[partcompany]

[ He automatically catches her hand with his to stop her grabbing for it, then winces a little when he realizes he's now holding her hand. She can't see him wince, though, so he just goes with it, gripping her hand, his voice getting a little more confident. ]

You really want to go for it, huh? Then, yeah, I'll be honest with you. It's risky. You might die. A bunch of people have died already. Things are going to get harder from here on out. We'll probably have less votes, and less control of whether we get a vote or not. People will start having to make hard choices.

But, sometimes you have to take some risks, and if it's worth it to you, then you've got to for it. People are in danger of dying pretty much all the time!

[ It's about at that point that he realizes he's not sure this is precisely comforting. ]

...I mean, er. Maybe... some places more than others. I don't know how much imminent death there is in high school singing competitions. Depends on the school, I guess.

[glowshine]

[ Can you believe she developed an alcoholic coping mechanism in a day. ]

... There isn't any death, no. [ He's trying really hard. She will give him this. ] I'm gonna keep going. I know I always have the out but I feel like I would be letting people down if I went to sit in a hotel.

Or whatever happens.