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A Very Special 3 Minute Dates
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bluth-illusions.livejournal.comWell, it’s mid-January and I’m posting to plottery, which means that it must once again be time to date some random people! That’s right, on an upcoming Saturday - February 5th - Caritas will be hosting Three Minute Dates for the tenth time. Yep, we’ve officially reached double digits for the semiannual IG speed dating event in which you sign up, I randomly throw five people at your character for three minutes (roughly ten comments total), and everyone has a good time. But with this being a bit of a milestone (which gives me an excuse to go around calling it "3MDX" like a dork), as well as it being just about Valentine’s Day, a monkey wrench of pure passion is being tossed into the machine!
Due to typically insane Fandom circumstances, love will quite literally be in the air in the form of an unlikely air-born love potion in the lounge of Caritas. If you opt in, in addition to your normal five dates, your character will also be affected by this love potion in one round chosen randomly by me abusing the RNG even more than I already am. Your affected character will fall madly in love with their date for the duration of the three minutes before the potion’s affects fade and your character returns to normal (although there is, of course, a chance that the three minutes of passionate dating will inspire a revelation of genuine feelings or some such emotions, of course). Or, if you’d rather take matters into your own hands, you can choose to have your character be affected in any round you want at your discretion. Want to be crazy flirty with all of your dates thanks to the love potion? Go right ahead. Or sign up for some randomness, then still pick a round or two of your own for maximum enjoyment. It’s 3MDX, folks, so all options are open!
Just to note, the love potion will only affect people in the lounge during the dates. People at the bar and on the stage will not be affected because nobody needs to see Tino and/or the zombies feeling frisky. 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.
Other than this new wrinkle, that usual basic rules will apply:
*A date is 10 pings combined. Take another ping or two to wrap up if you need to, but please be efficient.
*3MDX is of course open to both adults and students, although they will not be paired with each other. If you have an especially young townie where it would be much more age appropriate for them to be with the teenagers, let me know.
*You can sign up with as many on-island characters as you want, but please keep in mind that with each one, you’re committing to five threads with people in all kinds of time zones. Please don’t sign up more characters than you can reasonably manage, because you don’t want to make five people per character cry due to sadness and loneliness.
*Comments to this post are screened. Please sign up with your character’s name, type (student, teacher, or townie), gender preference (if any), and if you want me to randomly assign looooooooove potion to you for one round. If you don’t sign up for the random potion, you can still decide to be affected the day of on as many dates as you would like. Feel free to ask any questions, which I will unscreen to answer!
*Signups will close Monday night, January 31, at whenever I go to sleep. Or I may give an actual time in a reminder post later on. The 3MDX playing post(s?) will go up late on Friday, February 4th for the sake of slowplay and the post will be open for SP all weekend, but the majority of playing should be done on the 5th. If you sign up and later find out that you won’t be available on the 5th, please tell me as early as possible so I can adjust the lineups before posting on Friday night.
Due to typically insane Fandom circumstances, love will quite literally be in the air in the form of an unlikely air-born love potion in the lounge of Caritas. If you opt in, in addition to your normal five dates, your character will also be affected by this love potion in one round chosen randomly by me abusing the RNG even more than I already am. Your affected character will fall madly in love with their date for the duration of the three minutes before the potion’s affects fade and your character returns to normal (although there is, of course, a chance that the three minutes of passionate dating will inspire a revelation of genuine feelings or some such emotions, of course). Or, if you’d rather take matters into your own hands, you can choose to have your character be affected in any round you want at your discretion. Want to be crazy flirty with all of your dates thanks to the love potion? Go right ahead. Or sign up for some randomness, then still pick a round or two of your own for maximum enjoyment. It’s 3MDX, folks, so all options are open!
Just to note, the love potion will only affect people in the lounge during the dates. People at the bar and on the stage will not be affected because nobody needs to see Tino and/or the zombies feeling frisky. 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.
Other than this new wrinkle, that usual basic rules will apply:
*A date is 10 pings combined. Take another ping or two to wrap up if you need to, but please be efficient.
*3MDX is of course open to both adults and students, although they will not be paired with each other. If you have an especially young townie where it would be much more age appropriate for them to be with the teenagers, let me know.
*You can sign up with as many on-island characters as you want, but please keep in mind that with each one, you’re committing to five threads with people in all kinds of time zones. Please don’t sign up more characters than you can reasonably manage, because you don’t want to make five people per character cry due to sadness and loneliness.
*Comments to this post are screened. Please sign up with your character’s name, type (student, teacher, or townie), gender preference (if any), and if you want me to randomly assign looooooooove potion to you for one round. If you don’t sign up for the random potion, you can still decide to be affected the day of on as many dates as you would like. Feel free to ask any questions, which I will unscreen to answer!
*Signups will close Monday night, January 31, at whenever I go to sleep. Or I may give an actual time in a reminder post later on. The 3MDX playing post(s?) will go up late on Friday, February 4th for the sake of slowplay and the post will be open for SP all weekend, but the majority of playing should be done on the 5th. If you sign up and later find out that you won’t be available on the 5th, please tell me as early as possible so I can adjust the lineups before posting on Friday night.