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0.05 Hour Dates
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craftyladyparts.livejournal.comIt's September, so if you've paid attention for the past several years, you'll know that it is once again time for THREE MINUTE DATES! This time the speed dating spectacular will happen on Saturday, September 20th. If you sign up in the comments to this post, you can have the joy of five short dates (in the name of romance or friendship) with a random selection of people!
The traditional rules:
*3 Minutes = 10 pings, 5 from each character. You can of course take a ping or two to wrap things up, but please be efficient. Anyway, if you're going to need more time with the new love of your life (or of the night), there will be a regular Caritas post set after 3MD.
*3MD is open to both adults and teenagers. Teachers and students will never be paired together, but students and townies might be, provided they are close enough in age to not be weird and possibly illegal, or I can't avoid it for some reason.
*A strong attempt to pair characters up by sexual preference will be made. That said, gay/bi characters may end up with straight characters who have absolutely no interest. Or straight characters may end up together. That happens sometimes. Or regularly. All the damn time, actually.
*You can sign up with as many on-island characters as you want, but please keep in mind that each one commits you to 5 threads with people in all sorts of time zones with all kinds of schedules. Try not to sign up more than you can reasonably handle. That way everyone can have a chance to complete all of their dates.
*The post will go up Friday evening (September 19) and will be available for slowplay through the weekend. The bulk of the playing should take place on Saturday, but if you need to wrap things up on Sunday, that's fine. If you sign up and later find out that you won't be around at all on September 20, PLEASE let me know to take your characters off the list, especially if you've signed up with multiple characters. And if you know you won't be around at all that day, please don't sign up. It never feels good when somebody has a bunch of threads without any interaction.
If you're interested, please leave a comment to this post with your character's first and last names (written the way it should be called out during the event), type (student, teacher, townie) and gender preference (if any). Comments are screened by default, questions will be unscreened and answered. Signups will be open through Wednesday, September 17 at 11:59 PM Central to give me time to smash random numbers together.
The traditional rules:
*3 Minutes = 10 pings, 5 from each character. You can of course take a ping or two to wrap things up, but please be efficient. Anyway, if you're going to need more time with the new love of your life (or of the night), there will be a regular Caritas post set after 3MD.
*3MD is open to both adults and teenagers. Teachers and students will never be paired together, but students and townies might be, provided they are close enough in age to not be weird and possibly illegal, or I can't avoid it for some reason.
*A strong attempt to pair characters up by sexual preference will be made. That said, gay/bi characters may end up with straight characters who have absolutely no interest. Or straight characters may end up together. That happens sometimes. Or regularly. All the damn time, actually.
*You can sign up with as many on-island characters as you want, but please keep in mind that each one commits you to 5 threads with people in all sorts of time zones with all kinds of schedules. Try not to sign up more than you can reasonably handle. That way everyone can have a chance to complete all of their dates.
*The post will go up Friday evening (September 19) and will be available for slowplay through the weekend. The bulk of the playing should take place on Saturday, but if you need to wrap things up on Sunday, that's fine. If you sign up and later find out that you won't be around at all on September 20, PLEASE let me know to take your characters off the list, especially if you've signed up with multiple characters. And if you know you won't be around at all that day, please don't sign up. It never feels good when somebody has a bunch of threads without any interaction.
If you're interested, please leave a comment to this post with your character's first and last names (written the way it should be called out during the event), type (student, teacher, townie) and gender preference (if any). Comments are screened by default, questions will be unscreened and answered. Signups will be open through Wednesday, September 17 at 11:59 PM Central to give me time to smash random numbers together.