date 1 - beach group b

[snackcakeordeath]

🍰 You're here at the beach🏖️ with some of the people YOU rated the 🔥hottest🔥 in town, so get ready for your chance to make a summer memory that'll last forever☀️!

🍰 It's up to you to create the 💖best date ever💖. Pick your special someone or someones and find an activity to really wow 'em!

🍰 If sun and surf🏄 doesn't float their boat, then make your move during that gorgeous sunset, or around a bonfire in the evening--timing and activities🦈 are up to you.

🍰 You'll need a public thread with all of your teammates where at least 1 thing is done as a group👫👬. Feel free to have any number of additional threads, public or private, with individual or groups of teammates; the extra effort should pay off with both your datemates and your hosts. Assume that everyone has opportunities to be 💑alone👩‍❤️‍👩🏽 with each other person.

🍰 At the end of the dates💕, you'll play Marry💍/Kiss💋/Kill☠️ on your datemates. Rate your dates✌️🖕 and you're free to go--but remember, they'll be rating you, too😨🤞. Hopefully you pulled out all the stops for all your dates!😎⚰️

🍰 Need some activity suggestions?
+ Swimming, snorkeling, or surfing🏄
+ Kite flying, beach volleyball, or burying someone into a sand castle🐚
+ Scary stories, sparklers, or s'mores over the bonfire🎆
+ Don't forget suntan lotion, you wouldn't want your poor datemates to burn!👒

🍰 At the end of the day, vote here.

Comments

[you_like_ike]

...There was a shark earlier, but I took it out of the water. It should be pretty safe now. But I'll keep an eye out for you, if you want to go in.

[fastandloose]

[follows]

I did, yeah. You'll have to show me the ropes. I usually pick stuff up quick, though.

[you_like_ike]

[As evening falls, a hot bonfire is set on the beach, with a shark roasting near the flames. It's big enough to feed everyone, so dig in. There's also split coconuts and fruit gathered in a pile nearby, and some sparklers to play with as it gets darker.]

[i_like_ike]

[Soren is completely oblivious of the projectile coming his way, having a quiet moment at the cabana as he a "HOW HOT ARE YOU" quiz in a teen girl magazine. Spoilers: he is NOT a hot tamale.]

[you_like_ike]

[Jumps in front of the way! Ike gets thwocked in the chest.]

[i_like_ike]

[Jumps himself, startled by the noise.]

What—!?

[i_like_ike]

[Grabs himself some fruit and plops down next to Ike.]

The day is coming to an end...

[i_like_ike]

To surpass greed and bloodlust? That would have to be an impressive game indeed.

[you_like_ike]

[Eating shark steak.]

Mm.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Not necessarily to surpass it, just channel it into something with less collateral damage...

[stares up at the sky]

...Kites, right?

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

I gathered--from our chat earlier, you didn't sound like the type who has to struggle for every step forward. But either way, this is pretty simple. With this apparatus you can swim around near the surface and view what's below without having to constantly come up for air.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

[obviously thinking of something--then obviously nipping that thought in the bud and shaking his head]

That's an incredible opportunity, though. Such noble creatures...

[hesitates, then]

I met the spirit of a dragon, once. ...Possibly. It was probably some mass hallucination or some other trick. Even so, it left an impression on me.

[streetwolf]

Heh, instead of blood it's money. But I'm sure they'd like being compared to a powerful creature of the night.

[streetwolf]

That's funny. I was thinking the same... [He didn't sound amused at all.]

Maybe we should compare?

[you_like_ike]

That sounds incredible, too. What sort of impression?

[streetwolf]

[There isn't an icon for it cause the scans don't go that far. But just picture the cheekiest, most childish smile possible on Wayne’s face. As he shows off how quick he is by sprinting in plucking the ball back of the ground.

Then he flings it at Ike’s chest again and runs away snickering…

Wayne, that’s dodgeball you’re trying to play not volleyball…]

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

There you go. Try it sometime when you get back.

[fastandloose]

Sure. What do you wanna compare?

[streetwolf]

The dates a good start with some of the crap I've heard people talking about. I'm from 1947, nearly 1948...

[streetwolf]

[He laughs and looks around, he might even be nervous of someone who isn’t even here.]

Guess I better think carefully about which one I tell. Wrong one and I'm dead.

[fastandloose]

You got that right. Sounds simple enough.

[you_like_ike]

Oof... what was that?

[Rubs at his chest, kind of amazed that he's not injured. He's fresh out of a war and in that instantaneous response he half expected that to be a catapulted rock crushing his ribs inward.]

[Watches it bounce away after hitting his chest a second time.]

[fastandloose]

...For real? I'm like...

[she has to think about this]

...almost 400 years ahead of you, then.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

Well, there was some of the old chosen one-reincarnation-fated warrior BS, but setting that aside... Dream or no, I just got a sense of power, but with grace and finesse. Intelligence and wisdom. It was...inspiring.

[blueeyeswaifudragon]

I thought you just said they only sucked out money, not blood.