snackcakeordeath | date 1

🍰 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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Ah, is that your mechanic? You mentioned winning some races before.

That's right. The Widowmaker is the big one we won together.

Did your win entail making any widows?

[she has to think about that one for a second]

...Don't think so. Seems kinda unlikely any of 'em were married.

[doesn't seem to have expected that]

I hadn't realized it was more Death Race than Indy 500. Was there some sort of combat involved?

—Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a murderer or anythin’. Combat between the racers was against the rules, ‘cept for the Wreckers, who were there for that. Plenty of other ways to die, though, and you could fight wildlife or the locals all you wanted. And they sent all the Wreckers after us at the end there, so it was kill or be killed.

I'm not judging you for causing a few deaths, things happen. I just hadn't realized there was more to the competition than just tech and speed. Seems like a lot to prepare for; I didn't mean to sell you short.

...Yeah. A lot of luck and good instincts too. ‘Specially when you don’t have a bunch of sponsors buyin’ you a fleet of fancy cars.

[shrugs]

How ‘bout you, how’d you end up rich and powerful and all that?

I should think that by now gaining sponsors would no longer be an issue.

As for me... The head of a tech company came to our orphanage for some promotional event. He happened to be a chess world champion, so I challenged him to adopt my brother and me if I could beat him...and made sure he stuck to his word after I did. Not to say that Kaiba Corporation hasn't grown significantly since I took over as CEO, since it has. Still, when faced with an actual made woman, I can't overlook that I started out with an advantage.

Lucky. Yeah, no way we had opportunities like that.

No way we’re even gonna be let back in Maximum Racing again, though, let alone get sponsors for it. We weren’t s’posed to win, we messed up a bunch of deals by doin’ it, and then we sold off the big prize like a carnival token. Guys in charge aren’t real fond of us now.

Angry they got beaten at their own game, huh? You could always sponsor a race of your own.

...Guess I could. [thoughtfully.]

What sorta stuff does Kaiba Corporation do?

We're active in several different industries, but are best known for innovations in the entertainment space, not least of all Solid Vision projectors and Duel Disks. ...Card games and holograms, mainly. And going forward, theme parks.

S'pose you'd know a lot more about runnin' somethin' like that than I would, then.

I have organized and hosted a few tournaments. Never a race, though... My advice is to approach someone midway down the current pecking order about partnering. That way they'll know something about what the job entails, but as they're only getting a portion of the control and profits now, they'll be more likely to want to see a new competition succeed where they get a larger slice of the pie.

I’d have to find someone that wouldn’t just betray me the moment Dunbury Hasp was breathin’ down their neck, though. And maybe he’d just have ‘me killed, I dunno.

Thanks for the advice, though. I’ll keep it in mind.

Hostile takeovers are something I'm familiar with, so those insights may as well be good for something. ...Though I suppose it's probably not the relaxing beachy conversation you were hoping for.

[which is as close to "sorry for being business dad at you" as he's gonna get]

...No big deal. I'd rather have somethin' real to talk about anyway. Though if you wanna make it up to me you can take your shirt off and show me how it's done with the snorkeling.

[raises his eyebrows before doing as told, shucking off his shirt and pointing out the other stuff]

Goggles, flippers, snorkel.

[and then he explains/demonstrates their use in a way that is surprisingly simple to follow and works for people who didn't have to look up snorkeling on wikipedia]

Feel ready to give the breathing a shot?

Sure, anytime.

[she picks up a snorkel and does whatever it is that you do with a snorkel]

[what a pro! now proper snorkeling can happen without snorkel dangers, excellent. looks like there are some brave little fish come to visit, so presumably there would be even more little fish upon a snorkelventure of some sort]

[anyway, he smiles once he seems satisfied neither of them will immediately drown]

Let's take this to open water, then.

date 1 - beach group b

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