week one | overflow

[marriagebroker]

Ok, weirdos.

Boom Boom Room | Property Damage
Truth Booth Voting | Match Ceremony Voting

Comments

[scooptimistic]

I guess so!

Though we probably shouldn't rule it out entirely. Some of these pairings could have different reasons.

[nrangel]

Yeah, I'm not sure we even have enough total opposites for it to be all that anyway, but it sure would have made it easier if there was an easily established pattern right from the start.

[scooptimistic]

But then where would be the fun in that?

[ With a wry smile. ]

[nrangel]

[ She'll offer one just as wry right back. ]

Depending on how this shakes out, fun might not be the top priority for people here with wishes.

[scooptimistic]

True. I meant more for the audience. Can you imagine if we solved it in one to two weeks and ended it early?

[ How nice... ]

[nrangel]

If I was watching, I'd definitely be upset. But if they gave us some hints, maybe we can flub a couple on purpose, draw it out until the end to be good sports.

[scooptimistic]

I think the people with the wish would maybe have something to say about that, but.

Well, we can hope for the best!

[researcherstory]

And risk being potentially side tracked by an easy answer?

[ Which is a possibility, of course... ah, she has to consider her choice. Much thinking to be done tonight. ]

The outcome is as good as any, though lessening our numbers would have been ideal.

[ Yi Sang do not enter-- ]

[nrangel]

Fair enough. I guess an early win might have made us a little too ready to try the same thing again.

[researcherstory]

And then we'd be just as lost, if not entirely put off by our quick victory and just as quick fall.

[ So! Bottom up is fine by her, really. ]

We're still learning about one another. We may have a better idea next week. And certainly, tomorrow we will have an idea of potential matches regardless of if we choose correctly or not. I think we're in a fine position, Serpilia.

[nrangel]

Maybe it's a flaw of mine, but it's hard not to want at least one win right away. Not really how these kind of things work though, is it?

[ Ah well... ]

I guess as long as we get a couple right, we'll still be on the right track.

[poans]

1/2

[researcherstory]

[ ... ]

2/2

[researcherstory]

[ Yes, okay, she stepped into that, she remembers why he rang last time-- ]

Have you any thoughts, Yi Sang? Or do you plan to let your feet wander 'til a root stumbles you?

[poans]

[Her way with words, as ever, would be a delight if he were capable of such stimulation.]

I find the data on hand to be insufficient for either establishing or ruling out a specific pattern. At best, we now are aware that Miss Yingying and Luka are not a match.

[nrangel]

[ Oh? What's he doing lurking over there? Weird.

(Little does she know). ]

Yeah, doesn't tell us much, huh? What are you thinking? Considering you're one of the people who has to pick soon.

[researcherstory]

[ He has three weeks to be stimulated. ]

That is correct. For better and worse, we have marked off one potential from the dozens of combinations at our fingertips. Proof enough, at least, that physical attraction is not necessarily what makes a match, though I see little reason for them to cease their...

[ ... ]

Courtship, should they both like to continue forward. It seems rather freeing for fate to have no part in their interest of one another.

[ Especially given Yingying's apparent feelings about "fate", quietly unspoken as they are to Odile. ]

[anathemaw]

'Tis as he speaketh. Presuming anything from this singular point would be foolish indeed when it was naught but guesswork. A point of comparison is needed.

[scooptimistic]

Wait, I didn't get your thoughts!

[ I mean, yes, he said them to Odile, but that doesn't count because that was a cop-out-- ]

[poans]

[It counts to him.]

I believe I have already iterated them to Misses Odile and Serpilia . . .

[scooptimistic]

I missed part of it. Go on.

[ You don't get to duck out of this. ]

[hexensabbat]

[god ain't that a mood.]

Yeah, it'd be a huge help to know at least a few of the parameters they're using for this so-called "algorithm" of theirs.

[nrangel]

I'd love some hints here, since this isn't exactly an objective puzzle either.

[hexensabbat]

Right? I can't help much with the emotional aspect of things, but the math at least I can do, once we get some more variables to work with.

[nrangel]

Honestly? I'm in the same boat here. Give me a nice, proper equation to work out and I might actually be some help.