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MEAT CUTES SINGLES NIGHT

what's up? Love is (possibly) in the air at Meat Sweats: All You Can Meat Steakhouse (Good First Date Spot!), which is trying to live up to its name by cramming as many first dates into one night as it possibly can. Cocktails are arguably Valentine's Day themed, and someone went to the trouble of charming paper hearts into fluttering around like drunken butterflies.

The small dining room is packed, and the tables have been arranged so that there are plenty of spots where couples can sit across from one another. Over the speakers, an "oldies" playlist of early 2000s Muggle ?love songs? is on shuffle.

Participants who get Bingo get a special prize! Anyone who gets a blackout is a madman, but there's something special in it for you if you do. And of course, signing the attendance sheet gets you half-off on rent at Henhurst Hall.

Tonight's menu is:

A pink sweetheart cocktail that tastes a little bit too much like pepto bismol, garnished with a strawberry and twisty straw.
Tater tots shaped like hearts.
Your choice of pizza (pepperoni shaped like hearts), salmon (it's pink!) or curried cauliflower with red food colouring (the veggie option).
Chocolate cake dessert.

The dinner begins at 7:00 PM and Olive kicks everyone out at 12:00 AM, but like, who wants to stay at Meat Sweats for five hours?

visuals!

volunteer slots! Hugo Weasley ends up stuck talking to an older wizard who is clearly very drunk and keeps asking extremely strange questions. On the bright side, they do manage to fill out one elusive spot on their bingo card! (By taking this spot, you can mark any one of your bingo spots as filled for free!)

Grizzy barrels into [CHARACTER C] while they're both dashing to get to the next table, and they go tumbling to the ground. Now that's a Meet Cute!

[CHARACTER D] feels like they've been plunged into ice water when Morty passes through them on his way to another table. The sensation is brief, but then they feel something cold and wet stuck to their back. It's partially digested pizza encased in ectoplasm.

how bingo works!
🍗 Remember, this IC/OOC is forward-dated meaning that it takes place on Sunday, February 14th. Please wait until Sunday to make journal posts that take place during the event.

🍗 Speed dating rounds last anywhere from thirty seconds to five minutes before Bud blows his whistle and participants are expected to get up and run to a different table, musical chairs style. There's not much organization to this event and there's nothing stopping residents from cheesing the game by running to people they already know.

🍗 Organizers insist that the seating arrangements were randomized, which is why sometimes participants are seated across from a relative or otherwise-inappropriate potential mate. They insist that, legally-speaking, this is a networking event — so don't worry, mark off those cards, and keep going!

🍗 Click here for the Bingo Card template.

On desktop: click File > Make a Copy.
On mobile: press "..." > Share & export > Make a copy.

Follow the directions in the spreadsheet to learn how to set up your card!

🍗When you're all set up, you can either paste the code in its own entry on your journal (fancy!) or grab a sharable link to your spreadsheet (convenient!). Either way, come on down to SPEED DATING BINGO and make a new comment with your character's name in the subject and your link in the body.

🍗 Reply to others and fill your card! Have fun!

🍗 The cutoff for submitting completed Bingo Cards for prizes is February 15, 12:00PM EST. You can keep playing in your threads for as long as you want, but you just won't get the Mystery Prize if you haven't submitted by the cutoff.

locations! 💘 BEFORE THE MEAT CUTE: Are you ready to find love and avoid gastrointestinal issues?

💘 SPEED DATING BINGO: Date! Meet! Win! Post your cards here with your character's name in the subject. Others can reply to your thread to start quick scenes as they fill out their cards in search of a BINGO — and maybe... true love?

💘 AROUND MEAT SWEATS: Same time, same place as Speed Dating Bingo but this section is for those MEATier scenes. (Any non-speed-dating scene)!

💘 AFTER PARTY: After you've either won or given up on Bingo, there's a plan to meet up at Poor Lenore's for drinks. A local band is playing tonight, and it's a more pleasant setup for dancing and flirting if that's your jam. You might miss the subtle aroma of a New York striploin, though.

🥩 OOC – QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS! Don't forget to submit your card under the subheader when you're got a bingo and/or blackout!

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Corrie's face does not show enjoyment as she stares back at him, eyes narrowing with every time he runs his fingers across the fork. "What the hell," she says. "Is that supposed to be flirting?"

"For some," Hugo says, ending his experiment. He taps the fork against the table twice and then abandons the utensil altogether. "Apparently it can make some people wild." He leans back in his chair and shrugs. "Guess we were spared."

He pops a tater tot into his mouth. "Too late for me to start over?"

Corrie snorts. She doesn't see how doing basically a crystal-goblet trick could make someone wild, but yeah, probably for the best.

"You can have another turn after me," she informs him. "What are your thoughts on snitches? How much should they be worth?"

Hugo exhales deeply and rubs his chin. While it might appear as though he's weighing the question seriously, he's really just trying to remember how much catching a snitch is actually worth. He's gotten good at keeping his rudimentary Quidditch knowledge a secret, and he's not about to blow his cover now.

"If I'm being honest," he says, "I think it should be worth more when my team catches it, and nothing when the other team does."

"My turn again?"

"Oh that sounds fair," Corrie scoffs, but she'll take it -- not a lot of people were going to get her that square, wildly overpowered as seekers already were.

She waves her hand at him in a you may proceed gesture.

"Alright... take two..."

Hugo looks down at his card, cycling through the unchecked boxes. Hmm. He tilts in head at something, then nods. "Okay," he exhales and looks back up. "So, I've got two on here I'm looking to fill. Someone who's kissed a Weasley, and someone who's been in a physical fight." He puts his hands out, palms up. "Can I interest you in either of those?"

Edited (sorry) 2021-02-13 21:53 (UTC)

"Of course I've been in a fight, I have a sister," she says. "We shared a room for better part of ten years."

Wait. Did he just?

Corrie's face twists in confused disbelief as she thinks back over the last few seconds. "Oh my god," she says.

Edited (lol genuinely took me a minute) 2021-02-14 00:16 (UTC)

Hugo can't fully parse the depths of Corrie's "Oh my god," but even the ever-optimistic Hugo would have trouble spinning it as a wholly positive reaction. Abort, abort! the alarm in his head chimes on repeat, and he quickly puts pen to paper bingo card. "Marking you down for fight!" he announces before she can linger on his proposition any longer.

"Thanks, you're a saint." He flashes Corrie a smile. "Well, except of course when you're not, apparently."

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