date auction! forward dated to Wednesday lunch

[wrnpcs]

[The quad's all set up for the date auction! A handsome-looking blonde guy - one of the native cadets on the GFC - is center stage with the list and a mic, auctionees (and Headmaster Cid, sipping on a drink supervising) ready behind him. (Alas, Pinkie is out campaigning or something, and Mikuru is doing some last minute work elsewhere and doesn't like the stage anyway.)

[He flashes a smile.] Gooooood afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and everyone else! I'm Russell Drake from the Garden Festival Committee, and I'd like to welcome you all to the GFC's second charity date auction! Once again all proceeds will be going towards the Centra orphanage, so please be generous with your bids! Bids start at 1 gil and we do not take rain checks or IOUs!

We have a fantastic bunch of volunteers for your dating pleasure today, so without further ado, let's get started!

Each person has their own thread. Please put your bids in the subject lines so people can see them! Threads collapse after fifty comments, so using the subject lines will make the bids easier to see.

Bids close and winners will be posted on Friday before the carnival post goes up. IC-ly, the winners will be announced Wednesday afternoon.

If you missed signups, PM wrmods and we'll squeeze them in as an IC "saw the auction on the day, hopped onstage and harassed the GFC to auction them off" auction. Just characters who would willingly sign up at this point, please!

Comments

700!

[elementofloyalty]

SEVEN HUNDRED!

It's not donations! You're bidding on a date! Do you even know what a date IS?!

800!

[fotlenke]

Eight...hundred?

[ She's wondering why Dash looks so determined. ]

Of course I know what a date is! It's a delectable fruit!

850!

[elementofloyalty]

Eight-fifty, and no, this is the kind of date where you go out, and hold hands, and have a good time together, and oh yeah, don't get into giant plant-based fights with Ed.

You really, really, really want to do that with him?

[fotlenke]

[ she arches her brows. ]

No. Not at all. The donations go to charity, that is what I am focusing on. [ she thinks. ] If I give you my donations and signs, will you be sure to give them to the charity when you win... [ she gestures to Ed. ] ...the boy?

[elementofloyalty]

[Blink. Blink.]

Uh, sure, but since I outbid you, why don't you bid on someone else instead? I mean, one of these guys has to do something for ya.

[fotlenke]

Do...something for me? [ Sigyn gives the pony an odd look. ] No one owes me any boons. Why would they have to do something for me?

[ She pulls out her current bid gill and holds them out to Dash. ] Please, Ms. Dash?

[elementofloyalty]

I mean... you think they're cute or you wanna get to know them or something.

[Obviously no one would ever feel this way about Ed.]

Really, none of 'em?

[She'll take them reluctantly, but...]

[fotlenke]

Edward is cute, but I have no inclinations of the sort towards him.

[ She beams when Dash takes the gil. ]

There you are! That'll surely win you your lover's hand!

[elementofloyalty]

WHOA. Full stop! Back up! I'm just pranking him!

[fotlenke]

Pranking?

[ She narrows her eyes and puts her hands on her hips. ]

Playing with affections for a prank? That's incredibly cruel!

[elementofloyalty]

Believe me, lady, Ed knows the score as well as I do.

[fotlenke]

What score?

[elementofloyalty]

That I did this to prank him! Don't worry, he'll try and get his revenge somehow.

[fotlenke]

So then this is just a game between friends?

[elementofloyalty]

Yeah, sort of. He's freaked out and angry, but it's not serious. Deep down he's not really offended or hurt or anything. He'll just plot some fiendish revenge!

[That's the important thing -- this isn't the sort of prank that can hurt Ed's feelings. With a lot of time passed, he might even chuckle and admit it was a good one. (A whole lot. Like, deathbed confession here.)]

[fotlenke]

Then I wish you the best of luck in your amusing prank!

[elementofloyalty]

Thanks! Now I better go get him back...

[Off she zooms!]