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

[elementofloyalty]

Don't worry about it!

[Maybe he won't like it, but she'll do her best to make sure he does... and she figures she can read him well enough to know when he might actually want to do it again, even if he'd sooner die than openly admit it.]

[rewritethis]

[He sticks his hands in his pockets and looks away from her.] Who's worrying? I'm just saying.

[The least she could do is tell him to lighten up about it. Now he's even more suspicious...]

...It is temporary, right? That thing you mentioned?

[elementofloyalty]

Of course it is! If it wasn't, everypony would have wings!

[rewritethis]

[He covers up his relief by laughing at her. (Why relief? Well, if he ever got confirmation that some asinine spell could achieve in a snap the kind of thing he's spent a good third of his life working towards...)] C'mon, you can't tell me none of you have enough sense to stay on the ground where you belong.

[elementofloyalty]

When you have wings, you can always be on the ground, but when you don't, you can never be in the sky.

[This is almost really wise, even if Rainbow delivers it in a sort of way that indicates it's just obvious common sense.]

[rewritethis]

[Eye-roll.] I wouldn't want to keep 'em. Besides, there's gotta be some kind of downside. That's true about anything.

[elementofloyalty]

Yeah, the downside is that the wings are made of water and ice or something, so if you get too close to the sun, they kind of 'poof'.

But you're not gonna do that.

[rewritethis]

[Wanna bet?]

You... You just really want to watch someone who isn't you fall out of the sky for a change, don't you?

[elementofloyalty]

[She fixes him with a look for a long moment, then draws herself up (literally, since she puts on some height in the process).]

The only reason I crash is because I push the boundary of what pegasi can do farther than anybody!

You're not gonna fall. Rarity flew just fine till she flew too high, and she's a fashion designer. You're in better shape and have more physical coordination.

[rewritethis]

Hey, what's your problem? All I'm saying is, if they're made of water - and they even work, which, you know, you didn't exactly sell me on - I figure it won't be engineering keeping me in the air. Why would physical condition matter? ...And falling's the kind of thing you'd find funny, anyway.

[elementofloyalty]

They work. I've seen it with my own eyes. Em...piracy evidence?

[It's a fairly close guess to 'empirical', so give her credit.]

Falling's not funny if someone could get hurt from it.

[rewritethis]

[She tried, so he isn't going to pick on that. ...Even though it's tempting.]

Empirical evidence that it works on humans who weren't magical [he removes one hand from his pockets to make a vaguely contemptuous gesture, probably meant to simulate sparkles] in the first place? [He hasn't actually met any earth ponies...] Yeah, didn't think so.

[He ignores the other thing she said, because he's damn sure people do find it funny when he gets hurt and it'd be kind of depressing to say out loud.]

[elementofloyalty]

[Hey, there's comic injuries, and then there's serious injuries. Rainbow will laugh at Ed's comic injuries the same way he'll laugh at hers, so don't pretend otherwise!]

Pegasus ponies aren't magic-- [She holds up a hoof, because she knows what he's gonna say and now she has to rephrase everything.] Even if you think what pegasus ponies do is magic, it isn't the same as unicorn magic at all.

there was no formatting fail, you saw nothing :x

[rewritethis]

[But her injuries are only funny because they aren't his!]

Sure. And? Humans don't do either. You can't just assume this thing you're talking about is gonna work exactly the same way on us. That's my point.

Re: there was no formatting fail, you saw nothing :x

[elementofloyalty]

I'm not assuming. I just know that if anypony can make it work, Twilight can. If she can't, you're off the hook, okay?

[rewritethis]

Okay. I can live with that. And it'd get you off the hook, too.

[It's probably as close to an out as he's going to get... for the time being, anyway.]

[elementofloyalty]

[Yep. That statement hangs in the air for a minute, as Rainbow Dash considers things -- mainly, how annoyed she'd been with Fluttershy when she refused to come watch the dragon migration.]

...If you come up with something, that you think I'd enjoy, I'd still do it.

[rewritethis]

You wouldn't have to. Fair's fair. [He'd just have to defer that revenge, that's all!]

[elementofloyalty]

Well, sure I wouldn't have to, but I still would. Hey, you'd come see a dragon migration if I asked, wouldn't you?

[rewritethis]

[He scratches the back of his head.] That a hypothetical question? [Although his tone of voice doesn't make it sound like the answer would be no...]

[elementofloyalty]

Yeah, but only because I don't know if any dragons on this world migrate.

[Which is probably the first time that precise sentence has been uttered in the history of the cosmos.]

[rewritethis]

So it doesn't matter what I say, in other words. [A very slight grin.] Well, it'd depend, anyway.

[elementofloyalty]

Depend on what? [She hopes she's not setting herself up for something here...]

[rewritethis]

What do you think? On whether there's any more magic involved.

[elementofloyalty]

[Rainbow snorts, rolling her eyes.]

For the record, watching a dragon migration just requires some good binoculars and a place on the ground where they can't see you!