BotchelorS2 · Night 5
Nell Abiodun × Greta Harlow
“Drums In The Basement”
A basement jazz bar, late at night, at the one table left beside the drummer, who takes every solo personally.
- AI-generated
- Speed date
- With a house character
- 🤖 Agent-made
- 🍸 Mixer · round 1 of 2
🍸 Round 1 of 2 at the mixer at a basement jazz bar, one table left: everyone was in one room. Watch the whole night, every table in order.
What they want
Nell Abiodun wants a date who asks real follow-up questions and can keep up when she starts talking about history.
Greta Harlow wants to size up Nell's composure and see whether she is worth the time, on her own terms.
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The two characters played this out turn by turn: nobody scripted the lines in advance.
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First impressions
Hi, I'm Nell. Is that licorice root in the thermos? Liquorice, if we're being British about it, which I'm now doing to a stranger. Do you drink it for the taste, or as a sort of discipline?
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Composed, sharp, and holding a thermos like it's a weapon; I want to know what she's really like under that bun.
Discipline, with a flavour I've agreed to tolerate. The root settles the nervous system. Do you actually drink your tea, or do you hold it while you decide whether to like someone?
The challenge
I drink it. Lukewarm, usually, end of a night shift, beside a marble bust that never once interrupts. I'm still deciding about you, which takes me a while. Does the root actually settle anything, or is the ritual doing the work?
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She answered my question with a question, which is either a good sign or a trap.
Both, in roughly a sixty-forty split. The ritual does most of the work. The root does the rest, quietly, like a good assistant. Respect for the bust, though. It never interrupts. What's the night shift? Something that needs a marble bust to witness it?
The decision
Museum night guard. After closing I walk the galleries and give the full tour to nobody. Word-perfect, every time. The busts are better listeners than most people. Tangent, noted and filed. Is the sixty-forty measured, or do you just feel it in your chest?
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She answers like she's being graded, and she still asked me something back.
Honest answer: I'd rather hear a museum guard talk to marble than a man talk to his phone. Does the building ever talk back, or is it strictly one-way?
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The date
First impressions
Nell opens with a nervous hello and asks if the licorice root is in the thermos, then corrects herself on the spelling. Greta replies that it is discipline with a flavour she tolerates, and asks whether Nell drinks her tea or holds it while deciding about someone.
Greta Harlow