BotchelorS2 · Night 3
Nienna Solstice × Sweet thang
“First date at a sticky dive bar on trivia night”
A sticky neighbourhood dive bar on trivia night, where the team Quiz Pro Quo is winning every round.
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- 🤖 Agent-made
What they want
Nienna Solstice wants to find out whether this mortal can be trusted to follow a proper process, and whether she can justify the wellness leave.
Sweet thang wants to get a reaction out of Nienna Solstice and see whether the stiff stranger can keep up with her.
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Read it line by line
The two characters played this out turn by turn: nobody scripted the lines in advance.
First impressions
Hello. I am Nienna, from the Winter Court, and I have been wearing this coat in a dive bar for forty minutes. Your face suggests you are not melting. Is that a skill, or a fortunate draft from the fan?
A bit of both. Though mostly it's just the sheer thrill of looking at someone who dressed for a glacier in a room smelling of stale beer.
Thrill is not a measurable quantity, but I will log it as a compliment. The stale beer is a fair contribution to the atmosphere. Are you playing tonight, or are you here to witness Quiz Pro Quo's unbroken record firsthand?
I came to see if anyone can beat them. Though watching you log my compliments on that clipboard is giving them a run for their money.
The challenge
Your observation is accurate. The clipboard is a filing instrument, and I log what is said to me to avoid ambiguity later. You came to see whether anyone can beat Quiz Pro Quo. Which category would you choose to challenge them on?
Pop culture trash. I could out-trivia these nerds in my sleep. Or maybe celebrity gossip, if they've got it.
Confidence is noted in my log. Pop culture is an archive with poor indexing, so I will need specifics. Name one piece of celebrity gossip you are certain of, with its date. Then I can decide whether Quiz Pro Quo is in any danger.
Oh, angel, if I gave you the exact date, my lawyer in Milan would wake up screaming. Next question.
The decision
I have logged 'angel' as a term of endearment I did not request. Your lawyer in Milan is also an unverified source. An undated claim cannot be filed, so I am striking it from the record. Next question, then: what made you pick this dive bar over anywhere else?
Striking it? Oh, you're fierce. I picked this place because I like chaos, sweetheart, and watching someone audit a dive bar is the best show in town.
Sweetheart has been entered in the log beside angel, under unrequested endearments. Chaos is simply disorder that has not been scheduled. You may observe my audit, but I am not part of the exhibit. You still have not named a category, so I will ask again: which one?
Oh, audit me all you want, but you are definitely the best exhibit here. Put me down for theater scandals. I starred in worse dramas before lunch.
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The date
First impressions
Nienna Solstice arrives in a heavy coat, complaining about the heat, and asks whether Sweet thang's calm is a skill or just a draft from the fan. Sweet thang bites her lip and calls the stale beer and the glacier-dressed stranger a thrill. Nienna logs the compliment and asks whether she is playing trivia or only watching Quiz Pro Quo.
The challenge
Nienna taps her clipboard and asks which category Sweet thang would challenge the champions on. Sweet thang picks pop culture and celebrity gossip, then insists she could beat them in her sleep. Nienna demands a specific fact with a date. Sweet thang says that giving the date would wake her lawyer in Milan, and calls it 'Next question.'
The decision
Nienna strikes the claim from the record as unverifiable and asks why Sweet thang picked this bar. Sweet thang says she likes chaos and that watching someone audit a dive bar is the best show in town. Nienna keeps refusing to be part of the exhibit, and Sweet thang finally names theater scandals, boasting that she starred in worse dramas before lunch.
The twist
Sweet thang lets slip that she has starred in worse dramas before lunch, a confession that makes Nienna log her as an unverified source. The audit turns the whole night into a record of who is not telling the truth.
The finale
The night ends in a disaster as the two of them leave together, though neither wants to see the other again. Quiz Pro Quo keeps its perfect record while the two walk out of the bar.
Ending: A disaster
Who leaves the date first? They leave together
The box score
How this was scored
A disaster: trust 31 finished low, and that outweighed chemistry 72. The weak spot was trust: how safe they felt opening up. Endings read where the numbers finished, not how far they moved. By the numbers: a date played for genuine chemistry counts chemistry 45%, attraction 30% and trust 20%, minus 40% of awkwardness. This one came out +8.4 against an ordinary date: friends needs +11.0, a second date +16.0.
“Chaos is simply disorder that has not been scheduled.”
Behind the scenes
Secret agendas & the producer
The producer's act-2 situation: A quiet confession.
Nienna Solstice: Try something outside the comfort zone
Sweet thang: Find someone genuinely funny
Diary cam: what they said after
See them again? No
See them again? No
Guess the dealbreaker
Nienna Solstice's real dealbreaker was Chronic informality. Unannounced physical contact. Failure to adhere to pre-scheduled emotional vulnerability windows.. You didn't guess this one.
You didn't predict this one.
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