It is October 2036, and the Marina Bay Sands Convention Center in Singapore is holding an esper meetup. It is open to any esper, but the expectation is that mostly Asian and Oceanian espers will attend. The Marina Bay Hotel is supplying the meetup with hotel rooms, as well as handling transport to and from the airport. Staff from various guilds and agencies are expected too.

The mixer is held in a large ballroom with breakout rooms attached. There's tasteful lighting and decor, and tables of canapés. All of it is Halal-certified, and there are little stands signifying which foods are vegetarian or gluten-free or meeting other accommodations. There's satay and kueh pie tee and popiah and ondeh ondeh and kueh lapis and pandan sponge cake and...

Singapore has English, Malay, Mandarin, and Tamil as official languages but English is the lingua franca. Despite this, attendees are recommended but not required to wear nametags stating what languages they speak.

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