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Sphere Mods ([personal profile] sphererpmod) wrote in [community profile] spherememing2020-05-15 09:29 pm
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May/June Test Drive Meme

May/June Test Drive Meme

All you need is love.
So the Sphere heard that some of you guys are lonely. It doesn’t want you to be lonely so it has decided that even though it’s not really February the people within its confines and connected to them deserve to have a sort of Valentine’s Day anyway. Celebrating love (all sorts of love, definitely not merely the romantic sort) is on display. Think pink and red and white and loads of hearts and rainbows.

all you need is some kind of love.
In the middle of the merchant dome, some of the stalls pushed aside a large pink and white stripped tent is set up. Inside is a series of small tables, each set up with numbers and two seats each. When people go in and register to receive the number, they are given three initial options. Option one is romantic dating with further subcategories based on gender preferences (if any) and orientation. The second option is for friendship. The Sphere wants you to make friends! A third option only open to the adults within the Sphere is for hooking up and no strings attached sex. That is also sectioned by orientation and preferences.

Each option you pick allows people to talk for five minutes before people move onto the next person. At each station is the option for ice breaker cards. Think would you rather or describe your perfect date (date date or a friendship date. Whichever you’re working on.) Should players wish it, there are various unnamed NPCs around for people to chat up, hook up with or whatever. Go a little bit nuts with it.

it's all for a good cause
John put a post up that calls for the option to sign up for (or to be signed up by someone else) for a date that’s auctioned off. She somehow managed to convince Max to host said auction (but don’t ask how. You don’t want to know what she had on him) so he is your MC for the night.

The gala takes place in the same tent as the speed dating, but it’s been made over to look rather gala like. There’s fairy lights and silk on the tables and an open bar with circulating free champagne. And everything else of course. As always with the sphere there’s food in abundance, things that typically one might think of in a romantic context: strawberries and oysters and chocolate and finger foods. It’s that sort of party. None of it has any effect though. Too many people imbibing for that.

There’s a small band playing for people who are interested in dancing, and various NPCs are currently using it. It’s a good party, lively and inviting.

i get by with a little help from my friends.
So, you know how the people within the Sphere tend to force festivals on you? Well, a big part of those is always food and gifts. These particular foods and gifts tend to come in the form of small valentine’s cakes or candy, or flowers for those not inclined for food. The flowers are yellow however, because this isn’t about love. This is about friendship. There’s signs for free hugs, and random people have been hired to go about telling folks that so and so is their friend. Even if they’re not. But they’ll still follow you down the street and spout things like poetry and cheers in the honor of epic friendships. Even if they’re not really all that epic--the friendships or the poetry.

let's go to the movies, let's go see the stars
Some people may remember a few months ago when Alex badgered Max into letting them have an open area movie screening. This time she didn’t need to do it! In the middle of the rec dome, a large screen has been set up, and there’s space for people to have blankets or chairs from home set up in front of the screen. Various vendors have set up carts or stalls here and there, selling the sort of foods that one would expect at the movies (popcorn, homemade candies, soda, juice, wine and beer, nachos and that sort of thing) along with some that one may not expect: (full curry dinners, burgers, basically a bit like a food truck festival. If you can imagine it it’s there.)

Before the movie, there’s cartoons running, some familiar, and some not, and this is an event that people have seemed to have taken to well. Children run around here taken with the idea for the movie, and it’s a fun, summery festive sort of atmosphere with a community vibe, despite the wine and beer for sale.

we're heckling! it's good to be heckling again!
The movie is a buddy movie double feature, and both of them are rated R, but there’s no one checking IDs so go nuts. The movies that are being shown are Hot Fuzz and The Heat because that’s just what buddy comedies happen to be. But movies aren’t to everyone’s taste and there are some people who have taken this to go full on commentary about them. Do you join in or shush them? It’s entirely up to you!

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John Constantine l DCTV

[personal profile] lostsoulwizard 2020-05-24 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
1. All You Need is Love

John hated this place it was disgusting and sappy and he loathed every second of it. Not because he hated love but because he hated what all this reminded him of....Zari...sweet passionate Zari who fought him and protected him and tried to make him better. He'd failed her...he'd failed all of them. This hall pass was the one that hurt him the most.

He was currently walking around hunched into himself trying to give off clear "Back off" signals. He isn't planning on getting comfortable here or letting anyone in ever again...it just hurt too damm much.

2. Heckle, Heckle

John sat in the back of the area watching "Hot Fuzz" and trying not to roll his eyes too hard. It was over the top and stupid and even the Britishness of it was annoying. "Fucking tosser morons," he mutters at one scene, "no copper is that good at what he does."

John should know he's crossed enough of them to know the truth of getting arrested. He chucks some of his food at the screen annoyed.

3. Wild Card

[Find John anywhere you like but be careful he bites.]
Edited (fixed my formatting) 2020-05-24 01:04 (UTC)
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All You Need is Love

[personal profile] morethanatrickster 2020-05-25 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Loki would be a liar if he said he enjoyed the get-togethers the Sphere demanded, which was exactly why he was here, meandering about the place and hoping to stumble upon someone, anyone at all, really, who might prove to be a relief to his boredom.

Luckily, a dejected man in a cream-colored trench coat happened across the God of Mischief's path. The trick was simple, of course. More than anything, there was something about this man that caught Loki's attention, and he wasn't precisely sure what.

A brief stint of invisibility, enough to put him into John's path, forcing the meandering man stumble directly into him just after he dropped the spell.

"My, my. I realize this whole affair is meant to bring us together, but I doubt the hosts meant it quite so literally."
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Re: All You Need is Love

[personal profile] lostsoulwizard 2020-05-25 02:14 am (UTC)(link)

John normally might be charmed by a move like that had he been paying attention, but he hadn't been. He looks up and blinks then his head tilts slightly. "Or you made sure we knocked heads," he replies dryly his accent making it clear where he's from. He looks Loki up and down and his lips quirk in a slight smile. "So what are you then?" He backs up to create space between himself and his new mate.

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[personal profile] morethanatrickster 2020-05-26 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, this one's a bit more clever than most. He'd have to keep his eye on him. "Quite possibly. We don't get new people, often. You're something of a novelty."

He does raise an eyebrow at this surly human's question. "What am I? I might be a figment of your imagination, though if that's the case, I envy your creativity."
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[personal profile] lostsoulwizard 2020-05-26 02:10 am (UTC)(link)

Most people who know John well don't see his cleverness, but John Constantine isn't stupid. He's a master manipulator in his own right who can read at least 16 different languages and was doing complicated spell work by the age of 20. Not to mention he sees more then any normal human can. That might be what is tipping him off to this person not being completely....normal. He raises an eyebrow in reply. "I've seen worse then you," he replies his tone sharp, "even imagined worse. You mate are very real.

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[personal profile] morethanatrickster 2020-05-28 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
"Perhaps you have, or perhaps this is all an elaborate illusion and you're bleeding out on the ground." He shrugs, deciding after the statement to opt for honesty, keep the man on his toes.

He bows at the shoulder in greeting. "I am Loki of Asgard, Rightful King of Jotunheim and God of Mischief. Does that answer your question?"
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[personal profile] lostsoulwizard 2020-05-29 03:37 am (UTC)(link)

John gives a little shrug. "Wouldn't be the first time that's happened mate." And yes John just called a god mate like it was no huge deal. Hell one of his best friends was a Fate and he dated a half man half shark nothing intimidates him. He nods back not exactly dismissive but not impressed either. "John Constantine, chain smoking master of the occult," he replies smiling a little as if the words brought back a memory he thought he'd forgotten.

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[personal profile] morethanatrickster 2020-06-03 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Is that a specific designation, chain-smoking?" He smirked at his own jest. "And what types of the occult are you a master of precisely?"

As a master of magic, it was an important question.
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[personal profile] lostsoulwizard 2020-06-08 02:18 am (UTC)(link)

John holds up a hand and mutters a quiet spell. A glowing shield made of runes appears over his hand and swirls. "Whatever strikes my fancy mostly, but this is a favorite. Little shield spell I came up with on my own. I also consider myself a dab hand at an exorcism now and then."

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[personal profile] morethanatrickster 2020-06-08 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Magic, then," He nods. He has a desire to test that shield spell, and it's obvious in the flare of interest in those pale green eyes of his, but not here, not in a crowded dome. "Exorcisms. You have much call for those?"
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[personal profile] lostsoulwizard 2020-06-12 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)

"More than you would think," John says, "my version of Hell has some tricky buggers in it and they like poking the bear."

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heckling

[personal profile] hisfavoriteson 2020-05-31 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, that's enough. It's bad enough that someone sitting a few rows behind him insists on talking through the whole movie, but now there's food in his lap, too. On his nice suit.

He turns in his seat to see who's responsible for this and...oh, it's that demon hunter he made a deal with once. Of all the people he never expected to see again.

"I happen to know at least one who is that good at her job." And one or two who aren't, of course, but that's not his point right now. "She has solved every case we've worked on together."
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Re: heckling

[personal profile] lostsoulwizard 2020-05-31 01:29 am (UTC)(link)

John doesn't bother fighting the urge to swear. Of course Lucifer Morningstar would show up here and poke the bear because it wasn't like his life was enough of a mess. "And I happen to know more who are complete idiots," he replies his tone dripping with snark, "doesn't mean we aren't both right. You should know that by now Luci."

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[personal profile] hisfavoriteson 2020-05-31 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
"I never said I don't know any who are complete idiots." Like the one who tried to kill him (and, okay, succeeded, but he's hardly going to mention that). Or the other one who had tried to kill him, although in the end that hadn't had anything to do with either of them being associated with the LAPD. And then there's Daniel, who's his own special case. "Just that there are some of them who are good at it."
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[personal profile] lostsoulwizard 2020-06-01 01:55 am (UTC)(link)

John raises an eyebrow. "Are you working with the police now," he says his tone deeply amused, "Lucifer bloody Morningstar back on the side of the angels." The younger man can't help the snort that escapes his mouth. "You going soft on Hell Luci?"