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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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1. Wandering and Exploring

Events like this are why Poe loves being a pilot. He loves exploring and learning about other cultures to the point he worries about coming across annoying for asking so many questions. But's he wants to know everything so that he can share it with his friends. Watching Finn and Rey get excited about things he considers mundane has been fun and has allowed him to see things through fresh eyes.

Currently he's asking one of the vendors about their wares and learning about how they were made and what they are. He has no idea that anyone might be beside or next to him.

2. Movie Time

Poe didn't really get the whole watching a movie on a flat screen thing. He was used to the more dimensional feeling of a holo. But it was what most of the people here liked to do and he was willing to try something at least once to see if he liked it. The choices weren't bad just confusing since he had no frame of reference for most of it.

So his attention wasn't completely on the movie as he every so often looked around to people watch. He found that a lot more fun.

3. Wildcard

[Find Poe anywhere you like I'm game for almost anything.

Ben's currently trying to get some shopping done. Trying to win over Rey's porg and dealing with Watt's puppy is frustrating, and he can't seem to get a handle on either animal. The puppy is one thing, but there's a sense of guilt that comes with the porg. He's the reason his uncle was on that planet, after all. If it hadn't been for his choices, his uncle Luke wouldn't have run.

Physically, there's barely any trace of Kylo Ren remaining. He still favors all black, and his clothing is the same as when he once (arguably) ruled the galaxy, but the lightsaber on his hip is his uncle's, not the one he'd made so many years before.

"You're new?" It's a cautious question. He's still not used to putting himself out there when talking to people. His communal dorm is hard enough, but talking to strangers is worse. Still, this place emphasized helping others, and he wanted to be a better person; a person worth the chance this place had given him. He needed to try.

Edited 2020-05-24 03:43 (UTC)

Poe does a double take when Ben speaks He wants to reach for his blaster but he stops himself. He isn't attune to the Force at least he doesn't think so but he has trained himself to notice things and he notices that this person and Ren are different So he decides to stay calm and simply reply. "Yes," in a quiet voice. His tone might come off slightly tight, but he is facing his possible torturer which is understandable. "I just got here a few days ago."

He can sense Poe's unease through The Force, but he doesn't pry enough to know that he's the cause of it. This place is different, alarming, and he can understand why someone would feel uneasy if they'd just arrived. Not everyone harbored the knowledge that they were dead where they came from.

"I can help if you need it." His words are a bit quieter than they probably should be.

Poe knows he should be more careful, but he is a stranger here and he also knows that to deny someone who wants to help him would be a bad idea. "I wouldn't mind some help," he admits, "this place is a bit overhelming."

"It gets easier." More or less. Then again, Ben barely had anything when he came. He doesn't have much now, either. "What do you want to know?" He exchanges some money with the vender and offers Poe one. "They're good."

"How do you go about finding work to keep you busy," he asks first because Poe is used to the rush of battle and knows just walking around won't keep his mind sharp. "I doubt they need pilots around here."

Ah, it seems the other man doesn't want what Ben is offering. With the uneasiness that Ben can feel coming off him, he supposes he can understand. Most people don't simply accept this as their fate the way he did. "No. They don't need pilots." Not this deep underwater. What they did need this man probably couldn't offer. someone had once said that they needed a therapist, but he doubted that this man could do that.

"Ask someone if they need help." At least he supposes people do. Ben simply moves around like a ghost here, staying relatively out of the way unless someone asks him for something. "Some people make up their own jobs."

Poe nodded seeing the reasoning behind this. "What are people like around here," he asks next, "are they friendly or not?"

He had to think about it, friendly or not. Was there a difference really? "Are people really only one thing?" The words are a bit more mumbled. "Sometimes. Most people don't seem to be judgemental." Though, they haven't seen his deepest secrets. That assessment may change.

Poe winces realizing now how he just came across. "I'm sorry I shouldn't have phrased my question like that...it was rude."

"It's not something people think about." At least not people who don't have a checkered and bloodstained past. "Are you expecting people to be rude?"

"I'm in a new situation with a lot of people I don't know," Poe admits, "I don't know what to expect from anyone. And frankly it makes me twitchy."

Twitchy, honestly, Ben doesn't understand. He's never really had the luxury to be twitchy. "I haven't met anyone deliberately cruel. You don't need to be so, twitchy." He's using Poe's terminology, but the truth is that he can feel Poe's unease through the force. It's loud and imposing. "What are you looking to do?"

Rey is spending way more time in the market place than she wants to be doing right now. It's a whole damned thing. Instead of a droid dogging her steps here in this place, there's a porg that's following her around. Mostly anyway. Sometimes it wanders up to strangers, and squawks at them with an open beak and a loud noise, because the thing that it's most interested in is food and people. "Hey." The word is yelped to her when she needs to go and grab something inedible out of the porg's mouth. "That's not for you!"

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