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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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It's been some time since someone from his universe has been drawn here by the Sphere, and he's surprised, at this little celebration, to find Agent Romanoff of all people. He quirks an amused eyebrow from across the way when a small child, a local from the look of her, gives the woman a friendly embrace.

He cloaks his approach with a simple invisibility spell in order to approach at her side in the crowd without the woman noticing, smirking as he drops the spell once he knows his quiet greeting will be heard. He has no idea how this woman is going to react, but in his experience, Romanoff is the most level-headed of their lot and the most likely to talk first rather than going to blows. What a shame that would be.

"Hello, Agent Romanoff. Enjoying the festival?"

Natasha crouched down in front of the little girl so she didn't notice Loki's movement at all. She knew magic existed but she didn't have any magical abilities so she didn't notice the spell at all.

She stood and bid the little girl goodbye, before picking up another flower. Even though she hadn't seen Loki in years, she would recognize his voice anywhere, being called a muelling quim tends to stick with a person.

"Loki... I can't say that I expected to see you here. I am... I suppose, are you?"

Loki would move that, in his defense, he was under a lot of duress at the time...and the influence of the mind stone. He might even, given enough time, admit he'd brought it all upon himself. He'd done a lot of growing recently.

He is still Loki, though, and that still means something. Normally, it means that he's a little shit.

"I always enjoy myself, Agent." He raises an eyebrow, smirking. "Am I ever expected?"

Natasha glanced at Loki out of the corner of her eye, still watching the fray going on around her.

"It's just Natasha now. I'm not an Agent of anything at the present time," She trails off.

Does she sound angry? Bitter? Maybe a little bit sad? absolutely!

"Please tell me that all of this," She asked, waving her hand around her. "is not all your doing?"

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i get by with a little help from my friends

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