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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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[ooc: information about Seth can be found on his journal here if you'd like it.]

i. it's all for a good cause

[Seth is a fan of parties.

He doesn't generally attend them to celebrate a specific holiday or mark an occasion but instead to watch those around him. A ready supply of liquor will often make such events exciting and this night already begins to show promise. He signs up for the dating auction and spends a great deal of his time before that circling the dance floor with a drink in his hand.

His white hair is messy, despite his efforts to run his fingers through it while pale golden eyes cast a curious gaze over the gala. Seth is still wearing what he'd arrived in and while it doesn't entirely fit in with the gala, it doesn't stand out either. His pants are black and well made while a white button down shirt covers most of his chest. A dark blue vest hangs over that while a silver pendant is looped around his neck, its insignia hidden beneath the buttons of his shirt.

When the auction begins he stands with the others and while he doesn't know anyone else here, he hopes that it goes well. He's handsome by some standards though thin and only lightly muscular compared to some of the others to be auctioned. When its his turn there is a bit of a smirk to his lips, as if he finds all of this very amusing.]

ii. i get by with a little help from my friends.

[This is a strange event and while Seth isn't particularly interested in it, he finds himself moving along with the crowd and trying his best to emulate those around him. Unlike some of the other men and women, Seth is a fan of poetry and able to recite many poems flawlessly from years of studious reading.

It doesn't matter who it is, male or female, adult or child, his goal is to spread cheer and good feelings to those around him.

Part way through the event he spots a young girl, maybe twelve, with a glimmer of moisture in her baby blue eyes. He thought of Lisa and found it impossible to ignore her. Nibble fingers swipe a rose from a bouquet of a passerby as he drops down to his knees in front of the young girl.]

Please, steady your heart my princess and allow me to recite to you a poem. [He presents the rose as a smile touches his lips.]

When I consider every thing that grows
Holds in perfection but a little moment.
That this huge stage presenteth nought but shows
Whereon the stars in secret influence comment.
When I perceive that men as plants increase,
Cheerèd and checked even by the self-same sky,
Vaunt in their youthful sap, at height decrease,
And wear their brave state out of memory;
Then the conceit of this inconstant stay,
Sets you most rich in youth before my sight,
Where wasteful Time debateth with decay
To change your day of youth to sullied night;
And all in war with Time for love of you,
As he takes from you, I engraft you new.
[credit: william shakespeare]

[The young girls crying stops and she stares as her small fingers wrap around the stem of the rose. Seth continues with only a brief pause, his voice gentle and warm.] Should you feel sad, please remember my words princess. [With the young girl stunned, Seth rises and heads back into the crowd.]

iii. wild card

[ooc: Come at me with any of the options!]

Don't try and get people to bid higher. Not worth it.

[The words are whispered a young man with equally white hair, and he doesn't look amused as he nurses a glass of wine. Of course it might make sense as to why. He's been auctioned off once already, and still has another two rounds to go. Hates his friends and family, thanks.]

People here just have nothing better to do with their lives.

Mm? [Seth glances over his shoulder at the young man standing at his side. This is the first time he's seen another with white hair and he can't help but think that perhaps there is some fate to this meeting. Not that Seth truly believes in fate but there is always a chance that something is pulling the strings of interaction.]

I was just going to stand up there. I haven't been here very long, not long enough anyway.

[He looks over the sea of faces and shrugs.

They were all strangers to him.]

Yeah, but don't you want the people who like, buy you for a day to be interesting?

[Tommy didn't. He just wanted them to leave him alone.]

Everyone is interesting. Sometimes it just takes a little bit of effort to find out what makes them unique.

[It's easier to find everyone interesting when you aren't technically human.]

What about you?

[Tommy sighs and shakes his head.]

My friends and family thought it would be 'good' for me to date. So here I am. Conned into this even though I didn't want it.

Why don't you leave?

[He glances around Tommy as if he's inspecting the area.]

I don't see anything holding you here.

You don't see it right now, because I'm behaving. My mom's magic. I try and go, she's going to fetch me back.

Really?

[He looks super confused.]

Are mom's supposed to do that?

My family is weird. So no, pretty sure they're not supposed to do that.

[Wanda has a will that Tommy be happy. He will be forced to be happy.]

I wouldn't know. I haven't had family but it sounds like they care about you.

[A beat.]

At least.

They are... something. I can say that they are definitely something.

[But he sighs and shakes his head.]

They’re new family.

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