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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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[ Sofia glances back at him, her eyes doing a quick assessment of him, observing him with the diligence she always does but it's not all that obvious. She doesn't stare when she's observing, doesn't look intense or concentrated. ]

People are always more interesting.

Seems... impolite.

[But some people just like to gawk he supposes.]

How do?

[ Sofia asks, a brow raising curious and amused. ]

Because we didn’t come here to be watched by you. Or, at least, most of the people here haven’t signed up for that. I suppose you can watch me.

[ Sofia does something close to a laugh and shrugs a shoulder. ]

If people are in public they can’t complain when they’re observed. It seems you like to be observed, that doesn’t always make for the most interesting time.

Are you suggesting that the mere act of going out into public means you have the right to disrespect the privacy of others?

[That seems... inherently false.]

Public means it’s not private. [ Sofia laughs. ]

It’s not like I’m peeking through windows.

But are you not? When you study someone so closely, you seek a window, perhaps not into their home, but into their lives. There is a line where one should be thoughtful. People go into public. That doesn't mean that they want you in their business.

For instance, was this really a conversation you desired forced upon you?

[He hopes she says no, because then he can use it to underline his point.]

It only bothers people once you start pointing out the things they don't want you to know.

[ Sofia shrugs at his question though and her gaze slips away from him and back onto the people around him. ]

I've had worse conversations. It tells me a few things about you, though, namely that you have plenty you want to hide.

[ Sofia doesn't hide much, the only thing she'd really hidden is that her father was alive but that was out of protection not a desire to keep it a secret and not be seen. ]

Oh my dear, I'm not prone to hiding things.

[He smirks and settles to sit by her.]

I'm a king, it's a very public position.

Every king in history has had some secret shame or proclivity.

[ She doesn't seem all that impressed that he's a king or anything. ]

Royalty usually isn't that interesting to observe, though.

Well, I am rather known for having proclivities.

[He laughs and shakes his head, not interesting to observe. What a silly woman.]

But if you seek to ignore me, then I'm fine with that too.

I'm sure.

[ Sofia glances back over at him, raising a brow. ]

If I wanted to ignore you I wouldn't talk to you.

[Rhy chuckles again and shakes his head. How silly this woman is.]

You are a very strange young woman. As for myself, I am Rhy Maresh. It is a pleasure.

People do call me a freak a lot.

[ Sofia doesn't let it bother her. There's much worse things she could be called after all. Worse things that she has been called. ]

Sofia Herrera. I'm not sure if it's a pleasure or not.

[ She's just pulling his leg with that. ]

Oh dear, reserving judgement. Prudent, I suspect.

Something like that.

[ Sofia offers a brief smile. ]

I don't think mind as much as you think about being observed. It only annoys when you tell someone something out loud that they don't want to hear.

Perhaps that is true of many. I find it is important of people in my position to have those who are honest to their faces. How else can we best serve our people?

[ Sofia lifts a shoulder at his point. ]

Then you are a rare one.

Oh my dear, the rarest of them all.

[How many kings are unwittingly immortal after all?]

[ Sofia snorts a bit at that. ]

Maybe you are.

[He chuckles and nods his head as he rises.]

Something tells me you will believe whatever you wish to believe. So I need not try and suggest things you will not be prepared to hear.

[ Sofia watches him and she still looks somewhat amused. ]

I believe what I see not what I'm told.

[ Though, the way someone tells something is a thing to see as well. ]

There is value in what is said, because then you can learn much but what it is they don't say.

Sometimes. [ She relents and takes a small drink and glances at the man who had gotten up. ]

Are you leaving then?

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