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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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Jon doesn't notice her at first. He'd never met her, so to him she's just another face in the crowd. A face he hasn't seen before, to be sure, with an undeniable sadness about her. But it's not until his second or third time scanning the crowd that his gaze lingers at all.

He doesn't know why, but now that he's noticed her, he feels compelled to talk to her, to make sure she's okay. She seems overwhelmed, and he knows what that's like, too.

He might not know who she is, but there are hints as to his identity. The Westerosi clothing with the embroidered direwolf sigil, the real live direwolf padding along at his side, and finally his similarity in appearance to Robb. And when he speaks, the undeniable Northern accent.

"Is everything alright?"

She's startled by his approach, as though she's forgotten that she's still standing out there on the street, and she hastily wipes at her eyes with the back of one hand. "My Lord, I—" And then she falters at the sight of the direwolf sigil, her gaze lingering on it because of course she knows it, before it moves to the large white wolf at his side.

She lets out a shaky breath as her eyes lift back up to his face, and the words leave her even before she can even think to say them. "You must be Jon."

He's the surprised one now, at being recognized by someone he doesn't know. It happens often enough in Westeros, what with his name being Snow, and looking just like Ned, and the common knowledge of Ned Stark's bastard son. All he can figure is that she much be from Westeros, but that doesn't help him know who she is.

"I am Jon. I'm afraid I don't know who you are though."

It hadn't been that hard to figure out, really, considering all that Robb's told her about his family, and the fact that she had seen Robb earlier. Plus the direwolf is impossible to miss. She does, however, still duck her head shyly, thinking that it might have been a little too forward of her anyway.

"Apologies, my Lord. But Robb has spoken much of you..." Brown eyes peer up into Jon's grey ones, then at the white wolf by his side. "... and Ghost. My name is Jeyne. I'm his... wife..." She trails off, however, her hesitation and uncertainty clear, biting her lip before she corrects softly, "Was." She's not sure what to call them anymore. She'd died, hadn't she? And he has found another in this place?

"Jeyne!" His face immediately breaks into a smile at meeting a member of his extended family. Especially one that he knows means so much to Robb. "Robb's mentioned you. Have you just arrived?"

It's hard not to smile at the way Jon's face lights up, especially since Robb has said several times how broody and serious he usually was, although it doesn't stay on her lips for long. Robb's mentioned you. Merely mentioned, of course. In his grief? Who's to say?

"Aye. It has been..." She looks around uneasily. "So strange." Between dying and waking up in a foreign place and having to forcibly come to terms with what she's lost, and then that episode in the tavern and meeting Robb here... "I am rather overwhelmed, and I do not know what to do or where to go. But it is a pleasure to meet you at last, Jon."

Robb isn't wrong about that. There are some things that bring a smile to his face though, and it's been happening more often now that he's here in this place, away from the cares of Westeros.

"You should have been assigned a place to live. I can help you find it, if you'd like to go there. Or...have you seen Robb yet, or met Sansa?"

Sansa would be better at taking care of Jeyne than he would, he's sure/

"Aye, I have. I just... needed some air." She looks like she needs more than air, not that she seems to know what she wants or needs at all. Overwhelmed had been a good way to describe her.

"I have not met Sansa. I would love to meet her sometime, if it please her." Is it telling that she'd deliberately skipped Robb, despite Jon mentioning him first? Only after that does she say, "Robb and I have spoken." Her expression closes up, and it's oddly reminiscent of the way Catelyn's does whenever the subject of Ned's bastard comes up. "But I asked for his leave to take a walk. This place is... intriguing." Lies, lies, and more lies.

"It will certainly please Sansa." She likes to be in charge of things; she'll want to meet her brother's wife so she can form an opinion.

"There is a lot about this place that is overwhelming. It took some getting used to, but in time it can come to be like home. It's certainly safer than Westeros."

"So I have been told." There's that term the girl Eponine used — techa something? "You can make it rain? And lights appear like magic?" At least that's how she remembers the information that's been shared with her. It had been a little hard to wrap her mind around it, among all the other revelations that had hit her like a ton of bricks. "And there are no wars, no hunger, no..."

No death. She trails off, and there's suddenly a pained look in her eyes. She wrings her hands nervously in front of her; it takes everything not to rest them on her belly. "But, aye, I would be honored to meet Sansa."

"Showers? They're like bathing in a waterfall, except indoors. I enjoy them a lot. The lights are nice, too." There's so much more, like the train that travels between domes, but one thing at a time. He doesn't want to overwhelm her any more than she already is.

"I know where Sansa works. We could see if she's there? If she's not, we can try her dome next."

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after Robb maybe?

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