May/June Test Drive Meme

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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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[prumia]

Jeyne blinks repeatedly as she struggles to catch up. Techa... what? She's never heard of that sort of magic before. Small rain showers? Lights that just appear? A place that's safe, that's freed them from death? Perhaps there is some merit to being here, as strange as the circumstances might be.

She only hopes she can find happiness, too. Her hand rests on her belly for a moment before she catches herself and draws it away. She can't think about that right now.

"Eponine, that is a lovely name." She means it. It sounds something from beyond the seas. "I..." Gods, her name. She can't bring herself to say it, suddenly afraid, though she's not sure what might hurt her more: that the girl would recognize it and what it means, or that she wouldn't? "I am Talisa Maegyr," Jeyne offers instead. It's... not exactly a lie. It had been an alias they'd agreed on for her, just in case the turn of the war would require her to run and disappear. "It is good to meet you."

[jondrette]

"thank you! So many here have liked it. It is a fancy name back home, one that does not fit a girl of my station. Here, though, it fits. Eponine Thenardier, if you wish to know my family name." Though why Talisa would wish for such a thing she didn't know. She was her own person here now, at long last.

"Your name is beautiful as well. Talisa Maegyr. You are welcome here any time you wish, Talisa. I hope we become friends."

[prumia]

Eponine Thenardier. The name rolls off the girl's lips beautifully.

Jeyne doesn't want to think what else rolls beautifully off her lips. Or whose lips her name would roll off beautifully.

"Thank you. I hope so, too." Because what else could she say to that, without giving herself away? Gods, if only the circumstances had been different. Maybe, in another life, one that doesn't involve Robb Stark, they could've been friends.

[jondrette]

A lot of names and things roll off her lips beautifully. Robb is many of those names and things.

"You must tell me if you wish a respectable job here. Not all here work, but I know Robb's sister makes such beautiful dresses here, and embroiders anything you could imagine. But I could always use more help here. We can get quite busy and I only have two hands." And sometimes one of them was occupied with Robb's butt.

Look, it was a really cute butt.