thespherelogs | August Mingle Log

Who: Everyone
What: The open August log.
When: The month of August.
Where: All over.
Notes: Fireflies.

August Open Log

innnnnnnn summer

So, someone seems to have gotten the idea that summer has kicked into high gear. Or at least it would if there were seasons here other than the artificial ones. So the party this month definitely has a large summer bent to it! Instead of the main party being held in the merchant dome, which has another purpose right now, the party is being held in the Rec dome. More than that, it’s being held around the swimming area. The swimming area consists of three pools and smaller communal bathing areas. The large pool is Olympic sized, and is a sparkling blue. It’s fresh water, and probably clean enough to drink. I still wouldn’t drink it. The second pool is slightly smaller and more kidney shaped with a gradual sand mound at one end of it. This pool is salt water and looks a bit more like a beach than a pool.For those who are missing the actual sea, the pool is a wave one, the highest wave cresting at about four feet. The third pool is a kiddie pool, complete with a splash pad, that’s running. Buckets drop, it’s got one of those mushroom things, and sprinkler jets.

Set up between the pools is a brightly colored tent, and there’s massive grills going behind it. These are definitely the sort of grills that one uses to feed the sort of crowds that would be at old timey Church socials. Every sort of meat is being grilled or smoked on them that you can imagine, right down to an entire suckling pig on one end. Veggies and corn and potatoes in foil are at various stations, and locals are pleased to hand you some of whatever you want before directing you to the cold salads stations or to the long picnic tables covered in red and white checked tablecloths.

On a different long table is beverages of every sort: wine, beer, sangria, sweet tea, lemonade from ice-cold carafes. They’re being served in red solo cups, going along with the theme of this being a picnic. Strangely enough, there doesn’t seem to be any desserts anywhere. You’re gonna need to go elsewhere for that!

For those who didn’t bring a bathing suit or a towel (or a cover up if you’re feeling modest) they will be provided in the changing rooms along with flip-flops. The changing rooms also have volleyballs for the volleyball net, and an assortment of sand toys and beach balls for people to play with. There’s also various local bands playing music, and a temporary dance floor for people to jam on.

Additionally, the baths are still present! There’s a large bamboo building near it, and inside are various sets of hot and cool pools, sauna and steam pools, a masseuse and other spa treatments and the like. There are three options for these times. 1.Strictly bathing suits, 2, strictly mixed nudity/ bathing suits and 3. Strictly separated nudity. No one below the age of eighteen is getting naked in the baths, sorry kids.

ten million fireflies, i'm weird cause i hate goodbyes.

Someone, somewhere during the movie night said that they missed nature, so the Sphere has provided. As the “sun” in the rec dome starts to “set” people will notice something odd. Small, fluorescent bugs appear seemingly out of nowhere. It’s just one or two at first, but then they almost seem to fill the sky, creating an internal galaxy. The bugs are entirely harmless, and will land eagerly almost in cupped hands, and form crowns in people’s hair. They’re listless and practically tame, but will only be here for the night, so enjoy them before they disappear in the morning.

oh so the cake is not in fact a lie

Several weeks ago now, Carol and Alex got started talking about desserts and baking. Alex, being candian mentioned that the one thing other than coffee that she can cook is Nanaimo bars which are a no bake dessert. Carol ran with the idea and the two of them went to Max with the idea of having a no bake no sale. So, they opened it up and main street too is set with those red and white table cloths and picnic tables, and are strewn with lights and there are many many no bake desserts set out. Basically anything you can imagine is there, from Alex’s Nanaimo bars and Carol’s Chocolate drop cookies, to any varieties of cheesecake, mousse, tiramisu, pudding, rice krispy squares and so on. There’s also more beverages of every variety here in those red solo cups.

For those more health-conscious there’s also a variety of fruits and cheeses around. There’s also more music and a variety of card games. Of course betting is surely optional but no one’s really looking all that hard are they?

exploration: teeth and bones. (yes again)

After what had happened, there really is no putting back the seals on the doors to the places that were opened up, even though the council has tried with some of them. There are some doors that are deemed too dangerous to let anyone go inside of (lava and ghosts are not good things to let loose inside the Sphere, no matter how fun it would be at the time) but the door in the infirmary (in the morgue) needs to be open for practical purposes. Which may not be great for people who work in the infirmary, but there it is.

Once people drop through a hatched hole in the floor of the morgue, there’s tunnels extended out for several hundred yards, into the dark. If you have a flashlight, it’s clear to see that here and there the walls are etched with Latin, carved into the stone of the tunnels themselves in what looks more than a little bit like scratches rather than anything that resembles tool marks. The words are repeated at first, over and over: ”cave veniunt!" And "ossa et dentibus illius ruminandum!" Along with the repeated: “cave.”

The skeletons inside are supposed to have been all taken care of, but you can’t help the uneasy feeling that moves down your neck in the darkness, or the way that you can swear you can hear more than a little bit of a hiss of bone. There are things discarded here on the floor of the hallway, gathering more value with the deeper that you go, but is it worth being down here in the dark with the dead for that?

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"A spell for what?" Her voice drifted off for a second as she closed her eyes and focused for a second. "Someone scratched this in." It was haunting how she could almost see the faded outline of someone scratching the words in.

"Wrong. It feels wrong. Does anyone know where the skeletons came from?" She moved away from the wall after a second and then continued on just expecting him to follow.

"No, but someone scrawled these incantations into the walls in the language of the old Earth scholars." They were speaking, and not in low tone, and the wandering skeletons weren't attacking them. "I assume they are guardians, but not against explorers. That, or they are meant to protect something we've yet to disturb."

That was a realization that hit her very suddenly and she pushed forward straight towards the skeletons. "They're not attacking are they?" It was a statement said to herself than him. It was clear they weren't attacking even as she walked through them and then noticed something kind of glowing off in the distance. "Do you see that?"

"They are not, as I said already." He followed her gaze, keeping pace with her easily enough. He glow in the distance caught his attention enough to quicken his pace. "I do. Let us see what it's hiding."

"You do magic, right? Anyway idea why or what's powering them? Specifics, obviously." They both knew it was a spell of some kind, she didn't need that reinforced. While speaking she moved towards what they were both look at. Once they got there she motioned for him. "Can you make anymore light?"

"I...do, yes." 'Doing magic' was a way to describe having learned the secrets of magic from the time he was a child. "I would assume they were animated as a sort of golem, most likely to protect something for an infinite amount of time. Golems don't tire or require recharging." He waved a hand and three more balls of light sparked into existence and raised toward the ceiling, illuminated the walls around them. He stepped closer to get a better look at the spells carved into the walls.

"Otherwise, I'll need more time to take apart the weave of these spells. They're...impressively intricate."

"Interesting." And she actually sounded interested in what he was saying and what he was doing. After he provided more light she went about looking around a slight distance from him.

"Looks like there's some more medical equipment this way. I wonder who left this all. People like us or the people who built this thing?" That was the real question. For a second she didn't say anything more to him as she mentally weighed the option of sharing a bit more information about herself with him. She didn't trust him. Not because of anything he'd done but rather because she didn't trust anyone. But he had been open with his magic.

"If they were more than skeletons I might be able to find out who they were. Doubt there's really anything left of them anymore though, not if they've been reduced to just being an eternal watcher. Would be nice to have more information about this place though."

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