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Who: Everyone
What: The open April log.
When: The month of April.
Where: All over.
Notes: N/A

April Open Log

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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Movies were rare to come by. No, that wasn't entirely true, except sometimes things in this place were. Or something rare would show up out of nowhere. He's completely decked out in civilian clothing, just a simple t-shirt and jeans when he spots Michael. That cowboy hat and those boots, it has him smiling a bit before shaking his head.

"Enjoying yourself, cowboy?"

"They could have picked a better movie," Michael says and he glances over Alex, looking at him with that look he always had when Alex is in his view. Things were still complicated and Michael still doesn't trust Alex in the least bit but he loves him. He can't help himself and so they've been mostly okay.

Michael keeps his trust and abandonment issues to himself or to conversations with Sansa when he feels like it's all too much.

"I won't disagree with you there," Alex tells him looking towards the screen for a moment. One movie he's actually seen and the other, he's not so sure. He hadn't really made much time for things like that back home. Dealing with the military, his old man and everything the world wanted to throw at them.

"Maybe we should complain." He's not serious about that and it shows. Besides, complaining wouldn't really get them anywhere, and who would they complain to exactly. This kind of thing happened every once in a while.

"I doubt that'd get us anywhere," Michael rolls his eyes and takes another drink as glancing over at the other again, nodding to the space beside him.

"There's not many movies I actually like anyway."

"I doubt it too."

Actually, it wouldn't get them anywhere at all. Moving over, he sits down beside Michael and leans back a bit. He'd rather pay attention to the alien beside him than to the movie in front of them. He can't, however, help but crack a bit of a smile.

"No, there were never too many that you actually liked. I can probably count on one hand how many you liked. So, definitely not a lot."

"I mean there's probably more than you remember that I liked, I just pretended sometimes so it was easier to get you to make out with me," Michael grins a bit mischievously as he glances over at Alex to see the reaction to that.

Alex can't help but crack a smile at that, actually giving a bit of a laugh and shaking his head," Oh, is that what it was? Just so I'd make out with you. We didn't need movies to do that, Michael. They were just background noise."

"It was still a good excuse," Michael grins. And yeah, they never needed the movies, more often they just needed to be in the middle of nowhere in the bed of Michael's truck.

"Didn't say that it wasn't," Alex tells him, smile still in place. The movies had always been a good excuse for them. An excuse that landed them in the bed of the truck, but still an excuse none the less. "Too bad we don't have a truck around," he teases before leaning back a bit, focusing on the movie itself. Sort of. A movie that was really stupid, in his eyes, but still a movie none the less.

"Yeah... I miss that thing," Michael says, frowning a little. He'd really like to have it here but he seriously doubted that's even possible.

"Guess we have to make due with blankets like normal people."

"You know, I've not actually seen anyone drive around here."

It was something that Alex had noticed a while back, but hadn't thought about. Maybe he'd have to talk to the other Alex and see what was up with that. Or maybe it was something that could happen. There was really no telling.

"Maybe it isn't so bad to make use of the blanket instead."

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure they don't have cars and shit here," Michael says and it's a bit of an annoyance, limits the work he can do and he's always on the edge of stir crazy.

"You think so?"