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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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God this felt so nice. Good thing Gar can't get into his head, to sense this. To sense the contentment like this. In time, though, he lets the swing come to a slow stop.

"Wanna go back to eating some?"

Gar can tell a little bit even if it's not quite tangible. There's a certain feeling when two people are comfortable with something like this. When it just feels a bit natural.

"Yeah, sure," he says after a moment but he is slow to actually want to move.

Not like Tommy's going to stand up abruptly and dump Gar onto the ground, so, yeah, Tommy doesn't move. Just lets the guy stay there for now.

"We could just, you know, stay here for a bit."

Gar bites his lip and he gives Tommy the faintest nuzzle, there’s always a bit of the tiger’s mannerisms in him.

“You’re hungry, though?” Gar says. “This is just nice,” he adds.

Were there tiger mannerisms in Gar, or was Gar just like that normally? Not a question he much cared about it.

"If I'm hungry right now, it's definitely not for food."

“What’s it for?” Gar asks but he’s still not moving.

"Nothing you do on a first date unless you're easy like I am," Tommy dismisses. Come on, he's a fucking slut and he owns that.

“It’s not like we’re meeting for the first time or something,” Gar says and maybe he’s easy too.

“Tell me... or show me.”

"Yeah, pretty sure that is not dating protocol," Tommy rolls his eyes. Because don't be silly. You don't hook up with a guy that was suddenly dating you. Before tonight? Yeah, he woulda fucked Gar if he'd been asked to.

“What’s dating protocol anyway?” Gar frowns and he lifts his head so he can actually look at Tommy.

“Kinda think neither of us have dated much before so who cares what the protocols are? I wanna know what you want.”

Really? Nope. Tommy is not going there.

"Anyway, food? There's definitely a pizza somewhere in what I brought. We could eat that and pretend we see stars."

Gar drops his head back on the others shoulder. “For the record, that’s annoying,” Gar says with some rare snark. It’s generally reserved for Jason but honestly there are some stark similarities although Tommy is smarter, hotter and generally more pleasant to deal with.

“But pizza and stars, yeah,” Gar says, “sucks to move. I like this.” But he nuzzles again, before moving to get out of the others lap.

Oh dear lord.

"Listen. I'm a horny asshole, and I won't pretend to be anything other than that, okay?"

“Pretty sure at our age we’re supposed to be horny assholes,” Gar quips, he reaches for the others hand now that Gar’s gotten up. “If you think I haven’t thought what you’re thinking you’re crazy.”

"You've... thought of me like that?" he asks, getting to his feet. And god help him, Tommy's grinning. He likes that.

“Yeah... like... a lot,” Gar flushes then and he rubs the back of his head. “So yeah.”

He's never actually met someone who spent time wanting to fuck him. Well, before that instant of meeting him. He needs a moment to consider it.

"Really?" Tommy grins wider still. "You've gotten off thinking about me?"

Gar is definitely going a bit pink and he drops his head to hide it a bit.

"Yeah... you're really hot and it's kind of easy to imagine being with you."

Tommy definitely moves a bit closer to curl his fingers under Gar's chin to lift his face up.

"Even if dating doesn't work out, I can totally fuck you."

Gar looks up at Tommy and he bites back a laugh. Why does every time Tommy touches him feel some sort of electric?

"I could go for both dating and fucking, though," Gar says and his eyes lower to the other's lips. "Or you know... fooling around under pretend stars."

A second later. "God that sounded stupid." He's so embarrassed and definitely does not know how to do this.

Not electric to Tommy. Maybe he really can't love.

"Oh, and what do you think fooling around under pretend stars will look like?"

Maybe Gar is just sensitive and touch and otherwise deprived.

Gar hesitates at that question but his fingers go to the front of Tommy's shirt stepping closer and leaning up to kiss him.

There's a brief moment for Tommy to chuckle before their lips meet, his arm wrapping around Gar's waist to keep him close. This kiss he supposes he can accept.

Gar half expects to be pushed away. He can't help but expect rejection with anything like this. And this makes up for having to get up from the swing. His hand releases the other's shirt but only to slide his hand upward, making feeling him up a bit through his shirt.

Gar breaks the kiss, his lips brushing over the other's cheek, to his jaw before he looks at Tommy again, lifting a shoulder. "It can look like anything we wanted."

"Seems like you've got thoughts. You sure you want to fall into that? Like, for all you know, I could fuck you and disappear."

Not that he's ever had a chance to experience anything like that.