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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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“Maybe... Maybe not,” Gar says because this sort of thing is always a risk. Always. He presses a few more kisses to his neck because well it’s a consolation prize for not making out.

“I like the way you hold me.”

"Dude, that almost sounds sappy," Tommy mumbles. But yeah, not flinching from the kisses either. Affection. Makes him want to melt. How can this be so good?

"Keep doing that and I might not entirely be able to say no. And I REALLY want at least a second date, to make sure I don't blow this."

He doesn't have feelings for the guy right now. That could change. He doesn't know. But he owes Gar that.

Gar just grins against the others neck at the comment. Maybe it is a bit sappy but it’s true.

“You won’t blow it and you already put a down payment on date two so you’re not getting out of it,” Gar says quietly. He brushes his fingers through the others hair but he stops the kissing no matter how much he didn’t want to.

Hopefully Tommy really could find a laser tag place so he could get a real date date in. The others said it would be good for him. Wanda sa-

Oh god.

"Gar... Fuck. We need to keep this secret for a bit. My mom wouldn't shovel talk you, but she absolutely would insist on you coming to dinner. And this DEFINITELY isn't 'formally meeting the parents' stage. If this happens, it happens. But fuck, family would be a mess."

Gar looks confused nor a moment. Enough to shift to pull his head up so he could look right at Tommy. He thought it over and after the initial surprise he just smiles and settled back again, nuzzling him affectionately.

“I can keep a secret. Don’t really need Dick involved yet either so yeah.”

Wait, seriously? The guy isn't going to be upset at him for the lie? Like, SURELY that's something that should be held against him. But hey, who knew it. Apparently talking about the why mattered.

Still, Tommy nods.

"Fuck man, I don't mind telling Little Richard nothing."

“He just... is a lot especially with out the rest of the team to spread out his attention,” Gar shrugs and smiles as he kisses quick one time to his neck.

“I think we gotta figure it out ourselves before people get involved.”

Wow, the guy is just... yeah. Letting him talk. Letting him think about this. That's fucking amazing.

"Yeah," Tommy agrees, smirking. "Fuck, you're a pretty understanding man.'

Yeah, Gar is doing is best. He wants this to work, wants Tommy to like him.

"I try to be most of the time," Gar smiles, tilting his head so he can look at the other's face briefly.

Wow, what a mood. Don't look at him like that, Gar. It's... intense. And Tommy isn't ready for intense.

"You're one of those heart of the team people, aren't you?"

"I don't know..." Gar lifts his shoulders and settles his cheek back against the other's shoulder.

"Maybe..."

"I think you've gotta be. Got all that 'good guy that everyone feels stronger when they're around' vibe going on."

And yes, Tommy insists it's a vibe.

"That might be an exaggeration," Gar laughs. He knows he generally can make people happy though.

"Am I making you feel stronger?"

"Maybe. Just a little," Tommy agrees with a grin, reaching up to touch Gar's hair.

"Good," Gar exhales and there's almost something like a contented purr there when the other touches his hair. Yeah, he likes that Tommy.

Now that is a nice sound. Tommy chuckles and keep stroking the guy's hair. It's almost comforting.

"Your hair feels so soft."

"Yeah?" Gar says quietly. "Don't really do anything special with it."

He really likes that, it's definitely relaxing.

"I don't know. It is soft. Gotta be doing something. Or maybe... it's loreal? Are you worth it?"

And he grins, because that feels so good. Soft. Like petting an animal.

"Who knows. I just shampoo with whatever's around," Gar says becuase he's not that picky. maybe it's just natural. The tiger sure has nice fur after all.

Gar's eyes close for a bit. "This is good."

Well now he's definitely eager to see if the tiger's fur is that soft. Not that he's going to ask or act on it.

"Yeah. So maybe we steal a few more minutes? Then see if the movie is any good?"

Well, better wait till he can handle seeing Gar naked or what not.

"okay," Gar says, but knows once they go to the movies they can't really do this with it being a secret and all. So he soaks it in while he can.

Dude, he can handle naked people. It's about consensual nakedness. Both parties agreeing to it.

That being said, maybe a few minutes will spin out to even more, until Tommy doesn't seem bothered to get up to go to the movie. Why should he? He's thoroughly entertained here.

Edited 2020-04-20 22:14 (UTC)

That's fair but Gar is a little skittish about it and all like he somehow freaked Tommy out with transforming or something.

Gar doesn't say anything as the time passes. He's content, his forehead pressed to the side of Tommy's neck -- mostly so he's not tempted to start pressing kisses. He's relaxed and his mind is quiet and if he's not careful he'd fall asleep just like that.

In the end Tommy lingers for about half an hour, perhaps the most still he's been in a month, before shaking Gar a little.

"Let me walk you home?"

Gar never completely drifts off but it's clear that it's pretty near something he was going to do by the time that the other shook him. He lifts his head, his nose brushing against the other's jaw and pressing a kiss to Tommy's cheek.

"I'd like that."