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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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[ She laughs lightly and then shakes her head. ] Oh, nothing at all.

You're implying I have no experience showing a lady a good time.

[Which, in all fairness, wasn't far from the truth. He really hadn't...done much entertaining.]

I find that insulting.

[ She looks over at him and tries to hide the smirk on her face. ]

So, what did you and the last woman you went out with do for entertainment?

[Okay, and with that question, a lot of realizations occur at once: he's never really bothered with the idea of a woman in his life, which he supposes makes sense. They are immortal, after all, no rush, but then also how thoroughly inexperienced he is and how much younger he is.]

Well, nothing like this. [He would have to skirt the truth rather than outright lie. And if he even thought about this too much, her abilities would notify her. Damn she could be infuriating.] We...adventured, mostly. The Realms, even at peace, were always fighting over something, and it is the duty of Asgard, and her sons, to keep the peace.

[Alright, the last time that happened, it was actually Thor, The Warriors Three, Sif, and himself, but there was a woman there...and she was beautiful.]

Adventured, huh? [ She doesn't even try to hide her smirk. The question had been answered both with his explanation and with what she picked up. ]

Inexperience isn't something I thought I'd pick up from you. [ And she lets out a light laugh at his expense. ] Though, you are still young.

[He breathes deeply, squaring his jaw, pursing his lips slightly.]

There is no fault in placing a higher priority on other things. [Stop calling attention to it.] I am not a child.

[ She lets out a tiny chuckle and shrugs a shoulder. ] Of course not. I'd never imply you were a child. [ Yes she would. ]

Y-you just did! [He takes a deep breath, frowning.] Which I am not.

[ She bursts out laughing at him. ] And now you're just proving your age.

[He breathes a sigh, rolling his eyes.]

If I'm such a child, why did you agree to this?

[ She rolls her shoulders into a shrug. ] You bought me. I didn't have much of a choice, did I?

This isn't slavery, you know. [And he looked her over, eyes narrowed.] I took you for the rebellious type.

Oh, do you want me to leave then? [ She starts to walk off, as if she were going to just walk away. ] Put up more of a fight?

[Gods above this woman could be annoying. He breathed a sigh. It was somewhere in that annoying nature of hers that he found the most affection for her, after all.]

No, not at all. [It was the most honest he'd been in some time.] I've rather enjoyed all the time we've spent together, rearing Bjart, you know.

You sure? [ She slows down and smirks at his comment. ] Have you now? Enjoyed being a parent? Or is it the company you enjoy?

I- [He pauses, running that particular phrasing over a few times before responding.] -To be honest, until this very moment I had not thought of myself as a parent, but I suppose the phrasing suits.

[And he moves his eyes over her frame before adding-] But the company, clearly.

Clearly? [ She smirks and bumps into him gently. ] Here I thought you meant being a parent. I'm shocked and flattered.

Is your patronizing truly necessary?

[But he doesn't look particularly annoyed by it. If nothing, he finds it endearing. It was simply their way, after all.]

Do you really consider us 'parent's? [He's not sure he likes the connotation there.]

Of course it is. [ She lets out a light laugh and then an over-exaggerated shocked expression. ] But I'm hurt you think I'm patronizing you.

[ Again, she lets out a laugh and then just shakes her head. ] Definitely not. Neither of us are parent material. [ Blunt. But more than likely the truth.]
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