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Sphere Mods ([personal profile] sphererpmod) wrote in [community profile] thespherelogs2020-05-01 01:38 pm

May Log

Who: Everyone!
Where: Anywhere
What: May mod log!
When: The First two weeks of May.
Warnings: Use your best discretion.

May Open log

First of May, First of May
So apparently the open festive mood on the locals hasn’t stopped so May opens with a tradition that happens within it. It’s May Day, or Beltane if you’re feeling formal and it doesn’t just last for the day. Instead it lasts for two weeks, because why do in one day what you can party for multiple days over?

There are the traditional May Day things of course. There’s the May pole stretching upwards with its brightly colored ribbons welcoming people to do it either together or separately. The colors are explained of course, purple for a good year, pink for fertility, green for fiscal gain, blue for calmness. Each ribbon wrapped around the ancient poll is a wish, an old woman tells you. So you should take it seriously. But if you do is up to you.

Ringing outside of the giant circle in the recreation dome are large bonfires. People are writing down their wishes for the year and burning them into the universe. Some more… adventurous people are hopping over the fire in order to increase the effectiveness of the wishes. In case you were wondering, John is standing ready with a med kit and a judgmental look on her face.

There are small picnics set up around rather than tables, and spring foods are placed on it. Strawberries, oat cakes, chocolate, and things like real food are scattered on them, letting people pick and share the platters around them equally. Wine flows freely, of course. Wine made here in the Sphere that comes in a variety of fruited flavors.

Traditional things such as three legged races and general races are occurring, people grouping those with powers together in order to make it fair. Other games are happening. Including Max in the dunk tank for a few minutes, so you may wanna get that in.

There are of course things that are non-traditional as well. After all, this is the Sphere. A series of bouncy castles is set up, as is an inflatable obstacle course. One of the larger castles is even set aside for the adults because well, why not.

Several large ball pits are set up and people are bringing drinks to them. There’s no way that can go wrong. It’s adults only because sometimes everyone just needs a ball pit.

Fireworks happen every night. Or at least something that looks like fireworks, minus the fire and the noise. But they fill the sky above the Sphere, making it seem as if they are under a real sky.

painting the roses red.
After celebrating the spring in April, May brings with it the work of what spring actually entails. What it entails especially after the loss of the person in charge (rip Annie) is doing the sort of normal planting in the fields. There are people around to supervise and to hand out seeds and the other things that one needs to successfully plant fields and all of that.

There are other fields and vegetable patches to be weeded and harvested, because the agriculture dome tends to always be in a state of flux depending on how many people are currently living in the sphere at the time.

But it wouldn’t be a community event if food wasn’t provided, so there’s a sort of barbecue going on. It definitely smells like barbecue that’s for sure, and there are people tending long pits of things that look like meat but that definitely aren’t. Still it tastes like good old bbq and that’s really what matters isn’t it?

Of course it wouldn’t be bbq without beer, so there’s a lot of it. It’s free-flowing (a little too free-flowing actually) and some of the teenagers have gotten their hands on it. On way too much of it as a matter of fact. Which is why it seemed like a good idea to them to show up at the work picnic with squirt guns full of washable paint.

If it’s washable and non-toxic, one argues, then it’s not as if anyone can be really angry.

But honestly it’s a paint fight. Join in or be an innocent victim there are definitely squirt guns a plenty around.

Everyone loves bathtime, right?
Well, people requested baths, so the staff at the pools in the Rec dome have tried to accommodate them! While normally, the events at the pools go something like this: The largest of the three pools, and the light is constant and sunny here. 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. 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. There aren’t any kids though, so people are welcome to go nuts.

Bathing suits and towels are provided in the divided changing rooms. There’s frozen and fruity drinks flowing freely, along with finger food and snacks.

The Sphere has increased it towards bathing though, through the use of temporary means. 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’s 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.

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[personal profile] gadaboutdetective 2020-05-11 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
Llewellyn would have liked to think so, if the man in question actually still wanted him in that way. He’d made a mess of that, hours before being grabbed from his world and thrust into this one after all.

He smiles into the kiss, the pleasant sound of Rhy’s low laugh somehow encouraging. He doesn’t know what he’d done to prompt it but... Llewellyn doesn’t really want to stop and ask. For now, he leans into Rhy, a little away from the wall and the kiss turns a little more exploratory, a hand rising to tangle in the hair at the base of Rhy’s neck.
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[personal profile] unbreakable_king 2020-05-11 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
Good man, learning eagerly. Yes, this was the sort of person he could shape. Mold into a lover that could delight in every way. As Alucard had molded him.

As Alucard...

Rhy forces himself further and deeper into the kiss, his own hands moving to press against the wall, pinning Llewellyn there. There's more demand in the kiss, more attempt to pull him forward rather than coax. He didn't wish to think of Alucard.
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[personal profile] gadaboutdetective 2020-05-11 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
If Llewellyn knew what had prompted the sudden rise in intensity from Rhy, he might have stopped and been concerned. He wasn’t a mind-reader though, and he was eager to learn, to please. Eager to explore this and see where it took him, and... decidedly enjoyed the feeling of someone pressed against him if the sound he made were anything to go by.

His free hand comes up to pull Rhy closer by his shirt, and he’s only too pleased to give more at the demand he feels in the kiss and deepens it with a small low hum.
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[personal profile] unbreakable_king 2020-05-11 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, that is good. Rhy lets a leg slip between Llewellyn's, amused by the press of their bodies. He would love to just show this man what all he could enjoy, peel him out of those clothes and leave marks.
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[personal profile] gadaboutdetective 2020-05-11 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a lot for Llewellyn to process, the feeling of someone pushed up against him, hands and lips on him. It’s a lot, but in such a good way. He gets a bit lost in it, Llewellyn is reactive when he’s enjoying something and the hum grows to more of a moan as a leg slips between his. He knows he’d give Rhy what ever he wanted, would take what was offered. Just to feel a little more...

But he finally breaks the kiss off, a little breathless and flushed again. He’s not so lost in it that he’s forgotten they’re still in public. “Was that uh...” Yes. Llewellyn Watts was actually out of words for the moment.
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[personal profile] unbreakable_king 2020-05-11 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"Lovely," Rhy agrees, pulling back from Llewellyn. "So lovely. So much potential."
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[personal profile] gadaboutdetective 2020-05-11 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh and he looks rather delighted by that. Potential sounds good, positive... “It was mm... quite... Lovely, that is.” He pushes away from the wall a moment later, tugging at a coat sleeve. A glance around, just out of habit before he considers Rhy for a moment. “And it’s— well... good to know that I’m not entirely hopeless then...”
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[personal profile] unbreakable_king 2020-05-11 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"No one is hopeless, sweetling," Rhy assures him, his fingers brushing over Llewellyn's jaw. "You shall make someone very, very happy some day.
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[personal profile] gadaboutdetective 2020-05-11 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
“Perhaps... I would like to, even if only for a time.” He responds, it’s a more subdued tone. Llewellyn isn’t sure of many things, but he has learned to not get his hopes up in life. He’s seen too much now, and things are different where he comes from.

But he appreciates Rhy’s words, the kind intent behind them. “Let’s mm... go see about finding that food then?” He responds, changing the subject easily.
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[personal profile] unbreakable_king 2020-05-11 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Indeed," Rhy grins, offering his arm out again. "Let us do just that."
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[personal profile] gadaboutdetective 2020-05-11 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
He considers the offer, and decides to take it. Tucking his arm around Rhy’s with that hint of a smile returned. “Let’s see what there is to choose from. I think I would like to try a little of everything, if the variety is as large as you suggested.”
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[personal profile] unbreakable_king 2020-05-11 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"Variety is the spice of life, and we shall sample it all."
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[personal profile] gadaboutdetective 2020-05-11 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
“You’re quite right, Rhy. And it’s something I quite appreciate that you agree on.” He responded, starting to return to the route they had been taking before.