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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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"Yes. But." She's lived with him long enough to realize that he ate just about anything. "It's more fun for me if it's something that you like and I enjoy trying new recipes." She paused and pursed her lips thoughtfully. "Jack isn't very picky either." Which was the other person she often cooked for because a candy bar was not dinner.

"Maybe I can ask Seregil or Alec for ideas. I know Alec likes to cook too." She paused and flushed a bright red when she realized that she'd been thinking out loud. "Oh. Sorry. I got caught up in thinking."

She filled a small plate up with strawberries and then began to nibble at them, looking very happy while doing so.

"Do you like ice cream?"

"You could try anything that you find interesting," Simon offers. He wouldn't complain about it. If he did come across something he didn't like he might tell her but that's still bit of a questionable thing.

Simon just shrugs. He'd just assumed she was chattering on in the way that Alex does sometimes. It didn't seem like thinking out loud until she said that it was.

"It's alright."

"I'm not used to following the things I find interesting. I know... that probably sounds odd but where I'm from, wanting is different. Everyone wants what their supposed to want and nothing more than that. So I'm learning... how to want." It was a work in progress but so far she'd been getting better at it.

"That's why I want to know what you want... to help me learn."

It didn't seem like Simon wanted all that much and she couldn't help but wonder why that was. She was fairly sure that he was from Earth like Alex and human's could want. Their desires and choices are what make them human.

It's an amazing ability but Simon seems to be stuck where he is.

Simon can understand that better than Angel might thing but he's too guarded to admit as much. He never had a chance to think about what he wants and with the weight of stopping the apocalypse back home on his shoulders, there still feels like very little room for it. What he wants is to save the good things so no other children become damaged and broken.

"I've always been content with what I'm given to eat." It's the closest he'll come to saying he doesn't know how to want very well either. Before he was old enough to really have opinions he'd been thrust into a world of demons and magic. He'd spent half of his life in an asylum and in a way he's still a prisoner of it even when he'd escaped.

"Then I'll just keep trying new things. Perhaps it will help us both find things that we like." She wasn't at all daunted by his reply but found it as a way to challenge herself and discover more.

"For now, I think I really like strawberries." She took another one and wrapped her lips around it as she eagerly ate it up. "Thank you for coming with me and getting food." She knew that Simon wasn't the most social of people and she never wanted to force him outside what he was comfortable with.