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Event Log: All You Need Is Love

Who: Everyone participating in the event!
What: The event log for Love's resurrection event!
Where: All around the city
When: March 25th-March 28th
Warnings: Self-love (not that kind), outpourings of affection for friends and loved ones (maybe that kind), general good feelings

On the morning of the 25th, everything in Hadriel gets just a little nicer. Or maybe that's your outlook - after all, loving yourself makes it a lot easier to love everything else. That's right, Love is here, and it's time to get your self-acceptance on. From the moment of Love's revival, all the inhabitants of the city will feel a sense of acceptance, appreciation, and love for themselves and for the people around them. They'll be more inclined to give themselves a break, more inspired to show their affection for their loved ones, and more likely to forgive enemies - or at least ignore them, rather than start fights. Overall, the air in the city is full of love! It's up to you whether this affects your character strongly or not at all, but it won't force them to do anything extremely out of character - it will only gently push them toward expressions of love, both platonic and romantic.

Along with this warm, pleasant feeling of love comes the hot springs you all voted for. It appears near the lake, not far from Love's temple, walled-in but with no roof except for the (separate) changing areas. Within you can find a few different pools of differing temperatures, all the better to soak all your worries away!

In addition, all throughout the city you'll find new items in the shops for a short time. Anything that might help express your love for yourself and for others - fluffy blankets, stuffed animals, snuggies, exotic-smelling candles, and some nice bubble bath and skin care products will be left on display - everything in a nice shade of light pink, of course. The buildings will be draped in pink streamers, and you'll also be able to find a variety of delicious sweets - stuff yourself or feed them to your significant other, or maybe leave them on the doorstep of the person who you wish was your significant other.

Enjoy all this love filling the cave, and give yourself a break! You're gonna need it.

► This log covers March 25th-March 28th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
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► If somehow you manage to die during this event, know that we judge you. Also, please tell us here.

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[The problem with Jacob putting more effort and less drool into this kiss becomes immediately obvious to Ned somewhere around the moment Jacob moves to hold his head like that: he's not an abysmally terrible kisser. Awkward and bumbling, sure, but it's not as if Ned hasn't found that endearing before.

So now he's kissing Jacob, again, and Jacob is smiling against his lips and that is goddamn ridiculous, and Ned should call it off with a scoff and another drool-tier excuse, but, well. Actually. If Jacob's going to kiss him right he might as well give the man more than 5 seconds at it, isn't that the case? That will do.

Ned's free hand that isn't holding onto Jacob finds its way to the back of his neck instead, pulling again, and he's apparently not done with this soft baby kiss yet. Kiss him... with more gusto??]

[Jacob probably expects about 5 seconds before it's over, so going over that is... well, reasonably surprising. He nearly untangled himself to find out why this has lasted as long as it has, but the hand at the back of his neck is enough for him to assume either a) he's doing great, or b) he needs to do better.

To be on the safe side, he'll try harder. His free hand comes to rest on the small of Ned's back, pulling him closer as he leans further in. His lips press more firmly against Ned's, and his fingers curl in his hair. He's not perfect, but it's evident this is his practice, and god is he trying for some reason.]

[He's doing okay? It's apparently the correct choice to pull Ned closer and try harder, judging by the noise he makes that'd be more clearly a chuckle if he actually pulled away from Jacob at all. He does not pull away from Jacob at all. He's a man of his word, see, so of course he'll see this kiss through to its natural end.

Whenever that is. It doesn't matter to him at the moment, letting go of Jacob's shirt to get his arm up and around his shoulders. He shifts his feet, slowly moving to turn them so that Jacob can lean on the desk and he, Ned, is totally in control and knows exactly what he's doing, which right now includes letting himself settle comfortably leaning against him. Fake it til you make it, kids.]

[If lasting this long surprised Jacob so badly, Ned moving without breaking away was even worse. Ned's arms around him was even worse. Ned moving him to lean back against the desk was the worst. By all means, none of this should be working in the way he wanted it to. Things don't work out for Jacob Frye, and he doesn't know what to do with it going this right.

So it's his turn to make a noise something akin to a chuckle, because this is just unimaginable. If he were thinking clearly, he might even imagine this is some kind of dream he's having after he passed out with a face full of grilled cheese and tomato soup. But it wasn't long before his smile broke into a laugh against his lips, and Jacob ended the kiss naturally just so he could lean his head on Ned's.]

No drool. [perfect thing to say,]

[All things considered, they probably shouldn't be doing this. Having other things to do here at the bar aside, there's no reasonable explanation for perfectly legitimate business partners to be kissing in the back room in the middle of the day. There's no reason for Ned to be kissing Jacob in particular, but the way Jacob chuckles turns something over in his stomach and he can't help himself. Apparently.

So the day is going great. Ned can't help but grin, just a little, when Jacob laughs and pulls away. There must have been something in those sandwiches, because he can't think of a place he'd rather be than leaning up against Jacob right now and he has so much work to get done.]

So we're even. [yeah, even,] That wasn't half bad.

Even... [Jacob hums, making no effort to withdraw from Ned any time soon. Ned said they couldn't waste all day looking at each other, but he said nothing about leaning, or holding, or kissing. Somehow, seeing Ned grin like that leaves him wanting all of the above again.

He has enough self restraint to refrain, but not nearly enough to stop himself from asking,] Will I owe you something if I want another?

[Obviously, he has to stop looking. Look at a wall, Jacob.

There's that feeling again like they shouldn't do this when Jacob just asks for more kisses. Ned scoffs, not answering immediately—he's not still standing close like this for his health, it's not like he doesn't want to, but talking about it? Out loud? He'd like to skip that part.]

You'll run up a tab faster than I can cash in on those favors, so I guess there's no point today.

[Uhhh, no. Jacob will keep on looking at Ned like he still can't believe this is a thing that is actually happening, that sounds better.]

That just means I have to get them all in before tomorrow. [That is his perfect excuse to lean forward for another kiss, yeah. And maybe like, another after, and... one more. This is all very reasonable.]

[No, don't look... Ned has the decency not to laugh at how lame that line is, at least, but he does manage to give Jacob a skeptical look before he's covered in kisses again. He's too busy smirking to respond to the first one, but after that he kisses back just fine. All of this is just fine.

Boy, he sure hopes he can look Jacob in the eye tomorrow.] What did I say about all the work we have to do? Nobody else is gonna fix this place up.

[He better, because Jacob's spending all his eye contact for probably the rest of the week on this. It's not that he's a big baby, but he's a big baby.]

You ask that like I was paying attention.

Now I'm afraid to look at what you did to the basement. [Besides rub his hair into all the spiderwebs, that is. It's Ned's turn to lean in for another short kiss, then hum thoughtfully.]

I can make it worth your while, if you get sick of being lazy. [they can touch hands,]

[Oh! Jacob's brows raise in amusement, but there's no protest in receiving another one. If anything, it makes his dumb wide smile even wider and dumber before he leans to kiss his cheek instead.]

You always know how to motivate me, Ned. It's not fair.

[Hmm, that's probably Ned's cue to take a step back. Work, work, work... It takes him another moment and one more kiss wherever he can stick one on Jacob's face before he really does step away. Slowly, taking his sweet time in letting his arms fall back to his sides.]

It's plenty fair. Let's go push furniture around.

You mean, I'll move furniture around while you sit back and tell me no, no, not there. To the left, Frye.

[Jacob leans off the desk with a laugh, taking a moment to nearly smooth back his hair yet again. It was just going to be that, but he finds himself tousling Ned's before he hastily makes his escape out of the back room. Take that.] Don't tell me I'm wrong!

[Wow, rude, maybe Ned won't touch his hands if he's going to be like that. He leans away from that tousling hand which really only makes the state of his hair worse, and follows after Jacob trying to push it back into place. Paint and all.]

Ha ha. At least you know what you're in for, Jacob. [that's a key difference,] Let's get a move on so I can get outta here and get this crap out of my hair.

[And then, you know, making it worth his while.]

Yes, get a move on on all that sitting. [He says, like he isn't still grinning from ear to ear at his first name being used. Like he isn't listening to every instruction Ned gives. Like he isn't still moving a table slightly to the left, just because he'd said so.

Ned has Jacob wrapped around his finger, it's awful.] Are we done yet?

[Since Jacob is fussing so much about it, Ned will take extra care in sitting back and relaxing while he moves furniture around. He will even pour himself a new drink. It's great, just sitting around watching Jacob do manual labor. Hmm...

Eventually, mercifully, he will get bored of this, and wave his hand for Jacob to quit whining and come over here.] For today, yeah. Come pick up all this stuff you brought in.

[apricot freesia]

Perhaps we'll be too hungover for any work tomorrow. [Even if they aren't, he's going to pretend... until Ned gets to work and he's ultimately following behind him yet again. Kinda like how he's quick to carefully gather all these lovey gay things in his basket again.]

You are using one of these, you know. [He waves one of the soaps, the apricot, before he tucks it away.] What was that about making it worth my while?

I don't get hungover. [He's a liar, don't listen to this. Once Jacob has all the stuff together and is done waving soap at him, Ned gets up to just walk out and start the trek back to their little apartment. Of course, Jacob will follow him, he knows this...]

I'll be thinking about what you deserve on the way home. [Hmm. Hmm, should he... no, of course not, but whatever is in the water today (and all the alcohol) sure isn't stopping him. He holds out his hand.] Come here.

I know I deserve... [so... much. Jacob is about to claim he's the very best there is when Ned holds out his hand, and suddenly, like when he was supposed to kiss him, his mind goes blank.

This is fine, right? This is fine. He'll take Ned's hand, no problem. It's not like he nearly tripped over his own feet from looking at him too long. Nah.] You're very lucky no one from London is here to hear about this.

[It's still endearing, the way he can't seem to function when Ned wants to be close to him. Ned's lucky his own nerves don't show all over his face, lucky that the way his heart nearly flips over when Jacob's hand is in his isn't something Jacob can see. God, what is he, 12? This is ridiculous.

So he rolls his eyes, tugging that hand a little so Jacob will walk and not stare at him like he's grown three more heads.] Pot, kettle. Your sister would have both our heads before the end of the day.

[He says this like it's a funny quirk, that Ms. Frye and her temper.]

I daresay she'd have a hard time figuring out who is seducing who.

[Jacob... Jacob is the one that made the effort simply because Ned exists, but that's besides the point. The point is that he's decided fitting his fingers through Ned's is perfect for this walk. Since he can't spend every second looking at him, he's got to make up for it with being so... cute.]

Do you hold hands with all your business associates? Should I be worried about your good friend Adam?

[Jacob is so, so lucky that Ned isn't in the mood today to super mock him the moment he says seduce. So lucky. Instead,] I think she'd figure it out.

[It's obvious... and Ned is making an effort to hold his hand and think about kissing him a little more, but that comes later. He blinks out of that thought to look sideways at Jacob, almost surprised that he remembered the name Adam, considering how much Ned doesn't talk about his weird criminal friends.]

You should probably thank him. [because they hold hands?? no,] He paid for my ticket to London, way back when.

[With how Ned hadn't bothered with specifics the first time, this little fun fact has Jacob raising his brows. Somehow, all the kissing and hand holding was fine, but an actual answer about Ned's left outside of business just never occurred to him.

He probably wouldn't have actually paid attention back then, but that's besides the point.] Really? Little Neddy, sailing across the ocean to make it big... You should probably thank him as well, because that means you'll eventually meet the greatest assassin London has to offer.

I'll send him a couple more paintings, shall I? Maybe a bust or two, and a letter expressing my utmost gratitude. ["Dear Adam, thanks for everything, and also just so you know, I kiss assassins now. Your buddy, Ned"

Perfect.] That's one debt I've already repaid plenty of times over. So you'll have to settle for this.

[for holding hands and not bragging to other crime lords,]

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