♥ September Intro Mingle Log

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September Intro Mingle Log
Welcome to Hugtopia, and to the city of Havenwell. This mingle is meant for new arrivals to get settled and meet the other inhabitants. New characters should be the only top-levels but everyone should feel free to tag around and make new friends. Who knows, you may find that Perfect Hug in here. You can use the prompts here, or create a wildcard of your own.

ICly, this takes place from the 2nd to the 16th and then we'll have a shiny new event post up for you all soon after that date range. The prompts below are optional, but are a way to get you started if you wish. To help you create your own prompts, please take a look through our Settings and FAQ. Click on each prompt's title to see the text. If you have any questions, feel free to direct them to the FAQ or to the Mod Question thread below.

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❥ PROMPT I: Awakening

When you awaken, you're in the last outfit you remember wearing, three of your belongings laid nearby or your animal friend curled up by you, waking as you do. It's not the most comfortable place to sleep, a stone slab, but once you're awake, a humanoid-looking robot comes in and explains you're in Havenwell and leads you out of the room and into the main portion of the temple where a welcoming committee of similarly humanoid-looking robots hand over a clear smartphone-sized tablet, some starting funds, and explain their dilemma. Then they release you into Havenwell to pick your new home from free housing in the city and give you the chance to settle. It might be a bit disorienting, but thankfully there seem to be a lot of robots and even some non-robots around. Maybe ask them for help?

❥ PROMPT II: Buddy System

With all the changes going on, it might be hard to be a new arrival to Havenwell. The natives understand! Sort of. When some new arrivals begin to appear at the temples, receive the welcome speech, get their communicators and the simple map of the city, they get taken to the front of the temple by a helpful robotic priest. Rather than turn the newcomers loose right away, they pull someone seemingly at random off the street and push the two people together with a cheerful, "Here's your guide to Havenwell! It's dangerous to go alone, so be buddies!" before going back inside.

They try to place a new arrival with one of those who previously arrived, but who can keep track of all that, right? Characters may find themselves thrown together with an actual veteran or with another new arrival who only came here a day or even just an hour before them! Good luck helping each other out, offworlders, and don't lose your buddy!

❥ PROMPT III: Weather Wildcard

Havenwell's weather is generally so well controlled, with beautiful blue skies and temperate climes that it's hard to remember that there's a whole world out there that might not be so nice. Every so often, however, the controls break and something not so nice and temperate comes through. Pockets of unpleasant weather happens all over the city at random intervals and new arrivals might find themselves and others caught without warning. Is that a snowstorm with green snow? Sure is. A windstorm that only seems to affect three streets? Yup. Did a deluge of rain just pour the equivalent of an Olympic sized swimming pool of water on you? Uh-huh, sure did. A deep cold fog that suddenly rolls in and blankets your entire area? Yeeaaah... hopefully there's someone around to help you get about and find shelter or just dry off and get away from it all. Good luck, offworlder.

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[necromanswers]

[This isn't Lup's house, strictly speaking, but as the unoccupied units aren't well-locked and she a) grew up on the street so thus has picked her share of doors in the past, and b) is a goddamned wizard, there isn't much to keep her out of them. Sometimes she just casually lets herself in to give the food replicators a test drive- see if the ones inside are any better than what she has at home. No one'll notice a trade if it's unoccupied!

That's why she's chilling in one of the doorways of the unit Nagi's stomping through, sipping at a mediocre cup of coffee and watching him with a raised brow.]

They don't have rules about houses here so long as you stick to the freebies. You could just call dibs on the whole thing.

[At least until the inevitable housing crisis when they force a roommate on him.]

[kokonaprince]

[Nagi spins to see - OH! A lovely young lady! Well, goodbye tantrum, hello grabbing for her hand and smiling brilliantly at her.]

You don't say! You really think they won't be mad about that? Well, if someone as beautiful as you says it, it must be true!

[He wastes absolutely no time in ramping up the charm, welp.]

[necromanswers]

[Oh, isn't he just precious. She'd half-jerked away from his hand - still not used to the whole ~casual touches~ thing this place has going for it - but as he shows his apparent intent with it she relaxes a little and lets it be. If he does anything too weird, she can just set him on fire, no big deal.]

So you're saying that if I was ugly, you'd call me a liar?

[kokonaprince]

[Shaking his head emphatically, Naig squeezes her captured hand and smiles.]

No, no! I don't think you could possibly be ugly.

[O...kay? He sighs and holds a hand to his forehead.]

But I'd be happy to believe you no matter what. I have been so long without enough space to live in.

[necromanswers]

[She'd say that he was digging his own grave, but his reactions are so wildly pronounced that she can't decide if he's just wacky or faking it. Oh well, either one's gonna earn her some cash.]

Congrats, then, I guess. You're the new king of the castle. [She lifts her cup in mock-salute.] I'm not doing the dishes, though.

[kokonaprince]

[Nagi gasps softly.]

The... King...?

[Then he catches himself and shakes his head.]

No, no! I am not fit to be King. I would much prefer to just be the Young Lord.

[necromanswers]

[...Wow, he is. Really literal, huh.]

Lots of people aren't fit to be kings, but they end up there anyway. Eh, whatever- it's your house, so call yourself whatever you want. Not like anyone else is going to. [She taps a finger thoughtfully to her chin.] Well, maybe one guy. He's been calling me a queen since I got here.

[kokonaprince]

[Nagi blinks, lightly thrown off by that last comment.]

Ah. Are you... not a Queen? Because you rather look like one to me.

[Smooth one! At least he's recovering from his bout with being Way Too Literal.]

[necromanswers]

[Oh bless, she can swindle this one too. Her cup runneth over. She smiles fleetingly, eyes aflutter.]

I used to be called that, but oh, it's been a decade... you bring back such memories.

[Of that really kinky night with the roleplay stuff.]

[kokonaprince]

[With a gasp, Nagi rushes to take her hand in his, kneeling before you.]

Well then! Allow me to be your prince, beautiful Queen.

[And he gives her the most charming smile he can muster.]

[necromanswers]

Wait, wait. Now are you implying that I'm old enough to be your mother?

[She sounds offended by it, though it's probably true- she could be his mother tenfold, at this point.]

[kokonaprince]

.......!!

No, no, no!!

[Nagi shakes his head emphatically, looking distraught.]

Like a prince from a foreign land! Come to protect and serve you!

[Oh no, that could not have been a worse way to make her feel!! Ahhh!]

[necromanswers]

Oho... well, okay, then. You're forgiven, I suppose.

[FOR NOW.]

So what's your name, Highness? Or are introductions a faux pas in that foreign land of yours?