♥ September Intro Mingle Log

[hugtopiamods]

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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Comments

[pinkmin]

She gave him an affirmative nod in return. Everything was okay!

"Thank you."

Here, let her just hop off the chair and--

Oh. It should have occurred to her that if the wind was blowing her along with the chair, that she would not fare very well without it. A cool new cartoon playing in theatres today: Goofy and the Pink Tumbleweed. At least said tumbleweed had hands with which to grab on to his arm with!

[thekingsshield]

"Whoa!" Not again!

He managed to grab her and held her up in his arms, like a father with their child - or a child and their favorite toy.

"Maybe you better hold on until this wind is tuckered out!

[pinkmin]

Upsie daisies.

This was definitely a child and their toy scenario-- even as a little girl, Vianca was a fair deal lighter than one might have expected. Plucking her up was easy as could be for such an esteemed knight. She gave the tiniest squeak of surprise for suddenly being up so high, but it didn't take long for her to curl her fingers in Goofy's shirt.

"That is a good idea."

[thekingsshield]

He smiled, hoping that would reassure her.

"I'm sure it won't take long. Weather changes here on a dime... so we'll get the change back shortly!"

It's a pun. A bad pun.

[pinkmin]

Vianca blinked at him.

"... We paid too much for this."

[thekingsshield]

He grinned a bit, glad she 'approved'. "Least we got somethin' extra in return - new friends!"

[pinkmin]

A second round of blinking, this time with Vianca looking around to see who he was talking about. Friends? Who were the friends? The chair?

... Oh, wait.

Vianca ducked her head a little. "My name's Vianca."

[thekingsshield]

"It's nice to meet you, Vianca! The name's Goofy!" Positive head-nod, since he can't really shake her hand or point at himself, lest he let her go and she gets blown away.

[pinkmin]

That sure was a name right there.

"... That's a little goofy."

[thekingsshield]

"It's a lot goofy!" He replied with a grin, thinking this was pretty funny wordplay. He's a tall guy, so, a lot of "Goofy."

[pinkmin]

She was still just staring at him, but there was a tiny curve to her eyes. She was pleased the comment went over well.

"That's true. I'm the little one."

[thekingsshield]

"Mot folks are small compared to me," he admitted. "In my world, I'm considered pretty tall."

[pinkmin]

"That's not a bad thing," she reassured him simply, "you won't need to grab a ladder all the time."

Three guesses as to who had to grab a ladder all the time.

"People usually aren't my size."

[thekingsshield]

"And that's not a bad thing either," he countered, smiling on and on.

"You can get to places folks like me can't squeeze into!"

[pinkmin]

She nodded.

"Like the vents."

The vents. Which vents? Vianca???

[thekingsshield]

Don't expect him to question it!

"See, everyone's got their strong point! Which is why we're glad to have you here!"

[pinkmin]

Oh. That one struck her a little oddly. Vianca bowed her head a little, cheeks going a bit more pink. Goofy seemed like far too earnest of a big dog man to just say things he didn't think were true, but... She couldn't remember if anyone had ever said that to her.

"... Oh."

Awwwww!!!! thank you!!!

[thekingsshield]

A shy one, was she? Nothing wrong with that. He just chuckled, letting her duck and mumble as need be. If she's embarrassed, he doesn't mind changing the subject.

"How about after this, we try orderin' what you came here for again?"

:>! goofy... is hard to draw

[pinkmin]

Shy usually wasn't the right word. Just quiet and cautious. Right now though, shy was absolutely the right word. Just a little bit. The subject change was appreciated, because she didn't know what to say to that kind of kindness.

"That's okay," Vianca told him with a little shake of her head. "I was just here to sit. I can do that anywhere."

and yet you did him so perfectly, his face is soooo cute

[thekingsshield]

"In that case, how about we move away from here, and find you a better place to sit?" After all, the whole world couldn't be this windy. Hopefully.

/)owo

[pinkmin]

H o p e f u l l y .

That seemed like a decent enough plan. Vianca nodded. "Okay. Where do you like to go?"

[thekingsshield]

"Anywhere is fine! You just tell me when to stop."

He begins to hum a little as he walks away. "Oh, the world owes me a livin'..."

[pinkmin]

Goofy don't give her that power. Goofy she didn't know what to do with it. Goofy no.

She didn't know how to protest and insist they should just go where he would like to go, because that would seem less like she had interrupted his day. Not that he really seemed anything but happy to just be wandering about. So she gradually settled in, intent to just stay until they found a less windy spot.

Listening to his little song, Vianca slowly, quietly started to hum along with him.

[thekingsshield]

Goofy glanced down at her, pleased that she was enjoying the song. He really didn't mind where they were going, nor did he have any plans for the day. Why, he could simply walk around for all hours and have no complaints.

"Do you have this song in your world? It's my favorite!"

[pinkmin]

Goofy this was so dangerous.

She blinked, quieting, and gave a little shake of her head. "I'm not sure... maybe. It is nice though."