♥ 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

[learnmorewords]

"That's a pretty name, and I don't really know if I have anywhere that I really like to be. Miss Ainea's temple is really nice. But is there any place you really would like to see?"

The smile grows a little bit.

[pinkmin]

Vianca didn't smile back, but it wasn't out of unkindness. No, her cheeks were even warming a bit with the compliment. "Thank you."

She thought about it for a moment before giving a small nod. "I would like to see--" Miss? Should she be addressing a goddess as Miss? "--Miss Ainea's temple if you don't mind. It'd be good to see them all, I think."

[learnmorewords]

"Oh, are you part of Miss Ainea's temple as well? Or did you just want to see it?"

Regardless of whichever answer Ib's already turning towards the general direction of said temple. Her grip on the other's hand tightening just enough so their grip won't be easily knocked away as they move through the robots and other people brought here. Though she waits until she knows the other girl is ready and following before even moving.

[pinkmin]

Pikmin were naturally inclined to follow. Even if Vianca didn't feel like a very good pikmin, it still felt right to fall in step with Ib. Red was often a leading variety.

"I would just like to see it." She was curious, and it would be good to know! Eventually she wanted to see Diacht and Rawna's as well, to know what they were like. It was very much not a surprise that it was Ohma she'd found herself aligned with.

"I'm a part of..." Vianca trailed off a moment, briefly perplexed by how to address her god. Ainea might have been a miss, but Ohma was not? Was there a word? For this? Well. Vianca wracked her brain, quickly determining that if anyone around here was going to have a PhD, it was going to be the god of knowledge. "...Dr.?... Ohma's temple."

[learnmorewords]

"Doctor? I guess he would be one. He's the one that likes learning right?"

Ib had never really thought about if gods could have other jobs beside being a god, or maybe went to school like adults did to become doctors and scientists. Maybe the robot people would know since they seemed to know a lot about them already. It was something to think about as she unconsciously led Vianca by the hand through the crowds.

"I haven't really asked a lot about the gods yet, maybe the robot people have a book about them we could read."

[pinkmin]

"I hope so. Maybe at the library, if the temples do not have some."

It'd only make sense to have some kind of literature for their religion around, wouldn't it? What kind of religion didn't love writing as much as possible about it?
Ohma's, surely, if they wanted to spread knowledge as much as they wanted to gain it.

"They do not seem like a mister or a missus, but Dr. Ohma does seem very smart, so I think they would have gone very far in school."

[learnmorewords]

"I bet they would always be reading a book, or maybe even teaching others like those adults that get together to listen to another adult talk about something."

It was a fun image to think about of this god standing there telling people things as they listened with those serious listening faces and trying to write down as much as possible about what was being said.

[pinkmin]

Vianca nodded along. Yes! Precisely!

"Exactly. Like a professor. I think they'd be a good professor, knowing so much."

Even if there was more to being a good professor than just knowing a lot of things. Ohma would have had plenty of time to practice, probably!