♥ 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

[twistedempathy]

Hehehe..... You do realize you can switch teams if you want to, right?

[What a priceless expression. That deserves to be framed, honestly. (Where's Prompto when you need him?) Still, if he's that unhappy with the choice, why not just go elsewhere?]

[scourgingstars]

It will matter little. If Ainea is the one desiring my service, that is their mistake to make.

[twistedempathy]

Why would it be a mistake? It seems like she needs all the help she can get. They all do.

[scourgingstars]

I am at best a detriment to any divine plans.

[twistedempathy]

Hmmm?

[The most confused headtilt as he looks Ardyn over. He doesn't look like he's just..... raring to go kill gods or something. Is it on accident, then? Is he just secretly radiating some god-killing magical field mortals aren't affected by? What else would he even be doing that could disrupt a god's plans so badly, intentionally or otherwise?]

[scourgingstars]

What? Why are you looking at me like that?

[twistedempathy]

Well, you're not bursting into flames or getting smited by lightning, and the temple isn't falling apart around us, and the mice aren't throwing a fit, so.....

[So it can't be that bad, right? He makes it sound like some terrible tragedy is going to befall Ainea herself just for wanting his help.]

[scourgingstars]

That doesn't change anything. Ainea's still contracted the wrong person.

[twistedempathy]

[He sounds so sure about that, but he still isn't breathing a word about why that would be the case. What exactly is this terrible secret so damning for Ainea? Why is he such a bad choice for a goddess to ask for help? It doesn't make sense--not without context, at least, and Ardyn has so far been completely unwilling to provide that.

In the end, all Will can do is take him at face value, shrugging apologetically and rubbing the back of his neck. There's only so much he can offer when you're shutting him out so thoroughly, Ardyn, but he's trying his best.]

Even if she did, it's a little late to try and fix it now. Maybe you should work on some kind of damage control for whatever this impending disaster is going to be?

[scourgingstars]

It's no disaster in so many words, merely-

[Ardyn faltered, struggling to come up with the words to explain the issue at hand. It took a long moment before he found the obvious answer in the simplest terms, simply saying:]

...I am unworthy.

[twistedempathy]

.....Oh.

[Is that all? He'd sounded so dire about it, Will had thought for sure he'd been talking about some kind of calamity. Someone being unworthy to serve wasn't going to ruin a goddess' plans, assuming he even was to start with, which he probably wasn't. At worst, he might slow them down, and this doesn't seem desperately time sensitive.

Do you need a hug, Mr. Unworthy? Because Will is reaching for you.]

That's in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? And considering something as humble as a mouse is Ainea's holy animal, I'm not so sure she'd feel the same.

[scourgingstars]

[There was much more to it than a simple one-word term, judging by the way Ardyn pulled back from Will as though afraid the concept of touch would burn him.]

You don't understand. I don't expect you to.