♥ 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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Comments

[scourgingstars]

...I make no promises. I've doubts any of you will be at ease in a room with me, regardless of whether or not I eat anything in the process.

[flawed_immortality]

[There's a pause, Cor cocking a brow at Regis briefly. Really, Reggie why are you so insistent on walking on egg shells?]

No one is going to force anything on you.

[So where is that coming from, Regis?]

And you don't need to hide... I hardly have room to talk if you want to, however.

[kingkingcxiii]

[He returns Cor's look with one of his own. Ardyn has had almost all the worst things imaginable forced on him. Regis doesn't think it hurts to remind him now and again he does, in fact, have the ability to choose right now. After all, from their earlier conversation, it is something that he doesn't always seem to remember he has.]

No matter how little or how much you choose to interact with us, you are going to need some things. New clothes, toiletries. If you make a list, I can help you find what you need or at least point you in the right direction.

[scourgingstars]

...I won't ask anyone to go to such trouble. It scarcely matters, when this body doesn't function as a human's would. I've no need or desire for anything.

[...he's fine. definitely fine and not at all a little cracked by the whole ordeal.]

[flawed_immortality]

[Sorry, Regis, you're far more in tune with the needs of the apocalypse than Cor is. Though that last statement does get Ardyn a concerned look. Is that really how he feels? That's so... bleak. Defeated even.

Regis, help. How do you deal with that level of depression?]

[kingkingcxiii]

You are not asking; we are offering. Truth be told, you have fallen in with a set of fools who will worry about you whether you wish us to or not. No matter how difficult it is for you to see otherwise, I see you as human and I will worry about you as such.

[At least let him take you clothes shopping, Ardyn. It will make you feel better to get out of those lab clothes.]

[scourgingstars]

...very well. Clearly it is simply not worth the effort to argue the point.

[flawed_immortality]

I assure you, arguing with His Majesty against your own well being is a waste of time and breath.

[That much he can agree on but realizing exactly how passive Ardyn is about all of this, even more so than himself, is a little disconcerting.]

[kingkingcxiii]

[Regis just barely avoids rolling his eyes again.]

I wouldn't have to be so adamant on things if others were not so stubborn.

[scourgingstars]

[There was a very slight twitch to the corner of Ardyn's mouth that might almost have been recognized as an attempted and aborted smile.]

And in turn I fear you liable to find stubbornness to run deep in the bloodline.

[flawed_immortality]

[Cor actually snorts softly at that, a weak attempt at stifling his amusement.]

I'm well aware.

[Noctis still isn't as bad as Reggie, though.]

It runs in the line of Shields as well.

[kingkingcxiii]

I thank you both kindly for proving my point.

[Regis doesn't bother to hide his amusement like certain other people.]

So we are all stubborn old fools. It seems we are in agreement on this.