♥ 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

[pinkmin]

She nodded. It was still pretty different, but some of the concepts weren't a total surprise.

"Like roombas?"

[21kingpuddings]

Oho!

"Yeah, exactly like roombas!"

Perhaps... their worlds aren't so different after all! You know. Barring the human-robots, as well as the slew of fight sibling school exclusive stuff he is currently unaware of.

[pinkmin]

"Roombas are very good."

Very helpful. Go zoom. "I wonder how many different worlds have similar things." And similar things with similar names. That's a hot button tradmark dispute some executive has been waiting his entire ancestry for.

[21kingpuddings]

Very good and helpful friends, those roombas.

"We've got one in the dorms, its name is Musashi." He can't imagine anything as advanced as the people here roaming around the way the resident roomba does, but that's a decent bridge to have between their worlds.

"There's probably a lot," he'd have to assume as much, anyway. "Like... the communicators they gave us, they're kind of like cell phones, right?" Here, he pulls his phone from his pocket, a light blue smart phone in a cute case, and holds it toward Vianca so she can compare with the device she's holding. "It isn't the same, but still really close."

Truly fascinating!

"There's probably a lot that's different, too, though."

[pinkmin]

Oh, what a cute case. It reminded Vianca a little bit of a Ditto, but a Ditto with her face. She glanced at her communicator, nodding along. They did seem rather similar. She was sure if she sat down with hers, it'd be a similar touch screen sort of deal based on how simple it looked otherwise.

"Probably," she agreed. "It seems like it would be silly to have many worlds if they were exactly the same."

[21kingpuddings]

This sure is an interesting way of spinning the conversation. By 'interesting', that is, 'a little over his head'. He'll try to keep up for her sake, but. Hm.

"I guess so," he can agree to that much. "It's kinda weird to think about there even being different worlds? But I guess this place would be proof enough of that." Multiple universes and the like is a little easier to accept when there's one staring you in the face.

"I don't think I could see something like, 'everyone decides to turn themselves into a robot' happening where I'm from, you know?"

[pinkmin]

There, there, Tamaki. You were doing a good job.

She gave a little nod. "I guess it depends on how far along technology is... One of the teachers at school turned many people into robots, but that was temporary."

...

"He was not a very good teacher."

[21kingpuddings]

That. Sounds. Uh.

"Was that... some kind of weird punishment? Like, if you didn't do your work or something?"

Or is this an even worse teacher than anticipated and he didn't necessarily need a reason for it?

[pinkmin]

"I think he wanted to take over the city...? But I don't think it was the first time he tried to do something like that."

Just casual anarchy and destruction. No biggie.

[21kingpuddings]

Sounds like a video game super-villain. Hm.

"They let someone like that be a teacher?"

Sounds like the kind of person who might not be a good fit for that particular profession.

[pinkmin]

Vianca considered this very curious thing.

"...I suppose he interviewed very well."

[21kingpuddings]

Why would someone like that want to be a teacher in the first place? Easy access to kids to... turn into robots? So very peculiar. So very unnerving to think about.

"I guess so?" That would probably have to be the case, wouldn't it? "I don't think I'd ever want to go back to class if one of my teachers did something like that, though."

[pinkmin]

"It was a school for fighting, so the headmasters must have decided that dealing with it was just another part of the general curriculum."

Fighting school.

With this small thing.

What a tricky math problem this was.

[21kingpuddings]

Good thing he's not great at math and will spend very little time attempting to solve this problem on his own.

"Fighting school."

He could maybe conclude that it was some kind of martial arts school, if she wasn't already telling him some pretty wild things about her world. Would robots be allowed in something like that? Would not including them be? Discriminatory? But no, this is clearly more unusual than that.

"Are you good at fighting...?"

He doesn't sound incredulous, at least, just puzzled.

[pinkmin]

"No."

Terrible at it, really. Awful. Things might have been different if she'd been even a little better at it, maybe.

"But there were other classes available, and a very impressive library." Extremely impressive even!!

[21kingpuddings]

At least you're staying in the No Violence Allowed Game now, in that case.

But that's kind of a relief to hear - at least fight school allows its students a more rounded education than just... fight. "So you like books a lot, then?" Since she calls it 'very impressive', seems like a sound assumption. He can picture that pretty easily, too, someone so quiet seems like a perfect fit for a library.

[pinkmin]

Very good.

She nodded. Books were the quiet friends she could always turn to. "We had lots of books from everyone's different worlds. I was trying to read all of them."

[21kingpuddings]

"That must have been an awful lot of books..."

Imagining a regular library back home, compounded with whatever libraries might exist in other worlds... whether or not that's an accurate mental image, it's still probably more impressive than any library he's been in.

"Think they've got anything like that here?" Could be worth investigating. "I bet a place like this would have really interesting stories to read about."

[pinkmin]

"It was an awful lot of books. Lots of people tended to get lost."

Half of her job had just been navigating wayward teachers and students back out of the library. A very important task.

"I am sure they must have some kind of library or... database, I suppose?"

[21kingpuddings]

"I guess robots would use something more like a database."

You can store a lot more information in a lot smaller of a space if you're using computers and such, after all. Hm...!!

"We could go find out, if you wanna."

[pinkmin]

It made sense, as much as it made her worry that maybe. There weren't actually any paper books around. Hmm.

Vianca glanced up at him curiously though. "Do you like to read books too?"

[21kingpuddings]

Since Vianca's already made it clear that she's a big book fan, Tamaki can find it in himself to be... just a little tactful in his response.

"Hmm... sitting and reading for too long always makes me feel really antsy, you know?"

Which is to say, 'not particularly'.

[pinkmin]

She took in this measured response and turned it over a few times before nodding her head.

Hm. Yes. She knew what this meant. Vianca didn't mind in the slightest. Most of the people she had known were usually only casual readers at their best.

"We can look at other things. Books are patient."

[21kingpuddings]

How considerate of you, books.

"If you're sure," she doesn't sound bummed out by it, hopefully she'll have the opportunity to find something like a library later (imagine! if that were to happen!!)

"I'm sure we'll find something else interesting if we look around long enough."