♥ 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

[thermoregulate]

Oh. Okay.

[ He smiles a bit. ]

I'm surprised they came along with me, but I won't complain.

[carbungle]

I didn't expect it, either.

[He can't help taking a few more steps forward, leaning in to get a closer look at the little one in his arms.]

What're their names?

[thermoregulate]

Her name is Rio-

[ He nods to the ball of grey in his arms, then to his shoulder. ]

And she's Harmony.

I had adopted them in the world I previously lived in.

[carbungle]

They're cute.

[He offers a hand out to the little one, if she wants to sniff. The way he phrased that is weird, though-]

You were in another world? You mean, not your own?

[thermoregulate]

Mm.

[ Rio presses her nose against the offered affection. ]

I spent the past year in a world known as Empatheias. It was sustained via emotions, so the concept and need from this word, or as much as I've heard, doesn't sound too farfetched to me.

Originally I'm from a country known as Japan, on the planet Earth.

[carbungle]

Don't know that one.

[There's a lot of people from different worlds here, though, so it's impossible to tell who comes from where, at this point. There seems to be no rhyme or reason for it.

Since the cat seems amicable, he'll try giving it a gentle scratch under the chin. What a cutie...]

Ever heard of Eos?

[thermoregulate]

[ Rio is an attention-seeking queen, all right. ♥~ Having lived at a cat café for most her life, she practically demands it.]

I haven't, no. It makes me wonder a little how many different worlds we represent, here.

[carbungle]

[She's stumbled upon the right person to demand it from for sure. Noctis could stand her petting a kitty all day.]

We've already got three between just us, so I'm guessing a lot.

[thermoregulate]

The whole idea of it is kind of amazing, isn't it?

[carbungle]

Pretty amazing, yeah. I've known how powerful gods can be for a while now, but to pull people from one world to another? That's a whole other level.

[thermoregulate]

There are known gods where you're from?

[carbungle]

Oh, yeah. The Astrals- some people call them The Six. They've been a thing for thousands of years, everybody knows about them.

[thermoregulate]

There are numerous religions where I'm from, some who believe in more than one god. It varies. There has never been explicit proof of their existence, though.

In Empatheias there were the Arehtei, which were deities who embodied different sets of emotions.

[carbungle]

Kinda like here?

[They're equally as alien to him, but it does sound a bit similar.]

[thermoregulate]

Ah. I suppose so, yes.

[carbungle]

Either way, it's nothing at all like the gods I'm used to. They're more about elements than emotions, though I guess for some there's a natural crossover.

[thermoregulate]

I think that's what makes it interesting.

[carbungle]

I guess. If you find gods interesting, anyway.

[He shrugs. In his experience they're just kinda assholes.]

[thermoregulate]

[ Ah. . . ]

In the end I imagine it's all very relative.