♥ 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

[heron]

[ cheery . . . but reyson nods as he leads the way. ]

You must be one of the new ones.

[21kingpuddings]

[Only when it's reasonable! And having someone agree to guide him out of this downright spooky fog is a good enough reason for it.]

Yeah, I only just got here a little while back. [Good guess...!] How could you tell?

[heron]

New arrivals have more energy to them. And I am sensitive to such things, like moods and thoughts.

[21kingpuddings]

Do a lot of people run out of energy fast here?

[Is that what you mean, Reyson? That's kind of... ominous.]

[heron]

[ reyson shakes his head. ]

No. I think they settle in very quickly and are less enthusiastic at times.

[21kingpuddings]

What, like, they get used to it all?

[How weird.]

We didn't have anything like this, [He gestures around to the fog,] back home. At least, not anything that'd happen so suddenly. I don't know if I'll ever get used to it.

[heron]

We have had a few weather anomalies, but nothing terribly dangerous.

[ except for the fire, but that is reyson's trauma, no one else's. ]

[21kingpuddings]

[What he doesn't know won't hurt him, no need to mention the fire storms.]

So, just weird and annoying?

[heron]

For the most part. It probably has to do with the lack of nature.

[21kingpuddings]

Huh.

[Makes sense? He guesses? He can't really argue, either way.]

I just hope it doesn't get this bad very often.

[heron]

[ reyson gives a bird-like nod at that. ]

I don't think it will, but you have no shortage of people willing to help out.

[21kingpuddings]

Yeah, it really does seem like everyone around is willing to help each other out.

[Not like he really expects anyone to be terribly stubborn about it, but he'd kind of expect at least a little resistance sometimes.]

It's kind of weird, honestly. But, not in a bad way.

[heron]

[ reyson blinks. ]

Why would it be strange?

[21kingpuddings]

Well, you'd expect some people to be like, "Oh, I can't help, I'm busy," or "Why's this stranger asking me for directions?" or something like that.

[Someone might have a very good reason for not helping, even if it's frustrating for the person who needs it.]

But, like, everyone I've met so far has been super nice about it.

[heron]

I suppose it is unusual. I am not used to . . . nice humans.

[21kingpuddings]

[Hm...!]

Like, not at all?

[That is definitely a lot more strange than everyone being nice, he thinks.]

[heron]

No. Humans, in my experience, tend to be greedy, selfish creatures.

[21kingpuddings]

I guess so.

[Like, that's a point he can't even really contest.]

I can be kinda selfish sometimes. [Said with zero shame,] But I'd still help someone out if they were in trouble.

[heron]

As I said, it is only the sum of my experience. I try my best not to judge every human I meet because of it.

[ tries. reyson doesn't always succeed but he's always honest and willing to own up when he fails. ]

[21kingpuddings]

It just kinda sucks, you know? Even the people I've met who I think are mean or rude mostly know how to be good people when it counts.

[There are a handful of exceptions to this, naturally, but only a few.]

Not meeting any humans except bad ones sounds like it would really suck.

[Eloquence.]

[heron]

[ he shakes his head. ]

It cannot be helped.

[21kingpuddings]

Yeah... Can't change the past.

[Kind of a depressing thought to leave off on, though.]

At least there's a lot of cool people here to make up for it, huh?

[heron]

Yes. Temperature aside, they are kind.

[21kingpuddings]

Temperature...?

[He does not see where this misunderstanding has come from. Ah.]

Hmm, it's really good that everyone's really kind, then.

[heron]

Is that important to you?