♥ 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

[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?

[21kingpuddings]

I mean, it's just kinda good in general. [He certainly isn't about to complain about being surrounded by helpful people.] But if it means you get to be around nice humans instead of selfish ones all the time, that's extra good.

[heron]

Mmm.

[ reyson shrugs, wings fluttering. ]

It is nice, for once. Not to fear it.

[21kingpuddings]

[He's still a little awestruck by those wings - having them flutter like that is enough to grab his attention for another short moment.]

Right, that's the kind of thing that makes it just... really nice in general.

[Makes sense, right?]

[heron]

Yes, I said that.

[ is this human all right. . . ]

Anyway, there are the quarters. You should be fine now.

[21kingpuddings]

[Sometimes you gotta make extra sure you're on the same page! And it sounds like they are, so that's that.]

Ah, you're right! [Fog: Escaped!] Just as long as nothing else super wacky happens between here and there, right? [Heh] Thanks a lot --

[Ah. Have they not... exchanged names at all? Maybe he should fix that.]

My name's Tamaki.

[heron]

[ reyson inclines his head politely. ]

I am Prince Reyson.

[21kingpuddings]

[Prince??]

Whoa, wait, like, a real prince?

[heron]

[ he blinks. ]

Yes . . . ?

[ what would be the opposite of a real prince. ]

[21kingpuddings]

[Someone trying to pull a fast one on him by lying about prince status, probably?]

I've just never met a prince before!

[How exciting!!]

[heron]

Why would you want to?