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♥ September Intro Mingle Log

a park scene in autumn with a lake, trees, a bench, leaves on the ground

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.

❥ 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

two fingers together with smiling faces drawn on

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

a vertical slice of several different weather conditions, from sunny to storms

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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... The condition of this world is unstable, so it only follows that the environment would be as well.

[The response comes from nearby, where a woman is leaning against the wall. If the weather seems more stable, Momo might not have realized that she'd stepped under a barrier of some sort of energy, that shields part of the area but not all of it.]

[Not noticing that she's said her complaint out loud and not only in her thoughts, Momo jolts a bit at the response. Ah. She feels embarrassed now, a newcomer caught grumbling.]

I suppose it does follow... [At this point, she's given up trying to fix her hair; her ponytail will just have to be undone for now.] Is it like this everyday, then? I can't imagine the robots faring through all this on a daily basis.

... It is likely the disruptions became more frequent the more outsiders have been drawn to their planet, but from my understanding, weather patterns like these were not uncommon before our arrival.

[It was more likely that, with their presence here, the robots had more reason to be out and about than not.]

And yet they mentioned of having brought people in this world to help save it... What a situation to be in.

[She gets caught up thinking about it a few more seconds before she remembers—]

Ah, forgive me for forgetting my manners. I'm Momo Yaoyorozu. I've arrived here only hours ago. [With that, she gives a polite bow. Her hair, still wet from the snow, sticks a bit to her face in the process which she quickly arranges.] I'm not really making a great first impression here, am I?

[At the introduction, she nods slowly.]

... Do not worry. It is only expected that you would be disoriented after such an arrival.

[And she is not the best at first impressions, herself, so she can understand.]

... My name is Honerva. If it helps to know, those of us who were drawn in to this world initially have only been here for roughly two months, so there is much that is yet to be truly understood about these circumstances.

[The extended kindness and understanding to her predicament is definitely much appreciated!]

That's very helpful to know, actually! Thank you, Honerva. [Her voice falters a bit at the name, still not feeling fully confident in using it. She'll get used to it.]

Two months isn't quite a long time... [Considering she's stayed in her last "foreign world" for around six months.] It makes me feel like we're all in the same boat still, newcomer or not. But it's been peaceful here so far? Aside from weather disturbances such as this, I suppose.

[She's certainly still not used to hearing her name, either. If Momo had not introduced herself first, she might have forgotten to do so entirely, so this was... a good start.]

That is a fair assessment.

[To them all being in the same boat, anyway.]

... The only significant shift since our initial arrival was that during the past month, the city was... all but overrun by the sacred mice from Ainea's temple. They were getting into belongings and disrupting sleep. Evidently it means there may be more changes or disturbances to come, depending on the energy the world receives from our presence.

[Momo nods as she considers this information. While it is very worrying to have rodents overrun an entire city, she supposes that's at least a less... deadly (?) situation compared to other possibilities. Ah, but then again, danger can be relative. Perhaps she shouldn't be speaking too soon on that matter.]

That's certainly troublesome. Has it been resolved yet or is it something I should watch out for once I've gotten to the housing area?

It seems under control at present... unless there are a few that might have evaded the capture remaining, which could be possible in the empty houses.

[Better safe than sorry, but hopefully she wouldn't run into such trouble.]

Should you encounter any, the priests of that temple will take them off your hands.

[A look of worry crosses her face at the prospect of settling in a house only to find it infest by mice. Not... looking forward to that possibility, thank you very much.]

I-I see! I'm glad to hear the priests are willing to help should it come to that, then.

[Nonetheless, that's that. She's still overall grateful that someone's taking their time to get her acquainted to this place. She looks a bit distracted as she speaks again, as if recalling something.]

To be honest... this isn't exactly the first foreign world – I suppose I can call it that – that I've been in. I'm not entirely sure what to expect out of this one, but so far I think it's giving off a friendly impression. [A sigh follows.] Although, of course, looks can still be deceiving.

[Better to be forewarned of the possibility than running into it unexpectedly, at least... oddly colorful little things, too.]

They were... very concerned for the safety of those animals even if they could not explain why they were... behaving in that way.

[Even if she had reasoned it out to her own satisfaction, it still was... not pleasant to deal with the side effects. What Momo has to to say next is far more interesting anyway, and she nods.]

So you were already pulled once from your universe, and then were pulled here from that previous location... that phenomenon has happened to some of us already here as well. Perhaps that experience would serve to better prepare you for... anything that might seem unusual here.

[Which was bound to be... many things, given what had already happened. Friendly seeming or not, there was still much unknown about it all.]

Perhaps there's simply lost context to warrant the concern...?

[They are, technically, foreigners; lack of context on their part is almost expected. But for now, she'll move on the the next point of conversation.]

That's correct! It was strange, to say the least. One moment I was at home and the next, I was there. Coincidentally that's how I found myself here, too. Like suddenly just being plucked from one world and dropped into another. I'm starting worry if this is going to be a pattern...

I do think it will. [On the matter of being more used to unusual things. She smiles wryly then.] It's not as if we have a choice but to adapt, after all.

Perhaps there is a reason as to why people are susceptible to being brought to new universes in this way...

[Whether or not research could eventually find a way to support that idea... yet even planar travelers couldn't quite explain it either. Rules were always different in some way, challenging what was known.]

Were you provided with any information the last time? Although perhaps adapting to our current circumstances would take precedence, given the ... limitations on researching such a curiosity at present.

[Very, very interesting thought.]

Let's see... If we're to draw parallels, I don't know how I was transported in both instances. However, both do make their intentions clear—that is, for outsiders like us to extend our help over an internal problem their world is facing.

I wonder if we're all somehow transported here because we have the capacity, in one way or another, to help. Like volunteer work. [Hmm.] Except it's not really voluntary, I suppose.

Although you're right, I think it's more important right now to mind the present circumstances... [A sheepish smile.] Ah. For example, I'm not even sure yet where I'll be staying yet.

The criteria for it does not seem very exact.

[They were all from varied worlds with varied sorts of pasts, and yet something had resonated to the call of these places in need, throughout planar limits. Always an interesting larger picture, harder to see when one was inside the frame.

At the slight shift in subject however, she nods, with a small smile.]

... Of course. There will always be enough time to discuss such theories. Finding yourself a place to settle is another matter. I do not mind guiding you to the area where our housing is located. If you have concerns about potential infestation, my cat can make certain it is clear.

[She nods cheerfully at Honerva's assessment. Ah, it's nice just to have someone to talk to about these things.]

It's very roughly put, isn't it? I'm looking forward to learning more about this place. Perhaps someday, I'll bring up a more plausible theory for us to talk about.

I would very much appreciate the guidance, if it won't be too much of a bother. [Her smile wanes a little at the mention of the cat; she's basically left not one but two back in Empatheias. And even more than that, there's someone... but she won't dwell too much on that for now.] That's wonderful! Though I must admit, I'd be more than glad to just meet your cat, with or without the infestation.

It is no bother. The offer was already made.

[They'd only have to navigate through the weather situations, but even though she was more used to teleporting to get to where she wanted, she still knew how to get through the city, and they weren't far.

Hard to miss that change in expression about the cat, though she only nods.]

I am certain that Kova will be glad of the meeting as well. It does not take him as long to build familiarity with others anymore.

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