♥ 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

[sensitiveapple]

"Actually, yes. Mr. Edgeworth was quite helpful at the time, but he doesn't know droids, and I was hoping someone could direct me to the port." She'll find a way back to Canto Bight, if that's at all possible.

"There must be a star port around here. Is it possible you know where it is?"

Because Jocko is not getting beaten because of her. She learned her lesson a year ago.

[aries_saint]

"Droids? Do you mean the robots? They're the residents of this world." He said, listening to her empathetically. He reads a bit of the science fiction books in the library and watches the movies in the entertainment district to understand a bit of her technical lingo.

"Star port..." He took a pause to gather the answer. "There isn't any port in Havenwell that I know of. The city is surrounded by a wall, a barrier, and the robots forbidden us to leave beyond the wall."

[sensitiveapple]

"No. Port." She repeats, horrified. Jocko is going to be beaten. He'll be cast out from the house, and blacklisted on Canto. She knows because that's what the Mistress threatened her with, should she leave without a guard ever again. "That's not possible. Every system has at least one port." She knows that. It's what she's been told by traders that had stopped by many times at the house.

"Who cares what a droid says?!" She's starting to sound a little shrill and scared. She clears her throat, and sets her face in a mask of polite disinterest. "I beg your pardon, I did not mean to sound so confrontational."

[aries_saint]

Mu waited patiently as he observed her terrified, shocked reaction. If this were the robots, they would offer comforting words in emotionless, synthesized monotone voices. This is quite an adjustment. He doesn't seem to be bothered since an apology is not necessary.

"For now, there isn't any information about any ports or returning back to your homeworld. Other than the warning to don't go beyond the gate and the wall." He said, offering what he knows. "You're stuck here for the time being. There are scientists that may help in that regard, but talking to them about anything has proven difficult."

[sensitiveapple]

She can't be stuck here. She can't be. Jocko... Jocko will be hurt, and possibly Freema as well, since it had been Freema's suggestion that she go to the market to get out of the house. But if Freema is removed... maybe she can care for Jocko? No. That won't make any sense. He won't go with the cook.

"But how? How can... The Mistress will kill him. And he'll let her. Because I'm missing." She knows that much and if Jocko dies... she loses one of her best friends. Maybe two.

"I have to return before she does it. This isn't his fault." And she is going to find who is at fault, and let them have it.

[aries_saint]

Even if she can't, she is here. Mu lives here for a few months. However, for him, there's nothing for him to return to.

"I truly sympathize with you. For now, I advise you to find a house. There are empty houses near the city center. If isn't occupied by a resident, you can make a home for yourself in the meanwhile until there are more answers. The weather in this world can be erratic, so it's best for you to find a place to live quickly."

[sensitiveapple]

She has to live by herself, and she's never done that before. She doesn't know how to cook or anything! Freema's taught her some but not a lot!

"And you're sure there's no port?" Because she will find a way to get back home.

[aries_saint]

Mu hoped the advice he has given her would be a good start, just in case she doesn't know where to look.

"I'm pretty sure. If there is a port, everyone would have taken a ship and left this world by now." He sighed. Still, if she chooses, he'll remain until she gains her footing. Not all hope is lost.

[sensitiveapple]

She shakes her head. Between the man that had nearly passed out while she'd spoken to him, to this young man.

She curtsies. "Thank you, sir for the information. I will have to pursue other avenues." She's going to get back, she's going to save Jocko and Freema, and she's going to become the Mistress of the house.