♥ 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

[somakemelaugh]

[While not used to people of the robotic kind to speak with and guide him around, he isn't wholly unfamiliar with the concept of robots at all, despite what he once knew back in a day and age in his home world where people could still catch death from a mere cold.]

[But he isn't unfriendly, and this man approaching him in long flowing garb doesn't turn him away. Undertaker nods and tips his hat to him.]

And good day to you. You'd be right about that assumption. I've just come from some temple or other. Ohma, I think they said it caters to, but I've not been much for worship. They gave me a map of sorts, but I'll be glad for the company all the same, if you don't mind.

[aries_saint]

[With a nod.]

Mm, good day to you. Ohma, you say? I think...the temple is where most of their animals are like cats in that nature.

I am Mu, and I'm from the temple of Ainea. It's nice to meet you. I'm just around helping the newcomers getting settled. So I don't mind.

So to begin with, have you found a new house to settle in yet? Most of them are near the city centers. If you find a house not occupied, you can move in.

[somakemelaugh]

[A nod right back, interlacing his fingers before him.]

That, I did. There were a few such creatures I noticed in the art and decor around the building. Quite lovely, I'd say, but I would expect it to be as an important landmark in this place. One tends to treat well what they hold in high regard.

[In greeting, he offers a shallow bow and lifts his top had in the old style, ways that he has long been used and employs even after his long years under exposure to different cultures and different worlds.]

Oh, and quite a pleasure to meet you as well.I haven't, not yet. I was just making my way over to that area to see what all is availble. Care to take a walk with me and show me the way?

[aries_saint]

[Holding his hand, that means they're friends and good will! At least, that's what it means in these parts. Holding hands does good for this world.]

Those animals are sacred to the gods, I think. A while ago, there is mice wandering around all over the city, and the priests there asked us to collect them in baskests and return them back to Ainea.

[Mu made a simple bow in return.]

Sure, I'll show you around. There isn't anything interesting to see much once you seen everything and you get used to it. In Havenwell, they have research centers, the botanical gardens, and the zoo. There's also the VR cafes in the entertainment district. Just to name a few.

[somakemelaugh]

[For someone who used to be able to see clearly until about a foot in front of him and had only had it back recently, touch is still and will always be a large part of his life. His roommate knows this and tolerates it well enough, even encourages it. Lucky him.]

Animals and gods, always hand in hand, would you say? That's been my experience of it. It's as if they want us all to interact more than we do already. Horse and carriage and whatnot.

[Not just here, but everywhere he had been. No doubt, it had been by design, but he doesn't find himself bothered by it either way.]

Ah, but it's always like that. Everything is new and exciting, and then it becomes just another day. We're used to it, I'm sure. Did they ever have anything like this technology in your world?

[aries_saint]

[Strolling with his friend through the city, making small talk.]

The gods are connected to the land somehow, and the robots said physical contact is one solution to their dying world. Weather can be erratic here also.

Eh? Technology? Ah, where I came from, the year is 1990 on Earth. But it was not unheard of. I mostly live in the countryside and go train in the wild. There's scant technology where I live. But there's airplanes, cars, and such. I just don't use much technology back home. I read a lot in a temple where I live. Living out here, it's something to get used to.

[somakemelaugh]

[Just another day, but not unpleasant. So far, so good, though this is just the beginning. There is still a crisis in this world, and it's sure to come back on them somehow, one day, and convince them to help whether or not they wanted to. Luckily, he's not unwilling.]

They said as much. I wasn't sure if I should believe them at first, but what do I know? Just enough to get me by for now.

[That catches his ear like nothing else.] Earth, is it? Goodness! Here I thought my roommate and I were about the only ones from that old planet anymore. I hail from there myself, though a good century before your time. We didn't know what electricity was, what airplanes or even indoor plumbing meant. But it's good to see there's still value in books. I've been rather fond of those, as you might imagine.

[aries_saint]

[Mu is simply following along, and will happily answer any questions he has if there is any. With a cheerful upbeat.]

Well, you are here. I know I'm not helpful, but I think everyone here is making the best of it.

Indeed, I came from Earth. A century before my time? Seems like long ago.

If you're interested in books, this city does have a library, but it takes time to get use to reading books in tablet form.

[somakemelaugh]

[A bit of a wider grin.]

Ah, now, whoever said you're not helpful? You're here with me, just as this place wants, and we're not touching, but I think we both know it doesn't just work like that with all humans. [Though he wouldn't mind. He's not who he once was, not as blind as he once was in many definitions of the term.]

It is and isn't. Day by day, it's a long time, but you know how they say time likes to fly. I've spent hours upon hours over one book or another, even in that dreadful electronic form people of the future seem to love. There's something I don't think I ever will like.