♥ 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

[morality_pet]

Dunno. [ She shrugs ]

There's a garden - but the flowers are... weird. [ She wrinkles her nose ]

Some of them look right, but they're funny colors or funny smells, some of them don't look right at all.

[sweetlies]

[While that does seem weird- and he'd have wholeheartedly agreed if he were fresh from England, he can't help but be a little more relaxed about it.]

We are on an alien world. Wouldn't it be normal for them to be different than what we're used to?

[morality_pet]

[ She wrinkles her nose ]

Rin supposes so... but Roses should smell like Roses, and not... not... like food!

[sweetlies]

I can't help but agree there. Sterling roses are my favorite flowers, I had them all over my garden back in England.

[Well, maybe not all over but he had more sterling roses planted than anything else.]

[morality_pet]

Exactly.

[ she huffs ]

Oooh you like roses? Rin only sees them sometimes when Lady Kagome brings them.

[sweetlies]

Only sterling roses. [He feels oddly at ease, talking with Rin about this.]

They're a pale sort of silvery-lavender color. They're hard to grow and keep healthy but they smell very sweet and not so many thorns as normal roses.

[morality_pet]

They sound really pretty! Rin's only ever seen red roses before.

[ She hums ]

They don't really grow in Nihon.

[sweetlies]

Nihon?

[Tanaka would be disappointed. Nobody ever tell the old man.]

If I ever find one or seeds, I'll give them to you. I'm not very good with growing things.

[morality_pet]

Uh huh! That's what Lady Kagome says the country is called! Rin didn't know, before that.

[sweetlies]

That's no good. Everyone should be able to identify where their home is. I live in London, England, for example.

[morality_pet]

[ She shrugs ]

Rin's an orphan, so she's got nowhere to go except the village. [ She says practically ]

[sweetlies]

[Oh

Ouch.]

I... I'm sorry, Rin. My parents died as well.

[morality_pet]

[ She smiles at him ]

It's okay! Rin has Lord Sesshoumaru now. And Lady Kagome and Lord Inuyasha too. Do you have someone?

[sweetlies]

I'm glad you're not alone. In my case, I have my friend Undertaker.

[A pause and he glances around, almost expecting to see someone looking for her.] Are they here with you?

[morality_pet]

Nuh uh. [ She shakes her head ]

Miss Aqua is looking after Rin here. You can come with us too!

[sweetlies]

[He looks utterly stunned for a moment. And then manages to shake his head, smiling a little.]

That's alright, but thank you, Rin. I'll stay with Undertaker. He's already been with me a long time, I'd hate to leave him now.

[morality_pet]

Okay. [ She agrees ]

But you'll come and play with Rin, right?

[sweetlies]

I, uh... I'm not much for playing but alright. I'll come and visit when I can.

[He's not sure someone so young would have an interest in chess, despite his and his brothers skill for the game at her age.]

[morality_pet]

"Hooray!" She cheers. "Rin will be waiting for you! "

[sweetlies]

[There's another little smile for her.]

I'll be sure not to disappoint you, Rin.

[morality_pet]

[ She beams back at him ]

Rin will look forwards to it!