♥ 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

[whenyouneedme]

Sure. This way.

[Kai turned, waiting just a moment to make sure she was following before heading off down the road. Onwards, to the lands of Free Housing. What a convenient affair, getting two things done at once! Nice!]

Can't say I know exactly how it works, but I haven't been doing anything special besides hittin' buttons.

It uh, used to spit out a lot of neon gunk when I tried to make coffee, but it's been behavin' better now.

[yaoyoroshka]

[She appreciates the efficiency! A bit sad that he doesn't know how the contraption works though, but seeing it for herself works well enough.]

Neon gunk...? [Does he mean that literally or...] I'm glad it fixed itself up eventually, though. Perhaps it isn't performing to its best capacity because of the crisis this world has?

[whenyouneedme]

It sorta tasted like coffee? [He drank it.]

The natives have been working on 'em. Prior to us showing up they haven't needed to worry about feeding anything, so all the replicators have been defunct for who knows how long.

[yaoyoroshka]

[Uh, sir???]

You... you weren't the least bit worried it might've been dangerous to drink?

[There's awe in there, somewhere.]

Ah, that makes sense. It seems our presence here has them fumbling over making old technology work again. I was even told there was VR for... recreating sensory experiences?

[whenyouneedme]

It wasn't sludge anymore, so, YOLO or whatever.

[There's a big shrug. Sir. Please.]

Oh, right, those things... haven't messed with 'em much, but they seem to be a big thing. They malfunctioned at one point, kinda, and stuff came out of 'em?

[You know. Stuff.]

[yaoyoroshka]

..."YOLO"?

[Asked with all seriousness. What is slang. But then again it seems there are more pressing matters than that query.]

I-I see— [Kai, you don't just shrug off these things... So of course she asks for more details.] Ah. By stuff, do you mean inanimate objects or something... alive?

[whenyouneedme]

YOLO's pretty much you only live once so just go for it.

[A life's motto that lent well to the other life motto of 'Uh no, shrug off everything.' It was the way to survive. He waved his hand a little.]

I guess someone's farm simulation went a little haywire or something. There were rainbow colored sheep and chickens all over the place.

The chickens were really temperamental. Don't get in a chicken's way is what I learned from all that.