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♥ July 2019 Intro Mingle

Welcome sign
July Intro Log

Welcome to Havenwell! The walled city and its robotic inhabitants welcome all of the offworlders to Aellyn. New arrivals are given their tablets and showed to open housing, given tours around the city, and generally helped with settling into their new world. Some robots are more curious than others, more helpful than others, but overall the atmosphere of the city is one of hope and celebration. It is, however, a city that needs some help, and as newcomers wander, they may find that they can do a lot to aid Havenwell in its recovery.



PROMPT I: Temple Jobs
The priests of each temple have a digital bulletin board in front of their temple doors that lists several tasks that each temple is asking of natives and newcomers alike. Havenwell is protected from the worst of the damage outside the walls, but it's still an ancient city and there's always something that needs to be done. Of course, the priests won't ask you to do these things for free, so anyone who wants to join up and complete a task will receive a reward of Dora sent to their bank accounts.

The sudden weather changes sometimes results in localized floods, so businesses and homes are always looking for help cleaning debris and mopping floors. The temples themselves always need a little extra help picking up after the temple animals or cleaning the altars. Some stores need help transporting goods across the city - normally a two person job, pulling carts and wagons. And lately, temples have been asking for help in cleaning up the city square for a "big *wink wink* project" coming soon. The priests won't say more than that, but they will offer payment for anyone willing to keep the square clean. Which may be a little difficult with the influx of new people, maps, and general trash and broken debris everywhere. It may be smart to team up to keep things clean!




PROMPT II: Repli-fails
One thing that new residents might find that needs some help are the food replicators found in each home. They've been unused for so long that issues and trouble were inevitable. People who can fix them are few and far between, however, so until an antiques' maintenance-minded robotic denizen stops by, characters may have to suffer through some glitches. When characters ask for potatoes, they might find blue-flavored toothpaste getting dispensed instead. Or if they ask for 1 carrot, they get 20 hot pink ones instead. Or asking for a drink becomes a never-ending stream of said drink. Or they might not dispense anything that looks like food at all and instead inundate you with vaguely fish-shaped wooden blocks. Good luck, newbies. Even the natives are a little baffled by this one.




Rainbow colored chickens

PROMPT III: Virtual? Reality?
The VR simulation of the month, Petting Zoo, seems to still be pretty popular. Natives are plugging in to pet animals in record numbers and it's encouraged the proprietors of the VR parlors to keep the game a little longer than normal. New arrivals are encouraged to take the VR headsets for a spin to help proprietors gauge how to better adjust them for non-robotic clientele. That said, they'll still ask characters to pay for the experience, just not at a slightly discounted rate if they answer a survey afterwards. Characters will notice that holding hands with someone else during their VR experience significantly improves the quality of the visuals and audio input.

Unfortunately, as with most things in Havenwell, the VR experience doesn't always go as planned. On occasion in the city, glitches happen while residents are plugged in and suddenly that flock of giant pink sheep they were petting? Yeah, they're now manifested in the real world. In and around the entertainment districts, illogically colored sheep, giant house cats, miniature ponies, and - of course - the dreaded aggro rainbow chickens suddenly start appearing in packs. Their images glitch in and out, fuzzing into static in places, but they're very real and very confused about not being in their happy green pastures. Which means they panic, of course, and start running amok. Help the citizens corral these strange beasts until the glitch ends, run away from the now very real flocks of rainbow chickens that want to dogpile you, or simply stand by and watch the chaos occur. It's up to you how you want to help!





PROMPT IV: The Ribbon Games
A couple weeks after everyone has arrived and had time to mostly settle into the weird weather patterns and machinery muck-ups, a notice is plastered across the network:
The citizens of Havenwell wish you well, offworlders! To show our appreciation for your assistance in saving our world, we cordially invite you to participate in an ancient tradition: The Ribbon Games! In the old days, this festival was held as a celebration of joyous events. You have a week to collect as many ribbons as you can from your temple by completing their Ribbon Task. Then, at the end of the week, we are hosting a party in your honor where you can compete to collect ribbons from the other temples to win fabulous prizes! Please visit your deity's temple to find out more and we hope you will join us for the Ribbon Games Party at the end of the week.

With all our gratitude,
The Citizens of Havenwell
Those who choose to participate and head to their deity's temple will find a priest with a sash and a box of ribbons in the colors of your chosen deity. They point to a digital board at their side that lists the task you'll need to complete in order to earn one of these ribbons, and will allow characters to complete a ribbon challenge once a day until the week is over for a total of 7 ribbons if they come each day. You may only earn the ribbon of your assigned deity, so if you are an adherent of Rawna and go to Ainea's temple, even if you complete Ainea's task, you cannot receive her ribbon. The tasks are:
  • Rawna: Give comfort to someone or ease someone's pain within Rawna's temple to receive a shimmering silver ribbon.
  • Ainea: Do an act of kindness or show compassion to someone within Ainea's temple to receive a soft pink and purple ribbon.
  • Diacht: Reveal an honest truth about yourself within Diacht's temple to receive a bold red and white ribbon.
  • Ohma: Learn something new about or from someone within Ohma's temple to receive a delicate blue and gold ribbon.

Once a task is completed, the priest will remove a ribbon from their box and affix it to your clothing. Don't let anyone steal your ribbons! Good luck keeping them safe, offworlders.




Outdoor party space with hanging lights and flowers

PROMPT V: The Fanciest of Welcome Parties
At the end of the month, once the city square is clean and the ribbons have been distributed to participating citizens, the newest residents of Havenwell will wake to the sound of music floating over the city. During the night while people slept, the natives decorated the city with streamers, brightly colored lanterns, and strings of beautiful lights that glow no matter the hour of the day. The natives have decorated themselves, too, and provide the offworlders with clothing and decorations to match. Garishly colored sashes, brilliantly (artificially) plumed hats, skirts and tunics, boas and fake flower leis - just about anything you can imagine, they're wearing. In and around the city square there are long tables of oddly colored finger foods - orange-colored grapes, bright pink meats, blue cheeses and the like are provided along with golden chocolates, fuchsia frosted cupcakes with pink cake underneath, and minty green cookies. The foods might look strange, but at least they mostly taste like they're supposed to. The citizens are trying, they promise.

All around the fountain depicting the four gods in the center of the square, pre-recorded music is playing and the natives are dancing in pairs, groups, and lines. Join them for a dance and they'll happily teach you the local customs, or break out your own moves and share your world's best moves to earn some applause and awkward attempts at recreating them.

The big game of the night is shared by the natives and it's announced halfway through the party. The culmination of the Ribbon Games is a contest to try and collect a set of four ribbons - one from each different god's temple. The rules are simple:
  1. Attach your ribbons to yourself in a clearly visible location.
  2. Tag and hold someone else for more than 1 minute. You can bear hug them, hold their hands, link arms, anything!
  3. After sustaining contact, you can take one of their ribbons. If you aren't the character who initiated contact, you can't take a ribbon.
  4. Gather one of each god's ribbon in order to win a prize!

If you successfully manage to get all four ribbons, a little shower of confetti will burst from your ribbons and a nice little chunk of Dora will be transferred to your account. This can only work once unfortunately, but it's a nice little bonus for your first month in Havenwell! The party continues late into the night and the natives are happy to keep the party going as long as any of the offworlders wish to keep dancing.




As a reminder, please post your character to the Taken Character list and your own information to the Player Contact list as soon as possible. It helps us keep track of our player cap!

If you have any other questions, please ask them in the QUESTION thread below. Feel free to use the CR/Intro Meme to do OOC plotting. Otherwise, welcome to Hugtopia's first mingle log!
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[personal profile] promittere 2019-07-23 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, he certainly knows his stuff.

And of course he recognizes the name Besithia. He'd be hard pressed to not know who the man was.

It figures.

He doesn't rub at his face, but he wants to. He can't show any weakness. He instead nods slowly - he already brought up the fall. Pretending like that didn't happen will achieve nothing.]


Niflheim got what it wanted, though I'm not sure they anticipated the cost.

[Years and years of darkness ahead of them, and all of those in charge dead.]
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[personal profile] original_is_best 2019-07-23 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[It did bring him to silence for a moment. After all, the war had been ongoing since long before any of them had been born, and they'd been stuck at a stalemate recently. Verstael had been dedicating himself to putting an end to that.

He was seeing this not from the perspective of a man whose lab was filled with daemons and darkness, but as a man who had only begun to associate with Ardyn relatively recently.

Ignis might hear some movement as he adjusted his weight, thoughtfully glancing around as he mulled it over, before finally speaking.]


The war can finally come to a close, then. [This was a good thing. Niflheim won. There was a sense of relief to that, mixed with something close to disbelief. He did follow it up with more of his perspective, however, in reply to Ignis' assertion about consequences.] His Radiance is a superb ruler in every respect. It is possible to rebuild and prosper, much as Accordo has done for over a century.

[Because honestly, he wasn't expecting to go in and kill every random citizen that had nothing to do with anything. Victory would be followed by rebuilding and establishing the new world order, not with meaningless death. Much like the rest of the Emperor's people, Verstael admired Aldercapt emphatically.]
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[personal profile] shroudedsecrets 2019-07-23 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps.

[She had a few thoughts on the subject, though most of them were ominous.]

If the world is in such a dire state that it is looking outside of itself for energy, their attitude seems to fit their approach.

[For now, anyway. She'd seen worse. She'd done worse.]
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[personal profile] original_is_best 2019-07-23 04:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[But think of all the amazing knowledge he could have if he could read minds.

Regardless, he wasn't telepathic and didn't expect to become telepathic, so it was a moot point that he didn't need to address. He gave that finger a glance, and responded with a quirked brow, but didn't look particularly threatened.

'Magical jamming devices' were definitely on his list of things to build.]


Magic on our world is channeled through the Crystal, which was gifted to the Lucis Caelum family millennia ago by the gods, along with a ring in order to control it. Thus, the ruler of Lucis is the only one able to channel the power of the Crystal. The king is able to permit others to use it, such as the Crownsguard. However, they have no power on their own, so if their connection to the king were to be severed they would lose all use of it.

The magic is generally used to form the Wall that surrounds region of Cavaugh, to store weapons, to use elemental magic and for healing.
Edited 2019-07-23 16:44 (UTC)
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[personal profile] twistedempathy 2019-07-23 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh--I'd love to go home, don't get me wrong! But this kind of thing is such a rare opportunity, don't you think? It seems like a shame to waste it pining for my own world when I could be meeting new people and learning about new places and things! Mostly I just wish the rest of my team had managed to make the trip with me.

[It's questionable whether he belongs more in Ainea's or Ohma's temple, honestly--on the one hand, he's so enthused to get to know people and hear about their worlds that even going home is a second priority for him. On the other hand, would anyone but an Ainea adherent really be this friendly and cuddly so soon after meeting someone?

As much as he'd like to go home, back to the place he'd carved out for himself..... So far, Havenwell is pretty nice, too. And if he has to stay here? At least it means a real fresh start for him. No Team Rocket to look over his shoulder for, no past to hang over his head..... if he needs to remake his life all over again, he'll do his best, and he won't have too many regrets. It's not like anyone back home would probably really miss him, anyway.....]
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[personal profile] twistedempathy 2019-07-23 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Would something even worse have happened if the war hadn't?

[What in the world is their life, that time travel is just a normal, possible Thing that cna be casually invented and possibly misused like that without completely destroying the space-time continuum?

Obviously what that life needs is more accessories! Will digs out a colorful boa and a couple of leis, humming thoughtfully as he holds them up to compare the colors with Tailgate's paint job.]
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[personal profile] twistedempathy 2019-07-23 05:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, probably. Can't say I've met any myself to say for sure, though!

[Have a mischievous grin. As if he hadn't just outstubborned Ignis into getting up and having a little fun.....]

Remind me not to argue with you; it sounds like you'd win.
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[personal profile] morethanthis 2019-07-23 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's okay, really. I get that a lot," She winks at him. Natasha has a feeling that her next words will be a moot point at least to the young man in front of her, but she says them anyway.

"Natasha Romanoff, but my friends call me Nat," She spoke, a slight smile gracing her face, as she held out her hand.
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[personal profile] original_is_best 2019-07-23 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll admit, I'm much of the same mind.

[He had, after all, spent his time thus far trying to learn everything he could and a lot of it had nothing to do with learning how to get home. He just wanted to hear about these different universes and what they had to offer. Wanted to test out technology that was unlike his own. Wanted to see new kinds of magic and hear about different kinds of gods. He couldn't deny being ecstatic about that part.

There was, however, another side for him.]


While there are many opportunities here I would have never had before, I also can't help but remember that the Empire is depending on me back home. [There was some loyalty there. Not just for his work, but he also knew his comrades were still in combat and his homeland was still endangered by the plague - which no one understood as well as he did. He was instrumental to fixing these things and couldn't be replaced.]
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[personal profile] thekingsshield 2019-07-23 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[he grins, so maybe it was on purpose after all.]

A-hyuck! If you like it, there's plenty t'go a'round!

[this may go on for some time.]
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Re: I

[personal profile] morethanthis 2019-07-23 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Natasha looked up and ended up looking at a metallic midsection before her eyes move up to land on the face of the robot? She really hoped she wasn't staring at another Ultron, but when in Rome... ]

Sure, Thanks. You do this kind of thing a lot?
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[personal profile] thekingsshield 2019-07-23 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Didja get a lot of ribbons today? You can have all of mine you need!
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you're darn right you're not

[personal profile] thekingsshield 2019-07-23 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Moblin?

[That's a new word... oh! Maybe this is how they say 'hello' in whatever world this boy's from. Might as well be polite!]

Well, 'Moblin' to you too, pal!
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[personal profile] begguiling 2019-07-23 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[He hums thoughtfully. That answer shouldn't be a surprise, considering everything she'd told him before about her background. If anything, she has a lot more perspective than he would have expected.]

You're pretty smart. If that's how it is, I bet the robots here could mechanize you, and then you'd surely be able to be with him forever . . . but you'd be giving up all the rest, and you don't want that. So it's better to stay this way and just deal with it.
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Re: V

[personal profile] morethanthis 2019-07-23 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Me? No, I got stuck here just like everyone else," Natasha said with a laugh. She might be playing up her bravado just a little for the sake of her companion because she is just as clueless as he is and she hates that with every fiber of her being.

"I'm Natasha, and you are?"
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[personal profile] begguiling 2019-07-23 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs, privately amused. Taranza's priorities are always a ride. It's secretly charming. Thank goodness it wasn't Gooey or something that Magolor was stuck in this place with.]

I'll take a look at it again later, but the problem isn't us. We're not using it incorrectly! It's the programming that's out of date . . . it's surprising that it's even as functional as it is, considering how long it's been since the people of this planet needed to maintain organic bodies.
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[personal profile] begguiling 2019-07-23 06:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not the one who opened the rift I traveled through to go there! It probably happened thanks to the influence of the Ancients on Halcandra when they left their technology behind. Even though it was in disrepair, it wasn't entirely dormant, and it would still have affected the space and time around it. That's all I meant.
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[personal profile] twistedempathy 2019-07-23 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)

Sounds like the stakes are a lot higher for you..... I'm not doing anything that important. They could just hire someone to replace me as easily as they hired me to begin with.

[He's utterly expendable. A few people might even be glad he's gone. As friendly as he is, most of the connections he's made at home are just..... shallow, fragile things, easily broken and forgotten.]

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[personal profile] begguiling 2019-07-23 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess I can't blame you there. I'd do the same thing if I had an easy out! . . . But I don't, so I have to rely on the charity of people like you to make my pitiful living.

[You know, like this. He taps one of Keith's ribbons with a frown.]

So close, yet sooooo far away. If only I could convince you to hold my hand. I know I'm not as cute as a dog, buuuut . . .
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[personal profile] begguiling 2019-07-23 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't worry about that anymore, considering our circumstances here. Humans may not get out much, but even they can't fool themselves about something like this.

[He waves his hand around at the temple surroundings and the robots milling around. The cat is definitely out of the bag.]

So, let me ask you all about this darkness!
begguiling: (dreams are narcissist)

[personal profile] begguiling 2019-07-23 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"Really? You'd do that for me? I'd really appreciate it! You seem like the kind of person who won't make it so awkward . . . so, if it's really okay . . . ?"

He holds his hand out shyly. This is his last ribbon to get! Yesssss. Thank goodness for even the wallflowers being amenable, or easy to talk into it, one of those things.

"I'll even offer you one of mine in return if you want it. Who knows? Maybe you can get a set without even trying. Rawna's ribbons are at a premium!"
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[personal profile] original_is_best 2019-07-23 07:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Were you on my world, you would have plenty to do.

[He could only imagine the uses that could come from psychic abilities or an intelligent animal of flight, but they wouldn't go to waste.

It did seem like a pity that these things were underappreciated on Will's world.

Though the fact that Will wasn't desperate to get back implied a lot more things. One didn't drop everything they knew so easily if they had people important to them waiting.]


What of your family?
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[personal profile] begguiling 2019-07-23 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Heh heh. Magolor allows it, privately amused; that's about the extent of his feelies. Holding hands isn't actually a thing he enjoys. But when it's both 1. funny and 2. for profit, the whole prospect is a lot more attractive, so he hangs on, showing no discomfort. Smile!]

What, you don't think there's a middle ground? I'd say most things fall between those. There's a rumor going around that some people even ask politely!
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[personal profile] trashbot 2019-07-23 07:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Honestly he wonders what their lives are a lot too. Because while their timeline was actually dependent on them traveling back in time. But it also created a new universe. Which then tried to invade their universe. Weird shit.]

[Tailgate shuffles awkwardly at Will’s question. It was an uncomfortable enough line of questioning that it distracted him from how cool looking the boas were.]


That... kind of depends on who you ask. It was worse for Cybertronians because a group called the Functionists took over, and they killed a lot of people because they weren’t ‘useful’. But a lot of people died in the war too...

[He’s not real sure if his first meeting with this human he should go into the whole bit about either way they destroyed a bunch of planets that weren’t involved at all.]
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[personal profile] begguiling 2019-07-23 07:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Magolor holds it there—a pinky purple star-shaped field of light that blocks the exit, held up by the palm of his hand. The spell doesn't take much effort to maintain, so most of his focus is going to Lup and the robots behind her, making sure they're not doing anything hasty either. Who knows how seriously they take the sanctity of this temple?

He giggles.]


My bad. Did you think I was with Ainea? I didn't help you out for charity. Well, I did have a really good time, though, so thanks for that! You seriously impressed me today! But I'm here to get a ribbon myself, and I can't do that if I make my grand exit on your terms. So here's the truth about myself first: I'm a little bit jealous of how honest you are! You truly do belong in this temple. Complain about it all you want, but only an honest person would be honest about how much they hate being honest. Me, I just lied about it the whole time. Congratulations! You deserve that ribbon more than I do!

[And then he drops the barrier and moves aside with a bow, gesturing out the door.]