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- intro log
♥ November Intro Mingle Log
November 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 is 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 around the 10th, with a proper event coming soon after applications are processed. 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.
❥ PROMPT I: Awakening
When you awaken, you're in the last outfit you remember wearing, (up to) three of your belongings laid nearby or your animal friend curled up by you, waking as you do. A stone slab is not the most comfortable place to sleep, but once you're awake, a humanoid-looking robot comes into the room and explains that you're in Havenwell, then 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? Strike up a friendly conversation, get to know your neighbours! It seems as if you may be here for the long haul.
❥ PROMPT II: Buddy System
With all the changes and the fear of a secondary attack lingering, the natives are a lot more protective of their newest arrivals. When new characters begin to appear at the temples, they receive the welcome speech, get their communicators and the simple map of the city, and a warning to stay away from the walls. Then 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, "It's dangerous to go alone, so please show our newest resident around. Please be buddies!" They wait until they're certain the pair is going to be moving off together 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!
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: Virtual Research
After the attack, every part of the city is on repair duty and the means the Entertainment District as well. As new arrivals wander the city, they might be called into one of the numerous Virtual Reality cafes. These cafes vary in layout, but most have areas for the natives to plug directly into the machines and other areas which have older looking virtual reality helmets that allow flesh bodied people experience the games. For those who need assistance with their sensory inputs, basic options like audio descriptions of visual scenes, enhanced audio and descriptive speech, closed captions, and crude mobility chairs are available. A handful of cafes have other options like direct visual or audio cortex stimulation to simulate vision or hearing, or suspension tanks to allow simulated movement, but these are currently unavailable due to damage.
All of these facilities are, unfortunately, under repair. The direct plug-in systems are easier for the robot natives to fix because they can do the most important part of it - testing - by themselves. But for the helmets and other interface systems, they need your help. Naturally, they'll pay you for the work, but they need the offworlders to play the available games and record any areas where they find glitches. Playing with a partner increases your chances of finding and fixing any issues, so feel free to log in for free for once and test any of the following games:
All of these facilities are, unfortunately, under repair. The direct plug-in systems are easier for the robot natives to fix because they can do the most important part of it - testing - by themselves. But for the helmets and other interface systems, they need your help. Naturally, they'll pay you for the work, but they need the offworlders to play the available games and record any areas where they find glitches. Playing with a partner increases your chances of finding and fixing any issues, so feel free to log in for free for once and test any of the following games:
- Big Bass Fishing The beautiful lake has blue-green waters surrounded by forest and rocky, reedy shores. You and your companion are on a small single-motor fishing boat and you have fishing gear - two poles in the water. As the game starts up a read-out announces the objective: Catch the largest fish before the time limit ends. What's the time limit? ...Well, that's your first glitch because it reads as static. Might as well start fishing though, right? It doesn't take long to catch a few regular sized fish, nothing too exciting, and then? You get the big one - it bows your fishing rod nearly in half as you reel it up. The fish leaps into the air and you realize this is your next glitch because the fish hangs there - the size of a minivan - and yells, "BIG. BASS. FISHING. ATTACK." The fish slaps its fins and tails at the boat and now you and your fishing companion better fight this fish or you'll end up in the lake or worse.
- A (un)Familiar Experience Jump into the life of the temple familiars and see life from their perspective! Choose the temple, any temple is fine, and be transformed into a fledgling rainbow dragon, a purple mouse, a white raven, or a blue feline. You're free to move about the virtual confines of the temples and, in fact, you can even interact with other familiars in their temples - who may be other players in this game. Play, climb, try to get your fledgling wings to fly, tumble about with the other mice, enjoy your simple life as an animal! --or you would if you weren't an insane size. Rather than being a small mouse, you're the size of a horse. That fledgling rainbow dragon? About the size of a fly. The building sizes are off, too - one might have door that's 30 feet tall, but a ceiling that's only 12. Everything else seems fine, but those sizes? Well, you better figure out how to get around that.
- Robot Crossing Logging in with another character will net you a little farm and a variety of games to choose from:
- Pick and harvest as many Aellyn vegetables and fruits as you can before the timer runs out! The more you pick, the better your score. Work together with your partner to clear the field in any way you can. Strangely, once you finish clearing a tree or a field row of their bounty, they seem to magically refill when you turn your back. Strangely, when the timer runs out? It flashes 00:00 and the game...doesn't? Stop? In fact, the fruits and vegetables just keep multiplying and multiplying and if you don't hurry up you might just get buried in them all!
- With a partner, use the giant slingshot to launch comically large fruits into a garden patch of other colored fruits. Match a line of 3 or more similarly shaped fruits to clear it from the field. The more fruits you can clear, the higher your score - aka welcome to Fruit Crush. Stack lines of 6 or more to get shining clear diamond fruits that clear the entire row and snag yourself some bonus points. Or they should, but whenever you clear away a matching set, the fruits explode, sending fruit bits and juice everywhere - most notably on you and your partner. Still, the game is going on and it looks like it won't stop until you finish, so good thing it's all a computer game, right? Sure feels real though - reeeeeeally sticky.
- You and your partner(s) are given a magical golden pumpkin and it's your job to grow it into the largest pumpkin possible. Why? There's a county fair of course and the largest pumpkin wins! But how do you grow this pumpkin? Well, for whatever reason? This pumpkin is already the size of a grizzly bear and it just won't stop growing! You and your partner better find a way to stop it from growing out of control or you might get (virtually) crushed! You could do a song and dance routine together to touch the pumpkin's soul to teach it moderation or calm its insane vegetable puberty. You could hold hands and share stories and entertain the pumpkin until it feels satisfied that it's grown enough. You could just hack and slash at it in an attempt to reduce its unwieldy bulk. The possibilities are endless and so is the pumpkin's growth, so you better hurry!
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I mean, that just makes it more likely that they'd take advantage of you.
[He squinted.] So you're sure, right? What kind of unusual stuff do you mean?
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Well, it wasn't really unusual at first, if I think about it... just a lot of behind-the-scenes grunt work, you know? Actually, it was only the secret missions that were really out there--but that all ended up being good! I learned a lot!
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Secret missions... ?
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Ah, there's a sort of gimmick going on where they're hiding the real identity of an actor for a certain role, to hype up the movie he's in. I was helping out with that, that's all. A lot of things happened, but I don't think extortion was the right word for any of it....
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... Well, maybe it's kinda accurate for the kinds of assignments I got when I first started.
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[Kai clicked his tongue, folding his hands behind his head.]
Sounds like a weird business to want to force yourself in to. Seems like you turned out okay though.
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[It really wasn't his place to say anything about it since he didn't know anything about the biz, nor did he know anything about her. .... Oh, including her name, huh?
Somehow, even with all their starts and stops, they'd arrived outside of Rawna's silvery walls. Kai paused at the steps, turning to glance back at her again.]
I'm Kaito, by the way.
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A different kind of grand that left her feeling small, and so foreign. Right, she probably wouldn't see any temples like the kind in Japan here, would she? This wasn't a movie set or a theme park she could leave, and everything she'd heard so far only told her to expect to be stuck here. For four months? For--?
The boy's voice jolted her, and Kyoko realized how stony her face had gone. Quick, pull on a smile. ]
A-ah! Oh! Yes! Excuse me! Kyoko Mogami! It's nice to meet you!
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There was something about the way her expression changed right there that made him pause. Ah.]
Nice to meet you.
[He offered her a gentler look, lowering his voice a touch. This was between them, see.]
It's okay if you don't feel like smiling right now.
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She did smile--it was a subdued, rueful, knowing one sent his way before she looked back up at those silver columns. ]
Mm, that makes sense. This is the god you go to for negative feelings, after all, right?
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A lot of us have gotten used to it, and sometimes this place is just nicer than where they came before, but... doesn't mean everyone wants to be here. I know that doesn't really help but. Just so you know.
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The way he put things, she naturally had to assume Kaito did want to be here, at least a little. A lot of people had gotten used to it, huh? Wasn't that the strange reaction? Why did she even have to be told it was okay to not want to be here?
Kyoko's hands, folded in front of her as they usually were when she stood naturally, were clenched tight, nails digging into her skin. Her throat felt a little tight, but it had been a long time since that kind of thing had prevented her from speaking clearly. ]
... This is a temple, right? So there's a place in there I can pray, or pay respects, or--whatever the particular custom here is. Right?
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But she wouldn't have been wrong, if she'd voiced it. Getting used to it was odd.
He wasn't actually good at this. Getting the sense that he'd maybe said something wrong, but knowing how or what to do to follow that up, Kai just rubbed the back of his head.]
... Yeah, if you believe in that sort of thing. He's got an altar inside.
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Her nails dug into her skin a little harder as she flashed him a quick, bright smile. ]
Anyone can go in and visit, right? Would you mind showing it to me before I start cleaning?
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Mm, yeah, of course. This way.
[Up the steps, through the silvery columns. It was definitely a quiet place, but peaceful. Meditative. There were glimpses of light and color dancing across the walls and columns. The source of those spectrums wasn't immediately clear at first, not until they got a bit deeper.
The crystals hanging from the ceiling were the ones catching the light as they surrounded Rawna's altar. His statue sat there, as welcoming as a half-dragon man could be.]
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But it was only for a few moments. ]
... Excuse me.
[ That low mutter was for Kaito, as she bowed her head before the alter, pressing her clasped hands to her chest. Kyoko closed her eyes, and there was another long moment of peace. She exhaled all the breath in her lungs, and then took a big heave of air in. Nothing about her pose changed even as the yelling started. ]
ARE YOU REALLY THIS STUPID!? ARE YOU JUST INCAPABLE?! YOU MESSED UP! YOU REALLY MESSED UP!!
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What did catch his eye and thus most of his attention was the thing that was surprised by this turn of events.
One of the fledglings had been coiled up at the foot of the altar like a shimmery rope. All of these SUDDEN and INTENSE EMOTIONS startled it into raising up like a snake, gaze fixed on Kyoko as she yelled.]
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Though, all that aside, Kyoko thought that given the circumstances she ought to be excused for much worse behavior than this. ]
I'M TELLING YOU NOW! DON'T EXPECT ANYTHING FROM ME!!!
[ Pausing for breath, she raised her head and opened her damp eyes to see that she had an audience. ]
--ah-- [ That was--! ]
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[That was a heckin' baby dragon though. It was watching Kyoko closely with its keen, shimmering eyes, mouth opening to... taste the air? Absorb her sorrows? Show off its sharp babby dargon teeth? Check 'em out!!]
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She pointed a trembling finger at the fledgling's face. ]
D-don't you get mad! I'm the one who's supposed to be mad!! Your master kidnapped me and instead of coming here to trash the place, I'm gonna clean it! I think I can say! I'm being very gracious right now!!
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Will you take the jerky.]
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[ Kyoko had turned to snap at the one who so rudely intruded on her rage fit, but oh, it was the guy she came here with. Imagine that. And he was trying to give her something?
Brows still knit and eyes bright with righteous anger, she very politely held out her hands to receive the pouch. ]
... Is this the prepared offering?
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I mean. If you want to call it that.
[He just figured dragons might respond better to getting yelled at if they were also being fed-- and it seemed like this one definitely recognized that pouch from the way it leaned forward a bit and flicked its tongue.]
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So Kyoko was going to very sternly fish out a piece of jerky and
drop it on the ground real quick. ]
Here! Yes! Please accept it!
[ She barely even noticed how quickly she was scooting backwards herself. ]
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Whup.
[The dargon, meanwhile, was eyeballing this piece of flesh. It waited until Kyoko had backed up a sufficient amount before it lowered its majestic head in a smooth and elegant motion to assess this treat.
...
...
Then it slorped it up.]
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