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the head | the hand ([personal profile] headandhand) wrote in [community profile] dualislogs2019-11-07 07:29 pm

they show you how to swim

WHO: All Dualizens, old and new
WHAT: Your regularly scheduled NAPs event for the month
WHERE: Dualis Oasis
WHEN: Nov. 7-10
WARNINGS: Please use these if applicable!


Look at all of these bright, shining new faces! There’s even a few less bright, less shining faces - maybe even a few folks without faces - but hey, this city welcomes all types. Chances are, if you’ve just arrived, you're seeing some pretty crazy things, unless you're used to an eye-blinding amount of neon, robots, weird-ass technology, magic, and an omnipresent police force...and hey, if you are, congrats, you're gonna settle in juuuuust fine. But for the rest of you, the Head knows this has gotta be pretty overwhelming, right?

Well, since your quaint individual processing units are probably having a hard time, why not link up with another one? By which the Head means...

Hello, new citizens of Dualis,
and welcome to your monthly Network Adjacency Protocol~!


NAPs are a monthly community networking event similar to the Earth concept of speed dating! Two citizens (new arrivals and old hands alike) are placed at a table together with a handy cue card of queries to help break the proverbial ice. Ask queries and receive results, or ignore the card and yeet yourself straight into a brand new friendship! But don't be too shy, you've only got ten minutes together, and if you just sit in silence for the whole ten, the Network Admins are likely to come supervise and try to repair the uplink through a mild shock to the ol' central nervous system. You might find yourself saying all sorts of unintended facts about yourself if that happens...probably better to just make friends, right? Who doesn’t like friends?!

The weather outside may be taking a turn toward chilly, but you can still get your swim on during this month’s NAPs, held at the Dualis Oasis, an indoor temperature-controlled aquatic amusement park with giant slides, swimming pools, and lazy winding float rivers. Appropriate swimming gear is required for entry to this part of the park, but there are a number of shops just outside that will gladly sell you swimwear and accessories.

For those of you who wish to avoid a humid environment or just hate fun, a dehumidified lounge and restaurant offer quieter, dryer spaces for chatting and snacking. The actual speed-friending itself is in progress here, but you’re welcome to stick around and continue conversations with your new friends.

So c’mon, what are you waiting for? Just dive right in for fun and friendship - the water’s fine, fine, fine, just like everything else in this fair city. But hey, remember to play safe. No running!
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Steve Rogers |MCU| OTA

[personal profile] waypastasking 2019-11-10 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Water fun

Steve stood staring out at the water. His stomach swooped at the thought of going in the water, figuring it probably the seventy years he spent frozen in the ice. Whatever the reason, Steve stood there staring, still not sure if he wanted to go in. He might be able to be convinced, he does have a suit on.

After Steve had enough of swimming and water in general, he went inside. He grabbed some snacks which consisted of enough for four, so he could share and some coffee. He glanced around, he made his way over to a table.

"Excuse me, do you mind if I join you?"
Edited 2019-11-10 22:04 (UTC)
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River

[personal profile] salvagedlight 2019-11-11 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
Ven can't help but see Steve as he drifts around the lazy river in an inner tube; Steve's a really hard guy to miss, after all. But it looks like he's not sure if he wants to get in, and he's not going to make him; it's his choice, after all.

But when he's completed a full circuit of the river, which takes a good ten minutes, and Steve's still standing there? That's when Ven slips out of his tube, letting it drift on without him, and makes his way over to the stairs down into the water to grab one of the handrails to anchor himself and not get swept away. "Come on, what're you just standing there for?"
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Re: River

[personal profile] waypastasking 2019-11-26 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Steve looked down in the direction of the voice. He tried to smile but knew that it probably looked fake. It felt fake to him so he was sure that it looked fake to Ven as well.

"I don't like the water much. I'm wondering if this is someone's idea of a joke."
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[personal profile] salvagedlight 2019-11-26 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
That smile did, indeed, register as fake. Ven wasn't going to say anything about that, but it did make him focus in a little more. For all they'd lived together for a few weeks, he still didn't really know his roommate very well, due to a variety of factors (him being out doing stuff, Steve being out doing stuff, not wanting to be nosy and a pain, a few other things), and so he wasn't entirely sure of Steve's boundaries, and he didn't want to overstep them. But, if he'd said those words, he didn't mind talking about it, right?

"Why don't you?" The current really wasn't anything to laugh at, so Ven hauled himself out of it and up the steps, not getting out completely but closing some distance to not make Steve have to shout over all the noise. From what he's already said, this probably wasn't something he wanted to announce to the facility at large.