they show you how to swim

[headandhand]

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!

Comments

[aleifr]

Aleifr doesn't answer verbally, he just arches an eyebrow and looks intensely skeptical.

[ichoosefight]

Steph stares back at him for a moment, her own eyebrows raised.

"What? You don't believe me? Your people have soap, don't you?"

[aleifr]

"Doesn't mean I want to swim where someone has pissed ..."

It's not that he doesn't trust her, he's just getting conflicting information here.

[ichoosefight]

She rolls her eyes. It's not really worth arguing about.

"Definitely stay away from the ocean, then. There's really no way to know for sure either way."

[aleifr]

Aleifr's head cocks to one side. He sees what you're doing, Steph, but the ocean's a damn sight bigger than this pool is even with all the other things living in it.

[ichoosefight]

"Have you ever considered talking using actual, audible words?" She's still amused, but it is getting a little ridiculous.

[aleifr]

"On occasion." He replies dryly, answering snark with sarcasm. "I see what you're getting at, though."

[ichoosefight]

"What I'm getting at is it's a lovely artificially heated day and I intend to enjoy it whether or not we argue about pee in swimming pools."

[aleifr]

"I do too." Aleifr replies with a small smile, lifting up the half empty glass in his hand and giving a little demonstrative shake. "My way."

And, after a brief pause. "We'll see about the swimming later."

[ichoosefight]

Her smile softens.

"Someday we'll run into each other in a place with no alcohol."

[aleifr]

"Don't recall having a drink in my hand when we were fighting robots."

Might have helped when he was getting patched up afterwards, though.

[ichoosefight]

"True!" She raises a finger, remembering that awful morning.

"I didn't even get to finish my coffee. Talk about rude."

[aleifr]

Aleifr snorts.

"Rude's a word."

He knows what she's doing, though. Making light of it. Aila did the same thing.

[ichoosefight]

"An adjective, even." She grins. They survived, and that's the important thing. There's no sense wasting a perfectly good afternoon worrying about the fact that the government is secretly making murderous robot versions of all of them.

[aleifr]

"Whatever that is, sure."

No schools on Fenris, unfortunately. More of a hands-on type thing.