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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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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2019-11-19 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Baseball is nice, and Zack has to think about how to explain that.

"Well, Soccer is this thing played with these balls that you kick around. Only one person on each team can touch them with their hands, and they are the goal keepers. Baseball is played on this square-like thing called a diamond, and it's played with a thrown ball and a bat to hit it with. They're both team sports."
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[personal profile] whereishe 2019-11-19 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
"It sounds like fun." She didn't have a firm grasp of either game but the brief description was enough for her to decide that they were fun activities. They had to be enjoyable or they wouldn't have existed.

"Do you play?"

He looked like he was fit enough for a sport.
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2019-11-19 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, yeah, soccer was kinda fun, or so he'd thought as a kid. He was an adult now, though, and he hadn't played in years. But he does smile when she asks. Seems like she assumes he could. Should he take this as a compliment? Maybe.

"Nope. I'm a warrior. I was pretty high up in the elite forces of a military. So I never really had time for it."
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[personal profile] whereishe 2019-11-26 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
"I see. It was the same for me." She tilted her head to the side. "Sort of. I was a Summoner."

She didn't expect him to know what that was. Part of coming to this world meant that she wasn't the famous High Summoner who had brought the Eternal Calm to Spira. It was strange but Yuna found herself rather comfortable with it too. It was nice, not being so well known.

"I was ready to lay down my life, to protect the people of Spira."