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

[morethanatrickster]

"You would be incapable of caring whether or not your existence created a bond between them."

That sounds like a disgusting way to dedicate your life, but Loki supposes it takes all kinds.

[legacy_blade]

"So?" Zack asks. "The life cycle of the Lifestream is absolute. Everyone is everything and everything is everyone."

Because of course they are. What else would they be?

[morethanatrickster]

"Is it now? Then I suppose it doesn't really matter how you're reincarnated, does it?" He smiles. Alright, clever boy. Loki could play along.

[legacy_blade]

"Perhaps. But that doesn't mean I'm not happy at the idea of something over another thing. So, if you could be reincarnated into any living thing, what would it be?"

Zack feels like it's a good question.

[morethanatrickster]

"I'd rather not be reincarnated at all, personally." His destination was an afterlife, at least he hoped. "When an Asgardian dies in glory, he his destined for Valhalla, where he will dine and drink with his ancestors for all eternity. I'll forego living again, thank you."

[legacy_blade]

"Yea, but the question is what you would be if you HAD to be. What you'd want to choose. Though that Valhalla sounds really AWESOME. Exdcept I don't like drinking much."

But he doesn't really drink, so that's not as entertaining. But a long party, and getting to know people from the past? It's interesting.

[morethanatrickster]

"Isn't the point of reincarnation that one doesn't get to choose?"

It was possible a diversion. He has no idea.

[legacy_blade]

"Yes," Zack grumbles, rolling his eyes. Dude, you're not PLAYING ALONG. And Zack's not amused. Why are you killing the man? "But if you could choose, and it wasn't as a person, what would you choose."

Come on, play along here!

[morethanatrickster]

Why play along when watching him squirm is so much more entertaining? That bell is going to ring soon, though, and that would ruin everything, so he eventually complies.

"A snake, venomous, black."

[legacy_blade]

The squirm wouldn't have lasted much longer. But this? this isn't bad. Because even with that decision, he laughs.

"Wow, pretty defensive sort of choice."

[morethanatrickster]

"I would have gone with evasive but it's really here no there." At the close of his response, the bell tolls and he glances up in that direction. "And it would seem our time together is at an end. It was a pleasure, Zack."

[legacy_blade]

"It was. We should talk again," Zack answers, offering a brief smile. Yeah, he was absolutely annoyed not that long before, but now he's cheerful and happy again. How easy it is for him, to just accept the world and move on.

Sometimes.