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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] bravers 2019-12-08 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Nope.

[You got a problem with taking any of the vacant tables?

It flashes through his mind, but it's... not a very nice thing to say. And ugh, normally, he'd have just upped and said it, one of Seifer's brothers or not. It's a valid question. But, as he waits for Zack, it'd... probably be for the best Jason was here. Just in case one of the bots hovered too close. Can't talk to yourself, and all that.

...Not like being talkative is easy for him. Even with someone he semi-recognizes right next to him. The majority of the time he sits there, he does with his cheek propped against a palm as he arranges some wrappers on the table, trying to work out what to say.

...What can he say?
]

......
...

.....

Are you from where Seifer came from?

[Okay, that was fucking horrific.]
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[personal profile] scathefires 2019-12-16 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
[not actually the worst question jason’s ever heard. a bite of food is halfway to jason’s mouth when the question comes, but he returns it to the plate so he can answer.]

Not originally. [he shakes his head.] But we were both shoved into the same crappy place before here, a backwater village with no name. That’s where we met.

[and where they became adopted brothers, two angry misfit kids with an awful lot in common. jason nods to cloud.]

What about you? How’d you meet him?
bravers: please don't take. (054;)

[personal profile] bravers 2019-12-16 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Shit. He didn't mean to interrupt him mid-munch. He raises his hand to the back of his head, toying with some of the shorter strands of hair at the nape of his neck as he listens.]

So you're not from his world. He... mentioned that other place a while back.

[The both of them are a special kind of unlucky, aren't they? To have this happen twice. Or maybe this is completely normal where they're from. Honestly, he's seen so many things which sure as hell aren't normal taken as normal here, it's kind of hard to keep up.]

...Here. I needed him to make me something. He did- for a price. But it's more than that now.

[Were they friends?

...Yeah. Something like. Memshare was a bitch. Before it, and the talk they'd had, he'd been quite content saying he only visited him as often as he did because his monsterdog was cute.
]