dualislogs | 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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The sheer enthusiasm seems to radiate from Tidus like the sun, warming everything around it, Connor included. As a detective, he never got to meet anybody like this, and even now, a lot of the people he likes are much more lowkey. He's already spent his time in Dualis trying to figure himself out and what he likes and what he wants to do with his life if they ever get out of here - encounters like this make him realise he wants something to be truly passionate about, too.

When he speaks, he even notices himself being more animated than usual, smiling, gesturing with one hand, making tiny splashes over the water's surface.

"Nothing I've ever heard of - but maybe," although he doubts it; some of the things Tidus is describing sound just a little far out of the bounds of possibility - he's sure regular humans can't hold their breath that long where he's from, come to think about it. "I didn't know anything about sports back home. I only started trying to pick things up here."

Unless you count the time he downloaded everything there was to know about basketball so he'd have something to talk about with his partner. He doesn't count that. But in any case, there's one thing he didn't understand here:

"So, what's the sphere?" he asks. "Is that the pool you play in?"

“Uh, yeah, but it’s a sphere.” As if the guy needs a visual demonstration of what a sphere is, Tidus cups his hands together, then enlarges the shape by bringing them out. “It’s a giant pool of water you play in, and then the stadium seats go all around.” He breaks the sphere here to wave a forefinger around where it’d been. "It's science stuff that keeps it floating like that. Watching it fill is a show itself!"

Really, Tidus obviously just likes talking with his hands, but he lets them settle into the water again.

“It’s the only sports we had back home, but it’s all you needed.” But apparently, a sports they didn’t think they needed here. Nevertheless, Tidus has been interested in asking something himself, interest already lifting his eyes a little. “What've you been picking up here? You do anything that moves you around a lot?”

Because swimming was fun, and that fit that bill, but he wasn't going to pass down learning more activities while he was here. Maybe there was something half as fun as blitzball out there. Maybe.

they show you how to swim

haven't a clue tbh

must tag for sports (also i'd love to do more with them!)