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dualislogs2019-07-10 09:56 pm
headandhand) wrote in dualislogs2019-07-10 09:56 pm
you understand, i got a plan for us.
WHO: Errybody in the city
WHAT: Marker tag and NAPs
WHERE: Everywhere in the city for marker tag; the Spenny’s near the dorms for NAPs
WHEN: July 10-31 for marker tag; July 10-14 for NAPs
WARNINGS: Please use these if applicable!
To tag or not to tag - that is the question.
Welcome, one and all, to a long-running Dualis summer tradition: the annual city-wide Dualis Marker Tag Competition! For the next three weeks, all participants who accept the challenge will be given a marker and set free to tag any other participant in the city by making a mark on their skin, while attempting to avoid being tagged themselves. Careful, though - the ink marks last three weeks, so you’ll have to wait until the competition concludes to wash everything off.
Markers come in all colors, even fluorescent, glitter, and glow-in-the-dark, and you can use however many markers your inner child’s heart desires. These markers will leave marks even on people who have chosen not to play, but you can easily purchase an armband, headband, or similar accessory that says NONPARTICIPANT if you so desire. Marking nonparticipants is considered extremely bad form and wins you no prizes, but "misfires" do still happen, on occasion. It’s usually considered polite to offer a mistaken nonparticipant that you’ve marked a small reparation, like coffee or a more adult beverage.
Safe zones do exist! Any establishment can put out a sign that marks it as such - signs in shop windows, chalkboards outside bars, and the like; many do this, just to keep the general chaos and injury/property damage liability down. Tenants of private residences typically agree that their spaces are also safe zones, but that's up to y’all to hash out.
Have fun! And maybe try not to put anyone’s eye out, yeah?
I like to party and by party I mean NAPs.
Look at all of these bright, shining new faces! There’s even a few less bright, less shining 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, then 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?!
Plus, you get to hang out for a while at the intergalactically renowned Spenny’s Diner! Spenny’s is a declared safe zone from marker tag shenanigans - until you roll out of the door, at least. So pull up a chair, get to know your new neighbors, and enjoy a cup or two of Spenny’s famous Electric Shock coffee, which contains 900 milligrams of caffeine per cup. Hope you didn’t plan on sleeping tonight!
WHAT: Marker tag and NAPs
WHERE: Everywhere in the city for marker tag; the Spenny’s near the dorms for NAPs
WHEN: July 10-31 for marker tag; July 10-14 for NAPs
WARNINGS: Please use these if applicable!
To tag or not to tag - that is the question.
Welcome, one and all, to a long-running Dualis summer tradition: the annual city-wide Dualis Marker Tag Competition! For the next three weeks, all participants who accept the challenge will be given a marker and set free to tag any other participant in the city by making a mark on their skin, while attempting to avoid being tagged themselves. Careful, though - the ink marks last three weeks, so you’ll have to wait until the competition concludes to wash everything off.
Markers come in all colors, even fluorescent, glitter, and glow-in-the-dark, and you can use however many markers your inner child’s heart desires. These markers will leave marks even on people who have chosen not to play, but you can easily purchase an armband, headband, or similar accessory that says NONPARTICIPANT if you so desire. Marking nonparticipants is considered extremely bad form and wins you no prizes, but "misfires" do still happen, on occasion. It’s usually considered polite to offer a mistaken nonparticipant that you’ve marked a small reparation, like coffee or a more adult beverage.
Safe zones do exist! Any establishment can put out a sign that marks it as such - signs in shop windows, chalkboards outside bars, and the like; many do this, just to keep the general chaos and injury/property damage liability down. Tenants of private residences typically agree that their spaces are also safe zones, but that's up to y’all to hash out.
Have fun! And maybe try not to put anyone’s eye out, yeah?
I like to party and by party I mean NAPs.
Look at all of these bright, shining new faces! There’s even a few less bright, less shining 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, then 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?!
Plus, you get to hang out for a while at the intergalactically renowned Spenny’s Diner! Spenny’s is a declared safe zone from marker tag shenanigans - until you roll out of the door, at least. So pull up a chair, get to know your new neighbors, and enjoy a cup or two of Spenny’s famous Electric Shock coffee, which contains 900 milligrams of caffeine per cup. Hope you didn’t plan on sleeping tonight!
tommy shepherd | ota
Maybe it's not exactly fair to let a speedster compete in the marker tag competition, for obvious reasons. But nobody's banned Tommy from playing, so he's gleefully going along with this time-honored tradition. When in Dualis, right? At least he's promised to keep the markers put away while he's on the clock at his gig as a courier.
And at least he hasn't acquired that second tattoo for magic invisibility yet.
But hey, games aren't fun if they're not a challenge, right? Catch Tommy if you can!
time isn't real and the nap party is always.
Unlike some grumps in this city, Tommy enjoys meeting new people, and a speed date-type friend-finding activity sounds exactly up this speedster's alley. Add in the location of a diner with delicious breakfast foods and extra-strong coffee, and Tommy's basically in heaven.
"The coffee here's great," he says, to whoever's sitting opposite, grinning widely as he rips open five sugar packets and dumps them into his newest cup, "but I don't even need the caffeine to vibrate. Wanna see?"
NAP
“I’ll pass. But seriously, the only person I’ve ever seen use so much sugar with their coffee is Loki.”
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“You should get coffee with me more often,” he says, stirring the pile of sugar into the coffee. “This is only, what, the second time?”
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"I mean, if it's not awkward after New Year's Eve, then yeah, we should. Though I'm going to limit you to only one cup of coffee each time. Otherwise you'll drink me out of my pay check."
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“What happened on New Year’s Eve? Did you barf on my shoes or something?”
What else would be awkward about that particular night?
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Honestly was a useful thing most of the time.
"You don't remember? On the hill? What happened when I got you back from wherever that Fake-Patriot took you?"
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“David, I haven’t come back - not yet. Last time I saw you was in the warehouse, when we were going after that thing. And where I’ve been - “ he chuckles quietly, because he knows how weird that’s gonna sound - “that’s kind of a long story, but Billy was there too, and he told me you tracked him down after I disappeared, so thanks for that, I owe you lunch at least. But I have no idea what you’re talking about happened on New Year’s Eve. Hasn’t happened for me yet.”
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"Oh, uh... Nothing happened then," he says after a moment of hesitation. How was Billy wherever Tommy had been? David doesn't remember Billy going missing during the whole thing. Damn, this is just complicated, isn't it?
At least he can live down the awkwardness of kissing a guy he had known for two days, by mistake, and having the guy shove him away and run off. To Kate. His ex or whatever.
"Alright then. I don't know how any of that makes sense, but I'll believe it. And I'm going to point out you owe me a bit more than lunch for chasing you down. If memory serves, and mine always does, I never wanted to go to stake out the warehouse. I had sort of gotten out of the hero business."
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“Name a single hero who retired and stayed retired,” he says, eyebrow arched as he takes a sip of his coffee. “Hell, even Billy got back in, and he was really determined to quit after that whole thing with Scarlet Witch and the Avengers and everyone else.” He shrugs. “Once a hero, always a hero.”
And if David was willing to track down his brother after knowing Tommy for two whole days, Tommy’s pretty sure his instinct about David still being a hero was correct. He knocks back about half of his coffee in a single gulp and sets the mug back down on the table.
“Tell you what - wanna get out of here? We can go somewhere else, I could start paying off that lunch debt I owe you, and I can tell you about where I’ve been for the last nine or ten months.”
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Tagged, He's It
"Dammit, Tommy," he curses as his eyes glance around. His own marker, a light shade of neon blue, is produced from his pocket. The secret, of course, is to find somewhere to ambush Tommy. And unlike Tommy, Nida knows this neighborhood. Or at least what it is today. All he has to do is climb over a building and drop down onto the other side and...
Coffee shop. He's going to get you, Shepherd!
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A coffee shop is an obvious stop for Tommy, and Nida knows that. Tommy isn’t in search of extra caffeine right now, but he stops and leans lazily against the cafe’s outer wall, marker twirled in his hand, as he waits for Nida to appear.
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“You’re just wonderfully insufferable now, Tommy. And so unfair.”
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"Hey man, hate the game, not the player." He shrugs. "Not my fault no one said speedsters couldn't participate." Which is a rule that's likely to change for next year, if those in charge have any sense as to fairness.
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“One mark and I promise not to make out with Billy in front of you for a month.”
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“Unless you’re planning on tying me down, I can always leave when you two start getting mushy and gross. You remember that, right?”
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That he knows of.
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"Uh, you remember I can vibrate through solid objects, right?" Knots aren't gonna do anything. Sorry, Nida.
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time isn't real and the nap party is always
But food. All the food. Thank whatever god these people made up for the food-!
"That's gotta be the shittiest pick-up line I've ever heard." She replies after another bite of said food, raising an eyebrow to him.
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“That wasn’t a pick-up line,” he says, “I’m really good at those. Nah, I’m a speedster, that’s how I can vibrate. Name’s Tommy, by the way, but you can call me Speed if you want.”
The small mound of sugar hovering on the surface of the coffee is stirred in with a spoon, and Tommy takes a sip, then nods in approval. Perfect.
“What about you?”
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"I'm great at pick-up lines, but I know a guy who is obsessed with cheesy as hell ones." Okay, she knows he's asking about a name, as he just gave his own, but what's it hurt to be a pain?
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"Tommy, then." He takes another sip of coffee and ignores the fact that she's dodging his question, because the answer she gives is pretty interesting.
"Oh yeah? What's your best pick-up line? Go on - hit me with your best shot."
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TAG
"Cheater!" he calls after the blur laughing.
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This callout seems friendly, at least, so Tommy screeches to a halt and slowly backtracks, grinning triumphantly at Tim. "Hey man, hate the game, not the player," he says, shrugging. "Nobody put a rule in against using superspeed, so I'm actually not cheating - I'm just better than you."
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