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the head | the hand ([personal profile] headandhand) wrote in [community profile] 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!
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[personal profile] therevanchist 2019-07-17 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
Machines that think?

[Revan's at something of a loss for how to explain something she takes as much for granted as she does droids. Come the hell on Aleifr you're from the only other canon here that's had high tech for longer than Star Wars.]
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[personal profile] aleifr 2019-07-17 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
[He can't help being from the galaxy's unwashed asshole.]

Like the metal men the Head has patrolling the city?
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[personal profile] therevanchist 2019-07-17 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, thank the Force.]

Yes, exactly.
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[personal profile] aleifr 2019-07-17 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
Lots of them where you come from, I take it?
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[personal profile] therevanchist 2019-07-17 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure how society would function without them.

[Okay, mostly without utility droids. Protocol droids don't seem like that much of a value-add to her.]
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[personal profile] aleifr 2019-07-17 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs.]

Well enough.

[His people seem to manage. Not that anyone from outside of Fenris would be quite as charitable in describing the situation.]
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[personal profile] therevanchist 2019-07-18 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her experience of cultures that use droids sparingly if at all is with the Sand People and the Wookiees, and neither of those societies could be said to be functioning "well" at the moment. Of course, the rest of the galaxy uses droids and is on metaphorical and occasionally literal fire right now, so maybe the presence or absence of droids has nothing to do with it.]

It's a matter of what you're used to, I guess. None where you're from?

[It seems like a logical conclusion for someone who calls them "metal men."]
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[personal profile] aleifr 2019-07-18 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Aleifr shakes his head.]

No. [He gestures around him.] None of any of this.