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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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time isn't real and the nap party is always

[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-07-17 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
South's only had a couple cups of the coffee, she's mostly here for food, more than the useless conversations she's been having. No one's had any information to help her get out of this place, just nonsense that's not going to help her any. Bastards.

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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[personal profile] expeditiousness 2019-07-18 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Tommy makes a quiet pfft sound and laughs, waving her dismissal off.

“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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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-07-24 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Definitely not calling you Speed." She rolls her eyes, it sounds like a ridiculous name to her. Then again, being able to vibrate sounds dumb, she's not taking it serious or literally.

"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?
expeditiousness: (not a follower)

[personal profile] expeditiousness 2019-08-11 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey now, don't knock the superhero name - Tommy picked it out himself. It's quick and efficient, much like Tommy himself, and it tells you everything you need to know about Tommy at first glance, who he is and what he's about. But if she's not gonna play ball ... well, Tommy shrugs. He tends to let things that aren't super important just slide, and this definitely ain't a hill he plans to die on.

"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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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-08-31 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
"Best? Just whip it out and waste it on some rando pretty boy?" She scoffs, but leans forward, elbows on the table as she considers him before she shrugs and offers, "What's better than roses on a piano? Tulips on an organ."