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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] mrsarcastic003 2019-07-24 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
A blur, a whoosh of air, and a marker tag on his skin are a pretty good indication that Tim is dealing with a speedster. Superspeed is one hundred percent cheating, but it's not like this is his first rodeo. Apparently he's going to have to try. It would help if he knew the person better, but he can give it a shot.

"Cheater!" he calls after the blur laughing.
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[personal profile] expeditiousness 2019-08-11 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
At this point, Tommy's so used to hearing the accusation of being a cheater - friendly or otherwise - that he's begun to wear the title like a badge of honor. It's not his fault everyone else is a snail, right? And there was nothing in the rules prohibiting the use of superspeed, so it's not exactly cheating. Technically.

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."
mrsarcastic003: (Hero Kid Flash)

[personal profile] mrsarcastic003 2019-08-13 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Tim gives him a deeply skeptical look, though he's still smirking. "I don't know. Seems like an unfair advantage. I bet you could run circles around me before I could even blink." Tim's hoping he'll take the bait, so he'll have the opportunity to tag him if he gets close enough again.