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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] merged 2019-07-28 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Her anger remains at the forefront but is quickly tempered with sympathy and she frowns deeply. ]

It's not like you got much of a choice, you know? [ Softer, quieter. No choice and the lack of choice infuriates her. ]
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[personal profile] therevanchist 2019-07-29 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
There's no circumstance so bad you don't have choices. They're just not necessarily going to be the ones you wish you had.

[What saves that from being an infuriating Jedi platitude is the air Revan knows what she's talking about from very unpleasant experience. At least, that's what the bone-deep fatigue she's no longer concealing entirely suggests.]
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[personal profile] merged 2019-07-30 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ Heather responds with a rough shake of her head, disagreeing, lips somewhat taut. She can see in the other woman's eyes that she's gone through things, maybe worse things than even she's seen, but her experiences have taught her something very different about choice. ]

Some things are that bad. [ And, to her, forced choice isn't choice. ] Not that this place necessarily hits that but... What options do you think you have?
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[personal profile] therevanchist 2019-07-30 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I can believe the Head and quietly wait out a year, or...I can not do that.

[Her eyes are still tired, but Revan smiles, and it has an edge. Somewhere, there's evidence of what's really going on. She just has to find it.]
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[personal profile] merged 2019-07-30 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ All right, all right, she sees where Revan is coming from. She doesn't see that as choice, not really, but it's better than something stupid like hoping or waiting or praying. ]

...If it helps, there are others I think might be doing the same. [ There are people within the city just as willing to take the other choice and have if the terrorist group is anything to judge by. ]