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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] skyward_eyes 2019-09-07 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
Well that's amusing. Nida just smiles. "I've been doing it since I was ten, so if you can keep up, I'll be very, very proud of you. As for now, missie, I'm needed elsewhere, to get more marks on people."
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-09-07 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
“Well I’m Russian, so.” She says it like that has any weight to if she could keep up or not, she doesn’t even know either, okay, but she’s saying it nonetheless.

“How many you have so far?”
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-09-07 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
Russian? That makes literally no sense to Nida, so he shrugs. And he smiles as he backs a bit further from her.

"Twenty today."
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-09-13 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
She scoots up along after him as he backs up, advancing after him because she isn't done playing yet.

"That's all? Weak."
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-09-15 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
“I’ve been at it two hours,” Nida counters. No, don’t chase. Don’t make him blow you back again. “Do you really have to do this now? Because, lady, I have other targets. My boss gets out of work soon and he needs another blue mark.”
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-09-19 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
"Eh, that's child's play." She insists, and grins again, "Didn't seem to concerned over him earlier when you were playing spider monkey. Sure you're not scared?"
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-09-19 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've killed dragons. I'm not really scared of a woman with a bad dye-job."

He has blown time, and he needs to get going, the woman isn't the sanest thing.
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-09-20 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
"First off, pretty boy, it's an incredible dye-job. Secondly, big deal, I kill giant alien monsters practically daily. Dragons would be a walk in the park." She insists with a half chuckle.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-09-20 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty boy? Nida grins. Yeah, he is pretty cute, isn't he? Even if she's REALLY not his type.

"That's definitely the comment of someone who has never fought a dragon before."

He grins at her because yeah, he thinks she'd probably get all munched up if she even tried ot. How silly, to assume she can handle a dragon.
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-09-21 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
No, no grinning, that is not a compliment!

"It'd be a fucking breeze. Show me a dragon, I'll slay it's ass from here to the moon and back, get a few or several pairs of dragon-skin boots." She boasts as she squares her shoulders, more than confident she could totally take on a dragon- well, maybe with her armor but... whatever, she totally could!
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-09-22 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yes, absolutely going to take it as a compliment and run. Can't catch him. Well, probably can, but whatever. But he laughs.

"I wish there was one around, so I could watch you get chomped."
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-09-30 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Find me a dragon and I'll embarrass the hell out of you, pal." She insists again, narrowing her eyes at him.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-09-30 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"No dragons here," Nida shrugs before turning, once again, to leave. He doesn't have time for you or this, lady.
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-10-17 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
"Guess you'll just have to believe I could destroy one." South insists, because she's very much she can handle any dragon nonsense after the Covvies.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-10-17 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"No belief without proof, lady," Nida waves off as he walks away. He doesn't need to deal with a woman like this.
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-10-31 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
"Hey, haven't you heard of like faith or whatever? Like structured religions tend to preach?" Not that she entirely knows, she doesn't really do structured religions. But still. Belief by faith, not by sight or whatever, right?

And, yea, she's still trotting along after him, marker in hand just in case she gets a chance to strike.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-10-31 12:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"My people killed our god tends of thousands of years ago, so fuck that shit," Nida dismisses. He's definitely not amused to be followed, though. Sounds more than slightly annoyed.
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-11-01 11:16 am (UTC)(link)
Annoyed? She's dealt with worse and continues to be a pest as she tags after him. To be fair, kind of, she's bored and he's really the only person she's come across so far that can seemingly keep up fighting-wise. Sorry, pal, she's gonna bug and pester as much as she can.

"I mean, good really. Some all knowing, all seeing, all deciding fuck letting shit happen to people? Fuck em, ya know? Give us cancer and insane alien bastards and all kinds of shit, they don't really deserve much respect or faith." She rattles out, maybe something she's either passionate about or just wants to spew out, who the fuck even knows, honestly. "But back to the point- Trust me bud, I could easily drop a dragon. Popped off troops of Covvies back home, a single dragon would be nothing."

Does she have a clue or even know? Probably not, but she's cocksure as hell and certain nothing could really stop her. Maybe slow her down without her armor, but stop her entirely? Nah! She's pretty incredible, in her oh so humble opinion.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-11-01 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hyne ate babies. So yeah, we had a reason to hate him."

So until you've got that in your world, he doesn't care about other people's standards.

"Might even be responsible for moon-monsters."
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-11-01 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Uh. Yea. Baby eating is kinda probably generally frowned at by most people." She cocks an eyebrow again, religions are fucking nuts...

"Is moon monsters just a fancy way of saying aliens?"
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-11-02 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"No. I've met aliens here. These were monsters. They were on the moon. They would fall to the planet and continue being monsters to attack us."

That's really a thing.
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-11-06 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
"They sentient or just, like, dropped down to mindlessly fuck shit up?" The Covvies have thought processes and a want to destroy humanity, but you can't really fault a wild animal for killing people.
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[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-11-06 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"Dragons seem to be the only thing with actual intelligence," Nida shrugs off. And seriously, lady, you're getting annoying. With a frustrated noise Nida bursts into a run, jumping and grabbing the edge of a second floor patio and hauling himself up onto it.

"Stop following me like a lost dog, lady."
Edited 2019-11-06 18:59 (UTC)
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[personal profile] whosthemonsternow 2019-11-06 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
She considers giving chase, she really doesn't want to just let some douche get away from her marker induced wrath, but he's like an excitable little chihuahua. While she's entirely sure she can easily catch and mark him, she's also pretty sure the amount of time and energy doing so could be better spent getting multiple people and not just one dumbass. Plus, she can always get him another time, not like any of them are really going anywhere anytime soon.

So, other than flipping him the bird, she decides he's not worth the trouble and turns to head off for other victims.