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the head | the hand ([personal profile] headandhand) wrote in [community profile] dualislogs2020-01-07 12:32 pm

Baby lately the plans we're making

WHO: Open to all Dualizens
WHAT: Your regularly scheduled NAPs event for the month
WHERE: Our Crazy Jane's Gallows!
WHEN: January 7-10
WARNINGS: Please use these if applicable!

Look at all of these bright, shining new faces! There’s even a few less bright, less shining faces - maybe even a few folks without 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 just fine! But for the rest of you, the Head knows this is gonna 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 (possibly invasive) personal questions and receive results - or ignore the card and yeet yourself straight into a brand new friendship, whatever works! But don't be too shy - you've only got ten minutes together, and if you just sit in silence for the whole ten, 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?!

Upon arrival, most will be ushered in by the Admins into the Gallery. Just ignore that large painting on the graffiti wall. Once inside you can begin to mingle and meet your fellow Dualizens, the city has also provided box wine, crackers and cheese as refreshments, a lovely Charcuterie spread laid out for any to sample while looking at the art and mingling.

This month there are two other lovely items for your amusement or horror! First off is a Karaoke machine, how the hell did they pull off getting every song you can think of with lyrics to all? Though, nearly every foul word is replaced with the sound a goose honking, have fun with that! Also, along with your normal note cards of questions you will find blank paper and kiddie packs of crayons. Make some art and leave it behind or leave it for your new friend!
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[personal profile] notspartacus 2020-02-20 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
He nodded. "That sums Leo up pretty well. I wasn't real, but I was more real to Carl than he was, at least from what he saw."

He shook his head at her question, though. "I've never thought of Carl as my owner. That's the rub, really." He shook his head again, frowning. "I was oblivious to all the hardship most of my people faced. I...I lived in this bubble of comfort and acceptance and support, and I never saw what they went through. After I did, I couldn't look away."
Edited 2020-02-20 21:02 (UTC)
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[personal profile] imaginary_wife 2020-02-21 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
"I guess it's somewhere between good and bad that he did," she mulls aloud.

"You knew what it was like to be treated fairly and in a way where you were valued and appreciated. It means you knew what your kind should have expected. You brought a perspective on justice to the table.

"Look, I don't have the brightest attitude in the world. But sometimes you need someone to definitively say, 'Yeah, things can be better. I've seen proof.' It sounds like you're being a little hard on yourself for not knowing. You just knew something different. You knew how things could be."
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[personal profile] notspartacus 2020-02-26 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's good, I think. He's a living precedent for the kindness humans can feel for those who aren't themselves."

He nods, agreeing with her on that point, at least. "And I have to be. So many of my people have suffered so horribly at their hands, all they knew for a long time was hatred. I have to serve as the middle ground between what they've been shown and where we can go."