kitty at my foot and i wanna touch it.

[headandhand]

WHO: Open to all residents
WHAT: Your regularly scheduled NAPs event for the month
WHERE: The RoCocoa Cat Cafe
WHEN: Aug. 10-14
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, 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, 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?!

This month’s event is held at the brand new RoCocoa Cat Cafe, a sparkly new establishment that caters to children and the young at heart with iced and hot cocoa drinks of all kinds, delicious pastries, age-appropriate live music, and of course many friendly kitties who love to lounge in laps. The cats are of all shapes, sizes, and colors, including some who may look a little different from what you expect, or may look like an ordinary cat but are actually anything but ordinary underneath that adorable fur coat. All cats in the cafe are adoptable, too, if you meet a new furry friend and just can’t bear to go home without them!

So pull up a chair, get to know your new neighbors, and enjoy a sugary treat or two with the resident furbabies. You might just meet your new two- or four-legged best friend!

Comments

[helpdesk_hero]

[Well now that was interesting. David barely even sat down when there was a question. Hadn't even had a chance to get into his latte or scone.]

I'm guessing that wasn't on the cue cards. Where was the last place you saw it?

[punchpunchkisskiss]

Cue cards?

[ Oh yeah, he does have those, doesn't he? He picks them up and frowns at them. ]

Where are you from? Huh.

[ That's kind of a boring question. Anyway, back to the backpack. back. pack. ]

The last place I saw it was on my back. Then I was in this weird place, and no backpack! And nobody seems to want to talk about it, either. Everyone's been acting highly sus if you ask me.

[ This last said in the tone of one saying "I'm on to you, mister." ]

[helpdesk_hero]

Ah.

[David sighs, hand coming up to pinch the bridge of his nose. Another one of these situations.]

It’s gone then. People arrive here without stuff sometimes. Stuff they had on them. My roommate lost his sword. Something in charge here doesn’t want us having stuff. It is, as you said, suspicious.

[punchpunchkisskiss]

Awww. I've had that backpack like forever...

[ The princesses made it for him after he lost his old one fighting the Lich the first time around. Also it was full of random crap, and snacks. ]

I bet that Head guy has it... and probably all of everyone else's stolen junk too! Maybe if we ask really nicely he'll give it back?

[helpdesk_hero]

[Somehow David doubts that. But he doesn’t want to upset this kid.]

Perhaps so. I don’t know how to approach it though.

[punchpunchkisskiss]

[ Yeah... Finn doesn't really think so either. But it's worth a shot, right? It beats charging in blindly and probably skronking up all sorts of blizz they shouldn't have. ]

I gotta get back in that temple... But I should get myself a new pack first. And a sword. Just in case.

[helpdesk_hero]

[And it's a good thing that Finn doesn't say any of those words, because they don't make sense.]

You should look for a guy online, Cloud Strife. He might know where you could get a sword.

[punchpunchkisskiss]

Cloud Strife, huh?

[ That's a pretty rad name. Sounds like a quest! ]

Thanks for the tip. Online... that means I need a computer, right?

[ Too bad he doesn't have BMO here. He's going to need to learn how to use computers that don't talk now. ]

[helpdesk_hero]

[It's a terrible name, and David will argue for that. But his roommate is a great guy. Teaching him magic.]

Yeah. All of the dorm rooms come with them. Terrible ones, mostly.

[punchpunchkisskiss]

There are bad computers?

[ He frowns. Almost everything about this place is really confusing, but he thinks he's doing an okay job of following along. ]

Wait, do you mean evil bad, or run-down bad? Or do they just like, tell really bad jokes or something?

[helpdesk_hero]

[There are. Possibly even the one in charge of them here is a bad one. David hasn't made a decision on that detail just yet.]

In this case, I mean run-down bad. But I imagine if you wanted to code a program for it, they could tell terrible jokes.

[punchpunchkisskiss]

Oh, I don't know how to do anything like that. My friend BMO is a computer, but he mostly makes up his own programs. His jokes are usually pretty funny though!

[helpdesk_hero]

[A lot of people might be thrown for a loop with that comment. David just nods thoughtfully.]

Is BMO here with you? I could go for some good jokes. Provided they aren't puns. Puns are a bit too predictable.

[punchpunchkisskiss]

No... He's probably back home in the tree-house.

[ Weird places he understands, but alternate universes are just barely outside of his experience. ]

I know some knock-knock jokes?

[helpdesk_hero]

[Seems a good enough way to connect to people. David smiles and gestures to the young man, inviting a joke.]

By all means. I hope it's one I don't know.

[punchpunchkisskiss]

[ He grins, excited to get to tell this joke to somebody who doesn't mostly only speak Korean. ]

Ok, ok! Haha. Knock knock.

[helpdesk_hero]

[Well, David doesn't speak any Korean, so that works. A lot of languages, but not that one.]

Who's there?

[punchpunchkisskiss]

Diarrhea.

[helpdesk_hero]

[Oh no. David does his best not to groan at the word choice.]

Diarrhea who?

[punchpunchkisskiss]

Diarrhea-f Anne Frank!

[ He has that grin on his face. You know the one. ]

[helpdesk_hero]

[He... really doesn't get it. And is left frowning.]

That's... creative.

[punchpunchkisskiss]

[ At least he doesn't laugh at his own lame joke. The grin slowly fades, and suddenly this conversation is hecka awkward. ]

Thanks... Yeah. [ He looks away, and then down. ] Yeah.

BMO's cool. I've never used any other computers, though.

[helpdesk_hero]

I can teach you, the ones here might not tell jokes as good as that. But they do have puns. The internet is full of puns. Usually about cats.

[punchpunchkisskiss]

[ Don't encourage him, or he'll never learn ]

Yeah? Does everywhere have cats like this?

[helpdesk_hero]

[Oh no, he needs puns. Puns are better than that joke. Please, Finn, learn puns.]

No, not everywhere. This place is special. It's selling point opposed to another cafe. People like cats but can't always have one."