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dualislogs2019-09-09 10:14 pm
headandhand) wrote in dualislogs2019-09-09 10:14 pm
Entry tags:
- !event,
- adventure time: finn mertens,
- dc comics: stephanie brown,
- detroit: become human: connor,
- detroit: become human: hank anderson,
- doom patrol: crazy jane,
- ff8: nida nomura,
- ff8: squall leonhart,
- freakangels: arkady,
- kingdom hearts: naminé,
- marvel comics: david alleyne,
- mass effect: thane krios,
- mcu: pietro maximoff,
- mcu: wanda maximoff,
- mcu: yondu udonta,
- star wars legends: orren organa,
- star wars legends: revan,
- warhammer 40k: aleifr bjornsson,
- warhammer 40k: mira nero,
- xmcu: erik lehnsherr
i've been bitten by the bug ...
WHO: Open to all residents
WHAT: Inoculation Season, plus your regular monthly NAPs session
WHERE: Throughout the city, with NAPs held at The Ax Hole.
WHEN: Sept. 10-30 for plague shots and associated side effects; Sept. 10-14 for NAPs
WARNINGS: Please use if applicable!
So tell me, what do you prescribe for these symptoms?
Remember that awful plague that wiped out the city's entire original population? You know, the entire reason you've been brought here? Well, the medical science community of Dualis has been hard at work concocting a cure for as long as anyone can remember, with minimal results. But during the morning of the 10th, news of a breakthrough is announced is a special city-wide bulletin. All media channels are overtaken with this message, and alerts hit every citizen's phone. The best part? Science needs your help!
There's no formal approval process for new vaccines and medications, just a series of volunteer trials before it's determined whether what's being tested is effective. All residents are invited to participate in these trials, with a bonus of 200 extra duos as compensation for their time and possible suffering. Simply head down to your nearest MedDualis clinic and inform the MedDroids supervising that you're reporting for your civic duty. Participants will be given a quick, easy, and practically painless inoculation shot in the arm, and will walk out the door 200 duos richer. Neat, huh?
Participants will be warned that like all experimental drugs, there may be side effects. A non-comprehensive list of those possible side effects includes: minor appearance changes (hair/skin/eye color), enhancing or reducing senses (smell, taste, hearing, sight, etc.), sudden mild development of extranormal abilities (telepathy, super strength, super speed, etc.), the ability to share dreams (if you're not tired of that sorta thing after last month), and/or loss of control over abilities you already possess, or those abilities misfiring. Hey, at least death isn't included on this list!
Any intrepid Dualizen who comes down with a case of weirdness as a result of doing their civic duty will find that weirdness will wear off by the end of the month. The Head thanks you for your sacrifice!
Don't you feel the fever like I do?
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 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 an exciting new establishment called The Ax Hole! The 'Hole is an indoor ax-throwing range plus bar plus mid-price grill-type restaurant, the first of its kind to find a home here in Dualis. You must be at least 18 to drink and/or throw axes, and if you are throwing axes, there is a limit of one drink per hour. The bartenders are very strict about enforcing this rule, and employees are available to give safety instructions on proper ax-throwing technique and supervise activities.
This is a family-friendly establishment, so anyone under 18 is welcome in the restaurant section and the viewing room between the restaurant and range to watch the ax-throwing action, but they are absolutely not allowed inside the range, even just to watch. In fact, anyone who wishes admittance to the range must sign a waiver stating that they understand the risks of participating and agree to hold the Ax Hole free of liability in the event of any accidents that cause injury or death.
If that hasn't scared you off yet, come on down and meet your new neighbors! Oh, and do try to exit with at least as many fingers and limbs as when you entered, OK?
WHAT: Inoculation Season, plus your regular monthly NAPs session
WHERE: Throughout the city, with NAPs held at The Ax Hole.
WHEN: Sept. 10-30 for plague shots and associated side effects; Sept. 10-14 for NAPs
WARNINGS: Please use if applicable!
So tell me, what do you prescribe for these symptoms?
Remember that awful plague that wiped out the city's entire original population? You know, the entire reason you've been brought here? Well, the medical science community of Dualis has been hard at work concocting a cure for as long as anyone can remember, with minimal results. But during the morning of the 10th, news of a breakthrough is announced is a special city-wide bulletin. All media channels are overtaken with this message, and alerts hit every citizen's phone. The best part? Science needs your help!
There's no formal approval process for new vaccines and medications, just a series of volunteer trials before it's determined whether what's being tested is effective. All residents are invited to participate in these trials, with a bonus of 200 extra duos as compensation for their time and possible suffering. Simply head down to your nearest MedDualis clinic and inform the MedDroids supervising that you're reporting for your civic duty. Participants will be given a quick, easy, and practically painless inoculation shot in the arm, and will walk out the door 200 duos richer. Neat, huh?
Participants will be warned that like all experimental drugs, there may be side effects. A non-comprehensive list of those possible side effects includes: minor appearance changes (hair/skin/eye color), enhancing or reducing senses (smell, taste, hearing, sight, etc.), sudden mild development of extranormal abilities (telepathy, super strength, super speed, etc.), the ability to share dreams (if you're not tired of that sorta thing after last month), and/or loss of control over abilities you already possess, or those abilities misfiring. Hey, at least death isn't included on this list!
Any intrepid Dualizen who comes down with a case of weirdness as a result of doing their civic duty will find that weirdness will wear off by the end of the month. The Head thanks you for your sacrifice!
Don't you feel the fever like I do?
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 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...
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 an exciting new establishment called The Ax Hole! The 'Hole is an indoor ax-throwing range plus bar plus mid-price grill-type restaurant, the first of its kind to find a home here in Dualis. You must be at least 18 to drink and/or throw axes, and if you are throwing axes, there is a limit of one drink per hour. The bartenders are very strict about enforcing this rule, and employees are available to give safety instructions on proper ax-throwing technique and supervise activities.
This is a family-friendly establishment, so anyone under 18 is welcome in the restaurant section and the viewing room between the restaurant and range to watch the ax-throwing action, but they are absolutely not allowed inside the range, even just to watch. In fact, anyone who wishes admittance to the range must sign a waiver stating that they understand the risks of participating and agree to hold the Ax Hole free of liability in the event of any accidents that cause injury or death.
If that hasn't scared you off yet, come on down and meet your new neighbors! Oh, and do try to exit with at least as many fingers and limbs as when you entered, OK?
no subject
Erik nods. ]
Were you taken from Earth as well? [ Subtext: are you a mutant? Hope springs eternal, even in the unlikeliest of places. ] I find myself more than a little curious as to our gracious host's ultimate goal with this misadventure.
no subject
[He hopes it's not destroyed by now.]
I find myself curious as well. Our host appears to be gathering a diverse group.
no subject
Well.
[ He flops on his bed. ]
If they want to use us for some sort of experiment, then they need a control group. You and I would be variables, of course. So one of us is getting the placebo. How do you fancy your odds?
[ Pitch black gallows humor. What else? ]
no subject
My odds are notoriously poor. Though I suppose we'll just have to wait and see which one of us begins talking about seeing sounds and hearing colors.
no subject
Should I tell them I've already lived through the '60s once? Might be a variable that disqualifies me entirely.
[ Not that Erik was ever experienced in that way. He never found much appeal in losing his faculties, and intentionally inducing hallucinations was not something he was interested in doing. Still. Maybe the overlords don't know that. ]
no subject
A common occurrence in your time, then?
[A curious question, more than anything. Thane gets the impression the "60's" Erik is talking about may be further in the past than what he's thinking of.]
no subject
Maybe thirty years ago, among very particular people. But no, not "common" necessarily. Although many people throughout the world in various different cultures and eras used hallucinogens for a variety of purposes. Most commonly for spiritual journeys.
[ He hasn't ever bene much for it, but not for any sort of puritanical rejection of altered states of consciousness. It's the vulnerable state such things leave one in that he can't stand. ]
But that's among humans and mutants on Earth. What of your people?
[ He doesn't even know what they're called, and that seems as polite a way to ask as he can come up with. ]
no subject
The drell don't typically leave Kahje. [To satisfy that 'what are you' curiosity.] Those of us that left may indulge in such things but I would guess it is unlikely. [A clear indication he has met very few of his own people outside of his home planet. Or, "home planet".]
And Kahje is...an honor among the drell. We live among the hanar and owe them a great debt. It would be unwise to indulge in mind altering substances while we work to do the things they cannot.
[In other words it's not very common.]
However, our skin is mildly toxic to humans. Prolonged contact sometimes causes minor rashes and hallucinations. I suppose there's a bit of irony in there somewhere.
no subject
Who are the hanar, then? Are there any here? It sounds as if you have some sort of symbiotic relationship with them.
[ Again he laughs softly. ]
You must be popular at parties.