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the head | the hand ([personal profile] headandhand) wrote in [community profile] dualislogs2019-09-09 10:14 pm

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?
morethanatrickster: (loki_055)

[personal profile] morethanatrickster 2019-09-26 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
He shook his head. "Not at all. Most often, you laughed along with me. I don't know if it was for his own pride or...genuine amusement, truth be told." It was a question he'd never posed to himself, either, and he found the idea, the question, unsettling by principle alone. After a moment, he decided he didn't want to know, and chose to move on from it.

"I do not. Should I?" A much safer, at least he hoped, topic of conversation.
minus1twin: (Talking)

[personal profile] minus1twin 2019-09-27 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
"No." Wanda shook her head. "But I know your brother and I have heard of you." There weren't many people on Earth who hadn't heard of Loki though Wanda's particular point of view was skewed in a way.

"I have some experience with the Mind Stone." She lifted her hand and red mist sparked between her fingers. "It gave me this. From what I know, you're the person to go to who could help me learn more." That wasn't he whole of it but Wanda was far from judging people for past mistakes.

"If you're interested that is." She had lost her powers in the village and gained them back again here. They were different, weaker in a way, but she wanted to train with them again.
morethanatrickster: (loki_105)

[personal profile] morethanatrickster 2019-09-29 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Yes, well, I did make an impression the last time I visited your planet." He smiled his charming smile and took a sip from his drink, though is expression fell at her next words. He watched the red mist, a strange coalescence in itself, with an arched brow before looking back to her.

"I was never given command of the mind stone. No one is." It commands itself, and it always will.
minus1twin: (Ummm...)

[personal profile] minus1twin 2019-10-03 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"I know but it spoke to me." She rarely talked about the tests that she'd undergone while in Hydra's 'care' but she'd been exposed to the mind stone and it had changed her. It'd whispered too her, tried to control her and drive her mad like so many of the others. If not for her brother, she would have done mad.

"I told me a lot about the Universe. Things... I do not think anyone should know."

She was offering him an opportunity to talk about it if he wanted and if not, that was okay too. "My brother and I are from Sokovia on Earth. I didn't hear about what happened in New York until years later." There was nothing in her voice that suggested she blamed him for that incident, merely that it was something that happened.
morethanatrickster: (loki_100)

[personal profile] morethanatrickster 2019-10-07 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
"I've never heard of Sokovia." And he wasn't able to muster up any degree of concern for the lack of knowledge there. He was too focused on what she'd said of the stone, and he shook his head. "If it spoke to you, then you've interacted with it more than I ever did. Any thoughts I had were...not my own." He smiled slightly at that. "Well, I wanted to win, I wanted to...be powerful. It took that and it twisted it into hatred and malice, and after it was taken that hatred stayed, mostly because it was mine, just enhanced. It never spoke, though."

At that, a thought occurred to him, and his eyebrows rose at the implication. "Perhaps there's a reason for that. I can be...stubborn." He chuckled at the admission. It was an understatement. "Perhaps the Stone knew I would never go along with an idea that wasn't mine, and so it was."
minus1twin: (Still young)

[personal profile] minus1twin 2019-10-14 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not many have." It was a very small country.

Wanda smiled and shook her head. "I understand. The only reason I brought it up is because there are others who know me here and I'd rather you hear it from me." She remembered what it felt like to have the scepter, the Mind Stone, seep into her thoughts. It felt like she was always on the brink of madness, held together by her desire to be strong and fight.

"I hope we can be friends."
morethanatrickster: (loki_036)

[personal profile] morethanatrickster 2019-10-16 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
Loki smiled at this woman whom seemed to think they'd be connected simply because of this assumed link they shared through the Mind stone. Friends? Loki didn't have friends if he could help it.

"Perhaps we can."
minus1twin: (Talking)

[personal profile] minus1twin 2019-10-16 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
She didn't think they'd be friends right away. That kind of thing took time but Wanda wanted to be up front with Loki and honest. A little part of her will always be watching him, always be wondering if he was up to no good, but she thought that about Tony too and somehow they had managed to coexist.

"I think our time is up. I hope we can run into each other again."

Sure enough, the buzzard sounded and it was time to change partners.