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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?
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[personal profile] fuckregularpeople 2019-10-08 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
"Not really. I have people I know who don't hate me." Which seemed good enough, most days, even if it was a slight exaggeration. Rita and Larry were people she'd known a long time and Vic was a friendly acquaintance, but Cliff was her friend, even if she was more comfortable ignoring that fact right now. Cliff was an asshole and a clueless dickwad who pushed her boundaries and never understood anything even when she spelled it out clearly and drove her crazy. But he really cared. Even if she wasn't sure she trusted why he cared, he had demonstrated it many times.

And this girl seemed to care too, which made her feel a little exhausted and a little sad. "Hey, what's your name?" she asked. "Mine's Jane."
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[personal profile] hellofishies 2019-10-08 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
"I think sometimes people need more than that." To keep them together. If she hand't had Connor when she'd taken things too far she wasn't sure what would have happened to her. The others cared in their own dysfunctional ways but not like Connor. They cared in that way people care for their old favorite broken toy. Do you play with it again and risk it breaking more? Do you lock it up somewhere safe to keep it from getting another dent or scratch? Or do you pretend the accident never happened and then just forget about the toy? It was hard to know which one. Connor hadn't done any of those things though. He'd just continued to treat her like a person. People needed friends for times like that.

"Hello, Jane. I'm Arkady." She smiled brightly again.
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[personal profile] fuckregularpeople 2019-10-09 07:37 am (UTC)(link)
Did they? Maybe most people did. God, this girl was as wholesome as a puppy watching the Care Bears. Which at least meant she hadn't poked into Jane's mind, or she wouldn't be acting so pleasant. That was a slight relief, but it didn't make Jane feel much better.

"Yeah. Look, Arkady, you don't seem like an asshole so you get a heads-up. I'm not so great at the friend thing, got it? So maybe you should find someone who's going to believe you really are as nice as you act."
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[personal profile] hellofishies 2019-10-12 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
"Most of my friends would say I'm not so great at the friend thing either," she gave a shrug. At the very least they'd made it clear to her that she wasn't a great friend prior to her accident. They probably weren't that wrong. She'd done a lot of things that made it hard for them and then they'd been left with the after effects. After effects that were hard to understand and harder still to deal with.

"And most of my friends are even worse than I am. Definitely worse than you could be." But she loved them all the same. "Hey! I'm as nice as I act until I have to be something else."
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[personal profile] fuckregularpeople 2019-10-13 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
"Wow, you're really selling it." Jane glanced at Arkady drily for a few seconds then shoved her hands into her pockets and sighed. It wasn't just inconveniencing someone, it was constantly being the inconvenience, and Jane didn't believe Arkady understood.

"You don't know me," she said firmly. "And I don't know you either, so I don't know if that's true. But you seem nice, so I hope things are fine for you. I hope you make friends."
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[personal profile] hellofishies 2019-10-14 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
"No, I don't know you and you don't know me. But you remind me of people." A lot of people actually. Which was a bit strange all on it's own. Or perhaps just a bit interesting for one person to remind her of quite a lot of other people.

"Maybe we'll get to know each other though." She starts to get up as she realizes they've probably met their time quota. "I hope we'll talk again sometime. But, if you really don't want to, at least take care!"