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the head | the hand ([personal profile] headandhand) wrote in [community profile] dualislogs2019-10-06 07:12 pm

sheets all on the floor just like an ocean ...

WHO: All y’all!
WHAT: Your regularly scheduled NAPs event for the month
WHERE: Fort Pillowtown
WHEN: Oct. 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 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 a new, super-comfy all-ages establishment called Fort Pillowtown. As the name suggests, it’s a large indoor space filled wall to wall with permanent pillowforts. There are a variety of sizes, shapes, and colors, with each individual fort constructed of gauzy hanging sheets, strings of soft lights, warm blankets, plush toys, a mini television with on-screen menu for choosing movies to watch and video games to play, and yes, lots and lots of pillows. Snacks and drinks of all sorts are available for purchase, as are whimsical onesies and comfy slippers to wear. Board and card game sets are also available to borrow or buy. Sounds like a dream, right?

So pull up a pillow pile, get to know your new neighbors, and enjoy a well-earned and comfy chill-out session. And hey, if you end up napping at NAPs, rest assured that it’s absolutely allowed.
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (You've Got My Attention Now (Interested))

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-10-07 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well, he'd been busy looking down at the cards which continue to have disappointing questions. He hadn't really seen the person that had sat down until he heard Aleifr's voice and looked up. And felt a bit embarrassed.]

Sorry, I didn't see it was you.
aleifr: (6)

[personal profile] aleifr 2019-10-08 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Aleifr just shrugs, seemingly unbothered by it.]

What about you? I know you've got dragons.
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (The Better Part of Valor (Caution))

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-10-08 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean, we have things LIKE bears, but they're creatures out of legend where I'm from. That's part of where my debate with someone in the last place I was came from. How my world had dragons but not bears.

[They said that that bears were common in most worlds. But Nida's never seen one himself.]
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[personal profile] aleifr 2019-10-10 07:21 am (UTC)(link)
That's strange to some, is it?

[Considering he was born and raised in a place with both, neither seemed particularly strange to him.]
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (That Sounds Fake But Okay (Disbelief))

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-10-10 05:20 pm (UTC)(link)
It's strange to some. I mean, it started with talking about combat techniques. I'm a polearms specialist. I pointed out that strength training matters to me, because dodging is nice and all, but if you don't have some strength to add to the leverage of the poleaxe, how do you get through the scales of a dragon's neck?

[And the guy had given him grief about how agility was more important for taking down bears. Like, bears weren't a concern back home.]
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[personal profile] aleifr 2019-10-11 07:24 am (UTC)(link)
Makes sense.

[Aleifr nods his understanding.]

Need the right tool for the job. Wouldn't use a spear to dig a hole.
skyward_eyes: Harry Shum Jr as Magnus Bane (The Better Part of Valor (Caution))

[personal profile] skyward_eyes 2019-10-11 04:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Exactly!

[Bless, someone who gets it. Sure, there are other things at play too, but Nida had chosen polearms for a reason.]

I started with them when I was a kid, as force amplification. I wasn't very big when I was little. There needed to be something as a means to be stronger, before I had the power to amplify my skills.