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

[headandhand]

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.

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[sanephiroth]

Oh, well. That's one man who seems to be having a good time. Sephiroth had been looking for an empty fort but seeing as Drifter is inviting him to sit, he sees no reason to decline. So he sweeps in in his new clothes and meticulously rearranges a few pillows for a more comfortable seat.

It's a bit of a hassle keeping his hair out of the way when sitting so low to the ground but he manages.

... He wants to ask about the movie but figures it impolite to talk mid-movie. He'll just quietly try to figure out what the title of the movie even is.

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[be_notorious]

It's right prior to the scene in the bathroom. Drifter scoots over, gesturing at the screen. "So them two old fellas just place a bet. That they could make a well-off man go bad, an' they could make a schyster turn responsible. That one said it'd mess up. Well, the well-off man just done lost his mind dressed in some red suit-" it's a Santa suit "-an' the well-off guy just did somethin' kindly. So I reckon they're about to declare the winner."

It's a quick, quick rundown of said plot as he's making that room, and offers an unopened bottle of soda to the more responsible man in the fort while he, the designated schyster, tends to his previous bottle.

He could introduce himself. But he's more about getting to know people through action when he can.

[sanephiroth]

There's a lot to unpack here. What a strange premise for a movie.

"Thank you. I guess we'll see how it plays out." He accepts the soda and scrutinizes it for a moment, trying to discern how unhealthy it is before he opens it and drinks it. He frowns. Too sweet.

Though he has to ask.

"What is a schyster?"

[be_notorious]

"A con man to negligible degrees. Someone who just tries to trick people out of their cash on the street. Only a step above stealin' wallets."

He gestures at the screen. At Eddie Murphy's character.

"At the start he was pretendin' to be paralyzed."

[sanephiroth]

"I see," Sephiroth continues to observe the movie, silent for a moment. "Have you seen this before?"