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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.
legacy_blade: (Thinking About That)

[personal profile] legacy_blade 2019-10-20 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh hell yes, Zack's totally got this. Another round is the best, and he's grinning because he's going to WIN. He selects the same character and once again, goes at thins with his button mashing potential

"Isn't it sad how you can't handle losing for once."
sanephiroth: (pained)

[personal profile] sanephiroth 2019-10-26 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Crude, Zack. Overconfidence will be your downfall. Sephiroth is focused on the screen, registering the attacks and figuring out the best defenses and counters as he goes.

But the comment does make him pause.

"Not in battle." Not since his first year in Wutai. "In games... It hasn't happened in a long time." Not since Genesis began to degrade.
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2019-10-29 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, maybe you should get used to it because I'm awesome."

And he really is. He still keeps button mashing. He really isn't very good at this so much as spirited. An eager puppy, if you will.
sanephiroth: (sour)

[personal profile] sanephiroth 2019-11-01 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Randomly pressing buttons is not skill, Fair." Aggravatingly, Zack keeps getting lucky and continues to keep Sephiroth on his toes as both their life bars dwindle. He tries to squeeze in an attack but whatever Zack just did seems to have unleashed some kind of limit break.

And Sephiroth fails to block it.

He frowns as his character collapses. Again

"Hmph."
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2019-11-01 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Zack laughs and leans over to poke Sephiroth in the shoulder.

"Face it. Logic isn't how the world works, dude. The most dangerous person to the best swordsman in the world isn't the second best. It's the worst. And thaty's how I kick video game ass."
sanephiroth: (tilt)

[personal profile] sanephiroth 2019-11-18 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Sephiroth half-rolls his eyes but he's releasing a resigned breath and smiling as he looks over at Zack.

"I'll concede to that. However, swordsmanship has little bearing here." He's pressing start again. Guess who's picking another character (a more punchy one) and is determined to throw in some button mashing this time. "One more time."
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2019-11-18 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe, but the principle might well be the same," Zack counters. He's sticking with this character, clearly it has all the luck in the world.
sanephiroth: (shrug)

[personal profile] sanephiroth 2019-11-18 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"I won't be defeated by a bumbling swordsman in reality." Sephiroth counters. A lot of that is arrogance but it's an earned status.
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[personal profile] legacy_blade 2019-11-19 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
"Uh... Yeah, probably not," Zack agrees. But he doesn't really mean it.