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- intro log
♥ July 2019 Intro Mingle

July Intro Log
Welcome to Havenwell! The walled city and its robotic inhabitants welcome all of the offworlders to Aellyn. New arrivals are given their tablets and showed to open housing, given tours around the city, and generally helped with settling into their new world. Some robots are more curious than others, more helpful than others, but overall the atmosphere of the city is one of hope and celebration. It is, however, a city that needs some help, and as newcomers wander, they may find that they can do a lot to aid Havenwell in its recovery.
❥ PROMPT I: Temple Jobs
The priests of each temple have a digital bulletin board in front of their temple doors that lists several tasks that each temple is asking of natives and newcomers alike. Havenwell is protected from the worst of the damage outside the walls, but it's still an ancient city and there's always something that needs to be done. Of course, the priests won't ask you to do these things for free, so anyone who wants to join up and complete a task will receive a reward of Dora sent to their bank accounts.
The sudden weather changes sometimes results in localized floods, so businesses and homes are always looking for help cleaning debris and mopping floors. The temples themselves always need a little extra help picking up after the temple animals or cleaning the altars. Some stores need help transporting goods across the city - normally a two person job, pulling carts and wagons. And lately, temples have been asking for help in cleaning up the city square for a "big *wink wink* project" coming soon. The priests won't say more than that, but they will offer payment for anyone willing to keep the square clean. Which may be a little difficult with the influx of new people, maps, and general trash and broken debris everywhere. It may be smart to team up to keep things clean!
The sudden weather changes sometimes results in localized floods, so businesses and homes are always looking for help cleaning debris and mopping floors. The temples themselves always need a little extra help picking up after the temple animals or cleaning the altars. Some stores need help transporting goods across the city - normally a two person job, pulling carts and wagons. And lately, temples have been asking for help in cleaning up the city square for a "big *wink wink* project" coming soon. The priests won't say more than that, but they will offer payment for anyone willing to keep the square clean. Which may be a little difficult with the influx of new people, maps, and general trash and broken debris everywhere. It may be smart to team up to keep things clean!
❥ PROMPT II: Repli-fails
One thing that new residents might find that needs some help are the food replicators found in each home. They've been unused for so long that issues and trouble were inevitable. People who can fix them are few and far between, however, so until an antiques' maintenance-minded robotic denizen stops by, characters may have to suffer through some glitches. When characters ask for potatoes, they might find blue-flavored toothpaste getting dispensed instead. Or if they ask for 1 carrot, they get 20 hot pink ones instead. Or asking for a drink becomes a never-ending stream of said drink. Or they might not dispense anything that looks like food at all and instead inundate you with vaguely fish-shaped wooden blocks. Good luck, newbies. Even the natives are a little baffled by this one.

❥ PROMPT III: Virtual? Reality?
The VR simulation of the month, Petting Zoo, seems to still be pretty popular. Natives are plugging in to pet animals in record numbers and it's encouraged the proprietors of the VR parlors to keep the game a little longer than normal. New arrivals are encouraged to take the VR headsets for a spin to help proprietors gauge how to better adjust them for non-robotic clientele. That said, they'll still ask characters to pay for the experience, just not at a slightly discounted rate if they answer a survey afterwards. Characters will notice that holding hands with someone else during their VR experience significantly improves the quality of the visuals and audio input.
Unfortunately, as with most things in Havenwell, the VR experience doesn't always go as planned. On occasion in the city, glitches happen while residents are plugged in and suddenly that flock of giant pink sheep they were petting? Yeah, they're now manifested in the real world. In and around the entertainment districts, illogically colored sheep, giant house cats, miniature ponies, and - of course - the dreaded aggro rainbow chickens suddenly start appearing in packs. Their images glitch in and out, fuzzing into static in places, but they're very real and very confused about not being in their happy green pastures. Which means they panic, of course, and start running amok. Help the citizens corral these strange beasts until the glitch ends, run away from the now very real flocks of rainbow chickens that want to dogpile you, or simply stand by and watch the chaos occur. It's up to you how you want to help!
Unfortunately, as with most things in Havenwell, the VR experience doesn't always go as planned. On occasion in the city, glitches happen while residents are plugged in and suddenly that flock of giant pink sheep they were petting? Yeah, they're now manifested in the real world. In and around the entertainment districts, illogically colored sheep, giant house cats, miniature ponies, and - of course - the dreaded aggro rainbow chickens suddenly start appearing in packs. Their images glitch in and out, fuzzing into static in places, but they're very real and very confused about not being in their happy green pastures. Which means they panic, of course, and start running amok. Help the citizens corral these strange beasts until the glitch ends, run away from the now very real flocks of rainbow chickens that want to dogpile you, or simply stand by and watch the chaos occur. It's up to you how you want to help!
❥ PROMPT IV: The Ribbon Games
A couple weeks after everyone has arrived and had time to mostly settle into the weird weather patterns and machinery muck-ups, a notice is plastered across the network:
Once a task is completed, the priest will remove a ribbon from their box and affix it to your clothing. Don't let anyone steal your ribbons! Good luck keeping them safe, offworlders.
The citizens of Havenwell wish you well, offworlders! To show our appreciation for your assistance in saving our world, we cordially invite you to participate in an ancient tradition: The Ribbon Games! In the old days, this festival was held as a celebration of joyous events. You have a week to collect as many ribbons as you can from your temple by completing their Ribbon Task. Then, at the end of the week, we are hosting a party in your honor where you can compete to collect ribbons from the other temples to win fabulous prizes! Please visit your deity's temple to find out more and we hope you will join us for the Ribbon Games Party at the end of the week.Those who choose to participate and head to their deity's temple will find a priest with a sash and a box of ribbons in the colors of your chosen deity. They point to a digital board at their side that lists the task you'll need to complete in order to earn one of these ribbons, and will allow characters to complete a ribbon challenge once a day until the week is over for a total of 7 ribbons if they come each day. You may only earn the ribbon of your assigned deity, so if you are an adherent of Rawna and go to Ainea's temple, even if you complete Ainea's task, you cannot receive her ribbon. The tasks are:
With all our gratitude,
The Citizens of Havenwell
- Rawna: Give comfort to someone or ease someone's pain within Rawna's temple to receive a shimmering silver ribbon.
- Ainea: Do an act of kindness or show compassion to someone within Ainea's temple to receive a soft pink and purple ribbon.
- Diacht: Reveal an honest truth about yourself within Diacht's temple to receive a bold red and white ribbon.
- Ohma: Learn something new about or from someone within Ohma's temple to receive a delicate blue and gold ribbon.
Once a task is completed, the priest will remove a ribbon from their box and affix it to your clothing. Don't let anyone steal your ribbons! Good luck keeping them safe, offworlders.

❥ PROMPT V: The Fanciest of Welcome Parties
At the end of the month, once the city square is clean and the ribbons have been distributed to participating citizens, the newest residents of Havenwell will wake to the sound of music floating over the city. During the night while people slept, the natives decorated the city with streamers, brightly colored lanterns, and strings of beautiful lights that glow no matter the hour of the day. The natives have decorated themselves, too, and provide the offworlders with clothing and decorations to match. Garishly colored sashes, brilliantly (artificially) plumed hats, skirts and tunics, boas and fake flower leis - just about anything you can imagine, they're wearing. In and around the city square there are long tables of oddly colored finger foods - orange-colored grapes, bright pink meats, blue cheeses and the like are provided along with golden chocolates, fuchsia frosted cupcakes with pink cake underneath, and minty green cookies. The foods might look strange, but at least they mostly taste like they're supposed to. The citizens are trying, they promise.
All around the fountain depicting the four gods in the center of the square, pre-recorded music is playing and the natives are dancing in pairs, groups, and lines. Join them for a dance and they'll happily teach you the local customs, or break out your own moves and share your world's best moves to earn some applause and awkward attempts at recreating them.
The big game of the night is shared by the natives and it's announced halfway through the party. The culmination of the Ribbon Games is a contest to try and collect a set of four ribbons - one from each different god's temple. The rules are simple:
If you successfully manage to get all four ribbons, a little shower of confetti will burst from your ribbons and a nice little chunk of Dora will be transferred to your account. This can only work once unfortunately, but it's a nice little bonus for your first month in Havenwell! The party continues late into the night and the natives are happy to keep the party going as long as any of the offworlders wish to keep dancing.
All around the fountain depicting the four gods in the center of the square, pre-recorded music is playing and the natives are dancing in pairs, groups, and lines. Join them for a dance and they'll happily teach you the local customs, or break out your own moves and share your world's best moves to earn some applause and awkward attempts at recreating them.
The big game of the night is shared by the natives and it's announced halfway through the party. The culmination of the Ribbon Games is a contest to try and collect a set of four ribbons - one from each different god's temple. The rules are simple:
- Attach your ribbons to yourself in a clearly visible location.
- Tag and hold someone else for more than 1 minute. You can bear hug them, hold their hands, link arms, anything!
- After sustaining contact, you can take one of their ribbons. If you aren't the character who initiated contact, you can't take a ribbon.
- Gather one of each god's ribbon in order to win a prize!
If you successfully manage to get all four ribbons, a little shower of confetti will burst from your ribbons and a nice little chunk of Dora will be transferred to your account. This can only work once unfortunately, but it's a nice little bonus for your first month in Havenwell! The party continues late into the night and the natives are happy to keep the party going as long as any of the offworlders wish to keep dancing.
As a reminder, please post your character to the Taken Character list and your own information to the Player Contact list as soon as possible. It helps us keep track of our player cap!
If you have any other questions, please ask them in the QUESTION thread below. Feel free to use the CR/Intro Meme to do OOC plotting. Otherwise, welcome to Hugtopia's first mingle log!
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[ She's fast, for someone so small fortunately! ]
Rin doesn't think chickens can fly though. Should we find a tree to climb?
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[Magolor doesn't actually know the first thing about normal chickens, but these angry critters had no problem pursuing him despite the fact that he can fly himself. Still, maybe she has a point—]
But a tree's better than out in the open like this. Keep your eye out for one!
[ . . . Unfortunately, this city isn't exactly resplendent with botanical life outside the designated garden.]
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[ She pants, and veers in that direction ]
There's lots of people there, maybe they will stop.
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[It's true. It is a good idea. He follows, more easily, but this is still a strain on him too; maybe he should boost them along some now that they have a destination.]
Hey, hang on, I'll get us there!
[Magolor swoops down to get his hands under her shoulders so he can lift her feet off the ground—not far, only enough that they won't drag while he boosts them with magic. Since she's so small, he can manage this much more easily, but he's still not strong enough to do anything like just scoop her up and fly her all the way there.
Once he's got her, though, he puts some magic into it, pushing the both of them along with a burst of wind while he carries her.]
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Turn this way!
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[A navigation he can carry! She's so handy! He titters and follows her directions; it's much faster going this way, although he has to stop every few seconds for just a moment to rest. The overall pace is still better as long as he can keep this up, which won't be forever—but he can at least put distance between them and the chickens.]
How much farther?
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[Easy is a bit of an exaggeration, but he can make it, though he's breathing hard by the time they get there, and he heaves a huge sigh as he sets her down to run the last few steps to the gate.
. . . This is Havenwell's designated Botanical Gardens . . . it's manned (or roboted) by a kiosk, and admission isn't free. It says a lot about their situation right now that Magolor just slams his wallet/communicator/Dora Device against the teller machine to pay the admission for both of them to get inside and away from the chicken flock, which is by now at least far enough behind them that they have time to make this transaction without being pecked to death. Honestly, they've probably almost lost them by now anyway. But being inside an establishment like this will make that a permanent rather than temporary state, and so he's happy to spend his very first Dora in Havenwell on this. (He's been otherwise mooching.)
Once they're inside, he stops to breathe, reaching for Rin's hand so he can make back the money he just spent.]
Whew . . . hey, thanks for all that. Really!
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You're welcome! They were mean chickens, huh?
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[They're here and all. They may as well walk around and check out the plants, especially if being within the garden walls means the chickens can't continue their pursuit. Magolor floats forward slowly, giving the place a curious once-over.]
I hadn't made it this far into town yet.
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Rin hasn't been inside here, just the outside.
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But there's no escaping that it's their lives now, including the whole VR setup.]
VR? It means virtual reality. You know, fake! It's a whole other level of selling experiences—
[He realizes quickly that that's too high level a conversation for a kid, oops. Ahem.]
Er . . . those helmets the robots have for us. You tried one yet? You can do pretend things that feel real.
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[ She shakes her head, trying to follow along ]
Oooh, so it's... like a big game of pretend? Sounds fun! Ah... but the chickens were not very fun...
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[SHRUG. A lot of poor decisions were made on this planet.]
But that's exactly what it is! For these guys, it's about all they've got. They gave up on things like eating cake and smelling flowers and now they regret it.
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Maybe there's a Jewel shard in the game? [ She wonders ] Ah, but Lady Kagome purified the Jewel already, so it shouldn't exist anymore...
That's very sad. [ She shakes her head ] Without flowers and good food!
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[He'd rather have his cake and eat it too, thanks.
As they walk, he tilts up at her curiously:]
What was that about a Jewel?
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The Jewel of Four Souls. [ She says automatically, quoting ] It granted wishes and brought misfortune. When Lady Kagome came through the well, she brought the Jewel with her. But she accidentally broke it, and the shards went eeeeeeeeeeverywhere. So her and Lord Inuyasha had to go and hunt them down! But they fixed the Jewel and purified it, so it can't hurt anyone anymore.
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Wow . . . so what happened after they purified it? Did it lose all its power? Or only its misfortune? That's an amazing story!
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Nope! [ She shakes her head ]
Lady Kikyo purified it before, but she didn't make a wish, so it kept bringing misfortune, Lady Kagome said. So, after they beat Naraku, Lady Kagome and Lord Inuyasha, the jewel tried to force them to make a wish! But Lady Kagome was too smart, and she wished that the Jewel would disappear! [ She claps her hands ] Poof! All gone.
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[That does sound exactly like how something like that would go. For a moment, he's heavy with disappointment. Why don't things like that ever work the way you want them to? Is it too much to ask that some god or ancient race or other invent an all-powerful artifact that doesn't screw you over when you try to use it? Sigh!]
So, if she'd wished for something normal, like ruling the world, it'd have brought her bad luck along with it. Too bad!
[that's a normal thing to wish for]
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Lady Kagome said, the Jewel would twist every wish if it could. It brought Lady Kikyo back, despite that she didn't make a wish at all. And it didn't grant Naraku's true wish either.
[ she shrugs ]
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[He reaches up to brush his hand through the branches of a tree as they pass by. That's right, the Star Festival had just happened on Pop Star, hadn't it . . . ]
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Rin can't, because Rin is human. Rin doesn't really want to be youkai! But Rin would want to stay with him.
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You're pretty smart. If that's how it is, I bet the robots here could mechanize you, and then you'd surely be able to be with him forever . . . but you'd be giving up all the rest, and you don't want that. So it's better to stay this way and just deal with it.
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[ She shrugs ] Rin just hopes Lord Sesshoumaru won't be too sad, later.
[ Humans die, she knows. He's saved her twice from death already, it would be rude to expect him to do so again. ]
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