Mingle - Emergency Potluck

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WELCOME POTLUCK

Greetings, residents! Those more observant sorts among you may have noticed a large influx of very crowded ferries. In order to welcome our new residents en masse, Town Hall is holding a potluck in Town Square. Please bring a dish if you are able and make a new friend!

All of our newest arrivals need only bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you all into our community, and may your lanterns always be lit.

This event is open to all! In light of our new influx of prospective players following the Great Sail Migration, we've decided to offer a small public event to tide everyone over until the TDM this weekend.

Comments

[astrogator]

The initial sensation is startling, but it's really nothing to worry about, not for someone like Ari who has been through L-space training. And then - she is inside the tree. She is most definitely inside the tree, and she shouldn't be able to fit, but she does, comfortably, and she still feels very much herself. She can feel her body, whole and unchanged.

Tayrey has no fear of this. She remembers Sparkles, how the little shadow creature used to hide away in its shadow realm, and decides this must be something similar. A sidestep into other dimensions, like a ship's transition into L-space, only without all the effort and expense and altered perception. This shadow dimension is not alien the way that L-space is, but the mathematics of it might be similar, at root.

She squeezes Elsie's hand in return. 'I like it,' she says. 'You feel safe in here, yes?' Tayrey would feel safe, if this were hers, and she begins to realise what it means that Elsie is sharing it with her. That trust.

[hereticofthewilds]

"Yes," Elsie confirms with a touch of melancholy. "My home." She can't describe why, even to herself, but when she is here, she feels as if she is wrapped in a warm hug. The world out there cannot touch her in here. She senses in Ari a need for safety too--a place where no one can touch her.

"I'm happy you like it. You can come in any time. Only have to call me."

[astrogator]

That's exactly what Ari needs, even if she can't admit it to herself. Her starship was never safe in that way, after all. Space was dangerous. They had enemies. The difference was that all the dangers were external; she had nothing to fear from anyone inside the ship save ordinary disagreements.

'Call you? How would I do that?' She hasn't yet encountered those strange rocks. 'You mean call on you, come out here and see you?'

[hereticofthewilds]

"Call on..." Elsie still struggles with these things at times. "...Come to my tree and say my name. I will hear it. I will come. Always."