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PUMPKIN HOLLOW'S PEN-PAL PROGRAM

Welcome to the Pumpkin Hollow Pen-Pal Program!

Letters have been something that has brought people across Concord closer together in spite of great distances. Being cut off from the greater world has not only left people lacking in outlets to write to friends and loved ones they may not have time to see every day, but left our local post office alarmingly dry of service.

That's where you can help!

By joining Marrow Isle's Pen-Pal Program, not only can you assist in revitalizing our postal service and help to keep our couriers on the move, but through our pen-pal lottery, you'll have the potential to write to an acquaintance, an old friend, or perhaps a new friend entirely! Participation in the lottery is entirely optional, of course, as you're always welcome to simply register and write to your current companions.

To participate, all you need to do is provide your mailing address via the form below, and the post office will provide you envelopes, paper, and ink, free of charge! We look forward to seeing new bonds formed through writing!

-Created with love by the Autumn Leaves Dormitory House, graciously hosted by the Marrow Isle Postal Service.

To sign up for a pen-pal, all you have to do is:

Create a toplevel for your character that will serve as their pen-pal inbox, filling out the form below! For addresses, you may either the specific address you picked from the reference sheet or just their neighborhood if you haven't picked one.
Reply to the Lottery comment to be entered into the lottery before the listed deadline. New lotteries to be assigned a new pen-pal will occur monthly, so feel free to sign up every month, just once, or as desired! (Be sure to have your toplevel comment inbox set up before pen-pals are assigned!)
If you do not want a randomly assigned partner, no worries! You can simply have one of your characters send a letter directly to another character's inbox.
When you are given your recipient, send them a starting letter in their inbox, and you will receive one from whoever was assigned yours! It will work like Secret Santa, resulting in two letter threads.
Letter threads can last as long as you want, but if you sign up again the following month, you'll get two more. Budget your energy appropriately!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Hi First Aid,

It's nice to meet you as well! Am I your first pen pal? Maybe it's just my own preconceived notions, but I can't imagine a sentient robot writes many letters. Most humans don't do it either in my time period. It's usually just emails or instant messages, since that's more convenient. But it can be fun to write letters for the sake of it, like we're doing now!

But yes, I did just arrive not too long ago. I'm from the same world as Jon Sims and Daisy Tonner, if you've met them. I worked as an archival assistant for a few years, but had recently gotten promoted to the assistant of the Head of the research institute I worked for. It wasn't for the best reasons, though. I'd say the paycheck was good, but it's not really much of a bright side now that I'm here! Oh well.

I'd be interested to know what stake a planet of sentient robots had in humans! Seems like a planet like that would have it's own stuff going on. It must be kind of lonesome going from a team to just one, though.

Anyway, hope this finds you well and it's an easy day at the clinic. I'm working over at the Oak & Iron if you'd ever like to say hello. Take care!

Regards,
Martin

Mr. Martin,

Haha, you caught me! I'm used to writing short e-mails or dictating faxes to my human colleagues, but that kind of professional missive is different from trying to write a personal letter to someone. I'm not really sure how much detail to leave in and how much to include, especially when I'm trying to write in English like this. In Modern Autobot we have extra glyphs for communicating emotional states and historical context that don't really translate well, so I'm sorry if I come off a little awkward!

I'm a little surprised you didn't join the library staff or the crew at City Hall, if you're used to working in an archive! Were you ready for something different? When I got here I couldn't imagine working anywhere except at the Winterbottom Clinic, but as Agent Jean's taken many pains to explain to me, not everyone is as married to their job as I am, ha ha. I've met Jon Sims a few time in passing, although as he's managed to avoid getting seriously injured and I made the decision several months ago to stay neutral in the conflict between Dr. West and Miss Leeds, it's remained a pretty distant and casual relationship. I haven't met Daisy Tonner yet either, so maybe you could introduce us sometimes? My staff is always telling me I need to get out more and make actual friends, not just friendly coworkers.

You asked what interest my people have in Earth, and although the full history is a little embarrassing I'm still happy to explain. Six million years ago, a ship that contained both Autobot and Decepticon leadership crash-landed on Earth, after an unexpected battle disabled the navigational controls. Everyone on board was knocked into a deep stasis, and as the ship had crashed into an active volcano it was soon buried by tectonic forces. In 1984, however, the volcano erupted, waking up the ship's supercomputer Teletraan-1. It woke everyone up and repaired them, but the Decepticons were still as uninterested in peaceful cooperation as ever and immediately put into action plans to exploit Earth and steal its natural resources in order to conquer the galaxy.

Obviously us Autobots couldn't let them get away with that! It was technically our fault that the Decepticons even wound up on Earth in the first place, since the crash happened on our ship, so our leader Optimus Prime immediately began making alliances with Earth governments and setting up treaties so we could step in to defend humans wherever the Decepticons struck! That was also when he made us Protectobots. Our specialty is battlefield evacuation and field medicine. If the Decepticons attacked a human population center, we could get everyone out of harms way within a few hours, which as you can imagine saved many lives. I've been doing mostly the same things here, just on a smaller scale. Oh! and I've been teaching two of the locals better surgical and hygiene techniques. I'm hoping that they'll be able to teach other people, once the barrier goes down and I have to leave. The old doctor, Agnes Winterbottom, wasn't terrible at all, she did a really good job, but you know. This place is a little old-fashioned compared to 2005.

Anyway, maybe I'll see you sometime soon at the Oak & Iron! I recently won a mouth with chemical "taste buds" at the Cucumber Festival (magic is so neat, isn't it?) so I've been having a great time tasting things for the first time. Coffee and tea doesn't fuel me up as well as ethanol, but it's fun to drink in small quantities. If you see a tall red and white robot walk in, feel free to come say hello!

Regards,
First Aid

P.S. I don't know if you can tell or not, but I tried to copy the format of your letter for mine. Hopefully it looks a little better than my first one!

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