ph_memes | Pumpkin Hollow Pen-Pal Program

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!

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[He doesn't open the letter for a full week after receiving it. His first urge is just to toss it in the fire, but... he keeps hesitating every time he eyes the envelope. Curiosity eventually wins: instead of burning it, he opens it.

Once he does, he has to sit and stare at nothing for a while, too many emotions churning through him to make any sense of it all.

But after another week, First Aid gets another letter in the same too-precise handwriting.]

I'M NOT SURE WHY YOU DON'T HATE US. THE CYLONS DID, FROM ALMOST THE MINUTE THEY GAINED SENTIENCE. THE FIRST MODELS WERE USED IN TASKS HUMANS DIDN'T WANT TO UNDERTAKE THEMSELVES, INCLUDING WARFARE; THAT WAS ENOUGH FOR THEM TO MURDER US ALL ONCE THEY HAD THE MEANS AND OPPORTUNITY, EVEN THOUGH THEY'D RETREATED AND OFFERED AN ARMISTICE AT THE END OF THE FIRST CYLON WAR FORTY YEARS EARLIER. A PLAGUE DESTROYING YOUR ENTIRE PLANET SEEMS LIKE A MORE THAN REASONABLE MOTIVATION FOR SOMETHING SIMILAR.

SO WHY DON'T YOU? WHY DO YOU ONLY FEEL PITY?

[This time the letter takes a while to arrive. First Aid is quite busy is the aftermath of the Blight.]

Mr. Gaeta,

I don't really like the word pity. It feels condescending, and I've always thought of humans as my equals. Most of my people came from our own planet, Cybertron, but I was built on Earth. I'll always think of it as my home, no matter how far I wander. But I don't want to stray too far off topic.

I guess, deep down...I don't really think of humans as a group. I talk about you that way, sure, because it's more convenient grammatically, but...each human is so unique, full of their own thoughts and ideas and wishes. Sure there are trends you share across cultures and your species, but I really think each one of you irreplaceable. And that makes you worthy of protecting. Even loving. It doesn't, or at least it shouldn't matter that some of you can be cruel. You're also capable of love, creativity, thoughtfulness...so many wonderful things.

I just wish it wasn't so easy for the cruel ones to do so much harm, so easily. But that's the fault of the universe, not the rest of you.

I hope that makes sense. I'm sorry about the Cylons. I don't know why they'd choose to offer an armistice and then attack you again. It's a big universe...surely they could have found a place to live in peace far away from you, if they didn't want to cooperate with humanity. I think it's terribly sad. Tragically sad.

First Aid

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