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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

Dear Mr. Sims,

I hope I'm doing this right! Writing out letters longhand is still new to me, but my first penpal gave me some good advice last month that I'll try to apply in my correspondence with you. I don't think we've ever met in person before, so let me tell you a little bit about myself.

My name is First Aid, and I'm type of sentient robot whose people originate from the planet Cybertron. I phrase things that way because I myself was built and came online on Earth, using vehicle parts sourced from a C20 Datsun Vanette. Like most Cybertronians I'm capable of transforming between my robot shape and an alternate form, in my case an ambulance, and I was actually built in order to provide emergency medical care to both Cybertronians and humans! Because of this experience I was given co-administration of the Winterbottom Clinic soon after I arrived last October, and I've been working as one of the town's physicians ever since. If you've seen a red and white carriage driving around without any horses, well. That was me!

Hm, I'm still not sure what else to put here. I'm twenty-two years old (Cybertronians don't really have childhoods, so that means less in our society) and I have a boyfriend, Bart Torgal, who actually recently had a birthday! We visited the Paradesium together to celebrate -- it was the first time I was able to go down there, as I'm a bit taller than most humans and it took them a while to widen and reinforce the tunnel far enough that I could fit. Have you ever been down there? If not you really should give a shot before the snow comes, it's gorgeous! Bart's a naturalist, so he told me all kinds of interesting facts about the plants and animals, and we collected a bushel of fruit for the people in town. It's such a relief to have a ready source of citrus fruit available, you really do not want to know what scurvy looks like.

I suppose I'll end this letter here. Please let me know if you have any constructive criticism to offer, I'd really like to get better at this!

Talk to you again later!
First Aid

For a moment, Jon is baffled, reading over the letter a few times over. This... is a Transformer. An honest-to-god Transformer, from the planet Cybertron--- or, rather, from Earth, but still Cybertronian. The notion almost gives him a bit of whiplash. He's so friendly, though; this may be one of the loveliest letters he's ever received in his life, and it's certainly the most enthusiastic.

Even with as shocked as he is, it only takes a few days for a letter in return to arrive.

Hello First Aid,

Thank you for your letter! It was an incredibly fascinating read. I think you did a brilliant job with this. Do be sure to give yourself credit where it's due.

I do believe I've seen you about, from time to time. I'd thought you were some sort of magically-charged wagon, but it's amazing to know that it was, in fact, a member of the town's medical personnel. It's a surprise that I've not managed to run into you yet; perhaps we simply have very different corners of town we find ourselves on. I'm a boatswain, myself, so I only spend a few weeks every month ashore, which likely contributes to that.

I am, to keep explanations brief, a human with a curse that has mildly changed my being. As such, I don't get sick often anymore, nor do I get hurt in a lasting sense, should the injury not kill me. This provides us opportunities to have more of a peer-to-peer friend relationship, however, as opposed to a doctor-patient relationship. (I do intend to keep vaccinated, though; the plague was a stark reminder to do so. I hope you were alright, during all of that.)

I've not managed a trip out to Paradesium, myself, though I do fully intend to visit sometime. I've never been much for hikes, so it's taken me longer to get out that way. Perhaps I'll have to see if I can convince my boyfriend into taking a trip with me to have a look. I've heard stories from some friends, and it does sound like an incredible sight. Did you see any particularly noteworthy sights, during your time out that way? I'd love to hear stories about it, if so.

I hope the month has been treating you well, and that you've been enjoying the beginning of fall!

Best,
Jonathan Sims

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