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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-06-01 06:57 pm
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introductory mingle: PRIJATA

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: Introductory Log and Prijata Celebration
when: June 1st - June 8th
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

prijata


In the days leading up to June 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: Prijata. Riverview Quarantine has a strong culture of love, and they celebrate all types - Prijata is a special celebration of platonic love and building community through friendship. Prijata traditions include gift exchanges between friends, sharing meals cooked together by friend groups, and a variety of events and services aimed at making friends.

a celebration of platonic love


Prijata is a relatively relaxed holiday, focused mainly on friendship and platonic love - dedicated to appreciating the friends already in one's life, and opening oneself up to making new friends. Besides the private giving of gifts between friends, there is also a city-wide government-sponsored gift fountain that is open throughout the entire week. Included in the wide variety of events catered to finding new friends, are 'speed friending' and a large open exhibition where all the specialized clubs in Riverview can recruit for new members - and residents new or old can create a club and recruit.


i. gift fountain

While Prijata gift exchanges between friends are generally a quiet affair, done at friend-group dinners or parties, the element of gift giving does extend outward - community-wide, in fact. Throughout the course of the week, anyone living in Riverview Quarantine can drop by the huge fountain in the City Center, in front of the City Hall. They will find that the fountain is chock full of floating gift boxes in a wide variety of colors, patterns, and different shapes - though none larger than a shoe box. There are signs put up around the fountain stating that the boxes are magic and will only seek and open for their rightful owners. Characters will find that, upon touching the water, a box will float over to them, and when they pick it up, the top will unfurl like flower petals, displaying the gift inside. Sometimes, the box won't appear on the first try, since there's only so much space in the fountain at any given time, but if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Every person in the city (including new arrivals) will receive one gift by the end of the week.

Gift fountain boxes will contain one small item from each character's home dimension (or, for CRAUs, from their previous game), similar to the "items from home" bonus reward, but without needing to spend points. The item should be small enough to fit in a shoebox, sentimental, and cannot be something intended for another person's character. ETA: If you can't think of an item like this that would work for your character, something of similar size and quality to what's described above that would make the character very happy can be substituted.

This prompt can also be used for gift exchanges and for characters to receive the Government-given gifts that were suggested in the Prijata Pregaming posts on the OOC community and the TDM.


ii. speed-friending

This is pretty much what it says on the tin! Much like speed-dating setups, many bars, coffee shops, and other places that people might gather are holding speed-friending! It's your standard setup - characters enter and fill out a quick questionnaire about themselves, and flit from table to table looking for someone with great friend chemistry. Not all of them are general and open to anyone who walks in, though, with many being specialized to people who are invested in certain hobbies, occupations, or with specific sets of interests. With specialized speed-friending setups ranging from horror movie buffs to members of the Perimeter Guard to fashionistas to sports or martial arts to video games, no matter what your character is into, they're likely to be able to sign up for a special event where they can go looking for a friend who's into the same things they are!

For this prompt, you can put up a list of hobbies or interests your character has, and compatible characters can hit them up for a speed-friending thread, like the IC equivalent of the CR meme!


iii. club exhibition

Speed-friending is all well and good, but not everyone is outgoing or open enough to know if they have friend chemistry in only a few minutes. For anyone looking to find groups of like-minded individuals they can spend more than a few minutes with before committing to something as daunting as a friendship, there is a week-long club exhibition happening in the Town Square in the City Center. Table after table and booth after booth are occupied by existing clubs in the city, with an incredibly broad scope of focus interests and hobbies - enough that any character should be able to find a club with their niche interest represented.

And if it isn't? Characters are welcome to start their own clubs - much like a business, a character-run club can have space set aside in the city for meetings and event mingles that are eligible for Activity Point Bonuses for the organizer.



iv. unveiling the new friendr

Prijata this year is marked by something special - the unveiling of a code rebuild of the ubiquitous Friendr app! Anyone with the app installed already will receive a prompt to update the app, and if anyone hasn't yet downloaded it, they'll receive a quick, easily-dismissed pop-up ad on their device when they next access the network, asking if they want to. No one is obligated, and the ad is a one-time instance, intended to make sure any character who hasn't heard of the app gets a chance.

The Friendr app is a swipe-left-or-right style friend matching and/or dating app that is very common in Riverview, both for PCs and NPCs, and it has received an upgrade with a new appearance, a new interests line for more accurate matching, and a wide variety of themes so that the colors can be customized!

Please see the updated appearance below, with the 'default' color scheme. Players are free to change the colors or appearance of the code but please do not remove the credit line showing where the base code came from, out of respect for the code creator.


Friendr
«
»
» Age: your character's age
» Seeking: friendship/romantic/anything
» Preferences: sexual preference or n/a
» Interests: three interests
» Bio: 30 words or less
base code by photosynthesis
Character Name
« ✘ ✔ »



base code found here.

For this prompt, you can either post your character's new, fancy Friendr app profile in the comments, or provide a link to their updated code in an entry on their journal. Whatever floats your boat!


v. roommates or wildcard

Feel free to use this prompt to set up headers for a communal floor, or threads open to roommates for the purpose of getting to know each other. Or if you have an idea for a prompt that isn't in this list, set during Prijata, feel free to write it up!



visual inspiration


click on thumbnails for larger view


Credit: image i: Odysseas Stamoglou; image ii: 5ofnovember; image iii: Sina Pakzad Kasra; image iv: mit19237

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dancingmd: (sleep bow)

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[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-05 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, no, he is simply too cute! Beverly beams at his eagerness as he climbs up to sit across from her.]

Well hello there, Jonathan Kent! I'm Beverly and it is very nice to meet you!

[She rests her chin in her hands thoughtfully.]

I haven't been here very long, so I haven't started one yet, but I love to garden, if you think you might like that!
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supersweet: (I live in a world made of cardboard)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-06 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon makes a slight face, unable to help himself. ]

That's kind of the same as farming. No offense.
dancingmd: (pen smile)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-06 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs.]

Fair enough.

[Now she leans forward conspiratorially.]

Well then, how do you feel about.. Robots?
supersweet: (Axioms at the bottom of his thoughts)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-06 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ He brightens a little, but his face still holds some trepidation. The last robot Jon met tried to kill him. ]

What kind of robots?
dancingmd: (fond memories)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-06 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, all kinds, just like there's all different kinds of species. Some are very, very tiny, so little you can only see them with a microscope and they help me heal people. Others are bigger, but still small enough to get into places on a ship we can't reach to fix.

[She smiles with soft fondness.]

And then there's my friend, Data. He's... like us, in a lot of ways, but different too.
supersweet: (Superman is the most vulnerable)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-06 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ He sits on the stool politely, even as his interest is evident. ]

How is he different? Is he made of data? Does he have an arm cannon?
dancingmd: (don't make fun of your mother)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-06 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her lips twist in amusement.]

He doesn't have an arm cannon no. But he's an android so that means he was built out of metal and circuits and wires and his brain is like a really powerful computer. So even though he looks and talks like a human, his body is different that yours or mine. He doesn't get sick or grow old or need to eat.
supersweet: (I'm the mightiest being on Earth)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-06 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Huh. ]

Doesn't that get lonely though? When you have to be around people who can sleep, eat and get sick?
dancingmd: (sad smile)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-07 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Sometimes, yes, I think so. There aren't many other people like him.
supersweet: (Superman didn't become Superman)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-07 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon tugs the cap over his face. He knows that feeling. There's no one like him after all. ]

That's super hard. Even for robots.
dancingmd: (ouch)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-08 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[Maybe especially for robots, considering many people don't even consider them to be people.]

He has us at least, his friends.
supersweet: (Only lack the light to show the way)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-08 12:50 am (UTC)(link)
It's not always the same though.

[ Some experiences will come across, but they won't be shared ones. Not always. ]
dancingmd: (sad smile)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-09 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her expression softens. They're not talking just about Data anymore, are they?]

No, I know it's not, but I always try to be the best friend I can be, even if we're different.
supersweet: (The richness of our lives)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-10 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ He brightens quickly. ]

Yeah. It's important to make friends where you can!
dancingmd: (smile)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-10 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
Then I hope we can be good friends!
supersweet: (Every man can be a Superman)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-10 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
Me too! I've made way more friends here than my whole life.

[ Jon no, that's sad. ]
dancingmd: (chinhands)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-10 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Why don't you tell me about some of your friends here? There are still a lot of people I haven't met yet!
supersweet: (You needn't be afraid of me)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-11 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'll try . . .

[ Jon flicks through his fingers. ]

There's Ellie, who is kind of my dad's friend first. And Taako who was my room mate, ish? Then there's Mr. Grayson. He's a cop in Riverview.
dancingmd: (head tilt)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-12 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Is your dad here too?
supersweet: (Not one of you would raise a hand)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-12 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Kind of. He's from an alternate universe. My dad but not really my dad.
dancingmd: (ouch)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-12 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[The mention of an alternate version of his father barely fazes her at all - while she hasn't had to deal with that on a personal level,nit does happen to people.]

That must be hard sometimes.
supersweet: (The pride of your special heritage)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-13 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
It's probably harder for him than me.

[ Jon's too experienced for that sort of thing to really be bothered by it. ]
dancingmd: (concerned)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-13 12:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[She considers this, wondering what she'd feel like if she met a Wesley who was hers and not hers at the same time, though it's hard to say if this ache she feels comes from that thought or from simply thinking about him at all. Right now, she'd just be happy to see him.]

Maybe just hard in a different way.
supersweet: (Clark Kent is Superman's critique)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-13 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Probably.

[ He hasn't talked to his father about it. It'd be awkward. ]
dancingmd: (rueful smile)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-14 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
[If she knew him better she would probably poke more at that but as it is, she'll leave it for now.]

I'm sorry that you're in that position, but I am glad you're making friends.

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