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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

navigation

dancingmd: (smile)

speed-friending for seniors

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-05 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Loud engines aren't so much her thing, but books and bourbon Beverly can definitely get behind. She gestures towards the empty chair across the table from him.]

May I?
adiuvio: (Untitled2)

[personal profile] adiuvio 2017-06-05 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course.

[ He stands when Beverly approaches, as one does, and wastes no time in pulling out the chair for her. John Wick knows a lady when he sees one. ]

John. John Wick. Pleased to meet you.
dancingmd: (pen smile)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-06 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh! She is surprised by the gesture, but charmed nonetheless by it.]

Thank you!

[She takes her seat with a smile.]

Nice to meet you as well! [She waits for him to take his own seat before adding:] My name is Beverly Crusher and ah... I'm afraid I've never done anything like this before.
adiuvio: (john1)

[personal profile] adiuvio 2017-06-06 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
Me either. Guess that makes one thing we've got in common already.

[ John takes his seat across from her. He's wearing a suit for the occasion, charcoal and navy, if only to switch things up for the evening, which has a more formal atmosphere. The small bistro is dimly lit, a candle sitting on the table between them. There's a decent amount of space between their table and the couples to their right and left.

Beverly might notice the wedding ring on John's hand as he gestures towards her questionnaire, if she's the observant sort. Platinum. It matches his tie-bar and cufflinks. ]


May I?
dancingmd: (rueful smile)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-06 07:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Beverly's own dress is relatively plain, olive green in a modest yet fashionable cut - nothing to bring too much attention to herself. While she long ago stopped wearing her own wedding ring, she does note his and feels a small pang of sympathy. Wherever his spouse is, it seems unlikely they are with him here, given how the portal seems to work.

She nods and hands him the sheet of paper:

Name: Beverly Crusher.
Age: 45
Occupation: Doctor
Interests: Gardening, theater, robotics, and Mok'bara
]
adiuvio: (jo1)

[personal profile] adiuvio 2017-06-21 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[John's glad to have met someone in his age bracket, with a variety of interests he's more or less familiar with. As soon as he knows she's a doctor, he can see it. She has a certain calm about her. Poise. As people who have held both life and death in their hands often do.

His dark eyes flick up from the paper to her face. A doctor, and a beautiful woman. He's almost shy.]


Mok'bara?

[ooc: I am so sorry, I thought I responded to this!]
dancingmd: (rueful smile)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-21 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her smile is rueful.]

It's a type of martial art. I debated over whether to list that one or not, as I doubt most people here have ever heard of it but... you never know.

[ooc: no worries!]
adiuvio: (john1)

[personal profile] adiuvio 2017-06-21 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't, sorry. It sounds interesting, though. I practice a little bit of everything. Mixed Martial Arts.

[ John looks away to grab the attention of a passing waiter with a polite wave, turning back to Beverley as the waiter hurries to their table. ]

Excuse me, but would you like something to drink? I've been sitting here a few hours now, and water just isn't cutting it.
dancingmd: (i didn't know you danced)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-21 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[She starts to speak, her first impulse being to decline, but then she stops and reconsiders.]

Why not? [Looking up at the waiter:] I'll have the Merlot, please.
adiuvio: (jo4)

[personal profile] adiuvio 2017-07-03 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
And I'll have what she's having.

[John knows his limits, and would never drink enough to lose his tongue, or his legs, but a glass of wine sounds just about right for the occasion.

The waiter is quick to bring them a bottle, and pour them both a glass before disappearing. John twists the glass beneath his nose, inhaling deeply before taking an experimental sip.]


Not bad. Who knew there were decent vineyards on the moon?
dancingmd: (coffee and croissants)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-07-03 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[She raises her eyebrows in amusement before taking her own sip.]

You'd be surprised.
adiuvio: (pic#11130917)

[personal profile] adiuvio 2017-07-03 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
You been to many moons?

[He raises his own eyebrow. John hasn't, outside of the few sci-fi movies he's seen in his lifetime, but he wouldn't doubt she has. He doesn't doubt anything, anymore. He takes another drink, easing back into his chair.]

I've gone international, but never interstellar, if that's what you'd call that.
dancingmd: (now what)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-07-03 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm.

[Perhaps she shouldn't tell him anything but well... it's not as if he doesn't know interstellar travel - hell, interuniversal travel - exists at this point. Just being here is enough to make him aware of that. So. A little fudging of the Prime Directive shouldn't hurt.]

I was born on Luna, in fact. Earth's Moon.
adiuvio: (Untitled7)

[personal profile] adiuvio 2017-07-03 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't know our moon had a name.

[A pause, mulling it over.]

What's it like, Luna? From when I'm from, it's just a rock with a flag in it.
dancingmd: (grin)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-07-03 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, it would have been a bit Earth-centric just to call it "the moon," once we encountered other species.

She laughs.]


Now it's a rock with a bunch of domes on it. And the flag's still there. A historical monument.
adiuvio: (jo6)

[personal profile] adiuvio 2017-07-03 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
So it was real after all. The moon landing.

[He chuckles. The wine makes his mouth less dry, and his spine less stiff. He crosses one long leg over the other. Makes himself comfortable in a gentlemanly manner. Never infringing upon his present company's space.]

What about moon boots? Did they finally have their moment?
dancingmd: (head tilt)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-07-03 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Moon boots? You mean like gravity boots?