introductory mingle: PRIJATA

[riverviewmod]

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
	« ✘ ✔ »

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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

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

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Comments

[ ii ]

[supersweet]

[ Jon leans away because . . . that's weird bro. ]

Yeah, but we're all new to this dimension except for the Riverview people who keep the portal. This is my third dimension.

[ Jon pauses, scrunching up his face. ]

Or fourth. I don't know.

[axefight]

[ ah, a kid. he's pretty sure he can handle kids, still. ]

You're right, new is relative. This is day two for me.

[ oh, but his eyebrows are climbing up his forehead now, interest piqued. ] Three-or-four is a lot. Especially for someone your age. [ he spreads his fingers out on the table, ] Tell me about those.

[supersweet]

[ Jon hesitates. Most people know his experience in dimensions and it's not like he's broken the promise. He doesn't have to act that normal. ]

Uhmm. My original dimension collapsed a long time ago. We moved to a similar one. And there was one with dinosaurs?

[axefight]

[ the hell is 'normal' anyway, honestly. ]

Oh. [ he tilts his head at jon curiously, expression sobering. an entire dimension collapsing is an unthinkable tragedy, but we're evidently not here to dwell. ]

Who is we?

[supersweet]

[ Jon blinks. ]

Me and my parents. Who else?

[axefight]

Couldn't know, that's why I asked.

You've still got your parents, that's good. [ partially because he'd quite like ot speak to them. ] So you and your dimension-hopping parents have been bopped about the metaverse a bit, and then you end up here... with them?

[supersweet]

[ Jon shakes his head. ]

My real parents are back home. My dad's here, but he's a younger version, from a different world.

[axefight]

...Always awkward.

[ he knows. ]

How's this reality rate? Haven't seen any dinosaurs here, yet.

[supersweet]

[ Jon isn't sure how you would "rate" a reality. He fiddles with his glasses instead. ]

Everyone's nice so. It's a little better than dinosaurs.

[axefight]

[ just like that, really. ]

That's a shame, I'm quite fond of dinosaurs. Got swallowed by one once.

[ ah, the good ol' days. ]

...But yes, you should stay out of trouble. Generally, avoid large carnivores.

[supersweet]

How did you get out?

[ After all, the man looks old. And nowhere as strong as his dad. ]

And everyone knows that.

[axefight]

[ jon's very much correct on both accounts. ]

She, er-- [ he makes a sort of bursting gesture, from his face ] spat me back out. Lucky break.

[supersweet]

[ Jon's eyes narrow. That's not the whole story and Jon's smart enough to realize that. ]

Dinosaurs don't usually just spit people back up.

[axefight]

[ clever kid. ]

Not under normal circumstances. I happened to be in my time machine, at the time. [ he draws a rectangle in the air, helpfully. ]

[supersweet]

You have a time machine?! What can it do? Where can it go? Can you go to the future?

[axefight]

[ THAT'S THE CORRECT RESPONSE. he flashes him a genuine grin. ]

I have the best time machine. It can go anywhere in time and space. [ spreads his hands expansively, ] Any planet, any day, free of charge.

[supersweet]

Wow! Did it come with you? Are you hiding it somewhere? Is it invisible?

[axefight]

...Er, no.

[ that part kind of sucks. ]

No sign of her... so far.

Do let me know if you ever happen to spot a large, blue box around here. She's known to run late.

[supersweet]

Awww.

[ Wait. Jon looks at him. ]

It's a . . . box?

[axefight]

Erm, yeah. A large one. Blue.

Is that strange?

[supersweet]

A little. I've never heard of a spaceship shaped like a box before.

[ And he's an alien too. ]

[axefight]

It's more convenient. How many ordinary spaceships are able to fit in a closet, hm?

[supersweet]

Why would you keep one in a closet? That seems like a waste of a space ship. I mean, wouldn't you keep closets inside a space ship instead?

[axefight]

Good hiding place for a spaceship. Nobody ever looks for them there.

[ he seems to think this makes perfect and complete sense. ]

Oh... it's full of closets, too. It's bigger.

On the inside.

[supersweet]

[ He blinks. ]

So it's like a pocket dimensional ship?