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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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carrotkeeper: <user name=livebites> (bird law is not governed by reason)

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[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-06 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh good, one of her favorite little buddies! She's glad he seems to have gotten his own gift and is having such a fun time with it.]

Better hold onto it! It might fly all the way to another moon.
supersweet: (And the wrong one to condemn)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-06 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jon grins. ]

He can do that, y'know.

[ Jon's father has taken him to the moon. ]
carrotkeeper: <user name=livebites> (and get a nice smoky smell)

[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-07 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[She has faith in his imaginary toy travels.]

Oh yeah? Sounds like an incredible toy to me. Can it go farther than that?
supersweet: (A right and a wrong in this universe)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-07 09:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ He sticks his tongue out, but is still amused. ]

Not the toy, silly. Superman! He can go anywhere!
carrotkeeper: <user name=livebites> (and fire off into job land)

[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-08 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
Superman?

[It's not the toy, so she can only assume it's who or what the toy is based off of. What an active imagination. ]

Sounds like an incredible guy! Is he on a TV show?
supersweet: (The richness of our lives)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-08 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
No, he's a superhero! A real person. Like you and me!
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[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-09 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
From your world, right? Wow, that's a great superhero. Wish ours had one that could fly to the moon.

[It's crazy to imagine someone being able to fly in space from her perspective, but different worlds have people with different abilities. Maybe he uses a spacecraft to do it? Who knows.]
supersweet: (Superman took to the skies)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-09 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon twirls the Superman in the air a few more times. ]

Do you have any superheroes in your world? A lot of worlds here have them.
carrotkeeper: <user name=livebites> (why don't I strap on my job helmet)

[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-11 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[She pauses. There were movies with heroes whose names she couldn't recall and astrals that were their gods. She doesn't know if it's right to call them superheroes or not. That might offend them.

Then it hits her. She smiles brightly and looks excited.
]

Oh, we have the Justice Monsters Five! They're great. They fight evil monsters and if you win, you get prizes.

[But. Whoops.]

They're not real, but they're the closet thing we have to superheroes.
supersweet: (Never choose their path for them)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-12 12:17 am (UTC)(link)
Is that like a video game?

[ It . . . sounds like one anyway. ]

We have real superheroes. Like the Justice League. They protect the world from all kinds of stuff. Monsters, aliens, robots . . . .
carrotkeeper: <user name=livebites> (i'm cultivating mass)

[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-12 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's an arcade game! Wish you could play it. It's so much fun.

[Nothing says fun like a pinball-esque game in a fantasy world.]

Whoa, they sound like they'd have a lot of work to do. Is the Justice League a whole army of Supermans?

[She's just imagining like 200 carbon copies of his doll, flying to moons and saving the world.]
supersweet: (Superman took to the skies)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-13 05:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon giggles. ]

No way. There's all kinds of heroes. We have sea-kings and cyborgs and green lanterns. They're all different people who come from different places and times, but they all want to protect the world. So they have a spaceship where they can see everything and help out quickly.
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[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-15 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Now that just sounds awesome. She's so jealous. If her world had the justice league and the astrals, niflheim wouldn't have stood a chance from day one.]

Wow! I wish I could meet them, have you? Or do they stay in the ship?
supersweet: (Will give them strength)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-16 12:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon has but he isn't allowed to mention it. ]

Not me, but my dad has since he's a journalist.
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[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-16 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oh wow! Bet you've heard some great stories about them. That's gotta be exciting for your dad.
supersweet: (The richness of our lives)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-16 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ He beams. Jon's hero-worship of his father knows no bounds. ]

Yeah, he tells me about all of them. It's pretty great. I'm really lucky.
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[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-16 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Who's your favorite? Sounds like there's a lot to choose from.

[Although she feels like the action figure gives away that answer, but she's still curious. ]
supersweet: (Every man can be a Superman)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-16 07:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon's answer comes easily. ]/small>

Superman! He's the strongest one. He can fly and shoot lasers from his eyes and all kinds of stuff! Plus, he always tries to look out for everyone.
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[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-18 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
From his eyes? That sounds so cool! No one would want to mess with a guy like that.

[Superman sounds awesome. She wants see the other heroes too, even the green lanterns which she's visualizing as literal green tinted lanterns saving the world. Sounds great.]

Can your toy shoot lasers?
supersweet: (He is a minority of one)

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[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-18 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon blinks, glancing at his toy. ]

Nah. It wouldn't be a toy if it could do that. It'd be like. A weapon.
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[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-18 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true. It'd be a little dangerous to sell them that way, but it would be cool if eyes lit up.
supersweet: (Superman is the most vulnerable)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-19 02:03 am (UTC)(link)
Mom always says the simple toys are the best ones.

[ Which is a cop-out because Jon would love a light-up toy. But he's not a picky or spoiled child. ]

Maybe they've made light-up ones back home.
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[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-20 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
If not, maybe you could make one someday. I know I would buy one.
supersweet: (Superman is the most vulnerable)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-21 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
I . . . could probably do it.

[ Jon isn't too bad at tinkering. ]

Maybe we can try that sometime. I can show you.
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[personal profile] carrotkeeper 2017-06-24 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
[She didn't realize he would already know how to do that kind of stuff and she's game to learn. Any kind of skill can be useful.]

Yeah, that would be great. I don't know anything about stuff like that. It would be nice to learn from a true professional.

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