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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: (oookay)

ii.

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-09 12:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Beverly blinks at the man sitting across from her. Such intensity seems a little much, given the situation. And the doctor? What the hell is that supposed to mean? She nods in answer to his question but doesn't elaborate. Instead she asks her own question:]

Doctor of what?
axefight: and excreting it as harmless waste? (have you tried metabolizing the problem)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-10 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ he nods back, pointing at her. ]

Good question. Let's say, Late Gothic ethnomycology.
dancingmd: (*please*)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-10 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
[She gives him A Look.]

Really. How fascinating - ethnobotany happens to be a specialty of mine and yet somehow, I failed to learn about the influence of fungi on medieval architecture.

[She rests her chin on her hands, her smile completely incongruous with her skepticism.]

I'd love to hear more.
axefight: which is me being sectioned under the fucking mental health act (i'll give you the special signal)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-10 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ he remains completely 100% straight-faced, meanwhile. ]

That says everything about the state of modern education, doesn't it.

I teach a class at the local university here, you're welcome to drop in. It's an entirely different subject, mind, but all things are interconnected.
dancingmd: (grin)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-10 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[That earns him an amused grin. He's sticking to his guns, she will give him that.]

What's the class?
axefight: (i've come across a lot of psychos)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-10 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he settles back in his chair, lacing his fingers together. ]

Theories of time travel. Primarily.
dancingmd: (quirk)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-12 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
[She sighs with disappointment.]

I'd rather stay as far away from time travel as possible.
axefight: SEEKS NINTENDO SWITCH FRIENDS FOR KARTPLAY (DISEMBODIED VOICE FROM BEYOND TIME)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-13 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ HE'S TAKEN ABACK ]

Away? From time travel?

Did you just dismiss the whole of time? What, is space not to your taste, either?
dancingmd: (oh really)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-13 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs.]

Hardly. I've spent most of my life living on starships. But we have rules about time travel, rules which I am more than happy to follow. It's not a dismissal... it's... respect.

[That and an unfortunate encounter with a corset that rather taints her view of the treatment of women in the past.]
axefight: from the tutorial. (humanity has learned nothing)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-14 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Well - safe and respectful time travel's possible, once you know what you're doing. [ he's never managed it, mind you. but it's still technically doable, if you're not a maniac, probably. ] It's the difference between splashing about in a paddling pool and exploring the ocean.

But I suppose there lies the rub. Humans never do quite master it.
dancingmd: (listening)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-14 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm. I've met beings who can, however.

[She tilts her head.]

With varying results.
axefight: and excreting it as harmless waste? (have you tried metabolizing the problem)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-15 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
Oh?

[ makes a 'go on' gestures. ]
dancingmd: (head tilt)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-16 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you ever heard of the Q Continuum?
axefight: lies in not quite knowing. (the secret to life)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-16 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Never.

[ but he leans forward a bit, clearly interested. ]
dancingmd: (coffee and croissants)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-18 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
They're a non-corporeal species with the ability to manipulate time and space. I've only had the misfortune to run into one of them but one is more than enough.
axefight: (i'd rather have type 2 diabetes)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-20 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, yes. One of those types. The thing about non-corporeals is, you never know how many you've run into - best not to think about it.

Besides, wanton time manipulation's not the brand of time travel I discuss.
dancingmd: (quirk)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-20 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm thankful for that at least. I've had quite enough Robin Hood adventures for a lifetime.
axefight: SEEKS NINTENDO SWITCH FRIENDS FOR KARTPLAY (DISEMBODIED VOICE FROM BEYOND TIME)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-21 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ points at her. ]

What, you've met him, too?

[ god, that guy was annoying. ]
dancingmd: (*please*)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-21 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Well, not the real Robin Hood but Q thought it would be a good way to "test" us, by putting us in that setting as the Merry Men.
axefight: our planet, or if you want someone cute to kiss you. (RT if you want aliens to destroy)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-07-08 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, trust me - the real 'Merry Men' were a harrowing test of patience.

[ they weren't that bad, he was just especially grumpy that day. ]

I'd quite like to meet Q... but I don't suppose you could ring him up.
dancingmd: (offended)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-07-08 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
No.

[Her look turns to one of extreme displeasure.]

And even if I could, I wouldn't.