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introductory mingle: carnivale

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: Introductory Log and Carnivale Celebration
when: July 1st - July 9th
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

carnivale

In the days leading up to July 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: Carnivale. This holiday is in celebration of music, and the onset of summer and warmer weather. The celebrations are marked by street parties, an extensive program of live musical performances, with a large parade (and paid holiday!) capping it off on July 8th.

celebrating music, and summer

After a couple of months of low-key or even solemn celebrations, it's time for Riverview Quarantine to throw a good, old-fashioned party. Carnivale is a city-wide festival that pretty much everyone gets into, and many residents take the entire week off so they can enjoy all the festivities. With events ranging from impromptu street parties, free live musical performances, food stands, themed club nights, adult lounges with kink shows, and topped off with a massive party parade, the holiday has a lot to offer for anyone who likes to sing, dance, and show some skin!

i. street parties and food

One of the staples of the Carnivale festival is the spontaneous street parties and food trucks and carts. It's not unusual during the holiday to turn a corner and run into a group of people dressed in bright colors and sequins having an impromptu party with a few drinks, and then be invited to join right in! Carnivale is a celebration of music as well as summer, so most shops and stalls will be blasting danceable music into the streets to facilitate these little street parties - it's considered a sign of good luck for the owner of a business if an impromptu Carnivale celebration starts up in front of their door.

Considering the proliferation of street parties and people out and about to celebrate the warmer weather, local business owners also take to the streets. Food carts, stands, and trucks pop up on almost every street corner offering a wide variety of food from savory treats to sweet desserts. Many of the carts are offering one free item to anyone dressed up for Carnivale - anything shimmery, shiny, or brightly colored will do!

ii. live musical performances

One of the major roads in the city center has been completely roped off for the entire week, and all along this street, various temporary stages have been set up, each with a nice hefty sound system. Volunteers hand out printed flyers, and digital boards are set up here and there with schedules of various performances that are all free to attend, ranging from well-known popular music artists to new up-and-comers or independent artists who are looking to make a name for themselves. This event is very widely advertised around the city, and is accepting entries until the very last minute.

At couple of the acts might be familiar faces to some of the residents.

Eichi Tenshouin has signed up himself and his friend Tsumugi Aoba into the music festival as a first-time appearing idol unit called "Higanbana." Dressed in all white with splashes of color (blue, largely, with only their headsets being a red spider lily), they carry a very commanding and angelic image together. They'll have a routine that emphasizes their great harmony with each other, taking turns doing solo lines and joining together to show off each of their talents. Singing and dancing, they interact heavily with the audience and will encourage a lot of involvement with speaking between songs and gestures, winks, and so on. Basically, they intend to make this Riverview's very first prominent "idol performance".

For his performance, Otabek Altin will start with rock remixes of a few popular pop songs. He wants to make sure that it starts off with recognizable pieces for some people, and he certainly thinks it is something that could get people excited even if they don't know it. Then, it shifts into a few original songs. They are upbeat, rock songs that he put together with the intention to make people dance and move, since he is a DJ. He'll end his set with a slower piece he put together that is also an original. Through the entire performance, he's focused and quiet, though he may occasionally try and excite the crowd with a few words.

Any other player-characters who are musically inclined are more than welcome to assume their character was fit in for a performance, and can post up a top-level with a rundown of their performance to get bonus Activity Points for posting a mingle!

iii. carnivale parade

The other main attraction of Carnivale week comes on July 8th, which is a paid holiday for everyone in the city. The Carnivale Parade will be starting out by City Hall and winding through downtown in a lazy pattern so everyone in the city has a chance to see it. There will be all sorts of floats, dancers, marching bands, with all sorts of clubs, businesses, and other organizations represented. The theme is theatrical, big and showy, bright and colorful, sparkly and shiny, with loud music and lots of glitz and glamour. Observers can expect great music, excellent dancing and marching shows, neat vehicles provided by classic car clubs, the fire, police, and Perimeter Guard. They can also expect a lot of party favors, whether it's a sparkly plastic beaded necklace, a fan to take the edge off the heat, candy, popsicles, a temporary tattoo, or any number of other little treats or toys to be tossed into the crowd - some of them fit for kids and teens, others of a more 'adult' nature handed out a bit more discreetly to anyone who looks the part.

And make sure you wear your waterproof mascara - Carnivale floats have a tendency of spraying or spritzing water, both in an unspoken competition to see who can make the biggest water-refraction rainbow in the air, and to keep observers cool in the new summer heat.

iv. adult: lounges and kink exhibition

Thanks to the Carnivale tradition of showing as much skin as possible, some event organizers' minds have turned to topics of a more adult nature. In the evenings, residents may see clubs doing "lounge nights"; these adults-only events have bouncers IDing everyone at the door to ensure they're 18+. The themes may vary, from very specific niche themes like 'golden age superheroes' to broad themes like 'rainbows,' and each event is clearly marked as what it is - all-nude or clothing-optional, and can host events ranging from amateur to professional exotic dancing, food served off of nude bodies, anonymous masked hookups, or just provide a comfortable space where casual sex is encouraged with whoever happens to be around. Various legal substances can be found at these lounges, but nothing that would cause violation of consent, and every substance would be clearly labeled and have warnings to ensure that no one partakes unless they choose to. Please be sure to warn in the subject line for sexual content or drug use (since some mild party drugs are legal in Riverview).

For the weekend from July 7th-9th, there will be a kink exhibition in one of the large exhibition centers downtown, limited to characters 18+. The exhibition is a sexy adult informational convention featuring various kinks and fetishes. Whether you're into leather, latex, lace, or anything else, you'll be able to find the clothes, toys, guides, books, erotica, fiction, and a wide variety of other interesting stuff to explore. While the atmosphere is sex-positive and there are private and public (for the voyeurs and exhibitionists in the room) venues for having sex, it's definitely focused on exploration and information about different stuff to try.

v. roommates or wildcard

Feel free to use this prompt to meet new roommates, for the purpose of getting to know each other, or hit up one of the mod-posted prompts for each Communal Floor. Or if you have an idea for a prompt that isn't in this list, set during Carnivale, feel free to write it up!

visual inspiration

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Credit: image i: Roger Patterson Jr.; image ii: Syd Mead; image iii: screencap from the movie Paprika; image iv: siamon89

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It can if you're high enough and don't care about the morning after.

[Hello stranger alien man, have a shirtless and possibly drunk human who is just sort of ghosting around the exhibitions. Garrus seems to have caught his attention... probably because Dodger likes to consider himself exotic and experimental, and if some great hulking alien with mandibles is wandering around in a sex-positive area he considers that fair game.]

Want a live example?

Yeah, or drunk enough I-

[Then he loses his mental footing. There are so many ways that he could take that, but obviously his brain goes straight to a proposition rather than demonstration. As in, watching. It's clear that Garrus is flustered too, from the way that he suddenly shifts around.

Maybe Turians in general aren't really all that embarrassed by sex, but this one kind of is. Or, rather, he's not really all that smooth.]

Er... [Cue looking ANYWHERE but the guy in front of him.] I... Do you really think you could?

[Dodger is just encouraged by the flustered expression. It's a real shame he hasn't seen this man around before, because just watching his face move is fascinating.]

I can do anything if I've got the right incentive. [His gaze sweeps over the Turian's body pointedly.] And you look like good incentive.

[If it suddenly smells very strongly of whiskey and cigarette smoke in here, it's probably because Dodger is standing very close now and giving Garrus a lazy, bedroom-eyed smirk.]

[Yup. Garrus can sure smell the smoke and booze on this human guy. The guy that has no real understanding of personal space. Now why couldn't he have this sort of attention back home.

Then again, he'd still be in this situation. That is, back pedaling.]

Oh that's something you might regret in the morning.

[Because allergies. Of course.]

[His brows raise sarcastically at that, and Garrus even gets a little chuckle out of him.]

Seriously? I'm looking at a seven foot alien with mandibles and you think you need to warn me what I'm getting myself into.

[And for every step Garrus takes backward, Dodger is just taking one forward. He's really only succeeded in keeping Dodger's interest, exciting his curiosity for what he could possibly get out of this.]

[A terrible, terrible rash. Possibly death. Those are two possibilities. Of course the rash and chafing is a certainty. That is, if Garrus had been entertaining those thoughts. Which he isn't.]

You're looking at a seven foot tall Turian. Who thinks you might be a little too far gone one way or another.

[Really, can we stop the whole cornering game? First time he'sbeen hit on by a human though. ~~Of course he doesn't realize that doctor has it in for him too.~~]

Just how much have you been drinking anyway?

Enough to loosen the joints.

[Translation: Probably his body weight in whiskey. But, functioning alcoholic that he is,
he holds it pretty well. At the very least he seems lucid and isn't stumbling too
badly.]

Fine, let's take a step back. What's your name, Mr. Turian?

The lips too, apparently.

[And maybe other things. But Garrus is a wee bit too polite to say that ~~or maybe even think it~~.

The thing is, while in the back of his mind Garrus realizes this guy is keeping it together really well, his primary concern is trying to keep the nervous, flustered tone out of his subvocals. Over all, he isn't really succeeding.]

Vakarian. Garrus Vakarian.

[Nothing can come of just sharing names, right?]

Dodger.

[Little does Garrus know, giving Dodger any information at all is a dangerous move. Even if he's drunk, he's still a sponge for useful knowledge and he makes a note to ask around about the Turian. Once he's done... well, we could call it embarrassing himself, but is it really embarrassing yourself if you feel no shame?]

So tell me, Vakarian, you ever slept with a human before?

[~~Er no idea?~~ Unfortunately, Garrus is unable to respond to that one. Dodger is pretty forward for asking. Normally the Turian would be able to answer that straight away ~~but there's no Shepard here to get a straight answer from~~ but right now? Totally tripping over his words. And intense staring. Rather, it always sort of looks intense with Turian eyes, doesn't it?]

[His eyes narrow slightly, and he lets out a small chuckle. He'd expected a huge hulking alien like this to have some spunk, it's kind of endearing to know he's getting all flustered and shocked by a simple proposition.]

Here, lemme rephrase that - do you want to? [And he's on his tiptoes to lean up, pretty much inches from Garrus's muzzle.] You can just nod if the cat's got your tongue.

[Look, Garrus will say it over and over again until his mandibles fall off: he is a really bad example of his race. Of course there are probably others that get all flustered like he is, but few are likely to show it.]

Uh... I never really gave it much thought.

[Which is the truth, honestly.]

Humans are just so... [What's the word... ] Squishy.

[Squishy? That gets another quiet laugh out of him. And since he hasn't been pushed away let, he bounces up a bit to press a small kiss to Garrus's lips. Well, Turians sure do have rougher skin than humans... he's definitely got Dodger's interest, and that's written all over his face.]

Maybe you're hanging around the wrong humans... [His hands slip around Garrus's neck, absolutely all subtlety going out the window now.] Have a feel, if you want - I'm plenty tough.

[Partly because he isn't strictly human - his super strength has the side effect of making his muscles as hard as rocks, below that outer layer of soft skin.]

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WHOOPS this is late sorry

also really late 8(