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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-08-01 06:54 pm
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introductory mingle: RIVER FESTIVAL

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: Introductory Log and River Festival
when: The month of August; the bulk of celebration will be in week 1, but there is a party and fireworks display on August 14th.
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

river festival


In the days leading up to August 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: The River Festival. This holiday is in celebration of the river and the life that it gives to the city, as well as the heat of summer and forming bonds with friends, family, and romantic partners. The celebrations are marked by a community-wide cleanup of the docks and beaches along the river - particularly important considering the recent acid rain - as well as beachfront cookouts and parties (both private and city sponsored) and beach sports tournaments happening on either open stretches of beach or in special clothing-optional beaches, all capped off with fireworks displays on the evenings of August 7th and 14th.

a celebration of the river and togetherness


Following the hedonism of Carnivale, it's time for something a little more low-key and relaxing. The River Festival happens every year in August, and is geared toward community building through cleaning up the beaches and docks along the river and then using all that freshly cleaned beach to gather on. During the first week of August, there are various lightly-themed government-sponsored beach cookouts and parties geared toward family, romantic dates, or casual all-ages get-togethers for meeting new friends; there are also a few more racy parties at clothing-optional beaches around the city. Many private residents also take this time to gather together friends and family, and have cookouts on the beach with all the typical trappings of the beach barbecue. There are also various casual sports tournaments sponsored by community centers, gyms, and sports teams in the city, featuring prizes ranging from notoriety to sports equipment to big bucks. Finally, there are two fireworks displays, one on August 7th and one on August 14th, with free food, and various live performers beforehand.


i. cleaning up


The holiday starts off on a note that is just a bit more sombre than the rest of the season, with the cleanup efforts following late July's strange fog and acid rain blending into the usual tradition of cleaning up beaches and docks along the river. The cleanup is a group effort, with every citizen who is physically able pitching in to comb the beaches, where they pick up fallen tree limbs, garbage, and anything else that's accumulated during the winter and spring, and then raking the beaches to make them clean and ready to use. The cleanup of the docks is similar, with residents sweeping and hosing them down where necessary. This year, there are a lot of repairs to be made to beachfront structures that might've been damaged by the acid rain, so if anyone has some carpentry or building skills, those would definitely come in handy.

This is meant to be a community building effort, so many businesses in the area, more well-to-do private citizens, and the government have pitched in funding to provide lunches, cold drinks, coffee or tea, and snacks to anyone who's helping out with the cleanup efforts. All in all, the cleanup has a very friendly, welcoming vibe.


ii. cookouts and parties


The main traditions of the River Festival involve cookouts and beach parties. On August 7th and August 14th, the government as well as various corporations and businesses in the city, will be providing funds for large beach gatherings. On these days, there will be booths set up offering wares and freebies from various businesses around the city that have helped fund the party, large swaths of cleared beach where residents can don a swimsuit and catch some rays or swim in the river, massive barbecue setups to provide partygoers with all the standard barbecue fare, beach sports tournaments, dancing and musical performances, and fireworks displays (see prompts below).

The holiday isn't just about these big parties, though - many residents arrange their own barbecues, cookouts, beach camping trips, beach bonfires, and other riverside gatherings and outings. Many riverfront businesses offer discounts on services such as canoe or kayak rentals to go out paddling on the river, jetski or motorboat rentals for tubing, wakeboarding, or waterskiing, or mounts to take romantic rides in the surf. Additionally, there is an adults-only section of the beach where any of these activities can be done in the nude in a clothing-optional setting, including the big city-sponsored parties.


iii. sportsball tournaments


Is your character good at playing a particular sport that could, conceivably, be played on a beach? Chances are that during the month of August, a tournament will be set up for them to participate in. The tournaments are pretty standard, generally sponsored by community centers, sports clubs and teams, gyms, and other organizations and businesses in the city, with various levels of specialization, and levels of skill or competitiveness. The prizes also vary, with everything from plain old bragging rights to sports equipment or passes to gyms and community centers, to large lump sums of cash money. Definitely worth it, for characters with a love for sport.

Oh, and a lot of these tournaments are happening on the adults-only clothing-optional beaches, for those grown-up sports fans who like a bit of an extra challenge.


iv. performances and fireworks


On August 7th and August 14th at the end of the large city-sponsored beach parties, there will be evening performances all along the beach. Not as extensive as the musical performances during Carnivale, there are two large-name performers per night, with various lesser-known groups performing at random off and on throughout the day and night. Areas of the beach are cleared for residents to watch and dance to the music, both on the regular and adults-only clothing-optional beaches (acts will switch off between the two areas so both areas get both performances).

Player-characters who are musical artists, DJs, or otherwise perform are free to set up shop around this party and panhandle or put on free performances for publicity.

After the sun goes down, boats will head out into the water carrying a variety of fireworks, and there will be a beautiful display of exploding color in the sky for residents to watch and enjoy. The fireworks are highly advanced, incorporating old-fashioned gunpowder as well as modern technology that result in really beautiful displays that can take the breath away!


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 the River Festival, feel free to write it up!



visual inspiration


click on thumbnails for larger view


Credit: image i: credit unknown; image ii: Albert Ramon Puig; image iii: Claudio Pilia; image iv: Alan Philips

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realists: (ro » apples)

a.

[personal profile] realists 2017-08-17 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ linda ♥

jyn sees the little girl dart away, sees her wander along the sand and meet various people, but jyn doesn't move toward her until she notices that laura is drifting toward the adults-only area of the beach. no one had stopped jyn because adult but she decides to cut the girl off before she gets close enough to notice all the nudity. ]


Hey.

[ she offers a pear like fruit, her second as evidenced by the other in her hand with a bit already taken out of it, gesturing toward the water with her chin. ] Do you think you'll go in?
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2017-08-18 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Linda tries so hard. Bless her.

Laura glances over at the ocean with some skepticism. Or perhaps grim uncertainty. She can't particularly swim, so the idea of leaping into something that could kill her isn't really something she's entertaining. She steps closer, but looks at the pear with a bit of suspicion. Stranger danger, and all that. Cuidado con los extraños, Gabriela told her. She has never forgotten the nurse's kindness or cautionary tales.

She shakes her head, though.]


Dangerous. Too big.
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[personal profile] realists 2017-08-19 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ when jyn sees the suspicious expression on the little girl's face, she draws the pear back, takes a bit out of it, and extends it to her again. it's not poisoned. ]

It's sweet.

[ she doesn't watch to see if the girl takes the pear, however, glancing out to the water and dipping her head in a little nod. ] It is big, [ she agrees conversationally. ] And dangerous. But you can learn how to avoid the dangers.
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2017-08-21 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Laura eyes her for a moment, as if waiting to make absolutely sure she ate it; when it seems like it's not some sort of trick, she takes a cautious but interested bite from the fruit. It's sweet, tastes very good. They wouldn't get a lot of fruits in Transgien; proteins were important, and carbs. Vitamins often covered most things. But they would get the occasional apple or orange. She chews thoughtfully, looking out to the water once more.]

Why do people get in it? If it's dangerous for them?
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[personal profile] realists 2017-08-23 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It's fun, I guess. Swimming is good exercise.

[ so she's heard. wrea was too cold to go swimming (plus jyn was afraid of the aquatic residents of the island planet) and lah'mu was so full of minerals that it practically wasn't even water. ]

You can learn to mitigate some of the dangers.
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2017-08-24 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Good exercise, huh?

She continues to look at it with a critical eye.]


Someone said you can't drink from it, either.

[WHAT A USELESS BODY OF WATER--]
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[personal profile] realists 2017-08-27 01:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Salt water, then. I lived in a place where we had to turn clean the water before we could drink it. I'm sure there is a way to clean this water, too, it would just take effort.

[ a beat ] And in that time you could just get a bottle of water.
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2017-08-28 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
They have those in hotels.

[... What. She's being helpful. In case you ever go hunting for bottled water.]

It costs many dollars, but if you don't listen anyway, it's free water.
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[personal profile] realists 2017-08-28 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ last time jyn was in a hotel it doubled as a casino and that ended badly for her, which isn't the point. ]

Anything is free if you're clever enough.

[ time for the fall of capitalism heyo ]
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2017-08-31 09:28 am (UTC)(link)
[She actually smiles around a mouthful of fruit at that, a bit impishly.

This little shit.]


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[personal profile] realists 2017-08-31 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ jyn catches the smile out of the corner of her eye and it looks so hilariously familiar. she's made that face before, she knows it, and a burst of pain flutters in her heart thinking that saw would like this tiny, cautious child hiding a little brat inside.

she shoves saw aside, she's not ready to deal with that grief yet. ]


Yeah, thought you might be.
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2017-09-03 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
[She shrugs, taking another enormous bite. It takes her a moment to be able to reply.]

Money is -- new.

It seems stupid.
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[personal profile] realists 2017-09-15 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
It is, [ jyn agrees with a nod. money is stupid. capitalism is stupid. even when she wasn't using a five finger discount, jyn mostly lived off a barter system. when she wasn't, she was scamming a casino and then she wound up in prison so.

you know.

down with capitalism.

imagine if she'd ever worked retail... ]
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2017-09-17 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
[She considers the answer with great weight and seriousness, as she does most things.]

Then why do people use it?
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[personal profile] realists 2017-09-17 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Society. [ she shrugs, it is just how it is. ]
shoplifter: All mine but feel free to use what ya need (just me kicking it with my alcoholic dad)

[personal profile] shoplifter 2017-09-19 10:11 am (UTC)(link)
[............................. well that's unhelpful, thank you, Jyn.]

What is 'society'?

[Did you want to be a teacher when you grew up??? Well here you are.]
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[personal profile] realists 2017-09-24 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh kriff ]

...It's people. People in a community. Like, all the people here are part of this society, even if we're new.
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2017-09-27 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
People in a community -- like Mexico, and the United States of America.

These are societies. And... Riverview is a society, yes?

[She's quick to catch on, don't worry. She'll have it down pat.]
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[personal profile] realists 2017-09-29 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, exactly.

[ not that she knows what mexico and the united states are, but she didn't know what riverview was before she got here so. oh well. different worlds. ]