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riverviewlogs2017-04-01 07:02 pm
- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
- degrassi: lola pacini,
- marvel (616): billy kaplan,
- marvel (616): bucky barnes,
- marvel (616): loki laufeyson,
- marvel (616): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): bucky barnes,
- marvel (mcu): natasha romanoff,
- marvel (mcu): sam wilson,
- marvel (mcu): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): wanda maximoff,
- original: shigeru miyata,
- star trek (aos): james kirk,
- the adventure zone: taako taaco,
- ✖ black sails: james flint,
- ✖ captive prince: damen,
- ✖ captive prince: laurent,
- ✖ chb chronicles: nico di angelo,
- ✖ dark souls: sieglinde of catarina,
- ✖ dc comics (dcnu): jason todd,
- ✖ dc comics (preboot): dick grayson,
- ✖ dc comics (rebirth): jonathan kent,
- ✖ dceu: clark kent,
- ✖ dceu: lois lane,
- ✖ dctv (flash): caitlin snow,
- ✖ dctv (flash): cisco ramon,
- ✖ dctv (flash): eddie thawne,
- ✖ district 9: wikus van der merwe,
- ✖ ensemble stars!: eichi tenshouin,
- ✖ ergo proxy: re-l mayer,
- ✖ ffxv: gladiolus amicitia,
- ✖ kingdom hearts: terra,
- ✖ mage: the ascension: morgan knight,
- ✖ magic the gathering: chandra nalaar,
- ✖ marvel (616): stephen strange,
- ✖ marvel (616): tony stark,
- ✖ marvel (mcu): margaret 'peggy' carter,
- ✖ marvel (ultimates): tony stark,
- ✖ naruto: sasuke uchiha,
- ✖ naruto: suigetsu houzuki,
- ✖ nier (automata): 2b,
- ✖ night in the woods: mae borowski,
- ✖ original: bryn zethir,
- ✖ original: jamie dodger,
- ✖ original: letha regis,
- ✖ original: líadan ní donnabháin,
- ✖ original: shai ebbisaryn,
- ✖ original: tolemi pagoda,
- ✖ original: william holt,
- ✖ overwatch: genji shimada,
- ✖ overwatch: hanzo shimada,
- ✖ overwatch: jesse mccree,
- ✖ overwatch: reaper,
- ✖ pokemon (xy/xyz): augustine sycamore,
- ✖ prison break: michael scofield,
- ✖ red vs blue: agent carolina,
- ✖ shadowhunter chronicles: clary fray,
- ✖ star trek (aos): leonard mccoy,
- ✖ the last of us: ellie,
- ✖ the man from uncle: illya kuryakin,
- ✖ the order of the stick: roy greenhilt,
- ✖ the originals: marcel gerard,
- ✖ the raven cycle: ronan lynch,
- ✖ tokyo ghoul: ken kaneki,
- ✖ undertale: sans,
- ✖ vampire: the masquerade: fatima merali,
- ✖ vikings: ivar ragnarsson,
- ✖ voltron: lance,
- ✖ yuri on ice: otabek altin,
- ✖ yuri on ice: victor nikivorov,
- ✖ yuri on ice: yuri plisetsky,
- ✖ yuri on ice: yuuri katsuki
introductory mingle: FLOWER FESTIVAL
what: Introductory Log and Flower Festival Celebration
when: April 2nd - April 15th
where: In several different locations in the downtown area of the Inhabited City.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines
In the days leading up to April 2nd, residents new and old may notice advertising around the city, everywhere from digital screens to paper flyers pasted on blank walls, all advertising an upcoming holiday: The Flower Festival. Celebrating springtime, beauty, joy, and togetherness, the festival heavily features floral themes and dancing. The advertising mentions that on April 10th, a paid holiday, there will be a Blossom Picnic, as well as lists of various public dances at clubs or other open venues, and adult raves.
The Flower Festival's main event is the Blossom Picnic on April 10th, but it also features traditions of sharing food and drink, and dancing that span over the course of the whole two weeks. There are a large variety of events going on throughout the city, from dancing lessons in any wide variety of traditional dances, to old-fashioned sock hops, to adult raves complete with mild party drugs. Feel free to use the prompts below or create your own event at any point during the festival, and if your character creates an event and hosts it in a top-level, you can submit that thread for extra bonus points.
i. blossom picnic
The main event that kicks off the second week of the Flower Festival is the Blossom Picnic on April 10th. A relaxed and low-key event, it draws several thousand people every year to the spacious Riverview Central Park, where there is a generous lawn lined with various blossoming trees, and families, found families, lovers, and groups of friends are encouraged to lay out a picnic blanket and share food. There will be live bands playing (but not loudly enough to distract from conversation and peacefully watching the petals flutter in the wind), a variety of demonstrations of traditional cultural dances from many different realities and planets, and a ton of ice cream vendors. This is an excellent festival not only for celebrating togetherness with the people who are already important, but for mingling and making new friends.
Characters may either pack their own lunches or they can purchase pre-packed Blossom Festival lunches. Stores and street markets are carrying a wide variety of specialty food that is only available at this time of year - predominantly pastries, an assortment of types of candies, and ice cream treats all in various floral flavors, as well as a sort of ambrosia salad based around a sweet rose-flavored cream and a native fruit that is bright green and tastes like a combination of peach and citrus.
ii. dancing lessons
Starting on April 2nd, there will be dancing lessons offered almost everywhere you look! From partner dances to group dances to line dances; sexy and sensual or innocent and childlike - almost any type of dance you can imagine is represented, from any reality or planet that has people in Riverview Quarantine.
Additionally, the Riverview Central Community Center has multiple rooms blocked off so anyone who knows a dance from home can teach it to others in their community - sharing is caring, after all. Characters are welcome to block off one of these rooms and offer lessons in any dance they happen to know from home (and these sorts of thread starters would be eligible for the mingle AC Point bonus)!
iii. flower festival dancing
This is pretty simply what it says on the tin - in almost every club, community center, or other public space, there will be dancing at almost all hours of the day or night, formal and informal. Musicians bring out their instruments and play in the street for demonstrations of cultural dances and music at the same time as clubs are offering VIP cover charges for exclusive dances, and you can find anything in between.
There are also many low-cover-charge raves that allow under-18s so younger characters can stay up all night and dance like crazy. The legal drinking age in Riverview Quarantine is 14, and so anyone over 14 can enter and indulge in a few drinks, dancing, and playing tag with a non-intoxicating version of the colored powder featured at the adult raves. There is copious amounts of security on site to ensure that everyone is safe, as well as nurses and off-duty police officers to offer advice or care for anyone who overindulges out of lack of experience.
Grab a partner, a group of friends, or just cruise and mingle the various dancing events.
Characters may also notice that most of the street markets and clothing shops are offering clothing that features floral patterns, flowers as accessories, and that show a lot of skin - for men, women, and anyone in between!
iv. adult raves
Advertised on flyers and digital screens around the city, made to pop as if they were under blacklight, is a series of adult raves that are happening in various large empty warehouse spaces around the city, including one that is listed as the danger rave and hosted in an abandoned factory outside the inhabited city walls. With bouncers at the door to ensure that anyone entering is 18+, the raves are comfortably adult in nature. Clothing is optional, showing skin is encouraged, and there are a lot of neatly tucked away spaces for attendees to get some time alone with one or more than one person, as well as spaces intended for orgies. The atmosphere is sex-positive and non-judgemental, open to any orientation or preference, with various forms of protection available for free, however, to ensure that everyone plays safe there are sober security teams out en masse at all premises to oversee the events.
(CW: DRUG USE) In each location, there is one specific room where attendees can enter, and dance or play tag with brightly colored powder that contains small amounts of a legal party drug commonly available in Riverview, which is absorbed through the skin. Not much more intoxicating than having a few beers, the effects of the drug are a pleasant low-key buzzing euphoria, positive sensitivity to touch, a heightening of desires for intimacy, and a mild lowering of inhibitions. Once a character has been hit with the powder, the color lingers on the skin so other attendees can know who has partaken, but once the powder makes contact with a surface it deactivates, meaning that partakers can safely dance with non-partakers without sharing the intoxicating effects.
Please be sure to warn in subject lines for any threads involving drug use. And remember, there is always security to intervene and make sure everyone is safe.
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 at the Flower Festival, feel free to write it up!
Credit: third image by Steve Goad; other images found on uncredited on Pinterest or Google images - please let the mod know if you find credit!
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He's surprised by the stranger that approaches him, dressed in sturdy armor and armed like a knight.]
I'm Steve Rogers. [He confirms that with a curious look.]
You're here for training?
[Most of the trainees he has had so far have been new to the idea of self-defense. Sieglinde is the most prepared looking newcomer he's had approach him.]
All right. Come to the training ground with me. I want to see what you can do.
[She brought her own equipment, which is certainly promising. Steve himself doesn't look armed at all. Dressed in a navy body suit, the only metal on him is a small cuff strapped to his right wrist.]
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[This 'training' thing is more of a formality than anything, as far as Sieglinde is concerned. While she respects the others who are willing to put their lives at risk to protect this city... she's fairly certain that they aren't going to give her any new revelations about combat during their two week course.
Of course, she isn't opposed to the training regiments themselves - if she can't jump right into the job itself, at the very least this will keep her sharp. Which is why she follows Steve without any objection - carefully eyeing him up as she does so.]
Are we going to spar, then? Or would you have me run another obstacle course like Captain Apple?
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So the suggestion Sieglinde makes is completely fair in his eyes.]
I'd like a good sparring match if you're up for it. It's a good way to get to know new people.
[Yes, sparring is how he gets to know people. That probably explains why he is so cheerful about seeing a new very armed person around.]
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Ah, lovely! I was beginning to worried my skills with a sword would go unused while I wait the portal home.
[The excitement is palpable in her voice, as she continues to follow behind Steve.]
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He takes her to the outdoor training field where they have plenty of open room. When they get there, he turns to her just as he is, unconcerned that she is more armed than he is.]
Well, we can't let you get rusty.
[He grins, showing the comment is just playful and meant as harmless fun.]
I hope you don't mind me being your partner.
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The sword itself is large - a bastard sword, intended to be carried in two hands, although she carries it in only one. Her shield, in contrast, is fairly small - meant more for parrying than taking the full brunt of an attack. And in the center of the shield, there's a large metal spike.]
I don't mind at all! But, er, is there anywhere I might be able to grab a practice sword? My own is quite sharp, and I feel as though Captain Apple would be cross with me if I injured you with it.
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If you damage me, I'll have earned it. We can start slow. I don't mind.
[If anything, Steve seems to look forward to the session. It's difficult to find the right level of challenge when he's used to bigger threats and worries about monsters. Sparring is something he needs to keep alert.]
I'll be careful?
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[Her stance shifts into a more guarded position, as she locks her eyes onto Steve from behind her visor.
There's a pause, as she takes a moment longer to eye him up, before she takes two swift steps forward, thrusting her spiked shield toward him. A simple move, easy enough to avoid, intended to test his reflexes without opening herself up to a significant counterattack.]
Have at thee!
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Steve waits as Sieglinde sizes him up, and as she moves in, thrusting the shield toward him, he dodges to the side. He doesn't move back, keeping close to her range despite the danger, and reaches out to hit the armor covering one of her arms with his fist. The impact makes a harmless noise as it impacts, but it's still a solid blow for a man that isn't armed yet. It's just a tag, with Steve starting easy just like she is, and proving he can at least keep up with her.]
What did you do before you got here?
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As soon as his fist makes contact with her shield arm, her other arm swings her sword to her left, hefting the flat of her blade at the man as she pivots her body to face him more directly.]
I was on a quest to find my father.
[She answers, making sure to keep her front facing him. Her back is as heavily armored as the rest of her, but every warrior knows better than to let an opponent get behind them.]
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Was your father the one that trained you?
[Sieglinde turns toward him, not giving Steve an opening to catch her side or back, and he squares off in front of her, looking for another method of approach. He measures his odds, then lowers his stance and raises his arm again, this time deploying a round energy shield in front of him. He keeps his eyes fixed on Sieglinde's helmet, preparing to challenge her shield against his, it seems.
Steve rushes forward, shield up, and charges. Once he reaches her, though, he drops down, aiming a sweeping kick to her legs instead of coming at her head on. He rolls back to his feet, returning to the ready stance for another try.]
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[ There were others she trained with as she studies to become a knight, of course, but her father was by far the most influential for her.
Steve won't be able to see it, but her eyebrows shoot upward within that helmet as Steve deploys his shield. ]
...he also taught me that if I have a shield, it's best to use it before I get hit.
[And then she falls for the feint, raising her shield to clash with his own - and realizing a moment too late that her opponent was opting to go for her legs instead.
She stumbles backward, but manages to catch herself by jamming her sword into the ground, and preventing her from falling all the way onto her back. She rights herself and her footing as quickly as she can, flustered by the fact that she was caught off-guard. ]
....and who trained you?
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I'm still up. I'm ready to use it now.
[And as he says that, Steve lunges toward her, fighting with the shield by using it to hit her armor. He aims an edge strike at her torso, jumping right into action now that they have started.]
I've had a lot of personal trainers. Learned a lot of what I know from the people I've worked with over the years, but I started after I was enlisted in the army.
[Not a close, familial inspiration like she had.]