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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-04-01 07:02 pm
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introductory mingle: FLOWER FESTIVAL

who: everyone in Riverview!
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

flower festival


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.

a celebration of spring



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!



visual inspiration


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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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Adult Rave

[personal profile] firelogic 2017-04-05 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
*Chandra Nalaar was staying away from the strange powders. Oh, oh she was curious. But she also had noticed like four different ways if she set this place on fire it would be bad. So while she was letting loose and having fun, it would be finding out how her magic reacts to the local drugs. Plus she was raised by good parents. But mostly she wasn't really going to risk setting another place on fire. She was drinking, but that's just fun.*

*Chandra looks very out of place, not her outfit. Well... sorta her outfit, she's a bit more modestly covered than the people wearing clothes. It's more a body language thing. She's wearing something girly, which isn't really her. She's at a party, something she rarely gets to go to. And there are people doing very athletic sex things... which are interesting but a bit intimidating. Why didn't the monks have wild parties like this? Sure they partied but not partied partied. She's dodging around some people, which is fun if she can make it look like dancing, and nearly stumbles into Bryn. Almost, however, she saves it at the last second and only the edge of her saree gets a bit of powder on it (but far from her skin).*

I hope I didn't spill your drink. Or step on you.

*Chandra still looks really out of place. And she's not helping anything radiating some excess heat. This is a rave, it does not need more heat.*
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[personal profile] inlaid 2017-04-08 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[Bryn doesn't mind the natural heat and humidity of a crowd, she's come dressed to accept it, but there's no mistaking the rush of warmth that comes when she's bumped into by another person. The petite agent stumbles back at the impact, but continues to step back from the warmth.

Brows knit together, she studies the other woman.]


No, neither. I'm good, thanks. You?

[She doesn't know what caused the woman to lose her balance but she doubts it was on purpose so she may have been pushed herself.]
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[personal profile] firelogic 2017-04-09 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Um, fine, someone with that powdery stuff on them nearly brushed into me and I had to get outta their way. I don't feel different so I don't think any of it got on me.

*Chandra was checking herself over, not for powder. No, usual thing, making sure none of her is on fire. Adjusting her goggles as a totally smooth attempt to run her hand through her hair. To make sure that's not on fire either. Good, cool, relaxed.*

I'm Chandra.
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[personal profile] inlaid 2017-04-10 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
Bryn.

[She looks over Chandra briefly, but flashes her a brief smile.]

And no, no powder on you as far as I can see. But you know it doesn't work if it gets on you from someone else, right? I mean, if it's already touched their skin, bam. One time, immediate use, so you don't have to shy away from getting cozy with people out on the dance floor.

[Though it's warm enough in this particular area that Bryn's not feeling like getting close to anyone for a little while.]
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[personal profile] firelogic 2017-04-10 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, well, that's good.

*Why didn't crazy sexorgy rave party powder drugs come with instructions?*

I doubt anyone wants to get too close to me. I'm a bit excited so I'm a little too warm for the room. I might need to go outside and set something on fire.

Vent some of this energy, I'm having too much fun.
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[personal profile] inlaid 2017-04-14 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, well don't let me get in your way. Go have your fun, vent that energy.

[She's not wrong that the woman is a bit too warm to be near, and Bryn's already inching away, intent on letting Chandra do whatever she needs to. There's something physiological at play here, or magical, and as someone without any powers of her own she doesn't want to be near her if "venting" actually involves venting more heat.]
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[personal profile] firelogic 2017-04-16 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
If you wanna talk after I'm not threatening to burst into flames, I'd love too. But... later.

*Chandra Nalaar, too hot for this party.*
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[personal profile] inlaid 2017-04-18 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[That's an alarming statement to make, Chandra. Seriously. Bryn gives a little nod in acceptance, but says nothing more, letting the other woman go on her way.

But she watches at a careful distance the rest of the evening. Just in case she really does go up in flames in the middle of a crowded party.]