riverviewlogs | introductory mingle: SAMPREMI

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: Introductory Log and Sampremi Celebration
when: March 8th - March 15th
where: In several different locations in the downtown area of the Inhabited City.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

sampremi celebration

In the days leading up to March 8th, new residents may notice advertising around the city, everywhere from digital screens to paper flyers pasted on blank walls, featuring the name of the spring holiday in celebration of new beginnings, new love, and lust: Sampremi. The advertising mentions that there will be street festivals set up at various locations throughout the week and lists where the market will be set up on each day.

street market

The main draw of the holiday is a roaming street market that features special treats and street food that can only be found during Sampremi, a bustling bargain market with any kind of goods you can think of, and fair games that allow a person to win a prize for that special someone.

i. street food

One of the major draws of the festival is the special street food that can only be obtained this time of year. Almost everything you can buy at the Sampremi Festival is meant to be shared - whether it's one piece of meat on two sticks or desserts baked with a narrow part in the middle for convenient tearing, everything is built in twos. The stalls sell everything from cups of soup, sandwiches, roasted or fried meat, deep-fried vegetables and cakes, dumplings, donuts, bagels, turnovers, and anything else you can think of.

Many of the savory dishes are based on the meat of a particular fowl native to the moon Riverview is situated on that has a taste and texture halfway between chicken and duck, cooked to be spicy (ranging from very mild to throat-burning). Many of the desserts are based around a fruit native to the moon that is spherical, red-orange, and has a light sweet taste that is similar to a combination of mango, pineapple, and strawberry. Both ingredients are considered to be aphrodisiacs. Of course, the foods aren't actually aphrodisiacs and any effect is purely placebo.

ii. fair games

The festival features an entire row of fair games ranging from very high-tech games featuring virtual reality and neon holograms to extremely old-fashioned games with darts and balloons or balls and glasses. The games all have prizes in various shapes and sizes, with the standard stuffed animals, but also with goods and special items donated by any business in the city; ranging from tiny prizes to huge and expensive ones.

Due to the nature of the holiday, many of the stalls are set up to cater to winning a prize for your partner, and due to the nature of the Quarantine, a lot of them involve aiming or other aspects of pretending to fight.

iii. shopping

Originally, the part of the street festival that involved an actual market, with stalls and booths set up with goods, was aimed primarily at romantic trinkets like flowers or jewelry, gifts intended to be purchased for a loved one. As time has gone by, however, this aspect of the market has increased, with many businesses participating, though the emphasis is still on small businesses and anything relating to local culture rather than booths for any of the larger more corporate businesses.

There is still plenty of jewelry to be found, for sure, mostly handmade and artisan, but the scope of the Market has widened immeasurably. The Sampremi Market is an excellent place to find specialty foods, clothing, jewelry, art, or other goods that were originally native to cultures on other planets in this reality, or other realities altogether. Many residents in the city use the market to share their unique cultural goods and traditional dress with others.

iv. adult

In a side alley of the Sampremi Market on any day, one can find an area roped off with a red silken cord, attended by members of the Perimeter Guard in casual dress who will ID anyone entering to make sure they are 18+. Once characters are permitted entry, they will find all of the adult offerings that the market has to offer.

Since Sampremi is, historically, a celebration of lust and physical love, the adult offerings are all set up to cater to two or more people of any sex or gender configuration. One can find an adult or sexualized version of almost anything that's featured in the main market, from fair games to adult goods to street food laced with actual aphrodisiacs (there are always warnings for food spiked in this way to avoid accidental consumption).

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 Sampremi Festival, feel free to write it up!

visual inspiration

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Credit (left to right): Theo Prins, andreasrocha @ tumblr, hrormir @ deviantart, nkabuto @ deviantart

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*Lola tried to keep track of everyone, sharing a room with guys was... weird. As was the communal shower. She'd taken to asking someone to mind the door for her to keep it from being a problem given her, well, age. Still, not staying in their bed was a bit far, couldn't be comfortable.*

I'm good.

*Lola was gathering up materials, milk, eggs, and butter first. Then... she was glaring at the top shelf of the kitchen cupboards. Her flour, baking powder, and salt were up there. On the top shelf. Lola is not even five feet tall. Yes it looks as if she's staring at them in the hopes they will move down on their own.*

[steve gives her a smile and a nod, pouring his coffee while he waits for his toast to pop up. he glances over to see her having some kind of a showdown with the top shelf.

he waits a moment to see if she really can move things with her mind (hey, you never know) before springing into action.]

Let me help with those. I used to have the same problem. My ma would store things up high to keep mice out of 'em.

*Lola's doubt is written all over her face. She is not even five feet tall, Steve is... well, very tall, and handsome, and if she was five years older she would be all over that. But for now she can just appreciate the muscles and tall he has going on. Really tall. She'd need a footstool to get up there tall.*

Thanks, but you don't need to make up stories. I know I'm cute heighted.

I just wish people wouldn't put my cooking supplies so high up...

*She's usually fine with how tall (or not tall) she is. But there are times where she wants to buy platform heels.*

Honest truth.

[steve wasn't always tall, though he had her beat at 5'4". still, there weren't a lot of guys shorter than him. no one ever called him cut heighted.]

We can move them around, right? Maybe use the top shelves for something else.

*She still obviously does not believe, but she's not picking that fight.*

I hope so, I didn't put them up there.

*She went to work making pancake batter, because Lola's life is a lot less interesting with so much less social media to follow. No friends here, no celeb gossip she knows yet. She has time to make all sorts of breakfasts she didn't have time for most days.*

...You don't have to avoid your bed, you know.

[once she has everything that she needs, steve goes back to his toast, taking the slices and buttering them lightly. he pauses at her last words. she noticed. well, he probably shouldn't be surprised.]

It's okay, I don't sleep much. I just thought everyone might be more comfortable if I slept somewhere else when I do.

If you were the only guy, maybe... but. I don't know.

*Should it really be this weird. There was a lot of stuff she just accepted was one way, but figured out it wasn't. That maybe things had to change. Or maybe they should change it themselves.*

It is your room too.

Maybe when everyone gets to know each other a little better.

[steve smiles at her. he's wondering about the other room on this floor, if they could maybe even make a girl's room and a guy's room if they wanted.]

What're you making? Pancakes?

[he nods at the baking supplies.]

How will you get to know anyone if you stay somewhere else?

*Lola tried to keep track of everyone because of how weird this was. And because if she felt so out of place, how must everyone else feel?*

To start, but usually sometime after mixing the batter I wanna make eggs or bacon, or... I could try to make a breakfast burrito!

*And this is why there was always a lot of breakfast food in the morning.*

introductory mingle: SAMPREMI

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