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riverviewlogs2017-03-08 09:49 am
- !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): natasha romanoff,
- marvel (mcu): sam wilson,
- marvel (mcu): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): wanda maximoff,
- original: shigeru miyata,
- the adventure zone: taako taaco,
- ✖ buffy the vampire slayer: buffy summer,
- ✖ dc comics (dcnu): jason todd,
- ✖ dc comics (preboot): dick grayson,
- ✖ dceu: clark kent,
- ✖ dctv (arrow): curtis holt,
- ✖ dctv (arrow): ray palmer,
- ✖ dctv (flash): caitlin snow,
- ✖ dctv (flash): eddie thawne,
- ✖ dragon age: morrigan,
- ✖ dragon age: sera,
- ✖ lazer team: adam,
- ✖ magic the gathering: chandra nalaar,
- ✖ marvel (616): tony stark,
- ✖ marvel (mcu): scott lang,
- ✖ marvel (tv): matt murdock,
- ✖ original: benjamin holt,
- ✖ original: bryn zethir,
- ✖ original: cecelia wynn,
- ✖ original: letha regis,
- ✖ original: william holt,
- ✖ pokemon (xy/xyz): augustine sycamore,
- ✖ prison break: michael scofield,
- ✖ teen wolf: derek hale,
- ✖ the last of us: ellie,
- ✖ the order of the stick: roy greenhilt,
- ✖ the raven cycle: ronan lynch,
- ✖ the walking dead: carl grimes,
- ✖ the walking dead: clementine,
- ✖ the walking dead: rick grimes,
- ✖ true blood: alcide herveaux,
- ✖ vampire: the masquerade: fatima merali,
- ✖ vikings: ivar ragnarsson,
- ✖ yuri on ice: yuri plisetsky
introductory mingle: SAMPREMI
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
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.
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!
Credit (left to right): Theo Prins, andreasrocha @ tumblr, hrormir @ deviantart, nkabuto @ deviantart
Chandra Nalaar | OTA
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But that doesn't mean that he's any damn good at carnival games. Like, at all. Still, Scott Lang is not a man for giving up, so he's going to keep trying this one. You know the one--where you try to toss ping pong balls into little goldfish bowls? Except instead of goldfish, uh, what even ARE those? It doesn't matter, because Scott sucks at this game. So badly, that his most recent toss spoings (that's a technical term!) off the edge of the bowl, aiming right at the redheaded girl's face. "...duck?"
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So getting hit in the face with a little plastic ball shouldn't have surprised her to the point she reacted. And yet, the ambient temperature around her spiked, the ball melted on its way to the ground after hitting her. And her hair was on fire. No, not accurate, her hair was fire. She glared around for the cause of her surprise. Realized... it wasn't a threat, she wasn't harmed... and the little ping pong ball was a melted puddle on the counter. "...oops."
It took a few moments for her hair to go out, and unceremoniously fall around her face and head in a mess of copper strands. "I kinda melted your ball there."
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Even normal women and not women who could do that.
"Yeah, uh, wow. That's pretty cool!" He'd seen Wanda do some pretty cool stuff, but wow, that was...awesome.
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"Kind of a single-minded festival, don't you think? Everything's meant to be shared" he said, sitting nearby as he offered up a cinnamon roll to her, heart-shaped and meant to be split down the middle. Grab and pull.
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This guy looked like the sort Gideon would like, "I'm Chandra."
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Recognizing another PC was never too difficult, after all.
"Missing someone, I take it?"
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"Some people, we decided to work together, travel together. I keep thinking about how they'd like this place." How is it she always ended up alone? She will just glumly nibble on cinnamon roll. Yes, yes somehow you can eat something that sticky and gooey and good and be glum.
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Chandra Nalaar was bad for property values.
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"I'm itching to get out there myself, honestly," Roy said, cheered by her mention of something much on his mind. "Adventuring is pretty much my thing. What skills do you have to put to use?"
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"I'm very good at setting monsters on fire. Although really big monsters required one of the others helping me make the spell big enough." That was fun, exhausting, and she couldn't really move right for a while after... but honestly setting two world rending monsters on fire was thrilling. "I take it you punch stuff, or stab stuff, or punch and stab stuff?"
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"Well, I am trained in unarmed combat, but my primary damage vector is indeed weapon-based." Roy motioned to the greatsword slung over his back, incidentally also explaining his last name in the process. "Single-classed fighter, and proud of it."
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"I'm figuring with the wall, and the other wall outside that wall. And all the guards. This is definitely a place where having some trick to make things dead is good." Hence why she was wearing her armor. That and she hadn't bought much in the way of alternative clothes. Just changes of undershirts and other necessities. She doesn't have a lot of needs anyway.
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Roy wore his armor almost constantly as a rule, so seeing someone else doing so meant nothing to him. "Now to be fair, I would always prefer resolving matters peacefully and through negotiation and diplomacy where possible... which doesn't detract from a word of your statement. I saw the monsters that attacked recently," he said, grimly. "I don't doubt there's worse out there, and that we'd be doing the right thing dealing with them as needed. Which would be easier with an accomplished mage on my team!" he added with a quick smile.
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Chandra's smirk was playful, she nodded along with the idea of negotiation and diplomacy. It wasn't that she hated the idea, she was actually almost good at some of them. Not with people that disagreed with her, but if the collected audience was just apprehensive she could... talk them up. But she'd prefer to have access to fire. "Not sure how good an idea taking a fire mage into a forest is. I mean I wanna explore, there's gotta be something neat out there if there are monsters! But I'm pretty sure I'll make a lot of the locals unhappy.
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