monthly mingle: SAMPREMI

[riverviewmod]

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: monthly mingle: sampremi
when: The month of March.
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: there will likely be nsfw content; please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

sampremi

In the days leading up to March 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: Sampremi. This is one of Riverview's four yearly celebrations of love, this one focused on sexual love and lust, and sexual relationships that might bloom into more (or not). Traditions associated with Sampremi are a roving street market, raves where residents can seek out some free love and get a little crazy, a massive week-long kink convention, and a tech expo with all-ages and adult options.

a celebration of sexual love and lust

Riverview has always been a place focused on love and building connections in order to foster community, and for a lot of people, sex is part of that, which makes it something worth celebrating! For people who use sex as a way to connect with others, even if only for a short time, or those who use it as a way to connect on a deeper level with the ones they already love, Sampremi is the perfect holiday to get their freak on in a host of new and exciting or comfortable and familiar ways. The holiday features a large kink convention, where various entities in the city can show off their toys, explain their niche kinks, and share their insights with anyone who might be interested, a series of raves that are both all-ages and adult where residents can find someone(s) to share a night (or a week, a few months, or even a life) with. This year, there is a large tech expo where cutting edge tech companies in the city are sharing their newest toys, like improved virtual reality, robotics advances, and many other types of toys - all for work, play, or, in the spirit of the holiday, pleasure. And for those who don't want to connect through sex or who aren't old enough to, there are dances, games, and an entire market full of street food that's meant for sharing, so they can connect in other ways.

● OOC NOTE: Please be sure to warn in subject lines for any threads involving sexual content, drug use or other content that fellow players may wish to avoid, and do not use the prompt mechanics to circumvent consent in your threads, as non-consensual sex is not permitted on the game communities. Items such as aphrodisiacs, VR, or party drugs mentioned in the prompts are intended to facilitate consensual sex, not to encourage sexual assault, or to 'trick' characters into having sex that they would not normally have. ICly, please remember that there is always security to intervene and make sure everyone is safe.

i. color raves

Advertised on flyers and digital screens around the city, made to pop as if they were under blacklight, is a series of what's called "color raves" that are happening in various large empty warehouse spaces around the city. They are called color raves for the bright colorful lights, the preponderance of glowsticks that attendees wave around, and for the brightly colored powder for attendees to play with, some of which is spiked with a mild party drug and some of which is just for fun (with the difference clearly marked, of course). There are three types of color rave - adult, all-ages, and youth raves.

(CW: DRUG USE) At each adult rave and all-ages rave there is one specific room where attendees can enter (after proving themselves 18+), 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 (whether it is skin, clothing, or structural) it deactivates, meaning that partakers can safely dance with non-partakers without sharing the intoxicating effects.

Adult raves will have bouncers at the door to ensure that anyone entering is 18+, and there is no limit to when and where the debauchery happens. 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.

All-ages raves are open to anyone who wishes to attend, regardless of age. There are bouncers at the door who will check ID and stamp the hand of anyone who is 18+ with a special ink that shows up under blacklight for easy identification. At all-ages raves, 18+ and underage characters can mingle, but there are specific areas set aside for only 18+ characters where they can get down and dirty either in private or the open.

Adult and all-ages raves will have only spiked powder to avoid confusion.

Youth raves are intended only for younger characters under 18, so they can stay up all night and dance like crazy, and meet other young people in the city. 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 version of the colored powder featured at the adult raves that won't give you anything but a sugar high. 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. Youth raves will have only sugar powder, brightly colored and sweet to the taste, meant for fun and to play tag with rather than to cause intoxication.

ii. kink convention

For the week of March 4-10 there will be a massive kink convention on the top floor of one of the large exhibition centers downtown, limited to characters 18+. The exhibition is a sexy adult informational convention featuring various kinks and fetishes. Whether you're into leather, latex, lace, or anything else, you'll be able to find the clothes, toys, guides, books, erotica, fiction, and a wide variety of other interesting stuff to explore. While the atmosphere is sex-positive and there are private and public (for the voyeurs and exhibitionists in the room) venues for having sex, it's definitely focused on exploration and information about different stuff to try.

If someone has thought of it and figured it sounded sexy, it can be found here, and with Riverview's high level of tech advancement and widespread acceptance of magic, things can get pretty kinky. Whatever your kink is, there's probably a VR program, sex toy, potion, or spell that can make it happen, and someone who's got the downlow on how to make it great.

iii. tech expo

Riverview prides itself on its technological advancement, and so, running concurrently with the Kink Convention on March 4-10 and on the bottom floor of the same convention center, various cutting-edge tech companies in the city will be sponsoring a Tech Expo. The expo features demonstrations of all of the most advanced technology that's coming into use in the city, ranging from advancements in VR and holotech to robotics and gadgets, you can find the latest and greatest in almost any area of modern technology. Attendees will be able to come with a friend or a date or anything in between to play VR games, enjoy holoprojected escape rooms and puzzles, meet robot pets, try out the most recent music player or that new cell phone that can bend without breaking, and a wide variety of other gadgets.

While most of the tech expo is all-ages and non-sexual, there is a decently-sized adult area where characters must show ID proving they are 18+ in order to enter, where the technology is mostly related to sexual use. This area features advanced sex toys, VR systems intended to explore sex with other people in a virtual environment with no strings attached, sexy video games and holoprograms, and many other sensual technological.

iv. street market

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 or more sticks or desserts baked with a narrow part in the middle for convenient tearing, everything is built to be shared. 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, though there are some booths (clearly marked and with someone to check ID) that sell actual aphrodisiac-laced foods and drinks to people who are 18+.

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(s), and due to the nature of the Quarantine, a lot of them involve aiming or other aspects of pretending to fight.

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.

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 the mod-posted prompt to create a Communal Housing floor mingle. Or, if you have an idea for a prompt that isn't in this list, set during Sampremi, feel free to write it up!

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Credit: image i: saber XU; image ii: Jose Borges; image iii: Nicolas Sitbon; image iv: Andreas Rocha

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Alec Lightwood | Shadowhunters

[angelic_archer]

i Color Raves - Security

[Alec may not be part of the police department, but he eagerly agreed to watch over the raves, especially the ones that were held for the younger citizens of the city. In a way it hurt, but it also helped deal with the loss that they'd all been ignoring for months. At least here he could be useful. He helping when some of the kids started feeling a little sick from too much of a sugar high and checked IDs to make sure the right adult was picking up the correct child.

Occasionally he stood back from the party, watching the kids chase each other, unable to hide the lonely, wistful feeling that ached in his chest as he thought of how much Max would have enjoyed the rave.]

i Color Raves - Closed to Magnus

Alec had spent most of the raves acting as either official or unofficial security. He'd been completely focused on his duties, sticking to water and avoiding the colored powders until it was his night off. Then he let his very excited husband drag him off to one of the adult raves. Between the drinks and the rainbow of colors painted across face and chest, he was more tipsy than he could remember being since a certain event that neither one of the Lightwood-Banes wanted to mention again. The party goers around him had probably noticed, while either being amused or annoyed by how Alec rambled about his husband.

Eventually after getting drinks for them both, he wandered through the crowd to Magnus, relieved that his husband had chosen a relatively quiet corner for them to take a break from the dancing. Grinning as he handed Magnus his drink, he nodded toward the bar. "Everyone was watching you. They thought you were hot."

iv Street Market

[Alec might have went a little crazy in the market, picking up random gifts for not just Magnus, but for his siblings as well. Those weren't romantic in nature, of course, but flowers and jewelry for Izzy. New foods for Jace to try and new ingredients to stock the pantry.

Looking around one stall, he tips his head to one side, trying to figure out what the prickly looking item at one of the food stalls.]

What is that?

will be NC-17

[appetitive]

Though Magnus had never cared much for drugs, mainly because of their addictive nature, there was something to be said about the safety precautions and care that have gone into the color raves that popped up throughout the city. Consensuality, mild effects, and exclusively positive trips were all traits that he supported, and he especially liked the fact that there were drugless powders for people to enjoy as well as those with enhancing effects. He also appreciated that bumping up against someone covered in powder didn't transfer their high, allowing everyone to control their own experiences and experimentations.

It was for that reason that he'd bared enough skin to partake, though it was far less than he had on other celebratory occasions; an eye-catching jacket open to reveal that he was shirtless beneath except for a gold body chain that accentuated his toned torso. The long sleeves and jeans controlled the amount of space where powder might fall, and there was only one other person he'd allow to sprinkle him with the stuff. As it was, Alec had powdered him with a rainbow of color, more vivid splotches fading into speckled areas where they mingled with the sweat of his skin and created a gradient of shades.

Once they were covered, and after some dancing, Magnus had sent Alec off with a kiss to fetch drinks while Magnus claimed a table for them. It gave him the chance to focus the fuzziness of his head, and he noticed Alec's return a moment later than he normally would. Taking the offered drink, he reached for Alec and tried to pull him into his lap. "I'm sure they were just sizing up the competition and trying to decide if they could win you from me." Sipping his drink, enjoying the familiar burn that cut through the haze of his mind, he rubbed a hand over Alec's arm and watched the colors blur together. "As if I would ever let someone else touch you."

[angelic_archer]

Setting down his drink, he grinned as Magnus pulled him in to sit on his lap. It probably looked strange since he was taller. Not exactly little spoon material, but he always seemed to be able to fit whenever Magnus wanted to sit like this. Maybe Magnus' feline traits included lap sitting. He almost teased Magnus about his cat-like nature, then remembered that it wasn't polite. Instead, he nuzzled Magnus' jaw, deciding he'd be the one who was cat-like tonight.

"They weren't trying to steal me." No one he'd talked to seemed that interested in him. Everyone's eyes had been on Magnus. Not that he could blame them. His husband looked amazing, especially when he was dancing. "Even if they were, they couldn't steal me from you. I'm too big to steal and I'm your husband."

Nuzzling Magnus' ear, he nipped lightly. Absentmindedly, he traced the knot pattern they'd worn months ago in the purple powder that Alec had swept across Magnus' chest. When the design was right, he looked at the colors that Magnus had mixed on his arm, smiling softly. "I'm yours, Magnus. No one else can have me."

[appetitive]

Magnus was the last person to care about size when it came to a relationship, believing that a person's body should dictate what was yearned for by either heart or soul. Their sex life was as balanced as their marriage, and while Magnus was no stranger to being the one in Alec's lap, he'd had more than his fair share of toned legs straddling his thighs as well.

Humming happily at the brush of Alec's nose and lips against his face, Magnus reached an arm around him to slip a hand into one of his back pockets. "You don't know that, precious," he said, still marveling at how Alec failed to notice attention when it was turned in his own direction; for someone so astute, Alec missed some obvious observations. "I'm glad to know that your size is as much a factor in your faithfulness as your marital status," he teased, squeezing his ass through the jean pocket.

He sucked in a breath when Alec's teeth grazed the shell of his ear, only half able to concentrate on following the design Alec was drawing. Luckily, the powder kept it intact, and he smiled as he looked down on it. "Mine, but also your own." He never wanted Alec to feel like he was a possession, even if the mix of alcohol and powder brought out a possessive side from Magnus.

[angelic_archer]

Grinning as he continued nuzzling Magnus like he was the one who had catlike features, he wiggled to encourage the placement of his husband's hand in this pocket. "Yes, I do. They were all watching you, kitten." Some may have given him a casual, interested look, but it was Magnus that drew everyone's attention.

Pulling away, he pretended to be offended. "That is not the main reason why I'd be faithful. It's just the reason why I'm difficult to steal. It'd be awkward to try to carry me out of here." Magnus could do it with a careful spell, but Alec knew for anyone else, it'd be frustrating. "You know how important our marriage is to me."

If Magnus' breathing hadn't shifted when Alec nibbled on his ear, he might have been offended by the suggestion that their marriage wasn't the main reason why he couldn't be 'stolen' away. Tugging harder, he started trailing kisses along Magnus neck, sucking at certain spots until he was sure that there would be a mark. The runes would tell him that Magnus' heart was his, but the love bites that would decorate his husband's neck would be obvious to everyone even if they didn't understand the symbol drawn on Magnus' chest. "And you're mine and your own."

Biting down hard enough that he knew Magnus would be pleased, he rolled his hips to make sure that his husband was focused on him. "Are you going to show everyone that I'm yours?"

[appetitive]

He couldn't help grinning at the way Alec was always moving when they were together like this, contrasting his usual warrior's ability to stay calm and motionless. He rewarded the squirming with another rough squeeze at his ass, letting some magic spill from his palms and sizzle against Alec's skin. "It's probably just my eyecatching clothes," he mumbled, cheeks hot with the pet name that only Alec would ever get away with calling him, "Or maybe lack of certain key garments."

Whining softly when Alec tried to pull back, Magnus kept his hands on him but loosened his grip in case his husband really did want to get away. "I know, my angel," he said with an awed smile. At times he got used to their love, their marriage, and than suddenly something would snap into sharp relief and he would remember how extraordinary it was that they were happily married to each other. The idea struck him now, sitting in a public place with Alexander Lightwood in his lap sucking on his neck. Sometimes Magnus couldn't help wondering if he'd been swapped for someone else along the way, before their relationship had smoothed out.

His thoughts were always on Alec, but the rough bite to his neck brought his back to the present and the physical, drawing a loud moan from him as he shivered beneath Alec. Leave it to his husband to take the position in his lap and use it to his best advantage. "Alec," he breathed, hands moving to hook his fingers in the loops of Alec's jeans and pull him impossibly closer. Even if he had few inhibitions while sober, the powder on his skin and in the air was making him react even more than usual. "I am," he said with a grin, using his lower position to his full advantage and latching onto the crook of Alec's neck where a black rune scarred the pale skin. "I'm going to put that amazing body of yours on display."

[angelic_archer]

Moaning as Magnus squeezed his ass, the sound became almost too loud for the two of them being in public when magic danced over him. Shivering as he tried to catch his breath, he let out a shaky laugh. "I didn't know sequins came that big." He'd seen some interesting things in Magnus' closet but the jacket had surprised him. He loved it, just like he loved the rest of Magnus' wardrobe but he still wondered about the things that became fashionable.

The reminder of his husband's lack of clothes caused him to run his hand along Magnus' ribs, not drawing patterns. He needed to touch, feel the warm skin and the smooth, brightly colored powder under his fingertips. "Don't ever forget that." He kept his tone light, but it still made his throat ache almost as much as the guilt had. The Clave never would have allowed this. They both might be heroes of the war, but they wouldn't have given their blessing to a Downworlder and Shadowhunter marrying. If they weren't in this world, they couldn't have this easy happiness.

Grinning at the noises his husband made, he moved to another spot, giving it the same attention. He paused, surprised that Magnus could manage to drag him closer when he'd thought there was no space between their bodies. He whimpered when Magnus focused on the Deflect rune, rolling his hips in a slow rhythm that might not be noticed if someone wasn't watching. Maybe. "Wh - what do you want to do with me?"

[appetitive]

Magnus swallowed down the sounds Alec made, drinking in his pleasure that was inspired by the unfocused energy of Magnus' magic. Barely of a fraction of his mind needed to be dedicated to manipulating the power into a spell, sending cool tingles over Alec's skin to contrast the hot air of the club around them; the rest of his attention remained on the excuse for a conversation. "Everything about me is big, darling," he said with a grin, "I aim to be nothing short of larger than life."

Growing serious, if only for a minute thanks to the wandering hands over his bare skin, Magnus pressed an open-mouth kiss right over Alec's heart. "I love you, my Alexander," he whispered into the powder and skin, the words more likely to be felt than heard, "I have set you as a seal upon my heart, and you'll be there forever." He knew that being faithful and loving spouses was important to Alec, not only because of his love of family but the pain he'd felt through his parents' suffering marriage.

He made a physical effort to push such thoughts away for both of them by deepening the spell that was flowing from his fingers, covering Alec with visible tendrils of pleasant blue fire. Tracing the rune on Alec's neck with his tongue, he scraped his teeth over it as he pulled back just enough to look up at him. "I'd fuck you on this table if I could," he said with a smirk, fingertips dipping beneath the waistband of Alec's jeans where they'd ridden down in the back. "Or maybe turn you around and hold you in my lap while I finger you nice and slowly to draw out every little twitch and moan."

[angelic_archer]

If Magnus hadn't been using his magic, Alec would have laughed at his husband's comment. Instead, he whimpered against his neck, panting softly at the different sensations shivering over his skin. He was going to make a joke about bad innuendos when Magnus shifted to press a kiss to his chest. For a moment, he wondered if his husband could feel how his heart raced, but knew that was a silly thought.

Touching Magnus' hair, he left a streak of bright green against the darker strands, already knowing what his husband had said without hearing the words. "I love you too, my Magnus." Forever. It didn't hurt the way it had in the past, an odd emotion settling in his chest instead. One that they'd discuss once Alec had time to consider it more. "Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame." Some of his memories of their time in Idaho was blurry, but that one was clear. That moment had been as much of ceremony as the one where they'd officially been married.

It was an ideal coincidence, or Magnus' ability to anticipate what Alec was thinking, that had flames moving along his skin after Alec had recited that part of the vow. Unable to hold back a groan, he ground his hips against his husbands, gasping when Magnus' fingers slipped under his jeans. Bucking his hips to get more contact, he almost whined when he thought of his husband's suggestions. Alec knew that he had an exhibitionist streak but he didn't expect to be turned on so much by Magnus just talking about fingering him or fucking him in public. "You could do both." Would he do both? Alec wasn't sure he could handle both without a stamina rune.

[appetitive]

Deciding that is was time to take advantage of having a willing Alec in his lap, Magnus stilled all of his movements except for the subtle shifting of his hands. He could feel the racing of Alec’s pulse beneath his lips as he pushed more magic into his skin, focusing it into more concentrated intentions rather than a general feeling. Even though he knew that they needed to behave—mostly—he thought that they could probably get away with some magical groping. There was also the added benefit that Alec loved to be touched with his magic.

He pulled back, just enough to look up at Alec and smile. Multicolored powder covered his neck, creeping up his jawline where they had rubbed together, flecks of neon against pale skin. His blue flames danced over the dusted skin, warming and tingling without burning off the powder. “Everything about you sets me on fire,” he murmured against Alec’s neck, moving his hands against his ass to encourage him to continue rocking their hips together. The magic moved lower, pressing between Alec’s thighs, warm and insistant like Magnus’ own physical fingers. “I think I like this,” he replied when Alec approved of the other two ideas, clearly eager. “Keep our clothes on and focus all my attention on you.”