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riverviewlogs2018-03-01 09:54 pm
- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
- almost human: dorian,
- dc comics (rebirth): wally west,
- dragon age: dorian pavus,
- legend of zelda (botw): zelda,
- marvel (616): billy kaplan,
- marvel (616): bucky barnes,
- marvel (616): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): tony stark,
- marvel (mcu): wanda maximoff,
- once upon a time: victor frankenstein,
- original: aeacinos ixocia,
- original: shigeru miyata,
- rivers of london: peter grant,
- star trek (aos): james kirk,
- star wars: cassian andor,
- star wars: finn,
- star wars: jyn erso,
- star wars: poe dameron,
- stargate atlantis: john sheppard,
- the black tapes: alex reagan,
- voltron: keith,
- voltron: shiro,
- ✖ chb chronicles: nico di angelo,
- ✖ chb chronicles: piper mclean,
- ✖ dctv (flash): cisco ramon,
- ✖ dctv (flash): eddie thawne,
- ✖ fullmetal alchemist (manga): roy musta,
- ✖ inception: ariadne,
- ✖ inception: eames,
- ✖ legend of zelda (botw): link,
- ✖ marvel (mcu): valkyrie,
- ✖ marvel (tv): john proudstar,
- ✖ mutant x: shalimar fox,
- ✖ once upon a time: jefferson,
- ✖ original: christian fischer,
- ✖ original: freya vaughn,
- ✖ osomatsu-san: karamatsu matsuno,
- ✖ osomatsu-san: osomatsu matsuno,
- ✖ persona 5: makoto niijima,
- ✖ shadowhunter chronicles: alec lightwoo,
- ✖ shadowhunter chronicles: clary fray,
- ✖ star wars: bodhi rook,
- ✖ star wars: kylo ren,
- ✖ stargate atlantis: carson beckett,
- ✖ stargate atlantis: rodney mckay,
- ✖ the finder: willa monday,
- ✖ the raven cycle: blue sargent,
- ✖ vikings: ivar ragnarsson
monthly mingle: SAMPREMI
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
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.
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!
Credit: image i: saber XU; image ii: Jose Borges; image iii: Nicolas Sitbon; image iv: Andreas Rocha
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[ His voice cracks a little with disbelief as he says it. This guy's clearly got a lot of patience, and is accustomed to some pretty invasive questions.
Which is kind of a conundrum, because Cisco doesn't want to be an asshole, but he's also super curious. ]
I don't know... sounds to me like it's definitely their fault.
[ Sure, the festival is going on and everything, but... yikes. ]
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Most people can't tell the difference. And they're not fully wrong. In my reality, some of the latest sex-bots have parts of my old technology.
It's not insulting.
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[ But, if this guy's not offended, well... good for him. Cisco is impressed by that level of chill. And it's what emboldens him to just ask, straight up: ]
So... you are a robot, then?
[ He's never met a robot before, he doesn't know how to tell! But the way this guy's talking, he is one, and is from a place where robots (and moreover robots entirely meant for sex, which sounds like a whole other ethical kettle of fish Cisco isn't sure he wants to go near) are common. ]
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I am. My name is Dorian. Designated DRN-0167.
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[There's a hint of amusement in his voice as he repeats it. Maybe it's Dorian Pavus's fault, but it's a name that Cisco associates with a certain formality, a certain kind of medieval vibe, which is definitely not the case here. Still, he holds out a hand for Dorian to shake and says: ]
Cisco Ramon. Nice to meet you. Disclaimer: I come from a world that hasn't got robots, so if I say something offensive, just, you know, um, sorry.
[ Are you not supposed to ask if someone is a robot? Is that like walking up to a random stranger on the street and asking about their religion? Is he overthinking things? ]
You been in this place long?
[ When in doubt, go back to basics; it's an easy question to ask anyone in the Quarantine, because they'd all been brought here at some point. ]
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Don't worry. Even back home, I dealt with all kinds of questions.
[ At the first question, he smiles and nods. ]
Only a few weeks. I think that still makes me new.
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A few weeks?! Damn, you really are a newbie. I've almost been here a year, now. First one of these I've seen, though.
[ And he gestures around them, at the tech expo, and there's a hint of wonder in his voice again. He's smiling a little when he says: ]
It's probably not all that impressive to you, though, right? I mean - where I come from we're not even close to cracking artificial intelligence, or robots that come even close to passing as human.
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Artificial intelligence isn't exactly hailed well in the technological community. While many make robots that resemble humans closely in a physical sense, they're still fairly limited in the emotional and cognitive areas.
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Lemme guess. People are prejudiced and freak out about the idea that anybody might be different from 'em?
[ That's how it would be where he's from, after all. People had enough trouble treating other humans well, much less robots. He can see how it might happen that humans would be more comfortable with robots that looked like them but were programmed to be subservient, and intellectually hampered. ]
Well I can't make promises for everybody in this place, but I'm pretty sure most people you meet won't care much one way or another.
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Not quite. Though that happens from time to time.
[ He gets a fair amount of that, though his precinct has been rather good to him. Maldonado always lets Dorian have a certain amount of freedom no one else would be given. He sits in on the meetings, offers his input. He matters. ]
Shouldn't they care?
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[ It certainly wasn't the response Cisco was expecting, and it leaves him at a bit of a loss what to say next. He realizes that maybe he should stop jumping to conclusions, based on movies he's seen about robots and humans, and also based on his own experiences coming here. For him, this place had been a welcome reprieve from some of the pre-judgments and hostility he was used to on Earth for various reasons. But it's kind of rude to assume it would be exactly the same for someone else, from an entirely different place. ]
Guess I was making assumptions.
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I've heard it a lot lately. And I understand where it's coming from. But I think it is important to know what I am as well.
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You're probably right.
[ Feeling too awkward to carry on with that subject, but too awkward (and, still, curious) to turn and just leave, Cisco asks: ]
So, um. Dorian. What's the coolest piece of tech you've seen in here so far? I kinda don't even know where to start in all this.
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[ For Dorian, a lot of this tech expo is the norm. He can't really see or find anything that is. ]
I can't say I've noticed anything cool, though I like the kind of robotics they're working on.
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Not anything?! Damn, tough crowd.
[ Cisco has been running around in awe of just about everything here, but then again, for Dorian to even exist, he's got to come from a world way more advanced than Cisco's own. ]
Yeah? Is it similar to the stuff you're used to?
[ He hadn't been aware anyone was working on developing robotics here, but then again, it's not like he knows everybody in the Quarantine, or even all of the mechanical engineers. ]
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A lot of this is reminiscent of the city I come from. Smart houses, holo-paper, lightweight panels, skintech grafts . . .
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[ He is going to keep an eye out for that holopaper. And the panels. And all of it, honestly. ]
Well, I'm from a boring backwater where holograms are the new hot thing I'm gonna go back to running around like a kid in a candy store. It was nice to meet you, Dorian. Maybe I'll see you around!
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[ But he nods. ]
Please, enjoy yourself.