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monthly mingle: SAMPREMI

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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[ havana -- camila cabello ]

I thought you could dance, Andor?

[ jyn saunters up to him like a jungle cat on the prowl, eyebrows lifting playfully as she steps in close. close so she can take his drink and swap it with hers. she doesn't really like alcohol but sips of it offer just enough of the alcohol to feel warm before she goes back to her space sprite. she takes her sip, blinking at him from over the rim of the plastic cup. ]

Not doing much dancing over here by the wall.

[he could theoretically stop himself from smiling at the way jyn sidles on up, but he does not, letting it settle neatly and quietly on his face. he steals a sip of her space sprite before she steals it back, and there is definitely a lot of raving and lights happening around them, but he just blinks back down at her.]

And I thought you could not dance. Funny how that works out.

[she... can't, but it's very fun to watch.]

[ she's an excellent dancer shut ur whore mouth. ]

I never said I can't, you assumed.

[ she was sarcastic and flippant and he assumed (correctly) that she never learned how to dance, but that didn't mean lyra didn't let her have dance parties in their house to let free some of her wild energy as a child. that's not ballroom dancing though. ]

Do you think this passes as posh Coruscanti girl?

[ more like drunk posh coruscanti girl but lbr the answer is yes. ]

Did I assume wrong? [it was a very good assumption. she let him take the lead at the glow ball and he could tell it was something she'd never really done before! he is not wrong, fight him jyn.]

[but he supposes it's a different kind of dancing. this time he thinks she's enjoying herself way more.]

I know for a fact that it does. Though perhaps earlier in the night, when they can still walk without stumbling.

[yes drunk is being included in that description without either of them actually saying it.]

[ she ignores the question of his correctness because she is not here for that and, frankly, he can suck her dick. clearly she can dance.

her chin tips up imperiously and because she is pale, with delicate features and rosy cheeks from the (awful) dancing, she doesn't have to try to look like part of posh coruscanti society, she simply does. she would have been had her family not fled to lah'mu, had she not escaped with saw.

luckily the image is shattered when she opens her mouth. ]

How many girls in Coruscant had to get their Cassian Andor alias tattoo removed?

[he's not surprised she ignores it, but he knows he's right so it doesn't matter :)]

[out of everything she could have said next, it's not that. he would spit out his drink if he'd had any recently. instead he just sort of half chokes and stares at her.]

What? That's not - why would they get tattoos of a fake name? I assume the answer is none.

I'm sure you broke one or two drunken hearts undercover.

[ she affects an overly flirtatious giggle and throws one arm around his neck, the other keeping her drink from spilling or knocking into his as she drapes herself against him. there's always been a lack of personal space but this is just ridiculous.

her eyelashes flutter and she affects a higher, bubbly tone. ] Oh Ca-- [ record scratch, the posh girl tone vanishes. ] I need one of your Coruscant names for this to work.

Edited 2018-03-19 04:24 (UTC)

[he is unprepared.]

[he idly scoops his hand at the small of her back on instinct, like he's worried she's going to lose her balance being this ridiculous, but he's only dimly aware of it against the press of her wholly into him.]

[the most ridiculous part is how compelled he is to play along???]

Rowan.

[the least reprehensible.]

[ her nose crinkles briefly at the name before she plasters that borderline drunk smile back on and her tone slides back into something as effervescent as her drink. ]

Oh Rowan. Please tell me you won't be gone for very long, it's dreadfully boring without you. Who am I supposed to get into mischief with?

[ jyn is a terrible actress with very little experience, but there is something easy about how she melts into this sort of persona: pouty, flighty, party girl with little to lose. maybe she's used it before. ]

[he can't deal with this. not in a bad way, just in a funny way. he can't believe they have gotten to a point where any of this is happening at all. it's not even far off from how he's seen them act before, which clearly means some sort of experience on jyn's part.]

[he ducks his head briefly towards her shoulder between them, hiding away his smile until he can get it under control.]

You get into plenty mischief on your own, I'm sure.

[ her mouth turns down in such a pout it is genuinely hard to believe that saw was ever able to tell her no, but the mischief in her eyes betrays any idea she might actually be sad about this fictional boy abandoning her. ]

I don't want to get in to mischief on my own. [ the arm around his shoulder slides down his arm but she doesn't pull away until the last moment, when her fingers curl around his, stepping back and tugging him with her. ] It's no fun without you.

[jyn doesn't flirt. she doesn't know how to flirt. it's not a tool in her arsenal, except when she's being someone else, apparently. it's Relatable. fake or otherwise, he definitely watches the way her hand slides down his arm and it's only about 50% fake on his end.]

[but he keeps playing along anyway, squeezing her hand and winding their fingers together. he raises an eyebrow playfully.]

Are you asking me to dance, Tadia?

[she gets a fake name now too, obviously.]

[ oh a fake name to match his. that's weirdly... fun? she's had plenty of fake names over the years and her fake names had collected their own exhausting list of crimes (yolo), but she's never had a fake name assigned to her. new things all over the quarantine. ]

It's not much of a question. [ tug tug tug. ] I don't intend to give you much of a choice.

[he wasn't really interested in dancing here tonight, but jyn looks like she's having... fun. and she deserves that. even though they're just pretending (idiots), her little remark about it not being fun without him makes him feel... nice. maybe a little good.]

[he relents surprisingly quickly, letting her tug him along. the stupid personas make it easier.]

And what if I came here to spend time with you in the first place?

[he did but like. they're being dumb so it's whatever.]

Then you shouldn't have many complaints, should you?

[ another flash of that fake girl's grin before it slides into something more defiantly pleased that is all jyn. she's going to make cassian a. dance with her because he made her dance with him and b. have fun if it kills her.

and she's already dead so she's basically immortal. ]

[that's a real jyn smile right there and it makes all the over the top fake flirting worth it. his own half smile back is much more cassian than rowan.]

Only if you step on my feet.

[honestly probably not even then. he's having a hard time thinking about any real complaints, at least ones that relate to jyn. other people are fair game. other people are the worst.]

I won't.

[ she doesn't stop right on the edge, oh no, jyn pulls them right into the throng of dancing strangers so that what little personal space they usually have with each other all but disappears in the press of people around them.

she is no better a dancer with cassian around, however. white girl dancing 'til he dies. ]

[he feels vaguely uncomfortable when she pulls him into the midst of it all, but it's not because of her so much as being touched by everyone else.]

[he'd rather move into her space than have people in his, so he sort of... pushes against her more often than not, in a very weird mix of trying to dance and trying to avoid Touching Anyone Else More Than Necessary. but jyn is clearly having fun, and he's already established he wants her to have fun, so he dances with her because she wants him to.]

[every time he touches her waist is simply Platonic Dancing, because such is the nature of a rave. ]

[ Platonic Dancing because they are Platonic War Buddies and clearly capable of no more than friendship. it's all very Platonic. jyn's dancing is still Quality up close and cassian is honestly welcome for seeing this trashfire in person. he has been blessed.

after a little while, she looks up at him and mock gasps, covering her mouth with her free hand. ]

Is that a smile?

[it's easily one of the most Platonic things they've ever done, including that first time they danced alone in the garden. they're close again now, just in a very different and much more fluctuating way. his movements are not nearly as wide as hers, but he does keep touching her occasionally, whether it's to block other arms or because of the way he's dancing is a mystery. (both, it's both.)]

[her question and fake gasp has him smiling a little wider, how terrible.]

Maybe.

[ stop the fucking presses, cassian andor is smiling. jyn dances a little closer, close enough that is calms some of her more wild dancing, feeling cassian's hand settle at her waist in response. ]

Don't worry, I won't tell anyone.

[ it'll be their little secret ]

[she dances in, and it's like instinct to meet her there, the way they always seem to gravitate around and towards each other. the weirdest part is probably just how they are completely forgetting they're not alone.]

[he drums his fingers at her waist, but leaves it there.]

I trust you with it.

[with more than just the smile, probably.]

[ she should meet that comment with something equal to how much it means to her. he trusts her, that's so important to her. ]

I see Jim's sentimentality is rubbing off on you.

[ her nose crinkles, but her eyes dance with mirth. ]

[she rarely responds in kind, he is not surprised. he'd be more shocked if she did.]

How do you know it's not my own?

[can he be sentimental tho?? that's a good question. maybe he's trying.]

[ jyn looks up at him for a long, protracted silence. the music is in a language she doesn't know so she can't pretend to focus on the words which means all her focus is on cassian. ]

Is it?

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