riverviewlogs | monthly mingle: SAMPREMI

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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!

visual inspiration

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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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[Taako laughs, at just the whole combination of what's going on here: Jyn's point about Cassian being fond of jackets, the fact she lost it, and the fact they were even here to lose it in the first place.

It's the last point that has him grinning.]

Now what were you two up to?

[call out for Jyn and Cassian.]

[ jyn has learned a few earth-specific mannerisms here on the moon. and she flips taako off. ]

We were leaving.

Edited 2018-03-06 05:46 (UTC)

[That just makes him laugh harder for a little bit, but okay okay he can be nice.]

You got a picture of this jacket? I can find it for ya but I gotta know what it looks like for the spell to work. A very thorough description would do in a pinch.

Why would I have a picture of a jacket? [ that's dumb. ] It's that leather one, dark grey, almost black. It's got two zippers down the front and sort of... quilty bits on the shoulders. Oh and it's got zippers on the sleeves as well.

[ i'm not saying that is jyn's thorough description, but it definitely is more detail than she would normally offer. ]

A picture of Cassian in the jacket not just like an outfit shot.

[Obviously. But he guesses not everyone documents their life via instagram like he does so maybe it's fair that Jyn doesn't have a picture of it.

But the description helps; it sounds familiar and that's the most important part, he couldn't cast this if it was something he'd never laid eyes on before. Taako gestures through the air, feeling out the magic before he turns to the left.]

Let's go get that jacket.

[Jyn is Small, so he'll go slow as he weaves through the crowd, making sure that he doesn't lose her.]

[ he just turns like he knows where it is and she gets such a rush of nostalgia for chirrut, a man she knew for maybe a week, that her stomach rolls over. if taako hadn't already jabbered about spells and magic she would wonder if he were a jedi.

and then laugh because taako as a jedi would be a hilarious image. imagine him in their drab garb. ]

Why do so many people have their shirts off! [ she grumbles at taako's back. ]

[He's trying for the path of least resistance to where his magic is pointing him but crowds are unpredictable, so there's the occasional jostle that sends him of course. Nearly there, though!]

If they're doing the powder thing it's way better the less clothes ya got on. But I mean, the whole point of this shit is to get laid? So you really gotta show off what you've got.

[hence the sheer pants he's wearing, because he has great legs.]

[ her nose wrinkles, she mumbles something that isn't english but clearly 1000% rude af. it's all in the tone. ]

I did not come here to get laid.

[ she came because she is an adult and it was labeled adult and then she decided no thank you i don't want this responsibility anymore please return for store credit ]

[He gets the picture.]

It's not like a rule that you have to, I'm not really... [a wave of the hand to indicate all that sort of stuff, he's just here to dance.] But it is a rave in the middle of a lust festival, clothing is hella optional.

[ mumble mumble mumble ]

It's rubbish. Why do people need an excuse of powder and a rave to ask someone for sex?

Fuck if I know.

[Despite coming to these sorts of parties and despite all the flirting he does, Taako really isn't big on casual sex.]

Guess it's kinda more acceptable if everyone's doing it? For people who'd be nervous otherwise?

I guess.

[ jyn thinks about sex approximately once in a blue moon, simply because it didn't exactly square into a lifetime devoted to survival and then prison. well, it could have squared into prison but she was going to die there anyway so there wouldn't have been a point.

there's less survival and prison here but it still means very little to her. it's just not important. ]

And if you're into the voyeurism or group things that's harder to find, you know?

[It's unlikely that she does know, but it's just a figure of speech.

Anyway, she doesn't really need to answer the question because Taako makes an aha sound as they reach the edge of the dancefloor and he scoops up Cassian's jacket from where it fell between two couches. One of the couches is very much occupied, but that's fine, they can ignore that.]

Here you go, my dude.

[ she does not know and she is grateful for the distraction because she really doesn't want to see another penis tonight. she takes the jacket gratefully, tugging it on. from the way the sleeves have been rolled up, it's clear she was the one wearing it earlier which is how it was lost in the first place. ]

Thanks, Taako.

Don't mention it, darling, you need an escort outta here to protect you from all the nipples?

[It's almost a nice gesture that he absolutely ruined by being a dick about it.]

I'm not afraid of nipples, [ jyn mutters, making a face at taako even as she gestures for him to go ahead and lead on. he's taller than her, it was easy to wade through the crowd behind him. ]

Go on then.

[Everyone's taller than Jyn.]

It kinda seems like you are.

[He's just making fun of her, evident by the fact he looks back over his shoulder so he can grin at her.]

[ SHOVES HIM

she's about to defend herself like "i possess nipples therefore i am not afraid of them you absolute twat" but she honestly doesn't want to have that conversation/give taako any encouragement or ammunition so she just uses her newly learned sign language to flip him off again.

this is an excellent gesture. ]

[At the shove, Taako makes a valiant effort to keep upright even as the universe conspires against him. Or maybe it's his own fault for being under the influence of various substances. Either way, he gets shoved, he loses his footing, and next thing he knows he's on the ground.]

Shit - fuck - fuck you. [He's not that mad.] Help?

[He holds out a hand towards Jyn, because getting up when there are people everywhere is going to be an Ordeal and he'd like to get it done quickly.]

[ jyn cackles with laughter because she is a terrible person but an excellent faux baby sister lbr, leaning down to heave taako back to his feet. she's got guns, son, so it doesn't seem to take her much effort. ]

Poor lamb. [ she makes a show of dusting off his shoulders. ] There, there.

[Thank god one of them has muscles. Taako pouts once he's back on his feet, clearly so hurt by Jyn's actions.]

I'll turn you into a lamb if you do that shit again.

[He's too drunk for such a complicated spell, don't worry.]

If you turn me into a lamb, I'll eat all your clothes and shit on you bed.

[ she gestures him forward as if saying "go on, you big baby" ]

I live with Magnus, I can handle it.

[As revenge for her cruel shoving, Taako drapes an arm around Jyn's shoulders and leans all his weight against her, as if he's so injured he can't hold himself up.]

You're gonna have to carry me.

[ for some reason, miss personal space bubble the size of a dining room table doesn't seem to mind the way taako drapes around her like a festive mink stole. maybe she has finally gotten used to his Extra. ]

You weigh nothing, Taako. I could carry you like a bride if you'd like.

I prefer the term princess but please do, I'll pay you if you can carry my ass outta here.

[This idea is so funny to him.]

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