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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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[She had been worried the stranger might have been offended - goddess knows some people have been - so it's a relief when he doesn't seem to mind. A grin tugs at her lips as she examines the photo on the phone.]

You may be right. Though I expect they will delete them all at the end of the day, which is a shame.

True art is temporary.

[He sounds so very serious when he says that, before he laughs.]

Real talk, I don't think the world's gonna miss one photo of ya boy, there are plenty already.

[He takes... many selfies.]

[She can't help it - she laughs too.]

Do you take a lot of photos then? I have a bad habit of doing that too, in places like this. It's just so easy to do here.

[He's gay and has access to instagram, of course he takes lots of photos.]

Some people would probably say I take too many photos, but they're just cowards. I didn't get one of these phones with like 50 gigs of storage to not take a fuckload of photos.

I don't see how anyone can take too many. Isn't that what the function is for?

[Whether it's for selfies or landscape shots, she doesn't get why anyone would stop taking photos if they didn't want to.]

I used to run out of space on the Slate all the time, so these phones are really wonderful.

Oh, they're just cowards.

[He offers this as though it's any kind of explanation, like his train of thought isn't the most ridiculous thing to follow.]

I'm guessing a Slate is some kinda camera?

[That's confusing. On several levels.]

Well... if that's true, then it's a bit sad. Maybe they just don't understand it.

[Zelda nods then, and points at one of the nearby displays.]

Something like these - the tablets. It does have a camera in it, though it only holds thirty-six images. I used to have to delete things all the time.

I'll be real with you, I don't understand most humans.

[This isn't entirely true, he understands humans from his world just fine, it's the Earth ones that are weird.]

That's dope though. We had like - stones of farspeech? But you could only talk and hear someone on the other end, not anything with texting or cameras or whatever.

I hadn't met any before I came to the Quarantine, but they don't seem so different to me. [Other than the ears, as far as she can tell.] Of course they're all from other worlds, so there's a lot I don't understand about those.

[She perks up at the idea of the stones, because how fascinating.]

You could talk to people on these stones? That's still better than sending a messenger or a letter. Did they work a bit like talking on these phones?

Are you guys just missing humans or do you not have any other races?

[He's still used to 'races' as the descriptor for things like humans and elves and dwarves, rather than 'species' or anything else. It's just familiar.]

Kinda exactly like the phones, you'd just attune your stone to someone else's and then you could chat with them whenever. Real useful when we were halfway across the continent and needed info on whatever dipshit we were fighting.

Oh, we do have other races. There are five peoples in Hyrule; Hylians are just the most numerous.

[And the most similar to humans, from what she's seen. She does pause over 'dipshit', but recovers.]

That's amazing. These phones really do make a difference. It's funny how quickly I've gotten used to the idea of being able to call someone no matter where they are. It saves a lot of time. Were the stones enchanted somehow?

I guess five is better than one, I could not even count how many we've got.

[There are the basics, sure, but once you start getting into aaracokra and giants and all that stuff it's hard to keep track.]

Super enchanted, it's not really area but if I had to gues it's a modified version of the sending spell, maybe with some divination thrown in for actually like knowing who to call. They worked across planes too, which I do not think the phones here can do.

Really, there's that many? You must have a large world.

[She's begun to get the idea from speaking to others in this place that what she knows of Hyrule may not be the sum total of the whole 'world'. It makes her adventurous side itch to go beyond the cliffs or the sea, and see what else is out there.]

Planes - those are like other realms, aren't they. I can't imagine the logistics of putting together magic that would do something like that. Technology I understand a bit better, but-- [A shrug.] I'm still learning there.

It's like... a regular planet? I dunno exact size or whatever, we don't really have the science for that.

[Maybe Miller could figure it out but it's never really occurred to Taako to care about the size of Aebir-Toril, at least not until he realized it wasn't home.]

I am definitely more a magic than technology kinda dude, I mean I get the basics of tech but I've been studying magic a lot longer.

[Zelda stifles a laugh. Really, she had no idea either what was considered a large world.]

Neither do we, so your guess is as good as mine.

I've been researching technology for years, but the ancient kind that used to exist in my world. It's been more like working out a puzzle without instructions or diagrams. Magic was something I couldn't really study.

[Much to her continued pain, though that's long past now. The vagaries of her bloodline were never something written down for later reference.]

[Magic is way cooler than tech so he's gonna focus on that, sorry Zelda.]

Cause there was no one to teach you or is your world one of those weird ones where magic is like-- where people aren't cool with it?

[She's talked about it fairly casually so far, but you never know.]

No, nothing like that. Magic isn't very common but I've not heard of anyone having problems with it.

There weren't really any teachers for the kind of magic I can use.

[Not since her mother died.]

I guess that's not like, the worst.

[Since obviously the worst would be if magic were outlawed and people thought using magic made you a demon or whatever. Thanks, Dragon Age.]

You've checked out Gramarye, right? There's gotta be something in their library or some thug working there who knows whatever your magic is.

[She stifles a laugh, covering her mouth.]

I actually work there myself, so yes. Though I hadn't even thought about looking up things about my own magic.

[After all, she knows more about that than anyone else alive, and there's plenty of new things to learn here.]

Oh, well-- [He laughs a little too, because yeah that was maybe a silly suggestion in retrospect.] At least you don't gotta break in to check out their books if you do wanna look up anything from your world.

[It's such an outlandish idea that she can't help but smile in return.]

That's true. The temptation might be too much otherwise.

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so sorry for the late reply!

no worries! if you wanna wrap it and start something new that's cool

sounds good c: