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!

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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Comments

[bythehand]

[ Everyone's different about these things in their own way. Finn likes seeing it, same as he liked it better when he could see his old team's faces instead of the helmets. The expressions and tics. The things that make people unique.

Bold tends to work with Finn, too. Jim looks handsome with his head tilted back, but he looks just as handsome looking down. There's something gratifying about that, the steadiness of his gaze, the careful way he brings his hand up.

The thrust is slow and careful-- not hard to adjust for. An interesting feeling. Experimental, maybe, not unlike the way Finn had tentatively worked up to tugging on Jim's hair. Finn is maybe not completely sure what the protocol is to answer in the affirmative without having to take a break for words. So he keeps his eyes on Jim's instead, half-piqued interest and half-challenge. Works his tongue a little where it's pressing against the underside of the shaft. Follows Jim's hips down when they drop before starting to pull back again.

He moves just a touch more slowly, which he's hoping comes across as sort of an invitation to keep going. ]

[winscenario]

[ It's slow and tentative for Finn's sake entirely. Though he seems fairly at ease, Jim knows better than to get too rough when he doesn't know just how used to this Finn is. Not very, he has a feeling. He did say he doesn't get to do this for people very often.

The eye contact is one thing he appreciates immensely. Some people tend to get awkward or flustered about it, but not him, and clearly not Finn either. It only adds to his arousal, his skin warming all over from that connection alone, his free hand curling into Finn's shoulder and holding on just as Finn takes him in slower.

It's a hint, if he ever saw one. The tongue working against his shaft draws a mewl from him, and he lifts his hips up again, finding the friction far more gratifying when he thrusts into Finn's mouth a little faster and deeper, and finding that it feels tighter around him too, with the press of that tongue. If Finn doesn't protest or show any signs of discomfort, he follows that thrust with another one right after. ]

[bythehand]

[ Not very is an accurate assessment. It's a lot of fine-line-walking in practice. Trusting his intuition's been handy, and not getting gun-shy (so to speak) has done him a few favors in the time he's been letting himself try to get out there.

Every person brings their own learning curve, and trying to figure out what they'll like is much easier with a partner who has patience and restraint. Trying to figure out the limitations on what he can give is particularly easier with patience and restraint. There's... mutual vulnerability. Balancing of control. Getting used to a little bit of jaw soreness, too, but that's more like being sore after a very satisfying workout.

The next thrust is an adjustment. The one following it comes a little easier. Not exactly hitting the limit, but skirting the edge of how much he knows he can take in at once for sure. Finn doesn't brook any protest over it. After a moment's consideration he splays the fingers of his free hand on one of Jim's hips as a precautionary measure. It feels like a solid strategy just in case he goes down a little too far trying to meet Jim halfway. It might be a matter of time. Probably good to have the leverage for a quick readjustment if it does.

What Finn mostly knows right now is that gagging himself is not now, nor has it ever been, on his acceptable things to do when going down on someone list. ]

[winscenario]

[ Restraint has gone a little out the window, at this point. Jim's just good at pacing himself, even when he doesn't have the presence of mind to put a lot of thought into it. Finn's hand on his hip helps, it's an anchor that relaxes him, knowing he'll be able to stop Jim if he gets too excited.

It's bound to happen at this point, and likely with no warning. Jim's trying not to lose his grip on the moment (and on Finn), but the way Finn hollows out his cheeks around him, sucking harder, coupled with the set pace of his thrusts, is steadily making his blood run faster and hotter, feeling his every pore tingle with excitement, the skin on his forehead and down his neck even getting a little sweaty. ]

Finn, [ His voice trembles, dissolves into a shivered whimper. His lips part and he wets them, trying and failing to control his ragged breathing. His fingers curl tighter, and his hips roll a little sharper against Finn's mouth. The hand on his hip will definitely come in handy right about now. ] I'm, hah— I'm gonna...

[bythehand]

[ Oh, wow, okay, yeah, turns out the hand was a very useful tool in his arsenal. He's gonna remember that one in the future.

He experiences a hot second, no pun intended, where the head of Jim's cock pushes pretty well into uncharted throat territory on one of those sharper thrusts, and back out again just as quickly. It's an interesting second. Because as far as thinking goes, he gets a better picture of what's good about taking someone in that far, where the muscles in his throat are busy preparing to throw a full-on revolt if something doesn't change ASAP. What Finn's learned today is that some things definitely take more practice to master than he's managed in his life.

He's quick to put some pressure onto Jim's hip before he ends up catching another harder thrust on the downswing. Not with the intention of holding him completely still, but definitely angling to keep things from making the journey from a skipped heartbeat and slightly watery eyes to all-out gagging. Good to try to stay within the limits of his limits right about now. As it turns out, pushing some limits is less than graceful.

For lack of a thumbs-up to give, Finn acknowledges Jim's words by making another wordless sound around him, not bothering to pull off. He doesn't mind swallowing. At the very least, it saves a mess. ]

[winscenario]

[ Very useful, indeed. It's not that Jim does it on purpose, really, but it's kind of hard to hold himself back when he's riding fast towards his orgasm, the peak closer and closer as they both keep going. Finn clearly shows no signs of wanting to slow down or stop, and Jim's a little past the point of being able to on his own.

He heeds the push of that hand, at least, and his hips don't move quite as sharply again. He still rolls them in short little thrusts, though, a bit shallower now, his gasps and moans louder the closer he gets. His fingers curl and his nails dig into the back of Finn's neck, hopefully not enough to hurt, but admittedly he's not paying much attention to that.

Between his hips and Finn's head moving almost in tandem, and that sound turning to vibration around his cock, it's but a few seconds before he reaches the edge and climaxes. He cries out, hips jerking once, twice, then he comes in spurts into Finn's mouth, his whole body tensing and trembling as his orgasm washes over him. ]

[bythehand]

[ There it is.

And there's an undeniable gratification in getting someone there.

Finn nurses Jim through his orgasm until he stops feeling the minute twitching of aftershocks against his tongue, careful as he eventually pulls back off. He swallows with a little bit of a grimace-- poker faces have never been in his skill set-- and wipes his mouth on the back of his forearm, suddenly more keenly aware of their surroundings without all his focus narrowed onto one point.

Bit of a sore jaw. A little residual sting where Jim's nails were digging in. Sort of nice to have the evidence after the fact, though. And nice to take a few moments for them to start catching their breath. ]

Okay? [ Look. He's got his priorities in order here. And asking if people are okay is sort of his default question. ]

[winscenario]

[ Jim's not quite... there, afterwards. His eyes are turned somewhere to Finn's general direction, but shapes are a little blurred around the edges, the skin he's touching hot and tingling against his fingertips. He pants heavily for air, then his body slumps, sinking fully to the couch with his head falling back against the seat.

The question draws a breathless laugh from him. He doesn't answer right away, just nods instead. It just takes a few seconds for him to manage a coherent thought, let alone string any words together. ]

Yeah... Very— very okay. [ Grinning, he moves a little groggily, reaching down to Finn's arms to tug him up. ] Get up here. Couch.

[bythehand]

Good. [ You know what. He's gonna dare to take these as good signs. Now is the penultimate time for a little optimism to go a long way.

It's good to be able to have a good time together.

Finn doesn't need to be groggily asked twice. He gets to his feet and pulls up a seat right next to Jim. The day he prefers having a personal bubble is the day he dies. ]

[winscenario]

[ Oh, they're very good signs. For future reference, whenever Finn manages to turn anyone into a living puddle like this, it's definitely a great sign.

He curls his arms around Finn's neck the moment he's sitting next to him, guiding him to lie down on the couch and following suit, until Finn has his own blanket of space captain. He's giggling as he leans in to kiss him on the lips again.

Personal space? Sounds fake. ]

Not in a rush, I hope...

[bythehand]

[ "Personal space? Sounds fake." is a slogan that could herald this entire friendship. And Finn likes that.

He has all of zero complaints about getting a free person-shaped blanket. When Jim seems more or less settled on top of him, Finn wraps an arm over his back to help keep him in place and because it's a nice way to get the extra contact. ]

I've got time if you've got time.

[winscenario]

[ Jim sighs contentedly. The arm looked around him is all the sign he needs that Finn isn't thinking of moving away or going anywhere anytime soon. ]

Told you— I've got all night.

[ Which is a good thing, even better if Finn's just as free. He may be a little worn out right now, but he's not nearly done with him yet. ]

[bythehand]

Good to hear. [ As far as he knows, he doesn't have plans lined up either. This is a pleasant turnout for a night where he'd mostly just planned on jumping around a dance floor with a bunch of people.

Finn finds himself weirdly unconcerned with the idea that someone else might walk in here for the same semi-privacy perks. ]

Let me know if this gets uncomfortable. [ Otherwise like. Why move. ]

[winscenario]

[ See, this is why Jim tries not to make a lot of plans; he often ends up getting pleasantly surprised, and hardly ever disappointed. Also if someone were to walk in right now, he'd just tell them to get lost and find their own private little corner. This one's taken, thank you very much. ]

Mm, trust me, when I move it won't be because I'm uncomfortable. [ He looks up at Finn with a smirk, winking at him, just before leaning in for another slow, drawn-out kiss. ]