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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2018-06-02 10:21 pm
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monthly mingle: PRIJATA

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: monthly mingle: prijata
when: the month of june
where: anywhere around the city
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

prijata


In the days leading up to June 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: Prijata. Riverview Quarantine has a strong culture of love, and they celebrate all types - Prijata is a special celebration of platonic love and building community through friendship. Prijata traditions include gift exchanges between friends, sharing meals cooked together by friend groups, and a variety of events and services aimed at making friends.

a celebration of platonic love


Prijata is a relatively relaxed holiday, focused mainly on friendship and platonic love - dedicated to appreciating the friends already in one's life, and opening oneself up to making new friends. Besides the private giving of gifts between friends, there is also a city-wide government-sponsored gift fountain that is open throughout the entire month. Included in the wide variety of events catered to finding new friends, are 'speed friending' and a large open exhibition where all the specialized clubs in Riverview can recruit for new members - and residents new or old can create a club and recruit.


i. gift fountain

While Prijata gift exchanges between friends are generally a quiet affair, done at friend-group dinners or parties, the element of gift giving does extend outward - community-wide, in fact. Throughout the course of the month, anyone living in Riverview Quarantine can drop by the huge fountain in the City Center, in front of the City Hall. They will find that the fountain is chock full of floating gift boxes in a wide variety of colors, patterns, and different shapes - though none larger than a shoe box. There are signs put up around the fountain stating that the boxes are magic and will only seek and open for their rightful owners. Characters will find that, upon touching the water, a box will float over to them, and when they pick it up, the top will unfurl like flower petals, displaying the gift inside. Sometimes, the box won't appear on the first try, since there's only so much space in the fountain at any given time, but if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Every person in the city (including new arrivals) will receive one gift by the end of the month.

Gift fountain boxes will contain one small item from each character's home dimension (or, for CRAUs, from their previous game), similar to the "items from home" bonus reward, but without needing to spend points. The item should be small enough to fit in a shoebox, sentimental, and cannot be something intended for another person's character. If you can't think of an item like this that would work for your character, something of similar size and quality to what's described above that would make the character very happy can be substituted.

This prompt can also be used for gift exchanges and for characters to receive the Government-given gifts that were suggested in the Prijata Pregaming post on the meme community. Any newly apped character is welcome to post on the meme entry as soon as they're accepted, and will be linked to it in this month's acceptance notification, so to all you pre-existing players please keep looking at the Prijata Pregame meme throughout app week and afterward to help give new arrivals a warm friendly welcome!


ii. speed-friending

This is pretty much what it says on the tin! Much like speed-dating setups, many bars, coffee shops, and other places that people might gather are holding speed-friending! It's your standard setup - characters enter and fill out a quick questionnaire about themselves, and flit from table to table looking for someone with great friend chemistry. Not all of them are general and open to anyone who walks in, though, with many being specialized to people who are invested in certain hobbies, occupations, or with specific sets of interests. With specialized speed-friending setups ranging from horror movie buffs to members of the Perimeter Guard to fashionistas to sports or martial arts to video games, no matter what your character is into, they're likely to be able to sign up for a special event where they can go looking for a friend who's into the same things they are!

For this prompt, you can put up a list of hobbies or interests your character has, and compatible characters can hit them up for a speed-friending thread, like the IC equivalent of the CR meme!


iii. club exhibition

Speed-friending is all well and good, but not everyone is outgoing or open enough to know if they have friend chemistry in only a few minutes. For anyone looking to find groups of like-minded individuals they can spend more than a few minutes with before committing to something as daunting as a friendship, there is a month-long club exhibition happening in the Town Square in the City Center. Table after table and booth after booth are occupied by existing clubs in the city, with an incredibly broad scope of focus interests and hobbies - enough that any character should be able to find a club with their niche interest represented.

And if it isn't? Characters are welcome to start their own clubs - much like a business, a character-run club can have space set aside in the city for meetings and event mingles that are eligible for Activity Point Bonuses for the organizer.



iv. amusement park & waterfight

Remember the Amusement Park that citizens of the city were working together to clean up and power up a couple of months ago? Well, the endeavor has proven to be a success, and after a lot of hard work and technical expertise, the amusement park is up and running! For the first two weeks of June, admission will be free to honor those who helped make the park usable.

Sporting just about any amusement park ride you can think of, from kiddie rides, merry-go-rounds, and ferris wheels to high-speed roller coasters and more extreme rides for the thrill-seekers, the park takes it a step further by adding in a lot of different high-tech attractions not available at conventional amusement parks. It has banks and banks of VR simulators that allow park-goers to enjoy a variety of adventures and scenarios, or join shared mutual worlds with other users to explore or take out their aggression with a VR first-person shooter. There are also rows and rows of typical carnival games, some heavily rigged and some not, with prizes ranging from dollar store trinkets to stuffed animals to bits of advanced tech.

For the month of grand opening, though, the amusement park is offering a couple interesting events - a naming contest for the park, and a park-wide water fight.

The water fight is opt-in, with participants signing up and being given a purple or orange flag, tank top, or cap to wear marking them as to which team they're part of. There are buckets of water balloons around the park that are constantly being refilled by staff, and water fighters can participate in special target practice games to win the use of a watergun for the duration of the day - how big your watergun is depends on how well you do in the game! Ultimately, there aren't any real winners or losers, because the point is to get wet in the brand new summer heat, but it's always more fun to cool off with a bit of competition involved, right?

The naming contest is another story. Anyone who visits the park is welcome to think up a name for the park, and all entries will be listed on a large LED board. Every customer who enters the park is invited to vote for their favorite name, and the name with the most votes wins! To submit either an in-character suggestion or a suggestion from yourself as a player, hit up the thread below with a new top-level; whether or not you have a neat idea, place a vote for your favorite! Votes are one per player; suggestions are one per character.


v. roommates or wildcard

Feel free to use this prompt to set up headers for a communal floor, or threads open to roommates for the purpose of getting to know each other. Or if you have an idea for a prompt that isn't in this list, set during Prijata, feel free to write it up!



visual inspiration


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Credit: image i: Odysseas Stamoglou; image ii: Dave Arredondo; image iii: spainforpleasure.com; image iv: mit19237

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worldsaway: (pic#12372331)

[personal profile] worldsaway 2018-06-28 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[Thor grimaces, pulling a face like a sulking child.]

You're making it weird.
spellslots: (until you are dead)

[personal profile] spellslots 2018-06-28 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
I'm making it weird? Not you, the dude who took his shirt off and threatened to keep taking clothes off? That's not what's weird?

[He's being a little over the top here to make a point. The point is that Thor is ridiculous.]
worldsaway: (Default)

[personal profile] worldsaway 2018-06-28 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's weird that you think it's weird. Or that you don't...think it's weird? [He clears his throat.]

You didn't seem to mind.
spellslots: (on my quest to find really good)

[personal profile] spellslots 2018-06-28 06:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Taako just regards Thor for a moment, silently sipping his martini.]

You got real lost in the weeds in that one, huh? You wanna give it a second try?

[This still isn't fixing the frozen clothes problem, he's an ass.]
worldsaway: (Default)

[personal profile] worldsaway 2018-06-28 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
The only thing I want is to regain the sensation in my backside, thank you kindly.

[He looks like he kind of just expects to get his way here.]
spellslots: DNT (I know I've got a big ego)

[personal profile] spellslots 2018-06-28 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, he knows, which is partly why he's being difficult even though he could use a cantrip to fix this. ]

That's a whole other kinda problem, my man.
worldsaway: (pic#12371780)

[personal profile] worldsaway 2018-06-28 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
It's pretty much the entire problem, actually. [Just gonna brush that one off.]

I want you to remember that I was only ever good to you when I inevitably die from this.
spellslots: dnt (I wanna be a bottle blonde)

[personal profile] spellslots 2018-06-28 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
You abused your godly fucking powers to dump a cloud of water on me, that's not any kinda good.

[Also Thor isn't going to die from being chilly, so you know.]

Are you just worried about shrinkage?

[stop]
worldsaway: (pic#12372333)

[personal profile] worldsaway 2018-06-28 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
You used your magic to fool me, I had to enact divine justice upon you.

[Thor folds his arms over his chest, brow raised as if silently asking: really?]
spellslots: dnt (become worthless)

[personal profile] spellslots 2018-06-28 07:35 am (UTC)(link)
How long have you known Loki? And you let an illusion get ya? That one's on you, darling.

[It's true and he should say it.]
worldsaway: (Default)

[personal profile] worldsaway 2018-06-28 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
Am I supposed to feel bad for trusting you more than someone who made a childhood hobby out of finding new ways to stab me?
spellslots: DNT (to misbehave)

[personal profile] spellslots 2018-06-28 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
I mean, yes? Trusting me is always gonna be a stupid decision and you really should know that shit by now.

[That's less true, since he wouldn't actually hurt Thor or betray him. Or at least he wouldn't unless it was a choice between Thor and Lup but that's sort of a given with him.

It's just that trusting him in a situation like this is kinda dumb.]
worldsaway: (pic#12275290)

[personal profile] worldsaway 2018-06-28 07:56 am (UTC)(link)
It hasn't done me wrong so far- apart from this.

[He gestures down at his legs, but his shorts are thawing nicely in the warm weather.

He raises his arms and gestures for Taako to come toward him. Embrace him, coward.]
shoplifter: (pic#11752855)

[personal profile] shoplifter 2018-06-28 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
Forks are for squares, never use them. Laura does to appease some of the adults in her life, but really, she can't blame anyone for using their hands to eat. It's not like you can't wash them later, right? They're there to use, c'mon. "I don't think we have them in my world. We only have mutants — and there are not that many left anymore."

She would like to think there are people like Loki, magicians of sorts.

But she isn't holding her breath, because her world offers little comfort.
advanced: (Default)

[personal profile] advanced 2018-06-28 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[He wouldn't be surprise if the kid called him Stranger Danger anyway, if they were to run into each other again.]

It's Bucky.

[It still feels weird giving his real name out.]

Are you gonna be able to get home without puking?
scholiast: <user name=anonbeadraws site=tumblr.com> (★ looking at bev nudes)

[personal profile] scholiast 2018-06-28 01:19 pm (UTC)(link)
(No, not even a little bit!

Lucretia shrugs, glancing at her questionnaire.)


Nobody to write home about, but I don't regret coming. You?
scholiast: (shh its actually from snotgirl) (☆ sending memes)

[personal profile] scholiast 2018-06-28 01:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Feel free. I'll probably see you around, Mollymauk.

(It's a bit of a joke: because he's a tiefling? And he's purple? He kind of stands out. Either way, Lucretia gives him a little wave and takes her leave, already pulling her own phone out of her pocket to send Taako a curious text.)
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[personal profile] like_quicksilver 2018-06-28 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Maybe mutants in your world are descendants of gods, or perhaps the elves." Such things were possible; maybe the descendants didn't all have powers, but they were often chosen for one thing or another.

"Are you able to come to the stables, now?" She didn't like to think that there weren't so many gifted people in Laura's world anymore. Perhaps it could've just been a matter of time, but even she knew that many would fear such powers. "They shouldn't be so crowded."
wit_and_sword: (hunting/target spotted)

[personal profile] wit_and_sword 2018-06-28 04:55 pm (UTC)(link)
She nodded. "They are already dead to begin with. Cut off a hand, disembowel them, it would slow them down to be sure, but it will not stop them trying to claw and bite off human flesh."

There was some satisfaction on needlessly slicing up zombies of course, but the creatures were like any sort of pest; if there was one, likely there were others. To waste time hacking when they could simply be dispatched was a waste of energy and time.

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[personal profile] bestsir 2018-06-28 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
"I wonder," he says thoughtfully, "if a postmortem would reveal some manner of parasitic creature attached to the brain-stem or the spine. It has been theorised that some parasites or fungi may alter the behaviour of insects, for example—perhaps a highly complex parasite would be capable of—er—re-animating a human body."
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[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-28 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Who, me? I've dealt with way worse. Nothing'll ever top the coney dog challenge.

[He seems appeased despite being so stuffed.]

Maybe they'll let me curl up and sleep on the table... I'm not gonna be betting any money this time though. [is that because you don't have any-] Is Bucky a nickname? I can't think of what it'd be short for. Peter's just — Peter. Nothing cool you can do with that.
armcollector: (from way up in the rafters)

[personal profile] armcollector 2018-06-28 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Magnus blows a raspberry.]

Did you even ask him?? Juice Goose, do you have a name already?

[Looking very intently into the mongoose's eyes...]
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[personal profile] tetherer 2018-06-28 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah. The third option would be what option the Nexus took. Of course, there were far more natives or descendants of refugees than there were refugees, so religious minorities managed to crop up mostly harmlessly for those that refused to convert.

Mostly. The Tetherer wasn't involved heavily in dealing with the occasional repercussions this had, but they've... been aware of what went on.
]

Yes, that... would be bad, without the proportion of functionally native families that the Nexus had. I would be interested to see what a universal religion would look like, though.
armcollector: (now trying to play fair)

[personal profile] armcollector 2018-06-28 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Magnus is also very bad at hiding what he's feeling. He takes a deep breath, and it's clear on his face: sympathy and guilt. Cisco may have said it's cool, and he does seem to be completely understanding, but Magnus can't help but feel as if he's hurt this person somehow.]

Man, of course I'll be your friend. Again. I love friends. Why would I not want to be friends?? Unless you're some kind of like, cartoonishly evil villain plotting to betray me or something. You're not, right?
spellslots: dnt (i dont care if this offends you but once)

[personal profile] spellslots 2018-06-28 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
[The mongoose stares intently back at Magnus, and without (verbal) prompting from Taako leans forward to gently bite Magnus on the noise.

As if that's an answer.]


He's not like the mongooses? Mongeese? Whatever. He's not like the ones from that animal world, he doesn't speak a language I understand.