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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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breqintopieces: (Staring)

[personal profile] breqintopieces 2018-06-05 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Breq shrugs, makes an ambivalent gesture with one hand.] Necessity, but I enjoyed the worlds I got a chance to visit. [The circumstances were less than ideal, but she couldn't have helped that, at the time.]

Traveling off the moon is difficult while in Quarantine, I'm told, but did you travel much before coming here?
analienprince: (Default)

[personal profile] analienprince 2018-06-05 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
[The touch makes him stiffen for a moment, jaw tightening. He didn't want to argue. He's tired of arguing He wants to go back home and climb into bed for a while, sleep it off.

Or maybe go out somewhere, see if he can find some other way to take aggression out, even if it means going out and finding another damn snake lizard thing to have a fight with.

But Billy is talking and Teddy can't just turn away and leave... when has he ever been able to?]


Oh, so you're not choosing, but you're choosing to be with Loki and not me. So in other words, choosing. Thanks for clarifying that, Billy. You're still choosing one of us... and I wouldn't choose between two of you. I'd make damn sure I didn't hurt either one of you any way that I could though.

[And he can't even believe he's arguing a ridiculous scenario like this anyway.] But I don't know what I would do either! How I'd do it. But do you really think I'm being unreasonable here, being hurt that my boyfriend moved on? It might have been six months for you, but it's barely been any time for me, Billy!

[His jaw tightens and he moves to push Billy's hand off. It comes back to that, right?] I left to get my head on straight... I was in counseling. I wasn't looking for anyone else to fall in love with because there's no one I could love more than you. I spent every day wanting to e-mail you and tell you all of that. But I had this group thing to go to and I thought I'd send it when I got back...

[But it doesn't seem to matter. Billy is still angry over it -- and he has a right to be. But Teddy feels like he has a right to be a little angry at the moment too.] But sure, I left. You decided to run away and stay here, start over. And I'm stuck in this nightmare. I don't know how to just be Teddy Altman. It's been Teddy and Billy for so long-- and I need to figure out how to be really alone. I'm not asking for a clone. No one could replace you, Billy Kaplan.

[He shakes his head. What does Billy want him to say? It's not okay. He's miserable. But--] Then don't fix it. Especially if your solution is cloning yourself. Clones never work out well.
infestedcouncilpresident: (Yeah that's alright I guess)

I don't actually play Street Fighter??? Why did I do this to myself!?

[personal profile] infestedcouncilpresident 2018-06-05 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Come ON Pete who doesn't watch anime?]

I can play most of them alright by now, but probably Guile. Him, or Laura is also strong.
analienprince: (Profile)

[personal profile] analienprince 2018-06-05 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Whoa, what kind of world do you come from? I mean if I can let you in on a secret... weird things aren't that uncommon on my world either.

[He pauses.]

Wait, did I get your name or not?
analienprince: (Dimples)

[personal profile] analienprince 2018-06-05 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
See? We've practically got to stick together.

[New Yorker solidarity and all that. Besides, Peter is a New Yorker who happens to love movies and comics. He can't let that get away, right?

He puts some cash down too, sliding up.]


Right? But as long as you don't start dressing like one... no camera around your neck at least.
wiccant: (nothing's gonna stop me.)

[personal profile] wiccant 2018-06-05 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't run away!!

I got stuck here, just like you did! I wanted to leave, just like you did!! I'm so sorry I was happy for the first time since you left! I didn't--

( now he's pissed. he's angry and yelling and wow this is a lot harder to stay quiet for than he really expected, and he wants to scream even louder maybe but where is that really going to get any of them? )

Fine. Fine! I'll break up with everyone! I won't choose, I'll just--I'll go somewhere else!

( fucking bye, because he's teleporting right out of this nonsense. )
madeupnames: <user name=recadreuse> (pic#12281750)

[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-05 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Man, that is — actually a perfect use of robotics, wow.

Any luck with perfecting it so far?

[Now that's a scary question, because there are multiple horrible answers.]
madeupnames: <user name=recadreuse> (pic#12281779)

[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-05 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
It sure does. I mean, just showing up in a new place alone is crazy as heck.

[He breathes in, looking around with a sort of optimism.]

But there's a lot of really awesome and nice people here, who'll help whoever needs it. And there are always so many celebrations. Like — Prijata's all about friendship and coming together. It's pretty awesome, isn't it?
madeupnames: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (pic#12294768)

[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-05 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
Y — Yeah, like the comics.

[He seems a little stunned. Maybe because this guy just said they were murdered by aliens in space? Is that what's happening here? He's trying to wrap his mind around his serious response and how silly he is in delivery.]

You died? You're — dead? [He's being so goofy, though—] Are you just messing with me now?
talentedscavenger: (Half smile)

[personal profile] talentedscavenger 2018-06-05 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, I've heard of it. It's a very unique place in the Mid Rim.

[In that, it holds a lot of history within her world--which is to say, this woman could be from that world. And if this is the same Padme, this she would be from the past and Rey is from the future--the same as Kylo Ren. A few dozen things start to run through her mind, including telling Cassian, Jyn, Finn, and Poe. Because THIS is big news.

But again, that's assuming this is the same woman who Rey thinks she is.

Even as those thoughts rushed through her head, Rey managed to keep a calm expression. A hint of a smile is on her lips.]


It's not often you get to meet someone who is from your world--in a way. Not the same planet, but knows there's a Mid Rim and Outer Rim, and so on. I will admit, your name does sound a bit familiar.
analienprince: (Profile)

[personal profile] analienprince 2018-06-05 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
[If Teddy could actually find something strong enough to get him drunk, he might be tempted himself right now, but-- that's a difficult find when you have alien metabolism.

So, he'll take second best and approach the woman at the fountain that looks... oddly familiar to him. He knows better than to make assumptions about people here... too many similar faces. Still, even if she's not an old friend she's clearly someone who might do well with some company.

Hands slipped into his pocket, he approaches the fountain cautiously.]


... Not the gift you wanted?
wiccant: (like we weren't made for.)

[personal profile] wiccant 2018-06-05 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Same. I didn't really get along much with the normal school crowds. ( generally speaking being a scrawny, gay jewish kid didn't really lend to making friends. he's fine with who he is, didn't mind being loud about it nearly as much as everyone else around him did. billy's always been witty. definitely not good at handling himself around people bigger and stronger than him who were Out To Get Him.

not that they're here to exchange their sad superhero backstories. )


I played a lot of games, read a lot of books. . watched movies, those're more my speed.
analienprince: (Dimples)

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[personal profile] analienprince 2018-06-05 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
Actually-- yeah. I mean-- if you don't mind.

[This is Steve Rogers, right? Or it looks a lot like the Cap he knows, so Teddy definitely reminds himself to be respectful.

But honestly, the idea of working off some steam with some sparring sounds amazing right about now.

Especially against someone he knows has a lot of experience over him, who he won't have to worry about actually hurting all that much.]
analienprince: (???)

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[personal profile] analienprince 2018-06-05 05:06 am (UTC)(link)
So, space travel?

[Teddy thinks meeting some new people sounds like a fantastic idea, honestly, and space travel is at least something Teddy can relate to easily enough, even if he might not be all that great at engineering.]

What's your favorite thing about it?
yakyuuman: (198 homeruns)

[personal profile] yakyuuman 2018-06-05 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ He shakes his head so hard it becomes a whirring blur, but that lasts short. ]

No no, I'm alive now, and I'm not messing with you! It really happened! We died in space, then revived and returned to Earth!

[ Not that things specifically happened in that sequence, but that's a gag anime for you. Deaths handwaved and all that. ]

It was really fun! I wanna play baseball in space again!
madeupnames: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (pic#12294761)

[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-05 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Peter looks thoughtful for a moment. Yeah, he knows what it's like to be picked on and outcast and all that. Thank god he found Ned when he did, really, because that butthead did wonders for his self-esteem and not letting things bother him. And it helped him meet other people, too, like Michelle and the Decathalon team. Getting bit by a radioactive spider also helped a lot.

But sometimes it just takes getting out there and — um. Trying your damn best? That's not very motivational. Trying your best is hard. But he resolves to try his best here, then, and be decent company, even if words sometimes stick to the back of his throat.]


Movies, huh? Then — let's go see one? They've got movie places here, and they've got this movie about space dwarves that sounds like the coolest thing ever, honestly.

— I mean, if you're not busy.

If you want.

[Okay, half-confident. But still a perky effort to keep things light.]

I'll buy the gummy bears.
wiccant: (i'm taking over my body.)

[personal profile] wiccant 2018-06-05 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
( things william kaplan never thought would happen: getting invited to the movies by one (1) peter parker. who offers to cover the cost of gummy bears, what the heck. there's maybe a moment's pause before he's getting up off of the fountain's ledge, offering another smile as he pulls out his phone and swipes through to find the theater's app. )

I've got it. I--uh, have a job, but I don't have to pay rent or anything so I have a decent amount saved up.

And space dwarves definitely sounds like the coolest thing I've ever heard of.

( who doesn't like space dwarves? doom, that's who. )
madeupnames: <user name=touchstoned> (pic#12281839)

[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-05 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
Totally.

[Off we go then, huh? The walkways of Riverview do have a sort of New York aura to them, but the green lining so many things is kind of different from the concrete jungle aspect of it all. He tucks his hands into his pockets and kicks a pebble absently as he goes.]

I don't know, though — photography's pretty cool! I took a semester of it last year.

Imagine how many crazy pictures you could get, living on a moon.
suckstobestrange: (I worked my fingers to the bone)

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[personal profile] suckstobestrange 2018-06-05 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Stephen wouldn't be here, except Sam had insisted he at least give it a try. It wouldn't hurt anything. He needed to socialize. Stephen thought he was fine. Had plenty of friends and didn't need to try this speed-friending thing.

So they'd compromised and Stephen was here, the lanky black lab in a service dog vest and a blatantly Gryffindor-themed collar following easily at his heels, tail wagging lazily.

The sorcerer sank easily into the empty chair, cloak twitching eagerly because yay new person! Sirius sat himself neatly at Stephen's side, tail thumping once against the floor but otherwise quiet and attentive.

And clearly Sam had made Stephen fill his card out properly:
Name: Stephen Strange
Age: 94 couple hundred couple thousand ????
From: New York
Interests: Magic
-Books
-Good Pizza
-Dogs
-The Dog is Sirius and he's a fan of bacon
]


Peter The High School Student- that's gonna be awkward when you've graduated.
Edited 2018-06-05 06:22 (UTC)
shoplifter: (Well that sucks.)

[personal profile] shoplifter 2018-06-05 06:38 am (UTC)(link)
[It's funny how she immediately pulls her plate closer to her and hunches over it, like Bucky would just looove to steal away her pancakes for his own stomach pangs; it's a bit like a dog nipping at a hand in their foodbowl. But then she relaxes slightly, eyes softening from dangerous to earnest.

She looks down at her plate, and the genuine interest in this information isn't lost here.]


... I've never had marshmallows before.

[She's had most other sweets at this point, mad with power thanks to her newfound freedoms.

But not marshmallow.]
madeupnames: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (pic#12293268)

[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-05 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
[He chuckles a little, reminding himself mentally not to mess with the dog — he's clearly got work to do, or something. But god, it's a herculean effort, because he's so cute, and he definitely is decked out in Harry Potter merch—]

It sure will be. But I think it'll be a great conversation starter, right?

[We'll carry this joke into the grave, my dude.]

Is your age really a bunch of question marks? That's pretty, uh. Nifty.

[And immediately makes him think the guy might be a vampire.

... Just the first thought, really.]
madeupnames: (pic#12339900)

[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-05 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
I can't even imagine living in a small place like that... We've got over two million in Queens alone. Kind of a stack of different types of people, I guess — but that's what makes it so fun to run around in, y'know?

[It sure keeps a spider guy busy.]
suckstobestrange: (And a'driftin' out to sea)

[personal profile] suckstobestrange 2018-06-05 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Well it's already worked, so I guess I can't really argue that one.

[He could. He absolutely could but this is a kid so he's gonna be like... diet asshole.]

Honestly I don't know how the hell old I actually am. I'm not sure if time-loops or alternate timelines count, then there's the stuff I don't really remember-

Long story short, magic makes everything weird.

[As he spoke, he slipped a slice of meat off his plate, offering it to Sirius who was all too happy to pull a disappearing act on the treat with another wag of his tail.]
madeupnames: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (pic#12294763)

hang in there man, HANG IN THERE

[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-05 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He looks pleased as pie, thank you.]

Those aren't too shabby... I always liked Sakura; she's got a really great attitude, you know? But I usually only played it every once in a while at the arcade shop a few blocks over.
madeupnames: <user name=bushyeyebrows> (pic#12294745)

[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-05 06:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh my god, don't taunt me with the dog-feeding. I want to feed a dog.

Hnnngh.


But Peter will not be deterred from the conversation by cute dogs!]


I can imagine. I'm not real familiar with magic, but I'm used to superheroes with pretty cool powers. Like — Thor's a hero from home, but I don't know if that's actually magic lightning and thunder he shoots out of his magical hammer or what. [Some powered up folks get so touchy. But wait, something instantly is bothering him here—] You at least have a birthday, right? Everybody should get to have a birthday.