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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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mistyday: <user name=iconmunism site=tumblr.com> (lookin down)

[personal profile] mistyday 2018-07-23 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
(Relieved, she takes his hand to continue to guide him towards their destination.)

I need to learn to be more like you. I get angry too easy.
sentiences: (I'm a creature of emotion)

[personal profile] sentiences 2018-07-23 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
I think it's just harder for me. I've gotten frustrated before, but never angry.

I'm not even sure I know what it's like.
tevinteraltus: {<user name="anabiotic">} (040)

[personal profile] tevinteraltus 2018-07-23 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ He waves a hand dismissively. ]

Yes, yes. I despise confessions. [ A beat. ] You're welcome and all that. [ He does crack a slight smile after a moment, though. ] And of course it does.
analienprince: (t ) dimples)

[personal profile] analienprince 2018-07-23 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Normal heads, wings... really creepy mash-up of people and birds. There was also a dimension with killer bunnies. I'll never be able to look at one the same way again.

[He flashes a grin.]

But have you seen anything that weird around here? Just got here, so I'm not entirely sure what to expect.
analienprince: (t ) dimples)

[personal profile] analienprince 2018-07-23 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Sure, alright. I'll hit you up sometime, Speed.

[Considering he hadn't seen him for months back home? Tommy can totally bet he actually is going to drag him out the first chance he gets.]

See you around.
hylights: (Cornflower)

[personal profile] hylights 2018-07-23 10:13 am (UTC)(link)
Not too far. I usually go with a member of the Perimetre Guard.

[Her combat skills are non-existent, so reconnaissance is as much as she gets up to.]

I think it depends on the magic. I'm sure there must be some that you can learn. Others are innate, but there's such a variety that I'm positive some can be taught.
scholiast: <user name=anonbeadraws site=tumblr.com> (☆ oh my friends i am heavy)

[personal profile] scholiast 2018-07-23 11:31 am (UTC)(link)
I know.

(It is good they came out of there alive, that's... all Lucretia has ever wanted, for all six of them. To be alive, to be fine. What wouldn't she do to keep them safe? She threw Cam to the wolves and barely paused to look back, and she's struggling to deal with that.

She leans into Magnus with a tight sigh, stress making her fidgety.)


Magnus– I miss you all, so much. (She's not talking about the Quarantine, obviously.)
scholiast: taz graphic novel by carey pietsch (★ you're absolutely right)

[personal profile] scholiast 2018-07-23 11:45 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, of course, (she echoes, and laughs.)

I think we should work on something together sometime. Pool our knowledge. Have I tried to convince you to do this before?

(She feels like she may have pitched this, but honestly, Lucretia tries to get everybody to collaborate with her sooner or later. Maybe it's residual habit from being a ghost writer: she always wants to work with other people.)
mistyday: <user name=iconmunism site=tumblr.com> (listen)

[personal profile] mistyday 2018-07-23 04:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Really? Well... it's like if you multiplied that frustrated feeling by a a thousand and you just feel like you gotta yell or destroy something, just to get the feeling out of you.
bythehand: (where's rey?)

[personal profile] bythehand 2018-07-23 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Or there was an Empire. Then a New Republic.

[ He's a soldier, not a politician. Never thought to straight-up regret that before now. Finn hesitates. ]

Look, why don't I buy you a caf or something? We can sit down somewhere and I'll explain what I can. Maybe call my friend. He knows more than I do. I'll be the first one to admit I don't really know what I'm doing here.
sentiences: (Only if you persist)

[personal profile] sentiences 2018-07-24 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Dorian chuckles. ]

I'm pretty sure if I exhibited that kind of behavior, I'd be malfunctioning.
mistyday: <user name=iconmunism site=tumblr.com> (yeah right)

[personal profile] mistyday 2018-07-24 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
Sounds about right. People do stupid things when they're angry.
sentiences: (The resentment becomes stronger.)

[personal profile] sentiences 2018-07-24 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
I malfunctioned once, but I wasn't really angry. Just really erratic.
11calls: Take a nap, Strand. You look worse than I do. (Driving.)

[personal profile] 11calls 2018-07-24 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Alex is only slightly taller than Padme, so she just grinned at that, because she definitely gets it. It seems like nearly everyone in her life is taller than she is. It used to be more of a problem than it is; now it's only when someone intentionally tosses something on a higher shelf.

But her attention is focused on the other woman when she explains, and Alex just nodded for a minute.
]

It sounds a little like the difference between frogs and tadpoles honestly. Even if I'm assuming one isn't the baby of the other.
mistyday: <user name=iconmunism site=tumblr.com> (listen)

[personal profile] mistyday 2018-07-25 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
What happened?
sentiences: (The saddest aspect of life right)

[personal profile] sentiences 2018-07-25 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing special. I was just on a low charge.
mistyday: <user name=iconmunism site=tumblr.com> (sure)

[personal profile] mistyday 2018-07-26 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
How do you charge up? Do you have to... plug into the wall or something?
sentiences: (Than society gathers wisdom)

[personal profile] sentiences 2018-07-26 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ He smiles. ]

Close enough. We need to use charging stations. During that week, we were low on power and I wasn't considered a priority.
tevinteraltus: {<user name="anabiotic">} (006)

[personal profile] tevinteraltus 2018-07-26 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You haven't.

[ Though he does chuckle at her response, glad the topic had been shifted away from, well, personal things. Things like that should just be understood for Maker's sake. They needn't be discussed. ]

You should be warned, however, I take very little prodding in that regard.
democratically: (wayward)

[personal profile] democratically 2018-07-26 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. That does make sense.

[Having back-up, so to speak, in a strange place. Padmé typically has those who protect her. She isn't a soldier by any means, and while she can defend herself, fighting has never been her go to.]

I see. I suppose it is like anything else with life. It varies.
democratically: (packing glance)

[personal profile] democratically 2018-07-26 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[That delicate furrow of her forehead, finding that all a little confusing. But at his words, she pauses, before giving a small nod of her head, and yes, there might be the hint of a warmth smile on her lips at his admission.]

If you think he would be able to clarify, and it is no inconvenience for anyone, I would appreciate that.
valr: (where everything goes wrong)

[personal profile] valr 2018-07-26 09:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Only the Norns truly know, but many believe the universe will be reborn. Better than it was before.

[There are specific myths and stories about it, but Kara knows that the world can't be successfully repopulated by two people. She knows her gods exist, she knows magic exists, but there are limits to what can be done, and she takes all stories with a grain of salt.]
neversurrender: (byfamira_026)

[personal profile] neversurrender 2018-07-26 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[Steve just looks amused.]

If you're ready to take your life in your own hands.

I'd hate to have to tell Tony that you came down with a bad stomach bug on my watch though.
neversurrender: (steve6_heros-quandry)

[personal profile] neversurrender 2018-07-26 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[He inspects the apartment curiously as Rey retrieves his gift. It seems clean and put together, if a little sparse, not unlike his own room at the Community Housing building. The plants scattered around are a nice touch that he's not surprised by. Perhaps it's even giving him an idea about what kind of gift he should get her in return...

When she approaches, with the box in hand, he accepts it carefully, surprised by its size.]


Should I open it here?

[He knows that some like to watch as their presents are opened and received, but he doesn't want to make a mess in her space without asking first.]
neversurrender: (steve7_heros-quandry)

[personal profile] neversurrender 2018-07-26 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Killer bunnies?

[He stares at the teen like he's expecting a punchline to be forthcoming.]

Um, yeah. There's plenty of weird and dangerous creatures out in the forest outside the Quarantine. Things I've never seen before.