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monthly mingle: PRIJATA

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: monthly mingle: prijata
when: the month of june
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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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[He doesn't get the pun, but that's fair.]

Gods, what is it with kids? We picked up this little shit of a detective at one point. He ended up working for the Bureau cause he figured out all their secrets.

No. ( the answer does function for both questions: no, he isn't going to try it himself and no, he hasn't received a gift. not that damian expects one, nor does he need one. still, he raises eyes when addressed, brows furrowed when he looks thor over.

notes his massive stature, the winged helmet, mid 30s give or take a few years, most likely -- )

You are?

[ Nobody does, it's kind of the point. ]

A detective? That sounds useful, at least. Ours is a little bird girl who mimics everything she hears.

I'd get sick of that shit real fast.

[He's not a good person but it's not like he pretends to be.]

Ango is an alright kid, I taught him a couple spells so he can fuck people up if he's gotta.

It's a bit of an experience.

[ Honestly. ]

So you have your very own little apprentice?

[He sounds way too fond when talking about Angus.]

Apparently, do not ask me how it happened cause I'm not usually a fan of kids. I also don't know where the fuck he picked up some bard spells from, I definitely didn't teach him those.

[Griffin explain.]

[ He squeezes the teddy bear a little. Well, if she insists... ]

Yeah yeah yeah, he's now my son! I'll be the best dad for him! [ His mind is already racing for names to give this inanimate toy. ] I was never a dad before but I'll do my best!

[Good! He hasn't frightened her. That's the last thing he wants and, sometimes, the first thing he gets, even now. But it's a work in progress. He's getting there. Seeing that she's not nervous of him, he chances a step closer.]

Oh, indeed we do. I saw the network and the illness that seemed to touch some of us. I wasn't one of the ones affected, but I am glad to see it's over. I felt so helpless in it all, but I can only imagine how the others felt.

[That smile is encouraging.]

Eh, I might say it wouldn't, but I like to hope. I haven't tried my luck with it yet. I've been watching people try it for themselves to see what happens. The delight on their face is heartening after everything.

[He looks down at the voice, offering a smile on reflex. He doesn't remove them unless he needs them, but his own dual blades hang on his hips at all times, and seeing what he can of the human's blade, he'd be hesitant to draw his against the man in sparring. He always is, out of caution, given his size.]

I... would say that could be possible, but never underestimate an opponent. You may very well bring me to my knees if we were to do serious battle. But in sparring, I don't use my blades, only practice staffs. As a knight of my kind, I tend to practice daily to keep up my form. How are you with it? [It's not a challenge. He's genuinely curious, and maybe a little hopeful that he has found a friend in the art.]

[ Crazy scary master wizard has a soft spot. Just... filing that away for now. ]

Talented kid. Dual-classing already.

Right? I just stuck with wizard shit cause I didn't wanna fuck around with anything else, although we really could've used another healer, our cleric is shit.

[dunks on Merle always.]

Our cleric is quite lovely, but she's not used to primarily being a healer, so we go through a lot of health potions.

[ Level 5, ladies and gentlemen. ]

And they're so fucking expensive, too.

[As if tres horny boys weren't rolling in gold by the end of things.]

We all learnt our way around actual fucking first aid eventually, I've gotten more stitches from one of our other wizards than I've had healing from our cleric.

Oh, yes! Horribly expensive, we're lucky killing monsters is lucrative.

[ So much gold, so much fun shit you can buy with it! ]

That's... quite impressive, though. Surely your cleric would be as powerful as you?

[Thor submits to the once-over, holding his gaze steady on the young man's face.] I have. A fine flask, with what I believe is mead from my father's vault.

[He holds up the small silver flask, decorated with a tree motif (someone observant will notice it's not just a tree depicted, but the tree with all its roots and... more. Someone who knows their mythology may connect it to Yggdrasil, the world tree).]

He'll be in a temper if he ever finds it missing. [That sets a grin on his face.]

I mean, sure, theoretically, but he doesn't know how to be a cleric, you know? He spends half our fights casting useless shit and forgetting he can like, heal or buff us.

[That's not entirely true, but Merle is kind of a forgetful and does tend to use ineffective spells. Also Taako likes giving him shit.]

Also he made me listen to him have sex with plants one time so like, I'm never gonna forgive that.

( the norse mythology reference doesn't go missed. it wasn't a field of interest, but it was one he learned. that, in addition to the helm and the gaudy way this man is dressed speaks volumes. unnecessary information, honestly, but he gives it so easy.

his words help confirm what damian suspects, too: this fountain is giving out items of value, things that hold meaning in some shape or form to the individual it's passing it out to. items from home, or close replicates. the fountain is picking up information from individuals.

damian will figure out how. )

You're intending to drink it, I presume.

[Padmé would like to say that it was easy to make change, but the truth of the matter was that the checks and balances that kept any one individual from doing anything drastic also hindered at times. It kept change from happening. At times it seemed insurmountable, the number of wrongs to be righted, although Padmé always tries to think about it as taking one step at a time.

It does sound a bit like another planet that she knows.]

A little like Tatooine then. One sun and moon, or more, like Tatooine?

[Padmé would be the first to admit that Tatooine had not been a place that she had enjoyed. It was too hot to start with, too dry as well. She contemplates for a moment, before settling on the fact that she knows little of the history of other planets that fall outside of her scope. Still, how many ships lay scattered around Jakku?]

Molly. Nice to meet you, then.

[ For just a moment, Ryan is mesmerized by the flicking tail. Not that he'd never seen a person with a tail before, just-- it catches his attention in a way he can't really describe. The dogs don't seem to notice as much. Either that, or they're trying to be as good as possible to get more treats. Probably the latter.

He returns to reality quickly, rubbing idly at the back of his neck. He realizes that he's lucky to be human the majority of the time; he doesn't try to hide who or what he is, when it comes up. It just doesn't come up that often. ]

Mm. Since we're all in the same boat, people here seem to be pretty understanding of different worlds and cultures. At worst, most people are disinterested and at best they're curious. Maybe a little invasive but it's better than getting driven out of town.

It's likely sat in a barrel in my father's vaults since before I was young. [And even he couldn't tell you how long ago that was.] I'd do it disservice not to drink it, do you not think?

[His smile hasn't changed, but there's a twinkle in his eye that might give the young man an indication he's being gently teased. Is he going to drink it? Of course. Drinking is among the things he does best.]

( so you just pull a thing of mead out of a magic fountain and trust that fountain enough to put that thing into your body. yeah, okay, sounds legitimate.

the expression on his face speaks otherwise. nose pinched, lips twisted down into a scowl and clear distaste written on his face. )

You do realize you pulled that out of a fountain and have no way to prove it's origins, correct?

[It's an effort not to laugh at the expression, but Thor manages.] Oh, there's one way I can think of. [In a fluid motion he uncaps the flask and takes a small swig. As soon as the cap's off the smell of honey and apples fills the air, so potent is the drink.

Thor had planned just to take a drink to prove it was safe, but when he takes the flask from his lips pauses. This may be the best mead he's ever had- certainly it's not the brew Odin serves daily at his table. This is the good stuff.

Give him a moment. If he was any kind of bard he might attempt poetry.] Ymir's balls, that's good. [He's definitely not a poet]

( categorizing thor into the same section of big, stupid losers as todd is in. maybe a step lower. he's well-muscled, built to fight but damian doesn't know what this man uses it for. he knows where he stands with todd well enough. where others do. thor is still a mystery.

the sour face shifts to curious for a mere moment before it's shifting back to. disgust. disgust at this man who does idiotic things without stopping to think about what repressions could have occurred, even if they haven't (yet). lips curl up just enough to show a row of teeth, head tilted up to watch for any signs of poison, being drugged--what have you. )

I'm surprised you've managed to live this long.

[It's still a moment before Thor reacts to the young man, slipping the cap back on the flask and making a note to share it with the other Thor and his brothers here. If anyone can appreciate this brew it'll be them. The flask is tucked away on his person for safekeeping.]

It would take a strong potion indeed to fell the son of Odin. [He doesn't mistake the child's meaning, but there are perks to being Thor, and one of them is having a constution that mountains would bounce off of. But perhaps that expression from the young man is concern?] Do not fear, child. Even if it were full of dragon's blood, this small flask wouldn't contain enough to make me unwell.

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