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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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[personal profile] nostalgiabomb 2018-06-12 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
—What's Inception?

[ the last good movie he probably saw as a kid was Who Framed Roger Rabbit? ]
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[personal profile] nostalgiabomb 2018-06-12 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Hey—

[ And the gun is successfully snatched from his hands. ]

—... so you steal?
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[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-12 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, c'mon, it's water wars. All's fair, and all that.

[The kids all cheer from the sidelines, like Spider-Man totally captured the bandit of the west or some cowboy business. He super dramatically holds the gun out, ready to take the dreaded outlaw Star-Lord down.]

Any last words, pardner?

[Yeah no he's in the role, he made it sound like country twang and everything.]
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[personal profile] nostalgiabomb 2018-06-12 06:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh what he didn't even see that water balloon there, and Peter snorts out his laughter when the poor purple team dude squawks with indignation with that final bit of salt in the wound.

But, listen, Peter's worked in enough team settings that when someone shouts, "Behind you!" he's not going to waste time by yelling, "What do you mean?!" he's just going to spin, gun at the ready, and—

Yep. That sure is a water balloon shattering across this weird, reddish shield.

That is so cool. ]


Where have you been all my life?

[ This, shouted as he dodges around the shield, spotting the other purple team member as they fumble with a second water balloon. They drop it with a frustrated noise as they reach for another one, but—

Peter just kinda. Blasts them in the face. Then laughs (cackles?!) as he dodges into cover. ]
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[personal profile] nostalgiabomb 2018-06-12 06:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Peter looks thoughtful for a second – either because he's seriously considering what his last words are going to be, or because he's wondering why the guy is doing a really awful John Wayne impression. ]

Yeah, I think so.

Time in!

[ And he's snatching a couple of water balloons hanging from his belt, chucking them at this weird guy with his weirder costume. But instead of using the distraction to run away, he surges forward.

Listen. Peter really likes that water gun. He plans on "forgetting" to give it back at the end of the day. Please return it, Red. ]
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[personal profile] armcollector 2018-06-12 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
FOUNTAIN

[Magnus opened his gift, received his sentimental trinket from home. That's done. Over with. This isn't about that.

Or he's trying to tell himself it's not about that.

After his arrival having sort of a rocky start, plunging right into where he apparently left off, only with a lot more strings and a lot more complications, a reminder was really the last thing he needed. But the fountain doesn't know that. It only gives.

Maybe he's trying to get his mind off of his gift by watching everyone else get theirs. Once or twice, he sees someone tear up, and he tears up with them. Crying is contagious, after all.

But he just... sits at the lip of the fountain, for a while. Soaks in other peoples' sentimentality. Makes easy conversation with people who notice him over the fantastical scene of spiraling gifts.

There's a time to rush around, and there's a time to rest.
]

SPEED-FRIENDING

[It's all the fun of dating, without the dating! It's the perfect invention! Magnus is so glad about it!

He fills out a questionnaire for a general one, but he can also be found at specific niche ones for artisans/artists, people who love animals, and people who love animals but especially dogs.

Name: MAGNUS BURNSIDES
Interests: ripping the arms off things I probably shouldn't lead with that
woodworking! carpentry, whittling, carving, I do it all
DOGS
all animals but also dogs
bears too
I spend a lot of time thinking about what jellyfish think about
I have a pet goldfish named Steven. he goes with me wherever I go
]

WILDCARD

[Magnus is around. You can catch him anywhere, if you want to give him a gift. His pregaming comment is here and you can hit me up at [plurk.com profile] erlking if you have more ideas.]
Edited 2018-06-12 07:00 (UTC)
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[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-12 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
[WAAAARGH MY FEETSIES ARE GETTIN WET.

Or rather, he hops around like the water balloons are bullets before blinking up at the figure with a permanent uh-oh expression. Maaaan, he's not even ready to blast ya with this huge water gun. Unfair.]


No wait, time out!

[He doesn't believe for five seconds that's gonna work, so he turns and flees toward —

His little hellspawn army.]


Fire, men!!

[And here we see a little huddle of children ganging up on a grown adult, peppering him with pistol attacks and buckets of water, and they all sound like they're just LIVIN'. How ever will you catch the Spider-Man when you're so outnumbered, Peter. This is the worst and most unfair thing.

Look at him, he's laughing from the top of a little water slide made for elementary schoolers. It's really not a good precedent to set, crouched on the literal top of a tube slide, but whatever, he's Spider-Man.]

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[personal profile] nostalgiabomb 2018-06-12 07:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh sweet Jesus

Peter yelps as he takes the first couple hits, but he dodges behind some waist-high planter as cover. ]


Dude, not cool. Call off your Children of the Corn.
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[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-12 07:29 am (UTC)(link)
Man, you're so old!

C'mon, kids, don't hang him up to dry—

[This was totally almost the perfect man, but then Peter's civil duty has to go calling — that is, a kid who has also been scaling the waterpark equipment is definitely not supposed to be climbing over the rails like she is oh my god. His weird... sense... thing... is making his spine tingle and he drops the watergun down below before leaping off the equipment.]

Hey, careful!!

[He launches himself faster with a web and just barely manages to catch the kid (or really just manages to get pelted in the chest by a kid, but at least she didn't go falling head-first into the floor), sliding to a stop. Ow, she rang his bell a little bit. But you know. It's harder to catch people when they fall less than a story compared to a super long plunge.]

Geez, kid, you're the same one I had to get out of a tree last week!

Lanie, right? You're gonna get yourself stitches!
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[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-12 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, it's a cool flick where people go into different layers of other people's dreams to learn secret stuff. Like, for heists and jobs like that. It's pretty cool. [BWAAAH. Or whatever. But he will spare poor Quill the references.] It kinda picks at your brain more than some B-horror movie, that's for sure.

You should really visit earth sometime — for the awesome movies from my time. Obviously. When's exactly your cut-off date?
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[personal profile] analienprince 2018-06-12 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh-- really? [He's a little surprised by that actually. Interning for Tony Stark?]

I was always more of a Cap guy myself, but Tony Stark is cool. [He should know. He might have impersonated him a time or two...]

Or maybe they're just totally jealous you get to work with an Avenger.
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[personal profile] analienprince 2018-06-12 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah... I mean, it's complicated, but. Basically.

[He gives a nod.]

We've been traveling all around... we've seen some really weird things. How about you, is dimension hopping a thing where you are?
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[personal profile] analienprince 2018-06-12 08:38 am (UTC)(link)
Mm, good point. It's more of a want kind of thing.

[And hey, somebody seems to kind of want it...]

Well, now you've got to name it. That means it's officially yours forever. [He gives a grin.] Teddy. You?
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[personal profile] analienprince 2018-06-12 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
Eight-- what? Powers? [He's assuming. But--] What are they?
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[personal profile] inebriety 2018-06-12 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure I'm the type of person you wanted to have approach you.

[At least he knows he's being an ass.]
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[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-12 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
[......................

He points slowly at him, squinting. Wait a second.]


... Are you...








A Trekkie?
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[personal profile] supersweet 2018-06-12 08:43 am (UTC)(link)
Super strength, hearing, speed. I can fly, have ice-breath, super breath . . . Anyway it's a lot.

[ He missed invulnerability. Even Jon can't keep track. They're still a little new, even if he's more confident about using them. ]
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[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-12 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
It's okay. Things from home tend to do that anyway. And I've heard crying's really healthy to do.

[And this just reminds him that the Avengers are all people with their own problems — not just heroes to look up to, or to get starstruck over. He wrinkles his nose but is smiling kindly a moment after, and soon a hand is extended.]

I'm Peter. It's really nice to meet you.
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[personal profile] winscenario 2018-06-12 09:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ He squints his eyes a little at Peter like, tf did you just call him son. ]

I... have no idea what that is, so I'm gonna go with 'no'.
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[personal profile] winscenario 2018-06-12 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah. No offense or anything. [ He sighs a little. ] You'd like it, I think.

[ Given the chance, he'd love to show Victor around sometime. Well, one never knows. Maybe one day. ]

We do have plenty of adventures already. [ Wink. Victor knows what he's talking about. ] But speaking more seriously, you should also learn how to handle a gun. A phaser, at the very least. You might need to defend yourself out there.
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[personal profile] madeupnames 2018-06-12 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
[He is honestly not sure whether to laugh, stare in horror, or almost die via choking on chicken nugget. There's something really weird and not remotely comfortable about thinking people know you in a movie — like, you. Peter. Is this how Tony feels when he feels stuff with him in it?

He winces.]


What, because I'm broke a lot?

[#discomfort levels rising]
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2018-06-12 10:19 am (UTC)(link)
She watches with concern, and really, she can't imagine what that's like. She just... heals. Venom, stab wounds, broken bones, they just heal for her, and she couldn't imagine what that must've been like. But she also knows from experience that life does these sorts of things; many of her friends have died. Maybe of her friends have been hurt terribly. It's best to simply accept it and push onward.

She reaches to turn her paper, reading it aloud to help.

"I like horses and candy and almost any kind of food. I speak and write Spanish. Art and P.E. are my favorite classes. I don't like stupid people like Susan from school."
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2018-06-12 10:23 am (UTC)(link)
[She eyes the plate with extreme interest, thank you, Buck.]

What is it made of?

[She usually just eats everything in front of her like a vacuum. But you know.

She's been learning to ask about what she's consuming.]
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2018-06-12 10:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, you dirty cheat. She makes a run for it, sprinting and zig-zagging with mixed results. It's not like she dodges every single danger in her life; she heals, and this is water, so she supposes she'll let him get his licks in. She does a sweet roll behind some cover so she can be completely hidden from view where he hovers.

Tricky, tricky.

Are you brave enough to pursue, Sam?

Think very carefully about your life choices.]
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[personal profile] shoplifter 2018-06-12 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
[She smiles, just slightly, giving Loki a thoughtful glance.

A pause. She smooths an edge of the photo pressed protectively at her front.]


Thank you.