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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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livingsymbol: ([S] No I don't want no scrub.)

[personal profile] livingsymbol 2018-06-15 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Steve is feeling pretty good about his Prijata offerings. He's actually not usually that proactive in festivals, being a reserved person to begin with and having gotten used to trying to avoid attention thanks to the Captain America image that always followed him around. In Quarantine, he's able to do these small steps without anyone else's judgment. So he smiles when Peter takes a cookie.

And then he finds himself being questioned, and that makes him laugh. ]


I hope not. If they were, it wouldn't be coming from me. I found a recipe and wanted to try doing something.

[ He's just that simple sometimes. ]

Having bad luck with magic?
armcollector: (to my regret and your delight)

[personal profile] armcollector 2018-06-15 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Holy shit you have a magic mongoose???

[What are gifts?? There's another magic animal in the house??? Even Steven, at Magnus' hip, seems interested in the mongoose familiar.]

This is, like... the best thing I've ever seen.

[Fuck having a kinda bad day, this is now the best day in history. There's a magic mongoose hugging the mongoose figurine he made. Some things are good actually?]
spellslots: DNT (buy a big diamond ring for me)

[personal profile] spellslots 2018-06-15 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, right, Magnus hasn't seen the mongoose friend. Taako takes the figurine off the mongoose.]

Go on, go say hi.

[And over it comes, running across the floor and oh so casually scrambling up Magnus's leg, obviously expecting to be picked up.]
tetherer: (11)

[personal profile] tetherer 2018-06-15 06:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[They look extremely nervous as they ask,]

What do you think of Ripley?

[The question comes completely contextless. Yes, the Tetherer watched Alien and its first sequel, at Peter Quill's suggestion.]

See, it sounds nice, but the connotations of the syllables, maybe, it might be at odds with, you know...

[Lucretia has been safely ignorant of Namequest 2k18, and the Tetherer has completely forgotten this.]

But then I thought, maybe that's a good thing! For contrast? And she was really cool in the movies.
armcollector: (the trees are so quiet)

[personal profile] armcollector 2018-06-15 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[The mongoose climbs up Magnus' leg and of course Magnus picks it up, cradling it in his arms carefully.]

I've known this mongoose for five seconds and it's already my best friend in the world.

[Sorry, Steven. And Fishboys 1, 2, and 3.]

What's its name?
spellslots: DNT (to misbehave)

[personal profile] spellslots 2018-06-15 06:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Forgetting Steven already, huh?

[Taako is absolutely willing to be a jerk.]

Uh, you know, I never really got around to giving it a name? It's kinda just a mongoose.
devilstongue: (🔮 67)

[personal profile] devilstongue 2018-06-15 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Hey, they have lanterns and torches! That's... about it. ]

Huh. Where does it come from?

[ It's so much easier to imagine it all as magic, not some kind of artificer-y creations. ]
devilstongue: (Default)

[personal profile] devilstongue 2018-06-15 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Molly moves back and forth between the windows of the boutique, curiously peeking inside and adding little mental reminders to visit some later when he had the money.

Then Ryan mentions the coffee shop, and the tiefling is delighted. ]


What a great idea! Then they will earn money all day rather than at night. As for drinking... well, I like to have a drink with friends, but I don't get messed up every night.

[ Give him drugs for that, instead. ]
armcollector: (ill set myself on fire)

[personal profile] armcollector 2018-06-15 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Magnus gives an exaggerated gasp.]

Never!!

[He gently touches Steven's glass, reassuring the goldfish.]

I have equal room in my heart for Steven, the Fishboys, and... the 'Goose.

[Maybe?]

Juice Goose. Juicy Goosey?
mistyday: <user name=iconmunism site=tumblr.com> (smile)

[personal profile] mistyday 2018-06-15 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
She shakes her head. "No, only a couple months. I really like it here though!"
mistyday: <user name=iconmunism site=tumblr.com> (grow)

[personal profile] mistyday 2018-06-15 09:12 pm (UTC)(link)
A record store!

[Should he be surprised at all? No.]
spellslots: (until you are dead)

[personal profile] spellslots 2018-06-15 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
You're not in charge of naming anything.

[Between 'Fisher' and now 'the Fishboys'.]

He's kind of like - a fey thing, not an illusion like Garyl but not as chatty as Garyl.

[Literally more of a pet than Garyl, who has Opinions about a lot of things.]
winscenario: (hundred seventy six.)

[personal profile] winscenario 2018-06-15 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It really was very hard for him to pull away from those kisses, even for the pictures. He ended up lingering for a while, staying close even as he broke the kiss. His forehead rested lightly against Victor's, their noses brushing against each other. An image that would no doubt get captured into at least a couple of those pictures. ]

I love you.
armcollector: (for years and years and years)

[personal profile] armcollector 2018-06-15 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm very good at naming things!!!

[Says the man who named all his chair creations variations on SitBoy. He scritches between the Juice Goose's ears. It's okay, Taako doesn't need to know that you're the Juice Goose now.]

So he's full of fey juices! It's the perfect name.

[Or it's not a secret, either way.]
jolting: (W: Kiss)

[personal profile] jolting 2018-06-15 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Victor sort of wanted to take more candid shots of them together. He ignores the light going off, keeping his attention on James. Brushing their lips together and their noses, fingers playing in James's wet hair and trying to comb it back into the style James likes to wear]

Love you, too.

[He sneaks in a few more kisses, then gets the cotton candy and offers some to James]
winscenario: (eighteen.)

[personal profile] winscenario 2018-06-15 11:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's resigned to his hair looking a bit like a mess until they get home. It's wavier than usual, and it's likely to gain in volume once it dries, but he doesn't mind much.

He lifts an eyebrow as Victor offers some cotton candy to him, then closes the distance to take the piece of sweet with his mouth. It's probably no surprise at all when he drags his teeth against the pads of Victor's fingertips, tongue swiping across them right after. Just to make sure he gets every single bit of sugar still sticking to the doctor's fingers. ]
jolting: (V: Read)

[personal profile] jolting 2018-06-15 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[No, that wasn't a surprise to him at all. His eyes darken a little and it takes all his willpower to pull his hand back]

All right, babe. Let's not hog the photo booth. Wasn't there some love tunnel you mentioned? That seems the proper place for this.
mistyday: <user name=iconmunism site=tumblr.com> (grow)

[personal profile] mistyday 2018-06-15 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[As for Misty, she decides to forgo the balloons and try something different: concentrating on one of the nearby sprinklers, she telekinetically directs the water flow from the spigot towards Alex, like she's got her own personal raincloud.]

It worked!

[This time at least!]
winscenario: (twenty nine.)

[personal profile] winscenario 2018-06-15 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Jim looks a bit too pleased with himself at the look on Victor's face, shooting a satisfied smirk as the doctor takes his hand away. He doesn't try to go after him, though. That's... almost commendable. ]

Yeah, there is. It's a pretty long ride, or so I hear. But I think that's kind of the point. [ He pulls the curtain and climbs out of the booth, offering a hand for Victor to take, while he plucks the pictures out of the slot as soon as they're all printed out. It's probably a little silly, but Jim wants at least one to carry with him, or to put up at the shuttle. ]
jolting: (V: Glasses glance)

[personal profile] jolting 2018-06-15 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Victor peers over to look through their pictures, holding the cotton candy between them so they can take turns feeding each other pieces]

I want that one for my office.

[He points to the one where their noses are brushing. The picture captured them at just the right moment. Victor likes all of them, really, but that one will help him through rough work days]
mistyday: <user name=iconmunism site=tumblr.com> (sure)

[personal profile] mistyday 2018-06-15 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, I'll be damned. Aliens really did come to Earth." She laughs softly. "You know, there's a lotta folks who believe aliens built all the pyramids and Stonehenge and stuff."
yakyuuman: (224 homeruns)

[personal profile] yakyuuman 2018-06-16 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Saying that Jyushimatsu isn't this close from exploding is the understatement of the year and you know what? He likes this guy already.

But hearing that about turning into a bug has him tone the excitement down for a moment, long sleeves covering his mouth. ]


Is it because I might get squashed? I'll be careful!

[ He's used to getting squashed and killed in his canon after all, it won't be a big deal. ]
winscenario: (thirty three.)

[personal profile] winscenario 2018-06-16 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jim smiles. It's a really nice picture, so it doesn't surprise him that Victor wants it. Luckily the booth had captured a fairly similar one right after, and Jim promptly points at that one. ]

And I want that one to have at the Guard.

[ He doesn't have an office per se, but he does have a desk of his own, and he'd love to have a picture of the two of them there. Maybe one of their whole 'family' together, too. Pets included, of course. ]
glowfeelers: (10)

[personal profile] glowfeelers 2018-06-16 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ Mantis has never encountered the term "service animal" before! What sort of job does Sirius do, she wonders? He appears to be a normal dog to her... ]

Oh? A service animal? What service does he provide?
jolting: (W: Tilt)

[personal profile] jolting 2018-06-16 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
[And now Victor demonstrates one of their mind syncing moments]

We need a family photograph. I have drawings of you and Lucy, but nothing of all of us together.