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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
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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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It's mind-blowing, honesty.

[ He did all his panicking in private, like a good boy. There was a nervous breakdown and a lot of drinking. ]

I mean, we have magic, but this kind of beats that by miles.

I do!

[ He digs out his phone from a hidden pocket inside his loudly-colored coat and hands it to Lucretia.

...it already has a contact written as 'Taako (the hot elf)'. ]

I'm definitely complaining to the manager!

[Peter Quill, you're good people.

Thor orders some mead and turns to his new acquaintance.] Tell me, do you also fight with the Guardians of the Galaxy?

[He pauses to think on it, pressing a hamburger into the grill with the flat of his spatula.]

I was sorely tempted to challenge him to an arm wrestle.

You seem like the type to complain to the manager.

(Perhaps the most dire insult issued tonight?)

Well met indeed, Shalimar.

[Then with a mostly deadpan expression.] It will be no trouble telling us apart, as I am the more handsome.

[There's a twinkle in Thor's eyes that suggests he's joking.]

(So it does.

Lucretia frowns at it.).

Can't I meet one person before he does for once? (Whoops, did she say that outloud?)

[Padmé gives a little nod, waiting as she continued. She does wonder how many planets that she has been on, or if it is the manner of arrival that distinguishes it from the other planets. She can't say that she personally is aware of any planet that has such a means of bringing people in.

She likes to think that she has always been good at judging people, in knowing who to trust and who she might want to give a wider berth to. It's not always a first impression, she knows, but over time her first instincts have usually been pretty good. She does wonder after these individuals, but Padmé knows that the world is varied.]

Sorry. You were paid in portions - of food?

[Or something else? Water?]

[In time, Padmé might change her mind. She isn't going to deny that possibility. Yet she can only base her opinion on where she stands on that day. At the moment, there is still much work to be done, work that she is adamant about.]

Thank you for the answers, Laura. It's been very helpful.

Oh! [There is a note of surprise in her voice as a smile spreads across her face. The statistical probabilities aren't known to her. The galaxy is huge beyond huge, so she wouldn't be surprised if there had been no one that had ever heard of Coruscant, let alone Naboo. It is interesting to know that there are others here.] Then I suppose I don't need to explain it to you- unless you're from a planet that a Jedi presence isn't familiar?

[Her eyes linger on the ducks as they continue to move, debating. Padmé isn't the sort to give, although it's more for something that is important. She can't say that this is something that she views as life or death.

Yet on the other hand, she has nothing pressing and is interested to see whether she could do it. With a glance towards the booth again, watching as someone else takes a turn, she hums.]

I think I might. Just to see.

Are you acquainted? He was... an experience.

[ Mollymauk was driven to drink, seriously. It's not every day he meets some amazing world-traveling arch-mage that has died several times and fucked a god. ]

You've been here a year...

[He's not sure if that should be a comfort or not. He's almost curious, now, and he taps his chin thoughtfully before deciding, ultimately, to just ask.]

As this marks your anniversary, are you so keen to leave or has the place grown on you?

They were not in a formal situation, and having already been introduced: when she noticed the slight raising of his arm, she raised her own to shake. "Good afternoon."

Careful as she usually was, her grip still bore the callouses of one who dealt with fire arms and weaponry.

Having completed her last 'table' at the end of the afternoon, Elizabeth had made her wait to the cafe near the library. This was hardly the first time she'd spoken of the Plague in such detail, and to someone who had both a medical curiosity and revulsion (not that she could blame either. In truth, she was just glad to have someone to discuss it with.

Yes, I suppose it is. [He pinches the bridge of his nose, frowning suddenly.] He's dead, you know. Assassinated, most like. [And he shakes his head.] And after everything, he kept me as his heir. I still don't know how to feel about it. I hadn't really thought on it, after coming here. I'd only learned that morning, you see.

[And then he makes a flippant gesture with his hand.]

This entire day has made me all too reminiscent. [Which leads him to smirk at Cisco's reference.] That thoroughly depends on the setting, Cisco. Here? [He raises a hand for emphasis.] I speak from a position of innocence, you have my word.

[He chuckles.]

Though it's now clear you've never encountered a man capable of proper grooming. A shame, really.

As I should have. I was raised by one to inherit his seat, after all.

[He shrugs. He wasn't technically, officially a magister just yet, but, well, all that stood between him and the title was a trip home.

Daunting, that.]

[He chuckles but shakes his head. Her delight at learning this obviously charming and attractive man is also mage is almost Tevene, though her style of dress, delightful to be sure, is far from Imperial, as is her accent. Not Tevene, but perhaps of a land not unlike it.

Terrifying thought.]

Why yes, I am a mage, Senior Enchanter of the Minrathous Circle of Magi, among a lot of other titles that will mean next to nothing to you.

[He raises an eyebrow. Another mage who conjures illusions. Interesting.] Yes, but illusions require focus, and I do love a good distraction.

[She can understand. There are ones that are more formal, where one needs to be pleasant and polite, smile gracefully and mind where one goes, and ones where hair can be left down, so to speak, and truly enjoy without having to worry.

She nods her head at the question.]

They're native to the planet, wherein humans colonized it. They build their cities beneath the surface of the water. They're humanoid in appearance, but aside from two legs and arms, they differ.

It is unfortunate that it is often that way in various aspects of life as well.

[Not all walks of life, but there are those who can make things difficult. Thankfully there are those who are the opposite, that don't try to climb on the backs of others to get ahead, but help those along instead.]

But at least there was nothing truly lost, and a lesson learned.

Isn't the point of a book club to select one source an discuss it at length in order to broaden one's perspective? I believe that is the intended purpose, at the least.

[He taps his chin. He's never even considered doing something like that before, organizing it or anything because his opinions have always been, generally, disregarded. Here, though...]

It may be something worth exploring.

[ Lup looks... absolutely shattered. ]

That is the worst thing anyone has ever said to me!

[ People's relationships with their siblings had been so different here, with half of them sounding like they hated their sibling. So a little normalcy is a nice thing to hear for her.

She and Taako were two sides of a coin, but they also grew up trusting nobody but each other. Thankfully all kids didn't have to go through that. ]

I'm happy some of them are here with you! Taako came here before me so he had to be alone for a while.

[Richard knew people like Jeff. People who said they were going to do something but then never did. They were, annoying, and easily manipulated into forgetting what they were initially planning on doing. Jeff seemed like one of those types of people, so Richard doubted that he really was working on trying to be more assertive when saying no to people. Instead, he assumed Jeff would remain the same. Always getting into situations like the one Richard had just 'saved' him from. Not that he had planned to stick around long enough to see if there were any results.

There had been an assumption that Jeff had already figured out that Richard was the same man from the friendr. After all, he spoke the same as he wrote. Of course, he still had to reply, well, he didn't have to, but he would.]

Yes, and you're the man looking for narcotics.

[It seemed an appropriate time to remind the man what he'd asked about.]

Why there in particular?

[Though already she can imagine-- her lieutenants who didn't like her singing especially didn't like it on shuttles or in the dining rooms, where they couldn't get away from it.]

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