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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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[ Wally can't help but match Jyushimatsu's smile. The guy might be a little strange, but there is just something about his upbeat attitude. ]

Yeah, sure, no problem. Though you really won't get to see anything unless you want a ride.

[ He isn't so much as actually offering him a ride sometime as he is implying he's really fast. But he could probably manage to give him a lift piggyback style as long as there's a promise of no puking involved. ]

And I'm glad I met you too, Jyushimatsu.

[Alex frowned a bit at the mention of how Elizabeth hadn't seen him either, and she wondered if any of his friends had been let in to make sure he was alright. Yes, she believed Elizabeth that they would have heard if he wasn't, but it still worrisome for Alex that he was hiding and isolating himself this way. A bit of guilt worked through her, because she should have reached out more but hadn't given everything in the last month, and she just frowned, letting it settle in. There was nothing to be done about it, and no clocks that were able to be turned back, so she did the only thing that she could do.]

When you do see him, [because in Alex's mind it was a 'when' and not an 'if'] Will you tell him that Alex was asking about him please? I know he has a lot going on and I don't want to bother him too much by doing it myself.

And keep me in the loop if he's not doing okay. I'll definitely come and help.

[There's a jut of her chin, because Alex is nothing if not annoyingly persistent.]

[ Wow. Jyushimatsu beams at the idea. He has no idea whether Wally is actually that mighty fast or he's bullshitting, but the thought of riding on his back as he runs fills Jyushimatsu with intense anticipation. ]

Oh, you know what? I'm taking you up on that and ask for a ride whenever you're up for it!

[ His stomach is not weak, so no worries. There won't be any surprise puking. ]

[He nods. That's a fair enough assessment, even for the ones who hadn't much to consider back home.]

I would hope to see that would be something that can be implemented in the future, once everything is set the way it needs to be to get this going. Not everyone here can say they honestly want to be here. Home is such an important concept.

He was a victim of circumstance. [Like so many others. How many others?] Terrible things happened to him, to people who meant something to him, and he wanted a way to do something about it.

Great!

[She takes him by the hand and tugs him away from the fountain.]

I wonder if we could get a record player for the common area... wouldn't that be nice?

[That makes her laugh.]

Who d'you think would win?

She nods. "They can be real scary - but I guess from their point of view we're living in their territory and they're just defending that. I'm glad you're okay though! I haven't met Keira yet... I'm a witch myself you know."

[Alex had spoken to a fair amount of people from other universes that consider things the same way, including her Grandson, so she doesn't bother arguing with people over that anymore. Actually, when it comes to the entire whole multiverse thing, Alex is rather accepting in general. When one only needs to look to the horizon to see how strange everything is, then in her mind it doesn't leave much room for doubt.

So Alex just nodded enthusiastically, and gestured next to her.]

Come on, I'll show you. They have other colors than pink, but they all kind of generally taste the same.

[Alex is going to keep giggling as she runs towards Misty.]

Hey, I'm actually a pretty good runner. You're going down, lady.

Right? That actually looks really cool. Look, even the details on his face are good...

[He huffs out a laugh.]

I can't believe we actually found something we knew. I was expecting more half-animal superheroes... not that those guys weren't kinda cool.

Good. I bet he's going to be proud of you.

[He huffs out a laugh.]

Probably worried to death too... parents tend to be.

Missions?

[ It's an unexpected choice of word. Cisco knows that Shigeru works at the hospital, here, but it somehow had never occurred to him that his job might have been different back home. It seems like something so fundamental should have come up. But then, he isn't sure Shigeru necessarily knows what he used to do for a living, back in Central City. In a way, this place isolates them, makes their whole stay in the Quarantine like an entirely separate life.

That is why a gift like this one can feel like a lifeline. An artifact that makes the rest of it all real again. ]

Did everybody have a specialization? I mean, you know. When I think of a squad, I think, like... one's the muscle, one's the hacker, one's the spy...

[This is the opposite of how Thor wanted this conversation to go, so excuse the uncomfortable strain on his face.]

It's complicated? [He lays that down, then realises it's not an appropriate excuse at all.]

Family dealings. Fall outs. An insatiable need to impress. In space.

I wouldn't call it bad. Confusing? Yes. Bad? No. But it could use some work.

[Thor smiles, warmly.]

Why don't you have a name?

Not quite.

[Thor responds, dryly. Rather, a torrential amount of rain drops down just enough to soak them both before it stops.]

I think that should do it.

[He never said he wasn't petty.

Except all the times he did.]

Taking her words, Floki moved to sit on a bench a few feet away from them, feeling out to help lead Gyda beside him.

"Then, if you dream of home, perhaps it is a sign you shall soon be there. Maybe you will be going home, Gyda?"

Of course, Floki would be terribly sad to see her go, considering he had only just arrived and found her there was a true blessing! Looking around as they sat there, Floki noticed all the different styles of clothing and hair, all the different looking people and though who didn't look remotely human. He was beyond curious.

"Why do you think we are here, Gyda? I was told I must have had feelings of longing. Not belonging. Do you believe that is so? When you dream of home and family?"

That doesn't lead to him being the most annoying of the lot, necessarily. Though I can see how he would be.

AH. Well. I was part of a special ops team. It was comprised of phrobiests and we primarily did things in anti-terrorist and black market tradings...

[ He looks a bit sheepish as he fiddles with the picture frame. ]

I guess you could say that. It depended on what our powers were, but we all had our niche. I-I was the medic, typically, but I was very good at finding people too. One of my powers is able to trace a person based on their-their germ footprint I guess. Since everyone has different bacteria specific to them it made it easy to track to people. Everyone has a different sh-shade and color that I can pick up on. So when our targets went into hiding I...usually helped find them.

[B I T C H

Taako looks very much like a cat that's been dunked in a bath tab, ears a little droopy and everything. He regards Thor for a moment, and then holds out a hand and casts cone of cold.

It's not going to like... hurt Thor, because it's Thor. But it will freeze all that water in his clothes, so that won't be fun.]

[It's a funny thing, really, to have such similar doubts as someone else. Zelda finds she doesn't mind it at all. Flicking her finger over the grass blade of the pen again, Zelda turns a curious look on Lucretia.]

So, if you've been here for a year, you must know what all of the festivals are.

Unfortunately yes.

(She's smiling, though. She also takes a moment to add in Lup (the hottest elf) to his contact list too before she adds herself in underneath.)

There. Oh, I– put myself in there too, I hope that's not too presumptuous. Just if you have any more questions, that's all. (Or if he ever wants to hang out in future or anything, it's whatever. Lucretia's still rusty at making friends.)

"It started in England," Zombies didn't need to breath, but they would not be able to last in water; that much was tested over time. "But it is commonly theorized that it was brought over by france,or at the very least by soldiers returning from fighting the French, around the year 1750. That is definitely when accounts of the plague first started going on record."

To talk about it felt good. While the subject was grim, it felt good for a chance to explain and talk about it from a rational perspective-or however rational it could become.

"One of the first battles against the undead was in 1768, called the battle of Kent-my father is a veteran of that war. Before the king went mad, he ordered a great Wall and then a great moat built and dug around much of that side of England to try and quell their numbers. The area between those points is referred to as 'The in Between', and while it is not forbidden to travel through the area, to go unarmed and on foot is extremely foolish indeed."

Edited 2018-06-23 02:40 (UTC)

[It's not so strange an idea to Zelda, coming from a world with many races. She nods, folding her hands on the table.]

So you came to the Gungans world to live - that's interesting. In Hyrule there's a people known as the Zora, who also live in the water. But their city is built at the base of a waterfall, on ground. It's a lovely structure.

Do any others share Naboo?

[ And so will her friends, because when she visits them for dinner she is 100% spreading the glitter disease to their apartment. ]

Yes! I am Mantis. I have not been here long, although I am told that I was here before? But I do not remember that... [ She frowns a little then, but is back to curiosity right after. ] Are you new too?

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