monthly mingle: PRIJATA

[riverviewmod]

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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le peter parkour | spiderboy

[madeupnames]

i. gift fountain

Oh man, no way!

[Peter had been sort of settling into Riverview, as it were. If he's gonna be stuck here — might as well make the most of it, right? And though he isn't quite swayed to reveal his identity as a super-powered teenager yet, he's more than happy to be plain ol' normal Peter Parker at Riverview High School. He'd learned his lesson back home — take your time, and stop trying to zoom through life. All that jazz. Enjoy school! Think about your future! Yadda yadda. So he's doin' that, y'know?

But he does feel a little awkward, during Prijata. It takes him more time than he'd like to admit, to make friends. Ned was his best friend for a few years, and he was also the one who initiated friendship. Peter used to be a lot more withdrawn than he is now, even with the plucky, overbearing attiude (or maybe it's because of that, that he had a hard time getting along with 'the cool kids').

Or maybe it's the fact that he's fifteen years old and holding up a plastic toy Iron Man mask like it's the best thing in the entire universe. Maybe that. But to be fair, this dented up, cracked, slightly tarnished Iron Man mask was from his childhood; he never thought he'd see this thing again, not since it got lost during one of their trips to the mall. Duuude, he was so distraught.]

It's even still got my name on the inside; oh my gosh, this is the coolest gift.

Thank you, thank you — uh... weird... magic fountain.

[IT'S EMOTIONAL FOR HIM LEAVE HIM ALONE???

... He's not gonna put it on, okay, it's for decoration now.

He's not a little kid anymore, sheesh.]

ii. speed-friending



... This was a bad idea.

[When a local nudges you into things, you tend to just roll with it, right? Especially when you admit you don't really have a lot of people to give things to for Prijata. So here he is, sitting in a cafe, awkwardly twidling his thumbs. It feels way too much like a date. Or desperation. Yes, definitely deseperation, and that old part of him feels like it's gonna be middle school all over again — like, sympathy visits at the lunch table by the nice girl from art class, or, or, the teacher inviting him to hang out in her class for recess while he waxes poetic about building a little robot from a robot-making kit Uncle Ben bought him for Christmas—

His little list was submitted, though:

NAME: Peter The High School Student (yes that's my first, middle, middle, middle, and last name, thanks for asking!)
INTERESTS: movies, robots, science, LEGOs, math, chemistry, books.
I lived in New York, and I like science fiction stuff.
Ummmm!! I like building things, I guess. Any kind of thing.
I like oldschool technology, too! Old computers and retro stuff like walkmans and old mac computers.
I like recycling?
Sorry, that's not very cool
but it's cool for the planet, right?

... He appears to have scribbled out the beginnings of more rambling.

This was a terrible idea. Good going, Pete. Uuugh.]

iii. club exhibition



[He sits at the club table with a little pleasant smile.

Wassup, hit ya boy up for some robo-building. Robot Wars, we can totally do it.]

ii

[worldsaway]

[As time passes in Riverview, Thor finds his friendship circle expands and shrinks as people come and go. Right now, it feels as if it's on the smaller side. Perhaps that's more to do with the fact that his attitude has improved lately.

His list is very simple, his name is Thor, he's from Asgard, he likes drinking, fighting, gardening, cooking and reptiles. He's visited many planets before, including Earth, which you may have heard of.

Perhaps Earth is what they have in common and that's why they've been paired together. When Thor approaches the table, he notes that Peter looks absurdly young. Maybe he's being guided toward him as a role model of sorts? Regardless, he's polite as ever. He smiles and extends his hand.]

Nice to meet you, Peter, was it?

[madeupnames]

[Dude, he can't even pretend his eyes don't get big enough to practically fall out of his head (like one of those super Looney Tune cartoons). This is Thor! Uh, minus some signature locks, but this is definitely Thor, and for a moment, he is totally speechless. He does still reach over and mechanically shake the guy's hand, though. He's got a pretty decent grip.]

Y-yeah, that's me.

I'm — Peter.

[Yes, he just said that to him, that his name was Peter, A+.]

You're Thor.

Like, God of Thunder Thor.

i

[chumpelstiltskin]

[Dave is at the fountain too, he's finally drawn out his present- a 50pc McNugget meal and he's admiring it fondly. Maybe he loiters a little too long, because he's now witnessing other people successfully draw their presents from the fountain.

He feels a little awkward, but he can't help feeling a gross feeling of fondness for someone who is obviously delighted by their gift. He feels like he's intruding on a special moment here, he should leave or say something.

Leave or say something. Leave or say something. Leave, definitely leave.]

I will trade you five nuggets for your item of insurmountable sentimental value.

[madeupnames]

[He is so totally unfazed, and just turns to continue grinning like a dope, flipping the mask deftly in his hands.]

Dude. I wouldn't trade a hundred McNuggets for this.

It's even got my super awesome brand name on it.

[He flips it to show the inside, on the edge.



Certified! Peter! Parker! Prop piece!]

ii;

[nostalgiabomb]

[ Look, this Peter is just kind of passing through. The speed-dating thing has never really been his thing – not that he's ever tried. But he has experienced interrogations and negotiations, and all that junk was stressful in a very specific way – and he has to figure this speed-friending thing is more or less the same, but without jail time or money on the line.

Still, despite his best efforts to the contrary, someone thrusts a piece of paper in his hands and he just sort of. Holds onto it.

... Until they're out of sight, which is when he crumples it up and stuffs the wad into his pocket.

So, okay. He's wandering through, right? Probably about to order a drink that's either way too sugary or ridiculously unhealthy (probably both), but on a whim, he pauses, glancing over other people's lists.

—Predictably, he pauses when he spots a familiar word. ]

... Walkmans, huh?

[madeupnames]

[Oh! Hey, you're kind of cool already, with the slick sideburns.

Peter can't grow facial hair yet (and lets be honest, he never will).

But he does light up a little at the interest!]

Yeah! You know, anything like that. Record players, or iPods, or boomboxes — it's all really fun to tinker with, and it's cheaper to get a hold of and repair and make as good as new if you know how they tick. [When he was growing up, these kinds of things were electronics 101, before he moved onto the bigger things — like disabling vault doors to a high-tech storage vault, or removing trackers from multi-million dollar suits.] They're kinda simple, but that's the perfect thing about them; it makes them easier to keep working, when the other newer stuff'll break down on you faster and take longer to fix.

[His iPhone is so fucked, Quill. It's nothing but cracks now. Save him.]

I guess... that's kind of not why people like them, but...

ii

[godslay]

[ This just in: Gamora actually knows what some of the more specialized things on Peter's list happen to be. She knows New York is a place on Earth, so there's that.

And Walkmans. She knows what Walkmans are.

(... Don't ask her about LEGOs or "macs.")

It's specific enough that when she comes across it on Peter's list, she stops instead of passing by. (Her own list only says "WEAPONS," because her level of interest in participating with this ridiculous "speed...friending" is incredibly low, and she's only here for the free drinks.) But "Walkman." That's significant.

So, Peter 2.0. Meet an alien.

Gamora stops at his table, a drink in her hand, and her eyes flit from the paper to the young boy it belongs to. ]

"Walkmans."

[ so much for "hello" ]

[madeupnames]

[He does stare a little. Don't you blame him, okay! The only other green person he's seen — and not in person — is the Hulk. Maybe they're related, haha. Ha. But then he clears his throat and shrinks a little in his chair, as is his way when interacting with a stranger (and a pretty one at that, her hair is so cool, and what are those little lines in her face, those are so neat, is that metal or-)]

Y-yeah! You know, the ones that play music.

... You probably already knew that — Sorry. But they're fun, huh?

[He almost feels like someone's gonna flick him upside the head and say with conviction, "There is absolutely nothing 'fun' about walkmans, they just play cassette tapes, oh my god." But the music is great, and it's all vintage-y and stuff. Uncle Ben always had a selection of older stuff he would play around the apartment.]

iii

[jolting]

[Victor isn't actually going to join any of these clubs. He's more just looking around to see what other people are coming up with. He pauses at the sign, throwing this kid an amused smile]

So is this a club for robots or about robots?

[A fair question since there's an actual robot in the Quarantine]

[madeupnames]

Oh — um! I'd say... about... robots.

[His smile is a bit more strained at the thought.]

I don't really wanna traumatize any robots here by making tiny robots smash each other up in front of them. It's a thing from school — robot wars, and all that. But not, like — um. C3PO-type robots. More like robots made out of toasters.

[YKNOW WHAT IM SAYIN]

iii

[pilotech]

[Pidge makes a beeline for that sign as soon as she catches sight of it. This is exactly the kind of thing she's into!]

Hi! So uh, what kind of robotics do you work on? Robot wars stuff, or going for daily functions, or...?

[Introductions, nah, less important than talking about robots.]

[madeupnames]

[Who needs to mention names again when there are robots involved?!]

All kinds of robotics! I mean, I go to the robotics club in school, if that's something you're interested in. The other day I helped make a robot that can butter toast after it comes out of the toaster.

Silly stuff, but really fun, you know?

i;

[wiccant]

( iron man is well-known. . enough around here. there's two of them running around and plenty of people who recognize them, toys and figures of various avengers throughout time but the mask still catches billy's attention as he lingers close to the fountain, leans in a little closer to get a better look at it. )

Iron Man fan?

[madeupnames]

[Oh, well — that's — Okay, you got him there. He smiles, rubbing the back of his neck. The evidently old as heck mask is held in the other, pressed against his sternum.]

Yeah... You could say that. Super heroes in general are — really awesome.

I always wanted to be as tough and brave as them, growing up.

[A laugh, sheepish.]

Still got a ways to go, though.

ii

[advanced]

[Why is he here, again?

He somehow got caught in all of this speed friending nonsense last year, and he hadn't enjoyed it then, so why has he let himself get caught for a second time? Probably because of the free food, which is always something he's interested in, especially since he's still resisting efforts to move him into proper housing.

He frowns at the kid across from him utterly without recognition.]

You don't have to say anything, just eat the food.

[madeupnames]

[He stares rather obviously for a long moment, eyes betraying a sense of surprise. Oh, heeeeey, you're the guy he netted in Germany. The one who caused a lot of trouble, huh? Criminal stuff? He clears his throat, looking back down at his burger and fries.]

Oh, um. Right. Sure.

Not, uh. Not a... talker, huh?

[Cool Arm Guy, very intimidating. More than he remembers?]

i

[seeingscarlet]

[Wanda's cradling a blue bunny to her chest, but unlike Peter's present, it's not a childhood toy. The Avengers had given it to her as a sort of welcome present, something to hopefully soothe her nightmares.

She feels complicated Ways about it, not the same level of excitement Peter obviously feels.]

...I won't tell anyone if you put it on.

[Come on, Peter. It's super obvious that you want to.]

[madeupnames]

[He looks momentarily surprised by the sight of Wanda — eyes rounding for a brief moment before he smooths it into something more natural (but inside he's mostly like oh crap that's Scarlet Witch, we totally fought each other, well not really one on one or anything but we were totally not friends). Peter is a little dramatic about the whole affair; none of them will probably care as much as he does. Let's be honest with ourselves, Pete.]

No, no — no, I'm good. I'm a little too old for that now.

[He smiles, a little flustered.]

It's just, um. I wore the heck out of it, kind of as a... nightlight, but during the day. [He rubs the back of his neck, sinking deeper into that hole he made for himself for NO REAL REASON PETER.] That makes no sense, I guess. I mean, it was to be brave. I wore it to the dentist and stuff like that.

[Stop talking, stop talking.]

ii

[infestedcouncilpresident]

[Kohaku is willing to give "speed friending" a try, what with being lost in a strange place with no one she knows around. Plus hey, free pancakes. She looks SUPER vigilant, though. She is FULLY expecting everyone to just assume that speed friending is the same as speed dating and the minute they do she is going to walk out the door.

Peter looks like he isn't going to be a creep, though.

Her thing reads:

Name: Kohaku Yuhara
Age: 16
Gender: [illegible smudge]
From: Tokyo, Japan, Earth
Interests: - Street Fighter
- Cooking
- Synthpop
- Earth stuff in general, I guess? We're on another planet and its weird.]

Oh good, another Earthling. How's the weird moon city treating you, Peter The High School Student?

ii

[suckstobestrange]

[Stephen wouldn't be here, except Sam had insisted he at least give it a try. It wouldn't hurt anything. He needed to socialize. Stephen thought he was fine. Had plenty of friends and didn't need to try this speed-friending thing.

So they'd compromised and Stephen was here, the lanky black lab in a service dog vest and a blatantly Gryffindor-themed collar following easily at his heels, tail wagging lazily.

The sorcerer sank easily into the empty chair, cloak twitching eagerly because yay new person! Sirius sat himself neatly at Stephen's side, tail thumping once against the floor but otherwise quiet and attentive.

And clearly Sam had made Stephen fill his card out properly:
Name: Stephen Strange
Age: 94 couple hundred couple thousand ????
From: New York
Interests: Magic
-Books
-Good Pizza
-Dogs
-The Dog is Sirius and he's a fan of bacon]

Peter The High School Student- that's gonna be awkward when you've graduated.

ii

[realists]

[ Peter The High School Student is a child but jyn sits down anyway because she has to make it through a certain number of people and the cafe owner will give her free lunch and jyn can't say no to free food, even if she has to be social to get it. FINE THEN.

she drops down unceremoniously in front of peter and slides her paper across the table. it reads:

JYN ERSO
INTERESTS: running, camping, eating, quantum mechanical models of subatomic particles in particle physics and quasiparticles in condensed matter physics, hiking, climbing

her arms fold on the table as she leans forward, reading peter's paper upside down. ]

What're legos?

ii

[mysophobic]

[ There is one thing that catches Shigeru's eye. Everything is pretty interesting though, especially the science and building things. But for now he's just gonna focus on one thing in particular. ]

Um. What are...legos exactly? [ Yep. That is totally the most important thing here. ]

ii.

[winscenario]

[ Look, speed-friending is one of the coolest things about this holiday. Jim doesn't have a hard time meeting new people and making new friends, but any opportunity is a good opportunity, and one he'll gladly take. Speed-friending also gives him the chance to know what sorts of things people are into before approaching, and to get to introduce himself to newcomers.

A number of Peter's interests catch his attention, and as far as the age gap goes, he doesn't really care much. He was a genius at seventeen too, he just liked to act dumb. If he hadn't then maybe he'd have been a complete nerd just like Peter. WHO KNOWS.

His name's listed as Captain James T. Kirk, and his list of interests is pretty long: outer space, exploration, ships, books, vintage cars and bikes, classical music and videos, 20th/21st century culture, chess, among other smaller random things such as flowers, poetry and pancakes. One can never like too many things. ]

I don't know what you're talking about— recycling is totally cool. [ He says immediately after taking a seat across from Peter, smiling at him. He slides his own paper across the table. ] Nice to meet you, Mr. High School Student.

i;

[neversurrender]

[Peter's excited over the mask may distract him from the tall blond man sidling up besides him to stare into the fountain. At least, that's what he appears to be doing. In reality he's watching the teen light up over the item in his hand. An item that, once he recognizes it, he can't hold back a grin.]

I know a couple guys who would probably love to see your gift.

[A couple of guys. Because there are two Tonys and one Iron!Steve.]

They might even fight over who gets to sign it, knowing them.