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riverviewlogs2018-06-02 10:21 pm
- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
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monthly mingle: PRIJATA
what: monthly mingle: prijata
when: the month of june
where: anywhere around the city
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines
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.
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!
Credit: image i: Odysseas Stamoglou; image ii: Dave Arredondo; image iii: spainforpleasure.com; image iv: mit19237
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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" ]
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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.]
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She at least takes pity on him, and instead of rolling her eyes and sighing, she looks vaguely pleased.
Vaguely. ]
Yes, they are. I know someone who has one here.
[ Her boyfriend? Partner? Person? Her weirdo. That one. ]
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Oh no, she's way too cool to be seated with me.
She's very clearly bad ass. She doesn't even have to say anything bad ass, he can just tell. Ugh, he's gonna sound like a doofus. But he sits a little straighter and nods with a smile.]
Big Pete, right?
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"Big Pete."
[ She just wants to make sure she heard him right. ]
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My name's Peter, too, so I figured I should think up an easy way to differentiate us.
Does it work, you think?
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[ But she didn't call it "stupid," so that's a step up.
She sighs, taking a sip from her drink. ]
Does that make you "Little Pete"?
[ because he is so little....... ]
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I guess that'd be me, ha, ha.
Can't really argue that when I'm still in school. [And also definitely more wiry and shorter than Peter Quill, but shush.] It's better than yelling Peter Benjamin Parker, because then I'd just think I was about to get grounded.
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I don't think I'll be using either of those nicknames.
[ "Big Pete" and "Little Pete" aren't really her style. ]
I assume you're smart enough to understand that if I'm referring to any other "Peter," it isn't you.
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But you know, as they say: that's your prerogative; you can do what you wanna do.]
That's true. Hopefully no more Peters spring up out of nowhere, or we'll have to make a club.
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Is it a common name on Terra?
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[He holds out a hand for a handshake, looking a little worried, like he's late to this whole thing.]
It's super nice to meet you.
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She's used to the babbling so she just lets him go on. And on.
Until he's finally holding out his hand, and all right, she's come around to the handshake thing, because a lot of people do it here, so why not. She reaches out and takes his hand in a grip that's firm, but not bone-shattering (like it could literally be), and gives one shake. ]
Gamora.
[ ... "Nice to meet you" isn't usually part of her repertoire of good manners. ]
You've already met Peter Quill, then.
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I met him, yeah! We're totally gonna do a bad movie night sometime. He even promised to help pitch in for it. And we both are super into old tech stuff, like — [He motions to his list.] Walkmans. Are you his friend? You're totally invited to the bad movie night.
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... Unfortunately, she's not entirely sure why a bad movie night would be fun. ]
I'm his girlfriend.
[ And she said the word out loud. Amazing. ]
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Instead he says what everyone thinks next:]
Oh, cool! Then you're the person I call if he's causing trouble, so you can drag him off.
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[ She's not even going to pretend like that's not the truth. ]
Why are you making a night of watching bad movies? That seems like a waste of time.
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You know, because they're so dumb? People don't have to take it seriously and they can talk a lot through them, because they're not missing anything.
[GAMORA IT'S GREAT]
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Peter and I do that with a show they have here. Pals.
[ Pals: where Russ and Rachelle argue about whether or not "they were on a break." ]
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What's it about?
[Is it really called Pals, or are you just horrifically botching Friends, that's the question.]
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It's like Friends, but worse. ]
These six people are friends, and four of them live across from each other in apartments. They spend too much time in a coffee shop and seem to date each other constantly.
[ "Describe Friends in the worst way possible." ]
1/2
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[Like insanely familiar.
what the fuck, with feeling]
Did one of them play a guitar and sing really badly?
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[ Smelly dogs not smelly cats. ]
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I see. I think I know what show you're talking about.
[We have something shockingly similar.]
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