riverviewlogs | monthly mingle: PRIJATA

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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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II. [Right, so. Speed-friending feels about as awkward as it sounds, but it's also something Teddy feels like he needs right now. It isn't the first time it's felt like his life's been turned upside down, and it won't be the last either, but having some new people to hang out with? Some distraction? That sounds good. Besides, he doesn't know where all the good places are around here, all the good spots to hang out... might as well find someone who knows, right?

Besides, he's in a nice little coffee shop that's hosting an event. Teddy's list of interests wasn't all that deep. Movies, video games, basketball, comics. All the geeky, nerdy stuff that he's almost afraid that he'll miss until he goes back home.

But that's stupid, right? There's got to at least be video games here.

He's idly nursing a coffee as he looks around, offering a friendly smile up to whoever approaches him.]

Hey-- I'm Teddy.

IV. [It's almost impossible to be sad or out of place at an amusement park, right? The lights, the music, all the people bustling around. Oh, and all the rides and the terrible food... which Teddy can pack away a lot of, honestly. Especially if it happens to be cotto candy. He checks out the VR simulators eagerly, the first-person shooters are interesting... and not too far off from games he played at home.

Just a lot more involved.

When he's had his fill of food and VR and rollercoasters, Teddy decides to hit up the carnival games. The strength testing ones, he feels a little bad about... super strength and all, but he eases his conscience a little by handing out whatever stuffed toys he has to whoever's around. Not like he needs a big stuffed bear or bunny after all.]

V. [If you want a more specific scenario or to meet Teddy anywhere else in the city, feel free to leave something here, hit me up through PMs or at

noassgardian and I can set us something up!]

[Oh, look! How do you do, fellow youth, I am a Cool Guy. Or rather a complete nerd, because the things written on that list are super awesome. Though, Peter kind of already sees Teddy as someone who would definitely be the top dog at high school, one of those muscular cool guys who Peter would secretly wish he could be like years ago (back when he was composed of twigs! good times). Man, why is reaching out and making pals so difficult? Stupid social anxieties. Sheesh.

He plops down and looks entirely out of his comfort zone, bless.]

Hi! I'm Peter! I don't really play basketball — I mean, I'm not very... sporty...

But I love movies and comics, so that's a thing?

[... He likes playing games at Ned's place, but consoles are way too expensive, okay. Leave that kind of cash spending to your buddies, as they say.]

[Hey, he might look like a jock, but he's a nerd through and through. And okay, he was kind of a jock too, but that had meant going along with some bad things and pretty much acting like one of the herd. No individualism allowed unless it was of the acceptable sort, you know?

He's kind of glad that's all behind him.

He huffs out a laugh at as Peter settles in.]

That's alright... I'm kind of more into movies and comics nowadays anyway.

[... And that seals the deal. Maybe one day, he'll get some new consoles and they can play all the games together. Everybody needs some video game buddies, right?]

What are some of your favorites?

[He squares his shoulders and thinks for a moment... Okay, he doesn't really need to think about it; it all comes to him immediately. But sometimes you're such a nerd over something, you gotta play it off so you're not a mega nerd right off the bat, okay?]

... Star Wars. I really, really like Star Wars.

But I also like all kinds of movies! Like, science fiction stuff, or old movies. Like Jurassic Park, or — or Lord of the Rings. All those kinds of flicks. Anything that kind of helps you escape for a little while, y'know?

Comics are kind of hard, because I'll clean out a shop on Free Comic Book Day.

[He grins, unrepentant in the end.]

Oh, come on. Those are the best movies ever. I wanted to be Han Solo when I was a kid so bad.

[You know, before he found out about the whole alien prince thing. That kind of changed his perspective, but. Totally not sharing that.]

I know. My-- ex was obsessed with Lord of the Rings. I might be able to quote those movies from start to finish by now. But my favorite movies are the ones you can kind of get lost in too. [Just please.

Please, Peter, say you don't like musicals. Teddy can't.]

You know, that brings up a very important question. Do you think there's a comic shop here? Because it's gonna be lame to miss Free Comic Book Day while we're here.

Teddy Altman | Marvel 616

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aahh, awesome!

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