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- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
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- ✖ the witcher: keira metz
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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[Off we go then, huh? The walkways of Riverview do have a sort of New York aura to them, but the green lining so many things is kind of different from the concrete jungle aspect of it all. He tucks his hands into his pockets and kicks a pebble absently as he goes.]
I don't know, though — photography's pretty cool! I took a semester of it last year.
Imagine how many crazy pictures you could get, living on a moon.
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[Because really, Riverview does have some pretty nice stuff that might be interesting to capture, he isn't going to lie. He might feel kind of a love-hate with it at the moment, but--
It isn't the worst place to end up, even if there are monster attacks. It isn't like back home, there isn't a supervillain problem or random monsters. Kinda running from a giant parasite back home anyway.
Not that Peter needs to know that bit. He doesn't want to freak the guy out.]
Maybe you could put those photography skills to good use here, right? Publish a book of what life looks like on a moon...
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LIFE ON THE MOON: A BOOK BY PETER PARKER.
[He fans his hands in front of him to add to the magic of the name.]
... That'd be kinda fun, actually. Something to do over the summer, you know? Maybe take pictures of half-melted people on the street, give them a popsicle for their trouble.
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[He flashes a grin, looking over at Peter.]
What, you're just going to carry around popsicles to bribe people with?
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[Imagine this goober wandering over to you and selling you a 50 cent pop.
It's very ridiculous.
He's hasn't kept track of how far they've gone — wandering conversations'll do that to you — but he does perk up a little at the image of what looks to be some kind of cartoony character on a little folding sidewalk sign — GAMES, ACCESSORIES, BOOKS in neat chalky writing. Awesome.]
Score.
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[Or something like that.
He pauses, looking over the shop-- and doesn't that sort of feel like home? It's good to see geeks exist, even on the moon.]
Wow, that was actually pretty easy, right? We won't be part of the very few nerds on the moon after all, I guess.
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Anything you'd be looking for specifically?
[Peter really isn't picky; he was never financially sound enough to be, anyways. Any comic is a good comic, unlike a price tag, ya know? But here, the allowance he's given is, like, awesome enough for him to get by. Though, he does gotta be a little careful after buying all that candy earlier for the movies with Billy. :|a]
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[He gives a hum, looking around. Teddy isn't that picky either, honestly... books are books, and he can geek out over most of them.]
I don't know... I've always been a huge Avengers fan, so maybe we can find something like that? [He pauses, looking over his shoulder at Peter.] Do you know the Avengers?
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[He can't help but laugh, grinning a little.]
I've actually met Tony Stark a few times, since I got an internship with his enterprise for, y'know, grades and all that. It's been... something else. I haven't really gotten to see the other Avengers around, but they all seem cool.
[Some of them are war criminals, but you know.]
Most people back at school think I'm full of it.
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I was always more of a Cap guy myself, but Tony Stark is cool. [He should know. He might have impersonated him a time or two...]
Or maybe they're just totally jealous you get to work with an Avenger.
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That'd sure be the first time someone'd be jealous of me, but thanks.
... I think — both are pretty awesome. All of them, really. It seems like it'd be so much work, to be in their shoes... I just couldn't imagine.
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[It hadn't been easy for them, when they had to step up to try to fill the Avengers' shoes. Even now that they are Avengers, nothing ever feels particularly easy.
Although he probably shouldn't sound so knowing about it so after a moment, he gives a sheepish grin.]
I mean, I'd think so anyway.
[Annnnd look at this-- whatever comic he pulled out of a bin. He has no idea but probably time for a topic change.]
Huh, check this out. They kind of have everything.
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[These two lying motherfuckers.
But Peter's eyes go wide with interest as he leans closer.]
Half-animal superheroes, huh? Kinda like Animorphs.
... But, like, the middle transformation picture on the front covers.
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Well, at least in the top ten or something.]
We're totally gonna get this one. How can you turn down half-animal heroes, right?
[He huffs out a laugh.]
It'd be cool if we found some Avengers comics or something, right?
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[He's flicking through what they've got, at least.]
Or even action figures. Heh. Mr. Stark would love that, I bet.
He probably has a whole room of action figures.
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[He huffs out a laugh.]
I hope you don't mean of himself... [But okay, he totally could have that too.]
Come on, let's go check out the figures. Maybe we can find a whole set of Avengers or X-Men.
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But awesome, off we go!]
That'd be so sweet. I'm game, let's go on a quest for figures. My dresser's got nothing on it.
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But he can't blame him. If there were Hulkling figures, he'd totally have as many as he could get his hands on...
He heads over to the shelves of figures thoughtfully.]
Do you think it's ever weird for people who come in here and see figures of themselves? Personally, I think it's kind of like a life goal...
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[He's practically daydreaming about a kid holding a Spider-Man toy in real time, man.
... But his nose wrinkles.]
I mean, unless they print your face all wonky. Or they're those dollar store knock-off kinds. Like — Instead of Thor, it's a Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtle in a cape and holding the hammer?
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[He flashes a grin, and hey! Look. There are totally Avengers figure.]
Speaking of-- I think I see a Hulk. Maybe we will find an Iron Man. Or knock off Iron Man at least.
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He's practically sparkling when he pops his head over near Teddy's general area.
Sure enough, there are little figures.]
A hulk? Really?! Where? Aw, look at the little purple pants! Someone really took the time to craft him some cloth pants.
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[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.
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[He nudges at Teddy.]
You gonna get it? It's practically a relic from home.
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[Okay, he likes all the Avengers for the most part... Life of a fanboy.]
See one you want?
1/2
[He's walking around the corner of the little shelf of figures and practically chokes to death on his own breath —]
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