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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[Take a page out of Aaron Burr's rulebook and talk less, Pete. He breathes in through his nose and sits more patiently, reminding himself that not everyone is a motormouth like Ned and him are.]

That's really cool. I was kinda in the middle of refurbishing one back home, but I guess that's just gonna have to wait a while. [He laughs a little, thinking about it and the terribly gutted old-as-hell computer sitting on his desk.] Is it a childhood thing? I just got something from the fountain I haven't worn since I was, like, eleven.

[Really, it's just a guess going by the guy's age; when he was little, Walkmans definitely were in fashion. Also, do you like how he said he hasn't worn something since he was eleven? That was four fucking years ago, Pete. That was practically last Tuesday.]

I...

[ Oof. This is complicated. Peter visibly hesitates, then decides on the easiest way to explain this: ]

I had it for a while back home, but I didn't have it on me when that Portal thing hauled me here. I guess it decided to spit it out a few months later.

Kinda like finding a missing sock tucked under the dryer, I guess.

[Who knew a Walkman could be such a demanding topic. He laughs a little, though, at the thought of a sock just. Showing up in one of those fountain gift boxes? What the hell. He used to have a pair of socks with pizza patterns on them; maybe one'll spring up, like, hey pete I've missed you!]

That's pretty nice about the place, I guess.

I usually just use my phone for music, so it probably would gift me anything that retro and cool.

[He holds up his iPhone from his pocket, which is... cracked all to hell. I mean, you can still read the time and everything! It's just. Yikes.]

[ Peter takes one look at that messed up phone and— ]

Wow.

[ He's seen a couple of iPhones around the quarantine, but none as messed up as that. ]

Does that even still work?

Whuh— of course it does, it's just a little beat up. It works just fine.

It's just surface level.

... And the lock button doesn't work anymore, and sometimes the top corner doesn't register when you touch it. But look, see, it's fine.

[Pete, you're not making a good case here.]

Uh.... huh.

[ In that slow, flat way that says, "I 100% don't believe you." ]

... I'm pretty sure I just saw a chunk of glass fall off.

[He goes bug-eyed for a moment before turning the phone back to himself.]

What, no! Where—

[He drops his arms to the table, looking exasperated once he realizes it was blatant teasing.]

Oh, come on. At least my phone has Solitaire. Your Walkman definitely doesn't have Solitaire.

[THE BATTLE IS ON OLD MAN.]

[ Sorry kid, Peter ends up smirking at him. ]

I mean, it definitely doesn't, but I only really need it to do a couple of things.

[ He ticks them off on his fingers: ]

One, play music. And two, not shatter in my hands.

[ And he pulls the old Sony Walkman – a TPS-L2 model, if we want to get into specifics – from where it's hooked over his belt. The accompanying headset is tucked around his neck. He's a bit theatrical with how he turns the device over in his hands, then, ]

So far, so good.

Oh, yeah?

Can your Walkman do this?

[He turns on some Ramones on that sad looking excuse for a phone —

But it plays... out loud.

Without headphones.]

That’s what I’ve got a speaker for.

[ and anyway some Walkmans had built-in speakers too u ain’t special!!!!! ]

Aren’t you worried that too much bass is gonna make that thing fall apart?

No, no, it's way tougher than it looks-

[Oh. The phone screen goes black, and a little sign flashes for a second before completely shutting off. He drops his hands in defeat to the table.]

... Aw, man. The battery's dead.

[They ask you how you are and you just need to say you're fine but you're not fine-]

Edited 2018-06-06 20:48 (UTC)

[ ... welp.

At the very least, Peter looks a little sympathetic. Battery failure is the worst kind of failure, honestly, and it’s one he knew well, until one of the Ravagers finally had the bright idea of replacing the Walkman’s battery compartment with some solar-powered charging unit. ]

Do you have, uh. A charging cord or whatever?

[ he’s pretty sure that’s what those things need. Or at least, that’s what he needed for his Zune, and iPhones and Zunes are basically the same, right?

(No, Peter. No, they’re really not.) ]

Oh, it's okay. It's all back home - er, at the apartments. I guess I'll let you have this one.

[But he doesn't seem to have taken the civil war they just fought very seriously.

Instead, he quickly offers a hand.]

I'm Peter, by the way. Peter Parker... New guy.

[ Oh.

This is weirdly formal.

But handshake: initiated.

Also? He's sort of grinning, because, ]

Peter Quill.

[ same hat!!! ]

Folks call me Star-Lord.

[ no they don't!!! ]

[That moment when you're same hatting...!]

[And he finally got a fucking handshake. Not that he knows everyone and their mother will refuse to shake his damn hand in the future, but it doesn't matter, because Other Peter did just now.]

Nice to meet you, Big Pete!

[Wait-]

Star-Lord? Are you, like, a dancer or something? Or are some kind of gamer champion?

[He aint' even teasing you, bro, those are both cool things to be with a name like that.]

[ ... those are new ones on him, and Peter is caught somewhere between amused and totally bewildered. ]

Neither.

[ A pause. Then, upon reconsideration, ]

Well, I mean, I dabble.

Oh, gotcha.

[....]

Then why do they call you Star-Lord?

[Hurry and tell him, because he's about to include that it could potentially be the name of a cult leader's weird god that has six arms and wears sneakers or something.]

[ ... peter parker you have an overactive imagination. ]

It's just a call-sign I picked up a long time ago.

[ More accurately, it was a childhood nickname turned outlaw name turned... title? Call-sign tends to be the easiest explanation, these days.

Plus, it sounds way better to say, "Terrorists were stopped by Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy," than "Peter Quill and the Guardians of the Galaxy." ]

... Did you call me "Big Pete" earlier?

[ or did he dream that ]

Uh, yeah. We're both Peter, right? So we should probably have our own personal street names for that. Like mobs do, y'know? Big Petey, or whatever. I figured you'd be offended if I called you little. Anyway-

[More importantly!!!]

A call-sign? Like, are you in the military or something? That's cool.

[ do not call him little. ]

Yeah, uh. Sort of.

[ ... how best to describe this? ]

I guess you could say I was more freelance? We never really affiliated with any particular governments or empires or anything, just as long as they weren't total dickwads.

[ The Sovereign being an unfortunate exception. ]

[His eyes widen with maybe a smidge of concern.]

What, like a mercenary?

[Peter Quill that's not a good thing, mercenaries are 99% of the time a bad idea.

Do you shoot people for money, do you wear camo or trenches a lot? Dude.]

[ how dare you Peter's trenches are so cool. ]

Not exactly.

[ Well, not really. Not anymore. They do get paid, sure, because they've gotta put food on the table, but— ]

We help out where we can. We've saved the galaxy a couple of times, even. [ NO BIG, NO BIG. ] But sometimes, it comes with payment, is all.

Oh, then you're superheroes.

[He says it pretty plainly, like it's the most reasonable correction. The awe and interest is renewed pretty instantly though, and he's already leaning in a little on his elbows to give his full attention.]

What kind of galaxy-saving was it? Have you guys dealt with alien invasions, too?

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