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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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[Taako is delighted by the gift that he finds on his doorstep, and amused by the fact Rey apparently did a drop and run with it. He attributes it to awkwardness, he knows she's knew to this whole friendship thing, so he isn't offended.

It just means he has time to wrap up her gifts, cast a locating spell to make sure she's at her apartment, and then makes his way on over.

Unlike Rey, when Taako knows on the door, he plans to wait until it's opened.]

[It wasn't exactly a drop and run. It was...making sure the package got to its intended recipient and not sticking around to see if it was the right choice in terms of a gift. She wasn't new to friendship. She was new in how to give a gift to a friend and not fret about it being perfect or not.

The knock on her door takes Rey by surprise. She was cleaning her apartment. There was some water damage, but it was fine compared to some of the other homes.

Without checking to see who was at the door, she opened it, first seeing a box and then shocked to see someone else there.]

Taako? Hey!

[Well this was a nice surprise!]

Hello darling, did you think you were gonna get out of this end of things?

[Because clearly she was trying to avoid getting a present in return, that definitely makes sense, it's why he's offering the box out to her.

Inside are a neatly folded pair of pants and shirt, both practical and good quality. It's a bit of a joke on their conversation about fashion, but he also figures it's a useful gift. Rey doesn't really need any trinkets or anything, so this is something she can wear when she's exercising or exploring beyond the wall.]

I wasn't expecting anything...

[Which is true. It's a mindset that won't end any time soon. She grew up with so little. No one would give her anything, not without a price. To see Taako with a box that's meant for her....it's really special.

Rey accepts the gift, before hugging her friend. She'll be surprised with the clothes--and even more surprised at how he guessed her size.]

Thank you, Taako. [She hugs him tightly for a moment before pulling back.]

Do you want to come in? I can make tea or something.

[She had things for sandwiches and stuff if he was hungry.]

I got you something for something for Hygge, of course I'm gonna get you a Prijata gift.

[This seems obvious to him.

He's quick to return the hug, giving her a little smooch on the forehead as he slides into the apartment around the same time as she makes the offer, because he's a rude little shit.]

Tea would be excellent, I feel kinda remiss in not bringing some cookies or whatever.

[He's been busy with baking for work, since... a lot of people want food for Prijata gifts.]

To be fair, I wasn't expecting a gift then either. It's...still growing on me.

[To actually think that people would give her gifts. She wouldn't come to expect it at all, but whatever. She's going to enjoy his gift and doesn't mind how he slips right into her apartment. It's small, compact, but it has a small sitting area and there's some plants. There were some stuff in the corner that she needed to take out. Yay for cleaning up after the flood.]

Do you have a preferred flavor? I have mint and chamomile.. [She's getting into the world of teas, but having more than two would be over indulging herself.]

It's okay, I have cookies..uhh, they may not go with the tea. Would Oreos be okay?

Well, listen, as long as we're both here you're gonna keep getting gifts when they're due.

[Based on what he knows about Rey, he assumes she doesn't know her birthday, but any Quarantine festivals that involve gift-giving will involve gifts.]

Mint's good but uh, I'll skip the oreos, I'm not a big fan.

[They're fine? But it's sort of a weird not-quite-chocolate taste that he's never really adjusted to.]

That's fair I suppose...

[She doesn't know her birthday, but Cisco made her pick a date to actually celebrate--which she kind of forgot, since it felt like any other day to her.

Rey stepped into her kitchen, moving over to the 2 burners on the small stove to start prepping tea.]

That's fine. I have other stuff too--and I should go grocery shopping soon. But, did you like your present? It sparkled and I thought it would go well with anything you have.

It's cool, just the tea will do me fine, I'm trying to watch my weight.

[A useless endeavor considering food is one of the main joys in his life.]

Of course I loved it, glittery and useful is like, two of the best things anyone could've got me.

Your weight? You look fine.

[He was lean and in good shape. He didn't need to worry about his weight! Taako was fine the way he was--and anyone who said anything else could fight her.]

The tea should be ready soon.

[A few minutes for the water to boil and then another few minutes for the tea to set.

A grin came over her face, happy to hear he liked his present.]

I'm glad. You know, you are kind of hard to shop for.

['Good shape' is debatable considering he hasn't done anything more vigorous than yoga since turning up in Riverview but the sentiment is appreciated.]

I thought I'd be easy to shop for, I'm like a magpie or whatever, just get me shiny shit. Or cooking shit! Or booze!

[Which actually:]

And you managed a combo of all three so, well done, bubbale.

[If Taako brought up Yoga, Rey will inquire what that was. Her exercise routine was more vigorous since she was part of the Guard.]

Well, you do bake, so I wasn't sure what you did and didn't have. I don't know if you'd like clothing or not.

[Her smile grows, ducking her head a little.]

I'll keep that in mind for next time. Maybe a flask shaped like a diamond or something.

[Teasing, but she does hear the kettle whistle and goes to tend to that.]

I would love to know what kinda clothes you'd get for me.

[He's not even being sarcastic there, he'd be delighted to see either a) how Rey would dress him or b) Rey's interpretation of his fashion sense. It's also fun finding out how people see him, and that's one way to do it.]

And I'll take a diamond flask, for sure.

[There's a pause from Rey as she looks Taako over again, trying to figure out how she would dress him.]

...Cape. I'd start with a cape--one that is bright, or has a lot of sparkle on it and then build an outfit from there.

[Because capes can be very dramatic, and honestly, that's how Taako is on any given day.]

I'll keep that in mind the next time I see one.

[Teasing a little as she brings over tea for the two of them.]

How have things been otherwise?

You can't go wrong with a good cape.

[He's so delighted by her answer, enough to hold a hand to his chest briefly, to show how touched he is that she knows him so well.

Him and his dramatics.]

Uh, you know, kinda weird, I guess? Magnus left and now he's back. My boyfriend's here, I dunno if I gave you that whole update, it's been this whole fucking thing.

No, no you can't--unless... [Rey thought for a moment how one could go wrong with a cape.] Unless it has multiple holes in it, then it's not a cape anymore.

[Letting out a soft laugh there because she finds it a bit funny. It would be a 'holely' cape, wouldn't it? If it had a bunch of holes in it.

Wait--Magnus left and is back?]

Magnus--the one who wanted to marry Lucretia, Magnus? [Making sure they're talking about the right one here, because there are two people with the same name.] Does he...remember being here or...?

[Nope, he hasn't given her an update--come on Taako, tell her! How can she help? How can she make him feel better--or be a better friend right now?]

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