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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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[Nice try!!! But he's used to Lup.]

I wanna give you a demonstration, it's way easier than explaining it.

[ gdi lup! ]

Tell me or I'll break your present.

[Taako immediately holds it back behind him, out of reach.

Again: twin sibling.]

You wouldn't dare.

[ jyn's eyes narrow, hawkishly watching his movement. she might be genuinely offended that he thinks she wouldn't throw that expensive ass stolen face gunk right on the ground.

so naturally she launches her tiny little self at him to grab it.

ROGUE YOLO: A Star Wars Story ]

[He was expecting that too, considering he knows Jyn is petty enough and ridiculous enough to get into a squabble over gifts.

So there's a brief moment where she makes contact, before the artist formerly known as Taako disappears into thin air.

He'll reappear a couple of feet away after six whole seconds.

Surprise, bitch!!]

You're gonna have to do better than that.

[ six seconds is just enough time for jyn to remember, with a ruthless grin, fighting with melshi on the transport truck. she doesn't have a shovel handy but it only takes a step to be close enough to kick him. they're in public, in the street, and jyn pays literally zero mind to anyone around them.

IT'S FUCKING ON LIKE DONKEY KONG ]

[What the entire fuck.

Wizards aren't made for melee fights, and while Taako has a decent dexterity modifier, Jyn is too quick for him to dodge and the kick sends him flying backwards. He barely manages to keep a hold of the jar of goop, but it's like - important now, so he's not letting go of it.]

What the fuck?

[Fine, if they're gonna do this he's going to cast grease at her feet.

Make a dex saving throw, Jyn!!]

[ does taako remember nothing from fighting crocogators? jyn only has one speed when it comes to fighting or even sparring and it's balls to the fucking wall.

laughing, jyn darts after him but then he cheats and uses magic and suddenly her legs slip out from under her and she skids across the suddenly slippery ground. it's notable that she's still laughing after her startled yelp. slip and slide is fun, who knew! ]

Karking hell! [ she swears again but it's in some space language and sounds hilarious as she attempts to scramble to her feet. ]

[That's different!!!

At least she's laughing, it helps alleviate some fear that he's actually about to get his ass killed for using magic against her. This is all very familiar, even if Lup isn't the fighter that Jyn is.

Taako scrambles to his feet while Jyn scrambles to keep hers, and then quickly shoves the jar into a pocket to keep it slightly safer while they do this. Because they're fucking doing this.]

C'mon, pumpkin, you think I don't know how to wrestle?

[Calling it wrestling is probably unfair, considering he casts levitate on her.]

[ okay, first of all, what the fuck.

second of all, jyn can fly.

third of all, jyn carries weapons around on the regular and even though she is having trouble orienting herself in what is basically zero gravity, she manages to fumble one of them out of her pocket, hurling it at taako. it's a glitterbomb left over from paintball, not a grenade, don't worry.

she keeps one on hand in case she needs to threaten poe. ]

Clearly not!

[A glitter bomb is very effective in both hitting Taako in the shoulder and covering him with glitter, and with breaking his concentration on the levitation spell.

Allowing Jyn to float gently back to the ground.]

How did you still have one of these?

[He's laughing too now. What to heck.]

I only used one. [ she kept the other two, for times such as these! ] I let Cassian do all the work and then I glittered him when there were only two people left.

[ sweeping her hair back from her face, she faces taako with a feral little grin. and then takes another run at him, aiming to simply duck her shoulder and tackle him. ]

Holy fu--

[He's cut off by that tackle, which is honestly better than a kick because now she's in reach and he is 110% going to grab a handful of her hair and pull for no reason other than this is how it works.

He's also not gonna stop talking.]

You're the fucking worst, I love it.

[ the last time someone pulled her hair was when she was twelve and codo pissed blood for like a week after that. taako is saved from the same fate only because he is more fragile than codo and jyn is genuinely apprehensive she might actually hurt him.

so instead she twists her head and bites him with her fucking space teeth. CHOMP CHOMP MOTHERFUCKER IF JYN KNEW WHAT SHARKS WERE SHE WOULD LOVE THEM. ]

[Thank you Jyn for being the most considerate person in the world.

Though he still helps when she bites him, and immediately releases her hair so he can try to shake her loose. He's also just gonna aim a casual kick at her shin because the only physical fighting he knows is petty sibling squabbles.]

Ah, fuck, I can't believe you've done this.

[Don't meme at her, she doesn't understand.]

[ she's never been kicked in the shins because she lives that murdah life so she was UNAWARE of how much that shit hurts, even just a tiny kick! she jerks back, wiping her mouth. ]

What are your boots made of!

[Taako dances back a little once Jyn releases him, putting some distance between them.]

Uh, shitty cheap leather? I didn't even kick that hard, don't be a baby.

Oh shut up, you love me, remember?

[ she makes a face at him, but steps back on her own. ]

Alright, I give up.

I said I love that you're terrible, don't put words in my mouth.

[It's a totally different thing.

Taako puts his hands up in surrender, as he motionlessly casts mislead. An illusory double remains in place, while the actual invisible Taako steps a few feet to the side.]

Okay, okay, are we good?

[He doesn't trust her. Hence the illusion.]

Oh yeah, we're good.

[ it's fair to not trust her, she supports that decision. but she's going to let him go. and then in three days STEAL HIS GIFT BACK FROM HIM only to then steal another pot of goop and regift him that but it's the fucking principle of the thing. ]

Cool, okay, tha...nk you for this very good gift that I adore. You're just gonna have to wait a couple more days, promise.

[He's not afraid of Jyn, he's just being wary.]

'kay.

[ he is right to be wary of her gentle smile. go with you're gut, taako. ]

Later.

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