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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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?

[ Peter takes a breath, eyebrows knitting together and mouth opening to respond.

But he pauses after a second, giving this some thought, and— ]

I... guess so.

[ He sounds at least a little pleased with that correction. ]

I always figured we were more like the A-Team, only without the court-martials.

[ Still wanted criminals, though! At least in some places that didn't get the memo that each member of the Guardians were heroes. ]

I guess the first time was an alien invasion? If you wanna call it that. I'm pretty sure we all just called it a regular invasion.

[ because everyone there is an alien. ]

The A-Team - that's that super old show with Mr. T, right?

[It's like, ancient.]

But I guess that makes sense, because... you know. Galaxy. I always wondered what it was like out here, away from Earth. Because I've only ever seen jerks for aliens, so. It's good to see they don't all wanna enslave you, or. Or whatever those Chitauri guys wanted.

[ His mouth starts moving faster than his brain, which is about par for the course, but—

He frowns. ]

The Chitauri?

[ He— actually knows who those dudes are, and he’s pretty sure it’s, like, a client (slave?) race to a certain giant raisin. ]

When did the Chitauri go to Earth?

[Oh, yeah, maybe he should control the speed of his rambling a little. Especially when he's seemed to ping something on the guy's radar.]

... About five or six years back. You might be able to ask Mr. Stark about it, because he probably knows more than me, but.... they came through a big hole in the sky and started wrecking New York. It was insane.

We were just lucky The Avengers were around to stop it. Really, really lucky.

[ Weirdly, Peter actually has no idea who the Avengers are, despite having met two of its founding members. The name "Stark," however, does ring a bell, so— ]

You mean Tony Stark?

[ He had mentioned stuff about the Infinity Stones, a while back, and how some of those pesky things had ended up on Earth, at some point. So if the Chitauri were there, they were probably going after a stone.

... food for thought for a later time. He'll have to share this information with Gamora, later. ]

Those guys can be nasty.

[ Or so Peter's heard. He's never actually had any run-ins with the Chitauri yet. ]

Yeah! Tony Stark, yeah. He and a bunch of others handled it; some of them are here, too.

[It's been a star-struck sort of thing, where he just looks doe-eyed at every hero from his universe, to be honest. But he considers the Chitauri with vivid enough recollection — all thankfully from a distance, and not in the heart of the battle.]

I was lucky, 'cus I was in Queens while it was happening mostly in Manhattan, but I remember hiding under my desk and being freaked for weeks straight after. You just never knew if something was gonna come back to finish what it started...

[He winces.]

My bad, that's not really great... speed-friending material.

... No, hey, it's fine.

[ Listen, Peter is never going to tell someone to stop talking about their fucked up experiences, but— well. The kid is right that it's probably not something to talk about right now. And it's especially not fun to talk about in the middle of a mildly crowded coffee shop.

So, well, maybe it is time for a topic change. But if the kid wants to circle back around to it, then Peter won't stop him. ]

That was the Ramones earlier, right? "Blitzkrieg Bop"?

[Oh, yes, back to music.

Music is definitely more useful.]

Yeah! I really like the frantic kinda' energy in their music.

It's one of those kinds of songs that people from any decade would love. You know what I mean?

Yeah, exactly. [ This is much easier ground to tread. ] It's the kinda music that gets you pumped up.

Like— have you heard "Cherry Bomb" by The Runaways? 'Cause that's totally on my "Songs to Kick Ass To" soundtrack.

Oh, yeah!! They did a movie about The Runaways a while back, and I finally got around to watching it; the music was awesome. And Joan Jett is just a badass in general, right? Who doesn't know I Love Rock'n'Roll.

[Ew, is the rest of this thread gonna be them gushing about music.]

[ YOU BET IT IS BUDDY

or, actually, maybe they'll talk about— ]

They did a movie about them?

[ —the wonderful world of film. ]

Yeah, yeah, they did. I was pretty young when it came out, but my aunt really liked their stuff and it was on MTV, so we had a impromptu family night thing. [He's so content to talk about movies, yes, thank you.] I love music, but I'm even worse about movies. Because movies are, like, a full package for me — a movie only works with the perfect acting, visuals, music, story... You gotta get so many parts right to make it work.

And even the ones that totally suck are way too fun to watch, anyway.

Like Birdemic or Sharknado.

[ finally. Someone who gets it.

Hello, new best friend. ]

... I’m not sure if I want those movies to be exactly what I think they are or not.

Like. Is it actually about a tornado full of sharks, or...?

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