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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!

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Credit: image i: Odysseas Stamoglou; image ii: Dave Arredondo; image iii: spainforpleasure.com; image iv: mit19237

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[It's been a little while since he's seen a tiefling, both in Fearun and in the Quarantine, so he's immediately intrigued when he spots Molly, even more so when he clocks the jewellery on the horns and the colorful outfit. Taako is more suitably dressed for the weather, including the glasses the Tetherer gave him, because he loves them.

He catches Molly inspecting the laser, and offers:]

It's a laser, darling, careful not to point it at anyone's eyes, apparently it'll send 'em blind.

[ Honestly, Taako, with those shades it's not much of a difference in over-the-top glam between them. At last the elf is less overdressed for the season than the lavender tiefling, but it wasn't like Molly felt comfortable leaving his shit anywhere.

The unusual voice makes him stop in his exploration of the laser pointer and he looks over to Taako with an expression between faux-horror and an amused grin. ]

Now that is definitely worse than the sharp edges of the things you usually win back home. What is it for?

You know, honestly, I've only ever seem people use 'em to make cats chase the little dot of light.

[It's not as though he goes to a lot of presentations or anything, so he's missing the context for what a laser pointer is usually for.]

If they've got some kinda purpose other than that I've yet to discover it.

Really? Now that's perfect, I'll just save it for my friend's cat.

[ Maybe Frumpkin would love it, or at least it could occupy the familiar if he needed something from Caleb. ]

I have to admit, you're the first elf I've seen so far. This place seems quite human-centric.

And you're -- well, probably one of the first tieflings I've seen, though with this place it's hard to fucking tell from a distance.

[He's seen other horned and colorful creatures, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're a tiefling.]

You get kinda used to it, I guess. Are you from Toril?

Well, at least you know what I am. There seem to be a bit of outright confusion from some, apart than the normal bigotry.

[ This world is amazing, and really weirding him out at the same time. ]

Toril? I'm afraid I haven't heard of that. I'm from Wildemount, most recently Zadash.

Oh, yeah, you might get some of the devil assumptions from thugs but I don't think you're gonna run into too much trouble.

[Just being honest! He has zero problems with tieflings but he knows from talking with Rin that not all worlds are as chill as his.]

Haven't heard of that one either, that's kinda dope. You're gonna meet a lot of humans from Earth, the most boring fucking planet in any universe, but some of 'em are alright. I'm Taako, by the way, greatest transmutation wizard in Fearun.

[His smile is overly cocky in the way that suggests he knows he's being a show off.]

Devil bullshit doesn't bother me. I just didn't expect confusion to be the most common reaction.

[ Shug™. The dramatics are more fun, honestly. He doesn't know how to bullshit off confused stares. ]

Really? That's interesting... and what kind of name is 'Earth'?

[ The tiefling is quick to return that cocky smile, giving a flourish bow that sets the coat moving almost hypnotically together with the light clink of his horn jewelry. ]

Mollymauk Tealeaf. Molly to my friends.

[Honestly that's fair; Taako is more used to running into assumptions about elves that are wholly incorrect because too many people have read Lord of the Rings. It's kind of a different ballgame, though.]

Turns out you stick a whole bunch of humans together and they forget how to name shit.

[Earth is honestly the worst name.]

It's a pleasure, Molly. [They're friends now, right?] Did you just turn up on this shitty moon of ours?

I'm not surprised.

[He loves his humans, okay, but humans as a group are a weird mess.]

Likewise, Taako. [They are definitely friends, negging planet names together.] And yes. Just a day or so ago.

Wow, you're real fresh meat.

[Be nice.]

You started with one of the better holidays, although I think you're gonna have a lot of fun with carnivale when it rolls around, especially if partying is your thing.

[Just, you know, based on Molly's outfit and countenance so far.]

It's a big change, but I've always wanted to travel.

[ Lies. It was better than admitted how utterly fucked up he felt about this, though. ]

Carnivale, is it? Partying is definitely part of my... thing. I like experiences, and this is a little above normal. If it gets even better, I'm definitely in.

A moon in another reality is about as far as most people can get.

[He's not including himself in that, it seems, but that's neither here nor there.]

Sex, drugs and music, if you wanna really narrow it down. [That's a kind of party.] Some of it gets better, sometimes it gets worse. Like my places, I guess.

You have a sex and drug festival? I'd be shocked but I'm honestly more intrigued than anything. When is this happening?

[ Molly 'I like manacles' Tealeaf is definitely appreciating some parts of this mess, now. ]

How long have you been here?

A month, give or take, but if that's your thing you don't have to look too hard.

[Is he flirting? Is he just being helpful? It's a mystery.]

Been over a year for cha boy, don't freak out about it, most people get home way sooner than I do. I'm just special.

Is that so?

[ He gets a little amused glint in his red eyes, happy to do some almost-flirting. It's another step in making him feel a lot more like himself - apparently meeting Taako is a form of therapy. ]

You are obviously quite special, I've already pinned that down. A year is quite long, but I was honestly expecting to be trapped here the full quarantine duration. You're saying the say might be shorter?

[He holds up a finger in a sort of wait gesture.]

Lemme give you the rundown and then we can talk fun stuff.

[So he'll come back to the sex and drugs and vague flirting once he's done with the proper talk.]

The quarantine period is only if you wanna go to the world this moon is orbiting, which is a thing you can do, I know some people who are planning to stick around cause they're happier here than where they came from. If you wanna go home, you should make sure the guys running the portal know, cause they'll work on pointing it back in the direction of... what was it? Wildemount? That could take a week, could take a couple years, the portal's kind of a dick like that. I couldn't give you like, exact fucking averages, but four to six months seems pretty standard.

[ Molly backs off a bit, because a rundown would be great, considering how much of a general panic attack he had been in after arriving to this place. For someone who had never been alone in his (short) life, it felt like having been ripped from his family twice in a few short months.

A very broken, distrustful and argumentative family, but hey. ]

Alright, I think I get it. Is there any way to send a message or something like that? I'm pretty sure that months from now the rest of my party will have gotten quite far away.

[ If they managed to keep it together for that long. ]

Oh, that's all good, they'll put you right back where they left you. Time is fucked up with the portal, it's a headache sometimes but useful for this shit.

[He doesn't know this from direct experience, but Bryn confirmed what they've been told by the authorities.]

On the topic, fair warning, if you've got friends back home they might show up from like... different times? Ahead or behind you, it can be a trip. My sister was a couple decades behind me which isn't a huge deal for elves but...

[You know.]

That's mad!

[ Really, that might be the most fucked up thing he's heard so far, but he can't even argue or call bullshit. ]

So your sister is from your past? And I could meet people I know from home that might be from before I even met them?

Yes and yes, my guy, and it is for sure fucked up. Try running into the dude you've been on one whole date with and finding out you've been a thing for a year from his perspective.

[It's super messed up.]

That... sounds terrifying, I have to say.

[ Not that he had anything against relationships, quite the opposite, but suddenly missing out on half the fun and this person knowing him without being able to say the same was, indeed, super messed up. ]

It's been kinda weird, but not the weirdest shit I've seen here.

[It doesn't even come close, although speaking of...]

If you wanna buy me a drink I can answer any questions you've got about your new temporary home.

Now that is something I do know how to do, even in a place like this!

[ Molly, please. You bought horrible craft beer in the first bar you could find. ]

What would you fancy?

There's probably some kinda stall nearby selling wine, that'll do me. Unless you wanna get fancy, cause I can pop us back to the city if that's the case?

[There's a little finger waggle with that, because magic.]

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