riverviewlogs | 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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[The door is always open to Lucretia, even when things are difficult between them, he wouldn't bar her from seeing the others. But things are good now, so he smiles when he sees her, immediately moving to pour her a cup of coffee before he gets distracted by what she sets on the counter.]

Holy fucking shit, Lux.

[He sets the mug down so he can pick up the bottle, turning it over in his hands as he laughs.]

We're gonna get wasted on this tonight, right?

(While he's picking up the bottle, she also drops a folded tea towel onto the counter too. She's not sure what he 'wants none' of, but it seems like something Taako will find funny. He does love pastries, after all.)

Happy Prijata.

(is she going around and meticulously selecting things to distract from having spent a full year here now and not knowing how to deal????? nah) Absolutely we are. I think it's just run-of-the-mill gin.

[The tea towel gets a brief glance and then another cackle, because he knows that she doesn't get the reference, she wouldn't have bought it if she did. That just makes it better.]

I dunno if Garyl would be impressed if it was literally unicorn tears. Hold on, I got you shit, too.

[He disappears in a swirl of mist and reappears a few seconds later with a colorful box in his hands. The mug is nestled inside.]

No, probably not...

(She takes the box from him, unable to disguise her surprise at being gifted something at all.)

Oh. (It's... a mug; Lucretia pulls it out and looks at it for a long moment, and her mouth scrunches like she's about to laugh. It's really quite nice that the word 'bitch' is in a heart. She's genuinely touched.)

Thank you.

[Taako grins, bright and cheery because this way he gets to gently insult Lucretia without making it a whole fucking thing, and while still being a little bitch affectionate. They're still family, after all.

It kind of sums up their entire relationship.]

You like it?

Edited 2018-06-13 02:47 (UTC)

Yes. (Lucretia knows this, and she loves him.

She takes the cup of coffee he had poured her before, and takes it to the sink so she can tip it into her new mug to have instead.)

It's very good.

I'd spike it for you right the fuck now but I dunno if gin goes with coffee.

[That's a lie he absolutely knows that gin doesn't go with coffee.]

It definitely does not go with coffee, but I would not say no to baileys.

(hint hint)

[Please hold while he raids the liquor cabinet.

Except:]

Will chocolate baileys suffice? I'm outta the regular stuff and this is all we've got, apparently.

It will have to do, (Lucretia says long-sufferingly, as if she actually cares what kind of baileys is going directly into her coffee. Especially not when:)

I've... been here for a year now.

Huh.

[Taako's quiet as he adds the baileys to their coffees, just thinking. he date had slipped him by, in part because Lucretia's arrival and subsequent first few months had been tumultuous, something that was better not to think too hard about.]

It's kinda weird, isn't it? Especially with all our shit, a year is like-- that's it. Time to wrap it up and move on, but we're not going anywhere yet.

(She takes a big sip and sighs, rubbing the back of her neck.)

It's... really weird. (Nobody else she's talked to has understood this. How could they possibly? It's so reliving that she can, at least, always have Taako to talk to about this.)

I should be used to it, but– well, being on another planet has really made me feel like this is a cycle. It almost makes me want to leave.

(She's certainly felt twitchy the last couple days.)

Me and Lup took a little trip when my year rolled around, got out of the city for a few days, you know?

[It had helped, even if it was the same planet at least it was something different, and coming back had made things feel less oppressive.]

We could go again, if ya wanted. Spend a few days on the beach.

[It's warming up again, after all.]

I remember. That does sound good...

(She glances at him, secretly pleased that he'd offer to come with. Or at least she's assuming that's what he means by 'we'? She won't question him about it lest he retract it.)

I'd like that a lot. I haven't been to the beach in a long while.

Would Lup come again, d'you think? You can both work on your tan.

[It's better that she doesn't question it, because while it is exactly what he means, any acknowledgement of that fact will have the offer rescinded. That's just how it works.]

She is not gonna miss out on the opportunity to dunk you in the ocean, I'm pretty sure she'd come with.

[Shame they're all gonna get fucking kidnapped soon.]

(A huge fucking shame!!)

That's a good point– hey, let's ask Cisco to come too. Istus knows he needs a little time away from it all. We can recreate the beach planet year, except for a few days instead.

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