monthly mingle: PRIJATA

[riverviewmod]

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: monthly mingle: prijata
when: the month of june
where: anywhere around the city
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

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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Comments

[spellslots]

[God is that like a thing for him? Rin used to dabble, too.]

Divination, or are you just good at reading people and telling 'em what they wanna hear?

[devilstongue]

[Taako, finding all the bullshitters.]

Oh, a little bit of both. I am quite good at reading people. Well, unless they blow my damn mind.

[spellslots]

[He's sipping his drink a little more carefully, but pauses to grin.]

I've been told I'm very easy to read. When I'm not blowing minds, I guess.

[devilstongue]

[ He definitely likes that grin, it sets a better mood that he can deal with. ]

Oh? Do you ever blow minds other than with your outrageous story?

[spellslots]

[He hums, considering that for a moment, before idly drumming his fingers against the wooden tabletop, turning it gold. He's not even going to look at it, because he's A Shit.]

I throw a real good party, it's a shame you missed the masquerade.

[devilstongue]

[ Right. He was also a fucking master wizard. The trick is pretty damn impressive, and the runs a claw along the metal. ]

I can believe that. You are outstanding.

[spellslots]

[It's real gold, at least for now.]

You must be good at reading people, cause you've already figured out I love a compliment.

[devilstongue]

It's only natural. Someone like you definitely deserve it.

[ Molly has to admit all that power is a weird but definite turn-on. Plus the elf is stupidly gorgeous. ]

[spellslots]

[From the bar comes a Taako what the fuck did you do to my table? and with a laugh he quickly turns it back to wood.]

Okay, okay, if you're too nice it's gonna go to my head and my sister will kick both our asses. And trust me, you do not want that.

[Alternatively he feels Weird about compliments after a point because clearly he does not actually deserve them so.]

[devilstongue]

[ He laughs at the yell, a little more heartfelt and less pseudo-hysterical. Then Taako turns back the table, and he wonders how much of this was an illusion. The magic and the elf. ]

She's a fiery one, huh? I prefer my ass not kicked, in any case.

[spellslots]

[It was bullshit TAZ transmutation magic.]

Maybe adventuring wasn't the best lifestyle choice, cause that's like ninety percent getting your ass kicked, at least in my experience.

[He's just teasing.]

[devilstongue]

Well, that's quite different!

[ Molly you spend like every other battle unconscious, even though you have the most HP of the whole M9. ]

I wouldn't be trying to beat your sister right back.

[spellslots]

I mean, you could try, for sure, but evocation's her whole jam, so--

[She's a lot scarier than Taako, who just does transmutation.]

Do you just do sword shit, or have you got any other cool tricks? Most tieflings can do a lil magic, right?

[devilstongue]

Ah, yes. I'd prefer to not mess with that. Nor am I in the business of trying to stab siblings of people I enjoy speaking with.

[ Pls tell that to Caleb, all he does is fire stuff even if he's supposed to be a transmutation dude. ]

Well, I am fire resistant.

[spellslots]

We get over that shit pretty quickly.

[Looks directly at Kravitz, who literally tried to drag Taako to the astral plane.]

That's always a fucking bonus, kinda better than not having to sleep, although that does have its advantages.

[Since that's an Elf Thing]

[devilstongue]

The you're a better man than I, Taako.

[Not that he's overly grudgy or anything.

He notes the elf sleep thing to himself - if Taako was like the elves he knew, it meant that most of his non-blood hunter tricks would not work on him. Both a good and bad thing, if he ever somehow got on the wrong side of this impressive elf. ]

It would be a lot easier to assign night watches if any of our group was an elf, but unfortunately we all need to sleep.

[spellslots]

I only hold grudges when it's people I don't like.

[Which is to say he will PVP Dodger in the fucking street if Taako even catches a glimpse of him, but that's different.]

Yeah, yeah, we always got the short straw on that. Lucky we're used to running on even less than what we need, it's-- well, I'm sure you know what it's like on the road.

[Between the circus and adventuring, Molly probably has a pretty good idea.]

[devilstongue]

That's typically what grudges are for.

[ Molly's worst enemy is his own past, so he can't fucking attack that with his blades. Even if he really wants to. ]

...and yes, I know it quite well. Try fitting seven weirdos and sometimes a cat into a cart. I think I got a little spoiled back in the city we were in for a while, but at least the housing here in Riverview has water inside.

[ Showers are the best. Indoor plumbing, please accept his devotion. ]

[spellslots]

Typically.

[Considering he also has a big old grudge against Lucretia, which is even more complicated.]

Didbt you say there were nine of you, or did you lose track of a couple?

[If only he knew fantasy German]

[devilstongue]

Well, it's a bit of a pun. We did just pick up another, but she's just a child and I don't see that as actually joining us.

[ Kiri makes him feel conflicted, okay. ]

The cat definitely counts, though.

[spellslots]

[He doesn't get the pun, but that's fair.]

Gods, what is it with kids? We picked up this little shit of a detective at one point. He ended up working for the Bureau cause he figured out all their secrets.

[devilstongue]

[ Nobody does, it's kind of the point. ]

A detective? That sounds useful, at least. Ours is a little bird girl who mimics everything she hears.

[spellslots]

I'd get sick of that shit real fast.

[He's not a good person but it's not like he pretends to be.]

Ango is an alright kid, I taught him a couple spells so he can fuck people up if he's gotta.

[devilstongue]

It's a bit of an experience.

[ Honestly. ]

So you have your very own little apprentice?

[spellslots]

[He sounds way too fond when talking about Angus.]

Apparently, do not ask me how it happened cause I'm not usually a fan of kids. I also don't know where the fuck he picked up some bard spells from, I definitely didn't teach him those.

[Griffin explain.]