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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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[... This is the Captain America he knows, isn't it? He can't help but look a little surprised as he turns toward him, mask held to his chest, but at least he has a totally good reason to be stunned by his appearance: if he's a fan of Iron Man, obviously he'd know Captain America, right?

So there's no problem, nope, it's all good.

... Okay, one small problem: are Iron Man and Captain America pals here? They weren't on very good terms, last Peter knew. Like, first-hand knows. It was ugly. But he can't just stand here and crabwalk away in a panic, so he just goes for it.

Please don't take note of the familiar voice, okay? Cool.]

Oh-! Right... Actually, I kinda know Mr. Stark. I'm a student in one of his internships. Or I was. I guess not so much here anymore. But more importantly — you're Steve Rogers.

[This is still really cool, even if he's secretly sweatin'.]

[The surprise and delayed reaction to him are things that he's gotten used to, especially his first few years out of the ice, when people would still give him a double take as if to be sure they're not seeing a ghost. But it's not a reaction he's experienced much during his months in the Quarantine. It settles one thing though, this kid if definitely from his world.

He waits in polite silence for Peter to collect himself and respond. Although he has to wonder if this kid is unaware of what went down with the Accords or from a different time to have such a...positive...response to meeting him.]

Internships? I didn't know Tony was so hands-on with that kind of thing. Were you interning at Stark Industries?

[He ignores that last bit because, yes. Yes he is. And the voice isn't ringing any bells for him. At the moment.]

[Look man, you're a criminal now, but you're still Cap. Big fan. Sorry you went a little bonkers and fist-fought in an airport. Also that was super rude, bonking me on the head a few times? Anyway, we're good.

TL;DR Peter Parker is terrible at holding grudges.]

I mean, it wasn't super hands-on. I worked with Happy a lot. Um. And yeah! I visited the tower — and there's a little place upstate he set up after. But it was... mostly just tech stuff. I get solid grades and I'm pretty good at robotics and chem, so I got a, a kinda grant for my work. And it's really hard to turn down something like that from Tony Stark, you know?

[He's not used to trying to sound like a smarty pants, forgive his staggering through his accomplishments. But he can gush about his hero worship far more smoothly, so let's just do that.]

I mean, I'm a big fan of yours, too! I was in elementary school when the alien thing went down, coupla' years back. You guys were awesome.

[There's something about his quick delivery and general enthusiasm that's hard not to be taken in by, and Steve finds himself grinning as he runs through his accomplishments. Clearly the teen is a bright kid, excelling in the types of subject that Steve still has trouble wrapping his head around at time, despite his friendships with Tony and Bruce.

But elementary school. It's a statement both to how long the Avengers have been active and just how young this kid is. Do people intern junior high kids now?]

That's very nice of you to say. You seem like quite an accomplished young man. I can see why Tony chose you.

[One child genius to another.]

But...how old are you?

[They'd have plenty in common, to be sure. Even if Steve isn't as science-savvy, Peter knows all too well how it feels to be the puny one who got picked on — and how a chance encounter, be it serum or a spider bite, can throw your entire life for a loop after. Peter admittedly still hasn't figured out how to stand in the shoes of a super-powered hero. It's... a lot of work.

How do you guys do it for so long, huh?

He straightens up, smiling brightly.

I can see why Tony chose you. Man, that's nice to hear. After the whole debacle on the rooftops with Mr. Stark, he had been worried he completely blew it. But, uh, Steve doesn't know that bit. So he's kinda taking that compliment out of context, but still.]

Ah, working on my sophomore year at Midtown Science and Tech. So I've got a ways to go.

[College next, right? He thinks. He's not sure. The future is so hard to work out, right now.

He holds the mask on one hand, offering the other for a shake.]

Name's Peter.

[If Steve were to actually give Peter advice on how to be a hero, it would be something akin to 'fight for what you believe in'. Steve hadn't enlisted or signed up for Erskine's experiment to be a hero, but because he believed in what his country was fighting for. Anyone hoping to be a hero for the prestige or popularity isn't in the right line of work.

But a sophomore in high school! Not what he's expecting with Peter having such a baby face.]

But you're already head and shoulders above everyone else if you've managed to gain Tony's attention. Is Stark Industries the type of work you hope to be doing once you've finished school?

[He accepts the handshake with a smile.]

Good to meet you Peter. [And then he realizes something he should have asked much sooner.] Does Tony know you're here?

[Shucks, Cap'n.

This is gonna be weird, isn't it? Would Tony just flat out admit to Steve that he's correlated with Spider-Man? And if he does, then Peter's just lyin' the fuck to Captain America, isn't he? Man, why can't any other superheroes have secret identities; it'd make it far more acceptable, right.]

Yeah, he does! I've been stopping by here and there. I don't wanna bug him too much. [Well, maybe if he just sort of gets a read on how things are going for the Avengers here, it'll be less weird if it ever comes to light that he's That One Guy From Queens.] How about you...? Uh, are you and Mr. Stark — good? I know things haven't been as great lately for team morale, and all that. What with the, y'know.

[YOU KNOW. The everything.]

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[What's weird is having some teenage kid asking him about his relationship with Tony, as if he could ever have a simple answer to give on that topic. But at the same time, he can't exactly be surprised by it. He's a well known fugitive back home. He should just be glad Peter is running screaming in the other direction.]

Tony and I are fine. We've discussed...things. And as far as our stay here goes, things are amiable. [Friendly, even. But he's not big on discussing his personal affairs in general, and he's definitely not going to do it with Tony's intern who he has just met.]

So, if you're worried about the...you know, there's nothing to worry about.

Oh, man, that's great. Good, good. Good.

[He folds his arms.]

I guess if there's anything that helps iron things out, it's getting stuck in another universe, am I right?

[:D HA.]

[He offers a lopsided grin.]

Yeah. It really put things into perspective.

Have long have you been at the Quarantine? Do you still need someone to show you around?

[There's a good chance Tony has already taken care of the basics. But Steve might still be able to offer him some insider information. Like what the best cafes are closest to the community building and such.]

[No, no, Peter. You should definitely politely decline this, because if he starts asking more questions he could actually piece stuff together. And if he figures that out, it's gonna be so weird, and then you'll have to explain that you're a big fat liar and that you're really sorry and—]

Sure! That sounds good.

[that is not remotely what he was going for]

If you'd like to, anyway. Um. I'm just sort of... cruising...

Great. Is there anywhere in particular you want to start?

[He quickly does a mental survey of the Quarantine, trying to decide what would be the most likely spots that a teenage boy would have an interest in.]

Have you seen the high school yet?

[That...would be a good place to start, right?]

I have, actually. Kinda made a beeline for it.

[He looks a little shy about the fact, because teenagers are really supposed to not fling themselves at school, right? But he learned his lesson back home, so he's taking that shit 1000% seriously again. No more ridiculous skipping sessions for him, no sir, not unless they're being attacked by aliens.]

... But I'd love to see all the little shops around here. It kinda reminds me of New York, you know? All the little places in the community. Mr. Delmar's deli is my favorite spot, but they're out of commission for a little while thanks to, uuuh.

Building damage after a super messy robbery.

[He still feels a little bad about that, honestly. If he'd been more experienced, maybe he could have prevented that from happening. But there was nobody else around to do anything, right? Too small-time for the Avengers.]

[He's clearly surprised by this, and maybe slightly impressed. Peter is probably the first teen he's ever seen have that kind of excitement for school. Even he hadn't had that kind of excitement for school, although there had been other non-learning related reasons why.]

Impressive. You probably know your way around it better then I do then.

[He's never stepped foot at the high school. Or any of the schools.]

Well there are a lot of little personally owned places. Things aren't quite as commercial here as back at home. But if you're looking for a good place to eat, I know a place. There's this little cafe near the community housing building that does a variety. Not quite a deli, but pretty good.

That sounds great. I'm starving, so I could use a new place to pilfer food.

[Yes, he has a high metabolism because he's a growing boy. But also consider spiderboy metabolism. Aunt May is beside herself with how often he eats now, rest in peace food budget.]

There's so many kinds of worlds combined here, I bet the food options are even crazier than Queens can be.

[Now if Steve knew about the spiderboy metabolism he would be able to give some advice. The serum has given him an increased metabolism as well and it takes a lot of fuel to keep him going. He could also sympathize with his poor Aunt's grocery bill.

But because he doesn't he just thinks Peter's enthusiasm comes from the normal teenage boy reaction to food.]

You would be right. There's tons of stuff here I've never seen or heard of. It's always a good idea to ask ingredients if you're not sure. Unless you're the type who likes mystery in your meals.

[Mystery space meat for instance.]

[Eugh, he squinches his nose up.]

Mystery ingredients... That's pretty on par with New York... so I'll definitely take your advice on that one. [Blergh.] I guess ignorance is bliss.

Yeah but you don't have to worry about mystery ingredients in New York being alien in origin. Although...sometimes it might taste like it.

[He flashes a smile.]

I'm pretty sure there's stuff here that's served that's not digestible for humans.

I'll sure let everyone know if I run into indigestible food. [He grins, though; whatever, it's the adventure of it. If he dies via alien food, it's surely not the worst way to g... well it might be the worst way to go. But yolo. A taco from a food stand could be your last.] Wait, you don't know from experience, do you?

[He laughs at the question.] Not me, no. But word gets around when things like that happen.

Yikes.

I'll give you a heads up if people start getting food flu.

That's appreciated, but I think that would be plenty noticeable around here.

[He finally comes to a stop in front of a small building on the corner of the street. It has a wooden door and a large bay window that looks into the cafe.]

This is the place.

[Standing in the middle of the initial walkway, he looks around with a pleased expression.

It's quiet here, not so wild on his wonky senses.]

... It's great. Really does remind me of home.

[He pulls the door open, waving Peter through.]

Why don't you grab us a table? It's your first time here after all.

[As they pass the podium where a worker would normally stand, he grabs two menus from the cubby.]

They have free seating in the mornings and early afternoons.

Oh, sure, yeah!

[He is quick on his goofy but agile feet, sliding into a chair to take a table like there isn't plenty to go around — to be fair, though, he's aiming for a good window seat so he can watch the outside intently. He's not exactly Spider-Man right now, but he needs to know he's not needed nearby.

Sometimes... streets are just peaceful, though.]

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