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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Molly. Nice to meet you, then.

[ For just a moment, Ryan is mesmerized by the flicking tail. Not that he'd never seen a person with a tail before, just-- it catches his attention in a way he can't really describe. The dogs don't seem to notice as much. Either that, or they're trying to be as good as possible to get more treats. Probably the latter.

He returns to reality quickly, rubbing idly at the back of his neck. He realizes that he's lucky to be human the majority of the time; he doesn't try to hide who or what he is, when it comes up. It just doesn't come up that often. ]

Mm. Since we're all in the same boat, people here seem to be pretty understanding of different worlds and cultures. At worst, most people are disinterested and at best they're curious. Maybe a little invasive but it's better than getting driven out of town.

I take some invasive questions over being run out of towns any day.

[ At least about tiefling stuff, because that he could bullshit all day about. Why yes, he's the son of a demon. He's totally a dangerous sinner, here to corrupt the innocent.

Easy lies. ]

Have you been here long?

Yeah... same.

[ Not that he knows the feeling intimately, he tended to get along well in most places he visited, but it had happened a small handful of times, in bizarre circumstances. Plus that one time they killed a man, but he tried not to think about that too much. He still wished he could apologize for it, though.

And he'd never had to get along by himself on a weird alien moon where living in the forest wasn't as much of an option. He could try it, but it wasn't like any of Faerun's forest that he had ever seen, which gave him pause. ]

I've been here a few weeks, maybe a month or so? It's been hard for me to keep track. I mean, me personally, not in general. A calendar helps.

[ ...yeah. ]

You're new here, then? I wouldn't mind showing you around if you want. I've been trying to make note of all the important and interesting places on my runs, I take a different route every day so I've compiled a pretty big list.

[ Molly is a little curious why Ryan would be run out of any cities, but he drops it for now to instead listen to the man explaining how long he'd been there.

A calendar might be useful, really. Then again, it had been late autumn in Wildemount, and here it seemed to be mid or early summer. The seasons didn't match, so neither would the dates.

Maybe he should start scratching tallies into his bedpost. ]

I am indeed quite new here, and I've been telling myself that I want to see everything this place has to offer. If you're willing to show me some, I'd be delighted.

[ When you did as much traveling as Ryan did, you happened to meet a fair amount of mayor's daughters and merchant's sons. And sometimes that fact happened to bite him in the butt. Perhaps someday, Ryan's adventures in Faerun will come up of a glass of wine or ten, but for the moment, his attention shifts, as does he. The dogs, seeming to sense that it's time to go, stand up, tails wagging, and looking ready to go. ]

Let's drop these two off, I can point out some places along the way. C'mon.

[ He nods off down a street, and starts heading in that direction. The dogs hesitate to look at their new best purple friend, as though asking him to come a play with them (or fill their food bowl), before following along as well. ]

There's a lot of amenities here, I will say that. Besides the basics, what kinds of things are you into?

Sounds good to me!

[ After all, it wasn't as if he had anything better to do, so the tiefling is happy to leave the thoughts of the circus behind and go on a walk with some dogs and a new acquaintance.

He follows along, sauntering down the street and looking a little at the shops along the street. ]

I'm in to anything new, and that's most things here. I would love to see if this place has a bath house and how different it is from home, and anything that is exciting or a thrill.

[ Ryan does his best to take the most scenic route back, as well, at once down a little avenue lined with trees down the center, and a number of small boutiques on either side. He points out a couple-- one that specializes in leather, one that's boasts a wide selection of materials for woodcrafting, and one that sells nothing but rubber stamps. He only mentions them in passing, until they come to a coffee shop at the far end of the road. ]

That's one of my favorites. They have coffee and pastries all day, then wine, cocktails, and snacks in the evening. --Do you drink much?

[ Molly moves back and forth between the windows of the boutique, curiously peeking inside and adding little mental reminders to visit some later when he had the money.

Then Ryan mentions the coffee shop, and the tiefling is delighted. ]

What a great idea! Then they will earn money all day rather than at night. As for drinking... well, I like to have a drink with friends, but I don't get messed up every night.

[ Give him drugs for that, instead. ]

I thought it was pretty, clever too. Sounds like it'll be just your place.

[ Having passed the cafe, he eyes either side of the street, trying to think of what might actually be interesting to someone else-- not just him. ]

Oh, I know. We'll be coming up on it in a few blocks, I go there a lot. They have normal weights and things like that, but also lots of fancy devices that help with different muscles, and these... uh. How to explain it? Small sections of moving floor? You can control the speed, so you can run or walk, but inside.

I prefer an outdoor workout, but it's pretty cool.

There's a place just for lifting things and building muscle?

[ He's a little confused at that, honestly. ]

Is it so safe here that nobody gets their exercise fighting?

[ Molly not everyone is a disaster, plus you lie on the ground in almost half the fights anyway. ]

Some stretching and limbering up is nice, though. I think I don't need a special place for that, however.

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