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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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Hehehe, I love my mom for raising me too!

[ Matsuyo is a force of nature who kinda spoiled him and his brothers far too much... oh, he misses her. ]

I wanna give something in return for your kindness, miss! Anything you want!

[ Aww, he's adorable. Maaaybe a little older than she had pegged him to be, but it was definitely worth it.

When she's offered something in return, Lup quickly shakes her head. ]

Oh, no! I don't need anything, you're doing me a favor by taking care of that guy. I couldn't bring him on rides or carry him around all day.

[ She leans in closer. ]

I'm not a good mom. More like a vodka aunt.

[ He just goes ahead and hoists the teddy bear above his head so it "rides" his shoulders like a little kid. ]

I can take care of Big League Choo while vodka aunt has fun!

[ That's it, that's the name. ]

Oh shit that is a great name!

[ She's grinning now, quite pleased with her toy adopter choice. ]

Thanks, kiddo.

Don't mention it! My name is Jyushimatsu!

[ Big League Choo dangerously tilts to a side, but his new dad catches him before he falls and gets hurt. ]

Do you still want me to call you vodka aunt?

Wow, that's a long name. I'm digging it!

[ ...and as much as she's into the 'vodka aunt' title; ]

I'm Lup. Nice t' meet you, Jyushimatsu.

Hi Lup! That's a nice short name! Easy to remember!

[ He puffs his chest with pride. No one ever praised him for his name??? ]

My brothers can't hold a candle against my name since it's the longest!

[ Choromatsu comes close second but he's a loser and Jyushi's a winner anyway. ]

I know, right? It's perfect that way, people can't get it wrong.

[ God he's so cute! ]

Oh, that's awesome. My brother's is longer than mine, but just by two letters.

If my name is great because it's longer, then yours is even greater than your brother's because it's shorter!

[ He would high five or something but he has to take care of Big League Choo. Can't let his son fall and get hurt.

But!!! She's got a brother, he's got brothers, they can bond over BROTHERS. ]

What is your brother like? I've got five of them!

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Damn, you have five brothers?

[ She can't imagine having five of Taako. The chaos! ]

Older or younger?

I'm the fifth son, so I've got four older brothers and one younger! We're sextuplets, so we came out a few minutes apart! It doesn't make a difference, but we kinda act like it does.

[ Totty is still his baby brother it doesn't matter if he was born five minutes later ok- ]

Oh my god, really?

[Their poor mother, honestly. But it's just so cool, and she grins widely.]

My brother and I are twins!

Whaaaaat, you too?

[ Amazing. Sure, it's more common to see a twin rather han a sextuplet, but since Jyushimatsu doesn't have a rich track record of people he spoke with before Riverview, he's still super impressed. ]

It's cool, isn't it? Having someone with your same face, I mean!

[ No, not really in his case, but at least he's happier about it than the rest of his shitty brothers. ]

[ Gosh, he's just too cute! ]

Yeah! It's really convenient, and when we were kids we used to switch places all the time to fool people. That's got to be really easy with five brothers!

It was! When we were kids, no one could tell us apart at all! We were like one entity in six bodies. I was them, and they were me!

[ Those were the Good Times. ]

Now that we grew up, it doesn't work as much anymore. But sometimes people still have a hard time figuring out who's who!

[ Her smile brightens more at that. I was them, and they were me is such a twin thing. Taako was her heart. Her anchor. ]

Yeah, growing up kinda messes with the sameness. Especially if you're like me and Taako.

[ Hips and cleavage don't lie. ]

Are you still close?

Ummmm, it's complicated! Sometimes we go at each other's throats, other times we still work together as a team! It depends on the situation! But we're definitely not as united as before...

[ He's not terribly upset about it, but remembering the tight knit relationship they all had during childhood gives some nostalgic feel. ]

Three of them are also here in Riverview! They've been hanging around here for over a year actually? That's really weird but impressive! I appeared very recently and now I live together with them!

[ People's relationships with their siblings had been so different here, with half of them sounding like they hated their sibling. So a little normalcy is a nice thing to hear for her.

She and Taako were two sides of a coin, but they also grew up trusting nobody but each other. Thankfully all kids didn't have to go through that. ]

I'm happy some of them are here with you! Taako came here before me so he had to be alone for a while.

We were pretty lucky, huh? Not having to wait for our bros to appear...

[ He shifts so his "son" is now tenderly embraced in his arms instead of riding his shoulders.

Somehow that thought made him a little sad. ]

That would have been a bit lonely for me!

Yeah. I don't know what I would have done if he wasn't here.

[ Probably go full undead monster, since she had just been through a necromancy ceremony with her boyfriend.

Ugh, not a good thought. ]

I hate being away from him.

Same! I think they're pretty lame and we fight a lot, but it would be super sad if my brothers weren't around here!

[ He'd be super super super super sad.

But he doesn't want to hold onto a somber atmosphere, so he perks up! ]

Well, there's no use thinking about it now that we're not alone!

You're a really good boy, Juu...shimatsu.

[ That was a hard name to pronounce, ok. ]

Jyushimatsu!

[ SHE'LL GET THERE EVENTUALLY. He believes in her. ]

I'm sure Big League Choo here is an even gooder boy than me!

[ He squeezes the life out of his son as he says that. ]

Jyushimatsu!

[ She repeats, a bit better this time. ]

...and of course he is, with a dad like you!

[ What are parents, she just doesn't know. ]

I'mma go ride the big wheel thing, but you take care of BLC!

Count on me! I'm a very reliable dad! [ Kind of.

But he grins wide and waves one sleeve frantically. ]

You go on and have fun, Lup!

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