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- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
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monthly mingle: PRIJATA
what: monthly mingle: prijata
when: the month of june
where: anywhere around the city
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

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.

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!




Credit: image i: Odysseas Stamoglou; image ii: Dave Arredondo; image iii: spainforpleasure.com; image iv: mit19237
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You have to hit it in a certain place. They make it harder to try and get people to come back for more. [and spend more money.] If you try again, aim for the neck.
[the attendant huffs, but it's not cassian's fault he nailed this one already.]
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Padmé gives the said ducks a good look as they continue to move along. As good as a shot as she is, especially with a blaster, with this little gun that seems to shoot little pellets... Not so much. Of course a blaster would make shorter work of the ducks, and require quite a few more ducks to be replaced.]
That does make it a little trickier. I was aiming dead centre for the body.
[Drawing her gaze away from the game, it settles lightly on the man next to her. Taller than her, perhaps close in age.]
I take it you know from experience?
[Or has he just been watching the game long enough to see what is required to win at it?]
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I am good at finding structural weaknesses. [of both the organic and inorganic!] I think it's the narrower point between the head and body. It might be reinforced at the body - that's where most people would think to aim, due to the larger mass.
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That is tricky of them. Every third one at least then, if not more.
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[but weaknesses in general are very easy for him to find. at least they used to be. using that skill on carnival games is weirdly fun.]
The trickery seems to be the point. Another element of the game they don't like to tell people about. Do you want to try it again?
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Yet on the other hand, she has nothing pressing and is interested to see whether she could do it. With a glance towards the booth again, watching as someone else takes a turn, she hums.]
I think I might. Just to see.
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[he isn't always particular about the prizes. he just likes being able to shoot for fun. if he repeats it enough, it's clearly an okay thing to do.]
I don't always know what these stuffed animals are, but no one says you have to keep it for yourself. [he's collected a few. most of which he's given away to kids walking by, but a couple jyn liked are in their apartment.]
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Is that to say you've collected some, or that you've given yours away?
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Both. [caught.] I give away most. They don't really serve a purpose beyond proof of the win, so I don't need them.
[and he still has a hard time holding on to most things he doesn't need, especially in the form of a toy.]
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I suppose if you are quite good at the games, you would eventually be over-run with the little, or not so little, prizes.
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[he shakes his head, presumably at his silly younger self. back when things were Good.]
I am Cassian. Am I right in assuming you are mostly new to the Quarantine?
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His last sentence does bring a smile to her face though, and his question a gentle nod, introducing herself in turn.]
Padmé Amidala, and yes. I arrived just a short time ago.
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I am almost at a year here myself. [he pauses, considering how he wants to dig for more information before remembering he can just... ask. there's no reason to be sneaky, he keeps catching himself off guard in that sense.] But I think we may be from the same galaxy.
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It is hard to imagine. She has been places that she hasn't expected to be, stranded, but she's never been there overly long. Padmé might not visit Naboo as often as she desires, but the possibility is always there for her, a ship away.
Her focus flickers back to him, attention sharpening.]
You do? ... you're familiar with Coruscant, or perhaps Naboo?
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I have been to both. [two of the most dangerous places to be in his time?? for different reasons each, but of course cassian has been there. hashtag spy.] But I was born in the Outer Rim.
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Ah! They are both quite different. I fear I haven't seen much of the Outer Rim though. Tatooine is about as far out as I have gone.
[On her way to Geonisis, but she hasn't left for that particular planet before arriving here.]
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I have passed through Tatooine, but never stayed very long. In my time, it is much easier to move freely around the Outer and Mid Rim planets than the Core Worlds. [but even that is still tricky.]
[cassian knows what it's like to be on the receiving end of future news, and it's not always easy to handle, so he's trying to at least... tread carefully. it's not a position he ever expected to be in. maybe this is how poe felt.]
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We try to be.
[Padmé can't blame him for not staying long on Tatooine either. It isn't eh most inviting of places, although she can say that had she never ended up there, she may well have not been standing here today. Her tale could likely have been over.
And she would never had met Anakin.]
Mm. There are certainly different routes that can be taken to avoid certain entities.
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[tatooine is useful enough, a little pickpocket worth of information - but it's so out of the way, so untouched by the empire, that cassian rarely used it for more than a stopover.]
[he hesitates again.] I imagine even those routes have been altered. It is difficult to go anywhere without the proper scandocs, forged or otherwise, unless you are familiar with the most backward of routes. The further from Coruscant, the better.
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I'm not exactly familiar with alternate routes. We crashed, once, on Tatooine, although it was the lesser of two evils of a choice.
[They had been trying to escape, and had gone where they could. No planet that would be friendly to the Trade Federation would have worked and there had been no allies nearby. A neutral place was the best that they could have hoped for.]
But I suppose people would need to get inventive as secrets do have ways of coming out.
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[being able to do both is the better option.]
But I do not want to potentially ruin this festival for you by talking about the galaxy in my time, least of all before you win yourself a stuffed toy.
[he preferred when people asked him if he wanted to know. he can start putting that into her hands.]
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That's quite alright. You don't usually get to know what the future holds. You might hope and dream, but our lives are limited and fleeting, and sometimes we do not get to see the fruits of our labours.
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[and very applicable to himself too. he realizes they were probably close to the same age, when she'd died too. she looks younger now though, it's hard to pin down. does she even know what the clone wars are yet?]
I am from at least twenty years into your future. I am not sure what year it was for you, before you were taken to the Quarantine.
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That small tip of her head, wondering, but of course. Being in the past, she may well be known, whereas she would have no frame to know how far he is from in the future. Padmé speaks the year that she comes from, offering as well.]
The vote for the Military Creation Act is in the process, if that aids any further.
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[he also knows padme amidala was opposed to it. but at least now he knows when she's from too. she has not experienced the clone wars yet.]
I was about four when they tried that. [a beat.] And I am sorry to say it did in a sense pass. The Republic did get its army in the end.
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