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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Really?

[Then that would be quite the change. Peter can barely imagine it.]

You seem to be doing alright for yourself, at least.

[Insomuch as Peter hasn't seen him panic or anything yet. Though that might not be saying much.]

It's mind-blowing, honesty.

[ He did all his panicking in private, like a good boy. There was a nervous breakdown and a lot of drinking. ]

I mean, we have magic, but this kind of beats that by miles.

Magic?

[Well that gets Peter's attention immediately. If he were a dog, his ears would have perked right up.]

What sort of magic? If you don't mind my asking.

Oh, all kinds! Several different types of magic for wizards and sorcerers, divine stuff for clerics, whatever the heck warlocks do... or just things that are innate from your ancestry.

[ He wiggles his tail a bit at that for emphasis, just to be silly. ]

[The flicking tail catches Peter's attention for a second before he shakes his head to clear it.]

So not something anyone can do, then.

[His world really does seem to be the outlier, there. What a strange thing.]

It's not really my area of expertise, but I think anyone can be a wizard if they're smart enough and read a lot of books.

[ Maybe. It all seemed very complicated. ]

[And Peter can't help but perk up at that. It might be the most familiar thing he's heard so far.]

What sort of books? If you don't mind my asking.

[He has just enough self-awareness to realize he's probably being a pain. Not that it's likely going to stop him, but he is at least aware of it.]

[ Molly doesn't seem to mind, at least. ]

Magic books? I guess? It's our wizard's greatest passion, he even has a cute sling for all his books.

[ Most of them magic books, some of them smut. ]

[Peter blinks once before his expression creases into a genuine smile.]

Fair enough. And I can see how that might be helpful.

[Though Nightingale would probably kill him if he tried to carry any of the Folly's books around.]

So he what, reads them on the go?

He kind of has to, I guess? We move around a lot, so he carries them with him. Pretty sure one of them is his spell book, where he writes down spells? Otherwise the books changes depending on if he has finished them or not.

[ One good thing about having an eidetic memory, Caleb only had to read a book once. ]

Not my area of expertise, I just hit people with swords.

Huh.

[Okay, the spell writing is new. Maybe it shouldn't be, Peter knows it's entirely possible even if he's been repeatedly warned away from it. Maybe Molly's friend is just much farther along than Peter himself is. It wouldn't be difficult.

Which is about when the rest of the statement catches up with him.]

Wait, swords?

Swords! Well, scimitars if you want to be exact.

[ Opening his folded coat, he nods at the twin blades he has stashed in it. ]

Been in my family for as long as I remember. Lovely, but cursed things.

[ Lies. ]

[And Peter clearly has no idea what to make of that. His eyes flick to the actual swords tucked into the coat before back up at Molly himself with an expression of pure bemusement.]

Why would you keep them if they're cursed?

[Always good at asking the important questions, is Peter.]

[ Molly closes the coat over the blades again, shrugging. ]

I wouldn't want anyone else to be cursed, after all.

[ They're definitely not just carnival glass scimitars and all their weird shit is from his blood, nope. ]

...right.

[Ask a silly question. Though Peter can't help but give him a more searching look, now that the immediate surprise has passed.]

So what do you do, then?

[ He's pretty good at lying, let's be real. ]

I'm a fortune teller! Well, I was while at the circus.

...like palm reading?

[It seems like a strange thing when he comes from a place with actual magic, but then again there are fortune tellers where Peter comes from too. Maybe it's something different where Molly comes from, who knows.]

Are you doing that here, too?

More like reading cards than palm - but yes! I'm currently busking on the streets, but I hope to grab a little place to do it eventually.

I see.

[His tone makes it fairly clear that he probably doesn't, but he's willing to just go with it. Peter can be polite, if nothing else, and fortune telling is something he knows absolutely nothing about.

Though he can't help but want to do a little teasing.]

Good luck, then. Or do you already know it's going to work out?

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