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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Missions?

[ It's an unexpected choice of word. Cisco knows that Shigeru works at the hospital, here, but it somehow had never occurred to him that his job might have been different back home. It seems like something so fundamental should have come up. But then, he isn't sure Shigeru necessarily knows what he used to do for a living, back in Central City. In a way, this place isolates them, makes their whole stay in the Quarantine like an entirely separate life.

That is why a gift like this one can feel like a lifeline. An artifact that makes the rest of it all real again. ]

Did everybody have a specialization? I mean, you know. When I think of a squad, I think, like... one's the muscle, one's the hacker, one's the spy...

AH. Well. I was part of a special ops team. It was comprised of phrobiests and we primarily did things in anti-terrorist and black market tradings...

[ He looks a bit sheepish as he fiddles with the picture frame. ]

I guess you could say that. It depended on what our powers were, but we all had our niche. I-I was the medic, typically, but I was very good at finding people too. One of my powers is able to trace a person based on their-their germ footprint I guess. Since everyone has different bacteria specific to them it made it easy to track to people. Everyone has a different sh-shade and color that I can pick up on. So when our targets went into hiding I...usually helped find them.

[ Cisco's eyebrows raise, but he listens without interruption. It's strange, imagining someone as quiet and as unimposing as Shigeru being part of a special ops anti-terrorism team. Then again, it's not like Cisco knows anything about what such teams would look like in real life. No matter how wild his life got, it was still not the same as the sorts of lives that mechanical engineers had in various summer blockbusters - so why should he assume he knows anything about that kind of a task force, just because he's seen a lot of movies?

He wrinkles his nose a little at the idea of a germ footprint, and he may be playing up his disgust, just a bit, for comic effect, and to really demonstrate to Shigeru that he is enjoying the conversation, that he is not worried or anxious being near him, talking to him. Eventually, hopefully, things will be back to normal, but for now, if Cisco has to exaggerate a little to make Shigeru extra sure he's not worried, he will. ]

I know that's, like, medically-accurate, and I can't tell it's super useful for tracking people, but can I just register an official 'ew' to the whole unique germ footprint thing?

[ He affects a little shudder, then looks back to the photo, asking: ]

So... Alex, Klein and... Shuu? What were their powers? And you guys were friends? I mean, not like, co-workers friends, but like, friends-friends?

It-it is gross, especially when you're a mysophobe. [ He just gives a sheepish smile as he shakes his head. ] But our powers are based on our f-fears so-so it's appropriate. I...don't really like using it very much unless I have to. It...makes everything a lot more vivid. I can see all sorts of germs and-and things like that. [ Shigeru can't help but shudder instinctively as he wrings his gloved hands a little. ]

Me and Alex were...friends. We knew each other since we were little. [ There's a fond and sad sort of smile on his face as he says that. ] He could control people. His phobia was anthropophobia, and phrobiests like him could force people to do what they wanted but they have to touch them first in order to do so. Klein had astrapophobia, the fear of-of lightning. He could control it and Shuu had traumatophobia which meant he could transfer injuries from himself to-to other people or take people's injuries away and place them on himself.

[ He looks a bit distant as he speaks before looking back at Cisco. ] Klein and Shuu were friends before me and Alex came along but we all became close due to our work together. But I didn't know either of them prior to getting this job.

[ Cisco catches that shudder, and while he's curious about the mechanics of tracking people by their germs, he decides to let it go for the time being. He hasn't known a lot of people with phobias as pronounced as Shigeru's, but he is aware that even talking about it can be distressing. Compared to the how, the why and the who are more interesting, anyway.

As he's listening, Cisco does his best not to look appalled. Shigeru's powers are pretty terrifying, themselves. But transferring injuries? Controlling people? That's all pretty damn dark stuff. Even to use against terrorists and the like. Awful not only for the people they were up against, but awful for Shigeru and his squad. ]

So there are other people with powers like Alex's?

[ The note of uncertainty in Cisco's voice is not disbelief so much as awareness that a power like that could be misused, disastrously. He bets that this Alex guy, who Shigeru was friends with since he was a kid, didn't abuse his powers, but others might. And, well. Considering how forgiving and understanding Shigeru had been of Dodger, even when he richly didn't deserve it, Cisco can't help wondering if Alex was actually a good person or if Shigeru has just had some really low standards. ]

Seems like a pretty lethal combo, all those powers. Did you catch a lot of bad guys?

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