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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O-oh, right, I live on — on the second floor. At the community housing.

[He looks a little green, Bucky. The teenager sags a little where Bucky's got a firm hold of his arm.]

... Alright, I admit — Mr. Barnes, I don't feel so hot...

That was a stupid life choice.

Edited 2018-07-06 07:14 (UTC)

[Bucky freezes all of a sudden, the grip he has on Peter's arm tightening to something more like an arrest than an assistance.]

How did you know it was Barnes?

[He only said it was Bucky.

What the hell is going on here?]

[...................... Oh fuck.

He winces. Play it cool, Peter, you fuck-up. He leans away a little to stand on his own, but the grip on his arm was steadfast.]

Ow, hey — okay, okay, okay, relax, dude... I recognized you from the, the Captain America documentary thing I watched when I was back home. I'm kind of a massive nerd about that kind of stuff, alright? So I knew it was you the moment you sat the table...

[And he goes fully green now.]

I'm gonna puke.

[That's literally the only warning you get before he pukes. What's your play, Barnes?]

[He doesn't move, he doesn't even flinch as Peter pukes all over him. He's had much worse than some teenager being sick, he's been covered in blood and guts and brain matter before, he doesn't care.]

Then why didn't you say anything?

[Everything about this rings false.

Anyone who did recognise him from that sort of documentary should be expecting a short-haired and smiling man, not the dour thing he's become.]

[He'll aim for your shoes, buddy, it's all good.

Except it's not, and he looks back up at him like he's crazy, because oh my god, dude, nasty.]

Because you were so easy to talk to.

I met with Mr. Rogers and Mr. Stark and other Avengers; it wasn't hard to figure out, especially when I got a first name.

[He winces again, brow furrowed in a way he hopes is placating.]

... You're hurting me, man.

[His voice is low and worried. Yeah, that arm is still locked on tight. It doesn't actually hurt, because Peter is ridiculously durable now — but it's not like he wants Bucky to know that he's not built like a normal human anymore. Might as well play up the old version of Peter Parker, who couldn't even play sports, to look a lot weaker than he actually is.]

Edited 2018-07-06 07:49 (UTC)

[It's the look of worry, almost fear, that has Bucky letting go. He hadn't meant to hurt the kid, he's just exceptionally nervous about anyone knowing him that he doesn't know first. It's having Pierce here, not knowing who he might have recruited, who might be a new HYDRA agent in disguise.

But what he meant to do doesn't matter, and he a brief flash of guilt twists his face before it's back to a smooth and neutral mask.]

I'm not the man you think I am.

[Not for a long time, not for years.]

You should stay away from me, stick near Steve and Tony if you want Avengers to talk to.

[He breathes out, pulling his arm to his chest and rubbing it. As much as he wants to totally pull the 'he's a terrible person' card, he knows that's... not quite the picture of Bucky Barnes that Steve Rogers sees. There's obviously more to it, and even if he would have still arrested him for Mr. Stark, he knows nothing about criminal life is black and white. After all, wasn't he in the same group as Captain America? As a lot of heroes Peter had admired?

He frowns. But hey, his stomach feels better?]

... Okay... that's all fine and good and all, but.

[He looks squeamishly down.]

I owe you new shoes, at least.

[He spent all his money on a meal he just barfed. He's gonna need to, like... really think of how he's gonna afford shoes. But he definitely deserves to get new shoes, so. He'll figure it out.]

Forget it.

[He frowns and starts to try and drag Peter along the sidewalk again, the faster he gets this kid who supposedly knows too much home, the better. He hates being around people who know him when he doesn't know them, it feels imbalanced, it feels vulnerable.]

I have other shoes, you don't owe me anything. Just lean on me, we'll get you home and then you can sleep this idiocy off.

[Oh, he's gonna get you new shoes, dude. They will be got.

Even if you're a potential criminal. Criminals gotta have shoes.]

Alright, alright, you got it, Mr. Ba—

Mr. Bossman. Sir.

[Just don't yeet him across the street.]

Bucky.

[He doesn't need the formality of titles, and he definitely doesn't want to be called sir by anyone, especially not kids who know the Avengers.]

How old are you anyway, kid? Sure you should be out without a minder?

... I'm fifteen...

[He squints, though, Totally Offended (tm).]

And I don't need a minder.

In a coupla' months I'd totally be eligible for emancipation back home.

[This clearly proves something.]

Pretty sure you need a minder.

[Maybe he's fifteen, though Bucky is a bit dubious about that, but he's clearly a walking liability. Hell, he managed to get himself sick just going to a diner, that's not good decision making.]

And you need a haircut.

[He stands more on his own now, at least, his hand rubbing his stomach.]

But we're in a judge-free zone here. Obviously.

[He shakes his head, not really knowing how to deal with this teenager who has apparently heard of him, but isn't at all cautious around him.]

No such thing, kid.

[Everywhere is a judgement zone.]

Now go to bed.

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