riverviewlogs | monthly mingle: PRIJATA

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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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Threaded | Top-Level Comments Only

Feel free to post up a top-level for residents of any floor in the apartment building to mingle and meet each other.

Leave a suggestion here for the name for Riverview's new amusement park, and/or vote for one you like! Votes are one per player; suggestions are one per character.

The park will be christened with the name that has the most votes by the end of the month!

Edited 2018-06-03 05:26 (UTC)

i. asshole fountain??

[ Poe is curious. He remembers the last time they did something like this--he still has the holocube with his family's portrait set on his dresser at home. A part of him is afraid to find out what else this place can throw at him from home.

Still. He slips his fingertips into the water and is rewarded by the sight of a small box done up in orange and white bobbing his way. He scoops it out of the water, and almost laughs as it opens. Another holocube. Poe picks it up. Hesitates. Activates it as he sets the little orange flower back on the water.

Leia's face appears, eyes sad, and she speaks. Dear Kes and Poe: I learned recently of the passing of your wife and mother. I can only imagine your grief, and offer my sincerest--

He deactivates the holocube fast, staring at the spot where Leia's face hovered a moment before.

Well. Fuck. ]

iii. birbs and hiking boots

[ He's trying. He really is. He's trying to adjust to the possibility of being here long term. He's trying to focus on what he can do here, the way Victor advised. Joining a club seems like a stupid idea, really, but he's trying.

Which is why he's hovering near a hiking club, having just ducked away from a booth of bird watchers. This is stupid. This is completely stupid. But he kinda wants to give one or both a shot. ]

iv. everybody loves a carnival

[ Okay this is definitely his speed. He's everywhere, particularly the adrenaline-heavy rides and the VR booths, the ones that involve communal exploration and very much not the ones that involve shooting each other. There's nothing entertaining in that. Any shots he does take are part of his attempts to win something at the carnival games.

He's also, definitely into the water fights. He is on the orange team, because of course he is. ]

Edited 2018-06-03 06:09 (UTC)

i. sentimentality is for chumps!!

[ She's only going to do this once. Yeah, she's heard that sometimes it doesn't work right away, yeah, she knows she can come back later. But if it doesn't work this time around, she's not coming back. She doesn't want to. At least she has Dom to keep her company, the dog sticking close to her side and eyeballing anyone who comes too close.

Chyler touches the surface of the water with a fingertip, just another teenager in a crowd of all ages. She counts to ten, watching the little gifts swirl and move to their respective owners. Watches for anything headed her way. And then, almost relieved, takes her finger from the water.

She's turning to go when a little blue package bumps to a halt against her spot at the fountain. Chyler turns back around. The package keeps bumping against the rim of the fountain, apparently determined to be opened. ]

ii. speed-friending....

[ Chyler can't believe she's doing this. But John keeps getting after her to make more friends, and he's usually right about... well, everything. So here she is. She signed up for exactly three speed-friending events: a military one, and one for weapons enthusiasts. And, grudgingly, one for people ages 13-19. TADA. ]

iv. amusement parking

[ Chyler is at first as hesitant to get involved with anything at the amusement park as she is hesitant to get involved with anything that seems frivolous. And the amusement park is nothing but frivolous. But when your boss orders you to take the day off and go have fun and keeps your dog as collateral, you listen. Or you try anyway.

So here she is, attempting carnival games, slowly getting into the VR games (racing, exploration, fantasy--no shooting. no guns.), and finally contemplating some of the rides. It doesn't feel right to go for the easy ones. No, she's eyeballing things like the slingshot and the highest rollercoasters, because what's the point of doing something if you aren't going to go all the way? ]

Edited 2018-06-03 06:30 (UTC)

[ i. gift fountain ]

[ Dorian hadn't really approached the fountain. He merely enjoyed watching people come and go, watching their faces light up with joy, soften with affection or drop with regret. Over . . . possessions. He doesn't quite understand it. John Kennex had that room full of trophies from school (which again, Dorian will never get because why). Captain Maldonado keeps her award on her table (to remind herself, perhaps?).

So after a while, he manages to muster up the nerve to approach the fountain. To see what might appear.

But nothing shows. Minutes pass, and there's . . . nothing.

He chuckles, lightly, self-conscious. ]

I guess that was expecting a bit much.

[ ii. speed friending ]

[ Dorian is more used to the idea of going out. Doing things. What things, he's not entirely sure of, but he has a list. Something like a list? Some of the hobbies he listed are: karaoke, sight-seeing . . . Look he's trying. And when you approach him in his group, Dorian pipes up with a bright smile, standing up to shake your hand enthusastically. ]

Hey. It's nice to meet you.

[ He's very excited, okay. ]

[ v. wildcard! giftgiving ]

[ Dorian isn't used to giving gifts. He's still getting used to getting money and being a non-state property. He'll also be helping out at the amusement park and the waterfight, mostly with kids and getting them set up for their events and activities. ]

Edited 2018-06-03 07:36 (UTC)

i. gift fountain

Oh man, no way!

[Peter had been sort of settling into Riverview, as it were. If he's gonna be stuck here — might as well make the most of it, right? And though he isn't quite swayed to reveal his identity as a super-powered teenager yet, he's more than happy to be plain ol' normal Peter Parker at Riverview High School. He'd learned his lesson back home — take your time, and stop trying to zoom through life. All that jazz. Enjoy school! Think about your future! Yadda yadda. So he's doin' that, y'know?

But he does feel a little awkward, during Prijata. It takes him more time than he'd like to admit, to make friends. Ned was his best friend for a few years, and he was also the one who initiated friendship. Peter used to be a lot more withdrawn than he is now, even with the plucky, overbearing attiude (or maybe it's because of that, that he had a hard time getting along with 'the cool kids').

Or maybe it's the fact that he's fifteen years old and holding up a plastic toy Iron Man mask like it's the best thing in the entire universe. Maybe that. But to be fair, this dented up, cracked, slightly tarnished Iron Man mask was from his childhood; he never thought he'd see this thing again, not since it got lost during one of their trips to the mall. Duuude, he was so distraught.]

It's even still got my name on the inside; oh my gosh, this is the coolest gift.

Thank you, thank you — uh... weird... magic fountain.

[IT'S EMOTIONAL FOR HIM LEAVE HIM ALONE???

... He's not gonna put it on, okay, it's for decoration now.

He's not a little kid anymore, sheesh.]

ii. speed-friending

... This was a bad idea.

[When a local nudges you into things, you tend to just roll with it, right? Especially when you admit you don't really have a lot of people to give things to for Prijata. So here he is, sitting in a cafe, awkwardly twidling his thumbs. It feels way too much like a date. Or desperation. Yes, definitely deseperation, and that old part of him feels like it's gonna be middle school all over again — like, sympathy visits at the lunch table by the nice girl from art class, or, or, the teacher inviting him to hang out in her class for recess while he waxes poetic about building a little robot from a robot-making kit Uncle Ben bought him for Christmas—

His little list was submitted, though:

NAME: Peter The High School Student (yes that's my first, middle, middle, middle, and last name, thanks for asking!)
INTERESTS: movies, robots, science, LEGOs, math, chemistry, books.
I lived in New York, and I like science fiction stuff.
Ummmm!! I like building things, I guess. Any kind of thing.
I like oldschool technology, too! Old computers and retro stuff like walkmans and old mac computers.
I like recycling?
Sorry, that's not very cool
but it's cool for the planet, right?

... He appears to have scribbled out the beginnings of more rambling.

This was a terrible idea. Good going, Pete. Uuugh.]

iii. club exhibition

[He sits at the club table with a little pleasant smile.

Wassup, hit ya boy up for some robo-building. Robot Wars, we can totally do it.]

[As time passes in Riverview, Thor finds his friendship circle expands and shrinks as people come and go. Right now, it feels as if it's on the smaller side. Perhaps that's more to do with the fact that his attitude has improved lately.

His list is very simple, his name is Thor, he's from Asgard, he likes drinking, fighting, gardening, cooking and reptiles. He's visited many planets before, including Earth, which you may have heard of.

Perhaps Earth is what they have in common and that's why they've been paired together. When Thor approaches the table, he notes that Peter looks absurdly young. Maybe he's being guided toward him as a role model of sorts? Regardless, he's polite as ever. He smiles and extends his hand.]

Nice to meet you, Peter, was it?

[Dave is at the fountain too, he's finally drawn out his present- a 50pc McNugget meal and he's admiring it fondly. Maybe he loiters a little too long, because he's now witnessing other people successfully draw their presents from the fountain.

He feels a little awkward, but he can't help feeling a gross feeling of fondness for someone who is obviously delighted by their gift. He feels like he's intruding on a special moment here, he should leave or say something.

Leave or say something. Leave or say something. Leave, definitely leave.]

I will trade you five nuggets for your item of insurmountable sentimental value.

[ Look, this Peter is just kind of passing through. The speed-dating thing has never really been his thing – not that he's ever tried. But he has experienced interrogations and negotiations, and all that junk was stressful in a very specific way – and he has to figure this speed-friending thing is more or less the same, but without jail time or money on the line.

Still, despite his best efforts to the contrary, someone thrusts a piece of paper in his hands and he just sort of. Holds onto it.

... Until they're out of sight, which is when he crumples it up and stuffs the wad into his pocket.

So, okay. He's wandering through, right? Probably about to order a drink that's either way too sugary or ridiculously unhealthy (probably both), but on a whim, he pauses, glancing over other people's lists.

—Predictably, he pauses when he spots a familiar word. ]

... Walkmans, huh?

i. Gift Fountain
[Hiccup had been a little skeptical when someone explained the gift fountain to him. While by now, he knows magic exists and has witnessed plenty of it, every new bit of magic still takes a moment to wrap his brain around. Just out of class one day, walking through the City Center with Toothless plodding along at his side, he stops at the fountain out of curiosity.

Toothless leans against the edge of it, sniffing curiously at the floating boxes within, tail swishing, and Hiccup sits down next to him, reaching out to swirl his fingers through the water.] Yeah, I don't know about this either, bud. It's nice of the city to give everyone a present, but- how can they be that specific? [He laughs a little, continuing to trail his fingers in aimless patterns through the water, until...

A black box emblazoned with a stylized red skull floats toward him. Hiccup's eyes widen as Toothless reaches out a foot to pat at it gently, curiously, recognizing the symbol that adorns his tail fin.] How...

[He picks it up in slightly trembling hands, and opens the lid. Inside is a very battered toy, singed and water damaged and old, having definitely seen better days, but Hiccup sets the box in his lap and touches it like it's precious.] Oh...

ii. Speed Friending
[Speed friending seemed like an interesting concept. He's more fascinated by how it works than expecting to really make new friends at one of these, but throughout Prijata, he shows up to events for budding inventors and engineers, traditional blacksmithing, wildlife enthusiasts, Surveyors, students, and those originally from non-modern worlds. The last one slightly reluctantly, because while he's in Riverview, he's been trying very hard to get up to date on modern technology and society; that doesn't mean it isn't hard sometimes.

When someone stops at his table, or he stops in at someone else's table, Hiccup is warm and friendly, enthusiastic about starting conversation.]

iv. Amusement Park
[It's hot out, and the water-fight is tempting, but athletically, Hiccup is less likely to keep up. Sure, he's not as scrawny or undersized as he used to be, and he's been plenty active over the years, but running around shooting each other with water-guns doesn't seem like his thing. Still, in deference to the weather, he's traded his jeans for a pair of breezier jogging pants, the left leg rolled up almost to the knee to stay out of the way of his prosthetic foot, and a light t-shirt. If he wasn't willing to dress like the natives, he would die. Leather in summer. No.

He takes the time to wander the amusement park with Toothless, to see it finally finished and working again. He did some of the carpentry and clearing a couple months back, and it's nice to see all their work paid off.

Eventually, he finds the carnival games! Bypassing the booths with traditional stuffed animal prizes, he stops in at the games that boast bits of tech as rewards. Specifically, a wristwatch GPS and compass device with holographic maps has noticeably caught his eye. He Wants It. When the booth guy asks him if he wants to play - a simple "throw the ball and knock over the milk bottles" game - he seems enthusiastic.] Yeah! Three tries, please. [He pays, and the balls are handed over. Taking careful aim, he lets the first one go. It hits the center of the tower, and they don't so much as wobble.]

What? Come on!

v. Wildcard
[ooc: Hit me with whatever! For any of his CR that he's giving gifts to, we can use this to thread it out if you want.]

[Dude, he can't even pretend his eyes don't get big enough to practically fall out of his head (like one of those super Looney Tune cartoons). This is Thor! Uh, minus some signature locks, but this is definitely Thor, and for a moment, he is totally speechless. He does still reach over and mechanically shake the guy's hand, though. He's got a pretty decent grip.]

Y-yeah, that's me.

I'm — Peter.

[Yes, he just said that to him, that his name was Peter, A+.]

You're Thor.

Like, God of Thunder Thor.

[He is so totally unfazed, and just turns to continue grinning like a dope, flipping the mask deftly in his hands.]

Dude. I wouldn't trade a hundred McNuggets for this.

It's even got my super awesome brand name on it.

[He flips it to show the inside, on the edge.

Certified! Peter! Parker! Prop piece!]

[Oh! Hey, you're kind of cool already, with the slick sideburns.

Peter can't grow facial hair yet (and lets be honest, he never will).

But he does light up a little at the interest!]

Yeah! You know, anything like that. Record players, or iPods, or boomboxes — it's all really fun to tinker with, and it's cheaper to get a hold of and repair and make as good as new if you know how they tick. [When he was growing up, these kinds of things were electronics 101, before he moved onto the bigger things — like disabling vault doors to a high-tech storage vault, or removing trackers from multi-million dollar suits.] They're kinda simple, but that's the perfect thing about them; it makes them easier to keep working, when the other newer stuff'll break down on you faster and take longer to fix.

[His iPhone is so fucked, Quill. It's nothing but cracks now. Save him.]

I guess... that's kind of not why people like them, but...

Fair. [Dave answers, blandly. He'll eat a chicken nugget, while they're fresh, then he leans in to read the name and raises a brow.]

So, as a kid you used to pretend to be Spider-Man pretending to be Iron-Man? [He furrows his brow.]

That's a complex imagination you've got there.

[Peter gives him the ol' 'deer in the headlights' look.

Which, to be fair, most people would probably respond with, even if they were trying to be low-key about their identity — which apparently has been so mind-bendingly smashed with a sledgehammer within a few words with this fellow kid [in shades]. He stares, and his voice grows a pitch near the end there.]

I'm sorry?

[Say what, again? Maybe he, uh. Maybe he heard wrong.]

[Dave's facial expressions are very obscured by his shades, but his brows furrow in a way that clearly expresses his true feelings. His feelings of are you fucking kidding me?]

Uh, well. Peter Parker is Spider-Man's real name, which I figured you would know since--

--Wait, you said it was your name. Snap. You're fucking Spider-Man.

[ This just in: Gamora actually knows what some of the more specialized things on Peter's list happen to be. She knows New York is a place on Earth, so there's that.

And Walkmans. She knows what Walkmans are.

(... Don't ask her about LEGOs or "macs.")

It's specific enough that when she comes across it on Peter's list, she stops instead of passing by. (Her own list only says "WEAPONS," because her level of interest in participating with this ridiculous "speed...friending" is incredibly low, and she's only here for the free drinks.) But "Walkman." That's significant.

So, Peter 2.0. Meet an alien.

Gamora stops at his table, a drink in her hand, and her eyes flit from the paper to the young boy it belongs to. ]

"Walkmans."

[ so much for "hello" ]

[Look, there are a number of ways someone can react to their identity totally being clothes-lined right into their faces. A number of ways that might even be smart and strategic. But this is Peter Parker, who is still not at all good at hiding things and lying about himself, who crumples under the weight of not being able to bullshit someone who clearly knows way more than he intended (like Ned, dropping the LEGO Death Star and staring at him like he legitimately had eight hairy spider legs-

So he responds in the most intelligent, sophisticated (panicked) way possible:]

No I'm not, I'm not! I'm —

Where did you hear that?

[He does stare a little. Don't you blame him, okay! The only other green person he's seen — and not in person — is the Hulk. Maybe they're related, haha. Ha. But then he clears his throat and shrinks a little in his chair, as is his way when interacting with a stranger (and a pretty one at that, her hair is so cool, and what are those little lines in her face, those are so neat, is that metal or-)]

Y-yeah! You know, the ones that play music.

... You probably already knew that — Sorry. But they're fun, huh?

[He almost feels like someone's gonna flick him upside the head and say with conviction, "There is absolutely nothing 'fun' about walkmans, they just play cassette tapes, oh my god." But the music is great, and it's all vintage-y and stuff. Uncle Ben always had a selection of older stuff he would play around the apartment.]

Where I'm from, you're pretty famous. I mostly know you from the comics about you, though.

[He veers on the line of explaining to Peter that he's sort of fictional where he comes from, opting to believe that Spider-Man probably thinks he's famous enough to have comics about him.]

It's aight, dude. If you're going incognito, I'm not gonna go around telling everyone who you are. [Mostly because he doesn't know anyone here.]

[Victor isn't actually going to join any of these clubs. He's more just looking around to see what other people are coming up with. He pauses at the sign, throwing this kid an amused smile]

So is this a club for robots or about robots?

[A fair question since there's an actual robot in the Quarantine]

[[outfits]]

a → amusement park

[He's been here long enough to know what festival is coming next, and to know roughly what to expect from them. The amusement park is new, though, considering it wasn't open last Prijata, so he's curious enough to go check it out. The fact that this is supposed to fun, something to shake off the dredges of Memoria, helps.

So Taako throws himself into the whole amusement part of the park with gusto; rollercoasters are great, as are any similar kind of thrill rides, and he has no qualms about cheating on the carnival games because they're all rigged anyway, he's just evening up the odds. Just don't be a snitch.

The VR has him a little warier, considering the bullshit Lucas pulled at the Bureau, so he might be in a slightly heated discussion with one of the attendants, trying to get reassurance that he won't be stuck in there or anything. It's happened before, it's a valid concern.

Or maybe he's just wandering around the park with some carnival food in hand. It might be surprising to see a fancy chef go to town on a corn dog, but his love of food includes terrible greasy or sugary (or both), because it's an important part of a balanced diet. Cotton candy is pretty good, too.]

b → water fight

[The paintball tournament was all well and good, but a water fight is even more fun. It doesn't involve slightly painful paint bullets, and it's a great way to cool down now that it's starting to get warm. Also, it's easier to cheat with water.

Taako has a handful of spells that can direct or control water and he's absolutely using them to make this more fun. The color of the flag tied around his wrist seems to change every couple of minutes based on whether he wants to team up or dunk on someone in particular.

At one point, there's an illusory Taako running around that acts perfectly like him, until struck by a water balloon. Those go right through the illusion and leave Taako open to toss his own water balloon at whoever tried to get him first.

Take that.

He also definitely ""acquired"" a water gun, because he needed to extra advantage.]

c → wildcard/gift exchange

[Taako will be hand delivering most gifts because half the point of these things is getting satisfaction out of seeing someone like what they've been given.

If you wanna do something with gift exchanges or any other options just drop me a starter or hmu on plurk.]

i. gift giving

[For people around the fountain, whether they are new or familiar, Steve is trying to contribute to the festivities in his way. He has a box of cookies in all sorts of types and shapes that he's acquired from around town and he's offering them to people who are coming to get their gifts or are passing by. Between interactions, he's also doing some sketches, so he might end up doing one of you on the fly. Or a friend if anyone makes requests.]

I don't know how they manage to sort these boxes by floating them. Help yourself.

[He gestures to the cookies.]

iii. clubs and things

[So there are plenty of different clubs in Quarantine and Steve is checking them out. Branch out and make friends is something he's at least trying to embrace this time around. And he does visit a few of the athletics and sports clubs to participate in their activities. Eventually he winds up branching off from a free running club and mixing in with a few of the martial arts enthusiasts, combining the two and engaging people in free sparring using banisters and various local structures as part of the fun. He does look a little smug perched on a high wall surrounding a section of the park.]

Anyone else want to try?

iv. water fight

[For those participating in the water fight, Steve is wearing a purple cap and throwing balloons at any opposing orange team members. He hasn't bothered to try to upgrade to a gun for the game, although with his accuracy he probably could have by now. Instead, he likes to rush in, grab balloons from the available buckets, and toss them at opponents that think him being in the open means he'll be an easy target. He might have a bit of an advantage when it comes to quick reflexes and gymnastics, but that's only if the other people aren't also using powers. And he does adjust his responses to match those around him. It's only fair.

Still, he could stand to be surrounded or have a bucket dumped on him. Maybe a sniper can catch him.]

v. wildcard

[ooc: Any personal chats or interactions not related to the main prompts are welcome! If you'd like to thread Steve giving your character a gift, doing Perimeter Guard work, or anything else I didn't think of, feel free to toss that at me!]

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[Victor goes by the fountain, not because he's actually expecting any gifts but because he's curious. He's heard about this magical fountain and wants to see it in action. So he kind of hangs back for a while to watch other people receiving their gifts. He also does a sketch of the fountain.

After a while, he does get up to try the fountain for himself. It's more experimental than expectant when he dips his fingers into the water. To his surprise, a box floats right to him. Victor hesitates a moment before picking it up to see what's inside. His eyes go wide when he sees the familiar object. Victor doesn't have much from his original world that he cares to have, but this... this is definitely something special to him.

He cradles the medal in his hands, staring at it for a long time. Recalling Gerhardt wearing it, how proud he'd been of his brother, how modest Gerhardt was of the praise. He stands just holding it for a long time before putting it in his pocket. He'll find a more secure way to hold onto it later]

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[Victor was likely talked into coming here by James and/or Lucy. He's not the sort who would voluntarily go to an amusement park, but he's decided to have fun anyway. If Lucy wants to go on any rides, he either accompanies her or stands back to watch her have fun. He will even take pictures like the proud dad he is. He will also try to coax James onto the Ferris wheel at some point-- and is very confident he won't have to coax too hard.

He also hits up the carnival games. He likes doing these because they're pretty fun and he can take the prizes back to the hospital for the kids. Any advanced tech he might win, he's keeping.

Who knows, he may even be persuaded to join in the water fight. It could happen]

[ it is unwrapped when jyn finds taako and shoves the tiny pot of face goop in his hands. the price tag is still on it. she does gift giving like an asshole, yolo.

is there some kind of "happy prijata" she should be saying? maybe, but jyn doesn't know/care. ]

I got that for you.

[ ah yes, truly sentimental and kind, the effort is really apparent in that attempt. look, taako more than anyone knows that jyn is a disaster when it comes to giving gifts because he is the one that helped her with the one other gift she has given. ]

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monthly mingle: PRIJATA

COMMUNAL HOUSING APARTMENT MINGLES

AMUSEMENT PARK NAME SUGGESTIONS & VOTING

Poe Dameron | The Wars In Our Stars

Chyler Silva | Halo: Forward Unto Dawn

dorian | almost human

le peter parkour | spiderboy

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Hiccup Haddock III | HTTYD

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taako ☂️ ota

Steve Rogers

Victor Frankenstein | OUAT

c; it's a dick in a box