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monthly mingle: CARNIVALE

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: monthly mingle: carnivale
when: the month of july
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carnivale

In the days leading up to July 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: Carnivale. This holiday is in celebration of music, and the onset of summer and warmer weather. The celebrations are marked by street parties, an extensive program of live musical performances, with two large parades on July 8th and July 9th.

celebrating music, and summer

After a couple of months of low-key or even solemn celebrations, it's time for Riverview Quarantine to throw a good, old-fashioned party. Carnivale is a city-wide festival that pretty much everyone gets into, and many residents take the entire week off so they can enjoy all the festivities. With events ranging from impromptu street parties, free live musical performances, food stands, themed club nights, adult lounges with kink shows, and topped off with two massive party parades, the holiday has a lot to offer for anyone who likes to sing, dance, and show some skin!

i. street parties and food

One of the staples of the Carnivale festival is the spontaneous street parties and food trucks and carts. It's not unusual during the holiday to turn a corner and run into a group of people dressed in bright colors and sequins having an impromptu party with a few drinks, and then be invited to join right in! Carnivale is a celebration of music as well as summer, so most shops and stalls will be blasting danceable music into the streets to facilitate these little street parties - it's considered a sign of good luck for the owner of a business if an impromptu Carnivale celebration starts up in front of their door.

Considering the proliferation of street parties and people out and about to celebrate the warmer weather, local business owners also take to the streets. Food carts, stands, and trucks pop up on almost every street corner offering a wide variety of food from savory treats to sweet desserts. Many of the carts are offering one free item to anyone dressed up for Carnivale - anything shimmery, shiny, or brightly colored will do!

ii. live musical performances

One of the major roads in the city center has been completely roped off for the entire week, and all along this street, various temporary stages have been set up, each with a nice hefty sound system. Volunteers hand out printed flyers, and digital boards are set up here and there with schedules of various performances that are all free to attend, ranging from well-known popular music artists to new up-and-comers or independent artists who are looking to make a name for themselves. This event is very widely advertised around the city, and is accepting entries until the very last minute.

So jump in and stomp around in a mosh pit or just dance around in the streets, let yourself get lost in the music and the summer heat!

Any player-characters who are musically inclined are more than welcome to assume their character was fit in for a performance, and can post up a top-level with a rundown of their performance to get bonus Activity Points for posting a mingle!

iii. carnivale parade and children's parade

The other main attraction of Carnivale week comes on the weekend of July 8th and 9th, which are paid holiday days for everyone in the city. There are two parades, the Carnivale Parade on July 8th, and the Children's Parade on July 9th.

Both parades will start out by City Hall and wind through downtown in a lazy pattern so everyone in the city has a chance to see them. There will be all sorts of floats, dancers, marching bands, with all sorts of clubs, businesses, and other organizations represented. Observers can expect great music, excellent dancing and marching shows, neat vehicles provided by classic car clubs, the fire, police, and Perimeter Guard. They can also expect a lot of party favors, whether it's a sparkly plastic beaded necklace, a fan to take the edge off the heat, candy, popsicles, a temporary tattoo, or any number of other little treats or toys to be tossed into the crowd.

The Carnivale Parade on Saturday has a more adult tone to it, and party favors thrown may be toys or gag gifts of a more adult nature suitable for older teens and grown-ups. The floats are more risqué and the people in the parade show more skin, dance more provocatively, and there are wet T-shirts, occasional flashing, and other things that might not be suitable for children. The theme is theatrical, big and showy, bright and colorful, sparkly and shiny, with loud music and lots of glitz and glamour.

Geared toward children and younger teens, the Children's Parade is on Sunday and generally more low-key, with more of a cartoony than glitzy theme. The Children's Parade will have more conservative floats, with bright colors, juggling and dancing, and mascot costumes. Party favors will lean more toward candy and temporary tattoos, rainbow pinwheels, and small toys. Keep an eye out for floats with pop performers and for popular cartoons in the city!

And make sure you wear your waterproof mascara - Carnivale and Children's Parade floats have a tendency of spraying or spritzing water, both in an unspoken competition to see who can make the biggest water-refraction rainbow in the air, and to keep observers cool in the new summer heat.

iv. adult: lounges

Thanks to the Carnivale tradition of showing as much skin as possible, some event organizers' minds have turned to topics of a more adult nature. In the evenings, residents may see clubs doing "lounge nights"; these adults-only events have bouncers IDing everyone at the door to ensure they're 18+. The themes may vary, from very specific niche themes like 'golden age superheroes' to broad themes like 'rainbows,' and each event is clearly marked as what it is - all-nude or clothing-optional, and can host events ranging from amateur to professional exotic dancing, food served off of nude bodies, anonymous masked hookups, or just provide a comfortable space where casual sex is encouraged with whoever happens to be around. Various legal substances can be found at these lounges, but nothing that would cause violation of consent, and every substance would be clearly labeled and have warnings to ensure that no one partakes unless they choose to. Please be sure to warn in the subject line for sexual content or drug use (since some mild party drugs are legal in Riverview).

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 Carnivale, feel free to write it up!

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Credit: image i: Roger Patterson Jr.; image ii: Jie He; image iii: Aaron Walker; image iv: Lewis Monson

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I ▹▹ STREET FOOD

[ This probably isn't the celebration for Owen. He's not exactly in a sociable mood, right now— not that he was ever the most sociable of people, but right now he is kind of missing his trailer, his unfinished cabin, and most of all the solitude, the quietness of that little corner in the middle of nowhere. Granted, this still beats dinosaurs going on a rampage through an island, but it's still crowded. And loud.

Owen tries to avoid the livelier streets, but it seems that the party finds its way into just about any corner of the Quarantine. He ends up roaming the city, exploring with vague interest, and poking his nose into some of the food stands with a more appealing scent wafting off of them.

He ends up staring at some weird alien-looking food. Something that looks like a crab, with tiny teeth and tentacles, in some green color that makes it look like it's gone bad. He frowns, picking up one of them when the owner insists that he give it a try.

He's grimacing slightly as he bites the weird animal with a crunchy sound, but his eyebrows raise in surprise at the taste. ] Huh. Actually not that bad.

III ▹▹ CARNIVALE PARADE

[ Roaming the streets is actually how he ends up getting dragged into the parade. He tries to wiggle his way out of it, but in the midst of a celebrating audience, he only ends up finding himself dragged deeper into it.

You may run into him trying to practically dig his way out of the confusion, or more near the outskirts of the crowd. At some point some passerby has smudged some body paint across his face, and one of the floats has sprayed water down on him, so his clothes are drenched and his tight white shirt's sticking to his torso. (You're welcome.)

Or if you'd rather a more direct approach, he might just stumble and fall onto your path, trying to hold his weight up by grabbing whatever's nearest to him— which might just end up being you. ] Jesus— sorry. My bad.

IV ▹▹ ADULT LOUNGES & LINGERIE NIGHTS

[ Okay, these parties he visits out of sheer curiosity. He's been to a few different places in the course of his life, but he is pretty sure he's never seen a place that's this open and, for lack of a better word, permissive. Most of the people in the lounge he visits are wearing nothing (or close enough to it), and there are a few spots with various drugs on offer, free, legal and perfectly labeled with all the necessary information.

Aside from that one lounge, he also visits TRIXIE, though only because Loki mentioned it, and told him to come by sometime. Half a block away and he can already tell there's a very specific theme, but despite his initial reticence, he's grinning lopsidedly by the time he makes his way through the front door. Okay, he's definitely digging this theme.

At either party, it's probably the first time that Owen's felt overdressed while only wearing some worn jeans and a plaid shirt, but here he is. He might accept a drink if offered, and strike up a conversation with someone else, but anything more than that... well, he's never been big on planning too far ahead. So who knows. ]

V ▹▹ WILDCARD

[ Got any other ideas, or anything else you want to do with Owen? Feel free to hit him up with a specific starter, or poke me @

extreminator or through PM! ]

Yeah, your —

( she means to continue. really, she does. there's a biting, acerbic, super witty comment just begging to be spilled from her lips, but then skye's eyes lose track of their glaring-at-interrupting-people mission in favor of taking in the visual of her own personal chippendale's wet t-shirt contest. and, okay, maybe there's just one chippendale, so maybe it's not so much a contest. but that's just semantics. the important thing is: it's a good look. she's mollified by it, if you will. )

Your bad?

( #smooth. keep it together, girl, you can do this. smile, brush the jostled hair out of your face, look and sound like a normal human who does normal human things. )

It's, hey, it's fine. Nobody died, right? ( way to set the bar super low. maybe change the subject now? ) Nice face paint, by the way. Top notch work.

[ There's a pause at her initially abrupt reaction, as though he's expecting her to tell him off. To which he would no doubt have an answer, because hey, accidents happen, it's not like he goes around walking into people's paths because it's fun for him, alright.

But then her demeanor shifts, and if the half-smile tugging at the corner of his lips is anything to go by, he can tell why. Not that he'll say it in so many words, so it's okay. Her dignity will remain seemingly intact for the time being. ]

Is it, really? Or are you just saying that to spare my feelings? [ It's not like he's had the chance to look at a mirror after he got the paint smudged across his face. ]

Nah. ( there we go, back to our regularly scheduled too cool for school programming. a quick bounceback, practically deserving of an olympic gold medal... or at least a gold star sticker. ) It's kind of a mess, actually.

( which might have more to do with the whole drenching from head to toe business than anyone's artistic ability, if she's totally honest. skye had managed to avoid the hose by sheer dumb luck, but she wasn't quite nimble enough to dodge all of the parade paraphernalia tossed in her direction. thus, the stack of colorful temporary tattoos she opts to hold up instead. )

I could help you fix that, though. Give you some street cred to balance the Girls Gone Wild vibe you're sporting.

[ Yeah sure, she definitely strikes him as the really cool, popular mean girls type. ]

Through no fault of my own, for once.

[ He just got dragged into this whole mess!! Then got lost in the crowd. Funny how he gets lost here more easily than out in the wild. But you know what, he's feeling less grumpy about it now. ]

Thought my guns did that for me. [ He's not carrying any guns, so ya know what guns he's actually talking about. ] I'm not letting you stick any butterflies or pink flowers anywhere on my skin.

[ He leans in closer to take a peek at the tattoos. Not that seems all that interested in them, so it may just be an excuse. ]

( skye wishes she had been that really cool, super popular girl. she can't even try to hide her smile or the eyeroll that accompanies it in reaction to his guns commentary. sure, dude. just brag about your jacked arms, that's totally fair. )

I didn't say anything about butterflies or flowers, did I? ( way to assume her artistic vision here, unnamed attractive man. ) We could do rainbow skulls and bones here. Orrrrr a bunch of naked women with wings, apparently, that's also an option here.

( imagine it: two naked women astride his chest, baring their wings and chest alike to curious onlookers. )

Or dicks, because I got a lot of fake dick tattoos for some reason.

[ It's just a little bit of bragging, he didn't even flex them or anything. He totally could have done that. ]

Right, because those options aren't equally tacky at all. [ He frowns and lets out a 'pffft', taking a few of those tattoos out of her hand. ] Mm, sure. It's thematic. Makes perfect sense. [ Holding one of those dick tattoos up against his forehead. Why would anyone not want a dick tattooed on their body?? ]

How about... we go find some paint, and you draw whatever you feel like? On my arm or something. [ He shrugs. ] I'll buy you a drink, if you want. As a more proper apology.

I think you could rock the fake dick forehead look, actually.

( to be fair, he could probably rock just about anything on his face so long as that wet t-shirt was still there to provide visual distractions. even without gratuitous arm flexing! )

But sure, if you're afraid of a little rainbow tattoo action, we can sub out for some drunken painting. ( a drink, he says. ) No promises there won't be any butterflies, though.

( MAYBE IN HER STOMACH INSTEAD? no, just kidding, who suffers butterflies after the age of fourteen? not adults, that's for sure. )

owen grady ▹▹ jurassic world ▹▹ open!

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