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- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
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monthly mingle: RIVER FESTIVAL
what: monthly mingle: the river festival
when: the month of august
where: anywhere around the city
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

In the days leading up to August 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: The River Festival. This holiday is in celebration of the river and the life that it gives to the city, as well as the heat of summer and forming bonds with friends, family, and romantic partners. The celebrations are marked by a community-wide cleanup of the docks and beaches along the river - particularly important considering the recent flooding that's left the banks of the river littered with debris - as well as beachfront cookouts and parties (both private and city sponsored) and beach sports tournaments happening on either open stretches of beach or in special clothing-optional beaches, all capped off with fireworks displays each weekend in August.

Following the hedonism of Carnivale, it's time for something a little more low-key and relaxing. The River Festival happens every year in August, and is geared toward community building through cleaning up the beaches and docks along the river and then using all that freshly cleaned beach to gather on. During the month of August, there are various lightly-themed government-sponsored beach cookouts and parties geared toward family, romantic dates, or casual all-ages get-togethers for meeting new friends; there are also a few more racy parties at clothing-optional beaches around the city. Many private residents also take this time to gather together friends and family, and have cookouts on the beach with all the typical trappings of the beach barbecue. There are also various casual sports tournaments sponsored by community centers, gyms, and sports teams in the city, featuring prizes ranging from notoriety to sports equipment to big bucks. Every weekend, there are beautiful fireworks displays and free concerts. This year, the River Festival has been chosen for the unveiling of a new water park in the City, with free or heavily discounted tickets during August!
i. cleaning up
The holiday starts off on a note that is just a bit more sombre than the rest of the season, with the cleanup efforts following the recent flooding blending into the usual tradition of cleaning up beaches and docks along the river. The cleanup is a group effort, with every citizen who is physically able pitching in to comb the beaches, where they pick up fallen tree limbs, garbage, and anything else that's accumulated during the winter and spring, and then raking the beaches to make them clean and ready to use. The cleanup of the docks is similar, with residents sweeping and hosing them down where necessary. This year, there are a lot of repairs to be made to beachfront structures that might've been damaged by flooding and the traffic along the riverbanks from the heroes that participated in the rescue of cult hostages, so if anyone has some carpentry or building skills, those would definitely come in handy.
This is meant to be a community building effort, so many businesses in the area, more well-to-do private citizens, and the government have pitched in funding to provide lunches, cold drinks, coffee or tea, and snacks to anyone who's helping out with the cleanup efforts. All in all, the cleanup has a very friendly, welcoming vibe.
ii. beach activities
The main traditions of the River Festival involve cookouts and beach parties. Each weekend in August, the government as well as various corporations and businesses in the city, will be providing funds for large beach gatherings. On these days, there will be booths set up offering wares and freebies from various businesses around the city that have helped fund the party, large swaths of cleared beach where residents can don a swimsuit and catch some rays or swim in the river, massive barbecue setups to provide partygoers with all the standard barbecue fare, beach sports tournaments, dancing and musical performances, and fireworks displays (see prompts below).
The holiday isn't just about these big parties, though - many residents arrange their own barbecues, cookouts, beach camping trips, beach bonfires, and other riverside gatherings and outings. Many riverfront businesses offer discounts on services such as canoe or kayak rentals to go out paddling on the river, jetski or motorboat rentals for tubing, wakeboarding, or waterskiing, or mounts to take romantic rides in the surf. Additionally, there is an adults-only section of the beach where any of these activities can be done in the nude in a clothing-optional setting, including the big city-sponsored parties.
If your character is good at playing a particular sport that could, conceivably, be played on a beach, chances are that during the month of August, a tournament will be set up for them to participate in. The tournaments are pretty standard, generally sponsored by community centers, sports clubs and teams, gyms, and other organizations and businesses in the city, with various levels of specialization, and levels of skill or competitiveness. The prizes also vary, with everything from plain old bragging rights to sports equipment or passes to gyms and community centers, to large lump sums of cash money. Definitely worth it, for characters with a love for sport. Oh, and a lot of these tournaments are happening on the adults-only clothing-optional beaches, for those grown-up sports fans who like a bit of an extra challenge.
iii. fireworks and music
Each weekend throughout the month of August, there will be evening performances all along the beach. Not as extensive as the musical performances during Carnivale, the performances are geared more toward dancing than true concerts, with areas roped off on both on the regular and adults-only clothing-optional beaches for dancing and mingling (acts will switch off between the two areas so both areas get both performances).
Player-characters who are musical artists, DJs, or otherwise perform are free to set up shop around this party and panhandle or put on free performances for publicity.
After the sun goes down, boats will head out into the water carrying a variety of fireworks, and there will be a beautiful display of exploding color in the sky for residents to watch and enjoy. The fireworks are highly advanced, incorporating old-fashioned gunpowder as well as modern technology that result in really beautiful displays that can take the breath away!
iv. waterpark
This year, there's an extra little bit of fun being thrown into the River Festival - the grand opening of a new waterpark! It's quite the park, set near the river with a scenic view, and featuring all sorts of amazing rides, from waterslides that are catered to all ages and levels of thrill seeking, tube rides that are almost like a rollercoaster on water, a pool where customers can faux-surf, funnel rides, side-by-side racing slides, a lazy river, and almost anything else you can imagine. Besides the rides, there are also a wide variety of swimming pools for kids and adults - wave pools, lap pools, splash pools - and an equally wide variety of hot tubs featuring various minerals (and some aromatherapy) for relaxing, invigoration, and other effects.
Some of the hot tubs are in a clothing-optional adult area, where there are some normal pools and some clearly-labelled pools contain elements that increase arousal or desire, or simply affection to encourage some closer bonding!
v. roommates or wildcard
Feel free to use this prompt to meet new roommates, for the purpose of getting to know each other, or hit up one of the mod-posted prompts for each Communal Floor. Or if you have an idea for a prompt that isn't in this list, set during the River Festival, feel free to write it up!




Credit: image i: credit unknown; image ii: Albert Ramon Puig; image iii: Claudio Pilia; image iv: Alan Philips
[i]
She pushes the wheel barrel along until she sees maybe one of the most lovely ladies she's seen in a while, stopping to stare for a long time before she speaks up]
Ya can chuck it in here, pretty sure your bag can't easily handle it. I'm South, by the way. Special guard.
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A smile is given as she moves, bending down to pick it up and move it in to the barrel.]
You seem to be better prepared than I.
[Although maybe all of the special guards were equipped with wheel barrels? If so, doubly smart to who ever thought of that. Otherwise, props to her.]
Padmé. And thank you. It would have taken me a while to roll it somewhere.
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[Is it said with a tone of pride and a dash of cockiness? Yes, yes it is. She grins and makes a move to help get the tire in the barrel, chivalrous as always with ladies]
I'm sure someone would've helped you. Been out here long?
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[That polite teasing to her own retort as she softly chuckles to her reply. Whatever the reasons, it remains that it is helping, and at the end of the day, that is what matters. That pause from Padmé.]
A few hours today, I suppose? I honestly don't even know what time it currently is.
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Oh yea, definitely part of the uniform. More vital than any of our weapons, don't you know.
[She takes a second to check her device and shrugs, leaning a hip against her wheel barrel]
Just a bit past noon, plenty of time to get more clean up in and maybe get a bite to eat or something
[Subtle]
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[Either wheel it around or carry it in piggyback style. Needless to say, Padmé doesn't actually believe that it is something that they carry around. Or at least all the time.
The answer about when it does is surprising. She hadn't thought that much had passed. Clearly she was wrong.]
That sounds exactly like what I will do.
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[Is she hitting on her? Maybe. But it could also just as likely be her asking a new person to a cool place to eat, honestly.]
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A smile is flashed in her direction.]
Thank you. I'd love to.
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Awesome, what kinda food do you like? They got more than just burgers there
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[It isn't that surprising, although those from the planet called Earth do seem to know a fair number of them. Padmé has been making her way, trying different things as she has gone along. To date, there have been a fair number of meals that she enjoys, and only a few that she prefers not to try again.]
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[South suggests as she wafts around a piece of debris while talking, tossing it in with the rest before asking]
Where you from, anyways?
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[The grains on each planet were slightly different. Five blossom bread from Naboo just doesn't taste quite the same when it is made elsewhere. Her gaze flickers, before Padmé answers.]
I was born on the planet of Naboo.
[Which is not where she was, although she's not often on Tatooine either. Padmé spends a majority of her time on Coruscant.]
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[Naboo, sounds like a funny word- but she doesn't say that.]
I was born on Tribute, kinda an industrial-ish planet. We mostly had factories and small cities.
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Was most of the planet built up, or did you have green-spaces as well?
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[She misses home, as messed up as it was. But she missed it before she came here, during her time at UNSC and with the Project, and especially while on the run]
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[That attentive expression on her face.
Or is it advanced enough where she is that they are like the Gungans and their underwater cities? The level of technology that people are used to varies so much, Padmé has found.]
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[She doesn't mean to share so much, but Padme is easy to talk to apparently, it just flows easily]
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Were the two of you able to remain together then, or did you go to different units?
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[She pauses, because she didn't expect this to take the turn it is, but here it is. She doesn't talk about it much, but this is happening and she's not going to be a chicken shit about it.]
Well, until he died. Went on a while after that until I ended up shot in the face and waking up here. Kinda weird, being without him. Spent our whole lives shoulder shoulder, so, it's new.
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Let alone dying herself.]
I am sorry to hear that. No doubt it must be hard, on both accounts.
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[Not really. Denial and repression are probably not 'doing pretty good' in all honesty, but it's working for her! Except when it's not, but that's what whiskey is for, right? Healthy.]
Kinda just getting adjusted to being without him, really. Taken me a while, but I'm getting there.
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[It is still surprising to her to know that people have been here for such lengths of time. She knows that some have expressed an opinion to stay if given the choice, but Padmé does desire to return home, to complete what she is in the process of doing.]
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[She's dead at home. Her friends and family are either dead or entirely different people. She's not going to get into that, though. The stuff about her brother was enough sharing.]
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It doesn't seem like a bad place to make a life for yourself.
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[Though Frank did get taken back to his own place, which she still isn't over at all, but otherwise- she likes this place]
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