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riverviewlogs2018-08-01 10:33 pm
- !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
cleaning up
She had several twisted metal beams over her left shoulder, carrying them to where such bits could be disposed of, when she saw another few pieces of metal being lifted up, not by human hands, but..red light beams.
"How are you doing that?" She walked up to Zelda. Much as she knew magic existed in this place, the red light was coming from the device in her hands, so it was clearly technical.
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"Oh, hello - it's a function of the Slate." She returns her attention to moving the beams to the rubbish pile for a moment, angling the tablet until they line up above the ground. Her hands then lower the Slate, the beams following the movement before coming to rest on top. A flick of a button releases them from the beam, causing a clang when they fall into place.
With that done Zelda can more properly turn to greet Elizabeth with a smile. "It's called 'Magnesis'. It's a form of magnetic attraction I believe. The beam magnetises metal objects and works to move them so long as I'm directing it where to go." She tilts her head, noticing the metal that the other woman is carrying. "You're helping out too?"
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There were books on the matter in her father's library, and while theirs wasn't so advance as this, they weren't completely backward either.
"Of course, everyone is called to help clean up." She proceeded to dump the metal with the rest of the scrap. "It would be selfish not too, especially since there is no reason for me not to."
If she were pregnant or ill, that might be one thing, but she was not so she did.
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It's just hard to pin down one topic of interest when so much of it abounds. She nods as Elizabeth explains, knowing the truth in what she says. Help can come in many forms and she hopes everyone is doing what they can.
"The flooding was so terrible. It's fortunate we're in a position to be able to clean it up again. If things had gone worse..."
There might be an even harder job to do.
ooc: sorry! tag was lost
The rest, it was true she was curious, but only a passing sense of curiosity. More to the point, she was just glad it was around to help.
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"Many places back home were utterly destroyed by a fire a long time ago," she adds, a touch pensively. "We haven't yet begun to rebuild them. I know it's going to take a long time to do so."
Re: no probs!
A lot work indeed. "Could you use your device to move those larger bits of scrap? The bits underneath are easy enough to carry, but not those larger wooden beams."
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"I think that part is taken care of. My hope is to get started on reconstruction within a year or so, if I can find willing builders to assist."
At Elizabeth's question, Zelda blinks and returns her thoughts to the present. Casting her eye over the scrap that the other woman means, she considers the angle and size before nodding. "They seem to have metal bindings around them so I can. If it's purely wood then the Slate can't pick them up," she explains, pulling the device out again. She tabs through to the red magnet icon. "It can only lift metal things."
eesh, should've rethought that.
She did frown. "Of course, most of the wooden beams here have metal bits in them. I am not so stupid as to think the device that powerful."
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Positioning the Slate in front of herself, Zelda activates the Magnesis. The beam locks onto the first piece of scrap and she raises the Slate slowly, letting the piece come up evenly.
"If it were really stubborn, I could always use a bomb on it and try to break it into smaller pieces," she muses as she works.
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Lydia would certainly agree to the idea more readily, but that was only her.
With the metal and wood lifted up, Elizabeth quickly rushed in to move the lighter trash out of the way, just enough so Zelda could set it back down.
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As Elizabeth moves in to clear away the debris, Zelda manoeuvres the beams away and over towards the larger pile of already collected pieces. It's short work to drop them with the rest, nodding to the team loading everything into a truck for disposal. Hopefully something good will come of all this broken material.
Turning back to Elizabeth she turns the Slate off once more. "It looks as though we've nearly finished cleaning this area at least," she observes. Some scattered junk still litters the ground but nothing like the rubble that had occupied the space this morning.
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She chuckled a bit, knowing the work was far from over.
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