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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
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[She knows enough about going by various names, but destiny has had nothing to do about it. Born with one last name, she had taken another with her political career. It had given her some distance, and further distance to when going by her last name or her first.
There is a small light laugh, tipping her head.]
You probably haven't heard of it... A planet by the name of Naboo? Just in a little mountain village.
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[Even as he works, Cable gives the impression of being pretty solid at multi-tasking, never giving the impression that one thing was taking too much of his attention nor was it bothering him.]
Village too small, or did you arrive directly from there?
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[No, she had visited the planet not too long ago, but she hasn't been back to that village since her parents moved their family.]
I was on a mission before coming here. That's where they've brought me from.
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Stealthy sort? Or something a little louder? [He gives Padme a glance. She didn't seem the type to just jump out guns blazing...]
Maybe a little more tactical than that.
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[So there certainly is a part of them that will need to be sneaky. It is not as if they are just going to hand Obi-Wan over to Anakin and herself, at least she doubts it. A diplomatic manner might be attempted. In all honesty, she's not entirely clear as to what they will expect.]
Someone we knew was being held captive.
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Done a lot of those? [Marked pieces of wood get stacked atop one another as the mutant speaks.]
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No... That's not typically something that I do.
[Politicians do tend to stay closer to 'home', or to Coruscant, where the Republic calls home.]
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[His tone is one of understanding as he turns to better face Padme while the wood starts to seemingly stack itself, one marked plank atop another.]
What's your usual sort of mission? Don't strike me as the type that likes sitting back.
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[Not that she would desire to see Obi-Wan perish even if Anakin wasn't, but she doesn't know him too well. When he was younger, certainly, he came to her planet with his own master, and he had been tasked with guarding her and trying to find the assassin.
That wry smile, as what she typically does can be more boring, but his assessment is right. She's never been one to just sit around.]
I wouldn't really call them missions. Reading draft bills for the Senate, or even preparing them. Talking to the other representatives. It's a bit drier most of the time. Frustrating, certainly, but rewarding as well.
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Politics, then? A whole different kind of battle in that...but with some of the same things on the line. [Strategy. Lives, mostly.]
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[And most politicians knew how to use them, for better or for worse. There were those who sought to manipulate, using a silken tongue and gilded words. Padmé had always preferred something more poignant, that made people think, and drew them together to understand each other.]
Just as sharp and deadly.
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Never said they weren't.
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[Noting that expression on his face and a smile grows on to her own in return.]
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[He clearly approves of this, using a tone that makes it sound like he can relate. Curious for a guy that looks like the sort of person one should overestimate.]
What are your thoughts on this place? [A beat.] Overall, as a Senator.
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[That slightly musing tone. Even now, stand ins do still work, although it has also meant that friends have lost their lives for what Padmé and they believe in. It still sits heavy, and it always will, she knows.]
Dubious, I suppose. I was surprised as how efficient people were here when I arrived. It almost flows too easily. Yet, everyone here is generous, and that is genuine- at least that is what my instincts say. I'm not a pessimist though, but it doesn't mean I just accept things without trying to find out more.
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[Some saws are gonna get to sawing as he continues to speak.] In it's own way, that may make this place more dangerous than others
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[It doesn't mean that one can't find happiness or joy, but that one should never stop being aware, being conscious, being alert.]
It does, although it also seems that some people might not have any other options. It does allow for a second chance.
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[Even if it is for only five more minutes when she returns, she will return alive. What her fate is, Padmé can't say. Those from the future know of her, and obviously she isn't still alive. Age takes its toll, she assumes, and war brings many casualties.]
Though I can say that some of those who have nothing to return to where they come from do seem to be making the most of their lives here.
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[A beat. Then, because he's rather enjoying their conversation:]
If you did have nothing to return home to, how would you view this sort of 'second chance'?
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Her eyes go distant, before their drown depths return to him.]
I think I would. There are ways that I could be helpful here. Continue what I've tried to do in my own galaxy.
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Nothing wrong with that. I think most people would want to do the same.
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[That wistful smile offered. If she had to place a bet, it would be that people would do just that. Given how everyone seemed to come together to help, it only stands to reason.]