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riverviewlogs2018-09-30 08:15 pm
enveloped) wrote in riverviewlogs2018-09-30 08:15 pm
OPEN / "Bring Yourself" Arts & Culture event!
who: Cameron Waltz and you!
what: "Bring Yourself" Arts & Culture event!
when: Today!
where: Riverside Community Centre.
warnings: None predicted.
Open invitation on the network!
The community center is normally a modest building, albeit one with a spectacular riverfront view. Tonight, it's putting on the ritz. Multicolored lanterns hang on either side of the sidewalk leading up to the front of the building, and music of all kinds, depending on what time it is, pours out of the open doors and into the street. Local vendors have set up small carts to show off their wares and offer small trinkets and fresh food for sale, displaying their local pride.
Inside, things have been completely redecorated for the event. It's a modern open concept gallery, with blank walls for artwork and written word, empty pedestals to display objects, and plenty of tables with chairs. Some pieces are already on display, from paintings to exotic foods. Small crowds gather around people telling stories or showing off their special skills and talents.
That music plays live from the small main stage overlooking a dance floor, both of which can be cleared for demonstrations of everything from dance to martial arts. Anything physical that requires that little bit of extra room.
Musicians are free to write their names for a time-slot on the stage, and can choose to be accompanied by the onsite pianist and guitarist, bring their own instruments or backup, or perform solo.
All throughout the room are food and drink stations, where staff serves wine, beer, limited spirits, and soft drinks. The exotic foods are on display here, from which the guests can help themselves. If you can imagine it, someone has managed to cook it.
At the far end of the building is an outdoor patio overlooking the river, with seating and torches to light the area through the night. Most displays of magic take place out there, where practitioners can go all-out casting their most extravagant spells.
The crowd ebbs and flows, gathering to socialize during lulls and splitting off to see new events and installations as they come in. Other than opening and closing statements by Cameron Waltz, there's very little structure.
Casual and relaxed, the focus is on learning, generating conversation, and meeting new people. It's an organized free-for-all, a mini festival dedicated to the celebration of the cultures and backgrounds of everyone in Riverview. And in a city made up of a thousand universes worth of people, there's more than enough to see.
[Characters can bring pieces with them as they arrive, and simply set themselves up around the room. Contributions aren't limited to art, anything goes! Feel free to play random observer/staff/performer NPCs. The party goes until midnight, have fun!]
what: "Bring Yourself" Arts & Culture event!
when: Today!
where: Riverside Community Centre.
warnings: None predicted.
The community center is normally a modest building, albeit one with a spectacular riverfront view. Tonight, it's putting on the ritz. Multicolored lanterns hang on either side of the sidewalk leading up to the front of the building, and music of all kinds, depending on what time it is, pours out of the open doors and into the street. Local vendors have set up small carts to show off their wares and offer small trinkets and fresh food for sale, displaying their local pride.
Inside, things have been completely redecorated for the event. It's a modern open concept gallery, with blank walls for artwork and written word, empty pedestals to display objects, and plenty of tables with chairs. Some pieces are already on display, from paintings to exotic foods. Small crowds gather around people telling stories or showing off their special skills and talents.
That music plays live from the small main stage overlooking a dance floor, both of which can be cleared for demonstrations of everything from dance to martial arts. Anything physical that requires that little bit of extra room.
Musicians are free to write their names for a time-slot on the stage, and can choose to be accompanied by the onsite pianist and guitarist, bring their own instruments or backup, or perform solo.
All throughout the room are food and drink stations, where staff serves wine, beer, limited spirits, and soft drinks. The exotic foods are on display here, from which the guests can help themselves. If you can imagine it, someone has managed to cook it.
At the far end of the building is an outdoor patio overlooking the river, with seating and torches to light the area through the night. Most displays of magic take place out there, where practitioners can go all-out casting their most extravagant spells.
The crowd ebbs and flows, gathering to socialize during lulls and splitting off to see new events and installations as they come in. Other than opening and closing statements by Cameron Waltz, there's very little structure.
Casual and relaxed, the focus is on learning, generating conversation, and meeting new people. It's an organized free-for-all, a mini festival dedicated to the celebration of the cultures and backgrounds of everyone in Riverview. And in a city made up of a thousand universes worth of people, there's more than enough to see.
[Characters can bring pieces with them as they arrive, and simply set themselves up around the room. Contributions aren't limited to art, anything goes! Feel free to play random observer/staff/performer NPCs. The party goes until midnight, have fun!]
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He picks up another slimy eyeball thing off the plate with his thumb and forefinger, tempted like a two-year-old to smash it just to see what happens, but that would probably be a step too far for where they are right now. It only barely stops him. ]
On three?
[ He's participating very willingly in this adventure. ]
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Finn is filled with deep, very real regrets right now. But like with most situations, the fact that he a) has already more or less verbally committed and b) isn't alone doing this very dumb idea vastly overpowers his real regrets.
Plus Poe is kind enough to let him keep the one on the fork. So he doesn't have to have it in his own actual hand, aka the least ideal situation humanly possible. If that's not consideration, what is? ]
Yeah, on three.
[ Poe can do the countdown for posterity. Finn will catch the next one when he finds the worst-looking food station he can think of. ]
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[ Does he not say one specifically because he knows it will bother Finn? Maybe. One's friends truly are the chains one forges in life.
Poe pops the little thing into his mouth and bites down. The texture is absolutely as eyeball-y as it looked, bursting between his teeth and filling his mouth with a lightly sweet, lightly spicy jelly. Poe has to admit, he's surprised by how good it tastes. He was expecting something weird or gross, but the weirdest part to him is simply the package the food came in, as it were.
He swallows. ]
There, see, that wasn't so bad. It was even pretty good.
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Finn struggles valiantly through the duality of this.... Thing. Because yeah, the flavor is fine. It has flavor, and it's not a bad flavor.
But it's texture hell. It's exactly what it looked like. He doesn't know what he expected.
Light and dark. Balance in the food Force like you wouldn't believe. ]
If you find out what planet it comes from, remind me not to go there unprepared. [ But he would still go. Therefore: ] It's fine. I'll give you that one.
[ He had to give it very serious thought, very surprising. This is a fancy party about culture. Everybody becomes a fancy critic who is very serious, obviously. ]
i can't believe i finally have a reason to use this icon
Then he licks his fingers, trying to get them to unsticky-ify. ]
All right, now we have to find something you think is weird.
once again riverview provides
Finn: Why Is He Like That.
He lives with this. It shouldn't be such a thing every time he has to witness it, and yet. Here he stands, forced to bear witness. ]
Weirder than you forgetting how napkins work. That's hard to picture.
[ He's already craning his neck to scope out what the nearest table has to offer. Somehow this feels like it won't be terribly hard. Almost everything is weird. Sometimes it's just important to sprinkle a little bit of salt onto the conversation, though. For the flavor. ]
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What's a napkin?
[ That's it that's the tag. ]
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Just get to the food tables.
[ I can't believe that's the culture they bring to the whole party. They're thriving. ]