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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-06-01 06:57 pm
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introductory mingle: PRIJATA

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: Introductory Log and Prijata Celebration
when: June 1st - June 8th
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

prijata


In the days leading up to June 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: Prijata. Riverview Quarantine has a strong culture of love, and they celebrate all types - Prijata is a special celebration of platonic love and building community through friendship. Prijata traditions include gift exchanges between friends, sharing meals cooked together by friend groups, and a variety of events and services aimed at making friends.

a celebration of platonic love


Prijata is a relatively relaxed holiday, focused mainly on friendship and platonic love - dedicated to appreciating the friends already in one's life, and opening oneself up to making new friends. Besides the private giving of gifts between friends, there is also a city-wide government-sponsored gift fountain that is open throughout the entire week. Included in the wide variety of events catered to finding new friends, are 'speed friending' and a large open exhibition where all the specialized clubs in Riverview can recruit for new members - and residents new or old can create a club and recruit.


i. gift fountain

While Prijata gift exchanges between friends are generally a quiet affair, done at friend-group dinners or parties, the element of gift giving does extend outward - community-wide, in fact. Throughout the course of the week, anyone living in Riverview Quarantine can drop by the huge fountain in the City Center, in front of the City Hall. They will find that the fountain is chock full of floating gift boxes in a wide variety of colors, patterns, and different shapes - though none larger than a shoe box. There are signs put up around the fountain stating that the boxes are magic and will only seek and open for their rightful owners. Characters will find that, upon touching the water, a box will float over to them, and when they pick it up, the top will unfurl like flower petals, displaying the gift inside. Sometimes, the box won't appear on the first try, since there's only so much space in the fountain at any given time, but if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Every person in the city (including new arrivals) will receive one gift by the end of the week.

Gift fountain boxes will contain one small item from each character's home dimension (or, for CRAUs, from their previous game), similar to the "items from home" bonus reward, but without needing to spend points. The item should be small enough to fit in a shoebox, sentimental, and cannot be something intended for another person's character. ETA: If you can't think of an item like this that would work for your character, something of similar size and quality to what's described above that would make the character very happy can be substituted.

This prompt can also be used for gift exchanges and for characters to receive the Government-given gifts that were suggested in the Prijata Pregaming posts on the OOC community and the TDM.


ii. speed-friending

This is pretty much what it says on the tin! Much like speed-dating setups, many bars, coffee shops, and other places that people might gather are holding speed-friending! It's your standard setup - characters enter and fill out a quick questionnaire about themselves, and flit from table to table looking for someone with great friend chemistry. Not all of them are general and open to anyone who walks in, though, with many being specialized to people who are invested in certain hobbies, occupations, or with specific sets of interests. With specialized speed-friending setups ranging from horror movie buffs to members of the Perimeter Guard to fashionistas to sports or martial arts to video games, no matter what your character is into, they're likely to be able to sign up for a special event where they can go looking for a friend who's into the same things they are!

For this prompt, you can put up a list of hobbies or interests your character has, and compatible characters can hit them up for a speed-friending thread, like the IC equivalent of the CR meme!


iii. club exhibition

Speed-friending is all well and good, but not everyone is outgoing or open enough to know if they have friend chemistry in only a few minutes. For anyone looking to find groups of like-minded individuals they can spend more than a few minutes with before committing to something as daunting as a friendship, there is a week-long club exhibition happening in the Town Square in the City Center. Table after table and booth after booth are occupied by existing clubs in the city, with an incredibly broad scope of focus interests and hobbies - enough that any character should be able to find a club with their niche interest represented.

And if it isn't? Characters are welcome to start their own clubs - much like a business, a character-run club can have space set aside in the city for meetings and event mingles that are eligible for Activity Point Bonuses for the organizer.



iv. unveiling the new friendr

Prijata this year is marked by something special - the unveiling of a code rebuild of the ubiquitous Friendr app! Anyone with the app installed already will receive a prompt to update the app, and if anyone hasn't yet downloaded it, they'll receive a quick, easily-dismissed pop-up ad on their device when they next access the network, asking if they want to. No one is obligated, and the ad is a one-time instance, intended to make sure any character who hasn't heard of the app gets a chance.

The Friendr app is a swipe-left-or-right style friend matching and/or dating app that is very common in Riverview, both for PCs and NPCs, and it has received an upgrade with a new appearance, a new interests line for more accurate matching, and a wide variety of themes so that the colors can be customized!

Please see the updated appearance below, with the 'default' color scheme. Players are free to change the colors or appearance of the code but please do not remove the credit line showing where the base code came from, out of respect for the code creator.


Friendr
«
»
» Age: your character's age
» Seeking: friendship/romantic/anything
» Preferences: sexual preference or n/a
» Interests: three interests
» Bio: 30 words or less
base code by photosynthesis
Character Name
« ✘ ✔ »



base code found here.

For this prompt, you can either post your character's new, fancy Friendr app profile in the comments, or provide a link to their updated code in an entry on their journal. Whatever floats your boat!


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 Prijata, feel free to write it up!



visual inspiration


click on thumbnails for larger view


Credit: image i: Odysseas Stamoglou; image ii: 5ofnovember; image iii: Sina Pakzad Kasra; image iv: mit19237

navigation

axefight: our planet, or if you want someone cute to kiss you. (RT if you want aliens to destroy)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-25 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
Unacceptable. Space and music are paramount - vital building blocks of any young person's education.

[ this is SERIOUS. he reaches into his jacket pocket, digs around a bit--

and pulls out a cassette player (or something that looks like one) with earbuds, sliding it across the table towards jon. the cassette's labeled "beethoven's greatest hits."
]

Take that, that's to start you off.
supersweet: (They will stumble)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-25 12:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon stares at the device. ]

What's that supposed to be?
axefight: which is me being sectioned under the fucking mental health act (i'll give you the special signal)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-25 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
It plays music. You pop the things in your ears and hit that button there. Like a smartphone, without all the phone nonsense.

[personal profile] judicia 2017-06-25 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
I did. I actually ran a clinic back home in the undercity, for the refugees and anyone else that couldn't afford to see a healer. ( Probably not the smartest thing to do when you're on the run from the templars, but the people that he helped, their families, they kept him safe. Varric, apparently, had something to do with it too, though he seemed pretty loathe to admit it. )

What about you? What did you do before you came here?
exfine: (3)

[personal profile] exfine 2017-06-25 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
You have? This really is my lucky day... Please teach me everything I need to know!

[ another courteous bow. he's so excited!! ]
somnioergosum: (Squash one)

[personal profile] somnioergosum 2017-06-25 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
We're working on it.

[Teaching Opal to read is-- was?-- mostly Adam's job, so Ronan's not sure how far along she's come exactly.]

It might be worth it to see the librarians die of shock.

[personal profile] judicia 2017-06-25 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Thedas. That's what we call our world. ( He doesn't know if anyone else has stepped through the portal from Thedas, or if there will be any in the future, but he imagines if they do, that name might mean something. For now, it's just a reference note. Anders seems a little more interested in her first remark, though — )

What about it is so strange to you? How does someone become a mage, or wizard, in your world?

( He's completely lost on when she begins talking about with radio waves and molecules. Maker only knows what those are. )

Couldn't you just use fire to do that instead?
venturer: (quiet)

[personal profile] venturer 2017-06-25 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
sounds useful.

reminds me of some people too
somnioergosum: (I know you I walked with you once...)

[personal profile] somnioergosum 2017-06-25 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh shit, I never thought I'd miss feminists." For Ronan, it was an improvement that he hadn't added a colorful adjective to the word feminist, but his opinion had softened on the supposedly aggressively confrontational women, having befriended one.

He'd have to find some way to apologize for being a dick to said when he got back-- without actually saying any apology, mind-- because talking to Letha was like a bucket of cold water to his balls. Unpleasant and, at times, painful. To be fair, it would have gone better if not for the walking corpse.

"I don't have problems with judging. If this is your culture, it's fucked up. Look, this blase attitude with the dead is screwing around with my head, you want to cover anything else in this get together or can we part ways and pretend to get along if Ivar asks?"

Jesus, was he actually concerned about what Ivar thought? Riverview really was bringing out the best worst strangest part of him.
burntbridges: To the unknown (Sass ☿ And the truth is stranger)

[personal profile] burntbridges 2017-06-25 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
She notices that Ronan mentions Ivar. Of course, she cares very much if Ivar wants them to get along, and she'll be very happy to pretend they get along (particularly if it includes getting to play with Chainsaw some more.) But in the back of her mind, above all else she's very happy to see someone beside her is interested in doing things simply to make Ivar happy. That seems like a rare motivation.

"If we can move past the calmness about death, I'm happy to actually get along with you. I'm very sure Ivar would prefer that, would he not?"

She may or may not be reaching across the table to try and pet Chainsaw again.
venturer: (pleased)

A literal million years later, I'm so sorry.

[personal profile] venturer 2017-06-25 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
[When the whole elevator trembles, Anne keeps her body still, but her fingers close around the handrailing along the wall until her knuckles go white, her eyes flicking up to the top of the carriage. The elevators are beyond what she's used to, and she's seen men fall from the riggings before, knows what happens when a body plummets even half as far as she is from the ground right now. If the thing falls, she's dead, no question.

But then a panel at the top of the thing opens, and a hooded figure pokes in through it, and one of Anne's hands leaves the railing, going to the knife tucked into her belt, just inside her jacket. It doesn't release it, even when she hears a girl's voice from under the hood - women can be dangerous. More than men, most of the time.]


Wasn't goin' to any particular floor. Just gettin' a feel of how this thing works. You?

[Her expression is cautious, her voice a little raspy as she glances up at the girl.]
dancingmd: (will this day never end?)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-25 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
But if the point is that the portal is supposed to be rescuing you from danger... it's not very effective. [She sighs.] That might be a good idea, though, for me to take a look. I wasn't exactly in a state of mind to be studying my surroundings, before.
dancingmd: (puck)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-25 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Laughing, Beverly takes the book.] No, no... In fact, I was worried I was being too forward.
Edited 2017-06-25 02:13 (UTC)
dancingmd: (pen smile)

[personal profile] dancingmd 2017-06-25 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
You're very welcome. And thank you for coming to talk to me!
aeturnus: (pic#11359471)

[personal profile] aeturnus 2017-06-25 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no, what kind of stuff is she into?

[ Precocious kids with atypical interests are always fun to deal with. Maybe not for the librarians. ]
legendary_hands: (Relaxed)

[personal profile] legendary_hands 2017-06-25 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
There is an every present hum of excitement just under the surface all the time since Jim asked him about getting a place of their own. At first it really just sort of felt like a warm feeling in his chest that progressively just became more. Something that made him feel excited for a change. He looked forward to it. Leonard tended toward being 'careful' with how much he invested into future expectations. He called it realism, but the truth was, he'd always be looking for that that other shoe to drop.

Which was silly when it came to Jim. The man rarely let him down unless it was completely out of his hands to control the situation. So maybe it was that truth that let it keep getting him more excited. Not that he said much about it. "Darlin', I'm a doctor. I am not gonna fatten you up. I just oddly enough, enjoy spoilin' your ass."

Probably more than he should.

Tipping his head to look where Jim pointed, he gave it a cursory glance before nodding. It looked relatively safe. Good view of all directions both aesthetically and safety wise. "Looks good." He angled his head to the stuff Jim was carrying. "So what did you bring to eat, by the way?"
venturer: (pleased)

[personal profile] venturer 2017-06-25 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Anne's brows raise at that, and when he asks if he should give it a go, she makes a noise of agreement in her throat. Gesturing at the box, she nods.]

Yeah. See if there's anything good for one of us, at least.

[More than anything, she's glad to get the attention off herself.]
venturer: (quiet)

[personal profile] venturer 2017-06-25 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Iris might be young, but she's obviously smart. There's a lot behind the letters, there's bad memories there and good ones all at once, but the long and short of it is that they're from someone important, and that's where the sentimentality lies. In the shape of his writing and all the things between the lines, put there for her eyes only, that only she can understand.

Anne makes a cursory attempt at lifting the letters to see if there's anything underneath, but she knows there isn't. A moment later, she drops them.]


Just the letters. They're from someone back home...I guess you could say family, but not by blood. More'n family too.

[Her lover? Family isn't right, but Anne doesn't expect there's a right word for what she and Jack are anymore. After a moment, she adds, quietly.]

The other half'a me.
glitterpants: (( 21 karamatsu girl ))

[personal profile] glitterpants 2017-06-25 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
I believe something like this is something that needs to be discussed in private. You don't want everyone knowing all of my secrets, do you?
[ no siree, can't have people knowing how your fashion taste is like socializing repellent. ]
axefight: (so dense that light bends around him)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-25 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ eyes taako. i mean, he's hardly one to judge.

but he might still be judging.
]

And how's a purple worm different from a regular worm? Color aside.
axefight: (112)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-06-25 05:47 am (UTC)(link)
Well, wanting a plan's the first step towards having one.

[ he sits back in his chair. ] Not to worry. If they've any ulterior motive, I'll find it.

[ he sounds real fuckin sure of himself. ]
maskerading: (pic#11436597)

[personal profile] maskerading 2017-06-25 06:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, same, lbr. But he won't tell if she won't tell...

Anyway. ]


Sure thing—we'll have time later. Seeya around.
hellicious: (Pleased - 3)

[personal profile] hellicious 2017-06-25 06:29 am (UTC)(link)
That's hardly an indicator. Most chat me up as if it's no big deal. Likely because most don't believe it is real.
scholiast: <user name=doodledrawsthings site=tumblr.com> (☆ no dogs on the moon)

[personal profile] scholiast 2017-06-25 06:49 am (UTC)(link)
Uh...

(She trails off, quite unsure of what to make of that. The question feels horribly personal. To think he had just protested her asking if he'd like to talk about himself, and then he turns around and spits this one out.)

Wrong Lucretia, I think. (She jokes, glancing down at her hands as she twists them in her lap.)
scholiast: <user name=rabdoidal site=tumblr.com> (★ hot diggity shit)

[personal profile] scholiast 2017-06-25 06:54 am (UTC)(link)
No, not at all. I'm interested in your opinion.

(It's not every day you meet another woman who also works aboard an intergalactic ship, after all.)