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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

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supersweet: (See a badge?)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-06 02:35 am (UTC)(link)
That's boring.

[ He slouches in his seat. ]

Maybe we can just have pizza instead.
stalkingandplotting: (Sure I can do that for you no problem)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-06 02:41 am (UTC)(link)
{Tim snorts.}

Now you sound like a Teen Titan.
supersweet: (Superman is what I can do)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-06 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon slouches even further. ]

Like they'll ever take me.

[ It's a sore point. ]
stalkingandplotting: (Sure I can do that for you no problem)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-06 10:59 am (UTC)(link)
{Tim bumps Jon's shoulder again.}

You're a little young yet for unsupervised teamwork. I definitely didn't get on the team until I was older. You just need a little more experience and practice.

supersweet: (They will race behind you)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-06 11:22 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, yeah. I know.

[ But he's ten, has no real control over his powers and sometimes, waiting took forever. ]

Do you think people will make a new superhero team here?
stalkingandplotting: (Adopted Wayne)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-06 11:26 am (UTC)(link)
{Tim's lips twitch.}

I think some people will probably try, and depending on who asks me I wouldn't say no to joining, but I'm not going to try and set up a team. It wouldn't be the same.

{He's not sure he's fit to lead a bunch of people from different worlds. Dick had way more experience working on teams if it came to that.}
supersweet: (Axioms at the bottom of his thoughts)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-06 11:27 am (UTC)(link)
Why not?

[ Jon asks this guilelessly. ]

I mean, everyone wants to help and if we work together, it's easier, right?
stalkingandplotting: (Adopted Wayne)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-07 12:22 am (UTC)(link)
Some people have different methods of running their teams, or different codes they consider going about their business. Not even the whole League agrees on what's okay or not okay a lot of the time. If someone has rules I don't agree with it wouldn't be right for me to join their team and disrupt it.
{He makes a sweeping motion with one hand.}

There are different kinds of people for different kinds of tasks. I couldn't do what your dad does, not just because of ability, but because of personality and beliefs, too. Just like your dad probably wouldn't like it much in Gotham.

{Tim is perhaps both the best and worst Robin for Jon to talk to because he doesn't know how to talk to children.}


supersweet: (Only lack the light to show the way)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-07 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon absorbs this thoughtfully, chewing on his lip. Sometimes, even the way his dad does things makes Jon feel . . . unsure. How could he ever amount to that? ]

Well, Gotham is . . . rough around the edges.
stalkingandplotting: (Sure I can do that for you no problem)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-07 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
My point exactly, you've got it. We're often shaped like our cities, or the places we try to serve people. Making a team is hard sometime, like building a puzzle with those shapes.

{It's best not to try to live up or down to someone else. It's a very hard lesson to learn and relearn over and over again, but it's necessary in their work.}

supersweet: (The pride of your special heritage)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-07 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
I guess . . .

But shouldn't we still know who everyone is? In case of an emergency?
stalkingandplotting: (I believe in you)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-09 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, definitely. That's why I'm here. I'm not just waiting for people to come to the table, I'm making notes on the ones who pass it by, too.

{A peek at ground-level bat work, Jon.}
supersweet: (They get retroactively paranoid)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-10 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Huh. ]

That's something you all do?
stalkingandplotting: (I believe in you)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-14 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure how much the others would, or if they'd just go for specific information and consider the job done after that. We've learned from a lot of the same people, but different cases, different ways we grew up...

{Tim shrugs one shoulder.}

We're similar, but I can't say we're the same. Dick would be more likely to greet everyone as they went by, Jason would be bored to death, unless maybe he had a book? I'm not sure. And there's no telling what Damian would do.
supersweet: (Only lack the light to show the way)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-14 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Kidnap people? I'm going for kidnapping.
stalkingandplotting: (I believe in you)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-17 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
{Jon's done a rare good thing and startled a genuine laugh out of Tim.}

You would know, I guess.

{He grins.}
supersweet: (They will race behind you)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-17 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Did he tell you or is that some kind of bat-knowledge thing that gets passed around?
stalkingandplotting: (Stalker extraordinaire)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-17 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
I've got access to a majority of the information that flows through the batcave.
supersweet: (Superhuman humility and restraint)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-17 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
That's kind of creepy sometimes.
stalkingandplotting: (Adopted Wayne)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-17 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
{Only sometimes? You're so kind, Jon.}

Yeah, it is. We try not to abuse our knowledge.

{He can't argue.}
supersweet: (Of faith)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-17 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[ He falters a little. ]

Yeah, but . . . Batman doesn't like me very much.
stalkingandplotting: (Evade this conversation fast)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-17 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
{Tim grimaces.}

I don't know how to explain it or make you feel better except to say it isn't about you as a person? It's just about you being a kid and inexperienced. He worries more than anyone else I know. You're becoming Damian's friend, and that means something to all of us. He doesn't dislike you....he just sees all the things that could go wrong before he realizes there are things going right.

{This is all more or less true in a simplified version of Bruce's personality}

If he really didn't like you, you wouldn't be training with Damian, Clark's son or not.


supersweet: (Only lack the light to show the way)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-06-17 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's all everyone sees. In Riverview, it was nice not to feel that oppressive sense of needing to be right or doing it right. Jon loved his parents but his powers were a sore spot and one he knew bothered his parents. Bothered the league. ]

Yeah. In time, right?
stalkingandplotting: (Adopted Wayne)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-18 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, in time.

{Tim had been Batman's partner for years, and he still wasn't sure Bruce liked him sometimes. Which would not supply Jon with confidence and would reveal way too much about their family in general. Cared for him, most definitely, but liking was a somtimes...abstract concept when duty and the mission filled their lives.}