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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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[personal profile] somnioergosum 2017-06-18 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
Ronan said nothing. He allowed it to fill the room. In that time, his mind unfroze and thoughts came rushing back into it.

He spoke carefully, walking the balance between telling the truth and protecting his secret. Not that it was much of a secret anymore. "Do you understand words? When attacked by a magical creature, our alien hog buddies would resist getting its ass kicked more than your every-day hog but can still be hurt by one." He unfolded his arms and walked closer to Will, never looking away. His muscles tensed, ready to enter fight of flight mode.

"Do you want me to break the sentence down middle school English teacher style? Cause if I have to do that I'm punching myself in the face."

[personal profile] ex_this_ismydesign36 2017-06-18 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
'Oh this one snaps and snarls more than even yourself, Good Will.' He heard Hannibal's voice echoing in his head as Ronan stalked him and for a moment Will felt his own fight response rise. It was not about a direct physical confrontation, he had enough of those, but rather the itch to point out to Lynch that he was practically screaming SECRET at this point.

That the bravado, meant to drive a person into retreat, was like catnip to someone who made a living dissecting such cues. He could practically taste Lynch's fear, as delicate as a fine wine, rich in the nose as a result of that last, taunting comment.

Will itched, beneath his skin, to poke driven to it by the rough whispers of a man he'd taken off a cliff. But he ruthlessly muffled the doctor's voice and forced himself to watch Lynch with an impassive expression, rather than the predatory smile he wanted to enjoy.

"A magical creature in my world, would mean a rabbit tugged out of a hat or some doves let loose on a stage." He said, calmly. "When you indicate the hogs were resistant to the attack of a magical creature, was the resistance to the physical attack or the magic itself?"
Edited 2017-06-18 01:30 (UTC)
somnioergosum: (Shake off that chill of heaven)

[personal profile] somnioergosum 2017-06-18 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do I look like a magician? How should I know?" Ronan snapped. "Unless you're going around casting fireballs at them, what does it matter?"

Ronan considered taking the file from Will's hands, but when it came down to it he wasn't that sort of snake. No further demonstrations were needed. All of his warnings were laid out on display, his own colorings taking the form of a dark tattoo, gleaming blue eyes, and coiling muscles. Unless you were his brother, he didn't attack unless provoked, and Will had yet to cross that threshhold.

"Good luck on your mission. Get a pig whisperer and a giant steel net."

[personal profile] ex_this_ismydesign36 2017-06-18 03:39 pm (UTC)(link)
What an interesting turn of words.

Will made a mental note of all of it, but otherwise he left off with his poking. His mind was trying to make it's habitual intuitive leaps, based off the evidence set in front of him, but the profiler whistled his over-active imagination to heel. In so far as he was aware, there was no one in his group who would be resorting to magic, so he really had no cause to push the younger man further.

So he made to step back, tapping the edge of the file against the side of his finger.

"Thank you for your time, Mr. Lynch. It's been ... insightful."

Okay so there was a small poke there, at the end. Otherwise, he appeared to be heading off and leaving Ronan to his nocturnal wanderings.
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[personal profile] somnioergosum 2017-06-18 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Ronan stood still, following Will only with his eyes. Once he was out of side Ronan gripped the lamp and flung it against the wall. The light flickered twice before dying. Ronan smashed it again for good measure.

It didn't help.

Before anyone came to investigate, he walked off. He muttered a few choice curses and hoped the giant hogs would break some choice parts of Will Graham's anatomy.