riverviewmod: (Default)
Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-06-01 06:57 pm
Entry tags:

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

nikolaievich: (36)

iii.

[personal profile] nikolaievich 2017-06-03 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Illya loves languages. They have always come naturally to him, it was one of his favorite parts of training. Getting to know the language, the culture, every part of the culture he was going to visit or infiltrate as honestly thrilling. So as soon as he sees the name of the club he can’t help but kind of… nod to himself and walk over.]

Of course. [He takes the form and begins to fill it (with his fake name, obviously). But he’s definitely being honest about he languages he speaks.]

Has there been interest for the club?
yokunaru: (173)

[personal profile] yokunaru 2017-06-03 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
There's been some. [Part of him is surprised that he's getting bites, honestly. Surprised, but happy! Yuuri rubs at his neck sheepishly.]

I had the idea after I saw the other booths here, and just sort of threw everything together yesterday night. I think learning other languages and about the other cultures could be really useful, though. Especially with more and more people coming out of the portal.
nikolaievich: (39)

[personal profile] nikolaievich 2017-06-03 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Illya nods as he hands Yuuri back the form. He’s noticed most of the people appearing here seem to be American, but there is still a steady appearance of people from other countries- or even other planets.]

How would the meetings work? Would it be like language classes? [Illya’s accent makes it clear English isn’t his first language.]
yokunaru: (75)

[personal profile] yokunaru 2017-06-04 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
Not exactly. [Yuuri fiddles with a pen nervously as he takes the clipboard back from Illya.]

I was thinking of keeping a list of the members and the languages they could speak. That's what the form is for. Um, after that I'd try to match someone who speaks a language to someone who wants to learn it--if that makes sense. [Hurriedly, he adds:] Only if they're willing to teach, I mean.

Some of the meetings could be used for introducing parts of other cultures, too. It...it could be a good experience for people who are interested. [Yuuri bites his lip.] Sorry. I started rambling there.
nikolaievich: (27)

[personal profile] nikolaievich 2017-06-04 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head. He's not quite smiling but he definitely looks amused, which is a big step for Illya.]

It’s not rambling, it’s information I asked for. It’s no problem.

[He glances at the forms around Yuuri, wondering how many people have shown interest already. He should probably tell Clark about this, he’s the one who insisted he wanted to practice Russian with Illya and filled his room with history books as soon as he knew his time period. He’d probably enjoy it.]

This is good idea, but also a lot of work. Are you doing this on your own?
yokunaru: (63)

[personal profile] yokunaru 2017-06-07 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
So far it's just me. [Nervously, he attempts to fluff the filled forms into a decently neat pile.]

And I--I don't mind if it ends up being a lot of work. I guess you could say I'm trying to keep myself busy.
nikolaievich: (24)

[personal profile] nikolaievich 2017-06-11 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Illya nods, because that’s a feeling he can relate to. He’s quiet, calm and he enjoys silence more than he probably should, but he’s still a very driven man who can’t just stay put without doing anything. So he understands the need of a purpose.]

My name is Alexei, by the way. [He offers Yuuri his hand for him to shake.] Pleasure.