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

followhim: (Default)

[personal profile] followhim 2017-06-04 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
[he doesn't seem too worried about the housing situation.] I just have one roommate. He's good. And he's out a lot. My place should be fine for the most part, but we can scope out more secure places if we need to.
doandordie: (6)

[personal profile] doandordie 2017-06-04 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
Good You never know when it might become necessary.

[Speaking of.]

They offered me a job, when I've finished healing. Working for their military. [They don't fool him for a second with this 'perimeter guard' title.]

Surveying the surface past the fences.
followhim: (the only payoff for having any faith)

[personal profile] followhim 2017-06-04 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
You're going to be a Surveyor for the Perimeter Guard? [his face lights up.] That's what I've been doing! We'll be working together.
doandordie: (12)

[personal profile] doandordie 2017-06-04 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
[It surprises Cassian a bit to learn they were offered similar positions, but perhaps it shouldn't. Still, his brows raise slightly and he gives Poe a slight grin.]

Good. I'll be glad to have someone I know will have my back when I'm out there.

Any sign of ships? Even a wrecked one? They claimed not when I asked.
followhim: (* everything around that's fucked up)

[personal profile] followhim 2017-06-04 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[he shakes his head.] Not yet. I've been looking into it, though. We're on a moon that was colonized, so they had to have traveled here somehow. It's just a matter of finding what's left, provided it wasn't destroyed. Worst case scenario, we have to build a ship from whatever usable scrap metal we can salvage. Our best bet is probably scouring the abandoned city. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet, but I've been meaning to.

[in between perimeter guard stuff and then rey going missing (even though he pieced together it wasn't because hux kidnapped her or something later) he was like nah maybe i won't go off to a place with a sketchy name like THE ABANDONED CITY on my own tho]
doandordie: (6)

[personal profile] doandordie 2017-06-04 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
In a few weeks, we can start searching together. It will be good to look with someone who knows what we're looking for.

[e had already encountered several people who did not seem aware of space travel or ships. He didn't mention the level of confidence he had in Poe, and his ability to trust the man as he would have any of the other rebels.

No sense in showing his hand so soon, revealing a weakness he had no need to.]


On patrol, or on our own. Do you have a weapon?
followhim: (who lives who dies who tells your story)

[personal profile] followhim 2017-06-04 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
A couple weeks ago, I posted on the network to see if anyone else would be interested in building a ship, doing some patrolling in the area around us. I got a couple bites. We might be able to put a team together.

[to the next question, he nods.] I got hold of a Stormtrooper-issue blaster. [he touches his hip where he's been carrying it, but doesn't bother pulling it out to show it off.] I've been carrying it around with me. Better prepared than sorry.
doandordie: (4)

[personal profile] doandordie 2017-06-05 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[With a nod, he slides his balster free, pulling it out to both check on it and let Poe get a look. The rest of the parts were tucked under his bed in a box.]

The way they tell it, the planet has its share of dangers. Better armed against any possibilities, creature or- otherwise. [He gives Poe a pointed look.] I wouldn't tell anyone to shoot first if there is another way through the problem. [But shoot first, Poe. Don't let someone get one up on you.]

I'll be glad to be a part of that team. [Tucking the blaster away again he offers a hand with a solemn, tight smile.]

It will be good to have something to work toward.
followhim: (Default)

[personal profile] followhim 2017-06-05 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
Sure. [he seems to pick up what cassian's putting down. thx for the advice new dad. no one's gonna get him now.]

I thought so, too. Although I'd be lying if I didn't say my motivations were a little selfish ... I really miss being out there in the stars.
doandordie: (2)

[personal profile] doandordie 2017-06-05 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
I imagine I will be longing for the black of space soon. [He had spent so much of his time moving from system to system out there among the stars. It was more home than any planet or moon ever had been, so he could understand.

One last shoulder squeeze and Cassian drops his hand again and looks up at the sky, thinking it over. ]


We'll get back there, eventually. [Whether he believed it or not, there was a conviction to his voice.]