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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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dothelokimotion: (No one listens when I talk)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2017-06-06 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Loki shifts on his feet, very deliberating considering his words. It's an allowance that he lets her see that play of emotions before he settles himself. ]

A pair of earrings I made for the Queen centuries ago. She had worn them at Thor's coronation.
hevenly: (confused)

[personal profile] hevenly 2017-06-06 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ She notices, but does not remark on his hesitation. It would seem hers was not the only gift that meant a great deal to its recipient.

Rather than get bogged down by complex emotions, she latches onto something else Loki said. ]


The Odinson was crowned king? The All-mother stepped down willingly? [ If she sounds incredulous, that's because she is. ]
dothelokimotion: (We are not history yet)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2017-06-06 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
[ His voice was dry. ]

It was a very short kingship and Thor has no interest in the throne any longer.

[ All the better for Loki. He now keeps it for himself. Still . . . ]

The All-Mother rules? Not Odin?
hevenly: (YOU ARE NOT MY FATHER)

[personal profile] hevenly 2017-06-06 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ So many things are different between their worlds. That much becomes ever more clear. ]

Odin is dead. [ Said plainly and with no emotion felt for the man who is technically her father. ]

...Was dead. I don't know if he remains so. The last I was in Asgard, Freyja was Queen.
dothelokimotion: (The world makes sense)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2017-06-06 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Loki reels despite himself. Dead. The bane of his life, his — dead. How could it be? Loki had wrested power from him. It had been sweet and easy, but killing him? His breath comes out sharply and he can feel the madness rising from under his skin. ]

How?
hevenly: (armor)

[personal profile] hevenly 2017-06-06 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ Angela sees the emotion swell in Loki, and knows she has said something wrong. She knows her own Loki has a complex relationship with the All-Father, but this is not something she was expecting. Her face remains passive but concerned, as she simply shakes her head. ]

I do not know. I was in Heven at the time. It was before I even found out he was ...my father.
dothelokimotion: (Which things in the world can feel pain)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2017-06-06 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ Dead, dead, dead. The word echoes around Loki's mind. All else seems to be fading. There's a nervous almost deadly energy within him and Loki knows he will snap soon. He runs a hand through his hair and grips his own arm. His fingers twitch erratically. ]

It . . . is hard to picture that man ever . . . dying.
hevenly: (reach out)

[personal profile] hevenly 2017-06-06 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Angela doesn't know what to say. She's having a hard time identifying the emotions she sees on Loki's face. Is there anything she even can say to diffuse the situation? ]

Even Asgardians are not immortal.
dothelokimotion: (Alligators: can they kill your children?)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2017-06-06 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ With herculean effort, Loki finally manages to force it down. He could ask his other self. It won't be a fun conversation. He can already taste the poison on his lips. ]

No, they are not. But he always seemed untouchable.

[ Even when Loki brought him low, he couldn't do it. He couldn't end Odin. ]
hevenly: (Odin)

[personal profile] hevenly 2017-06-11 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Angela's face remains neutral. She never knew Odin. Never cared to. She cannot feel what Loki is feeling right now. ]

No one is untouchable. Even the mightiest can fall.
dothelokimotion: (Comfort was the answer to all)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2017-06-12 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Loki knows that, but he's too unsettled to consider it. ]

Hm. He has yet to fall in my universe.

[ Loki can hear the thought mutter to his soul, he cannot die until I am done with him. He does not have that right.]
hevenly: (lip quirked)

[personal profile] hevenly 2017-06-12 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Angela makes a noncommittal noise. ]

I do not know if that is a point in your universe's favor, or one to its detriment.
dothelokimotion: (No one listens when I talk)

[personal profile] dothelokimotion 2017-06-13 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ He'd have to ask his other self. A conversation Loki was not looking forward to. ]

We shall see. Thank you for your answer.