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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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stalkingandplotting: (I believe in you)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-06 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
{Tim raises an incredulous eyebrow. He's been on the streets of Gotham since before he went through puberty. He's not normal. He wouldn't have been even if he hadn't been Robin.}

Really, you should visit Gotham sometime. It'll show you a new normal. {He teases back.}
signifies: (kal ( 019 ))

[personal profile] signifies 2017-06-06 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure I will soon enough. [ If anything he's heard comes to pass. ] I have other questions, but they can wait until you're settled. Call me whenever.

... I'm not sure if the phones are completely secure. I haven't had an issue yet.
stalkingandplotting: (Red Robin)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-06 02:52 am (UTC)(link)
I've been messing around with that, actually. {Tim flips the screen of his computer around to demonstrate.}

It looks like anything marked private is pretty much unhackable. I've been trying. I mean, I'm not the best there is- {Because that's Cyborg.}-but I'm pretty good. If I can't find a crack in it, there's a good chance there isn't one. But- {He points at another instance.} -if you forget or just don't care to make that a setting on your conversation it's incredibly accessible. It looks like the audio and video systems have similar privacy capabilities to the text.
signifies: (clark ( 047 ))

[personal profile] signifies 2017-06-06 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's only given out his full name a few times, and usually under lock. Clark nods in relief. ]

That's good to know. Thanks.

I'm more worried for Jon and Kara than myself.

[ They like to meet people, as opposed to Clark, who's much more introverted. ]
stalkingandplotting: (Evade this conversation fast)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-06 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
{Tim nods. He kind of figured that would be the case. It was textbook Superman.}

It will look more suspicious it they use it all the time and never have any public conversations, but it also looks like you can turn it on at any point during communication if anyone needs to switch to more sensitive topics. The best you can do is show it to them, and advise them of it.

{He lifts and drops one shoulder in a small shrug and then his lips twitch.} When Jon contacted me he was incredibly suspicious, but if I didn't know all the things I already did I would never have been able to find anything out from him if that makes you feel better.
signifies: (kal ( 023 ))

[personal profile] signifies 2017-06-06 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
I know. He's a careful boy. [ Jon took his promise very, very seriously, no matter how much he felt constricted by it. ] It's just hard to keep a secret like ours in an enclosed space such as this one. There's a lot of people from other worlds... it might not even matter.

[ It's still not safe, and might never be. He hides because it's what he knows how to do. ]
stalkingandplotting: (Adopted Wayne)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-06 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
{Tim nods slightly. He's been thinking about this a lot. Before the drones and the prison he'd be positive he was going to hang up his cape for a while and go to school on scholarship. He wouldn't have been Red Robin, just Tim Drake-Wayne. Here, he could still give it up and go to school, but something tore at him to think about giving it up in a strange place with so little information around.}

It might not, or it might be unavoidable to reveal ourselves at some point, but until then...better safe than sorry. It's not paranoia if people are actually out to get you. {Even if they're in another universe.}
signifies: (kal ( 026 ))

[personal profile] signifies 2017-06-06 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Clark thought the same. Nobody really needs Superman here like they did at home. It gives him time to adjust.

He jokes wryly. ]


Crossing my fingers Metallo doesn't come through that portal.
stalkingandplotting: (Evade this conversation fast)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-06 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
{Tim snorts.}

I'm crossing my fingers a lot of people don't come through that portal, but if they do we'll handle it.
signifies: (clark ( 038 ))

[personal profile] signifies 2017-06-07 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
We will. [ He likes the sound of "we". ] I'll let you get back to your club. If I see anyone else, I'll text.
stalkingandplotting: (Sure I can do that for you no problem)

[personal profile] stalkingandplotting 2017-06-07 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
{Tim smiles and gives Clark a small wave as he goes to leave.}

I'll do the same.