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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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hellicious: (Smile - Big 1)

[personal profile] hellicious 2017-06-16 09:13 am (UTC)(link)
Frankly, I'll take laughing over wetting yourself. I'm not really keen on the smell of urine at the moment. Besides, this isn't Hell, dear boy. This is... well, I'm still not entirely sure where or when this is, but I can assure you it isn't Hell.
shadowstepped: (→never ending math equation)

[personal profile] shadowstepped 2017-06-17 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[And then as if the laughter itself has decided independently of Quentin that is is done, it quits his lips.]

No, I didn't reckon so.

[His soul should have been transfigured into a tree as punishment for so carelessly scattering his god-given life, or he should have been trapped in twin flames like Ulysses and Diomedes, one for him and the adjacent burning husk for his sister who had will still to live.]

Being here, it's not any different from being alive.
hellicious: (Brow - Serious Questioning 1)

[personal profile] hellicious 2017-06-18 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
Not really, no. You seem almost disappointed by that. Flirting with death lately, are we?
shadowstepped: (→where do circles begin)

[personal profile] shadowstepped 2017-06-19 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[He remembers the soft resistance of her skin when he pressed the knife's point to it, saying it won't take but a second just a second then I can do mine I can do mine then. And she, lying on her back in the grass still damp, all right can you do yours by yourself. And he, I'm not crying Caddy, with the honeysuckle clawing at his throat and driving him mad. The words come tumbling out in a rush, the only indication of his churning thoughts while his expressions is still near placid.]

I was drowning. I had drowned. Or I thought I had.

[He had meant to, in any case.]
hellicious: (Look - Smarmy 1)

[personal profile] hellicious 2017-06-20 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
And yet here you are.

[Death was inevitable, especially for humans. The only variation was the way of it. Even those that slipped off more quietly still had a moment of pain. That was something he'd never been sure of why his Father had done. Life could be fun, but it was also painful. Why did their last moments of it always have to be something so terrifying? He felt a little sorry for them in that regard. Piteous creatures.]
shadowstepped: (→whenever I breathe out)

[personal profile] shadowstepped 2017-06-21 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, you are ever the observant one.

[He is restrained and stiff of tongue and posture both. He wonders if he ought to talk away, arrested still by the peculiarity of finding himself in conversation with the devil himself - and perhaps more peculiar still is that he does not doubt the man's claim, as if this were the obvious conclusion from the moment he first heard him speak.]
hellicious: (Considering - 1)

[personal profile] hellicious 2017-06-22 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'm many things. Observant is one of them -- given the right circumstance and subject to observe. Tell me, boy, do you plan on brushing up with Death here? Is that why you felt displaced enough to be nabbed, mm?
shadowstepped: (→whenever I breathe out)

also cw: suicidal ideation

[personal profile] shadowstepped 2017-06-23 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
[The funny thing about speaking with the Prince of Lies is that he feels compelled to tell the truth, as if by some property of contrapasso in which the sinner suffers the opposite. And by this same property, it must be simpler to confess one's sins to the devil that incites them rather than the saints that condemn them.]

It just seemed to me that my living wasn't doing anyone any good. That's all.

[Quentin no longer looks at him, but up at the sky beyond his head, with an unfathomable expression on his face and his words quivering.]
hellicious: (Epiphany - 1)

[personal profile] hellicious 2017-06-23 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[The frustrating thing about that title was that it itself was a lie. Lucifer, or at least this iteration of him, despised lies. He loathed and abhorred liars, and it was a point of Pride for him that he didn't. Oh, he'd omit, which certain blonde detectives like to think was the same thing, but it wasn't. Semantics counted when you dealt in contracts.]

Is that what you think living's about? Doing someone some good? I swear, psychology has ruined a perfectly good species.
shadowstepped: (→far enough wasn't far enough)

[personal profile] shadowstepped 2017-06-23 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Father said every man is the arbiter of his own virtues and whether or not you consider the act courageous is of greater importance than the act itself. He also said that every man is just a doll stuffed with sawdust swept from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been tossed away, their sides split open and everything spilling out. Quentin can hear the soft clink of the ice cubes against his glass, the ice fading into the whiskey as the light turned grey.]

Rather, there just wasn't any use in it anymore. Not for her and not for me.

[His hands have curled into impotent fists that tremble at his sides, and his jaw clenches in conviction, in some unnameable rage or sorrow that festers underneath his skin. He has forgotten that they stand in the middle of a bustling town square. The throngs of people pushing past sound far away, muffled as though beyond a sturdy wall in which only he and Lucifer are enclosed.]
hellicious: (Profile - Frown 1)

[personal profile] hellicious 2017-06-23 10:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Life isn't something to be used, you silly thing. It's to be experienced. A leopard doesn't have an existential crisis over how many antelope it's killed that particular quarter. You're meant to live. To experience. To grow. Not to live each moment as if you're being judged. Live. Or don't, if you can't handle something so simple as joy and pleasure -- and I mean in general and not of the sexual type, before you get your knickers in a twist.
shadowstepped: (twelve)

shh this is how he always looked, what are you talking about

[personal profile] shadowstepped 2017-06-26 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[His purpose is not something that can be quantified (how much the weight of his family's honor and reputation, what portion of his sister's purity), nor can it be defined, a substance whose shape depends upon its container, except for by his failure in meeting it. What else can I think about what else have I thought about. The devil's words come over him in waves like the honeysuckle used to at night, but he hears Caddy else have I thought about I can't even cry I died last year I told you I had but I didn't know what I was saying.]

Did you ever have a sister? You haven't, have you?

[From his lips, it is more battle cry than question.]
hellicious: (Default)

hah

[personal profile] hellicious 2017-06-27 10:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Of course I have. Do, in fact. I've loads of brothers and sisters.

[Sorry, Quentin, but the world of Lucifer had angels of both genders. The Angel of Death was female, and his favorite -- not that he'd ever tell.]

What does that have to do with anything?
shadowstepped: (nine)

sorry for the delay 8( ( we can probs wrap this up soon)

[personal profile] shadowstepped 2017-07-04 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[He shakes his head, a quick cutting motion.]

Never mind. You were disgraced a long time ago. You wouldn't get it.

[He thinks the fall must be less agonizing when you are allowed so little time to think about it.]
hellicious: (Side - Edgy 1)

No worries =) And that's fine with me.

[personal profile] hellicious 2017-07-04 07:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, please, enlighten me as to what I wouldn't get about silly little human issues that are obviously so much grander than a falling out with my Dad, mm?
shadowstepped: (twelve)

[personal profile] shadowstepped 2017-07-04 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
No, maybe it's nothing so grand, but that's why you wouldn't get it.

[Decay and decline is the natural way of life, after all, so maybe his family was nothing special, and the governors and generals from which they sprung never mattered: they were destined to go to seed eventually, his sister destined to slip between his fingers and fall. His shoulders are strung with tension all the way through his knuckles, the tips of his fingers.]

Just let it off, all right?
hellicious: (Default)

[personal profile] hellicious 2017-07-04 10:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, boy, you're the one that started this little conversation. All you need to is walk away.

[And he had a feeling, with how tightly wound this one was, that that was exactly what he might well do.]
shadowstepped: (twelve)

[personal profile] shadowstepped 2017-07-06 04:23 am (UTC)(link)
I will, but not because you're telling me to do it.

[The words come sharp as flint and just as liable to spark, but his hands tremble so that he has to shove them into his pockets as he turns to go.]
hellicious: (Pleased - 3)

[personal profile] hellicious 2017-07-06 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
As you like.

[He watched Quentin go, deciding that the boy was clearly too pent up and in dire need of something to relieve that pressure. Like a good shag. Not that he'd bring that up again, not with the reaction to it the first time.]