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introductory mingle: carnivale

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: Introductory Log and Carnivale Celebration
when: July 1st - July 9th
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

carnivale

In the days leading up to July 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: Carnivale. This holiday is in celebration of music, and the onset of summer and warmer weather. The celebrations are marked by street parties, an extensive program of live musical performances, with a large parade (and paid holiday!) capping it off on July 8th.

celebrating music, and summer

After a couple of months of low-key or even solemn celebrations, it's time for Riverview Quarantine to throw a good, old-fashioned party. Carnivale is a city-wide festival that pretty much everyone gets into, and many residents take the entire week off so they can enjoy all the festivities. With events ranging from impromptu street parties, free live musical performances, food stands, themed club nights, adult lounges with kink shows, and topped off with a massive party parade, the holiday has a lot to offer for anyone who likes to sing, dance, and show some skin!

i. street parties and food

One of the staples of the Carnivale festival is the spontaneous street parties and food trucks and carts. It's not unusual during the holiday to turn a corner and run into a group of people dressed in bright colors and sequins having an impromptu party with a few drinks, and then be invited to join right in! Carnivale is a celebration of music as well as summer, so most shops and stalls will be blasting danceable music into the streets to facilitate these little street parties - it's considered a sign of good luck for the owner of a business if an impromptu Carnivale celebration starts up in front of their door.

Considering the proliferation of street parties and people out and about to celebrate the warmer weather, local business owners also take to the streets. Food carts, stands, and trucks pop up on almost every street corner offering a wide variety of food from savory treats to sweet desserts. Many of the carts are offering one free item to anyone dressed up for Carnivale - anything shimmery, shiny, or brightly colored will do!

ii. live musical performances

One of the major roads in the city center has been completely roped off for the entire week, and all along this street, various temporary stages have been set up, each with a nice hefty sound system. Volunteers hand out printed flyers, and digital boards are set up here and there with schedules of various performances that are all free to attend, ranging from well-known popular music artists to new up-and-comers or independent artists who are looking to make a name for themselves. This event is very widely advertised around the city, and is accepting entries until the very last minute.

At couple of the acts might be familiar faces to some of the residents.

Eichi Tenshouin has signed up himself and his friend Tsumugi Aoba into the music festival as a first-time appearing idol unit called "Higanbana." Dressed in all white with splashes of color (blue, largely, with only their headsets being a red spider lily), they carry a very commanding and angelic image together. They'll have a routine that emphasizes their great harmony with each other, taking turns doing solo lines and joining together to show off each of their talents. Singing and dancing, they interact heavily with the audience and will encourage a lot of involvement with speaking between songs and gestures, winks, and so on. Basically, they intend to make this Riverview's very first prominent "idol performance".

For his performance, Otabek Altin will start with rock remixes of a few popular pop songs. He wants to make sure that it starts off with recognizable pieces for some people, and he certainly thinks it is something that could get people excited even if they don't know it. Then, it shifts into a few original songs. They are upbeat, rock songs that he put together with the intention to make people dance and move, since he is a DJ. He'll end his set with a slower piece he put together that is also an original. Through the entire performance, he's focused and quiet, though he may occasionally try and excite the crowd with a few words.

Any other player-characters who are musically inclined are more than welcome to assume their character was fit in for a performance, and can post up a top-level with a rundown of their performance to get bonus Activity Points for posting a mingle!

iii. carnivale parade

The other main attraction of Carnivale week comes on July 8th, which is a paid holiday for everyone in the city. The Carnivale Parade will be starting out by City Hall and winding through downtown in a lazy pattern so everyone in the city has a chance to see it. There will be all sorts of floats, dancers, marching bands, with all sorts of clubs, businesses, and other organizations represented. The theme is theatrical, big and showy, bright and colorful, sparkly and shiny, with loud music and lots of glitz and glamour. Observers can expect great music, excellent dancing and marching shows, neat vehicles provided by classic car clubs, the fire, police, and Perimeter Guard. They can also expect a lot of party favors, whether it's a sparkly plastic beaded necklace, a fan to take the edge off the heat, candy, popsicles, a temporary tattoo, or any number of other little treats or toys to be tossed into the crowd - some of them fit for kids and teens, others of a more 'adult' nature handed out a bit more discreetly to anyone who looks the part.

And make sure you wear your waterproof mascara - Carnivale floats have a tendency of spraying or spritzing water, both in an unspoken competition to see who can make the biggest water-refraction rainbow in the air, and to keep observers cool in the new summer heat.

iv. adult: lounges and kink exhibition

Thanks to the Carnivale tradition of showing as much skin as possible, some event organizers' minds have turned to topics of a more adult nature. In the evenings, residents may see clubs doing "lounge nights"; these adults-only events have bouncers IDing everyone at the door to ensure they're 18+. The themes may vary, from very specific niche themes like 'golden age superheroes' to broad themes like 'rainbows,' and each event is clearly marked as what it is - all-nude or clothing-optional, and can host events ranging from amateur to professional exotic dancing, food served off of nude bodies, anonymous masked hookups, or just provide a comfortable space where casual sex is encouraged with whoever happens to be around. Various legal substances can be found at these lounges, but nothing that would cause violation of consent, and every substance would be clearly labeled and have warnings to ensure that no one partakes unless they choose to. Please be sure to warn in the subject line for sexual content or drug use (since some mild party drugs are legal in Riverview).

For the weekend from July 7th-9th, there will be a kink exhibition in one of the large exhibition centers downtown, limited to characters 18+. The exhibition is a sexy adult informational convention featuring various kinks and fetishes. Whether you're into leather, latex, lace, or anything else, you'll be able to find the clothes, toys, guides, books, erotica, fiction, and a wide variety of other interesting stuff to explore. While the atmosphere is sex-positive and there are private and public (for the voyeurs and exhibitionists in the room) venues for having sex, it's definitely focused on exploration and information about different stuff to try.

v. roommates or wildcard

Feel free to use this prompt to meet new roommates, for the purpose of getting to know each other, or hit up one of the mod-posted prompts for each Communal Floor. Or if you have an idea for a prompt that isn't in this list, set during Carnivale, feel free to write it up!

visual inspiration

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Credit: image i: Roger Patterson Jr.; image ii: Syd Mead; image iii: screencap from the movie Paprika; image iv: siamon89

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i. street parties and food

Yuffie loved carnivals and everything fun. Yes, she's in a weird place for however long it takes her to return home but she might as well enjoy herself while she's here. It wasn't the first time she's spent a great length of time away from Wutai though this was her first time off of Gaia.

Her boots scraped against the ground as she meandered through the thick crowds. She was slight and it was easy for Yuffie to make her way around or through the thick throngs of people. She didn't have much money despite having signed up for a job. There was always the five finger discount or convincing someone to buy her food.

There were so many options.

Yuffie ends up swiping some sort of meat on a stick as she then continues on her quest to see everything that this place has to offer. She nibbled on the piece of meat as she approached the nearest person to her. "Having fun?"

She wasn't in anything colorful. Yuffie liked her dark ninja clothing though someone had covered her in glitter so she wasn't currently very stealthy.

iv. adult: kink exhibition

Yuffie was looking at the area in front of her thoughtfully, her pointer finger tapping lightly against her cheek. She didn't know anyone else in the city which meant that none of her old friends could catch her inspecting the lewd display.

This particular section involved a lot of rope and someone in what looked like an uncomfortable position. As a ninja Yuffie had a lot of skills. One thing that she was horrible at was getting out of rope.

"So then how does she get out without someone untying her." She hadn't meant to say it out loud but the question was there, hanging obtrusively in the air.

Wildcard!

ooc: Hit me up on plurk

mizuyoko or find Yuffie laying in her room on Floor 10, possibly in the wrong bed.

[ooc: continued from here.]

[Yuffie orders two burgers with two very large cokes, extra fries that are extra crispy and then decided to put in an order for double chocolate cake for after that. Her stomach rumbles loudly as she addresses Frank's question.]

Before I was here? I did a lot of stuff. Last thing was helping out some friends at the World Regenesis Organization. [The name doesn't mean a lot but Yuffie has done a lot of different stuff.]

Before that I did princess and healing stuff but when Geostigma hit I decided to leave home for a bit. [With no other explanation she waves at him.] Your turn Frank.

[That is a lot of food. A lot. Probably more than he's seen in one place. ]

Hff. Figured.

[OF course he figured all that. Just another beautiful talented woman who's done a thousand more things with her life than he has. Great.]

Didn't know you could stop being a princess.

[Live and learn? And oh boy, here we go. ]

I drive a racing car. [If she's waiting for more, there isn't any. ]

You really can't stop being a princess but it's really to long of a story to tell over dinner. Maybe another time.

[Yuffie lazily rolls her shoulders. She usually doesn't mind telling people about how awesome she is except that she's really hungry and it's distracting.]

Wait, car's really?

[Her eyes perk up.]

What kind of car's? Ever try motorcycles? How fast do you go? Do you work on your cars or just race them? Have you ever been on an air ship or tried to fly one? How do you feel about flags?

[He shrugs. Another time? He's still not used to thinking in terms like that. You don't make future plans beyond the next race.]

Yeah. Mostly a rally car. For the Death Race.

[So. Many. Questions. He's forgotten half of them.]

[Yuffie is a master at making plans. Sometimes she keeps them and sometimes she doesn't.]

Death Race? Sounds like fun. Not exactly like Chocobo Races.

[Their drinks arrive at the table and Yuffie pushes his towards him. She just assumes that he needs direction so she lightly tapped the straw with her finger to indicate that he drinks from that end.]

Do you work on cars?

[One question at a time; got it.]

Not fun. Just something I'm good at.

[He manages to take a clue and take a drink.].

What's a chocobo? Some kind of candy?

[Sounds like a candy. Something the UCA would sell.]

Worked on mine. Didn't trust anyone else.

Those two things aren't mutually exclusive ya know.

[She points with an index finger before taking a large swig of soda. The caffeine hits her and she feels it tingling through her skin, mixing with the sugar and carbonation of the drink. Her stomach rumbles again, demanding something other than soda to be in it.]

Candy? [Yuffie snorts, covering her mouth as soda manages to slip up her nose. It isn't very princess like but she can't help but laugh.] No. A chocobo is a large bird. You race on them.

[It isn't that strange.]

Could you work on something here? Like a motorcycle or something I can ride? [She'll just ignore the motion sickness thing for a bit. With the city as it is Yuffie would love for a way to get around without walking. She's gotten use to air ship's, no reason that she can't get used to other modes of transportation.]

If you say so.

[He's figuring that arguing with her was about as effective as arguing with Annie.]

Hnf. So you say racing on chickens is normal [It is the largest bird he knows about.] but candy is funny.

[Okaythen.]

Probably. I'd have to see the engine first.

Looking for a car, myself. [Hold the fucking phone: Frankenstein just voluntarily offered potentially weakness-admitting information about himself. What is IN this soda?!]

Yuffie Kisaragi | FF7 | OTA

Cont. for 500gallontank

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