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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-07-01 06:21 pm
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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


click on thumbnails for larger view


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

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axefight: from the tutorial. (humanity has learned nothing)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-07-18 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ a genuine smile, warm and fond: ]

Yes, very.

[ cool, that is. he doesn't travel with uncool people.

he watches cisco, nodding. and he's really, one hundred percent earnest when he says:
]

Go on, then.

[ of course he wants to hear about tech, are you kidding? not that he necessarily thinks cisco's stumbled upon a method of blocking telepathy that the doctor hasn't heard of (can't shake that sense of superiority, of being accustom to knowing - or at least being able to figure out very quickly - how most shit in the universe works.) but this is a new dimension, and he's curious. certainly, as something of a telepath himself. what's he got? ]
franciscoramon: (:v explaining)

[personal profile] franciscoramon 2017-07-19 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ Cisco does a tiny double take; it's clear he's waiting a few seconds for the "as if" or "just kidding that sounds horrible," but they never come. His grin goes a bit lopsided, uncertain but happy, as he launches into his explanation: ]

Well, see, back home there's this gorilla. [ Which is a pretty ominous way to start an explanation, but when the Doctor doesn't interrupt, he keeps talking, words coming faster and more confidently as he goes. ] It's kind of a long story, but he got superpowers when the particle accelerator exploded, and it made him hyper-intelligent, and gave him mind powers, which basically means he could project images into people's heads and sync up his brain waves with theirs so he could control them like puppets. Which wouldn't be a huge problem, except... he was using his abilities to make innocent people steal stuff and like, kill each other.

[ Cisco still feels guilt, when he thinks about Grodd. He hadn't known about Eiling's experiments, but ignorance is no excuse. And when he factors in Dr. Wells, and his awful influence... Grodd had never had a chance. Not when Dr. Wells could manipulate almost anyone into almost anything. But he shakes away that thought, keeps on with the story: ]

So, obviously, we couldn't let him keep doing that, but anyone who got near him was in danger, so we had to come up with something that would block him out. Basically what I'm doing now is recreating that, and adapting it so it blocks out a broader range of signals. And changing it into earbuds 'cause last time I went with something that was more of a headband but it kept getting knocked off which was a real big problem.
axefight: (he's a fucking balaclava)

[personal profile] axefight 2017-07-20 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ happy enough to let cisco keep going, he certainly appreciates his passion. and a super powerful, hyper-intelligent gorilla with telepathy just sounds like a tuesday, honestly. doesn't get an odd look from the doctor at all. ]

That's clever - I like that. As long as you can keep the earbuds in.

Has anything of the sort happened here as well, or are you simply taking precautionary measures?
franciscoramon: (:v things i don't want to see)

[personal profile] franciscoramon 2017-07-20 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kind of nice, really, to talk to someone who has a complete non-reaction to things and creatures like Gorilla Grodd. Makes things quicker, for sure, and Cisco doesn't feel like he needs to provide evidence, to fight the uphill battle of proving that he's not some fanboy who went delusional or a pathological liar.]

True.

[ He's got some plans for that, too, to make them hard to dislodge, but he takes the Doctor's point. No piece of tech is going to be entirely foolproof, particularly if it has to stay perfectly in place to function. ]

The lucid dream goggles aren't really a new idea, either. Made a pair back home, didn't bring them with me, so I'm making 'em again, here.

[ Though these goggles are going to do a lot more than the last pair, but that is an exception to Cisco's "happy to talk about tech" rule. Since he's going to be using them to access his powers - powers which he has no intention of telling the Doctor or anyone else about - he might as well just pretend they are simpler than they are. ]

Precautionary. Far as I know, there aren't any telepaths here. Or, well, if there are, they're not going around making people kill. So it's really more of a "just in case" kind of project.
Edited 2017-07-20 02:55 (UTC)