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riverviewlogs2017-08-01 06:54 pm
- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
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introductory mingle: RIVER FESTIVAL
what: Introductory Log and River Festival
when: The month of August; the bulk of celebration will be in week 1, but there is a party and fireworks display on August 14th.
where: Anywhere around the city.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines
In the days leading up to August 1st, residents new and old will notice preparations beginning, a flurry of activity getting the city ready for the upcoming celebration: The River Festival. This holiday is in celebration of the river and the life that it gives to the city, as well as the heat of summer and forming bonds with friends, family, and romantic partners. The celebrations are marked by a community-wide cleanup of the docks and beaches along the river - particularly important considering the recent acid rain - as well as beachfront cookouts and parties (both private and city sponsored) and beach sports tournaments happening on either open stretches of beach or in special clothing-optional beaches, all capped off with fireworks displays on the evenings of August 7th and 14th.
Following the hedonism of Carnivale, it's time for something a little more low-key and relaxing. The River Festival happens every year in August, and is geared toward community building through cleaning up the beaches and docks along the river and then using all that freshly cleaned beach to gather on. During the first week of August, there are various lightly-themed government-sponsored beach cookouts and parties geared toward family, romantic dates, or casual all-ages get-togethers for meeting new friends; there are also a few more racy parties at clothing-optional beaches around the city. Many private residents also take this time to gather together friends and family, and have cookouts on the beach with all the typical trappings of the beach barbecue. There are also various casual sports tournaments sponsored by community centers, gyms, and sports teams in the city, featuring prizes ranging from notoriety to sports equipment to big bucks. Finally, there are two fireworks displays, one on August 7th and one on August 14th, with free food, and various live performers beforehand.
i. cleaning up
The holiday starts off on a note that is just a bit more sombre than the rest of the season, with the cleanup efforts following late July's strange fog and acid rain blending into the usual tradition of cleaning up beaches and docks along the river. The cleanup is a group effort, with every citizen who is physically able pitching in to comb the beaches, where they pick up fallen tree limbs, garbage, and anything else that's accumulated during the winter and spring, and then raking the beaches to make them clean and ready to use. The cleanup of the docks is similar, with residents sweeping and hosing them down where necessary. This year, there are a lot of repairs to be made to beachfront structures that might've been damaged by the acid rain, so if anyone has some carpentry or building skills, those would definitely come in handy.
This is meant to be a community building effort, so many businesses in the area, more well-to-do private citizens, and the government have pitched in funding to provide lunches, cold drinks, coffee or tea, and snacks to anyone who's helping out with the cleanup efforts. All in all, the cleanup has a very friendly, welcoming vibe.
ii. cookouts and parties
The main traditions of the River Festival involve cookouts and beach parties. On August 7th and August 14th, the government as well as various corporations and businesses in the city, will be providing funds for large beach gatherings. On these days, there will be booths set up offering wares and freebies from various businesses around the city that have helped fund the party, large swaths of cleared beach where residents can don a swimsuit and catch some rays or swim in the river, massive barbecue setups to provide partygoers with all the standard barbecue fare, beach sports tournaments, dancing and musical performances, and fireworks displays (see prompts below).
The holiday isn't just about these big parties, though - many residents arrange their own barbecues, cookouts, beach camping trips, beach bonfires, and other riverside gatherings and outings. Many riverfront businesses offer discounts on services such as canoe or kayak rentals to go out paddling on the river, jetski or motorboat rentals for tubing, wakeboarding, or waterskiing, or mounts to take romantic rides in the surf. Additionally, there is an adults-only section of the beach where any of these activities can be done in the nude in a clothing-optional setting, including the big city-sponsored parties.
iii. sportsball tournaments
Is your character good at playing a particular sport that could, conceivably, be played on a beach? Chances are that during the month of August, a tournament will be set up for them to participate in. The tournaments are pretty standard, generally sponsored by community centers, sports clubs and teams, gyms, and other organizations and businesses in the city, with various levels of specialization, and levels of skill or competitiveness. The prizes also vary, with everything from plain old bragging rights to sports equipment or passes to gyms and community centers, to large lump sums of cash money. Definitely worth it, for characters with a love for sport.
Oh, and a lot of these tournaments are happening on the adults-only clothing-optional beaches, for those grown-up sports fans who like a bit of an extra challenge.
iv. performances and fireworks
On August 7th and August 14th at the end of the large city-sponsored beach parties, there will be evening performances all along the beach. Not as extensive as the musical performances during Carnivale, there are two large-name performers per night, with various lesser-known groups performing at random off and on throughout the day and night. Areas of the beach are cleared for residents to watch and dance to the music, both on the regular and adults-only clothing-optional beaches (acts will switch off between the two areas so both areas get both performances).
Player-characters who are musical artists, DJs, or otherwise perform are free to set up shop around this party and panhandle or put on free performances for publicity.
After the sun goes down, boats will head out into the water carrying a variety of fireworks, and there will be a beautiful display of exploding color in the sky for residents to watch and enjoy. The fireworks are highly advanced, incorporating old-fashioned gunpowder as well as modern technology that result in really beautiful displays that can take the breath away!
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 the River Festival, feel free to write it up!
Credit: image i: credit unknown; image ii: Albert Ramon Puig; image iii: Claudio Pilia; image iv: Alan Philips
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(She stands in place for a moment, scrunching her feet expectantly into the ground, then shoves a hand suddenly into the water to fish a clam out of the wet sand. She turns to show the Dag, grinning, and passes it over.)
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Huh.
She's seen a crab, so far, and that was a pretty cool little dude, much more exciting than a clam, though she still accepts it carefully, turning it over in her hands.]
What is it?
[Miss Giddy has taught them a lot, but sea creatures were pretty low on the list of information that might be useful one day.]
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(Ducking her hand back into the water, she pulls up a handful of wet sand and sifts it through her fingers until the clams are left: three of them this time, in varying shapes.)
See? They burrow in the sand. If you put them in hot saltwater overnight they open up and you can eat what's inside.
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Are they good? To eat?
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(She notices the Dag studying her as she fishes up the clams and smiles, pointing
down at her feet.)
You dig around with your toes until you can feel them in the sand, and then you have to pick them out, quick. They burrow very fast once they realise you've found them.
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Does it hurt them?
[She's full of questions, but she's not sure how she feels about eating something if it means hurting it.]
OH NO
(Lucretia looks at her, confused by the meaning of her question.)
Well, I suppose. They are being eaten after all.
:3
I don't want to hurt anything.
[At least, nothing that doesn't hurt her first.]
cries on you
(Lucretia stoops to drop her handful back into the water too, feeling a bit awkward.)
Sorry, I didn't mean to upset you.
my lifeblood tbh
I didn't think. We don't eat meat, lizards and bugs are all that's left, food for war boys. [Not for the Immortan's wives.] There's plenty here, but I don't want to hurt anything just to eat.
[She's used to being vegetarian. Might as well continue.]
WELL YOU MUST BE VERY STRONG THEN
So you haven't had meat before. Ever?
(That's quite a noble way of thinking. Food has always been more of an afterthought for Lucretia, who simply eats whatever the twins put in front of her.)
And who are the war boys?
💪💪💪💪💪💪
[She hasn't really mentioned mothers' milk to anyone, yet, so she doesn't know that it's not like...... normal..... to drink that.]
War boys are battle fodder. The Immortan's army, but he's dead now. Only pups left, but they can learn to be different.
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Mother's... milk?
(W-What.) Did this Immortan govern your, uh... planet?
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[To her, that seems gross. Who knows where that cow has been.]
Not the planet, just the Citadel and the wasteland surrounding it. He controlled the Bullet Farm and Gas Town. Water, guns and guzzoline.
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(She can tell the cow idea is absurd to the Dag, so hopefully it makes sense that the opposite is absurd to her.)
But now he's dead. (She repeats, curious.) Who controls it all now?
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[She realises, suddenly, that this will likely change now that Joe is gone. How, exactly, they got the milk from the mothers isn't something she knows, but based on everything else about the way Joe operated, it can't have been kind.
They'll have to find an alternate solution.]
We do, we're going to make it a good place. For everyone.
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(Yikes. It's hard to comment on all of this when she has only a handful of the details, but Lucretia is trying her best.)
Who is 'we'?
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[As far as she can understand there's no reason not to, aside from the issues with the mothers themselves.]
The Vuvalini, and the Immortan's other wives. My... sisters.
[She's been using that word to describe them, even if it doesn't quite fit. She can't think of another word to explain the other four parts of herself.]
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(She can't believe she's having this conversation, it's going in way more directions than she thought that it would. Some more words she can't understand, too.
'Sisters' gives her pause though. Maybe it's in the way the Dag says it.)
Oh. Are... are you here alone?
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In the end, she nods, apparently having accepted this answer. There's a lot more to it than that, but it's nothing something she wants to get into right now, the way people were used for all sorts of things, in Joe's Citadel.]
I'm alone.
[That's easier to answer, even if it's hard to be alone. She's never been alone before.]
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Oh. (She looks away, and down into the water ebbing in and out around her ankles.)
Um, well I hope– I hope that you like it here, then. I've been here for a couple months now, so if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them.