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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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You just said you had to do the impossible to save your brother. We all have our own problems, but I can't even begin to figure out how I'd handle yours. Mine is all normal stuff, my mom left, my boyfriend dumped me for my best friend. getting an abortion. Easy stuff.
*Lola... what about any of that can be called easy?*
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[He didn't like anyone saying he had it worse than them, his problems were almost always his own fault as far as he was concerned. Unless he could blame his father, than it was that bastard's fault.]
Nothing about that sounds easy.
[Really, his mind boggled at her perspective. He can't really relate to the abortion thing and he certainly can't relate to being dumped for his best friend. Ed exhaled slowly.]
Look, I know what it's like to think you have something with someone only to find out that you don't. The guy was a stranger though, not my best friend... My dad left when we were kids, too. If he hadn't... Al and I probably wouldn't have tried what we did, but we were alone. So, I get all that. When our mom died we thought it was the worst thing that could ever happen to us, and trust me... it's not. That doesn't make what you went through any less-
[A pause, he's trying to think of how to say this so that it makes sense.]
Even after nearly getting my brother killed, and all of the impossible I've dealt with, being alone all of a sudden when I wasn't... That wasn't any easier to deal with. It would have been even harder if it was my best friend, too... but either way, they're not comparable.
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Do you do what I do? Take forever to say how you feel about someone else? Just because you've seen how that can all just fall apart all at once?
*That was her big take-away, seeing her dad after mom left. How everyone treated her like she was some fragile little doll over it. How her dad never really got past it. He was still happy, loved her, loved his cantina. But... it wasn't the same. Plus, Lola knew one thing that just made things better, or at least made someone less alone. Hey Ed you wanted a hug right? That definitely won't make any metal limbs obvious at all!*
Well, I won't really understand all of it. Cause your world has some weird things to it. But if you wanna talk about stuff. I've gotten really good at listening.
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How about just not tell them at all, because it wouldn't matter anyway?
[He wasn't generally self-aware enough to even figure out his own feelings before it was too late, nevermind bring them up. Besides, there was the matter of them being un-reciprocated or other person being otherwise involved from the start, anyway.]
It's complicated, it's always complicated so I've never told anyone before.
[They were all complicated, and the only one he didn't know for sure was complicated was Nico - but he didn't even fully understand those feelings (and probably never would) so he didn't include that in his list of complicated situations.]]
I'm just not good with that sort of thing, I guess.
[He's going to die alone. Ed's even more confused at the hug, but if there's one thing that Yuffie has gotten him to adapt to it's sudden unexpected affection. Even if he didn't see it coming with Lola specifically and just sort of stood there stupidly when her arms wrapped around him. Honestly, he's not even thinking about his arm - probably in the same way he hadn't considered talking about Al's body casually.]
Thanks...
[That's said quietly, he's still sort of recovering. Ed's not even fussed by the statement that his world is weird, but he smirked at the offer. There's a slight smirk in response to that, but it's friendly. He probably wouldn't take her up on that offer considering how beyond her comprehension things were for him, not just at home but Purg and Attollo both.]
I'll keep that in mind.
[Relationships and all those dynamics confused him and he wasn't even going to pretend otherwise.]
I would say you too, but I don't think I can be much help with... Still- if you ever want someone to just listen, I can do that at least.
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*Way to not pull any punches Lola. She's pretty self-aware, she's gotten better at it little by little until she had to really face all her own issues before coming here. It hurt, people leaving, people not being there... but being alone was worse. She never wanted that for herself.*
Hmm?
*Lola's not listening anymore Ed, she's poking his arm. The one that isn't made of human things. But instead of asking about it. She just moves her head to his softer fleshier shoulder and gives one last squeeze before breaking the hug.*
I mean, it isn't really about solving things. Just knowing what you're going through is normal. Or... I guess, not being as alone as you might feel.
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Like I said, I'm lucky I got out of that alive.
[Missing an arm, but alive. He's kind of surprised she's one of the few that didn't bother to ask about it, after all she hasn't seen nearly as much as some of the people who did question him. Like she just pointed out.]
That is one thing about this place... It's hard to feel alone.
[Between having 9 room mates and the fact that everyone seemed to have been through some level of shit - even if Lola's wasn't nearly as fantastical as Ed or Jay's experiences, her life hadn't been easy. At the last part he can't help but agree, so he just shrugs.]
Yeah. Even if I'm not sure normal really cuts it... It's nice not to be alone.
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I guess normal isn't really a thing here. Things happen and you just have to try and make them fit whatever normal was.
*Which was impossible, but Lola tried really hard to make that fit.*
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Things happen and you just have to try and make them fit pretty much sums it up.
[Impossible or not, he actually liked that way of looking at it. It was logical.]
You can get used to a lot of things when you wake up in weird situations like having the wrong body. Nothing here has really been too out of the realm of reality, at least.
[For now, anyway.]
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*She sounds almost excited with that. Things happen, they change you, but you'll get used to the new version of everything. Or you go nuts. Or you die... The point is not to dwell on those and focus on being okay with it.*
Wait... wrong body?
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[Ed's actually relieved for her apparent excitement until she asks the question. Not again. Have a sigh, Lola.]
Yeah, I'm going to guess you've never woken up one day a guy.
[You know what's not comfortable? His style of automail with breasts.]
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*Lola tell us how you really feel? She pauses and considers*
That's... gotta be awkward when you have to go to the bathroom. On the other hand you wear a lot of black, and that's slimming. And your hair is already long enough so you probably looked really good.
*LOLA!*
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Uh, thanks… I guess.
[What is he supposed to say to that?]
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*Lola stop.*
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Automail's kind of the same for everyone... The chest plate isn't really made for female bodies on my model, though.
[Because obviously it doesn't need to be.]
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*Hormone treatments can do some radical stuff to the body, and that was just normal over the counter things. Magical gender switching should be even more... well, complete.*
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Guess I just didn't think about it. The plating on my chest kind of ... preoccupied a lot of my attention, honestly.
[It was awkward and uncomfortable, and that was all he had been thinking about.]
I don't remember it feeling any heavier, so I guess it adjusted too. I never noticed.
[Leave it to Lola to make him think of these things, all this time later.]