introductory mingle: FLOWER FESTIVAL

[riverviewmod]

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: Introductory Log and Flower Festival Celebration
when: April 2nd - April 15th
where: In several different locations in the downtown area of the Inhabited City.
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

flower festival

In the days leading up to April 2nd, residents new and old may notice advertising around the city, everywhere from digital screens to paper flyers pasted on blank walls, all advertising an upcoming holiday: The Flower Festival. Celebrating springtime, beauty, joy, and togetherness, the festival heavily features floral themes and dancing. The advertising mentions that on April 10th, a paid holiday, there will be a Blossom Picnic, as well as lists of various public dances at clubs or other open venues, and adult raves.

a celebration of spring

The Flower Festival's main event is the Blossom Picnic on April 10th, but it also features traditions of sharing food and drink, and dancing that span over the course of the whole two weeks. There are a large variety of events going on throughout the city, from dancing lessons in any wide variety of traditional dances, to old-fashioned sock hops, to adult raves complete with mild party drugs. Feel free to use the prompts below or create your own event at any point during the festival, and if your character creates an event and hosts it in a top-level, you can submit that thread for extra bonus points.

i. blossom picnic

The main event that kicks off the second week of the Flower Festival is the Blossom Picnic on April 10th. A relaxed and low-key event, it draws several thousand people every year to the spacious Riverview Central Park, where there is a generous lawn lined with various blossoming trees, and families, found families, lovers, and groups of friends are encouraged to lay out a picnic blanket and share food. There will be live bands playing (but not loudly enough to distract from conversation and peacefully watching the petals flutter in the wind), a variety of demonstrations of traditional cultural dances from many different realities and planets, and a ton of ice cream vendors. This is an excellent festival not only for celebrating togetherness with the people who are already important, but for mingling and making new friends.

Characters may either pack their own lunches or they can purchase pre-packed Blossom Festival lunches. Stores and street markets are carrying a wide variety of specialty food that is only available at this time of year - predominantly pastries, an assortment of types of candies, and ice cream treats all in various floral flavors, as well as a sort of ambrosia salad based around a sweet rose-flavored cream and a native fruit that is bright green and tastes like a combination of peach and citrus.

ii. dancing lessons

Starting on April 2nd, there will be dancing lessons offered almost everywhere you look! From partner dances to group dances to line dances; sexy and sensual or innocent and childlike - almost any type of dance you can imagine is represented, from any reality or planet that has people in Riverview Quarantine.

Additionally, the Riverview Central Community Center has multiple rooms blocked off so anyone who knows a dance from home can teach it to others in their community - sharing is caring, after all. Characters are welcome to block off one of these rooms and offer lessons in any dance they happen to know from home (and these sorts of thread starters would be eligible for the mingle AC Point bonus)!

iii. flower festival dancing

This is pretty simply what it says on the tin - in almost every club, community center, or other public space, there will be dancing at almost all hours of the day or night, formal and informal. Musicians bring out their instruments and play in the street for demonstrations of cultural dances and music at the same time as clubs are offering VIP cover charges for exclusive dances, and you can find anything in between.

There are also many low-cover-charge raves that allow under-18s so younger characters can stay up all night and dance like crazy. The legal drinking age in Riverview Quarantine is 14, and so anyone over 14 can enter and indulge in a few drinks, dancing, and playing tag with a non-intoxicating version of the colored powder featured at the adult raves. There is copious amounts of security on site to ensure that everyone is safe, as well as nurses and off-duty police officers to offer advice or care for anyone who overindulges out of lack of experience.

Grab a partner, a group of friends, or just cruise and mingle the various dancing events.

Characters may also notice that most of the street markets and clothing shops are offering clothing that features floral patterns, flowers as accessories, and that show a lot of skin - for men, women, and anyone in between!

iv. adult raves

Advertised on flyers and digital screens around the city, made to pop as if they were under blacklight, is a series of adult raves that are happening in various large empty warehouse spaces around the city, including one that is listed as the danger rave and hosted in an abandoned factory outside the inhabited city walls. With bouncers at the door to ensure that anyone entering is 18+, the raves are comfortably adult in nature. Clothing is optional, showing skin is encouraged, and there are a lot of neatly tucked away spaces for attendees to get some time alone with one or more than one person, as well as spaces intended for orgies. The atmosphere is sex-positive and non-judgemental, open to any orientation or preference, with various forms of protection available for free, however, to ensure that everyone plays safe there are sober security teams out en masse at all premises to oversee the events.

(CW: DRUG USE) In each location, there is one specific room where attendees can enter, and dance or play tag with brightly colored powder that contains small amounts of a legal party drug commonly available in Riverview, which is absorbed through the skin. Not much more intoxicating than having a few beers, the effects of the drug are a pleasant low-key buzzing euphoria, positive sensitivity to touch, a heightening of desires for intimacy, and a mild lowering of inhibitions. Once a character has been hit with the powder, the color lingers on the skin so other attendees can know who has partaken, but once the powder makes contact with a surface it deactivates, meaning that partakers can safely dance with non-partakers without sharing the intoxicating effects.

Please be sure to warn in subject lines for any threads involving drug use. And remember, there is always security to intervene and make sure everyone is safe.

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 at the Flower Festival, feel free to write it up!

visual inspiration

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Credit: third image by Steve Goad; other images found on uncredited on Pinterest or Google images - please let the mod know if you find credit!

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Comments

[amelioraate]

[ If Tony is surprised by the shift in Loki's demeanour, the way that he all but melts into the touches that Tony is pressing into his skin, he doesn't let it show. The way Loki relaxes though, the fluid shift from sharp edges and powerful god to this-- this responsive figure makes the pleasure in Tony's veins light up, flare a little brighter. It is no secret that he enjoys a responsive partner, enjoys being able to bring other people pleasure, and to see Loki enjoying the attention and affection that he could give him? Tony thrives with that.

So when Loki presses close again, the moan felt between them, Tony doesn't hesitate to kiss the god again. This time it was less of a teasing thing, lips and teeth and tongue, as Tony gave into the energy that was thrumming between them, lets his hands slide from hips to the curve of the god's back, pulling him closer as Tony kisses him like he wishes to burn him from the inside out.

And maybe he does.

The hands in his hair and the erection he can feel against his hip ruin the last of his half-formed worries, that Tony has about 'this is Loki', and instead has Tony focused on making sure that Loki enjoys this. He pulls back from the kiss, voice unsteady as he trails kisses along the shimmering angle of Loki's jaw, uncaring about the gold as it smears against his lips.]

My, starshine, what would you have me do?

[ It is perhaps meant to be teasing, but Tony's falls a little short of that. ]

[ikols]

Ungph.

[ That graceful noise lodges in his throat behind a bobbing Adam's apple as Tony gnaws his way down Loki's jaw. He licks his lips like the most delicious cake in the world just passed them and he can't get enough, mouth tingling with the phantom pressure of Tony's ardent kisses. He's going to end up rutting against Iron Man's leg and never live it down, that's his life right now. Maybe he'll care later when he isn't burning up inside with a desperate need to feel that tongue all over his body.

Starshine. He catches sight of his own fingers in Tony's hair and it clicks. Under the rave lights, Loki sparkles in the dark.

And Tony is a black hole sucking him in whoa that thought went places fast — ]

Ah ... I don't mind, whatever.

[ Trying to sound aloof instead comes out needy, as if Loki is the loosest scarlet woman on the block (he wouldn't mind being that if those hands stay on his skin a little longer). They need a room, that's what. The pinnicle of his thought-process narrows down to somewhere we can keep doing this.

He nips at the shell of Tony's ear, licking it better. ]

Give us some privacy.

[ And then, who knows. The possibilities thrill him. ]

[amelioraate]

[ If Loki does end up rutting against him, Tony isn't really going to complain. Honestly, at this point he is a little too wrapped up in the noises the god makes, the way the godling moves against him, to make much note of anything else. Well, almost much of anything else. While dragging his teeth along the thin skin of Loki's shoulder, he does note that he is not the only one that finds the godling enthralling; those who were dancing around them before are still dancing, but more than one pair of eyes has begun to trace the gilded contours of the god's skin that is revealed.

It makes something in Tony hiss, an echoing thought of mine barely there as fingers dig into Loki's skin a little harder for a moment. They loosen as he shudders against the god thanks to the lips at his ear.]

As you wish.

[ There is something gratifying in being the one to lead Loki, all glinting gold curves and wicked smiles, into the darkness that is found around the dancefloor. Well, lead perhaps is a bit much, Tony doesn't let them separate much as they move, his hands making themselves well acquainted with the ridges of Loki's spine, the swell of his ass, all the while alternating between licking into the god's mouth and leaving the echoes of kisses against the gold of his neck and shoulder.

And when Loki's back finally meets something solid? Tony doesn't stop. He shifts to press himself between the god's legs and curls his hands around Loki's jaw, encouraging him to let Tony devour him, to let the engineer pull him apart with pleasure and piece him back together.]

[ikols]

[ The whirl-wind of touches and dazzling lights leaves his senses dizzied until an alcove hits his shoulders, then everything makes sense. He gives his mouth up in supplication to the hungry kisses, panting hard through his nose because the rave's air is hot and so is Tony, Loki heats up just from the sheer proximity as he hitches a leg around a hip to drag the hero in. It's blissfully good when he rocks against him, tall enough that his cock rides the ridge of the other man's and Loki's balls are ground with endless friction, back and forth through clothing he abruptly hates.

The stupidest noises leave him without his knowledge, whines and pleas of More and Anthony, ah-Anthony yesss, black nails raking up the back of a shirt to leave lasting scratches tomorrow. He digs a thumb into Tony's belt and wrenches it open, stuffing his hand in; before pausing, right before he can find anything interesting beyond a soft trail of hair. Loki tries to catch his eye, nose to nose, bitten lips shining wet as he sucks in a breath. ]

May I?

[ The very last thing he wants is to be is a Bad Guy right now, in any way, shape or form, so he waits to hear that explicit consent while half-dazed as he gets walled. ]

[amelioraate]

[ The world is no longer composed of thought, at least not the racing kind filled with numbers and equations and potential futures. Instead, Tony is caught up in the physical, in the tangible and the sensations that prick at his consciousness like hot pins; the weight of Loki's leg around his hip, the drag of the god's cock against his own, the pleasurable sting of nails against the skin of his back. Tony knows that this is something he wouldn't allow himself if it weren't for the powder, that the freedom from his mind and the darker emotions is only a fleeting thing, but he grasps the sensation as desperately as he pulls at the god; curled fingers with force enough to bruise.

Shuddering at the noises, the way Anthony rolls down his spine like ice water, Tony bites at Loki's lips and rolls his hips.

The movement only stills with hands on his belt, the bright spike of pleasure that curls around his spine and the dull ache in his groin. His own cock twitches but, despite his interest, he isn't superhuman. So, instead, Tony pulls back a little, eyebrow raised as he pulls at Loki's hand, the one at the waistband of his pants, and pins it to the wall next to his head.]

May I?

[ It's teasing and promising and wicked, that smile that cuts across his face, body already shifting to allow Tony to drop to his knees between the god's legs with one final squeeze to his wrist. But he doesn't do more than bite at the jut of hipbone above Loki's pants, blue eyes wide and dark as he looks up and waits.]

[ikols]

[ For a moment he stills when Tony repositions his wandering hand, then the apprehension melts away when he catches onto the teasing reply. The Old Man would never have allowed himself to be this vulnerable in front of an Avenger, especially this one, and Loki delights in breaking the status quo by thoroughly indulging. He spreads his legs and slouches against the wall to make Tony's job easier, sinuous hips giving a sway. ]

Aye. [ Not a 'Yes', something that is more of a reminder to Tony with whom he's doing this.

Licking his lips, Loki's fingers gravitate into a mussed, thick nest of hair, gently tugging Tony forward. ]

Don't bite it off. Play nice.

[ Maybe he's still a little anxious, sure. This is their first ... foray into this sort of thing. ]

[amelioraate]

[ For a heartbeat of a moment, Tony thinks that Loki is going to vanish before him; there is a tremor in the god's frame the makes Tony think of fight or flight and, from what he has learned so far, flight seems more likely. And yet-- Loki stays, slouches against the wall in a way that is unfairly attractive, and has Tony breathing out a reverent noise against the skin beneath his lips.

Right now? It was very easy to see the god part of the being before him, the way he looked beneath the flashing lights, covered in gold and glinting like a small star in the darkness.

Tony doesn't need much more encouragement beyond the consent that Loki gives him before he is tugging at pants and making pleased noises against the thin skin of Loki's groin at the hands in his hair.]

I only bite when you ask nicely, starshine. Don't worry. [ He would grin up at the god, but Tony is more fixated on the cock that he frees, smirk flickering across his face as he licks a teasing stripe along the base, thumbs pressing into the divots of Loki's hips in a silent request to stay still.]

[ikols]

[ His focus swims, hips trembling beneath Tony's firm hands, and when Loki blinks against the swirling lights of the rave he sees colours blistering to life behind his eyelids. Almost as hot as the tongue laving up his erection. Fuck. It's one thing to pleasure somebody else and retain enough self-control not to make a fool of himself but like this, with someone so intrinsic to his past on their knees before him, tasting him ... He groans and the loud music thankfully swallows up the wanton sound. ]

Anthony.

[ Memories interlace with the present, battles lost and won, Tony's armour and expression in a dozen different ways. As Loki tips his head back on the wall and peers down the glimmering gold line of his naked body, he burns the sight of Tony preparing to suck him off into the permanent recesses of his mind because he wants to remember him like this forever. Precome has smeared against the red tip where it was trapped in his pants and now more joins it, beading at the slit as his belly shivers and grows taut, thighs tensing, a pretty pink seven-inch cock twitching whenever Loki shudders.

And he waits patiently, almost ... obediently, for Tony to begin. ]

[amelioraate]

[ Anthony. The sound of his name barely reaches his ears over the noise of the rave around them, over the rush of blood in his ears and the static of his brain trying to parse the overload of sensations. All Tony knows is that, when Loki says his full name like that? He doesn't hate it nearly as much as he usually does. With one brow quirking up at the god, eyes still holding the bright green of Loki's gaze, Tony grins sharp and nearly feral before he moves to take the head of Loki's cock between his lips, tongue teasing around the head.

Between the lights and sound, the shine of the gold before his eyes and the way Loki moves beneath his fingertips, the way Tony can feel him twitch against his tongue, there is something terribly and beautifully dreamlike to this. An actual good kind of dream, where Tony wants to replay the events over and over again, rather than spend three days in a lab trying to ignore the beat of his heart and the whipcrack shot of his own cry startling him awake. No, this was the kind of dream Tony revelled in, the kind that makes him want to draw out.

So that is what he plans on doing. Rather than showing off and taking the god to the hilt like he could in one smooth swallow, Tony moves slowly, swirls his tongue along the underside, applies light suction before swallowing a little more with a low hum, eyes seeking out Loki's as he drags blunt nails over the crease of his thighs, lines of red blooming in the wake of his movement.]

[ikols]

[ Part of him expects Tony to laugh and walk away, scorn and humiliation something that needles Loki in the back of his mind as he trusts the man between his legs not to pull a dirty trick like that, not now. Weirdly, he finds himself telling the dark little voice in his head to shut up because he wants to take a chance tonight and see where this leads (tomorrow will be full of interesting conversations, he's sure). A whine catches in the back of his throat when Tony swirls his tongue over a slick cockhead, precome already making the glide of surprisingly soft lips all the more perfect, soft and wet in a thrilling contrast to the nails raking at the sensitive skin where his thighs begin.

Shuddering against the wall, he plants a hand against it to exert the kind of pressure he can't with the fist in Tony's hair, petting him in reward. Loki pants open-mouthed, a groan permeating his sigh of relief.

It's been a while since anyone touched him there. ]