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riverviewlogs2017-04-01 07:02 pm
- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
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introductory mingle: FLOWER FESTIVAL
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
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.
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!
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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New friendships are a theme of this festival. That's what I heard, so I guess my motives aren't entirely pure... and I'd be lying if I said it hasn't crossed my mind to ask you if you could teach me to make these things, but I think that's more your fault than mine.
[ Her cards are on the figurative table here. ]
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The truth comes out, you're actually from some rival baker out to steal my secrets. I knew it.
[Okay now he's definitely just playing.]
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Your skill compelled me. You can't taste such goodness and hold to any sort of deception. It's impossible!
[ She can't hold it that long, though. She's trying. She's tr -- oh, no. No, there it goes. She's about to laugh. ]
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The secret is that I'm actually real evil, just a whole lotta evil. I made a deal with some horrible demon to get the cookies tasting that good.
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[ This question is asked wholly in earnest. Sorry, Taako. Lí is from the hard cooked cinnamon roll reality where the world is young and living is tough, but shit hasn't quite hit the fan yet in the terrible ways it's prone to. Seriously, what's a demon? ]
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He is briefly tempted to play along with the joke, but she looks so earnest that he just can't bring himself to do it.]
Demons are evil spirits, some of 'em are super powerful and will make deals with mortals to do shit for 'em, but usually that ends up with the idiot mortal turned into soup or whatever. There were no actual demons involved in my cooking, that's all Taako.
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I am glad, then. I cannot say it has ever been a goal of mine to become to become spirit soup. That does make your cooking all the more impressive, you realize.
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[His grin is bright and sharp, clearly joking.]
But I do prefer bouillabaisse, if we're talking about my impressive cooking.
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[ Because that is one funny word. She may have to sound that one out once she hears it again. ]
I don't think I've heard of that one. What is it, Taako?
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[It's not super fancy, but it's a trickier one to pull off, and it's delicious when made right.]
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[ She may be sliding to one side so she can keep talking with Taako without obscuring anyone's view of the stall. It'd be better not to impede business, but at the same time, she's both quite charmed and engaged and is quite happy to continue this conversation as opposed to wander. ]
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Lobster is delicious, it's more subtle than fish, flavor-wise. Goes great with a little garlic and butter. You'll have to come visit sometime, I'll see if I can't get my hands on the ingredients for a proper bouillabaisse.
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I would love to! It really does sound like a curious treat. If you'd like, I can bring a dish from my world and we could try an exchange? You'd have to tell me what sort of flavors you'd like unless you like surprises. I imagine some things are harder to come by here.
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[Seafood was the first meat he started eating again, because it tastes the least like chicken, and he's been working his way up to white and red meat.]
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[ She'll have to speak to some of the locals about the vegetables to be found in the place, especially any mushrooms. They tend to make a good substitute when meat is scarce in a dish, but she knows better than to pick them blind. ]
Not too meat heavy or would you prefer no meat at all?
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[One day he'll learn not to be a smug jerk, but today is not that day.]
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[ Although a competition does sound like it could be fun. She doubts she'd beat Taako, though. She knows her way around a fire, but she wouldn't exactly call herself a culinary expert. ]
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[Taako does a very good impression of a smug asshole, but his grin is a little too cheeky to completely sell it. A cooking "competition" was how he befriended Clark, after all, so he's not opposed to the idea, but it would just be for fun.]
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[ Her companions had insisted and she's all too well aware of the fact that food can kill, especially if the food is not cooked properly. If only killing one's quarry was the sole concern. ]
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[Since this is a friendly competition and not Fantasy Cuthroat Kitchen.]
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Then I'll be sure to pick a good one. I should probably hurry my looking into the local flora and fauna, come to think of it.
[ If this is a different reality, that means different ingredients, and that likely includes animals and vegetables. Of all the times for her to have had a mostly empty satchel, it would have been when the portal took her. ]
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The library ain't a bad place to start, if you're into that whole reading thing.
[He's not sure if it might have occurred to her to do things that way, depending on how records are kept in her own world.]
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[ And she isn't the least bit ashamed if one goes by the way she casually admitted as much. She pauses, though, having caught what appears to be a sizable herd of people moving toward the stall. They sound as hungry and excited as they look. ]
Looks like you're about to have your hands full, too! Perhaps we should continue this conversation at a later date?
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Not that he'd have a chance, anyway, since that crowd and her comment draw an over-dramatic worried look from Taako.]
That sounds like a wonderful idea, you better save yourself while you still can. [He's kidding, if anything he's excited to see a crowd.] It was great to meet you Líadan.
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[ With a little flourish and a big smile, she'll be stepping off and to the side of the impending crowd, weaving nimbly into the traffic. She's there and gone for the volume and quite pleased with her purchase and her meeting if the near inaudible hum she's begun is any indication. She's definitely going to keep in touch with what she really rather hopes is a mutual new friend. ]