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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-04-01 07:02 pm
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introductory mingle: FLOWER FESTIVAL

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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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-04-11 08:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't pull away, but instead lets herself be led from the dance floor by the hand. Rather than going up any stairs, however, he takes them outside, making Wanda curious as to what exactly he has in mind. In New York there are several buildings with fire escapes, is he looking for one here?

She lifts an brow, listening to him, watching him. When he smiles she can't help but smile back but there's a question in her gaze...

One that's answered as he shoots a grappling gun up to the roof, leaving him with a line of rope that extends from the edge up top down to the ground where they stand. Without her powers, she might have hesitated. But knowing she can land safely if something goes wrong, and all too curious about the man that carries a grapple hook on a night out to a rave, she takes his hand once more.]


Alright, then I put myself in your hands.

[Let's see what happens next.]
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-04-12 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ He slips his arm around her carefully, gently. Then he hits the release button. It's a fast trip to the top alright, but even gone on powder his balance is good. He lands light-footed and smooth, setting Wanda down with the ease of someone who's carried dozens. He does a showy little flip for good measure, flushed with exhilaration, and when he turns back to check her reaction his grin fades, brow furrowing a little, as if he's concerned for her. ]

Too fast?
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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-04-14 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
[It's just as fast as when she launches herself into the air as well, but there's a little more control here. She doesn't have to worry about landing with someone else to take care of that. It's the landing that only adds to her suspicions that he's done this many, many times before. Steady-footed, unfazed by this unexpected trip to the roof, she smiles at Dick. Even claps a little with his flip.]

Not at all. Exhilarating.

[It was tempting to tell him that it's no faster than she's used to, but that might reveal too much before she can ask him about himself.]

You were right, the view is incredible. Definitely worth coming up here. [She points to a taller building a bit away.] That's the communal housing, isn't it?
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-04-16 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's beaming back at her after she claps (someone likes attention). ]

Yeah. You ever checked out the view from there? [ And he... sure is going to hope up right onto that ledge, far closer to empty space than any reasonable human being with no superpowers to speak of should be comfortable standing. He smiles at Wanda again, something a little chagrined, almost shy stealing into his expression. ]

I don't really get to share this very often.

[ There's a pretty important reason for that, but the specifics have receded back into the fog of details that don't really seem to apply right now. He likes Wanda. He feels safe here. A crowd below them, music around them. A world of open air for the taking. ]
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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-04-20 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
[With powers of her own, ones that she feels confident enough in to know she can't die by accident even if she falls, Wanda joins him at the ledge. She's careful when she sits, but she does, legs dangling over the edge a couple feet away from him.]

That's a shame. A view like this should be shared with everyone. I don't understand why there aren't more buildings out there with rooftop spaces for people to enjoy...

[Hands resting on either side of her, she smiles, at ease.]

I haven't seen the view from the top of the communal housing, though, not yet. After this I think I will have to make a point of changing that. [Tilting her head, she looks back up to him.] Is it necessary to fly up there the way you have or is there a more convenient stairwell we could use sometime?
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-04-21 04:01 am (UTC)(link)
Hm. Not sure. Been wondering if there's one hidden in the walls. [ He says this as if it's a very reasonable possibility. ]

Hopping the rooftops is still the easiest way to get there. [ He's shading his eyes to look. The restlessness under his skin isn't fading away.

But this is where he is now. And oddly, restlessness notwithstanding, he doesn't really want to be anywhere else.

He takes a seat beside her at last, loose and a little careless. The smile he flashes her is sideways. ]


We could still try it sometime.
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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-04-21 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Wanda can't imagine a place that doesn't have roof access, for building maintenance if nothing else, but perhaps the stairwell is more hidden than most. Or overgrown with plants like so many places in this city?]

I think I'd like that. I've never hopped rooftops before.

[She's done many, many other things of course, leaped great distances with her powers, but technically she's never leapt from rooftop to rooftop. Wanda turns to face him, eyebrow lifted as she gives him a little grin.]

So, are you going to tell me why you carry a grappling gun on you? Or where you learned to do that flip?
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-04-21 06:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You can always ask.

[ This is dangerous. He knows that in some place deeper than the powder can reach. It's dawning on him now that's he's made a mistake. That this is why he never should come here. It's why he doesn't drink.

He waits for the shock of that to hit. The fear he's earned. The self-loathing he deserves. It's dangerous for Wanda. Dangerous for Bruce. He's put everything, everything at risk. He's put an innocent girl in harm's way.

But the answer comes instead, after a long pause. The troubled look on his face passes. ]


I used to work in the circus. [ And even now he can't think of it without a smile. ] Acrobat.
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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-04-22 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[You can always ask. She hears the unspoken endings to that statement. You can always ask, but I may not answer. You can always ask, but my answers may not be the truth. You can always ask, but you may not like the answers you get.

She might not have caught it if it wasn't a phrase or a distinction that she understands well herself.]


Well that explains one thing, though I've never heard of an acrobat who carries a grappling gun. Did you get it here or have it from home?

[Sorry, Dick, the powder has helped her to relax and more amenable to the sort of flirting and affection she might not display as easily, but it hasn't disrupted her focus.]
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-04-23 12:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's a little impressed with that level of focus in spite of himself. And it's not as if he can really blame her for wondering. There's that heavy, reflexive sense of shame he'd been waiting on.

But even now it feels distant. Something separate from the moment he's in. He tries for a small, halfway sheepish shrug. ]


Nah. I picked it up... years ago. [ He owes her a little more than that. Still, it's a moment before he speaks again. ]

My parents were the ones with the act. Traveling big top, the whole deal. [ He looks out at the skyline, then down at his clasped hands. It's something close to the truth. ] They had... a fall, a while back.

You go through something like that, it makes you a little paranoid, I guess.
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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-04-27 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Wanda hadn't expected a confession like that. Something so personal, something so close to home. They'd only met once before today and while Wanda had opened up about Sokovia and the Feast of Saint Nikolina it hadn't...it hadn't been quite so personal. So vulnerable.

It hadn't been something she could relate to quite so keenly as she does.]


Yes, it does. Paranoid and perhaps even a little desperate to make sure it never happens to anyone else. Even yourself.

[The smile she offers him is small, doing nothing to chase the shadows from her eyes.]

My brother and I lost our parents when we were young. Also years ago. But yes, that sort of experience stays with you no matter how much time passes. Changes how you view the world I think, don't you?
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-04-28 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ She must have been young. A child. He's thinking back to the festival, thinking of what it must have really meant for her to bring some part of that past to this place. His heart wrenches a little.

But "sorry" has never eased that pain. He won't placate Wanda with platitudes. ]


...Yeah. It wouldn't be right if it didn't.

But I know that's not the part they'd want me to remember. [ He looks for her gaze, and after a moment he holds out his hand for hers. Comfort offered, without insistence. ]

They lived for a lot more than their last minute and a half on Earth, right?
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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-04-29 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[There are few people in this world who truly know how to give comfort. To Wanda's way of thinking, they're always the people who haven't experienced loss the way that she has. But Dick...Dick understands. He doesn't offer her platitudes, he doesn't give her cliches and tell her that he's sorry for her loss.

He offers his hand, which Wanda takes, offering him a small smile. The contact reminds her of the powder on her skin, the breeze up on the roof tickling her bare skin.

And when he talks about living for more than those last few moments she can't help but feel that he's right, again. She has to live for more than just their memory, that's not what they'd want. So she offers him a smile, more certain, more steady than before.]


Yes, they did. We ought to follow their example. [That said, she lets her fingers entwine with his, and leans over to rest her head on his shoulder. The view is beautiful and this moment, even with the reminder of their losses, is perfect.]
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-04-30 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's really not often that he meets anyone who gets it, in quite that way.

It feels right, lacing his fingers together with hers. It feels right, slipping his other arm around her, gathering her close, if she lets him. He feels swept away. A little dazzled, in a way he probably can't quite chalk up to the powder alone. ]


Doesn't seem like you have much of a problem there. [ He says it softly. ]
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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-04-30 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Wanda lets him wrap his arm around her, sighing into the contact. It's been a while since anyone held her like this, a while since she really let anyone. And while this is far from a brotherly connection, it soothes that part of her that has missed casual, physical affection.]

You would be surprised, actually. My life is quite different back home.

[But she doesn't explain, simply reaches back with her outside hand and covers his as it curls around her waist. Connected hand to hand, with Wanda tucked against his side, everything feels...very good. She turns her head toward him slightly, wondering if it's her or the powder that makes her consider something more...]
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-05-02 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ When she looks at him like that...

There's a strand of her hair he wants to touch, but to do that he'd have to let go of her hand. Instead he squeezes her fingers gently in his. Tries to imagine what would qualify as "different" to a woman willing to put her life in the hands of a stranger with so much confidence. It's more than the powder. He knows it is. ]


Yeah?

[ He's very, very curious. ] Different how?
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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-05-03 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Wanda hasn't lied to anyone in this city yet. She's concealed things, yes, but she's never outright lied before. Sitting there with Dick, it's hard to know how much she wants to share, and so Wanda tries to play it by ear. Pick around the truth.]

I moved a year ago. Not just to another apartment or something but from my home country of Sokovia to America. The place I went to work for, a job I'd never done before in my entire life, also took care of housing for everyone. It's taken me time to get used to it and figure out how I feel there. Who I am there. I'm still not entirely certain but I was getting closer before I was brought here.

[It's vague, she knows, but she figures she has a 50/50 chance that he won't ask her what kind of work she does back home or the name of where she works or any of that.

To lighten the mood a little, she flashes him a smile, a little broader than she has before.]


Here, at least, it's easier to live in the moment and fully. Especially on a night like tonight.
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-05-03 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He notices the things she leaves out. The spaces for details, faces, names. But it isn't as if he's not holding few cards close himself. It seems wrong to ask for more than she wants to give him, when she's accepted so much at face value. ]

...Yeah. I can kind of relate to that. [ Time is stopped, if the rumors are true. This place is a detour. A stop off. As urgently as he feels the need to get back, as unwilling as he is to accept the explanations they've been given at face value, in a way that part is alluring. ]

Still a lot for a year.
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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-05-04 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
[She nods in agreement.]

Yes, a lot for a year.

[Wanda squeezes one hand, but her outside one drops as she turns toward him, ever so slightly. Seated on the edge of the building she has to be careful, and her movements are slow as she faces him more fully.]

You were right, though. This trip to the roof was definitely worth it.

[And then, well, she looks at him, not certain of what else to say. A sort of expectancy lingers in the air between them but Wanda is well aware that the conversation they've been having isn't the sort to inspire romance or...whatever two people could share. But the powder makes it easier for her thoughts to drift in that direction once more. Or maybe it's just that she doesn't want to think of the wreck of her life back home. She'd much rather stare into the eyes of this kind and attractive man holding her hand on the roof of the rave.]
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-05-04 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A year ago he'd been a Titan. An almost husband. He'd worn a different costume and guarded another city. He'd moved to Bludhaven to figure out who he was without everything he'd been before. It doesn't really feel like he's stopped moving since.

She'd had as much change and maybe more. And yet still she's here with him, embracing everything life here has to offer. Holding onto him without a second thought. He doesn't remember a time when he'd ever been that free.

It's not quite permission, but hand freed up, he reaches up to touch that strand of hair. ]


Wouldn't have blamed you if you'd run. [ Softly.

She hadn't though. She isn't now. ]
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omg I thought I tagged this

[personal profile] divulsion 2017-05-08 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
[Her head turns at once into the touch, shivering as he touches her hair. Up until these raves, Wanda hadn't quite realized how touch starved she was, but sitting there with Dick, dancing downstairs and pressing up against so many others she's all the more aware of that fact.

And as his voice drops, as she becomes equally aware of the intimacy of this moment between them, Wanda gives him a faint smile.]


I would have regretted not coming.

[Just like she thinks she would regret not taking advantage of this moment. Maybe it's the powder, maybe it's the rooftop rendezvous or maybe it's entirely him, but Wanda finds herself drawn closer. On an impulse, she closes the distance and presses a kiss to his lips, soft and tentative. It seems only right to give him the opportunity to back away.]
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lol i sure did that with this tag too

[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-05-10 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ The first kiss is brief; almost chaste. Dick breaks it first without quite pulling back. The edge of the moment is there. The world impossibly still.

He doesn't care anymore whether it's the powder or the night air or just Wanda. He doesn't want to be anywhere but here. With this strange, beautiful woman, who in this moment understands.

He leans in to kiss her again. Still soft, but surer now. His fingers cup her cheek. ]
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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-05-14 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
[For a brief moment, she's left wondering what will happen. She kissed him first, instead of waiting to be kissed. Sure, he took her up to the roof and they've been basically cuddling up there, but she kissed him. It's different.

Dick, however, doesn't tell her she shouldn't have done that, or that it's enough for one night. His hand rises to cup her cheek and his lips are on hers again and neither of them are tentative.

There's nothing heavy, nothing too heated in the kiss but there is a certain sort of passion that comes with connection and the excitement of someone new. Her heart beats in triple time as she kisses him slowly, learning the feel of his mouth with her own and the taste of his lips with the tip of her tongue.]
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[personal profile] fingerstripes 2017-05-17 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Break for a second and the moment will snap. Dick holds onto it as long as he can, holding that sweetness until finally he really has to break for air. He needs to think. He should be thinking this through now and not-

Not-

Not reaching up with the tips of his fingers to brush her face again. Thinking about the next kiss. And the next. ]


...Wanda.
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[personal profile] divulsion 2017-05-17 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
[By the time he breaks the kiss for air, Wanda is just about ready for it as well. She can't remember the last time she kissed someone like this, and it inspires all sorts of feelings and emotions in her that so often she's considered dead within her...

But as he strokes her face once more it all seems alive and well, beating within her chest as if she were the same as any young girl with an unburdened heart.]


Yes...?

[Is this enough? Or too much?]

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