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]

[ 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. ]