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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!
Wanda Maximoff | OTA
[Wanda is more than happy to spend some time relaxing in the sun. The park is beautiful, the trees are in bloom, and the holiday the Riverview people celebrate reminds her a little bit of Saint Nikolina, but on a larger scale. And toward a different purpose. After cooking as much as she did for the feast, however, she decides to give herself a break for the picnic. She takes advantage of the foods and pre-packaged picnic baskets for sale, selecting from a little bit of everything to make her own. With a thick blanket, she takes herself to the park.
Eating alone isn't a terrible thing, not on such a beautiful day. Even the flower blossoms falling on her blanket and food are lovely in their own way. But she doesn't mind company, not if anyone wants to join here. There's blanket enough for a few more, and food enough for one more if they're lacking something of their own to eat.
Nibbling on some bread and cheese, she stretches out on the blanket, half-considering indulging herself in a nap.]
→ adult raves
[More often than not, Wanda finds herself slipping off to the raves when evening falls. They're perhaps not the sort of place that some of her teammates would expect to find her, but she and Pietro used to visit more than a few warehouse raves back in Novi Grad. The twins had lost themselves in the thump of the music, forgetting for a while that the world was crumbling around them.
That a rave might be considered part of the holiday celebrations is new to Wanda, but it's something she embraces. With more funds to work with here than she had in Sokovia, she's indulged herself in buying some clothing suitable for the event. The skirt and boots she wears are part of her wardrobe since starting work at Brigade Boutique, but the bustier is unique, newly purchased from another shop selling garments for the festival. It definitely shows skin, but by comparison to some of the others it still covers more of her than the others would.
The first night she visits, she spends most of the evening getting a feel for the venues, dancing and drinking only sparingly. It isn't long before she throws herself more fully into the fray on subsequent nights, indulging not only in drinks, dancing with abandon on the floor, but even curiously trying the powder that's available. Her bare skin is spattered with pink, yellow, green, and blue as she alternates between dancing and exploring the surrounding rooms where she sees many come and go from.]
blossoms
He figures that if she doesn't want him around, Wanda certainly isn't the type to hold her tongue.
That and he likes to think that, since their impromptu get together with coffee and nail polish, the other didn't loathe him at the very least. So he picks his way over, not really being quiet as he approaches, before standing near the edge of her blanket, half a smile on his face.]
Do you mind the company, at all?
[ Hope not, because Tony is moving a few things (mostly flowers) to sit himself on the blanket, fingers toying idly with the blossoms as he sits.]
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As Tony makes himself at home on the other half of the blanket. Wanda pushes herself up to brace on one arm, offering a half-smile back.]
No, I don't. I was thinking that I ought to have invited someone to join me but I wasn't sure who.
[Sam is an option of course, as her roommate, but she doesn't like feeling clingy, and anyone else, well...she's just not certain who is the picnic type. At least by herself she knew she'd have good food and people there who wanted to be there.]
What did you find? Are those pastries?
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[Sam throws an amiable arm over Wanda's shoulder and presses a shot of something neon orange into her hand. Yes, he's had a few already, can you tell?]
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Spoiler alert, Sam: If you destroy my bodice one petal at a time I won't love you anymore.
[She brings the shot glass up to her lips, tips it back and downs it all in one go. The first two took a little bit of effort, getting used to the way one drinks. By the third--or would this be the fourth?--she's got it back to a single smooth motion once more.]
But I might if you can lead me back to where you got that shot.
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[But Sam just laughs and smiles, plays with the ends of her hair a little.]
Fair trade. [Even though he's had a few, you wouldn't know it by the way he slips through the crowd easily, still leading Wanda. He orders another pair of shots and taps his card on the reader.] Gotta say, this place has some good booze.
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This place has some excellent booze. The last one was a little fizzy. [She grins.] I assume I don't have to ask if you're having a good time?
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[Sam passes the second shot to her, takes his own and tosses it back.]
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Pietro and I would go to raves like this sometimes. Not often, and not...not as dressed up. But the music would be loud and there would be alcohol. It was a nice escape.
[She doesn't have to tell Sam what the escape was from. Pre-Hydra, he knows exactly what she's talking about.]
Funniest thing though... [She trails off, inviting a response.]
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Yeah?
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There have been more than a few men approaching me, each asking me if they can buy me a drink. And each...seeming as if they may have been prompted somehow. You wouldn't happen to know anything about that, would you, Sam?
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...you come dressed up like that and you're asking me why guys want to buy you drinks, Wanda? [He nods to the bustier.] I think you're barking up the wrong tree.
[At least they've all been cute guys, okay? Sam is very discerning and screened his choices carefully.]
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Still, his little nod to her bustier prompts a smug smile from Wanda. She's always enjoyed wearing dresses and thigh high tights and the like, but it's true this outfit is particularly flattering. Lifting her head, she shrugs.]
Perhaps I am, perhaps I'm not. [She sets her empty shot glass down on the counter nearby, giving Sam a mischievous look.] Are you certain you don't want to take credit for your discriminating taste?
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blossom picnic
Ivar wheels himself over, speaking with an accent that isn't so dissimilar to Wanda's own.]
Mind if I join you? [He's young, with strange eyes, the sclera and irises both a pale blue as he sits there in a wheelchair. Despite this, there's a general air of confidence and toughness that surrounds him. This is clearly someone who can clearly take care of himself, though that last part might be due to the sword strapped to his back.]
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Of course.
[She doesn't mind company or making new friends, but it's more than that. With her powers she can catch a little bit more from people than most would with intuition. It works more with those she's known for a long while. With Pietro she could sense so many things from his mind, especially when they were close...
Perhaps it's intuition or perhaps it's the passive presence of her powers but there's something about the young man that piques her interest. Is it the confidence, or the presence of a sword?]
Did you bring anything with you to eat or would you like to share a little of what I have?
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[Wanda's intuition will serve her well in dealing with the young Viking. Despite his youth, there's a hard edge lying just below the surface, a chip on his shoulder molded by the anger that's been present for years. He's had to learn how to compensate for his lack of legs, and in Viking society, that meant learning how to become a warrior despite what everyone else around was telling him.]
I bought one of the lunches they were selling. [He twists around and takes it off from the handles on the back that the small package was hanging from.]
The food here is very different from what I am used to.
[Vikings food consisted of a lot of meat, maybe the occasional pastry, and usually some form of vegetables if they were lucky. Potatoes mostly, but as a prince, Ivar had been fortunate enough to have a variety of them in his life. Here, he'd been amazed to discover the amount and variety of food that was present in the city.]
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AS he has his own food, Wanda continues eating her own, biting into a slice of apple with a satisfying crunch.]
What is it you're used to? And where are you from?
[Might as well cover two answers at once, since they're linked. One country's chicken dish is not the same as another's.]
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More meat and fish. Less fruit and pizza. [Which he considers to be the highlight of the foods he's eaten here. He polished off one entirely by himself at the last festival. Seriously, whoever invented it deserves a medal.]
Norway. [He pauses to take a bit of the sandwich in his box.] From 816. [So definitely a difference in cultures right there. He was as far out of space and time as he could get.]
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816. That's quite a ways away from 2016. [Did they even know about North and South America back then?] I'm from Sokovia, originally, but recently I was living in America. Has anyone spoken to you about that country yet?
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She places one branch down.]
This is Europe, here. Where you're from. Where I'm from originally. And then Asia next to it [Another branch, and then a second.] And Africa below. Australia is below and to the side of Asia here--[A dish of sliced strawberries.]
And then, across the ocean? Thousands of miles away, is North America here, with the United States at its center. [A pastry now, with a faint cherry flavoring.] And below it, South America. [Another dish of fruit.] There's a great ocean between this cluster of continents and this one, and then the ocean here, wraps around to the other side there. It's all a big sphere of land and water.
[She hadn't planned on telling him that the world was round but it seemed important for her to provide full context. If she didn't tell him, someone would have to.]
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There's a lot more to the world then I thought.
[Vikings were constantly seeking to expand their territory. First England, then Frankia, and now the Mediterranean. To know there's so much yet to be discovered is both heartening and bit overwhelming. They've barely scratched the surface of how far they could get. How far would they continue to go during his lifetime.]
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[She leans back, letting the map stay where it is for him to look over as he pleases.]
Your people, however, are legendary, even hundreds of years in the future.
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[Seriously, Vikings only had two seasons on the calendar: six months of winter and then six months of summer. Spring and fall didn't exist to them.
He preens a little bit, sitting up straight. To know that the name of the Vikings would be remembered years later is gratifying.]
That's all a man can hope to achieve. To make sure he's remembered years later.
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