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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!

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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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Shared Housing; Floor 1

[ Arrival to this place was strange and exhausting at best. Back in his world, the last thing he remembers is being kidnapped and knocked out and left to wonder just what might happen next; opening his eyes and finding himself in a whole new world was NOT it.

there are now a whole lot of issues for Kaneki to deal with. While his food problem was sort of figured out - their hosts are incredibly nice about having a cannibalistic creature that looks human hanging around the place - thing his the other new comers might not be that welcoming.

He is sharing a house (a floor?) with a bunch of strangers, and that is a mess ready to happen when you are Kaneki and a human-turned-ghoul who has a lot of interest in keeping what he is a secret. Eventually kaneki has to figure out what to do about that situation, but there are so many things happening right now that he is going to put a pin on that and come back to the subject eventually.

Right now Kaneki is exploring the place, specifically the kitchen, trying to find where the coffee is - if there is any in this place. Apparently that's his priority, who would have thought. Whenever he finds actual food, he glances at it with a sort of sick loo, before he closes the cabinet and goes about to look for what he really wants. With a sigh, he eventually just gives up; kaneki doesn't want to touch other people's things and food, so he doesn't think he should be touching everything in order to find his coffee ]

... I guess I can try to find a coffee shop...

Picnic

[ Kaneki still looks a bit lost, but at least he has coffee in his hands now, which means he did find a place that had something decent. The Flower Festival reminds him of Hanami in some ways, which is very nice and it helps him to feel a bit better and less freaked out. However, he isn't sure how to enjoy it.

He doesn't know anyone, he can't eat anything - though some tried to shove food at his face asking if he'd like to buy something -, his life mostly sucks, and Kaneki -while he adapts easily- is still very worried about his current situation and what it means for him and everyone else around him.

Eventually the boy sits down under a tree while he watches some of the people dancing, and when he is satisfied with his place, Kaneki takes out a small book he borrowed from the library ]

Wildcard

[ Feel free to make your own prompt, Kaneki is around exploring ]

[Wikus is having a terrible time enjoying the festival, but he thought he could at least enjoy the food. Wrong.

Leaning against a tree, he stares forlornly at the ambrosia salad he'd picked out. It should be delicious. It looks delicious. But instead it's just... Bland. Like he was eating plain porridge instead of a sweet dessert.

In a fit of irritation, he lobs his spoon at the nearest trash can. The dessert salad almost follows, but... That seems like kind of a waste.

He glances at the boy reading nearby.]

Hey kid, you want this?

[He holds out the bowl of dessert in his human hand, the alien one buried deep in his hoodie pocket. There's not much to see of him with his hood pulled low over his face, but something probably still looks... Off.

If Kaneki catches a whiff of him, he probably smells like fresh blood, human, and a heavy dose of something completely unfamiliar.]

[ Kaneki's eyes peel away from the book to look up at the man. kaneki doesn't focus too hard on his scent, and thankfully it's mostly masked by the smell of food and flowers (neither of them are good smells, actually) , but he does sense that something is strange.

however, Kaneki being Kaneki, he doesn't think too hard about it, neither he stares (that would be rude). But when he looks at the salad, kaneki almost makes a face.

That's so gross to him, so disgusting, and it only brings memories of how something like that would taste - which would be something beyond gross. Kaneki shakes his head after and smiles politely ]

I'm sorry, I don't agree with it. [ he doesn't lie, but Kaneki does make it sound like he already had a taste] Not your thing either? [ technically speaking, the salad doesn't look that bad. It looks nice, so he doesn't get why the other would be offering it to him ]

Guess not. [With a bit of groan, Wikus stiffly seats himself on the ground, leaning against a tree, and sets the unwanted dessert next to him.]

Nothing fokken tastes right... [It's muttered out loud, but doesn't actually seem to be directed at Kaneki, Wikus's gazed fixed on the colorful picnickers. Then his attention shifts back to the boy.] What are you, lactose intolerant?

[Even with the shadow from his hood, if Kaneki makes eye-contact it's probably obvious that Wikus's left eye isn't the same color or size as the right.]

[ kaneki catches the whisper; he isn't the kind to pry, but he is curious, in all honestly. But another question comes and with an awkward smile he nods ] Something like that. [ he is everything intolerant, actually. Again, he isn't lying, but also not saying the truth ]

Uhm- are you new here too? [ because kaneki just arrived a few days ago and everything is so confusing - there are others who were here before he did.

But catching a glimpse of Wiku's eye, his curiosity shifts to something else: ] Are you alright? [ he doesn't look alright AT ALL ]

Yeah, I'm new. I- [He's interrupted by Kaneki's next question.] What? Of course I'm- why would you-

[Eyes widening, Wikus quickly tugs his hood down further over his eyes... Temporarily forgetting that one of his hands has two dark tentacles instead of five regular fingers. Cursing, he shoves the mutant hand back in his hoodie pocket.]

I'm fine! I'm just going through some stuff- mind your own fokken business!

[Wikus? Twitchy and defensive? No way!]

Ken Kaneki || OTA

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