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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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He drifts upwards first: so Dick gets a bird's eye view of the city at night. Clark smiles at him as if to say ready?
They fly to the forest, the wind whipping through their hair. Clark's smiling; flying is always a joy, and not one he's often had the chance to share.
Stopping over a derelict building, he descends slowly until they're both standing on the ground. ]
Here we are.
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There's not much that looks bad from that height.
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[ In front of them, there's a collapsed building. The others around are still standing. Clark quickly checks their structural integrity. ]
Where do you want to start?
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[ He casts a quick glance at Clark, suddenly a little shy in spite of himself. Comfortable as he is taking charge in the field, the list of heroes he's led into battle hasn't often included Superman. ]
Unless, uh- you've got a better plan.
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He smiles despite their serious conversation. ]
There're no monsters here. I can see several basements that aren't empty. It'd take a while to dig out with the two of us.
[ Even for him, with his strength. ]
Should this be an ongoing salvage mission?
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If you want to take the heavy lifting, we could start with some recon.
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Let's do that. Have a look around, I'll get started clearing this.
Shout if you need me.
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What is he supposed to be doing here, when his own home lies in ruins? When even Superman can't snap his fingers and make it right?
He glances behind him, instinctively looking for Clark as if somehow just watching him work will give him the answer, and abruptly something under his foot creaks, then snaps.
His reflexes save him from a bad fall. He snags a protruding support beam with his line and holds on just long enough to brace for a landing in the space below. He stands up slowly, wincing only a little. Sure enough, the sharp edge snapped the line in two. ]
Hey, uh- Clark? [ It occurs to him a little late that they haven't really established what his preference is for field names. He pitches his voice low, just in case. ]
I hate to ask, but...
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He hears Dick's heart-rate spike along with the crack of the floor giving way. Clark looks towards him in alarm, breathing a sigh of relief as Dick lands safely. ]
I'm here.
[ He hovers above the opening and peers in. ]
Are you all right?
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Think you could give me a hand up? Might be a good idea to hunt down the other entrance.
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[ He clears the opening of sharp edges and blockades the way towards it so no one else coming here will fall into the hole. Then, he lands on the ground and holds out his hand for Dick, while looking around the room. ]
This seems like a basement under a basement.
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You see that a lot in Gotham. People barricading themselves. Sometimes on top of whatever used to be there.
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[ He rises slowly so Dick can have a good look around. ]
What's Gotham like?
[ He sees that it needs people like this mysterious Batman and Nightwing and has places like this basement.
It troubles him. ]
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...But it's always had something.
Batman used to say it had a beating heart. That he could feel when it was lost. [ Which... somehow sounds a little silly put into words. It had made him laugh when he was Robin.
How things have changed. ]
...Anyway, it's crime ridden. Corruption from the top down. But somehow that makes the good people stand out even more. The ones who aren't gonna be deterred by the challenge.
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If Gotham can produce Dick Grayson, it's not all bad. ]
I agree. It sounds like it keeps you busy.
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We had a quake last year. It was... bad. A lot of the infrastructure of the city hasn't recovered. [ He climbs down the embankment, stopping to survey the basement from the new angle. Cold facts, with so many lost human lives behind them. His shoulders hunch a bit. ]
...This actually feels a lot more like home right now than it should.
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[ Clark can't hide the flash of empathy in his eyes. ]
This is a lot like Metropolis after General Zod's attack. The city's still rebuilding.
no worries!
...Wait a minute, back up. What happened with General Zod?
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He and his followers intended to terraform Earth into a new Krypton. They sent one of the world engines to the Indian Ocean, and the other to Metropolis. Zod engaged me in the city. [ He'd kept Clark there, intending for civilian casualties. ] I've had years on Earth to learn how strong I am. He hadn't, and he didn't care to.
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...I wish I could've been there. [ There's a Kryptonite cannon in the batcave that comes to mind. ]
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I hope that you are if there's a second time. You, and your partner, along with the Justice League you told me about.
[ He has to believe he's not alone. ]
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This is Clark. He should've known better. ]
For what it's worth, I think there's a good chance.
...Not that I've exactly run the alternate reality gamut. But I get the sense you don't tend to stay the one and only for very long.
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[ Clark worries about the new aliens and metahumans who aren't devoted to helping or protecting humanity. The ones out there in the universe who are looking for somewhere to carve up and don't care who they hurt. He doesn't know what's out there.
Any help with that is welcome. ]
Let's start with this pile, shall we?