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riverviewlogs2017-03-08 09:49 am
- !mod post: holiday,
- !mod post: monthly mingle,
- degrassi: lola pacini,
- marvel (616): billy kaplan,
- marvel (616): bucky barnes,
- marvel (616): loki laufeyson,
- marvel (616): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): natasha romanoff,
- marvel (mcu): sam wilson,
- marvel (mcu): steve rogers,
- marvel (mcu): wanda maximoff,
- original: shigeru miyata,
- the adventure zone: taako taaco,
- ✖ buffy the vampire slayer: buffy summer,
- ✖ dc comics (dcnu): jason todd,
- ✖ dc comics (preboot): dick grayson,
- ✖ dceu: clark kent,
- ✖ dctv (arrow): curtis holt,
- ✖ dctv (arrow): ray palmer,
- ✖ dctv (flash): caitlin snow,
- ✖ dctv (flash): eddie thawne,
- ✖ dragon age: morrigan,
- ✖ dragon age: sera,
- ✖ lazer team: adam,
- ✖ magic the gathering: chandra nalaar,
- ✖ marvel (616): tony stark,
- ✖ marvel (mcu): scott lang,
- ✖ marvel (tv): matt murdock,
- ✖ original: benjamin holt,
- ✖ original: bryn zethir,
- ✖ original: cecelia wynn,
- ✖ original: letha regis,
- ✖ original: william holt,
- ✖ pokemon (xy/xyz): augustine sycamore,
- ✖ prison break: michael scofield,
- ✖ teen wolf: derek hale,
- ✖ the last of us: ellie,
- ✖ the order of the stick: roy greenhilt,
- ✖ the raven cycle: ronan lynch,
- ✖ the walking dead: carl grimes,
- ✖ the walking dead: clementine,
- ✖ the walking dead: rick grimes,
- ✖ true blood: alcide herveaux,
- ✖ vampire: the masquerade: fatima merali,
- ✖ vikings: ivar ragnarsson,
- ✖ yuri on ice: yuri plisetsky
introductory mingle: SAMPREMI
what: Introductory Log and Sampremi Celebration
when: March 8th - March 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 March 8th, new residents may notice advertising around the city, everywhere from digital screens to paper flyers pasted on blank walls, featuring the name of the spring holiday in celebration of new beginnings, new love, and lust: Sampremi. The advertising mentions that there will be street festivals set up at various locations throughout the week and lists where the market will be set up on each day.
The main draw of the holiday is a roaming street market that features special treats and street food that can only be found during Sampremi, a bustling bargain market with any kind of goods you can think of, and fair games that allow a person to win a prize for that special someone.
i. street food
One of the major draws of the festival is the special street food that can only be obtained this time of year. Almost everything you can buy at the Sampremi Festival is meant to be shared - whether it's one piece of meat on two sticks or desserts baked with a narrow part in the middle for convenient tearing, everything is built in twos. The stalls sell everything from cups of soup, sandwiches, roasted or fried meat, deep-fried vegetables and cakes, dumplings, donuts, bagels, turnovers, and anything else you can think of.
Many of the savory dishes are based on the meat of a particular fowl native to the moon Riverview is situated on that has a taste and texture halfway between chicken and duck, cooked to be spicy (ranging from very mild to throat-burning). Many of the desserts are based around a fruit native to the moon that is spherical, red-orange, and has a light sweet taste that is similar to a combination of mango, pineapple, and strawberry. Both ingredients are considered to be aphrodisiacs. Of course, the foods aren't actually aphrodisiacs and any effect is purely placebo.
ii. fair games
The festival features an entire row of fair games ranging from very high-tech games featuring virtual reality and neon holograms to extremely old-fashioned games with darts and balloons or balls and glasses. The games all have prizes in various shapes and sizes, with the standard stuffed animals, but also with goods and special items donated by any business in the city; ranging from tiny prizes to huge and expensive ones.
Due to the nature of the holiday, many of the stalls are set up to cater to winning a prize for your partner, and due to the nature of the Quarantine, a lot of them involve aiming or other aspects of pretending to fight.
iii. shopping
Originally, the part of the street festival that involved an actual market, with stalls and booths set up with goods, was aimed primarily at romantic trinkets like flowers or jewelry, gifts intended to be purchased for a loved one. As time has gone by, however, this aspect of the market has increased, with many businesses participating, though the emphasis is still on small businesses and anything relating to local culture rather than booths for any of the larger more corporate businesses.
There is still plenty of jewelry to be found, for sure, mostly handmade and artisan, but the scope of the Market has widened immeasurably. The Sampremi Market is an excellent place to find specialty foods, clothing, jewelry, art, or other goods that were originally native to cultures on other planets in this reality, or other realities altogether. Many residents in the city use the market to share their unique cultural goods and traditional dress with others.
iv. adult
In a side alley of the Sampremi Market on any day, one can find an area roped off with a red silken cord, attended by members of the Perimeter Guard in casual dress who will ID anyone entering to make sure they are 18+. Once characters are permitted entry, they will find all of the adult offerings that the market has to offer.
Since Sampremi is, historically, a celebration of lust and physical love, the adult offerings are all set up to cater to two or more people of any sex or gender configuration. One can find an adult or sexualized version of almost anything that's featured in the main market, from fair games to adult goods to street food laced with actual aphrodisiacs (there are always warnings for food spiked in this way to avoid accidental consumption).
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 Sampremi Festival, feel free to write it up!
Credit (left to right): Theo Prins, andreasrocha @ tumblr, hrormir @ deviantart, nkabuto @ deviantart
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I'm sure he still loves me, even if I'm dead... he came to visit me every day after I died. But that just makes me miss him.
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Maybe you'll get lucky and he'll show up here. Seems like the rules of this place are fucking weird.
[Bless his lil heart he's trying so hard.]
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[She hesitates, before redressing in her own dress and moving the curtain aside.] The purple one didn't fit right... but I think I'll keep the other two. Perhaps we can find a few more things that match them.
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Hell yeah, let's get you accessorized. Can't have you wandering around in just pretty dresses.
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[She indicates the pin which is holding up her hair - it's adorned with the feathers and skull of a crow, with emeralds in the eye sockets.]
Back in my world, I could hear it when my crow crew. But I can't contact the Netherworld here, so I can't hear it anymore. I thought... maybe if I can find something that died here, I'll be able to hear it.
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There has to be someone here that makes shit outta bones. And hell, if not, I know someone who could probably hook you up.
[Ellie had been hunting, after all, and Taako doubts she needs to keep the bones.]
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[Although, she hasn't run across any corpses yet... which is vaguely disappointing
She moves to buy the dresses she'd selected, and folds them neatly over her arm before turning to him.]
Where shall we go next, then? If you don't mind continuing to accompany me.
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I don't mind at all, if you promise we can swing by one of those stalls selling coffee.
[That's not much of a requirement, but he's just discovered coffee and is pretty into it.]
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[Little does Taako know how ill-advised it is to let Letha near caffeine.]
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I found one with these uh, syrups in them. With all kinds of flavors, which is rad as hell.
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[Between the tear-jerkingly spicy meats and throat-burningly sweet cakes..]
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[Not together (although someone introduce him to pumpkin spice lattes) but he's gotten used to mess hall food.]
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[She rests her hands around her belly, pursing her lips. She's never heard anything against spicy food, but the Regis clan doesn't tend to have very exotic foods to sample. It just.. feels like she's eaten something she shouldn't have.]
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[Which doesn't necessarily mean it's fine, but maybe it'll ease a little of that worry.]
Ask at your next check up! Someone took you to a doctor, right?
[He kind of assumes they would, that would only be sensible.]
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[Doctors are still a rare commodity in Thornwell, and generally considered unnecessary. If someone does something stupid enough to need a doctor, they generally don't get much sympathy.]
Do you think I should contact one?
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[Despite coming from Fantasy World (tm) a lot of mod cons are available, like modern medical care.]
They can check up on the baby and make sure it's all going sweet, and if you got any questions about the food or whatever they'll be able to answer way better than any of us idiots will.
[He's including himself in that because he really does not know enough about this world, or pregnancy, to be offering too much advice.]
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I should have thought of that... this world is a lot more advanced than mine, no doubt the doctors know a lot about pregnancies. And well, it's my first child, I was really expecting to have my hand held the whole way...
[Now she feels terrible, she's going to be the worst mom.]
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Hey, bubbale, you're in this crazy new world with like, a whole lot of shit that doesn't make sense, no one's gonna blame you for taking a little while to figure it out.
[Including the pregnancy, and how that works in a place like this. He's been to secluded towns where it's mostly just midwives who handle the whole baby thing, all done at home, and he's assuming that's likely what Letha would have done.]
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I know, I know, I just... I can't help but think of how many other mistakes I might make, and I don't have Aristeo to help or really anyone who has any particular reason to invest in the baby's survival, and what if I let it die in its sleep...
[She had meant to circumvent the worry, but here she is noticing that all of her worries have started to spill out in a gush of flustered stammering. She stops speaking suddenly, and pulls a fan from a hidden pocket in her dress to fan herself.]
I'm sorry, you really don't have to worry about this...
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If there's one thing I've learned in my many, many years, it's that people fucking love babies. Give 'em like ten seconds and they're attached. I'd bet anything you'll get as much help as you need, you'll have so many offers to babysit you'll have to beat 'em away with a stick.
[He travelled with the caravans long enough to see plenty of babies born, and everyone tended to pitch in to help, even those who insisted they didn't give a shit about anyone else.]
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In my family people rarely give you any help... they're too busy with their own families to help someone else's. And I have nothing to offer anyone here, nor any authority over them. It seems so odd that they would show me kindness.
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[This is his very thoughtful explanation for it, because sometimes he still doesn't get that mindset, people helping out just because they can, not for anything in return. He survived because he had something to offer, not because people were nice.
But things were harder back then, after the war.]
And you've got ages before the baby shows up anyway, don't cha? You'll figure some shit out by then.
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[She stops walking, and gives him a shy smile.]
Thank you for listening, though. You have very little reason to care, so it means a lot.
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[That is, mostly, the truth, although he's pretending to be more pragmatic than he secretly is. But he doesn't want anyone to think he's nice or anything.]
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You can't fool me, you didn't have to give me a second glance when I got your attention. You're a much kinder person than you seem to think you are.
[No one pretends not to care like a Regis, and her husband's the master of it. Taako seems almost like a bleeding heart by her standards.]
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