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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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It's not a question. Probably should be, but Sera's imagination is making the decision for them both. She's seen giant all kinda things. Could imagine a big people-eating bird. She doesn't much think she'd want to eat something that ate people, either. But these are small...
Still. It's a kinda weird she can live with.
"So. Spiced up...uh. Potatoes? Or something?"
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That makes just as much sense as anything else, and this way he doesn't have to come up with a lie to explain it.
"If you're real set on spicy shit, they got this whole noodle soup thing that people were crying while eating."
Why is he even doing this there's no reason to eat a bunch of spicy things and suffer, but Sera challenged him so now he's determined to not be a weenie.
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Noodles. An extra challenge will be who can eat them the messiest, but that is a bonus to unlock as they go. Sera offers her hand for the ceremonial shake before they throw down.
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It would absolutely be cheating, unless Sera can also use magic, which she can't.
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"You're a mage? Friggin' right that's out!"
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She actually sounds a little surprised she has to spell that out. Who didn't have problems with mages? They could summon down fire and lightening and turn into demons. And life was hard enough with just the normal kind of power rich arseholes wielded against the masses.
"What're you thinkin'? Running around, lookin' to use demon-shite for eating noodles?"
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Said with the blind conviction of someone that doesn't often rethink their own prejudices.
"You just walk 'round, throwin' it round at folks like old garbage?"
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"Listen, you wanna be a dick about it that's cool, no skin off my nose, but magic's just a tool. I didn't make a deal with a demon or a god or whatever the fuck to get it, I just studied, like all wizards do."
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She didn't care mages were born with it. It didn't change anything. He was still just going around, using magic on stupid shite like a...a she didn't even know. Horrible mage.
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A little insensitive, maybe, but as much as he said that he doesn't care, her attitude has got his hackles up.
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Like, forever ago. But that was what her religion was kinda built on here. Hard to just let that kind of thing go.
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"There weren't any like, insanely powerful magical items involved in that, was there? Seven of them, maybe?"
I am only at petal to the metal but that made me laugh
Now he's just confusing her. It's hard to be angry when he's throwing out so many rabbits to chase. Warlocks, magic items.
"Just got bored being all magic like and tried to be gods."
Look its a legitimate concern
"So a bunch of assholes were assholes and now everyone who uses magic is bad?" That's the gist he's getting from her, "That's stupid as hell."
In his very expert opinion.
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Not letting go of this. But...
"Why're you still chatting about all this, eh? Too many people 'round?"
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And anyway, his thoughts don't go to 'I'm gonna kick her ass' because he's not going to waste a spell slot on this, just his breath.
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Neither are reactions she has had from the small handful of mages she's ever met, ever. But clearly the ones she met were exceptions, while all the rest must live up to the stereotype.
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This is so dumb, and he can't help but throw his hands up in the air, frustrated, "Just 'cause you've got whatever the fuck going on where you come from doesn't-- it doesn't mean everyone does! I'm just a wizard, a transmutation wizard, I turn shit into other shit. I don't summon demons."
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That, technically, makes it fools on her. But he's snapping, she's snapping, and the only two elves in town might just be gathering a small crowd at this point. So she finishes with a very dignified sticking out of her tongue.
"Nyah!"
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"The fuck!" If he's so dangerous, apparently, shouldn't she be stabbing him or running away or something, not picking stupid fights, "I don't wanna like, agree to disagree, because you're wrong as hell, but this is stupid. You know this is stupid, right?"
It's real stupid.
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Being abducted away from important places, defending walls that don't really matter from things she don't know shite about. Really, this is one of the least stupid battles she's been in lately.
"But...fine. Yeah, it's- ugh. Magic's cheating, yeah?"
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But at least Sera seems to have dropped the whole magic users are evil thing, at least for the moment.
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And, despite pulling her hand back earlier, she offers it again to shake and agree in terms. It's a complicated world.
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