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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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Taako.
[He barely manages to successfully introduce himself to most people he meets, so it's probably for the best that Bryn took the lead on that one, even if it wasn't as smooth as it could be.
But he does offer his hand to shake, so there's that. He has some manners, like at least two.]
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I'm Bryn. Nice to meet you Taako, and seriously, thanks for the assist. And if you won't take a prize then will you take a snack? Or a drink?
[They're all buy one get one free so it's a little self-serving but who cares when there's good food to eat and good drinks to enjoy?]
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Hell, I'll take both. I never say no to free shit.
[Free things are the best things.]
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Come on then, let's get wrecked and stuff our faces.
[Heading off from the booth, her own trinket of a prize in hand, she scans the horizon for food or alcohol, whichever she spots first.]
Any preference? I'll take just about anything.
[No picky eaters here.]
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Oh thank the gods, I've been waiting for someone to say that.
[Mostly the "get wrecked" part because it's kind of just depressing to get drunk alone, but doing it with someone else means having fun. Logic.]
Wine or cocktails, if we're talking booze. Nothing that died, if we're talking snacks.
[Sorry he's vegetarian, it's a tragedy.]
There were some bars and shit over that way.
[With a vague gesture towards their right. Not that he was keeping track of where the alcohol was or anything.]
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Strong alcohol and meat-free snacks. I think we can manage that.
[And a bar would be welcome after all of the street wandering. She wants to sit and enjoy herself.]
So, speaking of gods, do you mind if I ask what the situation is with yours back home? I mean, there are multiple, I assume from what you said, but are they present? Do they ever actually communicate or show up on the mortal planes?
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[In a moment of actual honest-to-god foresight, he decided to actually wear it around his neck, rather than just toss it into his room as soon as he got home, so Taako tugs on the piece of cord and lifts the bag of requirement from where it was hiding under his shirt, to show Bryn.
It's just a small thing, a simple bag wrapped in gold chain and sealed with a padlock, but it's the most demonstrable thing he has, when it comes to gods. There's also clerics, and Merle's arm, and Kravitz, who proves the existence of the Raven Queen, but he doesn't have any of that stuff here with him.]
She said it'd open when I need it.
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Her eyes flick to the bag at the end of the cord, careful to only examine with a look, to not reach out and touch it. The padlock seems like a source of security, however...]
What if you need it quickly? Do you have the to that little lock?
[She accepts what he says without question, however. If he says it is from one of his deities then she believes him.]
Do you know what will happen when you open it?
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[He tried to open it using magic, but nothing happened, so he's having the tiniest bit of faith that Istus might actually know what she's doing. When push comes to shove, it'll do whatever it needs to do.
The fact that Istus cleaned up the whole mess with Refuge helps him trust her, just a little.]
Lemme guess, you're kinda weirded out that no one here is chill with their gods?
[They either don't have any, or they believe in them but don't have proof, which is as odd to him as it is to Bryn.]
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Something like that, yeah. I mean, in my country, our deities have been with us for centuries. They're not just holed up in their temples with their priests or priestesses either. They walk the streets. They go to shows. They visit the markets and throw parties and crash dinners. They're part of our community, not above it, not...silent. As if we're not even worth speaking to.
[Her lips twist with frustration, and she pulls the door to the bar open with a huff of breath.]
It's not like that in every country in my world but it's like that in others as well, at least. It's known.
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If he was an all-powerful god he probably wouldn't hang out with a bunch of loser mortals, to be honest.]
I gotta admit, that sounds annoying as shit.
[Taako tucks the gift back under his shirt, sweeping into the bar with that little bit of a spring still in his step, and claiming the first spot at the bar he sees.]
How are you supposed to be the hottest one in a room if a god can swan in whenever the fuck they want?
[This is his problem with gods walking among regular folk, apparently.]
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Who says divine presence means peak physical perfection? [She grins.] It doesn't matter who walks in, I'm always the hottest one in the room.
[Of course...]
Though I admit you would give me a run for my money. Maybe if I drink enough you'll seem less pretty instead of more.
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Listen, there's nothing pretty about a messy drunk, so if you're giving those drinks to me...
[It's hard to tell whether he's joking about that or not, but it'd probably be safe to say he's just trying ("trying") to con more booze out of her.]
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I'll stand the first round, and maybe the second if only to get you on your way toward messy, though I don't for a minute believe it's possible.
[If he doesn't return the favor and stand the second round of drinks it may be fewer and far between that she offers him free drinks but for the moment she's pleased and entertained, which seems worth the cost for good company.]
What are you having?
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In respect for your wallet, I'll start with a sauv blanc.
[Cocktails are always more expensive, and he might try to find a cute guy or two to talk into buying him those, rather than burden his new friend with the terrible debt.
As soon as the drinks are ordered, Taako rests an elbow on the bar, dropping his chin into his hand, the perfect picture of attention.]
So who's your favorite god, or is that not allowed, like parents picking their favorite brat?
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Oh, it's allowed. They pick their favorites and they can't very well stop human nature. Though it is blighting rude to talk about a favorite deity in front of another. Like, to state it outright.
Mine, though, I have a few. Briella, Sheiva, and Nimaht are my top three, probably. Briella's a warrior at heart, strong and proud. She makes quite the impression, especially when you're a sixteen year old recruit to the sky guard. Sheiva's our magpie. Damned fickle but she knows how to live and throws the best bashes in Khipari. And Nimaht, well, she and Sheiva would gleefully rip each others' hair out but she has her own good qualities. She's quick and she's clever.
[She pauses a beat.]
They all have their good qualities honestly but favorites are favorites for a reason.
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But he's still a wizard, and learning about things is interesting, even if it's something he's likely never going to experience, so he can give Bryn his attention as she talks about her gods.]
Sheiva sounds like she'd be right up my alley. [Between the "magpie" part and "party" part, that's really all Taako would need in a god.] I dunno how our lot feel about all that worship all over the place. Istus and the Raven Queen get along, last I heard, but I figure there's only so many prayers to go around, right?
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[She cants her head to the side, accepting the glass of wine when it comes to her.]
Who are Istus and the Raven Queen?
[Her curiosity isn't unfeigned. As much as she enjoys talking about her home, she does enjoy learning about others, and she's had so many conversations like this before with others in her line of work that it's second nature to ask and listen.]
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[Which is, mostly, a joke, since Bryn made it clear that her gods don't really think of it that way.]
They're fate and death, respectively. Istus is in our corner, which is real fucking lucky 'cause I think the Raven Queen probably hates us, what with all the dying.
[Specifically, the dying and not going to the astral plane part.]
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[But there are no doubt nuances that she's missing here. Something she doesn't know about the dynamic between the gods and between them and the mortals of their world.]
Where do you fit in with all of them?
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[Which is not him, so he can kind of understand where the issue is coming from on that front.]
Me like, personally? Or elves? Or just mortals in general?
[They're all three different answers, although elves aren't particularly different from other mortals, in how they related to gods.]
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You, personally. Or elves if it ties in?
[Really, whatever he's comfortable telling her about. She's happy to sit back and drink her wine and listen a while.]
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[Somewhere, Istus is probably making a face at him, but that's not Taako' problem.]
I'm not all that up on whatever elves are into these days.
[There's a lot behind that comment, all of it unspoken. He doesn't know what elves believe in because he isn't really tied to his culture, he hasn't been since his family died.]