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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
Shopping
Excuse me, and please pardon a question based solely on inferences derived from your choice of hat, but would you happen to know if they're selling any magic items here?
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[The whole point of the hat is to let people know he's a wizard, so he's not particularly bothered by the assumption.]
Afraid I haven't seen any cool magic shit yet, but hey, maybe I can hook you up! What are you after?
[He has so many ridiculous magical items that he barely even uses, and he'd be willing to part with some of them.]
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That's a joke.]
Yeah, I'm shit out of luck on the healing front, was worried about that one myself. [Since he's got a whole fucking forty nine hit points! Forty nine!] And the only pocket dimensions I got are for myself, sorry dude.
[Ask him to turn into a giant wolf and he's got you, but healing is not a strong point. Or a point at all.]
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Damn. Well, it was worth a shot anyway -- there's so much stuff here, I keep hoping the magic will turn up among all the devices and gadgets and stuff. All that just seems a lot more common though.
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[Everyone here is from places with guns and just so many goddamn humans.]
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Guess we may have to find it the old-fashioned dungeon-crawling way, though.
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[He's had Enough, especially after Wonderland.]
They got doctors here, that'll do me.
[He lives on a secret fake moon base, he's fine with doctors.]
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They aren't very portable or quick, though, otherwise I might be able to get behind that too. A susbet of us at least needs to get outside the walls, though.
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[It's basically the same as dragging a cleric along on a mission, possibly more useful?
He doesn't actually know that field medics exist, so he's going to credit himself for inventing them as of this moment.]
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I can guarantee that I have not, my man. [Is that an important thing he should've paid attention to, because he didn't.] I checked on Istus and the Raven Queen and stopped caring after that.
[The only two gods he cares about, and the Raven Queen only because he'd hoped Kravitz might be around.]
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The gods are gone.
[Merle's guardian of faith flickering out of existence, Pan going silent, Kravitz drowning in that black ink.
Paloma's prophecy.
The gods aren't there to answer, and whatever happened to the ones in his world might have happened to the ones here.]
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[Roy rubs his chin absently with one hand as he contemplates that statement. Actually, it would go a long distance to explaining a number of the quirks and foibles of this world -- lack of clerics, lack of religious iconography anywhere, general level of disaster.]
You might be on to something there.
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So Taako's a little distracted, for a moment, before he finally responds.]
Some shit's going down with like, the planes of existence, or I think- I think it is? It's been a long week.
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[Roy shakes his head. At the moment he'd give a lot to know if they were on a Prime or a demiplane, but no one here even seems to understand the question.]
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[Taako clicks, something else occurring to him, and then he fucking disappears, without warning because that's the sort of person he is.
What he's done is cast Blink to move into the Ethereal plane, looking for the eyes that he's seen everything other fucking time he's cast this spell, but there's nothing there.
Six seconds later, he reappears.]
So, no creepy eyes hanging out in the Ethereal plane, good to know.
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I think knowing that we can reach the Ethereal from here is valuable information in and of itself, honestly. [And kind of lucky for Taako.] Although it doesn't limit the assumptions we already have, unfortunately, it's at least evidence that we aren't wrong.
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[He's not annoyed at Roy, just generally frustrated that there's all this seemingly big stuff going on that he doesn't understand. He also hates being worried, since that means he gives a shit.]
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[Or heaven, although Roy doesn't remember hearing about the Dungeon of Monsters That Are Just Strong Enough to Really Challenge You.]