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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-03-08 09:49 am

introductory mingle: SAMPREMI

who: everyone in Riverview!
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

sampremi celebration



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.




street market



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!



visual inspiration


click on thumbnails for larger view


Credit (left to right): Theo Prins, andreasrocha @ tumblr, hrormir @ deviantart, nkabuto @ deviantart

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bespredel: (Oɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰɪʀᴇ ʙʀɪɢᴀᴅᴇ)

[personal profile] bespredel 2017-03-17 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yuri winds up for his next throw, snarling as he drives the ball forward with as much force as his body can muster. He releases, throwing as hard as he can, as accurately as he can. It hits the stack square in the middle, against the two center bottles. The top wobbles- but doesn't fall. The two he hit hardly even budged at all. ]

BULLSHIT. [ He roars it, before rounding on Tony, snarling like an animal. ] Oh yeah? And what the hell do you know about it? Are you a god damned baseball player? Think you can do better? Go ahead!

[ Angrily Yuri gestures at the last ball on the table before him, positively steaming at suffering another miss. ]
amelioraate: ([ comic ] this is my unimpressed stare)

[personal profile] amelioraate 2017-03-18 07:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[ That just... has Tony blinking. Because, wow, you are full of rage and spite there, aren't you child.

Tony finds it both amusing and horrifying and is a little torn between the idea of staying, and just... backing away slowly. Really, he has enough blonds that want to murder him (or, you know, at least kind of want to strangle him out of affection or something). However, he doesn't. Mainly because, wow, that is rigged and while Tony isn't surprised, he is annoyed.

Shitty fair and their shitty rules.]


Nah, not a baseball player, physicist, though. And science states that those should have fallen over when you hit them so, either this place doesn't abide by the rules of physics, orrrr-- [ He gives the guy manning the booth a bit of a look. The kind that he gives assholes in the meeting room, it's not a nice look.] This guy doesn't play by the rules of fairness.

[ He turns back to Yuri, sharklike grin on his face as he picks up the last ball.] Which one do you think is more likely there?
bespredel: (Aɴᴅ ɪꜰ ɪ'ᴍ ꜰᴏʀɢᴏᴛᴛᴇɴ)

[personal profile] bespredel 2017-03-30 10:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh Tony, you really have no idea.

Pricking up the last ball, Yuri rolled it along his palm, tossing it up and down the air and glaring murderously at the carnie in question. His jaw locked, his teeth grinding. He stopped tossing the ball abruptly, instead just gripping it tightly, digging his fingers into the soft, worn leather.
]

I should have just thrown the ball at your god damn face after the third one. [ Yuri spat, his temper rising even further, scowling and looking as though he might do just that if he wasn't stopped. ]