riverviewlogs | 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

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

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If Steve thinks the communal shower is awkward, he should talk to Cecelia, who is horrified. Don't get her wrong; the luxury of running water whenever you want it is fabulous, and a toilet even more so. But she simply feels exposed with such a process of getting clean. Which is why if a kitchen chair goes missing, it's because she's using it to block the bathroom door shut behind her.

But they're not awkwardly meeting while trying to get to the bathroom, thankfully. They're meeting in the kitchen, which is an unusual place for the woman who has never cooked for herself before. She stops next to the fridge, looking up at him curiously. Very high up. She's quite petite.

"You can cook, sir?"

"As long as it's nothing fancy." Steve gives her a bit of a sheepish smile. "I've been watching a lot of that cooking network, but I haven't even heard of some of those ingredients." What the hell is a casaba melon anyway.

"But I am pretty confident in my breakfast making skills. Any requests?"

Watching the cooking network? Is that a group of cooks who demonstrate somewhere, she wonders.

"I hardly know what to ask for. Can you make eggs?" That seems simple enough, and a part of a good English breakfast. Though she wonders if she shouldn't help in some fashion. "I confess, I have never cooked a day in my life, but I would assist you, if you would like Mr...?" Please insert name here for her. Introductions are vital to continued conversation with her.

"Steve Rogers. Please, call me Steve."

He offers, not wanting her to feel like she has to be so formal with him. He's pleased by her choice of breakfast foods too. It's something he has experience with.

"And eggs happen to be a specialty of mine. How do you like them?" Steve grabs a bowl and a few other things, stepping to one side to make room for her to join him. "Personally, I like a few slices of bacon on the side, but I understand that some people don't eat it."

"If you insist," she says, though there's a wrinkle on her forehead that suggests this isn't the norm for her. People don't address each other by their Christian names at home.

"However you wish to make them. I have eaten them many ways." And some require a bit more skill than just scrambling them. "I will eat bacon too." A werewolf never turns down an offer of meat. That would just be silly.

"Now you're speaking my language."

Steve focuses on breakfast for the next few minutes, eggs fixed over-easy, bacon and toast to go with it. It's all fairly simple, she probably wouldn't have any trouble with it herself after just watching him.

"There we go, just like my favorite diner used to make."

His actions are closely watched, so Cecelia can figure it out for herself. She's used a toasting fork over the fire, but that's more a novelty that anything else. Putting the bread in the little machine and pressing down the handle seems simple enough. Is that really all there is to it? The eggs and bacon really seem to take care of themselves, and the only thing she worries about is making sure the bacon grease doesn't splatter.

"How do you control the fire?" she asks, before peeking under the pan. "Or... whatever this is."

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