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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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But it's fine, he'll lead this quest-- down a random street. Maybe they'll luck out and find some store that says it has comics or something anyway.]
I think this feels like a good way to go.
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[The idea of directionless wandering has some appeal, too. Making friends has not exactly been a top priority, but to some degree Ben supposes that it should be, at some point. Billy sems nice enough, even if Ben has taken William's cool guy rep and all but ran it over with nerdy mud. Also, comic books. Ben loves them too, which is only a plus.
The streets are a weird dichotomy of familiar and alien; they sort of look like home and then, out of the corner of his eye he will spy someone who is absolutely not human. He kind of loves it. Truthfully, he's feeling the urge to nerd out more about this than comic books. For now, anyway. Eventually it'll feel normal, but comic books will always be exciting.]
Moments like this you miss skate parks and kids with giant backpacks to point you in the right way, huh? [ben you are literally that very kid.]
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[Billy isn't-- entirely sure how to feel about this place. It's familiar enough, and to be honest, he's seen weirder. He's dimension hopped through so many places, seen so much worse out there that this-- isn't even half as bad.
But it's still... kind of a blow, really. He thought he was finally back home, that he'd get to be with his boyfriend and his family, that he'd get to see his own twin who'd been lost for months.
Then he wound up here the very second.
But dwelling on that is a sure why to make sure no forward progress is made and getting home, getting back to all those people, needs to be top priority. Also-- connecting with people here, he guesses. No one's getting anything done alone, and everyone is in exactly the same situation as him. They need to work together.
He snorts, looking over his shoulder.]
Were you a skater? Because that's kind of cool...
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[Not that Ben hasn't hung around a bunch of people who do skate, but. Details.]
I probably could do it, though, you know? If I tried. Looks easy enough.
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[But he supposes that's sort of... the danger of skateboarding in general.]
So, what did you do a lot when you were back home?
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[To put it in plain terms. ] A lot. The only places we stay long are my grandparents places. Otherwise we just keep going.
[The way Ben says it suggests that he misses it, probably. But not enough to want to leave Riverview yet.] What about you?
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[He shrugs his shoulders. He could say more-- but somehow suggesting he's a superhero, or apparently a god-level witch who's learning to control their powers isn't... really that great of a way to keep a conversation going.
Well-- without people thinking you're crazy, anyway.]
Besides that, I did the normal geek stuff. Video games, movies... What sort of places did you travel to?
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[There's a flash of excitement as Billy turns around to face the other.
Maybe he won't be seen as crazy after all...]
Like, other planets or something else?
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[Planets would be cooler, arguably. Love dem aliens. ]
So many realities.
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[He shrugs his shoulders.]
There are some strange ones out there. Really strange. I still have dreams of some of them...
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[Ben has Seen some stuff. More specifically, every day he Lives some stuff which is also really strange. ]
Really puts things into perspective after you nearly date someone who looks like your grandma.
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[He pulls a face.]
I saw a reality inhabited by creepy, killer rabbits... I thought that was the worse, but the grandma thing would be nightmare inducing.
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[A hand to his chest, ] Heart breaking. I guess kind of cool? But heart breaking. Who hurt those poor bunnies? Who did this?
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[He pulls a face.]
I was also chased by a dinosaur once. I don't recommend it. [Of course he may have accidentally angered it by using his magic around it, but... you know. Details.]
What's some more strange stuff you've seen?
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But, for now, tales from his own world. He has to think about this, for a moment, finger tapping on his chin. All the strange stuff, incidentally, is related to his family. Anything else is just -- well. Acceptable nonsense from different cultures and worlds. ] Kinda hard to say? I think if you grow up seeing a lot of strange stuff, eventually the strange stuff doesn't seem strange at all?
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[Not every world has masked crime-fighting heroes after all or magic, for that matter.]
What's strange to one person is perfectly normal to another, I guess.
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[Comparatively speaking to himself, actually. ]
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[He gives a wry smile.]
Does your world have caped heroes or anything?