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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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Why? [ The question is soft, softer than Yuri means it to be, his grip tightening on his pirozhki. Wisely, he sets it down before he can squeeze it all over himself. ] Why is he like that? He seemed so... [ Yuri doesn't know a word for it, has to pause. To think. ]
Nadryv. [ He says slowly, at last. Knowing that it has no English equivalent; to be under such tension, to be on the edge of breaking apart. Whether it be good, or bad. ]
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Bucky exhales slowly.] I don't know how similar his life is to mine, but I doubt it's been any easier. He hasn't been back in the world for very long, I don't think. He seemed more unstable.
[This honestly just proves it to Bucky that his other self is more unhinged, in a worse place.]
We're trained assassins. He has an arm like mine. If he shows up again, I want you to stand down and try to escape.
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It all feels a little too big, so far removed from anything Yuri has ever concerned himself with. He doesn't know what to think, what to speculate or guess or where to start with compartmentalizing with such grand concepts.
He feels rather small in the world, all of a sudden. His concerns and worries petty, in the face of fighting far greater ideas; ideals. ]
I can do that, I suppose. Although running away isn't really my style. [ Unless it's hugs. He will run from all of the hugs that aren't from his dedushka. And maybe Otabek. ]
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For now, he'll be cagey, just because it's almost physically painful to try and force the words out.] Some place it's hard to come back from with your humanity intact. It was a long war. [In a way, that's true. It was just internal as well as external.]
I know. I'm not saying you can't handle yourself either. I saw you out at the fence. But he's still an unknown factor right now. Until I have a better idea of where he's at mentally, if you spot him again, you go straight to my floor, or to somewhere crowded.
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He blew out a soft breath, and flicked an errant crumb of pirozhki towards the other. ]
If your face grows any longer someone will have to buy you a saddle. [ He huffed softly, trying to lighten the suddenly tense mood. ] Come, my movie has been paused long enough. We can eat on the couch.
[ And just like that, Yuri has, in his own way, invited James to hang out.
He grabs one of the bowls of soup, weighs a plate down with a mixture of what the other has brought, stabs a fork and a spoon into the mass, and leads the way over to the couch. It was almost impressive, how he managed to flop down in a heap without spilling so much as a drop.
He kicks his feet up onto the coffee table, making sure there's enough room for his guest to be comfortable too; and then eyes the other impatiently from over the back of the couch, an eyebrow arched. ]
It's about a giant mutant rat terrorizing the scientists who created it. I'm not sure who I'm cheering for, yet. [ Because Yuri has never really liked people on principle; even in the skating world he's always been a bit of an outcast. Different. Too angry, too talented, too skinny, too antisocial. He's never quite just fit. Only Otabek has ever made him feel like he was just fine that way. That he could have his hard edges and still be the Russian Fairy and the Russian punk at the same time. The rat is the same; it never asked to be super intelligent, to be chosen and pinched and prodded and worked into a tool until it broke.
Yuri wonders if he will ever break.
It's hard not to cheer for the rat. ]
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He doesn't flop, so much as he sits and leans back like the cushions could swallow him up, like he's releasing a tension.]
If they created a giant mutant rat, they got whatever they got comin'. [He says mildly, waving a spoon briefly at the screen before he starts on his soup.]
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So when do we start training? [ It was less of a question, and more of a demand as Yuri stretched out, throwing his socked feet up on the coffee table, frowning at the television. ]
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When Yuri speaks again, he can hear the demand in it, and he smiles a little wryly.]
Whenever you feel up to starting. There's no time limit on the offer, if your arm needs to heal up some more.
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My arm is fine. I've worked through worse. Tomorrow morning?
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Sure. I'm usually at the gym between 5:30 and 6 am, depending on when my morning run ends. I'll text you the address.
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[ Yuri huffed, picking fluff off the knee of his jeans and scowling. ] I'll be there.
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Sounds like my drill sergeant back in England. [He gives him a quiet, but teasing little smile.] I can do a pretty good impression if you need someone yelling at you.
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[ At the teasing Yuri snorts, before shaking his head. ] You start shouting and I'll shout back. [ So, exactly like he does with Yakov. ]
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[His smile stays right where it is.] Good.
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[ Because really, what else do you say to that? Other than 'how the hell'. Because seriously, what the fuck is wrong with that guy. ]
Okay, well. Yeah. Definitely bringing my water bottle. But I'll still be there. [ And he will run until he can't anymore, to show Bucky what he can really do. ]