player-suggested mini-event: A STRANGER'S BED

[riverviewmod]

who: everyone in Riverview!
what: Player-Suggested Mini-Event
when: August 26th - August 31st
warnings: please put any necessary warnings in the subject lines

a stranger's bed

As a lead in to September, Riverview's ♥ Month of Romance, this is a completely optional mingle that will cause affected characters to end up in each other's beds. There are various options for both established and new CR. While it's easiest for characters still living in Communal Housing, anyone who has moved to their own homes can be affected and end up finding their way to Communal Housing, or within their own housing.

Residents of the Quarantine may notice that various businesses selling food and drink - cafés, diners, bakeries, restaurants, and other such establishments - are heavily advertising a new flavor that's supposed to be the biggest thing since pumpkin spice. A flavor additive that's said to subtly change the flavor of whatever the diner is eating or drinking to optimize the dish, drink, dessert, or any other food item it is added to for each person's individual taste, it's been selling like wildfire and is the latest trend.

After the cause of the rash of amnesia was revealed to be plant-related, sellers are keeping the origin of the secret ingredient very close to their chests, since it is a derivative of a recently-discovered plant dubbed chameleonis. Depending on the method of ingestion, this additive can have a variety of unexpected side effects, but only once the person who has ingested it becomes sleepy. Methods of ingestion include:

● Ingestion: Beverage: When ingested as a flavor shot to drinks ranging from sodas to coffee to alcoholic beverages, it can cause a desire for closeness to a particular other person. Affected characters end up crawling into bed with that specific other character when they become sleepy.

● Ingestion: Food: When ingested as a flavoring added to a baked good or other meal, it can cause an intense desire for body heat when the character becomes drowsy. It won't matter to an affected character who is providing the body heat, so long as it's someone, and they will end up sleepily crawling into someone else's bed for warmth.

● Inhalation: When inhaled ether from a steaming hot beverage or soup, or as an essential oil or aroma from a bakery, it can cause disorientation when a character becomes sleepy. Affected characters either aren't sure which bed is theirs and simply crawl into the closest one, occupied or not, or become convinced that another character's bed is their own.

Feel free to post up a top-level for your own character either affected and invading a random bed or unaffected but open to having their bed invaded by affected characters, or tag around to other people's top-levels.

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[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki tenses immediately, his eyes flying open. He searches for an intruder before he realizes who has slipped next to him. Disbelief filters through his expression, but he does not seem . . . annoyed. If anything, the tension quietly cedes away. ]

Sister?

[ It is the first time Loki has ever truly called her such. He has always sidestepped it in a charming way. ]

[hevenly]

[ She is grateful for his acceptance of her presence. Had their positions been reversed, she is not so sure she would not have tried to strangle him. ]

I require... your warmth.

[ It feels like such a silly thing to ask for, but she's tired and has no desire to beat around the bush. ]

I will pay you back... somehow.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki huffs softly. Coming to him for warmth seems like a joke, but Angela has never been the joking type. She would never play such a trick on him and this he knows. ]

I fear you may have come to the wrong place.

[hevenly]

[ It may be that Loki is not as warm as another bedmate may be, but he is here and he is better than nothing. Angela wraps her arms around him and buries her head in his shoulder. ]

Just... humor me. This once.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki says nothing for a few moments. He should not allow this, should not allow this comfort in case the future changes. Loki isn't meant to humor what will fall apart. But the effort to do so is lacking. ]

Very well. For you.

[hevenly]

[ With that permission given, something restless inside Angela settles, and she relaxes into her hold, limbs loosening around him just so.

She feels sleep begin to take her, and just before it does, she whispers, ] I will repay you for this.

[dothelokimotion]

[ Loki huffs. He isn't sure what to make of this system of balances and counterbalances. But he can't fault it. ]

I'm sure you'll find a way.