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

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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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Re: omg

[hellshot]

['Like a fridge'. Just when he thought Karamatsu couldn't get any more stupid. He grumbles out a rough sound, like a sigh of frustration, before reaching to pry the other off of him.]

Are your ears broken, I said get off.

[What has gotten into the stupid beanhead--]

Do I need to throw you out the window?

[relieable]

[that seems to sober Osomatsu up. a little. he still takes his time pushing up and sliding off of the other man. very slowly, and responds sleepily]

H-hey, no... There doesn't need to be any violence... I was just cold. S'all...

[hellshot]

[Alright, he can't blame the muppet for being cold and all, but. When 'Karamatsu' complains about 'no violence', he replies with a loud grumble.]

So you tried to hibernate with me, like a fucking bear?
I knew you had shit for brains, but somehow this is a whole new level.

[relieable]

For some reason, I really needed to! [that's the only explanation he has.

but then... something that the other man says seems to sink in]

Uh... Do we know each other?

[hellshot]

[If Osomatsu didn't have the face he had, he wouldn't have accept that weird explanation. But because he thinks the guy is that irritating Karamatsu...

He's well versed in the others' nonsense language. He'll let it slide... for a second.

Until the other asks that.

His head turns to give the other a hard, red-eyed stare. Yeah, enjoy the fact that you cuddled up with a man that looks like a week old zombie.]

...

Obviously, we've been in this shit together for--

[Wait. Sextuplets.]

--If you're another one of Karamatsu's brothers... [His tone is suddenly irate.]

[relieable]

[there Karamatsu goes again, making friends with weirdos! Osomatsu looks like he's waking up a bit more, but he's also annoyed about something]

I'm his only oldest brother. [he huffs, like that should be important] I'm Osomatsu.

1/2

[hellshot]

[Weirdos? He'd argue that Osomatsu is one to talk, but given Karamatsu... Osomatsu can't be the weirdest.
Either way, when the 'oldest brother' makes his name known...


....Reaper's going to just.

Push him out of the bed.

Bye.]

2/2

[hellshot]

...You're like mushrooms, popping off in separate spores and getting everywhere--

[Either the man is just too tired to deal with Osomatsu, or he's really got a problem with sharing his bed. That's for the muppet to decide.]

[relieable]

[there he goes. Osomatsu lands on the floor with an annoyed grunt. he quickly gets to his feet. now he's freezing, and exhausted]

Well, you're not wrong! We are certainly spore-like! But, hey, any friend of Karamatsu's is a friend of mine.

[hellshot]

[He's just going to send a quietly irritated look down over the side of the bed.]

'Friend' is a strong word.

...

Should I expect you to be more like Karamatsu, or like Ichimatsu, then.

[He's too tired to be angry at the beanhead, lucky for Osomatsu. So he's just going to grumble at him instead.]

[relieable]

[he crosses his arms, tucking his hands away. cold!]

Uh, I'm not like either of them. I'm my own man! And I'm pretty cool, not painful or depressed.

[hellshot]

[...Wait, there's an emotion he should be feeling here. Pity. If the other one is so cold. But...

Acting upon it...


...Nah. He just gives the other a flat look with those glowing red eyes of his.]

So I'm supposed to believe that despite your two brothers' wild personalities, you're the normal one.

[relieable]

[if he gets cold enough, he'll leave! don't worry!]

No, I'm the cute one. [he chuckles. it's a joke, because they all have the same face]