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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[relieable]

[..........

Osomatsu pulls back even further, even pushes himself up on his arms. he picked the wrong bed-mate]

Why?

[smokedout]

I'm not explaining it again.

[He's so very far from interested in an argument... instead he shifts to sit at the edge of the bed and grabs a half-empty bottle of something strong-smelling to drain it.]

...You want something to drink while you're here?

[relieable]

[oh.

conflicted feelings. because, on the one hand, this guy called Ichimatsu a parasite, and that made Karamatsu upset. made Osomatsu upset, too. actually, really upset. Osomatsu loves his brothers more than anything.

...though maybe not more than alcohol at this point in time. he also wants to sleep by a warm body. he gulps, still feeling incredibly tired, and reaches for the bottle]

If you're offering.

[smokedout]

[Without looking up, he offers the bottle now that it only has about an eighth of its original contents in it. Still, it's a pretty big bottle, it should be enough for someone who doesn't drink the sheer amount that Dodger does.]

So - Karamatsu's a musician, Ichimatsu sits on his ass all day, what's your gimmick?

[Y'know, so he can tell them apart easier.]

[relieable]

[hm... Osomatsu raises an eyebrow, then takes the bottle. his gimmick, huh?]

I'm the cute one. [he says before he drinks. hey, this is pretty good stuff] But, uh... no, I like telling jokes. I also wear red.