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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-08-23 07:27 pm
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player-suggested mini-event: A STRANGER'S BED

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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imperceptus: you won't see me in the mirror (you won't suspect a thing)

[personal profile] imperceptus 2017-08-30 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Girl?!

Rin feels like he's just about done playing.

He loops an arm around her neck and pulls back, yanking her up and holding her flush against him. With his other hand, he presses the tip of his dagger to her ear. He hisses, his usually friendly voice turned cold, almost guttural. ]


Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. I want you to leave, and I want you to leave now.

[ He hisses. ]

Khisanth.
onblackwings: i think YOUR shoes are ugly (oh yeah well)

[personal profile] onblackwings 2017-08-30 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well. Now she's awake, fully and alertly. Her fingers are quick to curl around his arm, his hand at the hilt of the dagger, and her lip curls over gritted teeth. ]

It's Onyx. [ Her fingers on his begin to heat, a trick inspired by Dodger. Much longer and there will be flames flickering up around them. ]
imperceptus: look so good i might die (feels just like i don't try)

[personal profile] imperceptus 2017-08-30 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's not a super huge fan of fire, or of heat in general. But he can tolerate it extremely well.

His voice and mouth have turned cruel, hard-edged. He presses the dagger against her neck, just below her earlobe. ]


Keep up with that spell and I'll cut your throat. I guarantee you'll die before I burn.
onblackwings: (you are dead to me)

[personal profile] onblackwings 2017-08-30 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She's even less appreciative of that prick of dagger, and obediently the heat fades again. Honestly, it hadn't really worked when Dodger had tried it on her, either. She should keep that in mind... along with that fire just isn't her element. ]

Let go of me. [ The lazy, playful tone has dropped, as she takes things finally a little more seriously. At least he's managed to get that much out of her. ]
imperceptus: the world surrounding me (give me eyes to see)

[personal profile] imperceptus 2017-08-30 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Rin doesn't really like to get violent. He prefers to solve things with words--with persuasion, intimidation, deception. All the sneaky skill checks. Even this is more intimidation than anything; he has no real desire to actually kill her (what a mess it'd make).

So he eases off. ]


Get out of the bed.
onblackwings: [onyx] (01)

[personal profile] onblackwings 2017-08-30 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She rubs her neck with baleful frown over her shoulder as he releases her, and moves... but only to the edge of the bed. She pauses there with her legs over the edge, apparently considering it out enough. ]

You're very touchy. [ hi kettle how you doin ]
imperceptus: and live to tell the truth (and even if they try to)

[personal profile] imperceptus 2017-08-30 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I like my space.

[ He frowns at her, noting that she hasn't completely obeyed him. He moves so that he's taking up more space, sitting up with one leg crossed over the other. Knife still at the ready. ]

You understand that it's wrong to just--invade someone's bed like this, right?

[ Even if the other occupant isn't less-than-secretly a highly trained assassin?? ]
onblackwings: to crave recognition (is it so wrong?)

[personal profile] onblackwings 2017-08-30 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He can keep his knife out; that he hasn't used it yet promises to Khisanth that he won't at all, particularly since she's given him his way. You know, enough. She makes a point of grooming, running fingers through her hair to reorder it. ]

I don't see why. It's only a bed. [ not even a lair, full of personal stuff?? ]
imperceptus: to do away with me (how careful it was planned)

[personal profile] imperceptus 2017-08-30 06:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Let me put it this way. You wouldn't like it if some random person just suddenly climbed on you while you were asleep, would you?

[ He's starting to wonder if she's literally a child. ]
onblackwings: (skeptic)

[personal profile] onblackwings 2017-08-30 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not some random person.

[ Because they know each other? Because she's fantastic and marvelous and anyone should be lucky to have her climb on them? Unclear, but apparently this makes a difference. ]
imperceptus: and live to tell the truth (if you ask me to change)

[personal profile] imperceptus 2017-08-30 06:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He quirks an eyebrow like, 'Really? Really.' He still barely knows her, after all. ]

You haven't answered the question.
onblackwings: [onyx] (pls.)

[personal profile] onblackwings 2017-08-30 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Her mouth twists unhappily; there are all sorts of rebuttals she'd like to make here. But she can too easily envision him whittling through her excuses until she has to admit to the truth, so... may as well cut to the chase.

With an irritated huff:
] I suppose not.
imperceptus: and live to tell the truth (i shot the sheriff)

[personal profile] imperceptus 2017-08-30 06:54 pm (UTC)(link)
And why wouldn't you like it?

[ He really feels as though he has to walk her through this. ]
onblackwings: [onyx] (02)

[personal profile] onblackwings 2017-08-30 07:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She doesn't want to answer this, empathy is the worst thing in the world and she's not interested. Her frown darkens and she finally drops her fingers from combing through her hair. ]

I take your point. [ so just drop this already jeez ]
imperceptus: guarding scraps of nothing (all of my thoughts like junkyard dogs)

[personal profile] imperceptus 2017-08-30 07:03 pm (UTC)(link)
And yet here you are, still sitting on my bed.

[ He finally puts the knife away, though, slipping it into some strange space beneath his shirt. Does he have holsters under there? Tape? Velcro? Who knows. ]
onblackwings: [onyx] (pls.)

[personal profile] onblackwings 2017-08-30 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ is there no end to the unreasonable demands!! She heaves a sigh, and lethargic with reluctance, slowly picks herself up off the edge of the bed. From there, she frowns down at him. ]

You should have been grateful to have me climb into your bed, that would be much more suited.
Edited 2017-08-30 19:11 (UTC)
imperceptus: you're not above my suspicions (more sinned against than sinning)

[personal profile] imperceptus 2017-08-31 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ He rolls his eyes. ]

Sorry, darling; I only play a rake for show.