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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[spellslots]

[Taako, in true chef fashion, threateningly brandishes a spatula at Magnus.]

We're gonna have to teach you some patience, huh?

[With a wink, Taako turns back to the stove and starts putting everything on a plate, which he then mage hands over to the table while he does a super quick clean up (like five seconds, because he's also hungry).]

[ohhmrburnsides]

[He's glad Taako turned away after that wink. It caught him off guard and he thinks he may have blushed.

Well, whatever! He joins Taako at the table and does his best not to inhale his whole plate in one gulp.]

Shit, seriously, this is good. You're spoiling me with all this good food, Taako.

[spellslots]

[Taako has a bit more class than Magnus, and starts with a small bite, pleased with how they turned out even if he knows that Magnus would probably have been fine with plain pancakes and syrup.]

That's just how I roll, bubbale. It'd be like, an actual fucking challenge for me to cook something bad.

[ohhmrburnsides]

Hey, I believe it.

[After a few more bites, he actually manages to take a definitive pause from eating to speak directly to Taako.]

Seriously though, Taako. Thanks for the food. And for being chill, in general.

[spellslots]

I mean, hey, if you want me to be awkward about it I'm sure I could come up with something.

[He says it with a grin, clearly joking, but also he's bad at like, saying you're welcome.]

[ohhmrburnsides]

Naw, I mean— [He laughs.] I mean in general. It was kind of weird turning up here and not knowing anyone, so having someone to hang with has been fun.

[Even though it's only been a few weeks, he has picked up that this can be a difficult thing for Taako to respond to, so he shifts the mood back to humor for Taako's sake.]

But also the food. If you stop cooking for me I'll have to stop coming around.

[spellslots]

I think we're pretty safe then, knowing like, myself, I'll even cater my own funeral.

[That's a little bit morbid, but well... there's Kravitz, after all.]

And I, you know, I get it. I didn't know anyone when I rocked up here, it was shitty until I made friends.

[Clark, and Bryn, and Ellie. They made it a lot easier.]