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]

[It's not magic; Taako's good with languages and has been trying out a few that he thought would be useful here, and that included Russian. After Clark left, he's been practicing more, having known that Clark was picking it up too, and figuring it was for Illya.

He was planning to make a nice surprise of it, but this works too.]

Sure is, sweetheart. [Taako covers his mouth with his hand as he yawns, then seems to get comfy again, closing his eyes.] You can stay, I don't give a shit and I won't like... think anything of it? You know? We're cool.

[He couldn't figure out the translation of "misconstrue", but he thinks he got the message across anyway.]

[nikolaievich]

[He appreciates the reassurance on that front even if he’s not particularly worried. Taako flirts shamelessly, mostly to fluster Illya, but he’s always backed off and shown his sensitive side if the situation required it.

But he’s still not exactly fully comfortable about it, the same way he wouldn’t be comfortable sleeping in the same bed as nearly anyone- too many chances to get him with his guard down. It’s one of the reason why he stayed in the communal room for so long, harder to attack someone when the room is full of people.

He makes a mental check of the weapons he usually has with him, but Taako has magic… he doesn’t have anything to counter that.]

I am about to say something. It may offend you, because you have called us friends before, but I won’t be able to sleep otherwise.

May I?

[spellslots]

I'm pretty hard to offend, what's up?

[That's both true and a lie, in various different ways. Taako's buttons are easy to push, if someone knows what they are, and his vanity and ego often get the better of him. But Illya is his friend, so Taako is willing to give him the benefit of the doubt with whatever comes next.]

[nikolaievich]

[Well, Illya’s about to find out if he’s stepped on one of his buttons. He hesitates for a second, because even though he’s usually extremely blunt he also usually doesn’t really care about people’s reactions. The thing with this place, as much as Illya hates it sometimes, is that it’s allowed him to interact with the same person often. It’s forced him to form bonds with people.

It’s forced him to care. And he knows it's a jerk move to ask this now, when Taako is even speaking Russian for him, but he pretty much has to.]

I’m vulnerable to your magic. I couldn’t do anything if you decided to attack me, now that I’m vulnerable.

How do I know you won’t?

[spellslots]

[It doesn't offend him. If anything, Taako hums a quiet laugh and opens his eyes again, watching Illya in shades of grey.]

That goes both ways, doesn't it? Pretty sure you're sneaky enough I'd be dead if you wanted me dead, magic or not. [Illya got all the way into bed with him before he woke up. If there'd been a knife involved, it'd all be over.

Taako reaches out to gently tap his finger against the tip of Illya's nose.] Anyway, if I was gonna kill you I'd do it out in the forest.

[They go out together often enough, it'd be simple to kill Illya and make up some story about a monster. Get himself a little roughed up and no one would even question it.]