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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[spellslots]

Yeah, no shit, and there's a good reason for that apparently.

[Now that the immediate confusion and panic has passed, Taako is just kind of chalking this up to 'weird shit about this place', rather than anything that's a threat.

He lets out a slow breath and properly looks up at Rin, searching his face.]

Are we good, my dude? I swear I wasn't trying to start shit.

[imperceptus]

I'll have to look into it, myself.

[ He mutters this, frowning, then looks back at Taako. Rin's eyes are sharper than ever before, and brighter, too--nearly burning red. He's quiet for a moment, just sitting there, hands on Taako's wrists. Taako's not really asking any questions, and seems only concerned with how this even happened. So he probably didn't brush up against anything he shouldn't have.

That's fine, then.

Rin lets him go. Sits back. ]

We're fine. I believe you.

[spellslots]

[That's a relief; he's fairly sure that Rin wouldn't have seriously hurt him, but he's still glad that Rin isn't angry at him for this little clusterfuck. So he offers a smile, and in an attempt to lighten the mood:]

First time in months I've been in a dude's bed and it's this shit, this place is fucking rude.

[imperceptus]

[ Rin laughs, and it'd take a zone of truth to tell whether he's sincere or not. By all accounts, it's a perfectly organic chuckle. No lingering paranoia or anxiety here. ]

Ah, well. I'm sure that's only for lack of asking.

[spellslots]

[Whether it's fake or not isn't much of a concern; even if it's not genuine, the fact Rin made a point to do it anyway means things are probably fine.]

Well, dunk, I knew I was missing a step somewhere.

[He flashes a grin, a little crooked, and there's a moment of hesitation where he considers asking, right now, but... he's still not sure where he stands with Rin and this situation probably isn't the best time to push it. Instead, Taako moves to sit up.]

Hey, uh, I have a feeling that could've gone puh-retty badly for me, so thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt.

[And not just immediately doing a murder.]

[imperceptus]

[ As Taako moves, Rin pulls the blanket up over his own body, even though he's already fully clothed. He wraps the sheet around his chest, more or less binding it in place. He doesn't speak while he does this, his eyebrows furrowed, his mouth a thin line. After a second, he just murmurs. ]

Let's just say it's good that you're you, Taako.

[ He lies down, sighing. ]

Best of luck finding your own bed.

[ Shuts one eye. ]

Or cozying up to someone a little less jumpy.

[spellslots]

[Sometimes Rin seems perfectly normal, if a bit tense, and then sometimes he seems very weird and Taako has no idea what to do with him.

Now is one of those times; he's not sure what to make of that whole sheet thing, or the it's good that you're you, but he knows a dismissal when he sees one.]

Think I'm gonna stick to my own for now. See ya, pumpkin.

[He doesn't have his full teleport spell on hand, but he can at least dimension doorway his way down to the street, and that saves having to awkwardly show himself out.

Magic sure is great.]