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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[worldsaway]

Draco is a somewhat disconcerting vision, but Thor's desire to settle into bed is not hugely discerning. He assumes that he's having a nightmare of sorts, and so he also assumes he'll welcome the company.

There's nothing strange to him (currently) about curling around the owner of the bed to accommodate both of their figures. "I'm no giant." He responds in a murmur. Half of him is hanging out of the bed, but he still feels completely comfortable and at ease.

[dracolucmalfoy]

The deep voice pulled at Draco's conciousness. A vague feeling of wrongness trying to invade on his sense of contentment and comfort. However the hold of the latter was too strong and the vague feeling drifted away.

Draco shifted a bit and neded up facing the large form in his bed. Then shifting again as he ducked his head, muttering this time about scratchy facial hair. But soon after settling in he found himself drifting off again, this time into more fitful sleep. Not to be disturbed until either his bedmate woke, or he woke of his own voition.

[worldsaway]

Now that Draco has settled entirely, Thor can too. Once his bedmate starts to drift off, he can too. He keeps his eyes shut and stays silent through the muttering. Eventually, he's so deep in sleep that even Draco's fitfulness can't rouse him.

Thor awakens a few hours later, naturally. His eyes open slowly and he soaks in his surroundings. He slowly starts to realise that this is not his room and his surroundings are unfamiliar, then quickly realises he's not alone. Thor jolts, which may wake Draco. He's not sure who this is or what happened, but he's trying to unwedge himself from the embrace without waking the stranger.

[dracolucmalfoy]

Except Thor is not so lucky. While Draco did enjoy perhaps some of the best sleep he has had in a while, he is not used to sleeping with others. So the sudden movements of a body awake are enough to pull Draco out of the deep sleep he had been in. Gray eyes shooting open to see a great blond behemoth in his bed trying to sneak out. Though how anyone so big could possibly try to sneak away in any situation is beyond him - the odd things that briefly pass through one's mind, the bit.

"Bloody Hell!" Draco yelps, scrambling back and tumbling from the bed before gaining his feet and backing away. A finger pointing at the man. "How the bloody hell are you?" His eyes dart around. Yes, it was his new room in this strange place. "What are you doing in my room? You have no right to be here!"