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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[wingedman]

[When morning comes, Sam stretches and eyes the sleeping form in his bed. Do Asgardians get hangovers? Probably not from mortal booze, he guesses. He's nestled comfortably against Loki, and since his alarm hasn't gone off yet - and since his phone, thankfully, hasn't exploded with texts from Steve - he stays where he is for a few more minutes, eyelids fluttering shut again as he dozes. He's used to an entirely different dark-haired sorcerer in his bed in the morning, but he's not gonna complain. Platonic cuddles are nice, too.

But eventually he stirs again, and this time he rouses enough to speak.]

Shouldn't teleport while drunk. You might splinch yourself.

[...consider yourself lucky, Loki. Stephen's caught the brunt of the Harry Potter jokes till now.]

[ikols]

That's not a thing.

[ Yes, he's awake. Reluctantly. More enthusiasm is decidedly put into remaining a bedbug with the covers pulled up past his ears. ]

[wingedman]

I don't think J.K. would lie to me, Loki.

[It's okay, Loki, Sam isn't moving, either. He's awake, but he's nice and toasty and comfortable where he is. He's happy to just enjoy the moment of laziness.]

[ikols]

She's a sneaky Hufflepuff ...

[ Squirming around, Loki pushes his forehead against Sam's warm shoulder. ]

[wingedman]

Are Hufflepuffs allowed to be sneaky?

[Sam idly cards the fingers of one hand through Loki's hair.]

[ikols]

[ Does Sam expect an answer after he starts stroking Loki's hair? Because he just disabled a god in one move and made him start snoring. ]

[wingedman]

[SHRUG. Somewhere in the process of stroking Loki's hair, Sam falls asleep again, too. Maybe Loki's secretly related to Morpheus.]