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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[ikols]

Mostly.

[ Aside from his pride and the now curdled pit that was once his stomach, he's been in worse shape. Looking over at Tony, it's easier to spy on him when he isn't even garnering a glance and that helps, in a way, reassuring him that he couldn't have wandered his way into a more incorrect bed.

Anthony's eyes are cuttingly blue but far warmer than evasive brown. ]

I'm gonna ... [ Head out the normal way, taking no chances on magic while his head is swimming and he needs the support of the wall. ] Yeah.

[buildsomething]

Y'can stay if you want to.

[He's not quite sure what makes him extend the offer, other than the fact he's been there. That level of hungover, where you're not sure if you aren't still drunk? Yeah. Tony's been there.

And honestly, Loki hadn't been too bad of a roommate, wandering hands aside.]

Just gonna sleep more.

[ikols]

I don't want to. I really don't want to, um, no offence.

[ Since Stark humoured him and did let him stay when he was being a drunken loser. Waving away the offer, he backs out of the room, unwilling to enjoy a long nap next to a ghost of an ex. He hasn't quite fallen low enough to do that while in his right mind, tipsy though it may still be. ]

You sleep, I need to get back to the Sanctum.

[buildsomething]

[It makes Tony give an amused snort, but he's not honestly offended. It does make him wonder exactly where Loki thought he was last night, but that's something to be pondered over when he's actually awake.

He lifts an arm again into an abbreviated wave.]

Kay. Have fun.