riverviewlogs | player-suggested mini-event: A STRANGER'S BED

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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Hours later, Tony wakes up with his customary hangover. He groans and stretches and there's a moment where he just lies there before he hurries to his feet so he can begin his morning routine of worshipping the porcelain god.

It's only while he's washing his mouth out that he remembers where he is. Then he takes that as his cue to use his counterpart's toothbrush and toiletries because they're the same person.

It's the jostling of the bed as someone else gets up that wakes him, but it's a little hard to fall back to sleep over the sounds of someone being noisily sick. It doesn't mean he has to move, though.

So when the other Stark reappears, Tony is still stretched out on the bed, though his eyes are open and fixing on him. "You okay?" Honestly, he looks like shit, but it seems polite to ask.

"Hangover, you know how it is." His head is killing him, but waking up with a hangover was a normal routine at this point. He crawls back into bed and stares up at the ceiling. "Sobriety has caught up with me."

He mind is quiet right now, but eventually he'll need to find something to drink.

Tony gives a vague hum of agreement and just quietly shifts over to let Stark lie back down. He does know how it is, though even in his wilder days he's pretty sure he's never partied quite as hard as this other Stark. Or at least not long.

"'s painkillers in the drawer," he mutters indistinctly, face still half-pressed into the pillow.

They could always be trusted to have painkillers on hand. Tony grabs the bottle and shakes out a random amount before dry-swallowing them. He probably won't overdose from that, but he doesn't think it'd be awful if he did.

He then rolls over to poke at the other man's stomach. If he couldn't get back to sleep then he wasn't allowed to either.

"Entertain me."

He twitches away from the poking, turning enough to crack one eye open enough to give the man a baleful look. "I hear sleep is pretty entertaining."

Tony knows that expression well enough from his own face, though, and groans. He's not going to be getting back to sleep himself any time soon and he knows it. "What do you want? And don't say sex."

Surprisingly that wasn't something he thought of, but now that he's said it...

"Oh come on, you can't tell me you're not the least bit curious."

There was something deeply odd about how them turning sex down. It was a somewhat passable alternative to intimacy and they'd all know what to expect from each other. There were no downsides here.

"You may have noticed we're not exactly in private."

Which...isn't quite a no. Mostly because Tony still has no idea what to think about it, so he's mostly just avoiding the concept. Curious, maybe. Liable to make things messy in a way Tony can't even conceive of, almost definitely.

"Besides, hangover sex isn't the most appealing thing when you're the sober one."

Tony straight up pouts and whines at that. He's a younger brother, it's the sort of thing that comes naturally to him even if his relationship with Greg deteriorated early.

"You can fix that or give me a bit to get over it."

He flops over onto his stomach to stare at the other man. He can't do the innocent look, but looking pathetic might work.

The look he gets in return is all dryness. He's mostly sure Stark doesn't actually mean it, or at least doesn't mean it enough to be genuinely upset about it.

Instead Tony shifts over a little, and before he can second-guess himself he throws an arm over the younger Stark's shoulders the way Rhodey does for him sometimes. If Stark is going to continue to be there, Tony is at least going to get some warmth out of the whole thing.

"Or you could let me go back to sleep." He doesn't sound much like he's actually expecting it though.

player-suggested mini-event: A STRANGER'S BED

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