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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[holds_up_walls]

"Well, she didn't have too far to go." Lyle didn't even really care enough at this point to check to see if his bed was in the same spot in the room as Ed's. He was too tired to care and since Ed wasn't kicking him out...

"I'd spoke to him once. Over text. So hadn't really met him before but more knew of him. Can't really help with common factor since I didn't even know about this. Bug bites?" He smirked sleepily. "Nah. I tend to run when mosquitoes the size of footballs come after me."

Where he got "mosquitoes the size of footballs" the world may never know.

[alchemyfreak]

Golden eyes narrowed thoughtfully as Lyle talked, but the football sized mosquito comment didn't go unnoticed. Have a very confused look, Lyle. He was pretty sure nothing here was any weirder than what Purg dredged up, but he was also new enough not to have explored too much on that matter. It wasn't exactly his favorite topic.

"I take it he didn't mention anything weird going on with him, eating or drinking anything new for instance. Lola said the only thing remarkable she could think of was being sprayed by some new perfume."

[holds_up_walls]

Well that had been more of a joke rather than something he had seriously seen. It had amused him and over-exaggerating is a thing. He knew his weird comment hadn't landed when Ed looked at him confused. Oh well.

"No, he did mention that he had been eating at his place of work. The cafe. They had a lot of stuff with the new spice."