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

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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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[scholiast]

(She laughs as Beverly tugs her down, sitting down with a huff and flopping onto her back.)

Okay, okay! (It's not like she has to be convinced especially, or anything. Her bed is soft, warm, and it has a cute girl in it, so. Best possible scenario. She sits up abruptly and pulls back the comforter on top, pushing aside the sheets so she can get in too.)

You don't snore though, right? (She's grinning, curling onto her side,) because you're out if you do.

[dancingmd]

No snoring, I promise.

(Beverly holds up one hand, palm out, like she's swearing a solemn oath. Then she crawls up under the covers herself and stretches out on her side as close as she can get to Lucretia. With one hand, she props herself up on her elbow, while the other hand lightly dances up and down Lucretia's side. Even drunk, she would normally never be quite so forward, but tonight all she wants to do is cuddle.)

[scholiast]

Good.

(Beverly's just as touchy-feely as she had been earlier while they were drinking, but Lucretia doesn't much mind– she wants to be close, too. Hopefully Beverly is fine with her forehead tipping to rest against her collarbone as she curls in nice and close.)

You're so warm, (she murmurs, utterly content to cuddle.)

[dancingmd]

(Beverly welcomes the closeness with open arms - literally. She wraps her arms around Lucretia and pulls her in even more.)

Mmm. So are you.

(With a yawn, she rests her cheek on the top of Lucretia's head.)

[scholiast]

(This is very, very good.

Lucretia yawns too, sliding one arm across Beverly's hips; the other is squished up between the pair of them but it's all very comfortable. She could sleep like this for days, probably.)

We should do this more often. Wine and cheese night, I mean.

[dancingmd]

We should!

(Then Beverly laughs.)

I can't believe I brought so many cheeses! I was so worried you wouldn't like them.

[scholiast]

Well, we'll have to more like– we hardly put a dent in the cheese.

(It's so ticklish to her that Beverly was that concerned at all.) Besides, if I didn't like cheese, I would have pretended I did just to keep you from feeling bad. (Being drunk makes her quite honest.)

[dancingmd]

Oh no!

(Beverly leans back to look at Lucretia in that Very Serious way that only drunk people can.)

You shouldn't do that! Promise me you won't! I made Jean-Luc eat the most dreadful things because he was too polite to say no!

[scholiast]

(Lucretia snorts, and gives her a little shove on the hip.)

Okay! I promise I won't say I'll eat dreadful things just because I'm being polite. Happy?

[dancingmd]

Good. (Satisfied, she settles back into the snuggle.)

I didn't mean to make him eat dreadful things, mind you. I was just... Trying to liven things up.

[scholiast]

Oh, is that why you brought those flavoured syrups? To liven up the cheese?

(She's teasing now, eyes bright.)

[dancingmd]

Yes - I thought, this goat cheese is not strong enough. Clearly it needs more.

[scholiast]

That one was my favourite. You have good taste!

[dancingmd]

And you're not just saying that, right?

(She yawns and snuggles even closer, clearly not really worried.)

[scholiast]

No, I'm being serious!

(Lucretia gives her a little pat on the side as she snuggles closer, reassuring.)

I've had a wonderful evening.

[dancingmd]

Me too. One of the nicest nights since I have been here.

[scholiast]

Same, actually.

It's really nice to have normal things to do like this. Sometimes it just gets so weird around here, you know?

[dancingmd]

(She chuckles softly.)

I think we both more than qualify for living weird lives. But I know what you mean.

[scholiast]

True. You know, that's why I probably think being here is normal– I've forgotten what normal is.

[dancingmd]

Me too. It's...a little hard to get used to, if I am being honest. I haven't stayed on one planet for more than several months in years. And even when I was - if I got the itch to explore or to leave, I always could.

[scholiast]

I know. I keep expecting something to happen.

(For now, she supposes, it's like taking a year after retrieving the light early in a cycle, except without some of the others being there at all, and also way more infighting amongst the few that are. A bad relaxation year.)

I couldn't keep my eyes off the sky for the first week being here, even though I knew the light wasn't coming. Do you have a favourite planet that you've visited?

[dancingmd]

Betazed. (She says without hesitation.) One of my best friends is from there - it's a gorgeous planet. Warm, lots of lakes and waterfalls.

[scholiast]

It sounds beautiful. (Aw, Lucretia wants to go. She doesn't have anything to hand to write with, but she'll try to remember that– Betazed.)

Were you there for long?

[dancingmd]

It's a member planet of the Federation so I have been there several times! Though I have never stayed much more than a week or so.

[scholiast]

Like a vacation planet. (Real hashtag beach year vibes, nice.) Always good to keep one of those in your back pocket, so to speak.