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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gnfdjkh no worries

[ichimyatsu]

[The very ears Reaper questions fold flat back against his head and Ichimatsu almost doesn't even seem to realize, but he jolts in place and looks upward at his hairline, his face flooding with color.]

Ah, those... Uh. I'm not, really, wearing them.

[His tail, in the meantime, curls carefully inward to huddle between his knees.]

[hellshot]

[he can't really hide the expression of shock on his face without his mask, so...

He's sticking Ichimatsu with a pretty wordless stare, trying to figure out exactly what the hell the other meant by he's not really wearing them.]

...

Either I'm having a really fucked up dream, or you have some explaining to follow that up with.

[ichimyatsu]

Possibly both, [The words leave him on a short half-laugh, and he sits up and onto his haunches carefully.]

Uh. It's... hard to explain, really, since I don't honestly understand it, but... Sometimes I get cat ears and a tail? Happens most when I'm startled. Or angry? In varying degrees of... cat- ...ness.

[hellshot]

[He's... just going to put a hand over his face and try to clear the swimming juices inside his brain. When he opens up his eyes, Ichimatsu's NOT going to have cat ears, and it'll all just be some weird fucking hallucination the lack of sleep and the busy regeneration of his nanites were causing with his brain.

He opens his eyes again...

And he still has the ears. God, why.]

Does your...

Brother do this, too, or is this just...

...You.

[ichimyatsu]

[The ears somehow fold farther against his head, and he looks supremely scolded despite being a grown-ass adult with a largely ever-changing deadpan expression.]

Just me. And there's two other brothers here, now.

[hellshot]

....[His thumb presses against his forehead. Right. There WAS another one of the 'Matsuno' brothers here. He'd ... unfortunately met him the night before, so he shakes his head.]

I've met him. Mistook him for Karamatsu.

[But that's not important right now.]

...Look, that aside. It's whatever. If you're some sort of fucked up half-cat, I've seen much worse.
But give a man a damn warning before startling him like that. Were you waiting for me to wake up or something? You know I have a gun under my pillow.

[Read: why are you trying to get shot by startling him while he's sleeping, man.]

[ichimyatsu]

[He chuckles faintly.]

That's real common, even with people who've known us all our lives.

[His tail curls closer to himself and he belatedly takes a moment to realize that... Yeah, he sure is in Reaper's bed. At the foot of it, in his room. When did he get here...?]

...I'll be real, I don't... really remember going to sleep here. Or getting here in the first place.