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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[tenthousandmiles]

Fridge?

[what's a fridge .... u mean u don't preserve ur perishables with salt or smoking or by putting it in an underground cellar....anyway. He shakes his head, waving off the question to address properly later.]

If it was during the day, I could be more sure of a connection, but...it's possible that the additive could have interacted with your exhaustion, somehow.

[But is that too simple a solution? How could that explain the oddly individualized effects of the additive on individuals...?]

Do you feel alright now?

[pulledpunches]

[ Now feeling awkward with being the one standing in the middle of the room as the man lounges on his own floor, he folds his legs under him to sit as well, putting them on the same level. He politely takes the dismissal of the man's question- he's already met a few people who'd not known what a cell phone was, and while fridges seem like more of a... staple, who's he to judge?

He scratches at the back of his head at the question. ]

Hmm. Yeah, I think so. Could it have been the steam, maybe? Are you worried about the additive itself? [ He supposes that makes sense, thinking of the pollen that had caused memory loss just last month. He distantly finds himself wishing he could be more helpful with his own break-in. ]

[tenthousandmiles]

[He scoots over slightly to give Akihiko room when he chooses to sit down himself, though he makes no remark on it--choosing instead to focus on the matter at hand.]

A bit, yeah.

[Despite his earlier vagueness, it's an honest answer. He's been worried about the additive ever since he first heard about it.]

I've had a suspicion for awhile, really. The sort of properties that have been claimed wouldn't be possible through normal means, in my world.

[but he can't LOOK INTO IT because none of the shopkeepers will tell him!! anything!!! #rude tbh]

[pulledpunches]

[ Hm. He wonders what that implies for the details about Ginko's world, but doesn't immediately press. Instead, he hums in thought. ]

We didn't either.. we had color changing stuff but that was just a chemical balance thing.

[ Plus, about a billion different restrictive diets (and also the FDA?) would have demanded a much more in depth explanation than seems to be required, here. He guesses though, they get away with it because he'd just assumed this place was more advanced than back home. ]

If there was a way to check, we could just.. buy more of the food as samples. [ Sure, it bolsters the sale of potentially conspicuous goods, but if it helps in the end..? ]