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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[ A little less bleary-eyed from having been woken up in the middle of the night now, Hana could see him a little better even in the darkness of the room so, hello to you too, Jason. He earned a quirked brow and a smirk for his banter and a thought crossed her mind when he took the aspirin and especially so when she saw him giving her a once-over.

She leaned down a little bit. ]

I don't know... you disrupted my beauty sleep and I had to play nurse? It's gonna be a big price to pay, Jason.

[ It was her turn to look him over just before she leaned in to whisper in his ear... ]

How are you with racing games?

[ He finished off the water, because well, it's just a good thing to do when you need to wake up quickly. His blue eyes met her eyes when she leaned down. A smirk playing the corners of his lips. ]

I can pay a big price, depends on what your wanting.

[ He spoke, his accent still a little heavy with sleep but he was more awake than he was implying. Habit from years of broken sleep. He grinned a little more despite his headache.]

I'm amazing with racing games. You wanna play with me, Hana? [ He purposely made it a little lewd, but, if she said no that would be fully respected. He had a code after all.]

[ Listen. She's sharing this room with like four other people and at least some of them are in their beds, just trying to get a good night's sleep, not really prepared to wake up in the middle of the night much less to one of their roommates fooling around with a guy who'd randomly ended up in her bed. She had pulled away from his ear and her gaze fell down to that smirk on his lips and, okay, it was tempting, especially with the way his voice sounded, but playing the teasing game sounded even more fun, honestly.

So she tilted her head at him coyly, held a finger up to her lips, and said,

Only if you're a good sport. Think you can beat me at one? I won't go easy on you, you know.

[ Jason had like zero shame, well, outside of his own floor. He tried to pretend to be a normal stable adult there but who was he fooling? No one that's who. Jason's eyebrow arched as she held the finger to her lips.

He pushed himself up, draping his shirt over one of his shoulders and grabbed his boots from beside the bed to stand. Read for her to lead him wherever. He figure it wouldn't be here. he was tired and hung over enough that he wasn't even sure what they were talking about anymore, real games or sexy games. Either way, he was ready to follow.]

I never want you to go easy on me, give me your worse, Hana.

[ She spun on the ball of her foot when he stood, just as ready to lead him wherever, and that's just what she did: without another word, just a little smirk up at him from over her shoulder, she led him out of the room and then out to the common area of the floor, then straight to the couch. There was still some deliberation in her mind about whether the games were real or sexy, or some combination of the two, but she was at least certain that whatever it was, it had to be out here.

She flopped on the couch and stretched her arm out along the backrest of it, crossing her bare legs and waiting for Jason to take his place, wherever that may be. ]

Pretty sure you're gonna regret those words, by the way.

[ Jason followed her along like a siren. She was pretty and he was tired and really to follow her to his doom if she deemed it. Though, he doubted that was it.

When the reached the couch he took a seat next to her within the reach of that arm so they were very close, without putting his shirt on, it was tossed down with his boots, which he left near his feet. ]

We'll see.

[ They were very close indeed, and she could feel the same warmth from his body that she could when they were in her bed. This room was certainly better lit than the other one and there was no way for her to mask the way she looked at his body appreciatively, not that she would have tried to hide that anyway. ]

Hmmm...

[ She hummed as she leaned in and then reached over his front to stretch her arm out to the other side of him, to the end table next to the touch... to the controllers there.

As she crossed back over to her seat she dropped one of the controllers in his lap, keeping the other one in her hand as she pressed the button to turn it and the console on. ]

Get ready to get owned.

[ Jason didn't mind the eyes. Sometimes it was good for his ego. He knew he was hot, but sometimes those nagging voices in his head convince him otherwise. The voices he pretends don't exist. He shifts the blue eyes her way, before tracking her with those eyes.

Oh, hello there.

The grin stayed until she dropped the controller, he lifted the one dropped in his lap and turned it on as well. He spent so many nights up playing video games. He was actually kind of glad this was what the game was turning out to be. It would be fun.]

Pish, we'll see. [ He replied with a playful tone.]

[ Hana was actually kind of glad, too. The whole 'ending up in her bed out of nowhere' situation was still kind of weird, and if she was really going to fool around with Jason she'd rather it have been of her own volition and not just because the situation made it convenient.

So, it would be video games with them. Maybe late night pizza if Jason's drunken state turned into a hungry state.

As the game started, Hana navigated them into a versus mode, but first they had to pick their racing characters. Hana, naturally, chose the pinkest, most feminine and most princess-like character available.

(Mario Kart. It was knock-off Mario Kart from another dimension.) ]

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

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