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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[ Loki shoots him a scathing look. ]

I know your observational skills are below average, but surely you would have noticed this is my bed.

Mmm.. [Thor grumbles tiredly, glancing around and soaking in his surroundings and realising it truly isn't his communal room.]

It certainly isn't my bed. [Very astute observation skills.] How did I come to be here?

How should I know?

[ Loki kicks him lightly again for good measure. ]

All I care about is your immediate departure.

[Thor grunts again, louder, but he still doesn't move.]

Come now, is it so strange to share a bed? Not long ago, you were crawling into my bed in the dead of night so I could protect you from the monsters.

[ Loki inhales sharply before he replies, venomous as a viper. ]

And you failed terribly at it. The monsters came anyway.

Maybe that's because you weren't in my bed at the time.

[Thor, practiced at ignoring venom, lets his eyes slide shut. He's letting himself settle, all the kicking in the world will not move him.

You weren't there. Not that it meant anything.

[ There was a divide over the last few centuries. Thor grew more arrogant, knowing the throne was his and Loki subsided into the shadows with little else. ]

I never left. [Thor says, he can't help being a little defensive. He sees his childhood differently, of course. He sees them both growing too old to share beds, growing into their own lives but always returning for one another.

The gap exists between them, it won't go unacknowledged, but his memories of Loki are rose-coloured. They were a simpler time.]

..Until I was exiled. [He adds, to be clear.]

[ Loki shudders. He doesn't like this. The weight on Thor's bed was too familiar and it comes with the bone-old nostalgia that Loki has never been fully able to shake of. Unfortunately, Loki can't look back with the same kind of gaze Thor holds for their past. The one lie had called everything into question. His upbringing, his skills, his family. Even himself. Loki may be the God of Lies, proficient in twisting any truth. But he hates the art of lying and he finds himself too twisted to know the difference anymore.

I was merely giving truth to the lie I was fed all my life. After all, what else is there? Loki cannot see a future anymore. ]

I suppose it no longer matters.

Of course not, because I am here now. [Thor stretches, using it as a way to veeeery casually slide an arm around Loki's middle and drag him backward so they're almost cuddling.]

And since you are so insistent, I couldn't possibly go anywhere.

You'd still go.

[ But Loki shifts closer despite himself. Maybe just this once, he'll allow it. After all, anything can change tomorrow. He closes his eyes, breathing softly. ]

Why are you really here, Thor?

My bed was unsatisfactory.

[Thor shrugs against Loki, tucking his chin over his head.]

I desired company and warmth. I'm not sure what lead me here. Instincts, maybe.

They are poor instincts indeed if they led you here.

[ But he says it with a wry chuckle, patting lightly on the arm around his waist. ]

But for now, I'll indulge them.

Really?

[Thor cracks an eye open, though Loki can't see it from his position.]

Are you going to awaken me with a douse of cold water or breakfast? [As if those are the only options.]

Perhaps both or more, if you continue to give me ideas.

[ It's still a little uncomfortable, but the discomfort comes being a light sleeper. Loki lives in a heightened state of paranoia and fear. He does not sleep easily and can easily be startled into violence. Thor, at least, is familiar enough to Loki and does not rouse his instincts.

But it is a near thing. And the fear has never left. ]

I shall embrace it as it comes.

[Thor grumbles, low and tired. It seems like it's all he has the energy for, right now, because he's well and truly drifting off. He's not necessarily a heavy sleeper, but he sleeps heavier than Loki.

He feels warm, comfortable and oddly enough, safe. It's not long before he's fully asleep, breathing slowly and weighing down on Loki that little bit more.]

[ Loki isn't sure he'll sleep. For a long time, he merely listens to the steady puffs of breath that comes from Thor with the occasional snore. It feels too normal. A burst of hate wells up inside him for Thor doing this so easily, like everything that has happened doesn't matter —

— And his pillow is damp, so Loki struggles to close his eyes and pretend. ]

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

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