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Riverview Moderator ([personal profile] riverviewmod) wrote in [community profile] riverviewlogs2017-08-23 07:27 pm
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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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rightly: (eighty one.)

[personal profile] rightly 2017-09-19 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
What... Diana! [ But by the time he's calling out her name, she's already out the window. Steve just groans, rolling his eyes. ] Oh, of course.

[ Should've probably expected something extreme and theatrical like that. Nothing to be done about it now, though. He can't exactly follow her lead and leap out the window, but he does rush out the door, running his way down the building and out towards the wall as fast as he can manage. He likely won't be able to catch up to her, and he has a feeling she won't wait for him either, but at worst he'll eventually get to the portal. Hopefully while she's still there. ]
eusebeia: (two)

[personal profile] eusebeia 2017-09-23 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she does leap out, front and center, and land effortlessly on the ground below. without a word, diana rushes forward to her destination. once steve ultimately arrives, he'll find her attacking the portal with the eminent god killer in hand. the sharp sound of metal clashing against metal resonates in the air, and while her best efforts are proving to be futile, she won't yield. ]
rightly: (sixty.)

[personal profile] rightly 2017-09-24 03:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She'll probably have about fifteen or twenty minutes to stab and shove stubbornly at the portal before Steve manages to get there. When he does, he's panting heavily, his shirt sticking to his back with the sweat. He also has a cut going across his cheek and a few scrapes and cuts on his palms and knuckles, but— well, making his way across the forest in plain trousers and shirt and a simple pair of shoes rather than proper clothes and boots doesn't exactly help. ]

Diana... [ He breathes deeply, taking a seat on a rock nearby and closing his eyes to try and will the dizziness away. ] Please. You're not going to achieve anything.
eusebeia: (fifteen)

[personal profile] eusebeia 2017-09-24 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ while she hears him, diana persists — refusing to acknowledge the truth. she won't give up, not when there are so many lives on the line, both in their world and here. although diana's unyielding determination serves as a strength, she's often obstinate to a fault.

her arm thrusts forward, striking against the portal at a steady rate. even if she's tiring, she continues to deliver blow after blow. ]
rightly: (six.)

[personal profile] rightly 2017-09-25 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, he's not about to step too close and risk getting shoved halfway across the forest, and he's not getting between her sword and the portal. Besides, he's still a bit woozy and tired after that run. It's not that he's not used to it, but it's something else entirely to go that stretch on an empty stomach, with no proper attire and while running in an attempt to catch up before she disappears.

Not that he thought she'd vanish through the portal again so easily, but... frankly, in this place, Steve's not so sure she'd have reason to stick to his side. ]


If you destroy it, it'll never take anyone in here back home. And then you really will be trapped. [ He gets up slowly, wiping the blood from his cut on the sleeve of his shirt. ] Please... I don't want you getting hurt.
eusebeia: (fourteen)

[personal profile] eusebeia 2017-09-25 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ she doesn't intend to destroy it, not exactly. more like uncover a method of unlocking the portal, though steve does raise a fair point. his response causes her to halt in place, momentarily distracted as she turns to glance at him.

her brow furrows once she notices the wound on his cheek, still damp with his blood. while she doesn't drop her weapon, she lowers the sword. her shoulders heave gently in concern, as her heartbeat accelerates. ]


Steve. Your face.
rightly: (thirty two.)

[personal profile] rightly 2017-09-25 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[ Steve hasn't even given it much thought, but once she mentions it, he lifts his arm, wiping any remnants of blood from his cheek yet again. ]

I got cut on a branch on my way here. It's nothing. [ He shrugs it off as if it's nothing, trying to hide his hands to his sides. Not that it's that bad, but he doesn't want her to worry about the scrapes on his hands too. ]
eusebeia: (nine)

[personal profile] eusebeia 2017-09-25 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ she stares at him a moment longer before nodding. ]

Stay back.

[ diana doesn't wish any more harm to befall him, no matter how minor. with that warning, she turns around to concentrate on the portal once more. raising her blade, she strikes another area, in an attempt to determine potential weaknesses. nothing has worked so far, but she can't surrender. ]
rightly: (forty one.)

[personal profile] rightly 2017-09-25 08:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Steve sighs quietly when she goes back to stabbing the portal. Evidently there's no talking her out of it, so he lets it go, instead sitting down on the rock again, leaning back. He alternates between watching her and keeping an eye on their surroundings in case they get an unwanted visitor, waiting until she tires of trying to force the portal to work. Hopefully. ]