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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Comments

[alchemyfreak]

Ed's not sure he'd call it kindness, he was just too used to this sort of thing to consider blaming the other person for the situation they found themselves in. Sure, he could kick Ivar out, but what would that solve? He'd probably just wake up to someone else there instead. At least this way he knew who was there, already. "Some people," He smirked at that, but didn't argue or elaborate.

Before he can even answer Ivar is already splitting his hair up, so Ed simply quirks a brow. "You seem to," Not that he's going to complain. The guy had a point, and he really didn't want a repeat of the choking incident previously. "Is that something you learned at home?"

[ragnarsson]

"Yes. Most Vikings, men and women, have long hair besides me. Best to keep it out of the way when going into battle." There hadn't been a lot to do when he was growing up and could only move either when someone picked him up or as fast as his arms could carry him, so Ivar had picked up a lot of random skills that he could practice along the way. It was one the reasons he was one of the few Vikings who could read runes as well. His mentor Floki had taught him as a small child.

Having divided the hair into five sections, he begins to braid. Taking the farthest right section, he crosses it under and over the other four strands until it becomes the new farthest left strand. Then he picks up the new farthest right strand and continues the pattern. It's slow work at first, for it's been a while since he put these skills to use, but his fingers soon pick up the muscle memory.