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

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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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[mysophobic]

[ Shigeru does move free and he'll get his phone, this time making sure to turn on the text to speech function, so that he can properly communicate. ]

Dodger? Are you okay?

[ The strangely robotic voice will ask in his stead as he moves around the bed to get closer to the other man. ]

[smokedout]

[He makes a small grumbling noise, and curls up a bit in protest of losing that source of warmth. But... apparently he's expected to wake up, so he grumbles again and pushes himself up, groggily watching Shigeru.]

....Fine.

[He manages that much, his legs dangling off the edge of the bed as he motions for Shigeru to come closer. Just to see if he will... from the looks of him, he's still heavily considering flopping back into the bed and falling asleep again.]

[mysophobic]

[ Well as long as Dodger looks and sounds okay Shigeru's worry evaporates. He's still a little...confused about why he was in his bed but he'll just go with it?! Dodger is strange man so Shigeru is honestly used to his antics by now. He sighs a little before shaking his head and then he...shuffles a bit closer at Dodger's request. Shigeru's head tilts to the side as he does so. ]

You're...sure? I mean...showing up in my bed like that is a bit...

[ not entirely strange, given who it is, but it was a bit of a shock for him. ]

[smokedout]

[His hands slip around Shigeru's hips, pulling him closer in a gentle grip that he can pull out of if he needs to. Without a word, he presses his forehead to Shigeru's chest, taking a deep breath to take in the man's scent and... enjoy the feeling of touching him, for a while.

Finally he speaks.]

Come back to bed.

[Dodger, as usual, doesn't really question the situation that he's in... just tries to get what he wants.]

[mysophobic]

[ Grabbing his hips like that makes Shigeru jump and he stumbles forward, his hands landing on Dodger's shoulders, just long enough to brace himself. His face is so red right now, oh my gosh?! ]

But I'm not...I'm really not used to sharing my bed with someone.

[ He looks so awkward as he types that and shows Dodger, looking away momentarily at anywhere but him. Ugh this is...embarrassing. ]