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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[It's hard to imagine, but it's a sufficient explanation. Thor seems to comprehend it and he's trying to visualise it.]

Why does it make you wonder? Why are you so familiar with the Ergo Proxy? [He feels like he's being briefed for a mission here, but he likes to be prepared for any possible future of the Earth he knows.]

.. I travel with him. [ There, she's said it. It isn't as though Vincent Law is a huge secret in her life, but typically she doesn't refer to him by what's come to be something of an alter ego. He's proven to be a little sensitive to it over time and for the sake of somehow not waking up dead the next day she's warily dropped the words from her vocabulary unless she's so annoyed that the subject of 'caring' leaves her mind completely.

Still, there's no way she's saying anything about the fact that Vincent claims he loves her as to why she wonders, and quickly kinds of.. winds around it for the time being. ]

He's proven to be ruthless to other proxies before, is all. And I don't tend to tip toe around other people's feelings.

You travel with a proxy? Is he not considered an enemy? [The confusion is clear in his tone.]

When you described proxies, I imagined hostile, inhumane beasts. Unless he's some sort of rebel?

He could be, depending on how you look at it. But he's never been violent toward me, really. And... [ She pauses, seems to think about her wording here, and then - ] And without him I would still be in that gilded cage called Romdeau Dome.

They are, from what I've witnessed. Ergo Proxy... also has a human side.

I don't know the true specifics, really, other than another Proxy by the name of Monad - [ Here she makes an unconscious motion to put a pale hand to her chest, as if naming herself Monad. ] - gave up a lot to free him of.. a guilty conscience and memories to split off another persona that is human and much more gentle.

- - If anything Vincent's near on too sensitive at times.

Sounds like you're very fond of him.

[Thor isn't sure what to make of most of what she's saying, but he can comprehend that much. Of course, he can't help but comprehend the part that he can tease her about.]

[ There's a rising urge to lift a foot and try to kick him at that, honestly. She turns to give him a bit of a sharp look, blue eyes narrowed and that bright make-up sleep smeared. No such thing as stopping to wash one's face when it's more pressing to crawl in with a warm body, okay.. ]

He's the only other human interaction available, so I kind of have to be. Unless you would enjoy conversation with a perpetually four year old autoreiv. [ Actually, wait, she's gong to think that one through - ]

Never mind, you would.

I can't say I recall what that is. [Thor opens one eye, lazily. He looks thoroughly amused at her expression and he chuckles, raising a hand to place it on the back of her head so he can guide her to rest on his shoulder.]

Let your mind rest. So I can rest.

[ Re-L's a bit baffled by the move to lay her head on his shoulder - one, she'd not expected him to be so welcoming to her staying, and two.. no one's ever done that before. It's not completely .. terrible, though, and he is warm to curl up with, so.. maybe she'll stay.

It's a very .. polite way of telling her to shut up and sleep, after all. She manages some sort of annoyed noise despite that, shuffling slightly to settle in. ]

You act like that's so easy. I don't know if I'm jealous or not..

Mother always told me to imagine a sky and count the stars. [He's tired enough that he admits things he probably wouldn't in normal conversation.]

The first time I'd ever seen stars was here, actually.. [ Not even the faux night sky of Romdeau had even tried to replicate stars and planets and the like in the night sky. Maybe because they didn't know what it looked like, either, or considered it something unnecessary.

She sighs, reminded of things she's missed out on in a way, but not entirely put out, falling quiet to presumably let Thor, at least, sleep.

Re-L had invaded his bed, after all. It's only right. ]

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

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