❄ I just wanna keep on waiting underneath the mistletoe ... [sisi voice] A Jingle Mingle

[alittlefuninstead]

Wherever you are, whoever you are, you'll likely find yourself blinking one moment and teleporting in a flurry of snowflakes the next. Luckily for you, there's no murder this time! (Probably.)

Rather, you'll hear Christmas carols aplenty as you approach a winter castle, snow lightly falling and various paths leading to gardens filled with still-blooming flowers (how.) and lit topiary displays.

Upon entering the castle, you'll find it's brightly lit and decorated...welcome to the party! Frost lightly dusts the walls and some nearby surfaces and guests will find there are halls and floors aplenty to explore. There are rooms filled with plush chairs and fireplaces for those looking for something cozier, rooms filled with all kinds of games and toys, and naturally there's a large ballroom prime for dancing. Spread through you'll find tables of snacks, full-course meals, drinks, desserts, and even champagne towers. Are you looking for something specific? Simply ask a member of the staff. Watch your step though! Their assistants really are doing their best to help, and the jingling bell may be too faint to hear if you aren't paying attention.

It seems as though you've all been invited to a wonderful holiday party for no reason at all...but there is one thing amiss...or, should I say...amistletoe?

Pinned up on every doorway is a sprig of fresh mistletoe, decorated with bright red bows and dustings of frost. And sure, perhaps it's easy just to avoid the doorways if you want to be a spoilsport. But should you avoid it for too long, it will seem as though the mistletoe is following you, almost as if some asshole is hiding out and purposefully trailing behind to keep it dangling over your head.

Oh. And did I mention you can't leave the castle grounds until you play along? Pucker up.

[ooc: this can be any past murdergame characters y'all, go nuts.

for clarity sake, this includes characters from: reapsody, grimmoired, plasmatio, subdivided, thotordie, bluesclues, tropicalgetaway, notagain, and redactable!

edit: and by popular demand any of you from the above games can also bring your yuggoths and your tikirobos. The Robowests were in CRAU and therefore don't count goodbye.]

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[disreguarded]

[ okay, like, she's into the whole castle thing and this everything, and she's doubly down for the smooching part, but the second she sees one of those tiny elves she immediately takes off after one.

so. here's beauregard, running at top speed after a shrieking elf. stop! she just wants to LOOK AT IT. ]

[foxweddings]

[This unfortunate elf.

A fox-haired lady in a flowing kimono with a mirror floating behind her has the audacity to pull her robes up just as it's running over them, causing the creature to trip and tumble into a wall]

Hmph! The nerve. I should charge you triple for planting your tiny shoes all over my clothes.

[Anyway merry christmas, girl, there's your stunned elf.]

[hegemonstrous]

[Here is Edelgard, hurrying away from the doorway towards the champagne tray instead. She is also wearing a very terrible festive ballgown.

Sighing out to whoever is nearby her.]

This is ridiculous, isn't it?

[fishingforcompliments]

...um, yes, a little.

[Ridiculous and a liiiittle bit awkward. But like, she's not super dead, so maybe Edelgard will assume she heeded her advice and didn't go home! Ha ha!]

[exercisms]

[He's. He's trying so hard to hide from mistletoe. Help him.]

[cosplays]

[ ganba shigeo...... ]

[survivaltricks]

[hello, some asshole has draped himself FACE FIRST across a plush chair in front of a fireplace, arms and legs hanging over the sides. WHO IS THIS ASSHOLE??? he isn't moving. is he dead??]





[it's Akira, okay, he doesn't want to be here HASN'T THE UNIVERSE KIDNAPPED HIM ENOUGH]

((BLUES/CRAU VERSION BY DEFAULT but can do others by request. "Al how many times have you played Akira in a mg—" looks away))

[disreguarded]

[ she's snortlaughing even as she climbs over to hang over the back of the chair. ]

Akira, dude. You're gonna suffocate.

[shixiong]

[ how many ways can one man avoid kisses? let's find out

aka if you see like a weird motion out of the corner of your eyes? it's definitely not a person, or anything... in fact, you probably just forget about seeing whover it was...?


....that is to say, here's yin yu, mask covering his face, who is absolutely a spoilsport and avoiding said mistletoe. and. most everything, actually? let him just fade into the background and figure out how to avoid all of this socialization in peace.... ]

[supremity]

[ Yin Yu attempts to fade into the background.

Turns out, there's someone already there, silent as the grave and unnoticeable until suddenly from behind the person that's supposed to be the stealthiest nobody in all the murderrealms: ]

Hello, Yin Yu.

[wowcool]

Haha! Woooooow! Cool!

[Here's a very tall man in an obnoxiously terrible coat just? Fingergunning at the decorations. He seems incredibly happy...though isn't Anaido always incredibly happy? Hm.]

It's all so...festive! Haha!

[He seemingly doesn't even notice any of the mistletoe.]

[evocationary]

[ she immediately fingerguns him back, because she's legally obligated to. ]

Ayyy. Your coat is ridiculous. I love it. Nice style? What's your name, huh?

[applechemist]

[ she's here in a festive christmas dress, looking extremely pleased by all of this.

and munching on various desserts. she is balancing like three little plates in one hand so that her other hand is free to hold her fork. it's kind of impressive? but why didn't she just eat things one at a time? escha. ]

[disreguarded]

Escha!

[ :D ]

Hey! You're looking - uh, really pretty, as usual. [ smooth ] How've you been?

[supremity]

[ The fuck is this.

At least Hua Cheng is bright crimson red and fits right in with the color scheme, but, also, Christmastime doesn't exist in ancient fantasy china. With no Christmas shenanigans or watch parties in the Realm, here he is, having not read a lick about holidays in the meantime. So he's just walking around, checking things out.

The fuck are penguins? These aren't elves - the elves he knows are willowy and tanned and beautiful? What terrible little creatures are these jingling things that are making a mockery of elfkind? (He may or may not have one captured at some point to pull their ears, after having stepped on them. Oops.)

At least the castle is familiar. ]

[haw]

[ squints. ]

. . .

Are ya tryin' to steal my look?

[infreefall]

[ ochako is just casually floating up to the doorway to remove the mistletoe before dropping back to the ground. it's a cute idea, but she doesn't think most poeple will appreciate it? now she's just got to find the trash. ]

There.

[ cheater. ]

[supremity]

Should I ask.

[ Surprise, a Hua Cheng, arms crossed as he watches her. ]

[dianxias]

[ sometimes you know absolutely nothing about christmas, and therefore this just seems like a really nice party? the world kidnapping thing is a bit strange, but. here is xie lian, prodding briefly at his world uber app to make sure that it's not broken....?

...but also! the atmosphere seems nice and festive and as far as he can tell he hasn't been nerfed or anything so even if there's a murder most foul he will survive getting stabbed

so party! neat!

here's xie lian, with a snack plate stacked as tall as a mountain in his hands, watching people kiss under the mistletoe.

... ]

...Why does everything in these places seem to have to do with kisses....? What is this particular tradition, exactly...?

[ or i guess find him staring up at christmas decorations looking very wondrous. w/e. or stuffing his face. ]

[supremity]

[ Arms behind his back, Hua Cheng sidles up to Xie Lian while he's looking at the decorations. Because even if he'd kiss him while he's got food, this means nothing is dropped on the ground. ]

Hello gege. It's all rather festive, isn't it?

[mammoney]

[Here's a demon.]

[Here's a demon currently...looking around to see if anyone is looking before stuffing a couple of crystal champagne glasses into his coat.]

[However, a THIEF HAS BEEN SPOTTED and Mammon just lets out a displeased noise.]

Hey! Just...look somewhere else, alright? I ain't doin' nothing!

[sadiskick]

[ She looks at him like he's a bug she wouldn't want to step on. ]

I have no interest in what you're doing. Come find me when you know what's better for you.

[ She turns to walk away. ]

[digestif]

Wow! It's so festive...! I thought it was November?

[ where are we. it's fine. Mizuki is waiting for the inevitable announcement of murders to begin, but let's not think about that because this is a meme. They're dressed for the occasion, and are currently standing near the doorway with a glass of some sort of alcohol in one hand and a plate with nothing but pie slices on it in the other. ]

Oh, well.

[haw]

[ so. majima WAS feeling very suave and about to slide up and wrap his arm around mizuki before anybody else got any funny ideas, but. apparently the two of them came to this party separately? because instead of doing any of that, he just comes back from the bar with his own drink and. stares. ]

Babe, yer the love of my life, keeper of my heart, all'a that cheesy mumbo-jumbo, but what in the goddamn hell are ya wearin'.

[evocationary]

[ here's lup, munching on a cookie as she absently twirls through the ballroom. ]

This, uh, this is missing baking powder. Do you see how flat this thing is? [ she says, gesturing at her cookie to the closest person. ] Anyway. Let's dance? Come here.

[supremity]

[ nyooms directly to my fake wife ]

How flat is it, Lup? [ amused, but he offers her a hand when she asks about dancing ] You know I can't say no to a dance with you.

[goldpeony]

[Probably at one point there are two HUGE, distorted golden brown eyes looking at you from the other side of the glasses of the champagne tower. They've been magnified to watery magnitude. He doesn't say anything, he's just watching you from afar, totally hidden.

Otherwise, he's, uh, got a sword out to point it at the chasing mistletoe. He isn't running, he'll fight. Not that he can reach without making some effort.]

No! Get away from me!

[soba]

[ i bought a paid for this

toi is just watching this happen because jin ling looks so stupid right now. wow. ]

[baori]

[ why must giyuu be here?? he doesn't understand your western holiday ways?? nor does he understand what the hell an elf is.

honestly why is he here? do not kiss him. it's a bad choice. but he'll be at the table looking at the food nevertheless because it's safe? mmm tiny food. ]

[wisterin]

Tomioka-san.

[ She's smiling! Because what other expression would she have? ]

This is why you don't have very many friends, you know.

[bisouled]

[ what the FUCK is christmas. ]

Erm... Did I miss something? Is this a celebration because we won?

[ here is Fiora, looking extremely confused by the... everything. The penguins and the elves are actually the least weird things here. Why is there a whole ass tree indoors? And who keeps ringing bells?? She's just peering around outside at all the lights and holiday cheer. ]

[menially]

[oh my god??????



give him a second he's just gawking from across the room]

[targon]

[ do not kiss the baby, but the baby is here.

sitting in mid-air behind you. stealing food right from your hands. don't worry about it. ]

[antaressnipe]

A.

[While one of my fates is busy terrorizing the masses

The nice horse dad (who is not even in horse form for this prompt, sorry, he's in his human guise for now) is taking all of this in with some manner of bemusement before deciding he's suffered far worse than being forced to smooch strangers.

Dionysus would be proud, frankly.

He is still going to expertly be missing the mistletoe to the best of his ability, but when he isn't being chased, is more likely to hold up a corner of the wall with some spiced eggnog and strike up a conversation than go straight for the kisses.]

I do hope this isn't your first kidnapping.

B.

[And then the mistletoe starts getting rather feisty.

Chiron cannot see who is following him, but he absolutely notes that a specific piece of festive greenery is doggedly on his heels no matter where he travels. Almost like a challenge.

:) How cute

Which is why later you might see a centaur thundering down the halls at breakneck speed, and with that same piece of mistletoe zipping right behind him, followed along with a tinkle of invisible laughter. Given that Chiron is also looking amused as hell as he runs, he ain't even mad.

Though, uh-- he will come to an abrupt stop if it looks like he might run into anyone, front hooves sharply stamping into the ground as he takes a few steps back]

Ah, forgive my manners. [Laughing and tossing his hair back over his shoulder. The mistletoe is still there] Someone challenged me to a race, it seems.

a

[fishingforcompliments]

[cheerfully:]

Oh, do not worry. It is my fourth, in fact.

[i don't actually want flayn to kiss horse dad i just thought her answer would be funny]

[constellates]

[SHE GASPS EXCITEDLY]

Christmas? Захватывающе! Yay!

[she's having a GREAT TIME up until she is suddenly followed by mistletoe? and then, suddenly it is - ]

Oh no.

[goldpeony]

NO! Get out of here right now!

[preowned]

[



he's just slowly moving glasses in the champagne tower, like he's playing the world's most dangerous form of jenga. ]

[targon]

[ vibrating intensely behind him hoping it falls down ]

[fishingforcompliments]

[flayn is legitimately distracted by the spread of christmas foods. i'm so sorry.]

Hmm... I wonder if our hosts have prepared any fish...

[don't mind her!]

[supremity]

[ me: is this them meeting for the first time or is this post-crau psl
me:
me: britt can figure it out that's not my job ]

There's a few dishes, it looks like. [ And he's here for the alcohol while she looks for feesh ]

[robopriest]

[Of course Hansa is here. Why shouldn't he be here, with so much eyepatch power congregated in one place? Anyways, he's here drinking some punch out of a glass, people-watching.]

[If anyone approaches, he'll just smirk at them.]

You know, with all the kissing, you'd think its Valentine's Day. Haha.

[Maybe at some point, you might find him rolling up his sleeve, tucking a sprig of mistletoe...into a compartment in his metal arm? What's that about.]

[haw]

[ AGGRESSIVELY POINTING A FINGER DIRECTLY AT HIM ]

You're the guy.

[doublebladed]

[there's a baby squinting at this magical plant, very unsure of what's going on here.]

Um...?

[blackcoats]

[ she pokes it with her keyblade. ]

[daifukus]

[ tonbo is here? but hiding behind a chair he’s far too tall to vanish behind? it’s fine. sometimes you get stuck in another nother place and you’re like NAH familiar faces or not. ]

[crashout]

[just. a dead-eyed stare while holding a flute of champagne.]

How's that working out for you?

[vigilantics]

[ sometimes you just watch a bunch of elves and penguins run around with an expression of "yea sure this might as well happen" ]

Haha. I can't tell if this is magic or just rich people.

[wisterin]

[ She's smiling and watching it all, too. ]

Why can't it be both?