❄ 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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[snyaiper]

[... Ugh. That word is so annoying. He does not like it, nor does he like how it completely takes the wind out of his sails. So he huffs, and sits, before popping out the lens from the empty eye socket. His eyelids fall closed over most of it, but not entirely.]

[wowcool]

[Success.]

[He pops it out, but it doesn't get to what he really wants. Anaido leans forward, peering at his ekpty eyesocket with great interest.]

Open it more, please.

[snyaiper]

[Leaning in a bit closer to Anaido.]

You have hands, don't you?
[Open it yourself.]

kids don't do mobile tags for typos

[wowcool]

...

[Well, that's all the permission he needs. He leans forward, one hand gripping the man by the cheek and tilting his head back while the other moves to pry open his eyelids.]

[He lets out a pleased sigh.]

Mm. That's very nice, indeed...

Truly hope no one else is looking at this terrible thread

[snyaiper]

[Ogata winces a little at the foreign touch on freshly healed flesh, but then leans into Anaido's grasp, making a low noise a bit like a cat's purr.]

I can't say I understand the appeal. It didn't do anything useful for me the way yours did.
[He sounds pretty content, though. But that's less about the hole and more Anaido's reaction to it.]

caitie please

[wowcool]

You don't think so?

[But holes are useful, aren't they? The absence of something that gives meaning to something else.]

[He doesn't let go of the man's face.]

But it changed how you see things, right?

[snyaiper]

[Ogata stares at him for a long moment, still languid and relaxed in Anaido's grasp, but there's something judgemental about the gaze of his remaining eye. Is that a joke? He feels like it's not, that Anaido is being sincere, but god it really could be a joke.]

In that it robbed me of proper depth perception, yes I suppose it did.

[wowcool]

Haha. Not like that.

[He shakes his head, his smile sliding up to the side in a wry sort of smirk.]

Is the world a little clearer for you now? Or darker?

[snyaiper]

Mm... I don't think it's any different.

[If he's honest he's never fully bought into Anaido's hole philosophy, but;]

What was it you said, "wind comes into the hole and then comes out of the hole"? Mine doesn't go through my head like yours. Maybe that's why it doesn't help.

[It's a shame he didn't get the chance to ask Sugimoto about his. It would have been interesting. But he doesn't think Sugimoto has the right frame of mind to get that sort of effect from it.]