❄ 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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[transcompilation]

[ it's fine because she will never cop to the reason she was there in its path to tank the tank shell in the first place. it's disgusting reasons involving how she cares, in other words, which all of blues apparently knows by now much as it makes her want to die inside. ]

He's somewhere around here, I think? Fussed a bit, as he does.

[ squishy human worries about the objectively more durable robot, and this is apparently her life when around any of the mg gang now, a tried and true tradition dating back to the blues morgue. ]

As for that school of his ... well, I did say I wasn't going to join anyone in trying to burn it down.

[ said in a light tone of voice, you know, the kind that thinks it'd be fun to commit arson some time, but eeeehhhh. ]

[survivaltricks]

[I was about to say, who does 45 think she is kidding, everyone knows she is SOFT AND SQUISHY ON THE INSIDE]

Is he? [he's relieved to hear that] Good-- I'll have to find him so I can say hi.

[his Blues bff. . . he misses Hunter so much, and the thought of him being around to visit perks him up significantly]

[asssssss for, uh. the second part of what she says?]

Ssssso, has it been burned down then?

[transcompilation]

[ stop she has plenty of people convinced she's cold-hearted and stabby, don't out her like this or else everyone will start thinking she'd take an explosion for them???

a shrug, a bland smile. ]

You'll have to ask him, I'm afraid. I don't really know.

Anyway, I doubt whatever I've been up to has anything on ... shooting a god, was it?

[survivaltricks]

[a light noise of amusement]

Hey, you never know. Shooting a god wasn't that impressive.

[HE SAYS SO LIGHTLY]

[transcompilation]

You say that so lightly.

[ deadpan. thanks, metatext. have I ever mentioned that one of the major boss themes in her canon is called mythoclast. thematic, truly. ]

Don't tell me you're going to say that the cleanup afterward and convincing a bunch of people that they didn't actually see that happen was the hard part, or something.

[survivaltricks]

Hm? That part?

[his smile widens a bit]

Nah. I don't care about that part. What people remember, what they think they saw, what they really did see. . . it doesn't matter.

[all that matters is that in the moment, everyone knew the name of the Phantom Thieves]

[transcompilation]

Can you please stop sounding like something out of G11's games for two minutes. Or one of Dreamer's spiels, now that I think about it.

[ welcome to the eiderdown room, this place exists between dreams and reality. ]

With how easy you make it sound, it's almost enough to make a girl jealous.

[survivaltricks]

I refuse.

[EVEN THOUGH HE LIKE. HAS NO IDEA WHO THOSE PEOPLE ARE!!!]

[anyway. . . another light laugh]

It wasn't easy. [ah] I'm being confident, but. . . it was the toughest battle of my life.

[transcompilation]

[ the entire reason she can be so loose lipped at all, the fact that he has no idea whatsoever!!!

in any case her expression levels for a bit in sympathy, maybe, but it's gone just as quick, replaced by an all too cheery grin. ]

Isn't that how it always is? We do what we have to, and make light about it later.