❄ 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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[soulus]

[It's a pity that he has yet to simply walk under a mistletoe alongside another person.]

Are you offering?

[bisouled]

Am I offering?!

[ THIS IS SO BRAZEN EVEN THOUGH IT WAS OBVIOUSLY COMING that she's rendered speechless for a minute. ]

Don't put it like that! That makes it sound like I'm just giving them away. Every kiss is precious to a young lady like myself, you know!

[soulus]

[Does he know?]

You won't be giving them away. It'll be an even exchange.

[bisouled]

Huh? Listen to you...

[ that was almost kind of smooth? she knows it was a total fluke, but that doesn't stop her from being vaguely surprised on principle.

Anyway. Whatever. This is fine. Nothing to get discombobulated about, it's just Rufus. She sighs. ]

Well... I did say I'd help you out. [ he is handsome, and she likes him. it's better than kissing someone random, right?! ] Okay. Then... we'd better find some plants to stand under, I guess?

[soulus]

[Rufus, who was speaking from a purely transactional point of view, does not follow. But if that means she listened, all's well that ends well. In helping him out, this may help her out as well.]

There's a sprig by the door to your left.

[bisouled]

Oh - well, that's... convenient?

[ is that the word for this?! it's something. Fiora grabs him by the sleeve and starts tugging him over to the doorway with a sort of determined resolve she usually reserves for Gogols. Rufus is not as scary and probably not as high-level, but this is pretty embarrassing, so it takes some gumption, even for Fiora. ]

Okay. I'm guessing you haven't really kissed anyone before? Other than frogs.

[ she's confident for someone who has had exactly one kiss in her life that was technically CPR ]

[soulus]

[Because their destination is the same, he allows the tugging. He would resent her assumption about his level, but that's not important right now.]

No. I've kissed people at the Realm.

[If they count kisses that weren't on the lips, the total he's tallied inwardly is even higher.]

[bisouled]

-- What? Really? Since when?

[ she looks legitimately surprised by this reveal, enough that it distracts her for a moment from the situation. She's a teenage girl, she wants the gossip... ]

[soulus]

Is that important?

[And what's with that look of surprise? Girls get so caught up in the mere idea of kissing.]

[bisouled]

Totally important! Rufus, did you get a girlfriend?!

[ she's going to feel really bad about this if so?! ]

You really don't tell me anything! Geez!

[soulus]

[What?

Although he looks as unimpressed as usual on the surface, inside he is deeply confused by this leap in logic. A girlfriend?]

I have no interest in that.

[bisouled]

[ this answer either means he's gay or he's just kissing people. Both could be true, honestly . . . she doesn't know. ]

Don't tell me it was another curse?

[ instead, she'll go for option C. She's still standing here holding his arm under the mistletoe?? She's gotten distracted so fast... it's fine, she'll get back to it. ]

[soulus]

[He was, in fact, gay at one point. Thank you, Clementine.]

There were four curses in total. The rest was the Realm's influence.

[Now let them move on to this mistletoe business.]