mistletoe 2: mistletoe harder

[idolpro]

Who: You!
Where: Game Tower, to start
When: Day 187

[ It's snowing outside. . . ! So it's pretty cold. You know what's not cold, though? The Game Tower! It's nice and warm and you are definitely being yoinked out of wherever you currently are for a possibly familiar ~game~. Don't worry though: you don't have to stay.

Instead of the elevators opening, the rules just appear on your phone. There's hot cocoa provided in the lobby, though in limited quantity and all of them come with marshmallows. Mandatory marshmallows. If you don't like marshmallows, well, too bad!

Incidentally, there are also a bunch of green plants growing around . . . everywhere. Everywhere!! At the doorways, in the elevators, just hanging from the ceiling, growing parasitically on plants that aren't even mistletoe . . . !? Where did they come from!? They're all tied with a red ribbon too, to make them more easily visible and clearly part of the game. They're not restricted to the game tower, either - the only places mistletoe doesn't show up in are the unit dorms. ]

RULES | TURN-IN - due 12/26/19 @ 6PM PST

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Maiden!?

Where the fuck have you been?

[forgottenmercy]

I was, ah, called away to another program.

...a, ah, long one.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

No fucking kidding.

I thought they were going to do a complete sweep of SensitIV! at this rate!

[Hello, Maiden. This is how he expresses concern]

[forgottenmercy]

...It would, ah, not be surprising if they had.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That bad, huh?

[forgottenmercy]

We, ah, had...quite a bit of...turnover right around when I was called away. So there to be more on their whim...makes sense.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

...

Did you at least get a break on the other show?

[forgottenmercy]

It was, ah, likely more of a break than whatever happened here.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Tell me and I'll let you know if that's a true statement or not.

[forgottenmercy]

It was, ah, a 'quiz' show that tested learning. Too many, ah, wrong answers, and a trapdoor would be opened to the sharks swimming below.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

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Did you say sharks?

[forgottenmercy]

Ah, yes...?

1/4

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Trying to visualize and then just:]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Laughs]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[And laughs and laughs and laughs and---]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Of course it would be sharks.

Why wouldn't it be sharks?

[forgottenmercy]

The, ah, last program I was on did not have sharks.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What was it then? Snakes? Kittens?

Sometimes it seems like the production companies can't make up their minds.

[forgottenmercy]

None of, ah, those. Last time was simply a 'miniseries' reenacting the legend of Hades and Persephone.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That's almost too and brand. And I guess we'll label that as a dog show. For Cerberus.

...

So? By your lack of reaction, I'm assuming you didn't have to go for a swim.

[forgottenmercy]

That is, ah, correct. I did not.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I'll count that as a vacation then.

Did anyone tell you want happened around here?

[forgottenmercy]

Yes, I have been told of what I missed.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I should have got you a lab coat before the doctors all poofed.

Ah well. Missed opportunities.

[forgottenmercy]

I am, ah, not certain what I would do with one, but thank you for the thought, at least.