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

[endurism]

[She's trying so hard, but.

Like.

This is the hardest game.

But when he puts it like that--!]

Y...yes. The easiest of points. I cannot imagine why anyone would struggle with something like this.

[As stiffly as a robot.]

So... so simple.

[bondsofsuffering]

[...Yyyup.]

So a kiss shouldn't bother you, right?

[1/2]

[endurism]

[!!]

[2/2]

[endurism]

It... definitely wouldn't--

[... Okay no she can't be that brave, she's too awkward about all of this.]

... It would depend on the sort of... ah, kiss.

[bondsofsuffering]

Well, on the lips, of course.

[""""Of course.""""]

[1/3] i'm sorry dani

[endurism]

[!!!!]

[endurism]

[!!!]

[3/3]

[endurism]

[She should've known.]

That's, ah.

[Um???]

That easily...?

I brought this upon myself

[bondsofsuffering]

[Nod, nod.]

We're all just doing it for points anyway, so it's not like there's any complicated feelings to worry about.

[endurism]

[Hrrrgh...!!

Has she even ever kissed anyone before...? She can't remember.

... Wait, she can't remember. So can't she just assume that she did, before, so that this isn't her first...?

(Does that make it better? She doesn't know, but she'd look ridiculous if she backed down now.)]

... It is only for points. So keep it very brief.

[bondsofsuffering]

[Is it better or worse that she's definitely not his first by this point.]

Of course, of course.

[And he'll lean in and give her a quick peck on the lips!]

[endurism]

[Very brief, very innocent, and still too much, probably.

And yet, it's still so little that she almost feels ridiculous for making a fuss over it.]

... Well then. That takes care of that, I suppose...?

[bondsofsuffering]

It does. Thanks, Azalea!

[endurism]

Don't thank me for that. Let's never discuss it again.

[A sigh.]

I'm sure you're off to demand more from others, so... feel free to carry on with that.

[bondsofsuffering]

Ah, yeah. I actually ended up in kind of an extra competition?

[Izanagi what.]

[endurism]

[Izanagi what.]

A...competition? What sort of competition?

[bondsofsuffering]

A guy on FiN challenged me to kiss one person per unit, so we're seeing who can actually do it.

[As you do.]

[endurism]

[what the fuck]

... That's remarkably shameless.

But it explains a lot more than I expected about what you asked for before.

[She actually feels better knowing that, it's logical. Ish.]

[bondsofsuffering]

I don't really have any "bonds" with most of the people here, so it's easy to ask for that kind of thing.

[endurism]

Hm, I suppose. There's no harm in "fake" relationships that don't mean anything.

... Still, I'm not sure I'm ready to wish you luck in such a ridiculous competition.

[bondsofsuffering]

It's all for fun anyway - although Intensity seems to be really into it, too.

[The name fits.]

[endurism]

[...Yeah.]

I imagine anyone with a name like that would take more things very seriously.

[bondsofsuffering]

You should see him drive. I didn't even know you could do that kind of stuff on a golf cart.

[endurism]

... Actually, I think I'd rather not, just from that description alone.

Are you going to be okay competing against a guy like that?

[bondsofsuffering]

I'm sure I'll be fine. It's just a game, after all!