mistleglow: a winter kiss meme

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mistleglow: a winter kiss meme.

The month of December has been a cold one in Anchor, with the bots working hard to bring a little winter joy to the city. This year, there's a little extra surprise - the bots welcome the participation of the nanites, who are able to join in with the winter holiday protocols for the first time in a long time following their long imprisonment.

And what are the nanites doing? Well...this winter wonderland has been missing a conspicuous offender: the mistletoe. That's where the nanites come in...

▶ The nanites will be floating around in little swarms, lit up bright with various colors, and when they run into any sentient creature, they will enclose them in a harmless invisible shield with a radius of approximately three feet by three feet. Once the characters are entrapped, they'll be stuck for exactly one hour...unless they kiss!

▶ There is no compulsion to kiss, and characters are welcome to just wait out the hour and hope they're stuck with a good conversationalist, but if they want to get on their way, they'll have to kiss their fellow captive, in a specific way depending on the color of the nanite swarm that's trapped them.

▶ The bots will be helping by helpfully informing any trapped characters they need to kiss as they pass by. They won't say what kind of kiss because that would make it too easy. But at least now you know, right?

▶ This meme can be counted as game canon and used for AC if threads continue into January (don't forget: December is check-in only) if both parties wish. Characters who are not in the game are welcome, and threads from this meme can also count for application samples! Come join us!

▶ How to Participate: Just post a top-level detailing the types of kisses you're interested in, and then tag around to other people's top-levels.

▶ Kiss Type Legend:

RED: MOUTH ● ORANGE: NECK ● YELLOW: CHEEK
GREEN: FOREHEAD ● BLUE: HAND ● VIOLET: BUTTERFLY

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Comments

Green!

[theweakhavepurpose]

[Pratt is heading up to the farm to do his daily chores of making sure all his plants are thriving and the small herd of deer haven't gotten themselves tangled in the fence, when a swarm of nanites appears out of nowhere, bubbling up him, his wolf and some other person that he hadn't actually noticed.

He swats at them, a little fearful that something truly sinister is happening. Unfortunately, he trips over the ever helpful Princess Thugg and falls backwards, nearly tumbling right into Arya.

Great first impressions.]

Sorry. Uh... Hi.

[Nailed it.]

[enumerator]

[ arya just....stares at this strange and probably stupid man, while nymeria sniffs his face. nymeria doesn't seem to smell any danger, however, which is good. it's why arya doesn't immediately draw a weapon.

she does, however, swat at the nanites, unable to get through them. ]

Seven hells! [ arya ignores the greeting. ] Do you know what these are?

[theweakhavepurpose]

Yeah they're nanites. There were swarms of them before, making people hallucinate, but I thought we had fixed all that.

[He tentatively punches the dome, just to see if there's any effect before he breaks his hand on it.]

Well fuck.

[With two of them, and two wolves, it is very cramped in here.]

[enumerator]

Hallucinate?

[ arya strains for a moment, trying to remember what that word means. ]

You mean like in a dream?

[ arya frowns. this is not good. nymeria, sensing arya's distress, begins barking, but that doesn't help much either. arya scratches behind her ear. ]

Shh, girl. It's all right. We'll get out of here.

[theweakhavepurpose]

See things that aren't real, but this place.. made them real somehow.

[Princess Thug snarls when the barking starts and Pratt hushes her. That's all they need is a wolf fight in a tiny enclosed space. ]

This shield feels pretty real though. I don't suppose you have something that can cut through it?

[Maybe she's hiding a lightsaber, he doesn't know.]

[enumerator]

[ nymeria stands down, inspecting the nanite swarm, pratt, and princess thug in turn. pratt is fine, but the other wolf and the mysterious human creation still have nymeria on edge. arya keeps petting her, trying to keep the tiny wolf calm.

arya blinks. cutting these things is a great idea -- why didn't she think of that? arya draws a long, thin sword from under her robes. ]

This is Needle.

[ she says, by way of explanation. arya tries to slice and poke her way through the swarm, but every time she does so, the nanites arrange themselves to say "kiss," and then coalesce back into an impenetrable swarm. arya scowls and sheaths the sword. ]

I'm not kissing you.

[ she looks up at pratt. he's much, much too old. ]

[theweakhavepurpose]

[Living in a place where people commonly name their trucks and their guns he's not even phased by someone naming a sword. He's a little weirded out that someone who looks about ten has a sword in the first place, but that's a problem for another time because what?

No seriously. What.

He scrunches up his face in disgust because yeah. No. That's not happening. He's not quite old enough to be her dad but he's close enough not to mention that she's very clearly a child.]

What the fuck? No we're not kissing.

[Princess Thug helpfully jumps up to snap at the nanites, trying to kill them. It doesn't work but it's a nice attempt.]