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Gooseberry Mods (goosemods) wrote in gooseberry,
@ 2016-12-13 08:01:00

Entry tags:

! ic/ooc, irene lovelace, isaiah covington, philippa nightingale

MISTLETOE: DAY 2

Gooseberry's not free of this ridiculous kissing ~~game~~ plague yet.

Starting Tuesday morning, the mistletoe has largely been scared out of the lodge by Mr. Hightower, and has moved outside. Students wake up, only to find their way to breakfast and class blocked by yet more of the winding plant.

Just like yesterday, anyone who is unlucky enough to walk underneath a sprig of it is trapped in place with their feet rooted to the ground. This is inconvenient enough, but the only way to free a trapped student is with a kiss.

HOW THIS WORKS

Mistletoe is growing like vines throughout campus, hanging from branches and lamp posts, apparently attempting to position itself to "trap" students.

It has not moved inside cabins, but may be located on their exterior.

Classes are not cancelled, but under the circumstances, students are forgiven for tardiness.

If your character walks under a sprig of mistletoe, their feet are rooted to the spot.

The only thing that will free them is a kiss. Cheek kisses or a kiss to the back of the hand are sufficient. So is a kiss on the lips, but chances are, most people will opt for something more chaste.

Mr. Hightower is busy all day, and cancels Herbology until he can get a handle on this. The mistletoe is proving to be highly resistant to being cut, hexed, set on fire, or exposed to magical weed killer. (Also, please don't set things on fire just in general???)

Post your character to a location below if they got stuck. If you're waiting for someone in particular, indicate who's going to free your character in the subject line. Otherwise, comments are considered open for a random rescuer.

» Trails: The mistletoe makes use of lamp posts and overhanging branches.

» Gardens: A veritable warzone of kissing plants.

» North: Azurcest: Enough trees to be dangerous, especially on the approach.

» East: Ribbonfin: Is nowhere safe???

» South: Ebonhide: Of all the houses, heavily wooded Ebonhide is hit the worst.

» West: Coppertale: The safest campground. Just avoid the lamp posts and be careful of awnings.

» OOC - Questions, comments, concerns!

Special shout-out to Josie for giving us the idea for the mistletoe epidemic. ♥

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Re: Chris | Isaiah

icovington
2016-12-13 08:17 pm UTC (link)

By the time Chris arrives, Isaiah is about ready to boil over- as if he hasn't already been in his journal. The fact that he is even willing to entertain the idea of a kiss buddy, much less accept Christopher Park as said buddy rather than begging one of the other Ribbonfin seniors, much less actually rant with the guy about all of this, is very indicative of his mental state.

Bad enough that his usual haven isn't safe and hasn't been since yesterday. Now Ribbonfin is invaded too, and by tomorrow morning he'll probably have to kiss all his roommates with tongue just to get to the loo. This sucks. It sucks so much that he is willing to say that it sucks. Loudly!

The sight of Chris brings relief- at least he'll be able to move in a minute- but not enough to offset the anger, and besides, Chris's appearance does mean that he's going to have to go through with actually letting the guy kiss him in a minute here. And Merlin, does he hate forced physical contact. Or forced social situations. Or...really, every part of this, actually.

So. Still angry. Really, really angry.

"The freshmen probably did this," he mutters, not quite a growl but pretty close. He takes a deep breath. It doesn't help much. "Unless it was Vargas."

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Re: Chris | Isaiah

doyouevenlift
2016-12-13 08:27 pm UTC (link)

Ironically, Chris doesn't look even remotely upset. It's unusual for him. Pranks tend to piss him off. Especially if he's the victim of them. But Isaiah is seething. And that's unusual. And weirdly attractive. Chris hasn't had much to do with Isaiah the entire time they've been here. After sharing five class together this year. Because the kid looks like he's got a stick shoved far up his ass. But today....today Chris has seen the light.

"Probably not," Chris says helpfully. "I've seen her idea of a prank. There was a lot more yelling and not much else. Probably wants to take the glory of this shitshow by defending the prank until everybody just believes she did it. But those freshmen assholes did spike our tea. Why not add growing invasive plants to that growing list. Fuckers."

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Chris | Isaiah

icovington
2016-12-13 08:38 pm UTC (link)

All right. Isaiah isn't actually put off of the thought that it was Penelope who did this by that- she's awfully goddamn vehement about defending the thing and her knowledge thereof to have no skin in the game, to use a sports metaphor that Isaiah only barely understands- but even this pissed off, he's not going to start that argument. Chris isn't stuck, you see. Chris is fully capable of walking off and leaving him here, and then who knows how long he'll be waiting, or who it will be who finds him.

With his luck, it'll be Penelope herself. So no. Not worth the breath. Besides, whoever did this, he hates them regardless.

"Little assholes," he agrees sharply. Either way, they are. They Amortentia'd everyone, after all.

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Re: Chris | Isaiah

doyouevenlift
2016-12-13 09:31 pm UTC (link)

Chris is an asshole but there is probably only one person in this whole school he'd leave in this position and that person isn't Isaiah. Either way, he wants to stick around to see more of Isaiah's anger. His face lights up at not just the cussing but the tone Isaiah uses.

"Give me your hand," he says, offering his own. Isaiah doesn't like the whole kissing thing, so Chris assumes he wants to do this as impersonal as possible.

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Re: Chris | Isaiah

icovington
2016-12-13 09:34 pm UTC (link)

Right. Kissing. Kissing has to happen now or he's stuck here forever, and Isaiah really hates this day. Kissing is fine, kissing is good when you're in the mood to do it, but not like this.

He fidgets a little, as much as he can while glued to the spot, but in the end he reaches out to give Chris his hand without comment. It's hard not to flinch, both because he doesn't do great with not-actually-welcome physical contact and because everything about this situation is so incredibly awkward that he wants to curl up and die. Every time.

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Chris | Isaiah

doyouevenlift
2016-12-13 11:39 pm UTC (link)

Chris might enjoy making things awkward, but he can practically feel the sheer discomfort rolling off of this guy. It felt like more than just embarrassment - this guy seems to want to flinch at any kind of physical contact. He is fucking fidgeting, and Chris almost wants to apologize to the point that he has to mentally remind himself that he's an asshole. Assholes don't apologize unless somebody dies.

So instead of apologizing, he makes this as painless as possible. He takes Isaiah's hand, and brings it to his lips to kiss the back of it. Then he releases it and steps back. And even better - he also doesn't make some dumb joke about it. He doesn't really say anything. He's not quite sure why - apparently this nice shit he's been doing to Diego and Cecil is just contagious. Which is an annoying complication he hadn't expected.

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