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The Mistletoe Meme

It was a quiet moment in Heropa, FL, when the next devious plot of an unknown organization was realized. With the holiday season upon all the town, bundles of mistletoe with interference technology hidden in the festive bows and pins holding them together was distributed throughout the town and into all the residences of the imPorts.

The interference technology creates a stasis field keeping imPorts trapped underneath it, protecting the mistletoe itself with a small barrier. However, it only seems able to hold two people at a time, and and the reaction of the nanites to sudden changes in chemistry brought on by embracing or kissing brings the stasis field crashing down, leaving the mistletoe vulnerable to destruction at that time.

It's up to you, imPorts, to break free of these mistletoe traps and destroy all the mistletoe in Heropa!

Comment to the meme with your character(s). Specify if your character is open to kisses, hugs, or both!
Comment around to other characters, getting trapped in the mistletoe's radius! Or hunting the mistletoe down. Either way, bring on the hugs and/or kisses!
Have some light, silly, holiday fun!

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[ Annie pauses. No... don't tell her... she glances around. ]

When did this start happening? Are you able to breathe normally?

I can breathe. And I was just walking...!

[Her eyes shift around nervously. She's hoping that Mr. Kimblee isn't around. Then again, maybe he'd caused this.]

[ See, the mistletoe here is harder to find, because the ceilings are so high. How the hell it's even working now... Annie backtracks to look down the other tow aisles, one on each side. No one's lingering there, and she doesn't catch sight of anyone showing particular interest. She returns to Winry's aisle, coming closer, but walking carefully. If anything feels off, she wants to stop before she's trapped as surely as Winry is.

Only that plan foils itself once she's within a few feet of Winry. ]

I didn't see anyone in the immediate area, but if it's someone's power...

[ Moving to take a step back, Annie finds... she can't. The only direction she can move is forward. What the hell? ]

... Then it's affecting this area. Look, when you can't move, do you feel like you're being held there, or is it something else?

[ Annie feels like she's hitting a solid wall when she attempts to move back, but she damn well knows nothing's there. ]

[Winry relaxes with a huff of air.] It's stopped now!

[Except she can't take a step back. Or to either side. Nope. That wasn't happening. She can only move forward.]

No...wait.

[ This makes even less sense than it did before. Winry can move toward her, and she can move toward Winry. Annie takes another half step forward, looking down, then up. And up. And up. ]

Ah... Can you make out what that is, up there?

[Shielding her eyes with her curled hands, Winry peers overhead. Waaaaay overhead.]

Um. Some sort of ball of...

Is that mistletoe?

[She does recognize it from back home.]

Mistletoe...

[ She grimaces, the expression fleeting. ]

So you think that's what it is, too.

[ She has no idea if it has the same kind of meanings to Winry as it does in the current context, but hey. Maybe? Maybe not. Maybe there's more than one answer to this puzzle? ]

It looks like it...what is it doing way up there?

[She's squinting and wrinkling her nose.]

Trying to be sly.

[ No, not really, but the ones putting it up must be. ]

Do you have any traditions you know of relating to that stuff?

Um. [Winry glances at Annie thoughtfully.]

There are some really old ones. The white berry's supposed to represent. [She lowers her voice to a whisper.] Ejaculate. Like a holly berry is supposed to represent menstrual blood.

Does that have something to do with it?

[ Annie has to actually consider that. Hmm... ]

Maybe in some way. Both are tied in to fertility.

[ Which could... make sense for kissing, which is usually part of what people engage in when likewise planning to engage in acts looking to test how fertile people might be. Not always, of course, but there's a basic mathematics to the equation, regardless of permutations. ]

More modern traditions here involve kissing to some extent.

[Winry has a blank expression on her face while she processes this.]

Wait, what does that mean for that?

[She tilts her head back to glare at the ball of mistletoe, far overhead.]

It means I'm wondering if you have anything you can throw on you, for one.

[ First things first: they need an action plan! ]

[Well...she has a book...]

This.

[Winry holds up the book she'd grabbed to read. It's kind of heavy. It's not a wrench. But there's a chance she could fling it up there.]

Think you could hit that once we get the barrier to drop?

[ Not that she's made it explicit that they need to kiss or whatever - but if Winry's fast, it can be a brief contact to give them an equally brief window to get this taken care of. ]

[Winry studies the height to the mistletoe, weighing the book in hand thoughtfully. That no one else around seems to be noticing this, well...was this a Heropa thing? Or were people just that oblivious?]

I think I can. What do you think will make the barrier drop?

A kiss on the cheek. If we're quick, that should be enough.

[ Totally nonchalant when she says this. ]

[Annnnnnnnd.

Winry just turns and gapes at her. Completely. Shut down. Like.

Wow.]

Did you just say.

A kiss?

[ Look, it's not making her ecstatic either. ]

Oh, geeze.

[A beat while Winry mentally digests this. After all, no one's coming to their rescue, and there are things she needs to do today that doesn't involve being stuck in the library.]

All right. Let's get this over with!

[...]

You'll kiss me and I'll throw, right?

[Because clarification is sometimes very important.]

You have the book. As long as you trust your aim...

[ Yeah. That's the plan of action. Annie doesn't much wait for confirmation, instead moving close and going up on the balls of her feet to press a kiss to Winry's cheek, hand light on her shoulder as a steadying mechanism. Go, Winry! Go! ]

[There's an almost audible 'click!' as the spell? mechanism? Mistletoe weirdness? breaks apart and Winry throws the book hard at the ball of greenery up overhead.]

Watch out! [She yells in warning, hearing a few shocked gasps.

In the meantime, she shoves at Annie, trying to get them both out from under the mistletoe - in case she actually misses.]

[ That takes Annie off guard largely because she wasn't expecting to get shoved for that particular reason, though hell, she's stumbling and then back at the end of the aisle, looking toward where the mistletoe would maybe fall - it's knocked down, but it's hidden another two aisles over. ]

I think you hit it - but if it's still intact...

[ There is still a problem. One they could shrug and walk away from, honestly, and Annie... almost... wants to... she also wants to smash the stupid thing. But hey. Walking away works! ]

If it's still intact, someone else could get caught up in it.

[Grimly. Irritated.]

Let's go find that ball of trouble and get rid of it!

[ Yeah but who works at the library does she care enough about them to -

She sighs inwardly, following after Winry. The Hunt for Green December is on! ]

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