Christmas Is All About Shenanigans

[queenofminiskirts]

Who: Kaoru and YOU
Where: All over Chroma
When: December, before the ghosts appear
What: Two Things: "Christmas tree" and "mistletoe"
Warnings: probably none



i: Christmas is all about finding the biggest Christmas tree

[She goes out into the forest with a Purpose in mind. She'd gotten a good look at the forest from high above, to see if there were any exceptionally tall trees in the forest.

What she brought back in the end was around 60 feet tall. She sets it up somewhere close to the middle of town but then she's left with a problem: how does she make it stand?

Which is why, you'll find her with a 60 foot tree lying on its side nearby as she floats above the ground with one hand out. Dirt flies out of a hole she's digging.]

Hey. [If you're someone she doesn't know she'll just wave you over but if she does know you she'll come drag you over by the arm.] What do you think? Is it deep enough to make the tree stand?

[It probably isn't, alas.]



ii: Obligatory network announcement

so i brought the BIGGEST CHRISTMAS TREE i could find and set it up in town.

[People have noticed already. It is a 60feet tall tree suddenly standing tall in town.]

but it's not really a christmas tree until we decorate it, right? who can help me make decorations? and also, do you think we could make lights to hang on it? maybe with candles? that's what they used to do, right?

[That sounds like a really bad idea, Kaoru...]



iii: Decorating~

[The bottom of tree is beginning to look pretty good at this point but the top still needs some work. Unfortunately, Kaoru's power does have a limit and she can't just pick up the ornaments they've made from sixty feet away. So she's at the bottom, choosing the next decorations she wants to pick up...when she suddenly shoves a pile into your arms.]

Hold onto that, okay?

[Then she's picking you, some more ornaments and herself up with her powers. At least if it's your first time flying with her like this she'll stop when they're two feet up but if you've flown with her before she's taking you both straight to the top.]



iv: the mistletoe option

[So. If anyone should not have gotten a box of mistletoe because she won't be responsible, it's probably Kaoru.

But since that's exactly what she got, she was going to be responsible with it--hahaha. As if.

What happens is: you and someone else will be walking around town, just minding your business when suddenly there's mistletoe floating above you. If you miss it, it will keep following you around until you notice it. And if it takes to long it will swoop down and knock against your head.

Kaoru is hiding somewhere (obviously), but she's definitely observing from somewhere not too far away (and if you're Shiho she's making sure her feet isn't touching the ground and that she isn't touching anything else either).

Call her out, try to escape, ignore this whole thing, or attempt to destroy the mistletoe. Either way, something unexpected might happen. (Or kiss. That's simple enough).]

((OOC: for option 4, Kaoru might show up or she might not...either way she will make the mistletoe "respond". To clarify, the mistletoe is perfectly normal...but Kaoru isn't going to just let anyone off the hook with this prank. I'm assuming people are responding to this in pairs. If not, please contact me on plurk or add an OOC note and she'll make a variation to the prank...maybe try to get them to kiss a horse or a tree or something.))

Comments

[messianic]

[They can definitely start walking. And... in truth, Minato has no idea which decorations are Shiho's out of the decorated trees that they can see along their path.

But.

Almost universally, he guesses the really cute and well-made ones.

It seems Shiho-like to him...?]

[good_ideas]

[Shiho actually lets him make those guesses a couple of times before she finally nudges her shoulder against his with a laugh.]

I'm not that good at crafts, you know. [Mostly it's because she doesn't like putting in the effort unless she was trying to get something out of it.]

The ones you made look much better. [But she hasn't guessed because, of course, with psychometry there really is no question in her mind which are his ornaments and which are made by someone else.]

[messianic]

[Minato's are all origami--like this. Nothing too exciting, but definitely pretty Minato-like.]

You think so...? I could teach you how to make them sometime, if you want. Not that they'll probably be that useful again, but still.

[good_ideas]

[It is very Minato-like, actually.]

Of course. I'd like that. Besides... being cute makes them useful too, right? We could decorate your house with them. [Or her house but who knows if Kyrie would be able to stand all those cute stars.]

[messianic]

Hm... now that you mention it, that would be pretty cute.

[Stars all over...!!]

We'd just need more colorful paper, though.

[good_ideas]

Then let's do it when we find cute paper we can use for it. [All the stars!]

Or maybe we can take apart some of the books. [She's kidding. Mostly.]

[messianic]

[Oh my god.]

I think Cairngorm-san would kill us... They'd give us that gem stare, and we'd be in danger.

[good_ideas]

The gem stare, huh... Sounds scary.

[But she doesn't sound scared...?]

[messianic]

Right?

[Minato also doesn't really sound scared, because these are two teens who have probably never really been afraid of regular things in their lives.]

They're very strict about that sort of thing. I think they really like the library a lot. [...] I suppose someone has to.

[good_ideas]

It's kind of boring in there with just one type of book but I guess if they love it that much, we can't do too many bad things to it.

[Just.... some?? She hasn't decided what those are going to be, but it's fine.]

[messianic]

Yeah, I gave up on reading the fairy tales a long time ago.

[It is waaay too boring to just read fairy tales all the time.]

But so long as it's minor things that won't make them fuss too much, I think that's probably fine.

[Minato no.]

[good_ideas]

All of them are pretty boring anyway. [Because, yes, she went through all of them. But with psychometry because nothing beats the power of being able to read a whole book in thirty seconds.]

Maybe if we just rip out some end pages? Or title pages. [Shiho no]

[messianic]

[Shiho... of course. He shouldn't even be surprised.]

Well... if we just take some blank pages, it's probably fine.

[...]

It's a shame we can't choose our quest rewards. A box of paper would be really useful right now.

[good_ideas]

[Cairngorm is going to give them the longest, scariest gem stare.]

Right? No one needs blank pages. Though I guess it would be better if we actually had paper for this. Maybe we should complain to Mr. F.

[messianic]

Ah, have you found him yet?

[If anyone could, it'd be Shiho, right?]

[good_ideas]

...Not yet. [Thinking about that has her feeling just a bit annoyed. Really... being unable to find someone was a first and she hates it.]


But there's other stuff that I can't see either, using psychometry. I get headaches if I look too hard.

[messianic]

Yeah... that makes sense, I guess.

[Minato quirks an eyebrow.]

They always have to nerf the people who can break the game too easily, right? In stories like this. [too meta, Minato]

[good_ideas]

[She laughs because it may just be too meta but thankfully for him, everyone she knows back home is this way.]

...When they tried to do that back home, I'd usually just look harder. [Having a problem with authority means that when someone tries to stop her, she just doubles down.]

But having headaches is always pretty dangerous for us, so I guess I can't exactly do that here.

[messianic]

That's probably for the better.

[Not only because he doesn't want Shiho to have to deal with headaches.]

We're not that desperate yet, you know? So it's better to keep yourself fit and healthy, because we need you.

[good_ideas]

[She pouts at that.]

Yeah. I guess. [She still wants to be able to help but she does recognize how terrible it would be if she hurt herself.]

...I'll just have to figure out another way to get around this nerfing another time. I wouldn't want to worry people who need me, after all.

[messianic]

Then I won't worry.

[She knows that, and he trusts her.]

Sometime, we should really see if anyone has some powers that can help you search.

[good_ideas]

Well... maybe if we could find someone who was some kind of magic researcher? [Those exist, right? You have Minamoto who is an esper researcher back home, so therefore this whole wanting-to-know-things thing must happen in other worlds too.]

Sometimes I don't really get what happens because I don't know anything about magic itself. That... and I guess I've told maybe... two people about the psychometry.

[......which is bad, now that she really thinks about it.]

[messianic]

[... That makes him make an amused noise, for some reason. He just thinks it's so like Shiho to keep that to herself most of the time.]

Ah, so it's like that... well, it's fine. I'll try to see what I can find out without telling anyone about what you can do.

[That's always up to Shiho, after all.]

[good_ideas]

...I'll... actually talk about it with... everyone here. One of these days.

[Shiho pouts for a moment at hearing his amusement. She's not... entirely mad though. The one at fault here is probably her. Someday she will have to actually tell the truth but thankfully that will not be today.]

But thank you. [For letting that be at her pace.]

[messianic]

It's your secret to share.

[That much is very easy--Minato's never had any intentions of outing Shiho to anyone.]

And you have good reasons for feeling the way you do. Don't feel too pressured about it, okay?