beebs | There's No Place Like Traumabonding for the Holidays

HOLIDAY MURDERGAME WHERE ARE THEY NOW MEME

It's the hap-happiest season of all, and what better way to celebrate than by remembering that one (or more) horribly traumatic experience that permanently changed the face of not only your relationships but possibly your outlook on life itself?

Any character (including NPCs!) who's ever been in any murdergame is invited! Feel free to share with your friends!

Regardless of how you choose to use this meme, there's two blanket rules:
1) Make sure the header of your comment has your character's name, home canon, and murdergame listed. If you used the same account for several murdergames, you can use the same toplevel for all of them.
2) No blank comments! First and foremost this is a chance to catch up with old murdergame buddies, and maybe make new ones if you choose! Thus, your comment should go into whatever degree of detail you like describing what life has been like since the murdergame ended. Did life go back to normal? Did they get married? Have a kid? Move to another universe entirely and start over with their found family? Have they kept in touch? Go into as much detail as you want, just put something!

You can use this meme to set up any kind of "canon" or canon-compliant holiday threads with your castmates, big holiday party or no.

OR... you can pretend that there's an interdimensional all-murdergame nondescript winter holiday party that you've been invited to attend! Maybe the Curtains narrators made sure the Denny's was conveniently empty (don't mind the weird old guy in the woods out back), or maybe there was some other convenient arrangement. Either way, you received an invite, and you're here now! So spike the eggnog and check for mistletoe, because the night is probably going to get wild.

(If you're not down for one option or the other, just note that somewhere in your top-level.)

Have fun, and Happy Holidays!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Mei shows up in all her 1885 fashion glory, looking around in awe. To other Ars characters, she might hang back and look over:]

I didn't exactly expect this many people... Do you think they'll have fried chicken? Or what kind of holiday food do you usually get where you're from?

[Or, alternately, no matter who you are, she might bump into you as she follows the wait staff in a beef-induced daze.]

Roast beef, roast beef... Wah! I'm sorry, are you okay?

You're supposed to eat fried chicken this time of year? I suppose something hot to fill your belly would be best for the winter months...

[ Bryn has absolutely no clue what Christmas is, but she's having a good time. ]

Usually for our sorts of winter feasts, it's all about emptying out what might spoil from your stores before they have a chance to rot and take everything else with them...

Oh, that makes sense! We don't really do Christmas where I am now -- well, really when I am now -- but in the future, it's mainly about romance and giving presents to kids! Well, you're supposed to pretend they're from an immortal saint named Santa-san, and then when you're old enough to know he's not real, you don't get presents anymore. Though it looks like here, everybody gives presents to everybody else instead.

Goodness, that sounds like quite the production. I suppose the end of the year would be a good time to celebrate those you hold dear...

[ ... ]

... ah, hm. [ Suddenly she looks a bit shifty. ] I won't be expected to give presents while I'm here, will I? I wasn't aware I was supposed to have prepared something.

If nobody told you, then I think it's fine... I mean, I hope it's fine. Now I'm worried, since I don't have something for everyone either...

Surely if it was necessary for us to have prepared gifts, it would be included on the invitation? We won't be kicked out?

[ SHE HAS BUFFET FOOD TO EAT ]

I hope not! We don't even know half of these people! Do you recognize any of them?

Apart from the usual suspects? None of them. What about you?

I don't think so, but if they really all were in situations like ours, that sounds really, really concerning.

Surely there can't be this many lunatics with the same terrible idea across so many worlds, can there? With a group as big as this... it has to account for at least five or six games including our own!

[ She kind of eyeballed that math, yes, but she's not wrong. ]

I know! It looks like a couple hundred people in here! And that's if they all made it out of theirs like we did...

Could some of them simply be... friends and relatives, perhaps? We had quite a boisterous party of our own when the Duke arranged our banquet but I'd say we ourselves were outnumbered by those invited on our behalf...

[ Hand to chin as she mulls it over... ]

I guess it's possible! Oh, should we have brought people? I know a lot of people who might want to come to a party, though it might be a little weird to have so many.

Fried chicken? [Mei what???] Holiday food is usually mooncakes and dumplings and noodles, at least. Among other things.

Oh, that makes sense! Though I guess it would be different for different holidays. That's how it is at home. Now I wonder if they have any of those here, though...

If they had any sense, they might. But I don't have that much faith in someone else's catering.

[listen, maybe he's a bit of a food snob. (Ok, he's an everything-snob, but details.)]

Really? That seems a little much, Wu-san. They went to the trouble of all these different things. There's turkey! Real turkey!

There's No Place Like Traumabonding for the Holidays

Ayazuki Mei | Meiji Tokyo Renka | Ars Arcana

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