Scavenger Hunt Spin the Bottle-Wheel Valentines Day CHALLENGEEEEE!

[magnetite_plz]

You all didn't think you were getting out of this holiday entirely empty handed, now did you?

There's red, white, and pink heart confetti falling like rain as Nekomata pushes out a ridiculously large gameshow type wheel with a bottle shaped ticker attached at its center. She raises the aviator glasses she's wearing and pulls a few cue cards out of her...actually she doesn't have pockets and it's best not to ask where these came from.

"Lyadies and Gentleman, humies, magi and all creatures alike! It's time for us to play a game mya!" She does her best Vanna White impression as she gestures to the wheel. "You may all have nyoticed the names of Nexus denizens. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to give this wheel a spin and track down whomever it lands on and get a selfie of you two smooching! All selfies delivered to me will be entered into a grand finale drawing. The winner will receive a very special prize everyone in the Nexus is guaranteed to want mya!"

She points into the crowd of the forum. She wants you to participate! Yes, you!

"What are you waiting for mya?!"

[Fun Valentines day shenanigans since I didn't see anything else go up today. Entirely fluffy and for laughs. Feel free to choose your target or have me select at random. I may or may not choose targets based on hilarity. Happy V-Day everyone and accept this loving post from me to all of you~

There's no saying that only one person can be smooched by another, so feel free to double up if you want! Just respect another person's wishes if they say their character doesn't want to be found and lip-molested k?

This is a spontaneous Nexus event that I did not make a sign up for. If you can't get in touch with your target/if you have been selected and for WHATEVER reason do not wish to play or interact with said character, PM me and I will change it discreetly. This is Zero Committment fun time. You may now return to your regularly scheduled smooching ]

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[onemorebounty]

*Speaking of Samus, she's just emerging from a storefront into the Forum now. She has added a long, feather-print blue coat with a high wool collar and the birdie-hat Steve gave her for wintermas to her usual vacsuit, as it's been having trouble keeping up with Reynard's severe temperature shifts on its own (and she really doesn't take the cold as well as she used to). She is even now casting a mildly curious look toward the commotion caused by Neko's big wheel.*

[hellburger]

Welp. The wheel has spoken and he's honor-bound to comply.

He does a little weaving through the crowd, makes a show of peering into some shop windows, then pretends to look pleasantly startled when he arrives at the bounty hunter's side. He rocks on his heels. "Hey, Samus! Wild winter, huh? You been keeping warm?"

Smooth as hell.

[onemorebounty]

*Samus is the sort to keep tabs on the people around her; she noted Kaz coming a few windows ago, and the deliberate pursuit followed by the too-casual pitch have her a little wary.*

Miller, right? I've been colder, though not voluntarily. Yourself?

[hellburger]

He's no Snake, that's for sure.

"Miller. You got it. Been surviving alright," he confirms. "This is probably nothing compared to space cold, huh?"

That box isn't fooling anyone.

[onemorebounty]

Common misconception. Space is colder, but you lose heat faster in an atmosphere.

*She nods back in the direction of the wheel and confetti-storm.*

Is that another LOL already? Did you get caught in it?

[hellburger]

Kaz hums thoughtfully and files that factoid away. You never know.

"Loll? Uh, I don't think so?" He's not hip to the term yet, clearly.

He exhales. Well, no use mincing words. "Any chance I could get a kiss?"

[onemorebounty]

El-oh-el, like the body-switching thing that happened recently. Something like that happens, from time to time.

*Mincing words, or at least trimming them a bit, might have been a good idea, Kazuhira. There's a 6'4" woman giving you her best what-the-what expression, and she gives good expression.*

Not without an amazing explanation, especially since this isn't some kind of LOL compulsion.

[hellburger]

That's about how he thought this would go. His pride doesn't allow him to voluntarily show any kind of embarrassment, but if you squint there's a bit of a blush around those cheekbones.

"Well, I'm fresh out of amazing explanations," he says with a lopsided grin. "I've got a lame one, though."

[onemorebounty]

*He knows what pride goeth before.*

Why not start there, and see if you can improve as you go?

[hellburger]

"A cat demon spun a wheel and assured me I could win a mystery prize if I solicited a few kisses. No improving on that."

He raises an eyebrow. "Unless you want a cheesy pick up line? I know how much you love those."

[onemorebounty]

*She considers for a moment before making an executive decision.*

No line, cheek, and if you win the prize I get fifty percent.

[hellburger]

"Deal." He offers a hand to shake on it.

"Follow-up question: do you have a camera by any chance?"

[onemorebounty]

*She reaches out, clasping not the offered hand, but the forearm behind it. Maybe they shake hands different in space.*

A camera? I have a holocam in my 'pad. Why?

[hellburger]

"I've been ordered to get a 'selfie.' As proof." Miller's getting a lesson in millenial slang today!

[onemorebounty]

Ah.

*She digs in the pocket of her coat, coming out with a wafer-thin rectangle that lights up when she pokes it, emitting a cloud of little glowing icons. She plucks one of those, and holds the device at arm's length, where it displays a little image of herself. She leans a little to present a cheek.*

On three. One, two, three.

[hellburger]

Miller leans in -- only mildly dismayed by how this underscores the height difference -- and gives her cheek a kiss. He lingers for a beat to ... account for shutter delay? Sure that's it.

He steps back. "Hey, thanks! Just gotta send that along to Nekomata and we'll be in business."

[onemorebounty]

*She'll let him get away with lingering a moment, but if he's expecting her to go all aflutter over his manliness or something, then he's in the wrong genre.*

Nekomata--you have a routing address?

[hellburger]

A teeny, tiny, itty-bitty part of him kinda does expect that, but it might also be getting crushed under the weight of bitter reality.

"Honestly? No. She's just over there, though." He nods his head at the gathered crowd. "But be warned -- she might goad you into spinning her wheel."

The unspoken alternative is to give Kaz her number, but that would probably be a mistake.

[onemorebounty]

*Yeah, no. Kaz seems relatively alright, but he's not contact-info alright yet. Samus is from the future, where most people have computers in their brains. InfSec is everyone's business, and she is damn good at it. Not giving out phone numbers to a guy you've met twice isn't hard to figure out.*

Ah, so I have to deliver it for you, too? I should've said sixty percent. Come on.

[hellburger]

Miller chuckles and runs a hand through his hair. "Spoken like a true bounty hunter."

He follows behind to ensure safe delivery of the photographic evidence. And possibly give Nekomata more shit for this.