EVENT 01 RUNDOWN: A HOLLY JOLLY HOLIDAY

[robbies]

CHAPTER ONE, PART 1: A HOLLY JOLLY HOLIDAY

Event rundown and OOC plotting

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Hello, neighbors! Tomorrow is the day our happy little town opens its doors to the public, which means it'll be December 1st, which also means— Obviously, celebration is in order. As mentioned in our first OOC mingle post, December will be a plot month with an event that's split into two parts, the first of which begins tomorrow and runs until the 15th. This will be the more plot-heavy portion of the event, with the one following being lighter on plot and heavier on action. This can be a busy time of year and we want to ensure players don’t miss plot-important events. We’ll discuss this more when the time comes, but for now, here’s what to expect for the first half of the month. Our first event will go up at 6 pm EST on December 1st. That is when We're Still Here officially opens, and when players can start playing in the communities. After 6 pm EST, you can get out of the (fictional) house and be (fictionally) social! On the evening of December 5th, Santa Rosita will hold its annual Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony in the center of North Santa Rosita. There, Mayor Philip Clarke (Phil to his friends) will be present to give a small speech to the town and officially announce the start of the holidays, as is tradition. Also present will be Chief of Police Dale Harding and a representative of the HHA, who will be selling Christmas trees to the hardworking people of Santa Rosita. If you’d like to get to know your new town’s government and get your very own tree to round out your holiday decorations, stop by! Then, on December 6th, a strange new location will open up in Santa Rosita. As characters go about their day, they will run the risk of opening a door that will take them out of Santa Rosita and into a magic Christmas village. This village will be packed with holiday-themed activities open to all characters, from ice skating to wreath crafting and other fun and festive things. Characters can leave the village at any time, but the portal to the village will bounce around Santa Rosita, meaning that any door characters enter in any building in town has a chance of transporting them to the village. The village will be open to exploration from December 6th until December 15th. Finally, on the evening of December 15th, Mayor Clarke will be hosting his yearly Christmas gala at Town Hall. Everyone in town knows that the Mayor’s parties are the highlight of the year, and the one he has prepared for everyone tonight is no laughing matter. Food, song, and drink will be available in large quantities, and fancy dress is mandatory. If you don’t have anything appropriate to wear to the party, don’t fret! Your friends at the HHA will have a few extra outfits on loan available for your characters to deck themselves out in. While the event will have NPC presence in the sense that it will establish some of the major NPCs of the game, these NPCs will not be available for personalized interaction for the duration of the event. They will simply be there to set the stage and introduce themselves so that you may have some names and faces for the heads of the town — and, with any luck, give you all something to think about on these cold December nights. This OOC post will also function as a catch-all plotting post! Please feel free to use the space below to connect with other players for potential meetings and CR. We will be following this format for the second part of the event, which will go up on December 15th. If you have any questions, please direct them to the FAQ top-level below or reach out to us on the Mod Contact page! QUICK NOTE: We see some players with the assumption the Christmas Village is in a pocket dimension. This is unclear wording on our part, so we want to clarify: the village is outside of Santa Rosita but still very much on the same plane of existence! It is located on the outskirts of town and characters can return to Santa Rosita's main streets on foot. It is magical in the sense that you can be teleported there. More information will be in tomorrow's event post, but we wanted to clarify our vague wording!

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Comments

[undiagnosed]

THAT IS VERY SWEET OF HIM... i am so sorry for all the terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE advice archer gives him in advance. this good lad does not deserve this.

[the_caped_crusader]

y/y

[robbies]

It's the magic of the season!

They are the type of elves with rubber ears and velour costumes, who look like they'd work at the hardware store eleven months out of the year. Think of them as limited Christmas edition Robbies who stay very in character!

[fanoperator]

I'm excited for this terrible advice! Huaisang is very earnest, so it'll be fun to see what advice he takes at face value and what shenanigans that will cause.

[demonicmiracle]

They're gonna die

[demonicmiracle]

ok but

shopping montage??? we could handwave that they've hung out once or twice since the tdm thread so they can make the very sensible choice to go outfit shopping for the gala 2gether

[handycapable]

YES, SHOPPING MONTAGE catch Ray despairing especially about ending up in a strange town with barely any money during December of all months... painful tbh, all the more reason to go all out gala-wise

[demonicmiracle]

this is why Crowley got a job basically his first week bc he knows both his and Aziraphale's tastes lmao

but also like how hard can it be to shoplift in the 60s

[undiagnosed]

gotta get that bread somehow, even if its in a 60s hell dimension, right? thanks for the answers!

[undiagnosed]

correct answer. Time To Bother Batman

[ribticklers]

having to wear fancy clothes is THE WORST this place is TRULY A HORROR GAME

but considering he got bitten by zombies in october he'll probably deal with it

[ribticklers]

Sans just doing a quick casual check to make sure he still doesn't have access to his magic and it's not suddenly teleporting people out of control or something...

Sans will never tuck in his shirt you can't make him

[undiagnosed]

honestly he won't believe huaisang at all about a time difference so he'll just think the guy is super weird... gives him bad advice on purpose...

[handycapable]

Ray will only be holding out at first because he isn't about that "working retail during the holidays" life but...... shopping, and also, food, he will probably not last much longer than a week either

[spaghettimonster]

Over here Papyrus hadn't even thought to check his own, because of course he'd know if he was using it, masterful control etc etc (maybe secretly he checks, later, unless Sans would poke him to check it)

>:[ If the HHA swoops down and does something he can and will say he told Sans so

[ribticklers]

hopefully sans will be aware and alive enough to appreciate that I told you so if that is the case...

[spaghettimonster]

Driving laws, it turns out, are barely hinted at in the human media he's consumed over the years, so any early advice is probably best disregarded. Fortunately they can probably find some Public Service Announcements and drivers' manuals to get started with.

Absolutely he can help with that. Presentation is so important!

[spaghettimonster]

Don't become a Robbie, Sans. The permanent smile would be familiar, and
the apparent immunity to harm or pain would be a outright improvement in many regards, but there's so much else to life!

[spaghettimonster]

Fear not, he'll still do a bit of the positivity encouragement thing, but there's a lot more passive aggression in it with people who seem unrepentant about ignoring mannerly constructs like being good hosts and trying his puzzles, or not breaking and entering, or murder.

[ribticklers]

the actual worst thing about that would be how Sans would refer to Papyrus as Mr. Knochenmus

[the_caped_crusader]

starts to tell people his name is bruce wayne any time he annoys someone

[undiagnosed]

"unrepentant" is basically archer's middle name

and also his first and last

[undiagnosed]

betcha regretting that no guns policy right about now huh

[the_caped_crusader]

breaks his other leg

[spaghettimonster]

Sincerely, instead of the ribbing ironic tone?