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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dullsville2020-11-30 02:58 pm
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After that Halloween fiasco, Sans will definitely be getting a Christmas tree, and he will try very hard not to slip up and call it a Gyftmas tree. He may try to con someone into carrying it home for him.
Christmas Village: Sans will check it out a little and participate a bit, but honestly winter holiday celebrations and general snow games are pretty typical for him so he's not going to be especially interested. Still, he'll definitely be up for messing around and general winter pranks. He has a lot of experience with winter, so theoretically he would help with figuring out how to do things, but he will not be helpful like that.
Gala: Uh. We'll See. Sans wants to go but he also is the exact opposite of a formal attire kind of guy. If the HHA unsettles him enough or someone (probably Papyrus) forces him into a proper outfit, then he'll be hanging out at the party eating all the food, talking to people, and trying to keep an eye on the NPCs to get a read on them. If not, we'll see what the results of misbehavior are once we get to the party.
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Daylight is going to be at the Gala, seeing as how that's where you'll meet the most faces/learn the most names, and if he catches the Vibes from the HHA, he is definitely going to try and convince Sans to go with the flow (for now) and wear a proper outfit.
They're just asking you to wear the outfit! Nothing about chewing loudly or touching multiple hors d'oeuvre before picking one!
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but considering he got bitten by zombies in october he'll probably deal with it
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re: the Gala, probably Papyrus, yep. At least it's free food, right? (Psst tuck in that shirt.)
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Sans will never tuck in his shirt you can't make him
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>:[ If the HHA swoops down and does something he can and will say he told Sans so
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the apparent immunity to harm or pain would be a outright improvement in many regards, but there's so much else to life!
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