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Who: Sonico, Cassian, Demyx, Dorothy, Mobius, Garrus, Emerald, David and Kay.
What: Family lunch
Where: Sonico/Cassian/Kay's house
When: December 25th

A) Outside the house:

Baby it’s cold outside...but who doesn’t love building some snowmen by the pond? Or lighting up some fireworks? Drop to the ground and make your own snow angels by the pond too, before the falling snow covers everything again.

B) Inside the house:

The house it’s been decorating following both the Christmas tradition and the time-honoured Galactic holiday: Life Day. And thus you can find Christmas decorations hanging on the ceiling and walls, candles by the windows, ominous elf shelves sitting on random places, cookies and sweets...and also wookie paper chains, Life Day orbs created using clear Christmas balls with jewels to make them shine and a miniature Life Tree made out of cardboard and paper with the branches and roots made out of crushed and twisted craft paper.

Red is also traditional, so there's a lightweight red felt tablecloth on the table. The table is laid with an assortment of foods, all of them strange, more than a few horrifying. The proud owner of a copy of Christmas Cooking With Cassie will remember a number of dishes from the book, such as the shrimps pyramid with a savory fish filling and the stuffed salmon. If you think the lobster is trying to walk away, that’s just your imagination, promise. Among the foods from home there is a jug of green milkshake, which smells suspiciously of fish, and perfectly normal Wookiee-ookiee. You might be less amused by such foods as deep-fried gorg or pickled space worm but it’s all perfectly edible! On the other hand Garrus gets a special dextro food selection, which is smaller, but looks like a perfectly normal meal.

C) Mistletoe:

No Christmas party is complete without some Mistletoe here and there to make it even more special. Make sure the person you get caught with under the mistletoe is the one you want...or soldier on if they aren’t.

D) By the tree /Present sharing:

The proper Christmas tree is a huge monstrosity of a tree whose tip nearly brushes the ceiling of the room - but only nearly, which is a good thing for the Swablu which keeps flying to and fro, busy building a nest at the top of the tree. It looks strangely mauled in some places, and has been secured in place with several sturdy ropes spanning the width of the room as if it had to withstand a tsunami. Presents are scattered under the tree, but nosy partygoers beware! Get too close, and you run the risk of a white hellcat leaping out of the tree at you.

Once it’s time for present sharing it’s quite possible you’ll have to fight the cat to get yours. Consider this the boss challenge of your Christmas quest!

E) Choose your own adventure:

Pretty self explanatory. Wanna take a look around the house? Need some quietness? Would you like to go play with the pokemon? Crash on the couch and watch a Christmas movies? Feel free.

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[A planet made of ice? That sounded like hell, but he might be biased.]

You’ve tasted the snow. [The words are slow as Garrus tries to figure out if there’s some hidden meaning there because, seriously, who does that? There are a thousand questions he could ask him - wants to ask him - about his life back home, but he just can’t get past that bit of information.]

...Why?

[ He gives him a puzzled look before he realizes that yes, Garrus's confusion must be truly about tasting the snow.

Cassian gives a little shrug. ] I don't know, I just wanted to know what it tastes like? Haven't you ever caught snowflakes on your tongue and let them melt in your mouth as a child?

[He laughs at that.]

Palaven has been described as "a silver world of fortresses and fire". It has extremely high levels of solar radiation. We don't exactly do snow. Or cold, for that matter.

[There's a reason that turians are built bony without much fleshy insulation on them. They have muscle, sure, but there isn't much in the way of fat on them.]

But wouldn't snow just taste like water?

Right. That's what someone would say who has never tasted snow.

[ Cassian just gives him a judging look which is, to be honest, only half joking.

He clears his throat and walks a little closer. ]

Anyway, I had actually been trying to get you alone to discuss something work-related. Ayame Sasaki has been working on specific body armor for the Attleton Guardian team since Blaze's time as Guardian and she has both the materials and the blueprints by now. But we need proper facilities for fabrication and she doesn't have the proper contacts in Nova City. Do you think you could get us in touch with the right people at Aster Tech?