Comin' To Town - [ACTION]

[genpcs_a]

[It doesn't matter where you live. It doesn't matter if you have a chimney, or an active security alert system. With a twinkle and a jingle, his sleigh soars through the air, landing on the most precarious of rooftops or sloped sheds...anywhere. Those reindeer are freaking magical. He appears in your home with a large sack slung over his shoulder, leaving a very special selection of presents.]

[For those who are awake, and if you left out milk and cookies (even if you didn't originally intend it to be for him), he'll even talk to you. Otherwise, the situation is the same.]

[There are three beautifully wrapped gifts, all the same size. The paper is red, green, or white. Each gift contains something of value, so choose without fear of being punished!]

[UNLESS. If you've been very bad (and if you want this option OOCly), there will be a fourth gift as well, and the color of wrapping paper options extends to red, green, white, and gold.]

[OOC: The item contained in each gift has been predetermined randomly for each character, so while a red present might contain a charm for one person, it could be a treasured item from home for another person. Even for people who want a fourth option for their villains, the gold present isn't necessarily the bad one. Of course, if you just want coal straight up, you can elect to get that without having to worry about choosing randomly.

This event runs from the 22nd through the 28th. In order to participate, your character must have been introduced to the community at some point. So Deadpool doesn't get a present. C_C_ Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!]

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[gorgeous_sin]

[So as not to drown my co-mod or write out a lot of scenes with just myself, here's the handwaved results of 3/4 of my characters:

Captain Hammer - White present - The Ham-Jet
Cherise Thompson - Green present - A photo album from home filled with all her old wedding photos, and goofy pictures taken with Cam and Wolcott
Jim Kirk - White present - His dad's car that he drove off a cliff when he was a kid
Lust - Red present - A nice fur-trimmed winter coat
Orihime Inoue - White present - A large collection of fabrics and sewing materials, and a new sewing machine
Raye Hino - Green present - The stuffed animals her grandpa gave her]

[solar_flare]

[Yang's not so sure they should be leaving out perfectly good cookies and milk overnight. Blake probably did the baking, while Yang did the learning and decorating. She's definitely going to try out that parchment paper trick and see if that helps the cookies any. She's just getting ready to settle down next to her sister for the night when she hears a sound and sits up straight.]

Psst. Ruby. You hear that?

[imitationsloth]

[Nora wasn't awake when Santa showed up, but wanders out into the living room in the morning to find the presents sitting there. Scratching her head, she looks around for a moment before calling out to one of her roommates...only halfway expecting an answer.]

Jaune? Did you leave these out here?

[hellfireshurricane]

[Coming into the city this close to Christmas, Janos wasn't sure he'd get anything from anybody. Heck he'd stopped believing in Santa about the time his powers manifested, and now that he had pretty much aligned himself with that bonehead with more of an ego than himself and Shaw combined, he figured that even if he did still believe, he'd be on the bad list. Which is why when he found the present on his coffee table, he looked at it confused and poked at it with a pencil]

[evil_chin]

Bison, as one might expect, didn't have a lot of Christmas cheer. Unless you count grinning like a psycho as cheer. Because he was, up on the highest spire of Shadaloo.

Apparently, Genessia was the place where fairy tails come true, like this saccharine "Santa Claus" he'd heard some of his employees talking about. And he was delivering presents that were, frankly, impossible.

What did that portend for the mighty Bison? Simply put, he was going to take his bounty for his own. Bison floated above his tower, waiting. If the legends are true, that fat old man would come to any edifice's highest point.

[onlybuildsawesome]

[Wily wasn't big on Christmas, he was far too busy working on rebuilding his robotic children to concentrate on the Holiday. He does have a wreath and tree set up though in his little abandoned warehouse in Nova City, just because.

He's tinkering away on the body of red robot with a gold "V" shaped fin design on the chest.]

[crowning_glory]

Since arriving in Genessia, Milla had been staying in public venues. She didn't expect to stay very long, but before she knew it the holidays were upon her and she knew she'd have to get somewhere to call her own... She longed for something like her shrine at Nia Khera. It was just comfortable in a place like that - an old-fashioned temple. But was it worth giving something up for? She'd heard of Archways and the means to activate them...

But for the moment it seems her thoughts would have to be put on hold. She awoke to find a present on her bed. All it said was "To Milla, from Santa Claus." She's heard of Santa before in books, but never imagined someone like him to be real... Curiously, she plucked the wrapping paper off and opened the box within to find...

A charm! An Attleton charm. Strange... what purpose did that serve? Holding up the charm, she peers at it curiously. "My, but this is a lovely looking charm, isn't it?"

[betel_geuse]

Being a ghost, Betelgeuse didn't really need a house. He actually preferred staying in other people's houses. Hey, everyone needed a social life, even ghosts! Currently, Betelgeuse was floating an inch or two above someone's couch, staring around at their Christmas decorations and dozing a bit. He had considered stealing one of Santa's cookies, but, meh. The roaches he had found near the window sill were more appetizing.

He was a bit startled to hear bells ringing and a thud on the roof. Sitting up, he looked around.

"Hello?"

[simon_petrikov]

[All this clatter! What could possibly be making all that racket?! In a night gown and cap, Ice King steps into his den - which has always been rather barren traditionally. He had his throne, a cell for princesses, and a few nooks with his instruments in it, but little else. He tried to decorate for Christmas, but his decorations, like the rest of his home, are all crude ice sculptures that resemble things like Christmas trees and stuff.]

Is that you Gunter? What's going on? [No penguins, just emptiness. Still, he could hear something messing around outside. Odd though that he doesn't actually have a roof, because his home is a mountain.]

Blasted teenagers... [Ice King leans out his only window to peer up towards the mountain top.] Can you keep it down out here?!

[aero_sage]

[Harpuia didn't expect to find his apartment to be outfitted with a recharge pod, but apparently the manager has been informed as to Harpuia's "special needs". He finds this more than a little intriguing (and disturbing), as he has yet to determine the source of this useful information. Is it a friend, or a foe? He would assume friend, since he's alive and functioning; but the absense of purpose and intentions could very well mean a foe too, sent to use him in some vicious way.]

[When he hears the noises coming from the front room, his green eyes shoot open, and he sits up sharply. Quietly he picks up his helmet and puts it back on (you try sleeping in that thing) before he throws open the door to his room.]

What is the meaning of this?

[Who would dare to intrude on a general? One beam sword is powered up, and once he's marched into the living room, the other powers up as well. He pauses to scan the big man in red, and while he may appear human, scanners indicate that he is anything but.]

I will have your name, intruder.

[baconandsnausages]

[Dean:]

He hears the noise of Santa landing on the roof, and is awake instantly. His head cocks as he listens in close, hearing jingles and the snort of reindeer. What the hell now?

But... he's not sat too long like that, bolting downstairs and growling as the unexpected intruder comes in his house without even realising what he's doing before... he sees the suit and the beard and the hat, and he's pulled up short in surprise. "...You've got to be fucking kidding me." Is what he gets by greeting. Sorry Santa. As much as he's pretty accepting of this place's bullshit, this is one step too far for him to just Accept.

[whos_this_bitch]

[The weather hasn't been great, but God's still outside in Fayren hanging out with the unicorns. The weather has been strange but still not quite enough to drive her to take an apartment. Though, she probably should soon, because keeping herself going and warm and safe from the elements has taxed her (Though, not as much as teleporting places) and she feels like she could use a nap.

Which is a bad thing, because she has never needed to sleep before.

But maybe Santa's appearance can cheer her up a little, not least because she can actually talk to him, none of the uncertainties with the other residents who live in the city about whether he qualifies as from another plane of existence or not. She's going to be curious when she hears bells and when he lands, she'll be amused enough to laugh. She turns to greet him with a grin from where she was petting a unicorn on the nose - she might be taken with this creature more than most of the other strange ones here.]

You are certainly an unexpected visitor to these lands. [For Her, at least. Not least because this city keeps surprising her with things only considered imaginary from her world. Everything seems to back up her theory (Theory. Omnipotence is something she misses almost as much as Home) that this world is one different to her own.] I suppose an angel would be too much to expect from that sack of yours. [She's joking. Mostly.]

[smelltheredinside]

[Marceline sleeps through the intrusion in her apartment, but awakens to the gifts in the morning. A grin from her... but she's going to shake each one before choosing to see what she can hear.]

[descendsfromshadow]

[Maybe it's Christmas magic, but Blake managed to sleep all the way through Santa meeting Ruby and Yang outside. Which is strange since she's not a very heavy sleeper at all.]

[It isn't until later in the night when she picks up the sound of somebody nearby, in her own room, that her eyes snap open and she sits up sharply and grabs for Gambol Shroud which is in its place by her bed.]

Who's there?