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GOOD EVENING MILLIWAYS

Thanks to approval from our lovely mods, I can tell you what Maru and I have planned for this year's Saving Christmas plot, starting about a month from now.

This plot is open to all with no sign up required to join in, however as usual we are looking for a couple of volunteers to help get things started at various times.

This year, the Ministry of Elf has decided that Milliways is obviously a hotspot of trouble, and has decided to take preventative action. From the beginning of December, they will be sending Elf on the Shelf dolls to monitor the levels of Naughtiness at Milliways.

Initially the number of Elf Dolls will be quite small. However, when people do anything Naughty in front of the Elf Doll, it summons more Elf Dolls. We encourage people to be Naughty in the first three weeks of December until the bar is overrun with them by the time people cotton on to what is going on.

If this interests you, see the section below called TEAM NAUGHTY.

In approximately the last week of Advent*, we will get at least one person to spread the word that the only way to get rid of the Elf Dolls is to do Nice things in front of them. At the end of the week we will have an official Nice Day, where everyone including the bar's naughtiest citizens will be asked to try and be Nice for one day, to finish off the Elf Doll invasion.
(If any pups want to Opt Out of Nice Day, we'll say that Santa will round up any remaining Elf Dolls on Christmas Eve, but the idea is that the numbers greatly reduce.)

If this interest you, see the section below called TEAM NICE.

The Elf Dolls you can NPC yourselves unless you want help. Please read the detailed description below before doing this.

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Elf doll guidelines

The Elf Dolls are not strictly alive - they are a sort of magical android version of Santa's elves, and have a few basic traits:

Disruption -
- They have a couple of basic Naughtiness Reduction Powers, including the ability to instantly freeze your alcoholic or caffeinated drink, or to stamp Naughty on someone's hand in red ink (washable) at the player's discretion.

Other traits -
- The dolls, unlike the commercial Elf on the Shelf with its creepy dvd, do not lose their powers if touched by a child.
- They move like Dr Who Living Statues/Toy Story toys - i.e. they can move when nobody is looking. They can move quickly in a blink of an eye.
- They can summon more elves - two more if they witness something Naughty
- They cannot 'die' or feel pain - but they are wooden and cloth and can be destroyed by fire or chopping or similar. Any attempt to destroy them, successfully or otherwise, summons four more Elf Dolls.
- They can teleport into and out of closed rooms/spaces.
- The Elf Dolls do not physically harm people but as the Naughty levels rise they will cause disruption e.g. by turning up in places to startle you (e.g. you wake up and there is one sitting on your bedside table).
- They do not communicate with words or have thoughts in words that can be read. They have no scent other than the smell of wood/varnish. They do not have feelings.
- They cannot be befriended or tamed, as such, but they can be played with like a toy and, so long as they are being played with Nicely, will tolerate being carted around.
- The Dolls are not interested in anything involving sex or genitals. That doesn't mean your pup can't turn around and find one just after they got out the shower if that's what you want, but it's not watching your doodle.
- This would be a good time to mention that the Elf Dolls are about 20cm tall.

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TEAM NAUGHTY

Team Naughty is an OOC description at present, but by all means use it IC if it works.

What constitutes Naughty and Nice in front of the dolls is pretty much up to the player, but examples of Naughty things the dolls could witness could include:

- Repositioning the Elf Dolls in a rude position
- Defacing the Dolls or using them to mock someone e.g. putting a pink moustache on one.
- Prank wars between various pups
- Being mean to someone
- Damaging something on purpose
- Stealing

Naughty actions trigger the appearance of two more dolls, unless you attempt to destroy one, in which case four more appear, whether you succeed or not.

There is no sign up to join Team Naughty, you are welcome to use the icons however you wish. But we would like a few volunteers to start off and perpetuate some mayhem. If this is up your street, and you are around some time between 1st and 17th December please comment below or message us (guppymun or sootymun on AIM or PM) with a rough idea of when you can do it and we will try and spread people out over time.

All you need to do then is have your pup/s perform the naughty deed/s and have it trigger some more elves.

Being on Team Naughty does not exclude your pup from joining Team Nice in the final week, nor does it exclude any pup who is in the Milliscouts from earning the Saving Christmas badge.

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TEAM NICE

Team Nice is an OOC description at present, but by all means use it IC if it works.

Pups on Team Nice need to:

- Perform some good deeds themselves in the presence of elf dolls.
- Encourage others to perform good deeds.

What constitutes a good deed is up to you. Examples might be:

- Restoring a vandalised Elf Doll
- Helping someone out
- Cheering someone up
- Cleaning/tidying/chores
- Free (non evil) food

Doing a good deed will cause any present dolls to disappear next time you look away/blink.

This starts in gusto from 17th December, culminating in Nice Day which in Millitime is Christmas Eve but OOC will probably start on Thursday 22nd* to give people chance to do it.

Any remaining elves will be rounded up by Santa after that time (this allows people to opt out if they have evil plans for those dates).

We need some volunteers to work out what is going on in the first few weeks, and start encouraging Nice deeds from the 17th, and announce Nice Day on the 24th (IC).

If this is up your street, comment below or ping guppymun or sootymun on AIM or PM me.

We particularly need someone to put up a sign around 17th to explain what's happening, and to announce Nice Day around the 22nd.

If anyone wants to make Nice Day take the form of a party, by all means go for it. If nobody is doing a party, I'll get Life Support to give out free food.

Your pup can be on Team Naughty and then change to Team Nice. Feel free to use any of the icons. Being part of Team Nice as a Milliscout qualifies for the Saving Christmas badge.

You can join in with one team, both, or neither, whatever floats your boat. As above, no need to sign up, unless you want to be a volunteer to help get things going, in which case please let us know so we can plot with you :).

Ideas?
Problems?
Date clashes?
Questions?
Volunteers?
Fire away!

ETA: I actually did mean to say this first time and forgot - if anyone has a major doll/puppet phobia and doesn't want to see pictures of them all over the place, give me a discreet shout and I'll make an alternate set of Team Naughty/Team Nice icons and ask people to use a, pardon the pun, Elf Warning.

[*Somewhere between mid December and February I have to have surgery and may be offline a couple of days. If it falls during the plot I might have to jiggle the dates slightly]

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Would making an obscene gesture at an elf doll be considered a Naughty action?

I see no reason why not :D

Welp, I know what YT will be doing to facilitate the Elf Infestation then!

Oh God, creepy dolls.

My mother has an old Kewpie doll she rescued from my grandmother's house before it was cleared. I cannot be in the same room with the thing.

I also find them creepy, that was where I got the idea...

If it bothers you a lot, it's early enough in the proceedings that I can take them out of the icons? I had also considered the prospect of having posts come with a, pardon the pun, Elf Warning.

And edited the post in case that affects anyone else, since that was actually meant to be in there except I've been typing for two hours and forgot.

I can cope with an Elf Warning.

Ok, I will make sure that happens when we launch and ask people not to tag elves into other people's posts without consultation. If you find anything at the time is still problematic let me know x

Quasi-sentient inanimate objects? Yeah, Wilford will see these things as creatures that were summoned straight out of the pits of hell.

Well if he wants to destroy a few, that'll get them reproducing nicely...

I have no doubt he'll want to destroy more than a few.

Edited 2016-10-31 18:24 (UTC)

Mwahaha excellent.

Keep in mind, in his reality, things like these are 100% evil and want to kill you. He will respond accordingly. XD

I love how Wilf has now taken the role that was backup planned for Vyvyan if there were no volunteers.

:D!

I mean. His universe has Billy. There's a reason these things will bug him.

Yeek! Yeah, that thing is scary.

Jim will happily be his normal self at any time, and if that helps spawn more elves in the timeframe you need, all good!

Once he realises bad behaviour spawns more of the things, he'll actively misbehave just for the lulz. :D

Hah, excellent!

I think I will be having Rollo on the naughty but trying hard to be on Team Nice.

We will at some point need some people for Team Nice, but it's early enough that you can pick whichever you want without me pestering people for help :)