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HO HO HO

For those of you who haven't heard, this year's Saving Christmas plot goes live on 1st December.

We have several people who have volunteered to start the ball rolling on Team Naughty - thank you! We would like your pups to please cause some chaos from 1-17th December.

How you do this is up to you (see guidelines in link), but because a couple folks find the elf dolls creepy, we'll ask you to please use the tinytag #elfwarning on any EPs/prethreads and just check with people before you throw elves into their EPs.

We are still looking for some more heroes to join Team Nice and fix the mess. If your pup is of a detective-y nature, is looking to do a bit of Scrooge-style personal growth, or is a MilliScout looking to earn a Saving Christmas Badge, this may be one for you! We are especially looking for a Team Nice ringleader to make an announcement of how to get rid of the elves (I can provide a poster or you can make your own) and spread the word about Nice Day. If you are interested in this, comment on this post, or the one in the link, PM me, or ping guppymun or sootymun on AIM or discord.

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I've got plenty of people for both Team Naughty and Team Nice. If you need someone to divine what's going on, I've got Djehuty, since judgey-things are in his department, but I'm happy to let someone else do it if they want! Probably more interesting to have someone who doesn't go into god-mode figure things out--but he's available.

Hm, God-mode might make it a little too easy but I'm not saying no! Who was the other option?

OTOH going into God Mode could perhaps encourage some sort of 'Enough of this nonsense' effort, so long as he's not going to just fix it in a Godly manner, as it were.

Oh, yeah, I was just figuring, like--if you need someone to figure out what's going on and put up a message about being Nice to...restore balance to the universe, etc. Djehuty is at your service, but if someone else wants to do it in a more plotty and less divine-wisdom-y way, please feel free!

Ok this seems to be escalating rather faster than anticipated XD. Might be easier to do with William than Djehuty as the temptation to just fix it will likely be high by the 17th. (Who else have you got? Can't find you on the contact list). Would they be happy to recruit Marcus to help (below)?

Oh, shoot, aren't my guys up to date on the contact list? I thought they were.

Anyway, I'm afraid William would be useless. Djehuty's style would be to show up, wander around, sigh, and leave a wordily-worded note on the board telling people to behave themselves around the peculiar figurines, as they are servants of a demigod and will not depart until niceness outweighs naughtiness. And then it would be up to Milliways people to sort that out.

...oddly enough, Gredya is annoyed with the things and has figured out enough at this point to put up a note telling people to stop destroying the dolls because it just makes more. I know this isn't quite what you had in mind (I think?) but then other characters could piece more things together and figure out niceness.

Do people really need to be actively recruited?

I couldn't find you but that might be me!

Gredya would be great, but can she hold off making a barwide announcement until the 17th?

And more just spreading the word than active recruiting, really, yes, but teamwork would probably be useful.

Sure, she can wait! Sorry, it sounded like you wanted to speed things up--and characters are already starting to figure out that destroying one makes more appear, so a bar-wide announcement might not make much difference plot-wise. But your call!

We did want to liven things up, I'm not complaining. It just happened slightly faster than expected!

That's not a bad thing, you can never predict these things exactly.

It's fine for people to work out how to stop them multiplying. Just hold off discovering how to make them go away until the 17th, so people have a chance to react.

Just checking in to make sure we're still on course for a bar-wide announcement on the 17th? I haven't tracked everyone's progress with the little horrors but Gredya is now determined to do Research on the things.

Yep, I think we're on course :)

Research at this stage would be good, so long as the cure doesn't get announced widely before then.

Awesome!

And, heh, at least as far as Gredya is concerned the research could take a while. Nice doesn't really come naturally to her.

Was just about to check in that you were OK for tonight, saw your post, cackled immensely, nicely done! Thanks for your help xx

I'm not sure, but I can have Marcus join team naughty or nice. Whatever you need.

You're welcome to go for whatever comes easier for you :) Or indeed be on both teams. Ringleading the efforts might be a little difficult for a new guy but I'm not saying no, depends how quickly he gets himself settled!

If Marcus wants to help spread the word with Team Nice, it may be worth him liaising with Gredya (see above) who has an open EP with it :)