Station Identification Break - special holiday presentation

[hard_talker]

Hey, Merry Christmas, Paradisa. No broadcast this week, in keeping with the season ... but trust me, you won't be short on music. [since everyone will be waking up to find the "ice hotel" staff delivering them a copy of this mix.] Anyone wants to join me and Nora, we'll be in the Game Room watchin' some good old-fashioned high-quality holiday entertainment with a bowl of popcorn and some eggnog.

[and sometime later, you might catch the strains of this program sneaking over the journal. ... yeah. you're all so very welcome. feel free to come hunt them down: CR who got presents in the meme can receive them in person, here, or give their own!]

Vongola XVII

[not_mafia]

Merry Christmas everyone! What did you all get for presents?

( Once-ler )

( Arya )

( Everyone who got him a gift (minus Once-ler) )

( Action for Casa de Guts )

(Feel free to assume that all of Tsuna's gifts have been delivered! If you want to play out a particular gift-giving just make a thread here?!)

5th Check-In; Dictated

[holyrabies]

[The only word to describe Mavis' voice as she starts to speak, reciting from the book she's gotten from the castle, is bittersweet.]

Two lonely bats crashed in the night.
They felt a zing; love at first sight.
They knew right then they would be husband and wife,
For a zing only happens once in your life.

...Merry Christmas, everybody.

[Distracted by thoughts of those left behind, she forgets to thank people for her gifts, but she has not neglected to make sure others got theirs. In addition to her gifts from the meme, Mavis gave each vampire she knows of in the castle the substitute blood the castle has been granting her wishes with. Rose and Dave also have gifts awaiting them. (Dave's is a pin.) All gifts have a note attached simply reading: Love, Mavis.]

Puzzle 004 -Dictated

[tapshoetomove]

I remembered my name! Santa gave me my name back for Christmas!

It's Luke Triton, and I'm going to write it down and make sure no one takes my name ever again!

[ooc: Luke got his loss changed from losing his name to losing memories of the Professor.]

♅ fourteenth

[themistress]

[Mistress is in the lobby, lazily and irritably draped over a sofa that's still a bit damp from the ice it used to be encased in. She's paging through the journal, not really reading so much as scanning.

So much of the same.]

While I've come to understand that this holiday entails you all exchanging tributes, I'd like to know why, exactly. From what I've seen, nothing in this castle entitles you all to a Mass Tribute Day.

In any case, I've decided to be charitable and give you all a small token of my acknowledgment for this... celebration.

[And, at some point this morning, residents should have found an ornate gift box in the middle of their room. Inside is one of two things: if the resident is a child or non-human(ish), they got a beautiful, delicious cream puff. If they are an adult and human(ish), they got... well. At least it was wrapped.]

℗ oo7. holiday traditions

[quits]

[The soft sounds of instrumental Christmas songs can be heard through the journal, maybe even a hint of peppermint and warm vanilla. Pepper isn't exactly a good cook, but she knows how to prepare for an event. The thing is that she had hoped for something small and personal - something she hasn't had in quite a while. There were always benefits and charity dinners around the holiday, so this is a nice change of pace.

Even with the change of pace, she still wants to do something nice for others.]

I know not everyone here has plans for the holiday or maybe you are trying to avoid all the puddles, but anyone is welcome to come to the tower in the city. [She puts a small map here on the page.] Most of the construction is completed and the lobby is decorated thanks in part to my very special decorating crew.

If you just want someplace to stop and rest for a bit, or even if you want to spend time with someone new -- I'll be here all evening and you're more than welcome to come.

[She'll just go about eating some of those cookies now.]


(ooc: open for journal or drop-bys. Last chance for kisses or general Christmas cheer.)

ᴡᴇ'ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴄʟᴏᴜᴅʙᴜsᴛɪɴɢ

[persequor]

Who're you?

[ The journal opens on the question. Catching sight of something bright red out the corner of her eye, Arya leaves Aemon to his carrot. The large white raven on her shoulder digs its claws into her skin as she walks making her hiss softly in pain. She has to smile, though, at the long-suffering expression of the mule with the biggest and most ridiculous red bow around its neck she has ever seen. It even has blinking lights. ]

Are you someone's present too? This one is mine. Except he didn't have a bow. I think he'd have pecked it off if he did. Here.

[ She offers the mule a carrot as she reaches for the bow. ]

Do you have a name? ...Melvin. Melvin the mule. Doesn't seem like you like your bow very much, Melvin the mule. I wouldn't either. Let's get that off. [ A loud squawk. ] Winter, leave it. It's not for you.


(( ooc: open over journal or at the stables. this is her last post prior to canon-bumping so if anyone wants one last thread, here you go. feel free to use to give her her present too. <3 ))

Scroll Forty Six

[huffythedragon]

[Spike hasn't been expecting much in the way of gifts. After all, he'd made it clear he didn't want anything, for fear it would set off the thing he most feared. But, as always, the castle didn't pay much attention to what it's residents wanted.

...Or maybe this time, it did. The journal picks up a strange bird cry, one maybe only very few people in the castle would have ever heard. Because it's the cry of a phoenix. A hatchling phoenix, at that. Spike sounds about as delighted as the bird does at this reunion]

Pee-Wee! How did you get here?!

Cwraawr!

Oh man, this is the best day!

03

[shenunigans]

merry christmas to the worst prison in the galaxy

may your eggnog be handed to you by bears of all kinds

 

( Rose, John, Dirk, Jane, Aradia and Nepeta. )

Thirty-seventh Spell

[courageous_wit]

I do hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, and I hope everyone liked what I sent them. I've become a bit out of practice with my knitting.

( Sirius Black, James Potter and Remus Lupin )

Eighteen Truffula Trees

[whichwayyoulean]

[In a very rare moment, the Once-ler isn't in his room. He's sitting in the stables, across from the stall holding his gift from the castle. Not that his gift seems that enthralled to be in the Once-ler's presence. Melvin is giving him a distinctly unimpressed look, and certainly not eating any of the carrots his master is trying to offer him. The Once-ler expected it, really. After all, the mule HAD left him. Just like everyone else. He must be mad as all out to be stuck here with him.

Still, he has some stuff to do today, so leaning back against a beam, he opens his journal]

[Filtered to Martel, Ino, Zelos and Ted]

So anyway, the gifts you got weren't your REAL ones. I got you all something better each, too. I'm in the stables, if you want them.

[[ooc: Open to anyone who wants to go to the stables if you so wish]]

012 - Jingle Jangle (Backdated to late last night)

[silentrunning]

[It'd started quite innocently enough, actually. Chell had been hearing a lot about this Santa Clause fellow recently... And she'd been thinking. If some large man in a red suit could do it, then why couldn't she? It hadn't taken her long to figure out what to give every resident even... As far as she knows, most folks like cookies...

So, that said, she's been in the kitchen for most of the last two days, baking up batches of cookies, and mentally thanking everyone who had either taught her to bake or tried her first batches or had in any way helped.

But it's Christmas Eve, and she's done just in time.

She'd planned everything out, even how she was going to carry the cookies. Enlisting the help of the ice hotel's stafff, she wraps all the batches of cookies in colorful parcels, and tags them with her name. Then she sends the penguins off to deliver her presents and toddles exhaustedly off to bed.]

[OOC: Every resident of Para will get at least a batch of cookies. People Chell has CR with who have posted on the meme will get their presents and a batch of cookies... And happy holidays, whichever you celebrate.]

♫ 11 (backdated to Christmas morning!)

[both_neither]

[Morning arrives in Paradisa and for once Gren can actually be found in the castle proper. It's Christmas, and there doesn't seem to be anything the castle can do to dampen his spirit, lingering ice-melt not withstanding. He'll be easy enough to find - stopping for a quick breakfast in the kitchen first on his way up through the hallways to deliver the few gifts he'd gotten people (there was no way he'd ask the ghosts to deliver them for him, after all). His ultimate goal is of course the room of his erstwhile comrade. He's already smiling to himself as he knocks on the door.]

((OOC: Open in person for all giftees and ambushing for last minute kissing shenanigans!))