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[nostabbing]

CHRISTMAS
Gingerbread Icing Peppermints Gumdrops Candy Canes Tree Star Tree Holder Thing Tinsel Lights More Lights More Lights	Santa Hats Elf Hats Reindeer Antlers Cookies Stockings A Chimney Reindeer Food Uplink to NORAD Snow Flurries More Lights Sweaters Presents

Hey, so...do you think Santa will be able to find us all here on Christmas Eve? Maybe we should build a signal for him or something. You know, like up on the rooftops. There could be a landing strip for the reindeer, or maybe like a big Santa-hat spotlight. Or both. Or we could get flares. Do they have flares around here? Maybe we should get flares.

Only eighteen more days until Christmas Eve! YOU BETTER WATCH OUT.

Comments

[ardent]

...Aneki, that's a lot of lights. Why do we need so many lights?

[nostabbing]

For the house.

[...]

You have a lot of awning perimeter.

[ardent]

...Either way, even if the lights are allowed we are not putting a landing strip on the roof!

[shslasshat]

First of all, you can't control whether or not it snows. Secondly, the closest thing that we have to a reindeer is Naegi's Sawsbuck.

And thirdly, no.

[nostabbing]

But then how will Santa's reindeer find us? It's bad enough that they're already going to have to navigate all the way from the North Pole through to a parallel dimension; we could at least make it a little easier on them once they get here.

[ardent]

[...you know, he's not even going to get into whether Santa exists or not because clearly there is a far more pressing argument to be had here.]

What makes you think that parallel dimensions will be a problem? I'm sure that other worlds have Santa and all the rest, so he seems to have been managing them just fine in the past!

[nostabbing]

First of all, sure you can. All you need is for a low pressure system to move in and hit the area with a blast of cold air and precipitation.

Second of all, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about Santa.

And thirdly, yes.

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[quickattackjack]

I believe he absolutely will!

[nostabbing]

[...Uh-oh. Consider her thought process derailed as this new argument brings a different concern to her attention.]

What if Santa doesn't come on Christmas Eve in parallel dimensions? His itinerary is to hit all of the back-home world on Christmas Eve night. What if we get pushed to the end of the list?

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[nostabbing]

I hope so! But I still think we should make it easier on him and Rudolph, too.

[text]

[quickattackjack]

He hasn't had any trouble the past three Christmases I've been here, but I'm sure he wouldn't mind a little help.

[text]

[nostabbing]

He came here before? You saw him?

[text]

[quickattackjack]

Not in person, but who else could bring my bow tie all the way from home?

[text]

[nostabbing]

Nobody.

[Confirmation: accepted.]

What day did he come? Was it here by Christmas?

[shslasshat]

Unless you have a way to create low pressure systems of a great enough scope to create any more than a few errant snowflakes, you cannot control whether or not it snows.

Santa is not real.

You're delusional if you think you're getting me into any kind of festive accouterments.

[text]

[quickattackjack]

It was! It was the last thing I expected. One year he brought me a Houndour.

_{[Jack had been pretty excited over his very own Christmas puppy.]}

[text]

[nostabbing]

So he must make it all the way around our world and all the way to this one and back on Christmas Eve night.

[...]

Santa is amazing.

[ardent]

[...Hmmmmm.]

He'd still have to deliver to the locals, right?

[nostabbing]

Well, I guess we know who won't be getting any presents on Christmas.

[And thanks to such blasphemy, she'll just...be hanging up now. Um.]

[shslasshat]

[His Meowths know Thunderbolt he will not suffer this foolishness if it means the entire house has to freeze]

[nostabbing]

Right. But maybe Christmas doesn't happen on Christmas here. Maybe it happens on the twenty-sixth.

[...]

Or New Year's.

[ardent]

Christmas can't happen on New Year's! That would be complete chaos! Defying the proper order! And besides, what would we even call it?

[neededlassie]

You really think Santa's going to come?

[nostabbing]

But there are people here who don't even know what Christmas is! Maybe they do call it something else!

Maybe there's only Newyearsmas here.

[ardent]

Most of the people who don't know what Christmas is seem to be other foreigners, though! Do the locals know what it is?